So not a reliable source then. What goes on on a website with 400k total users (who knows how many active) is not indicative of any real trend.
So are Sony? PS3 has sold more than Xbox Series and PS5, in fact it sold more than the two of them combined (for now).
The Switch is the only 'current' console that has outsold the PS3.
Got a reliable source on that?
"more people playing ps3 than xbox is just crazy hahahaha sad state of sffairs"
If it were true, yes.
Performance any day. Can't go back to 30fps now, feels terrible.
@shinoff Yes, 100%. I, like most other consumers on the planet, like to get as much bang for my buck as possible.
Anyone who likes paying more than they have to is a fool.
So the government forgot Christmas exists? Seems unlikely.
They also say "special reasons" caused the delay. Christmas isn't a random, unexpected special reason.
@HardKnock Exactly. His contributions to this thread are basically zero at this point.
@Chevalier I've never claimed to be a lawyer, I am however a developer and have proved that to multiple people on here - means absolutely nothing to me what you choose to believe or not believe :)
@Shinoff
Depends on the numbers, right? Activision makes about 8bn in revenue per year. Xbox makes about 16bn. I bet they'd happily sacrifice sales in (insert random South American country) to increase their revenue by 50% overnight.
Anyway, it won't come to that. This deal is going through, whether you and I like it or not.
@Hof
"And even if it goes through what are you hoping to see, XBOX overtaking PS ...
The PlayStation 3 Outranked The Xbox Series X|S in 2022's Most Played Consoles*
*If you only look at about 1% of gamers.
Fixed the misleading headline.
So all of a sudden everyone is friends. The FTC wants a settlement, and MS no longer consider them unconstitutional.
Best friends forever (until the next anti-trust case).
"if it does goes through which nothing indicates that happening yet"
FTC wanting a settlement and wanting to avoid federal court suggests it is happening, at least in the US.
"MS still won't have anything they didn't already have"
Except they will, they'll have the best selling game year in year out and all of the revenue that comes with it.
As for consumers, we get COD (and the other Activision franchises...
No one on here has claimed to be a lawyer - feel free to send us a copy of your bar certificate & law degree and educate us all.
Well, the two repercussions of a country rejecting it means:
1. Microsoft/Activision must shutter any Activision studios in that country
2. Microsoft/Activision will no longer be allowed to sell their products in that country.
So don't expect MS/Activision to care about small countries in South America etc.
Realistically though, the only ones that really matter are the US, EU and UK. That's why MS are focusing so much on those 3, and why we only really hear about those 3.
Other countries are too small of a market for MS to abandon this deal over.
@Sierra "A proprietary removable drive will always be married to the device it was originally installed on"
No, it won’t be. If the rumors ( https://www.playstationlife... ) are correct, they are intending on selling a PS5 with no drive what-so-ever, and then you, after the fact, can go to Walmart and buy an attachable disk drive accessory (s...
Seems like things are going on behind the scenes. This is ultimately likely a good thing for Microsoft - it looks like perhaps this wasn't as clear cut as the CMA were thinking.
It would typically be quick to go from "this is bad" in phase 1 to "this is still bad" in phase 2.
Not super surprising, at the OTT price Sony paid, they have to be working on multiple things.
@Sierra Calling out typos doesn’t cover up for the fact you don’t know what you’re talking about in the slightest.
“ blue ray drives are actually married to the motherboard while expandable hard drives are not”
No where above did I say storage drives are tied to the console itself (although they sort of do become tied to it once you format it for PS5). He isn’t talking about storage drives - he’s talking about the rumored PS5 redesign that has a removable...
By that logic, we're all employees of Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo on this website.