"They can grow GP with out ABK. All it's doing is stalling MS and MS can't stall anymore."
ABK is instant offense and will put them over the top far more quickly then waiting for Bethesda games to release. GamePass is Microsoft's last hoorah so to speak which is why they want to get as much subscribers as quickly as possible. Also the double whammy of weakening the competition as well.
@Both
Timed exclusive...... Meaning it's still coming to Xbox right?
Don't understand how it's a mute point? Y'all hate timed exclusives but are okay with permanent ones. Has a Bethesda game ever been permanently exclusive to Playstation or timed for beyond well over a year plus change? What makes you think that would have happened had Microsoft not bought them? You think Activision games would be Playstation exclusive too?
"But now, they'll be avaliable on console PC and cloud, day one. Most of which have a low barrier of entry."
Let's say Sony made a deal it'd still be coming to console and PC. . . . . .
"We may have been trolling MS about games. But it looks like MS took it very seriously. Which is what we wanted right.. right?"
These games were coming to Xbox regardless of ownership.
"Which brings me to my question. Why buy ABK?"
To increase GP subscribers. If the deal goes through, in theory it should be enough to get their subscriber count to where they ideally want it to be.
@Lexreborn2
Non PS5 owners are gonna hate regardless so ignore them. Even if this game was a 97 on meta they'd still hate. Hell you have them hating GoW:R saying it's over cinematic or using Elden Ring to put it down. The point is that for those that have a PS5 they definitely had chance to try the game out with the demo and even though the final game might actually be better than demo it's tough to ask someone she'll out $70 to play something they are on th...
Translation: We are so glad to have kept these games off competing platforms so that we can say that our portfolio is looking really sharp. Hopefully the FTC and EU allows us to further compete so that we can continue to take credit for games such as diablo and call of duty as we again remove them from competing platforms.
You'd have a point, but they had a demo though. The demo might not be a proper representation of the full game, but that's SE's fault. If one genuinely does not like the demo you can't expect them to pay $70 just so that they won't be considered a follower going with the flow to bash the game.
@Nyxus
You are not allowed to use his logic against him!
^^^
So we're allowed to use games releasing on competing consoles to bolster lineups now? Guess every year is great year for everybody now. The big 3 will be happy to hear that they no longer need to release any games as long as we have 3rd parties to release games for them even though those games are also available elsewhere! Nice job Obscure!
"Microsoft has had a rough few first years of the Xbox Series for sure - but in 2023 they're lined up a lot better than PS thus far."
You never said Microsoft was having a "rough" few years until this year. Instead made excuse after excuse while also downplaying PS offering by either saying that they were delayed from their initial release announcement or how certain titles had delay "written all over it" or how the best game on PS was &quo...
All good things must come to an end. looking forward to their next IP.
People need to apply this logic elsewhere too
Yes I will.
Exactly, Microsoft is the one that's like "oh woe is me Sony won't let us compete by letting us remove a slew of multiplat games from their platform."
So you saying Nintendo is going to be last and Microsoft first then since you 100% agree that this generation is about services and not games/hardware.
Edit @ your reply below:
So you don't 100% agree? I'm confused. . . . .
LOL @Nyxus!!!
20th isn't good enough in this article and Part I was number one in that link and still not good enough.
Orchard's agenda stays getting exposed. And will happen throughout the year as he will undoubtedly flip flop on his stance here when games from other companies release in the future.
Remember that you want actual numbers next time a company/publisher not named Sony doesn't give them while trying to paint success.
"but these were things already being developed by Zenimax's studios before being bought."
Hence why Microsoft is buying established multiplatform studios with their own long term foundation that way there's no way in hell they can mess those up unless a grest number of key people leave.
Very strange logic