![]() ![]() And yet it's being praised and Xbox fanboys are calling for more acquisitions? This is plain and simple anti-consumer and anti-competitive and it's certainly an unfair market. A lot of gamers have short memories it seems. ![]() Remember when Phil said 'exclusives are bad?' remember when he said 'when we all play, we all win? (Inclusion)' remember when he was hell bent on cross play?įunny how what he is doing is the opposite of all of that. Know what that means? Charge you whatever they damn well like for access, because, what other choice do you have? And don't think they won't, XBLG double price anyone? Yeah they backtracked, but why would they have to without competition?Īnd that's the optimum word there, choice? That thing that Xbox fans loved to throw around last generation. When competition ceases to exist because there isn't enough games to go around MS can make the rules however they want. The problem is where does it end? What will MS buy next? Capcom? SquareEnix? Ubisoft? Sega? All of the above?Ī games industry fully controlled by Microsoft is not a good thing and even Xbox fanboys should be worried. Each game that doesn't sell on PlayStation means less money for PlayStation to fight back with, as far as a company worth over a hundred billion dollars can compete with a company worth over two trillion dollars, that is. There are plenty of other popular Activision-Blizzard games as well that will inevitably not be on PlayStation. That will be a huge loss for PlayStation and, unfortunately, will affect their ability to compete. Even if Sony were to bring back Killzone and Resistance by releasing a new entry every few years at the expense of other franchises (if they don't expand studios), Microsoft has Halo, Overwatch, Wolfenstein, Quake, Doom, and three studios pumping out a new Call of Duty game every year.Ĭall of Duty is the #1 selling game every year and sells most on PlayStation when people have the choice. This Activision deal will hurt PlayStation even more than the loss of Bethesda because it involves a franchise many orders of magnitude bigger than anything Bethesda has and further removes first person shooters, including the most popular one, from PlayStation. We haven't even seen the effects of this yet, but we will eventually. What they did was remove games (and revenue) from Sony. After the Bethesda acquisition, they had more studios, but no net gain of games as the games were already coming to Xbox. Prior to the Bethesda acquisition, they grew their first party to be slightly bigger than Sony's as far as number of studios. Thu 20th Jan don't think Microsoft leveled the playing field. ![]()
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