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Microsoft bought all of Zenimax Media for 7 billion, while Sony paid 4 billion for Bungie. I think Microsoft got the better deal due to acquiring Fallout, ElderScrolls and Doom.
Yeah, I thought it out. I'm not sure you did. But since we are buddy's now, you're welcome.
"Clearly your parents didn't teach you"
You know you lost, when you have to resort to this tactic.
So you're saying that Microsoft has missed out on so many huge gaming franchise in the last 25 years from GTA exclusivity to guitar hero and destiny it's just laughable they had so many misses
Yea, but they're still 100 times more wealthy than Sony. I would say it worked out well.
That isn't because of Xbox though. This is a gaming page, not an I get supplemented by father Windows page
Microsoft's money has nothing to do with Xbox.
Xbox is a money pit to them they would love to ditch but are after some ROI first.
Let's face it, Xbox is like a red headed stepchild that steals from you to buy drugs.
MIicrosoft is NOT XBOX. The current situation illustrates this. And Microsoft wants its ROI.
@Bathyj and daddy Satya has just force admitted Phil to rehab.
you know why MS has so much money, and it aint cause of the gaming xbox branch.
so lets not kid ourselves.
@PhillyDownJawn not more profitable. More revenue with ABK acquisition but them going multiplat shows they are not making much profit
That's great for Xbox gamers ain't it that Microsoft are more wealthy than Sony. Is that really a argument use are using now lol?
Imagine me in my job. Arguing with a fellow security guard at another company. Hahah well the company I work for is worth £800m the one you work for is only work £600m!
Microsoft may have more money but Sony has the talented studios and the games to back up those studios.
Plus turning down Marvel too. Spiderman is only exclusive to Playstation because of that
Best deal deal in gaming must be when Sony bought Insomniac for 229 million dollars. They made over 800 millions on Spiderman for the ps4 alone. Thats just crazy!
another Interview?
how is he the only one who loves the spotlight as much as he does lol
Let's not forget he also famously passed on Spider-man, Genshin Impact and GTA3.
However it's almost kind of cute how he can keep that sh1t-eating grin and say he's a 'no regrets' kind of guy, especially when you think how much just these 5 titles could have swung the world in Xbox's favour instead of Sonys.
How he's kept his job I don't know, he must sure be keeping Papa Nadella's shaft warm somehow.
"But, but Gamepass, he introduced that!!!"
Yes he did, and now look at Xbox, all it's exclusives are coming to Playstation now rendering the platform obsolete.
Honestly, with that kind of track record, you can't convince me Spencer hasn't eaten it from the back in the name of self preservation. Probably unwashed...and at least twice.
That aside, my interpretation of everything here is Xbox has been mismanaged a bit too much and Nadella came down from his throne. The way it is now, I don't believe for a minute the multiplatform move was Spencer's idea. I don't even think the acquisitions was Spencer's work. At this point, I reckon he's got as much power in his role as Hunter Biden at a Ukrainian energy company.
You can never tell how things will turn out if he had said yes to those games. Xbox already has access to some great IPs, however, they hardly do anything with them or fail to deliver. It's also possible their presentation wasn't good at the time, and they made sure the next presentation was better.
I believe that part of being successful is releasing things in the right place at the right time.
Many major corporations have a story similar to passing on successful business ideas. Let us look at Sony Pictures for example. Back when Marvel went bankrupt, they had the opportunity to buy the entire Marvel for only $25 Million but turned them down. An unnamed big shot at Sony reportedly claimed that “nobody gives a shit about any of the other Marvel characters,”. They ended up taking Spiderman for $10 Million instead.
https://www.avclub.com/sony...
Fast forward to today, we can see what the Marvel brand has done for Disney. Is it possible the same success would have been possible had Sony acquired those IPs. We can't say that for sure and it is possible most of those IPs that are successful today may not have been used.
I never thought Destiny was 'done' but I sure don't play it very much at the moment. As for Bungie's Halo being the template for the modern console shooter", it may have contributed, but surely CoD was instrumental if not more so to the genre. Regardless, Destiny is okay but as time has gone by I think it is fair to say the game did no live up to many people's expectations. Will I be back to play? Sure. Just not sure when.
Here is the thing. This game was marketed to us as the bees knees. Then we spent 3 hours with it and knew we had been had.
This game single handedly knocked sense back into me. Wait for a review, and never pay full price. Even with GCU and my amazon discounts.
Its not almost a year since it's release. The game is due for a series re-review before I even consider it. There simply is too much on the horizon for me to even be interested at this point again however.
Same goes for Halo MCC... Still broken. Only game I have for my XboxOne.. I don't play it. I've lost interest. My PS4 is seeing much love however. If Destiny drops to sub 20... I may pick it up just to add it to the collective pile of shit I own.
console gamers do not stick around as much as pc gamers do. which makes you wonder why bungie refused to support that platform.
activision was too scared to make this a mmo game with monthly fees so instead they created a large scaled game held back by its potential by removing content to be sold as dlc. that business strategy simply doesn't work. people stop playing and then they feel ripped off through the process because they know content was reserved to sell later. the amount of players online is also scaled way back, probably because they wanted to support last generation consoles too.
Destiny is digital loot crack wrapped up in a souless package. There are those who are still drawn to it but I still think that's probably a low percentage of the overall sales. Of all the people I played with at launch, only two are bothering with the expansion with most more interested in the Witcher and/or have moved on to other games.
I'd be more interested to see how the sequel does. While I still play and enjoy it, almost everyone I've spoken to agrees it was a disappointment and didn't live up to the ridiculously high standards we all set for a Bungie game. I'm interested to see what Bungie will do with the sequel. It's gunplay is up there with the very best FPS games of all time, they just really need to flesh out the experience and actually inject a soul (better storytelling) into the whole experience alongside dramatically increasing the content.
Destiny has no competition. It's the best fps out. Only the division could potentially rival it, but that's been delayed until next year.