It's not against the law for foreign companies to buy Japanese companies, but the government is very protective of local industry, especially culturally meaningful ones that wouldn't, you know, completely collapse unless bought out.
There's been leaks and rumors that MW2 (sequel to MW2019) is already developing for the PS4 too. So it's very likely MW2 will be the final COD game for PS5 and PS4. Unless COD 2023 will be the final COD game and be PS5 only. Apparently Warzone is here to stay as multiplatform for the future.
You kidding? 2021 GOTY list was stacked with MS studio games last year, and there's plenty of industry articles on how well supported the new studios have been. Read:
www.gamesindustry.biz
www.gamespot.com
Yeah, why would any company want to be part of the most successful games publisher in the console industry?
There's no way in hell Call of Duty is gonna stop releasing on PlayStation.
Again, with Xbox at least, you can stream Game Pass to your phone or laptop.
Make Call of Duty, TES, and GTA exclusive to Xbox and you're gonna have a lot more people skipping the PS6 and moving to a platform with native GamePass integration, which makes MS way more money than the pennies per copy of CoD they'll be selling minus Sony's 30% cut.
They've also bought into the "Microsoft wants me to save money with Gamepass".
Huh? It makes tons of business sense for them to have as many studios as possible. The more people they can lock into a monthly subscription service the better it is for them.
Minecraft had already been out on Sony consoles for a long time.
This is what I'm going with too. But well see.
My bad, I didn't intend to imply that Sony were doing it purely just as a response to MS doing it or just to make a point.
This is the thing I want most out of this acquisition lol.
From my understanding, developers have to request Sony to drop the prices, and sometimes Sony doesn't seem to respond.
I just realised if Sony wants to offer the original first 3 Crash & Spyro games in the future through BC they'll probably have to talk to Microsoft first…
This isn't charity. With this kind of money being thrown around you need some sort of ROI, and MS isn't just going to throw around cash. At some point you need to manage this now giant "creative" organization.
They probably won't because some people really love gamepass, so they will over look anything Microsoft does no matter what affect it has on the industry.
Microsoft literally the Netflix of gaming. Not enough time to even play them all.Sweet mother
Is he screaming? He has two tweets early today that mention antitrust concerns and they hardly seem panicked.
Schreier tends to dislike big corporate culture in general, which is probably why he doesn't like this much. I don't think he's correct that there will be anti-trust issues here (someone else phrased it well "You don't get into antitrust issues at third place"), but I don't think its because he's a secret Sony fanboy or anything. He's gotten into it with Naughty Dog on more that one occasion as well.
This means it's time to redo picks for the Xbox Super Smash Bros-style game. I mean we can all agree they have enough characters NOW, right?Sweet mother
That really doesn't seem to be the vibe he's giving out, but concerns about consolidation don't have anything to do with fanboyism (though of course fanboys might use that as a smokescreen).
