Developers definitely loose I didn't realise but apparently Microsoft has 32 development studios now. That means with activision they'll have around 50. No way that's economical to run when your main source of revenue is games pass.... so alot of jobs will likely be in the chopping block...
Because he is quite effective at getting games put the door and popular ones at that. That said doesn't excuse his behaviour and how he has handled things and the fact that he is a repugnant individual.
Still better than giving it to him...
Boosteroid is not a direct competitor as the cma already outlines. Boosteroid allows you to play games you already own like George now. Not pay a subscription and just instantly get a library stream able games.
Except Halo infinite launched in a sorry state considering it's a flagship MS IP. the other games well forza 5 isn't out yet is it? Hi-fi rush was apparently good but is a small indie game at best. The 3rd party titles that release on gamespass tend to be mediocre titles and I mean that in the proper sense of the word- redfall isn't mediocre it's way below that. Microsoft hardly seem to get any games out themselves as first party releases and when they have so far only forza h...
Except you DID pay for it...
Is this a joke?
What tonne of others? You literally just named all of xbox's first party titles pretty much during the end of 360 era, the xbox one era and most of the series x era too.
What a load of nonsense. Sonys console and software sales are literally a tentacle helping hold the industry up at the moment alongside some of nintendos exclusives although switch sales are starting to dwindle. Zelda will do its but aswell mind you.
Remember concerning lying Saudi Arabia government has invested quite abit of money in trying to get a significant game development industry going on Iver there and to acquire influence. If thus is there attitude towards games then honestly I don't want them to have any influence in the game industry. Can keep their money to themselves.
Perfect dark isn't being shown lol its on development he'll. Half the studio working on it left, most of which were senior leadership.
Starfield I'm fairly sure is already announced to be 30fps on consoles.
Except they aren't really- they have what may be a live service game from Haven studios and firewalk studios, they have another from a second party dev and an fps game with multiplayer focus by deviation games, they counted Gt7 as a live service game but really it's not much different to how recent GT titles were treated, they have the last of us factions, a Horizon multiplayer game in production at guerilla alongside horizon 3, a new ip from Bungie. The rest of their studios seem to ...
Actually like 6 major stakeholders opposed the deal in the cma report. Just all bar Sony wanted to remain anonymous.
They can't even do that. King is headquartered in the uk lol it was a British company before it became oart of activision.
Post merger MS wouldn't have to provide anything but COD to other companies ABK have many other IP's and the deals were all about COD. Also the issue isn't the current players it's more the obstacle it would prevent to new entrants. Cloud infrastructure is really costly to even start and get off the ground. If some of the most popular IP's are able to be witheld from your service it's such an uphill battle as to be impossible to enter the gaming market.
MS there trying to make out the CMA simply don't understand the market the level of patronising crap they've come out with during this is ridiculous. The CMA assembles a panel of experts for each major case they investigate aswell as relies on loads of 2nd and 3rd party data and interviews with loads of people and are meticulous in their reports. If anything the one the unorthodox u-turn on gaming in MS's favour actually weakens MS's case.
@theindiearmy you think MS is going to withdraw all operations from the UK market.... apart from anything the USA government would be beyond pissed given the UK is there closest partner in terms of defence etc. Senior people in intelligence circuits have made remarks before that the USA is the bank and the uk is the brains- the uk is known to be a world leader in surveillance and intelligence gathering and you can bet there's a symbiotic relationship in those industries with MS and other ...
That's assuming they still have 3 teams and don't /haven't grown a 4th team lol
Except its on pc aswell so you have to compensate for lost oc and console sales- likely a publisher considers that many people may have a ps5 and pc and able to get a game on games pass even if they prefer playing on ps5 why wouldn't they just pay it for no additional cost on pc???