I dont play any Activision games but for all those playstation gamers who do this is a good thing.
No it's a good thing to support high quality work by these developers if money is not an issue for you. I will buy part 2 if and when it's released. ND has a new 3rd person ip in development they said so themselves. My guess is part 2 remake will release with the multi-player, the new ip in the next 2.5 years and part 3 a few months before the ps6 arrives.
The FTC problem wasn't a lack of an adequate factual basis to support their claim it was the quality of the legal team representing them. Microsoft on the other hand has access to the best lawyers money can buy. America is so weird, the Justice Department should have lawyers specifically designated to represent the ftc in these matters short of that they are outgunned. They seem to have launched into their application for a temporary injunction without proper preparation or strategy.
The ninth circuit is one of the federal appeals courts directly below the Supreme Court.
@shino I said it was a poor show, but xbox 1 sold well out of the gate and was widely held to have a good roster of games initially.
The effect of this poor launch event is so overblown. The ps4 was always going to stomp xbox 1 with more powerful straight forward hardware, launched on the same date. Xbox started off well sales wise but fell off a cliff because Microsoft stopped producing good games or having high quality 3rd party exclusives.
It's possible to be focused on both which Sony is.
If it wasn't for gt7vr this would be my game the generation so far.
Microsoft contributes nothing to gaming at all. They could dissappear today and it would have zero impact.
Ps5 has already doubled xbox sales at this point, it took longer last gen.
Luxury item nobody is forced to use at all in connection to another product. If the market deems it to be overpriced evidenced by a lack of sales then Sony will have to consider lowering the price. What the project Q haters are really worried about is that it will actually sell well despite their claims that "nobody will buy it unless it functions like the steam deck, blah blah blah ". We'll see, hahaha.
I believe it is possible for a judge to disregard such ties and make a sound ruling based on the law which is why her decision making will be put in writing. But it is important to avoid even the appearance of bias which is why some judges recuse themselves in such situations which is wise. We'll see but just because her son works for Microsoft we shouldn't assume she will make a different ruling then what the facts lead to.
@Outside, Sony could absolutely afford a T2 and any of the big Japanese Publishers let's not kid ourselves, they're very small compared to Microsoft but not objectively small. But they don't because they act as a traditional platform holder. I think Sony is going to have to change that thinking so that they are not "spent out of the market" like Microsoft said they want to do to Playstation.
@4show, you bring up Ryan because that's what xbox fans do when it has nothing to do with Ryan. Neither Sony or Nintendo have been in a propaganda campaign trying to convince people that they hate exclusives or accusing others of what they themselves are doing. That's all been Phil Spencer/Microsoft with their fake good guy routine.
Remember all the fake outrage articles posted here and YouTube calling Sony anti-consumer blah blah blah. Good times.
Ignore Darth, people like him are too invested in arguing for xbox to the point of splitting hairs so they don't have to call out clear Microsoft hypocrisy. We all know that there was no nuance in the fake outrage over "Sony's blocking gamepass from growing blah blah blah, anti competitive blah blah blah!!!!!!" that was all the rage at the time. It's all a form of propaganda.
No publisher who knows their products worth would dump their biggest games on a subscription service day 1 to 180, lol. Gamepass was a solution to a Microsoft problem in that their customer base largely doesn't buy/support their lousy games. Microsoft will ruin gaming if that's what it takes to get control of it.
@Bathyj, I'm convinced alot of the post in favor "Phil the used car salesman" and Microsoft are paid astroturfers. I'm inclined not believe such things but given the sheer amount of propaganda coming Microsoft/Activision this last year around this acquisition its clearly a coordinated effort.
Once you own a company then it's illogical for a 3rd party to tell you what games said company makes exclusively for your platform.
That has nothing to do with opposing an acquisition in the first place as being anticompetitive.
Sony always had a choice, but there stated concern and with good reason was the removal of COD off their platform like Bethesda games.