No.
But you can bet Playstation and Xbox would be very much interested in "bundling" their respective platform to a marketing deal with the GTA6 likenesses drawing power.
I agree.
But even if T2 had their next trailer ready atm, there's no way I'd excpect either Xbox nor Playstation be allowed to put GTA6 into a simple trailer montage right now for a 2025 outlook - even with only the use of a snippet from their last trailer.
I'd be even surprised if T2 will show something new at TGA tommorrow, but it would be a bit, just a bit more imaginable.
And yes, I agree.
If Microsoft...
GTA6 not being included is quite obvious.
I really wonder how anyone could expect GTA 6 to show up in any a trailer montage.
Noone, except for T2 themselves, will be allowed to give away any information about GTA 6's release date.
And regarding Xbox possibly getting exclusive marketing rights for GTA 6:
Unless T2 themselves only care about a huge (!) cheque from Microsoft and not so much about the Series consoles...
Create a complete new IP, get it critically acclaimed and have it sell +10m copies - that's Ghost of Tsushima's legacy. (Or TLoU's, God of War's, Horizon's, etc.)
Indiana Jones isn't a new a IP. It's not even a little light at the horizon of all IPs out there. Xbox benefits more from Indiana Jones than the other way around.
If anything, Microsoft/Xbox was "just" lucky enough to get Zenimax aqcuired. Zenimax were alrea...
It's highly likely it never was an exclusive in the first place. Talks and development started even before Microsoft had aqcuired Zenimax.
When Lucasfilm Games started the project with Zenimax, let alone announced, Microsoft hadn't bought Zenimax yet.
The multiplatform strategy is definitely something the whole pre-development and development deal was signed with.
Even after the game was announced already, it took Microsoft another two months before being able to publically state it's aqcuired Zenimax.
Indiana Jones, that's what I believe, was always a multipla...
So does that mean Google get a cut from eBay or Amazon for every purchase that's been transmitted or processed via their app?
But I gotta say I don't understand this.
Doesn't Sony offer a 'Playstation App', too, where you can buy games and subscriptions? An app that you can download via Google's Play Store?
Or am I missing something here?
70-80€?
Right now, at least here in EU, a deal popped up with GT7 disc version for 25€.
Released on PS5 & PS4, X|S & Xbox One and PC. And also the first time Call of Duty has been released on Gamepass.
I am not suprised.
I'd be much more interested in other metrics.
Because Sony publish shipment and sell-through numbers regularly. Microsoft don't.
VGChartz can adjust PS5 numbers aligned with official numbers. But they can't do that with Xbox Series.
I still don't understand you, seriously.
I don't believe Series stand at 30m sell-through as of today and think it's overtracked by at least 1.6m.
I laid out why I think it. Nothing further I can do.
I don't understand you.
I said, IF these shipment numbers were true:
https://finance.yahoo.com/n...
Then they would indicate that sell-through (!) numbers of the Series were lower than 28.3m units as of June, 2024.
Because in the link they are talking about 28.3m shipment as of June, 2024. Not sell-through.
Pretty good numbers for the PS5.
Being down only 11.8% compared to October 2023, which was the year they went on to break all prior PS hardware sales records, is pretty strong.
And now it's time for November data.
On another note:
One could think Xbox Series sell-through estimates are still over-tracked by between 1.6m to 3m units, if that one particular shipment (not sell-through) number of 28.3m as of June 2024...
It was metaphorical.
I could have also just said if Xbox will be able to catch or beat Playstation in revenue.
I gotta say:
After the current financial quarter will be set and done, I'm really looking forward to all of their next quarter reports.
And am excited to find out if all of those 500Mio. MAUs, Starfield, Hellblades, Stalkers, Indiana Jones', Flight Sims and Call of Dutys and 'everything is an Xbox' will have been enough to beat PS5, PS5 Pro and Astro Bot in revenue.
@Chocoburger
If they'd do that, the only one profiting here in terms of revenue would be Sony.
A Playstation 1st party title purchased through Steam and played on the 'Xbox Next' via an integrated Steam app doesn't draw any revenue share for Xbox. If so - where?
So the question would remain:
Why should one buy a Xbox with Steam to purchase and play Playstation 1st party titles? And not just buy a Play...
Considering the PS5 has been tracking a good (and unexpected) chunk behind aligned PS4 numbers in Europe, a gap of now only 23k with aligned PS4 numbers for the same month is pretty strong for the PS5.
PS5, according to these estimates, outsold Xbox Series by 6:1 in Europe in the month of October '24. And PS5 just crossed the 5:1 ratio year-to-date compared to Xbox Series.
Xbox Series selling only 83k for a month like October though ... ouch.
"Ray-traced reflections are supported in races while running at 60fps on PS5 Pro.“
Didn't know that. That's amazing!
What's interesting about this, although there ain't no 100% certainty the deal will get finalized, but:
If Sony had already made up their mind to step out of negotiations, there wouldn't be much reasons now to confirm an intent after 3 weeks this news had appeared for the first time.
I personally think:
The deal is about to be finalized. The takeover of Kadokawa will be announced before December, 31st 2024.