The licensor would not dictate which platform the game should be on. If EA or any developer wanted to license and make a MLB or any other sport or racing game they just have to pay the fees to use the teams and logo. Remember 2K sports also licensed MLB up until 2014 and gave up on it due to it not being profitable. There is nothing preventing a developer from making an MLB game for Xbox or Nintendo or pc. It’s just that there isn’t a good developer that can do a good enough job.
Think it’s a good idea for some franchises to be multi platform. It could potentially double or triple the profit for Sony.
For those saying MLB had something to do with this if you read the article that organization will license out to any developer willing to pay the fees so I believe this is purely Sony’s decision.
Not a big deal. Ppl blowing If out of proportion as usual with fanciful thinking.
Microsoft, just like Amazon with its AWS cloud platform provides a service to any company to "rent" cloud space to use.
This is what Sony is doing - looking for potential partners to do the hosting work so they don't have to focus so much on the infrastructure side of things.its a smart move really. Cloud facilities take people to run, buildings to own/rent, etc. if a vendor can o...
As patcher would say it's a profit deal $$
I'm going to be pretty disappointed if REd dead 2 sweeps all categories. Don't get me wrong it's s good game and really enjoying it a lot right now but it's not knocking my socks off.
Remember when square Enix in their infinite wisdom make Tom raider a timed exclusive? It bombed on PS4. You An be your bottom dollar that the same things going to happen.
Sony was able to put GDDR5 RAM into the PS4 cost effectively while Microsoft was only able to get GDDR3 into the Xbox one due to Sony's hardware negotiating position as it commands massive contracts with chips manufacturer in China. If both console manufacturers were to launch around the same timeframe I suspect the PS5 would have the superior specs at a $399/499 launch price vs Microsoft's next gen Xbox.
I can't get the song out of my head.
Lookup on YouTube - Tetris expert plays Tetris effect for the first time. Amazing
This is stupid the vast majority of the 80 million users don't care about cross play for Pete sake these fake jornos act like games like COD already have cross play. So fortnight gets special treatment?
I don't play fortnite so maybe I don't get it but it seems like a straw man argument to me
I don't want this to come off as a damned if they do and damned if they don't... but doing this 4 years after Phil took control is short sighted and basically doing this on the backs of the loyal Xbox one owners that spent their hard earned money will be paving the way for the next gen Xbox owners in 3 yrs time.. just doesn't seem fair
@septic, @muddywaters, lol get out of here nobody's going to take you seriously.
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I would argue the vast majority of PS4 owners don't have anything else to play fortnite on so it's really going to be difficult to get traction on this I think tbh.
Honestly Sony won't do anything because most PS4 players don't care. A few games journos making a ruckus won't do anything
Heck cross play with other platforms dropped off the most requested features list twice already (lookup PS4 most requested features) because PS4 owners just don't care. How do u expect Sony to care when most of their 80million owners don't
I agree with the sentiment sonys pressed was formatted terribly. They clearly have the games to have "won" it but the format was disjointed. Shawn Layden needs to stop trying to experiment and get back to what's worked in the past
I wish Sony did their press conferences like before with dudes like Shu and others. Moving on stage to present new games. Shawn needs to go back to the traditional format
Sonys conference organization wise was not good but the games outshone what was on microsofts conference.
All you need to ask is did Microsoft show anything that made you want to buy an Xbox? Did Sony do the same? I think Shawn layden needs to let his people run the conference like before
dc yes I'm speculating reading between the lines and I think your doing some speculating as well. I'm not a fanboy but I do genuinely feel bad for current Xbox owners as Microsoft is using that money to buy these studios and release games on the next gen Xbox so these guys who are forking over money now are getting taken advantage of.
High quality games take many years even 5 plus years to make so these games from these studios will most likely be on next gen conso...
They bought 5 studios that will begin working on games that will undoubtably release on the next gen Xbox.. so current Xbox one owners are excited about....?
We will all judge the next gen games when they release and will decide to buy the next Xbox or PlayStation based on the offerings. I think what people fail to realize is Microsoft is calling it quits on current Xbox one and investing into the future.
Feel bad for current Xbox owners as Microsoft is d...
Totally agree these writers need to stop blowing smoke up sony's butt. I don't want Sony to get complacent.
Wow amazing! Miziguchi is back! This dudes a genius loved Res and Lumines. You can be this game won't be a standard Tetris game.
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No your wrong. You think mlb licensing is like a movie licensing deal where one studio can only have the right at a time? If you read my comment you would realize 2K sports also held a MLB license for many years while Sony also held the license in parallel. 2K stopped licensing because it wasn’t profitable. EA can also become a licensee as well there have been other MLB licenses games in the past like MLB Slugfest which was also licensed in parallel to The Show. There is no ...