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Retailer puts warning notice on PS5s: ‘Microsoft has bought Activision!’
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Maybe he knows that most of his customers are playing Activision-Shit, but isn't aware that at least the next three Call of Doodies are still coming to PS.
I think the crowd that buys Call of Duty every year is disconnected enough from the enthusiast gaming audience that a notice like that is a good heads up.
This is also true but from the sounds of it the deal will go through as planned barring some catastrophic event.
I know what you mean, but I'm not sure I'd deem that scenario 'catastrophic'.
Regardless, a retailer shouldn't be pushing false information.
Retailer reportedly puts warning notice on PS5s: ‘Microsoft has bought Activision!’ | VGC
Supermarket tells customers to “choose your machine carefully” following deal news…
I don't think there's any issue with the intent of the notice as a warning to people who just buy these things for Call of Duty - assuming that WAS the intent, and it wasn't just some Xbox fanboy taking the opportunity to "help" customers. Of course Sony might feel differently about one of their retailers literally warding people off their console, and justifiably so.
The actual problem is simply that the notice isn't really accurate. The acquisition isn't complete yet, and we don't know what the future of CoD is yet aside from "reports" that the next couple of years will be status quo.
that'd make some kind of sense but it's still stupid.
not everyone follows gaming news and a lot of people only play the big games likes CoD, Fifa, GTA. if someone is buying a PS5 they might expect to use it for 6, 7, 8 years. if one of their favourite games is potentially going to become an exclusive to Xbox then i get warning them but again it's a bit silly to do that right now.
not everyone follows gaming news and a lot of people only play the big games likes CoD, Fifa, GTA. if someone is buying a PS5 they might expect to use it for 6, 7, 8 years. if one of their favourite games is potentially going to become an exclusive to Xbox then i get warning them but again it's a bit silly to do that right now.
Agree with the first part. However for someone who only plays CoD and maybe a few sports games a year, its important to let them know that Microsoft is acquiring Activision, even if the deal falls through, people aren't made of money to be buying multiple consoles and they lose nothing by going Xbox instead of PS just to be sure they won't ever miss out on CoD.
So the console war extends to the Francophone countries as well eh? Interesting haha. If real this is pretty funny.
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Is there a source on this?
I guess they don't want to deal with returns.
Lmao, I love this. Fanboys straight up kill me.
"Have you all SEEN Game Pass?! That shit is straight ILLEGAL"
"Have you all SEEN Game Pass?! That shit is straight ILLEGAL"
yup. they could shift a PS5 now easily and maybe in a couple years the same person will come back to buy an Xbox to play CoD.
from a retailer pov it stupid to do this but maybe they are stupid or too kind. i don't know lol.
No retailer would literally tell their employees to put up a notice like that. However I could easily see someone who works at one of said stores deciding to put such a notice up - whether to legitimately try and be helpful because they saw this on the news or something, or to get their console warz on.
I'm not surprised this got an Era thread. Something that blatantly sparks a console war and everyone now has a "conversation" about it.
Lol, you really underestimate the average consumer. I imagine by the time COD games go full Xbox exclusive it'll be common knowledge via word of mouth, but I can promise that most people don't look that much into it
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