I don't agree at all. You're talking as if MS is a charity here- they could have added games to game pass for a hell of a lot less than buying the studio outright. This is a loss for a ton of gamers should those games be exclusive now.So a company that's earnestly trying to get gaming into as many hands as possible and who's invested into everything from adaptive controllers to cloud based gaming - is offering the industry's strongest gaming service (Game Pass) and the most cost efficient next generation console (Series S) - then purchases a mega developer where they will add those games to Gamepass and you all want to be salty about it? That's not you caring about gaming or the industry. This is you being greedy that the games aren't on your preferred platform and to hell with people it would benefit. There's no morale high ground here.
"Competition is good" only makes sense until you realize Sony's market cap is 97B and Microsoft is 1.49 TRILLION so when you say you want them to compete you actually want Microsoft to crush Sony because they can't actually compete in the end. If not for antitrust laws they could literally just buy Sony.
True but idk if they can make that money back if they're exclusive. Time will tell. How many copies did Skyrim sell on ps3 and PS4? That's got to be a quarter of a billion dollars per major Fallout/E Scrolls release they'd be losingI think they will keep it exclusive. That's the whole point of the purchase. The people who used to buy them on other consoles now have to consider Xbox or miss out on these games. Elder scrolls is too big for a lot of gamers. That's what they are counting on.
Wow! Well saidSo a company that's earnestly trying to get gaming into as many hands as possible and who's invested into everything from adaptive controllers to cloud based gaming - is offering the industry's strongest gaming service (Game Pass) and the most cost efficient next generation console (Series S) - then purchases a mega developer where they will add those games to Gamepass and you all want to be salty about it? That's not you caring about gaming or the industry. This is you being greedy that the games aren't on your preferred platform and to hell with people it would benefit. There's no morale high ground here.
WHat the fuck! DO THE RIGHT THING MS. Keep it multiplatform please!
I'm out of the loop, i'm seeing this going around:
Are the games going to be exclusives or not? Seems kind of weird to pay 7.5 billion to release the games on other consoles 🤔
Via Proton? Maybe! But you know what I'm saying, on Steam Microsoft is nothing more than another third party publisher with their 30% cut. They don't control the platform.
I'm pretty sure MS is planning their move towards a Service-based model with Gamepass and this type of acquisition is really important in that regard.
I fully expect we will see some sort of Gamepass/Xbox integration with Nintendo and/or Sony in the next five years.
Bank on it.
Yup. Everyone's knock on MS last gen was that they didn't have any AAA games outside of Forza / Gears / Halo.
Well here you go. A shit load of AAA content exclusive to Xbox / PC / gamepass. Now console gamers have a reason to buy Xbox again.
And people said Phil also needed to aggressive like that. :P
Agreed. Timed exclusivity at best to sway some of the less patient consumersCutting off literally millions of potential sales doesn't sound like smart business to me..
This is terrible for fans of all video games because Sony no doubt will have to respond and one of the POSSIBLE responses on the table is cutting off MS from japanese support that could more than make up for everything except Fallout/Elder Scrolls. They wont be able to recover from that so in the end everyone is going to be screwed, just in different ways.This thread in tldr;
Microsoft buys company : REEeEe this terrible! Sony should buy another company in retaliation!
Sony buys company : HOLY SHIT ITS OVER! SONYWINSBABY! Microsoft is doomed, how will they ever recover!?!
They will "just work" on other consoles. :)I just realized that this means that Bethesda games are not being released on PS Plus and PS Now anymore.
But that is somehow a positive for everyone, right? ...
"Confirmed by Todd Howard"
Ah, yes. Now my mind is at ease... 😬
Well this is going nowhere, but whatever Sony's spending to timed exclusives is absolutely nothing when compared to 7.5B, so it definitely isn't a situation where this acquisition is the same but just money "more wisely" spent. Every single one of those timed exclusives will come to XSX, eventually and it's not like there isn't any other games to choose from.
This zenimax purchase has a lot bigger impact in the long run than any timed exclusive ever could. In fact it's the only one with the long, lasting impact. Almost every game associated with this is basically part of a well established, already successful franchise with longer roots at PlayStation than Xbox, and by far the biggest, and pretty much the only win for MS is that these games are now probably exclusive. They could gotten all these games to game pass with a lot less money.
Sony has never done anything even close like this, but now they just might be forced to and it in no way will be a good thing for the industry as a whole.
Well there is PC. Paying 7 billions and still allowing the games to be released on your competitors' platforms is way too kind to put It mildly.
I'm out of the loop, i'm seeing this going around:
Are the games going to be exclusives or not? Seems kind of weird to pay 7.5 billion to release the games on other consoles 🤔
Truth.I primarily play on Xbox, but Im not too thrilled about this. However, I will concede that from a business perspective it, and the timing of it, is masterclass.
Yeah I'm sure you're right, I was just throwing things in the air.
I fully expect Sony to retaliate, question is which developer/publisher do they go after?
OBSIDIAN MIGHT WORK ON ANOTHER FALLOUT GAME LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO
I'd bet pretty much anything it won't be. It or Starfield now. Xbox or PC or starve.
I'm out of the loop, i'm seeing this going around:
Are the games going to be exclusives or not? Seems kind of weird to pay 7.5 billion to release the games on other consoles 🤔
Not when I have game pass until 2022 for less than the price of one PS5 game.
And when my subscription runs out I can buy 3 more years for roughly the same price, including the onilne service.
If anything i'll be saving so much money it'll be crazy.
Same place it was before. Face down in the river floating away.
Why would Sony need to counter? Sony has never needed a stable of franchises to sell their consoles.
So a company that's earnestly trying to get gaming into as many hands as possible and who's invested into everything from adaptive controllers to cloud based gaming - is offering the industry's strongest gaming service (Game Pass) and the most cost efficient next generation console (Series S) - then purchases a mega developer where they will add those games to Gamepass and you all want to be salty about it? That's not you caring about gaming or the industry. This is you being greedy that the games aren't on your preferred platform and to hell with people it would benefit. There's no morale high ground here.