You Misread what I said, Sony can’t cancel anything but they can lobby against it. Which they have done so aggressively. When the CEO of Sony personally flies to Britain to talk directly to regulators, that is not only highly unusual but very aggressive on their part. Nothing wrong with that what so ever, just a rare occurrence.
Regardless, people can disagree to the cows come home. But that won’t change the facts that Sony has been trying to kill this deal from the get go. Which in...
Obviously some people on here have no clue on the legal process. This is standard fare whenever someone challenges your company in a case like this. MS has a right to defend their position just like Sony has the right to object. Whenever you involve yourself like Sony has by diligently trying to kill the deal it opens itself up to these types of subpoenas. So you need to paint a bigger picture and that involves other companies. The gloves have come off that’s for sure.
True on what you said, but look at how many innovations they brought to gaming. Sony has adopted all of them. Like, hard drive, broadband, chat, your music while you play, your gamer score, ect.
While you’re right on them trying to find the right mix. At least they’re trying.
They use the word “appears” to be losing money. So that’s not a definitive statement. Obviously nobody but MS truly know. But after letting 10 thousand people go, they could be onto something.
@ Victor1
I don’t know if that’s true but I can tell that they can go after him still by personally suing him.
“Why make games and add to the community when you can spend 10's of billions to take what's already there.”
That same statement can be used on Sony as well. Since this is very specific to Call of Duty. Why can’t Sony make a game to compete against Call of Duty? Why because making deals or buying companies is cheaper in the long run. Hence is why all the big players are buying up companies right now.
Plus Sony has way more ips to draw on than MS. ...
How is it nonsense if that is in fact what Sony does? They have always locked out others to benefit their console.
That’s true the Mobile division was their top priority. But you don’t spend that kind of money to not get the whole enchilada.
Plain and simple both sides (MS/Sony) have both overstated facts in this high stakes game.
Unless their is a contract
@computeSci
They already offered exactly what you just said about parity to Sony and they rejected it. Day and date, look it up.
It’s called competition. Sony pays to keeps games off MS wether permanent or timed. MS offered a ten year contract and even offered to allow it to launch day/date with parity on Sony’s service.
Not sure what more you could offer to Sony? Seems to me they are protecting Sony from having to compete. How ironic is it that Jim Ryan is from the UK. I’m sure he had alot of buddies in the right places.
The part that confuses me the most is their statement on th...
So they are basing this off of one game? Wow, Sony really got on their knees for this one.
People on here get so caught up on Bobby.
My question is, how does buying Activision have anything to do with stifling competition in the cloud? I can see them saying the console but the cloud?
Personally I think there is more at play here and the UK has some alternative ambitions in the tech world.
The cloud….. really!?
Looks amazing
If they sell well enough they’ll make money. Once a game is made, to put it on the Xbox is easy considering that both consoles are using the same cpu and gpu setup. Back in the day when architecture was vastly different from one another I would agree with you. But today they are essentially the same. No, Sony paid for exclusive content and Square is stuck with that agreement. Which is part of the reason they are losing revenue.
And yet they keep making their games exclusive when they could be making more money by going multi-plat on all their games.
I guess Sony can compete after all. But according to them they would be recked without Call of Duty.
Hopefully not. But with IGNs terrible political preview/review of the game you could be right. I’m hoping that the majority of reviews will keep the politics out theirs. Games shouldn’t be used as canon fodder.
Nice review. I remember playing this game against friends back in the day and had a lot of fun. Good to see it works so seamlessly.
Loved the original one on the GameCube. I like that they kept it retro with some polishing. I was just thinking about this game last month and now here it is. For those who haven’t played it, give it a go you won’t regret it.