I hate fan boys like this who cares who copies who as long as gamer's every are the ones benefiting.
They don't need subs to go up to cover the lost sales. They need MT purchases to go up from those users to cover the sales. Some devs have said before they made money on Gamepass not from increased game sales but increased DLC purchases.
Even before the activision purchase they where 4th in total revenue and growing each year.
@Chevalier of course thats due to Activision Blizzard GUESS WHO OWNS THEM? It doesn't matter what that was due to its still growth for that division.
Last MS financial results for FY24 Q2 which is the company's sales data through Dec. 31, 2023. According to the earnings, gaming revenue is up 49% year-over-year.
That doesn't sound like he flushing it down the toilet and that also makes very unlikely he loses his job any time soon.
You do know not every article needs to be written about the MS fuck up.
In fact this very website has several articles on their homepage discussing the MS fuck up.
So how exactly is this detracting from anything.
Market share no but by revenue they are the third largest gaming company, moving some titles that make sense could just be a strategy to increase that number.
Which is also something MS has repeatedly said in the past Phil Spencer himself has said they would go multi platform where it makes sense.
The First episode is almost as long as the original game and too some could be longer depending on how you play.
They could have put almost no effort into it and still made a ton of money.
So how is that in any way a cash grab.
@seraphim
Food
Our food supply chain is owned by a few mega corps.
Our groceries chains are owned by a few mega corps
These are also largely regional.
So one has a monopoly in one part of the country and another has a monopoly in another part.
R* suits pushed shark cards the devs who the brunt of the work don't deserve the leaks.
@redgrave not an excuse an explanation for why this game has less features. Not my problem you don't understand how game development works or development in general. When you move to a knew platform some things need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
I am currently migrating one of our services we provide to our customers to the cloud version and having to rebuild a lot of the add-ons we had built for them over the years.
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That game was using a new engine and had to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Money, developing games is costly and unless they have a game that prints money and keeps the lights on some studios have no choice but to deliver half baked games.
I can guarantee to you if it was up to the actual developers they wouldn't release the games until they where ready.
This isn't true Discord reached out to several companies, and MS offered $12 billion.
Discord ultimately decided against it and will go public instead as they are valued at $15 billion.
Discord rejected the offer it had nothing to do with Sony.
Actually they are like number 4 or 5 and the AB purchase might put them at number 4 solidly. This is just using gaming revenue and not the company as a whole because that would make MS number 1 by a margin to large for any of these companies to overcome. That said I still don't like the idea of exclusivity for any console would love to see Gears on PS and GOW on Xbox so everyone can enjoy these games regardless of console choice.
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@Crows90
"PlayStation is the biggest gaming brand next to Nintendo.....they could've bought a lot throughout the years."
Sony as whole made 36B in profit in 2022. Much of that is gaming FYI probably about 75%
MS made 55B in profit in the last quarter of 2022 alone.
Sony does not have the money to buy whoever they want the AB deal for MS is 3 months of profits for Sony its 1.5 years or 18 months.
John Linneman made that comment, he said "maybe MS considers the Series X as the upgraded model.
This was never said by MS we really need to stop with these click bait sites and headlines.
MS never said that it was DF that made that speculation.
Actually its not even with these purchases MS fails to crack the top 3.
The bigger get for MS isn't COD but mobile gaming, candy crush and developer King in particular yet no one seems to want to mention that.
Backwards compatibility is done VIA emulation in the software layer.
Switching to NVIDIA would have little effect on this.