Amazon entering the mix doesn't mean they needed to buy Bethesda. They were already getting Bethesda's games.
With 7.5 billion they could have got Bethesda games and created 20+ studios of their own to make games. They are trying to force a conflict of money to force out competition like Sony and Nintendo that are huge players in one industry (gaming) but can't afford the kind of war like Microsoft can wage with money from Windows ect.
If I ...
In 10-20 years Microsoft will have no competition if things continue like they are.
RememberThe357
Listen, PlayStation subsidizes the less profitable parts of Sony versus Microsoft which the other parts of Microsoft subsidize xbox.
And you're right it's not just about market cap, but what you fail to understand is how these companies hold wealth and how credit ratings work. Microsoft has more tangible cash where as Sony's wealth is largely tied up in investments and holdings and goods. And Microsoft has such a high corpora...
chiefJohn117
You don't even understand the difference between a publisher and a developer. Bethesda was in control of 7 studios, buying Bethesda was like buying 7 Insomniacs.
Man arguing with people on this site is so frustrating because people argue about things they don't even understand the most basic fundamentals of the things they are talking about.
Shane Kim
You clearly did not understand what I said.
Darth putting the game in a box is not a big part of the production cost. Eliminating the box is not why they want digital, they want digital because digital allows them to control the price. When they get all digital what's going to happen is the price of games will remain high. Look at DLC, DLC from the big publishers basically stays the same price permanently.
Digital is the biggest Trojan horse in gaming, as soon as people let it in the castle the cheap games w...
Yea, what will you say when Microsoft prices Sony out of the industry with subsidization and paying billions to keep games of competitors systems?
Don't you understand, Microsoft doesn't need their gaming business to make money because Windows and other Microsoft arms make so much money. Sony can't just give their games away, they need to make a profit to stay in the business.
Microsoft is subsidizing Sony out of the industry in a long term p...
Not everyone can afford to subsidize their games until they control the market enough to jack up the prices like cable and isp's did.
Bethesda could have kept making games for Microsoft they didn't need to buy the whole studio to get them. For 7.5 billion they could have funded a 100,000,000 project every year from Bethesda for the next 75 years.
Yes, they are putting everyone else under pressure and putting the whole industry at risk. Hurray!
It was already started when they bought studios before.
Exactly, they were charging 4x the amount of the disk inside 360 consoles just because they had a proprietary port.
A $30 disk wrapped up and sold for $120-$150.
Yes it is. It's double the cost of the parts at retail. So Microsoft is easily charging 3+ times the cost of manufacture.
But shill media keep on shilling it's what you do.
Sony only bought Insomniac because Microsoft was aggressively targeting companies that had strong ties to Sony. There is near zero chance that Sony would have bought them if Microsoft hadn't started buying up studios. They needed to protect their investments specifically Spider-Man and R&C which at that point Insomniac was working on both for next gen.
All you did was the typical deflection back at Sony, but it's not even close to the same thing.
And what if it is? People said when Microsoft bought the first round of studios that it would start a war to buy up studios and publishers and that has been what happened. Microsoft themselves have said they will buy more.
The non-stop Microsoft defense is just out of control and the things that said get contradicted with other things they say constantly.
You can't for months say you want Microsoft to buy all these studios then when they do argue th...
Buying up the industry and putting everyone else out of business.
How about no.
Correction: xbox and the shill media don't like it because it's timed exclusive with Sony.
It's not just the speed of the SSD. What people overlook is that you can't write new data into the memory until you clear what is already in their which is why Sony's scrubbers are so important. Without that feature the PS5 would never reach such high rates on I/O throughput.
Sony has got at least 4 sales going on ATM.