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Based on what?
It's not a hypothetical assumption. They themselves said it stopped because they got purchased lol. Would game hit PS if not for the acquisition? Dev seems to think so
Even if this was true, it's irrelevant to the ongoing cma/eu discussions about the ABK acquisition. The EU and CMA only give a crap about CoD, and they've made that clear. Microsoft has signed legally binding contracts to keep CoD multiplatform for the next 10 years, and have acknowledge that like Minecraft, the opportunity cost of making CoD exclusive doesn't make sense, especially after they start porting it to Switch & cloud platforms.
because in the end, they are taking games away from PS users?
Insomniac is gonna reveal Sunset Overdrive Deluxe and Sunset Overdrive 2 this year and Joe Staten returned to Xbox Global Publishing to helm Recore 2 #believe
they already know and even the EU agreed with what MS said and say they didnt changed anything.
What the hell are you even talking about??
What? You don't think Sony should find a way to keep content parity for CoD?
Of course it would have. But there's never a guarantee. We all assumed Ghostwire and Deathloop were multiplatform at launch when they were announced, and guess what? They weren't.
COD is a yearly franchise. So even if they skip a year or two, that would still be 8 or 9 games over the next ten years.
How is pointing out that "removing games" requires the game to exist on the platform lawyer mode? Like if you just want to take the most uncharitable take on what they said, go ahead but don't call it fuzzy because of your willful ignorance.
3 COD entries in 10 years? HUH?
And most of the time the later port is the best version of the game.
They were announced as multiplatform when PS5's timed exclusivity was announced. What are you even trying to say? Both of these reveals say timed console exclusive at the end.
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This seems the prefect response to your post:
I can't believe we're still at the "ten years isn't actually that much!" part of this.
Why would they? If it's 6 years or 10 years, it's going to be gone eventually. I'd would just end it ASAP and try to build FPS competitor or something.
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that's fine...again, I don't care about the richest company in the world's finances, from a consumer POV, it's fewer people that can play the game on their preferred ecosystem - period.
The game could have also been canceled without the Microsoft acquisition, or without Sony/Microsoft paying for it to be an exclusive/timed exclusive. Maybe the game would have been f2p with microtransactions but switched to a premium title after the acquisition. We have no idea how things would have diverged if the Zenimax acquisition hadn't happened. Speculating is pointless because ultimately the CMA/EU don't give a fuck about anything other then CoD in the ABK deal. Only the FTC raised a stink about Microsoft allegedly taking away titles from Sony, and they're completely irrelevant on if this acquisition happens or not.
I agree. There was never any pretending by Sony or people on this forum that those games weren't a paid exclusive, though. People on this forum have spent the last two years responding to the Starfield argument with "but we didn't know if it was coming to PS5!"
This is such a ridiculous line of thinking that is never followed for timed exclusive deals that it's hardly worth addressing. "But 7R could have had less content if not for the exclusivity funding!" See how ridiculous that sounds?
Sony has absolutely zero say regarding what they will not accept at this point; it's entirely up to the CMA (EU and China don't care about console concerns and FTC is irrelevant).
And, and here is a recent example of actual "taking games away"
Oh sure, but that's how the industry has worked for forever, it isn't new and it isn't stopping.
Wait it's a shooter but with vampires? Ok worth redeeming
My uncle told me Todd was going to skip the PS5 for Starfield because hes such good friends with Phil, even before the aquisition.
You guys treat these companies as sports teams too much. COD brings in a lot of revenue for Sony, and that's all that madders to them.
