Care to point out the hypocrisy?
Can you not play all of Activision and Blizzard games right now without Microsoft spending a penny?
Huh? This obviously isn't true. There's no way a game like Spiderman didn't turn a profit.
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Just read what was actually said. Misleading title. Nowhere does it say they aren't profitable. Just that overall revenue would be less without 3rd party revenue.
Yeah Cerny said that but got blasted for it.
@crazyCoconuts
S price wise and X spec wise (on paper).
"MS may be paying the price for the Series S"
According to an actual "developer" on this site, everything scales easily.
"if they'd just put out a Series X Digital Edition as the cheaper option"
They wanted to beat the PS5 in both price and specs that's why a Series X DE didn't exist and instead we got the S.
"Before the story update, everyone was ready to except that this studio just passed on Xbox for 'reasons', reasons they made up themselves and not from actual facts."
Just as some thought Sony paid to keep it off Xbox before the story submission?
"But as you can see if there's even a mention of Sony buying a third party game then it's an automatic defense reply of "MS does it too!!""
Yeah, b...
@crazyCoconuts
That can't be right everything just scales smoothly.
@gangsta_red
"Who said that? Because I definitely never did."
Practice what you preach?
Who said Sony doesn't pay for exclusivity? People are pointing out that it isn't always the case, so your fellow gamers need to stop complaining on Twitter assuming that's always the case.
At the end of the day you and people like you need to learn that there DOES exist times when a studio or publisher might release a game exclusively on PS for reasons other than Sony paying for it. For some reason you think it's baffling or straight up a lie that a studio might choose to release a game exclusively or timed on PS of their own accord without out payment when there are perfectly rational reasons why they may do so.
"Sony paying for them is number one."
Okay. . .?
Do you consider that dirty, underhanded, or bullying? Has Microsoft not paid for exclusivity?
That's why I never understood the whole "underhanded" "dirty tactic" "bullying" comments people make when it comes to the timed exclusive stuff. There are a multitude of rational reasons why game might be exclusive to a platform.
I don't like this at all. Not for me. It's a shame because I really like Rocksteady as a developer.
^^^
That Mexico one kills me lol. Really exposes the agenda "neutral" and "I have a PS5 🤷" people are trying to push.
Yeah it shows that the stock issues were solved after Sony officially announced that it was solved, not when certain people were saying that the stock had been plenty available for half a year before that official announcement.
Microsoft should swoop in and save the studio. Of all the purchases MS have made recently this would be the most sensible one.
Damn. I hope I look like that at 60 lol
Sony sees what Microsoft is trying to do. CoD is the talking point because it's huge. Ultimately Sony sees that Microsoft is trying to buy up the industry. Did Sony oppose the Zanimax acquisition? Microsoft is going to buy another publisher after Activision. Sony knows this and is trying to prevent it and is clinging on to CoD's huge impact as the main reason to prevent it. If this deal goes through other publishers will be bought out completing the quest for a monopoly.
"Well, if Activision is not the same as Bungie, then increasing the price in ~40 countries is not the same as doing it in 2-3 🤷"
You would have a point had you stated this from the beginning, and not after Microsoft does same thing and then you move the goal post to justify not being up in arms like when Sony did it 🤷♂️.
What's funny is that,
1) Bungie and Activision are not equivalent purchases. One is a studio the other an entire publisher
2) I recall you not really being supportive of it. Calling it a waste of money/overpay
3) I like how you moved the goal post to be "blanket" price increases now instead of the mere act of increasing the price. Really showing off that irony now.
FF16 coming to other platforms after 6 months? When are the games outside of CoD coming to other platforms after Activision purchase? When is Starfield, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc coming to other consoles?