“Not only was Microsoft responsible for much of the game's marketing at various trade shows and conventions, but the timed exclusivity was kept very brief, as the PS4 version of Inside was released just a few months after its debut on Xbox One.”
A lot of folks think these deals are all about cash payments, but often the consideration is marketing. My guess is that this will be less so on Xbox now that Microsoft has all those studios to market.
“No further details have been given about how to enter the giveaway”
Wow, so helpful.
Does the Destiny DLC have any value for raids and Crucible? Do you need the latest DLC and season passes to get the “meta” armor and weapons?
Game Pass is going to focus on Games that Microsoft owns because. Microsoft didn’t spend $80B on studios so they can pay a premium for third party for games.
There is a gap between shipped an sold. But then we all know that every PS5 shipped will sell.
“If MS owned ABK, Xbox would comfortably be making more profit than Playstation.”
A $70B acquisition is a profit killer. Regardless, Xbox is but a mere business unit of Microsoft. Microsoft as a whole is profit monster, and it’s the profits from OS, Office, and cloud storage that lets Microsoft throw money at Xbox.
Destiny players, aka Guardians, have been fed with Bungie since Destiny launched in 2014. Back then, headlines weren’t as click-baity as they are now, so we didn’t talk about “enraged fans”. But believe me when I tell you that the vast majority of conversation about Destiny was about how Bungie was mismanaging the game. Bungie built this community on cognitive dissonance and Stockholm Syndrome. Sometimes I think about getting back into Destiny but then I see something like “ritual armors” and...
“streamers who make a living playing Deatiny”
What a unsympathetic demographic.
The loadout.com, one of the websites of all time, published this a year early.
Go to an Apple store and you’ll see PlayStation controllers. PlayStation has made a nice market of selling outside its console base.
EA is a good example of what can happen to a franchise when a larger corporation buys up studios from a smaller corporation. Quarterly earnings should never matter more than quality.
This is how Sony goes for the jugular. Microsoft can’t afford to make games exclusive if it doesn’t have any marketshare. Also clear that the discless PS5 will be the single PS5 going forward and the disc drive will be an add-on. When the $300 PS5 slim launches, the hot sales of PS5 will go super nova. (Don’t feel like you need to wait. On an annual cost basis, you may be better off getting a $400-$450 PS5 that you can use now versus waiting for a console that will be obsolete sooner.)
This is great for a home console but Switch isn’t a home console. It’s a handheld. If you exclude smartphones, the all time seller is the DS at 154M.
100% wrong. Games can be anything, including educational. The Assassin’s Creed Origin museum mode is fantastic. You can learn a lot about objectivism from Bioshock. Oregon Trail will always be a classic,
PC developers apparently don’t. When was the last AAA game that released on PC and not consoles?
That kind of headline would never generate clicks.
Microsoft is spending $70B on Activision. That doesn’t leave a lot left over for other AAA games.
Phil Spencer basically hinted as much in his legendary interview on Kinda Funny’s Xcast. But not as a publisher of retail games. Microsoft wants to own the market for subscription games and cloud gaming. Why sell the milk when you can rent the cow.
A lot of “game journalists” are just extensions of the corporate PR teams. Remember when Bungie flew people out to Bungie HQ and showed them the 4v4 multiplayer in Destiny 2? Everyone who attended said this was the best decision for multiplayer. Less than a year later, Destiny 2 went back to 6v6. Everyone who attended said this was the best decision for multiplayer.
IGN’s tepid comparison. Biggest exclusive since Halo 3? Nah. Probably not the big. Biggest since the Halo 5? Sure, why not.