According to many comments on here poor ol Sony won’t be able to compete. That MS has unlimited funds to throw around and Sony doesn’t. Anyone that owns a business knows you can’t throw money around, especially when you have multiple projects in the works that need money as well. Big purchases can be made if you are going to make it back and turn a profit. Plus you have share holders that want to see growth. So it’s not viable even for a company as big a MS to throw money around without a pla...
Or their competitors can compete. That’s what happens in competition. Someone comes along and changes the game and everyone adjusts.
So this can be a slippery slope. While it’s good to moderate your site for extremism. How far does that go? Getting rid of those trying to radicalize people with propaganda is one thing. Someone expressing an opinion to others is another thing.
Where does it stop? Do we start taking content out of games because of some government oversight committee deems it so? While I believe that Steam can do much better and should. When we get past the obvious and flagrant flags. Who is...
Hell of a lot of games that’s for sure.
This article says nothing new. Just another opinion piece meant to inflame banter among the usual suspects on this site.
@IRetrouk
So I would need to read the whole document to put it into context. But from what I read, they seem to be talking about the incentives to stay multi plat vs the incentive to be more exclusive. Nowhere do I read a promise of staying multi platform, especially on all games. Theirs a thing called competition and putting all your games on another platform doesn’t make sense.
As for Sony they never had the incentive to buy a publisher because they are the mark...
Your only problem on your statement is MS never promised that all Bethesda games would show up on their competitors platform. They said, that where it makes sense to put a games on a competitor’s machine they would. You also left out they honored the agreements for Sony’s one year exclusive deals with Bethesda. Something they didn’t have to honor.
My question to you, how is it you expect another company to buy a company and then share with their competitors? Has Sony shared any of t...
One, they are all Big Mega Corps.
Two, this lawsuit was bogus from the get go and is another example of the Government wasting resources and playing politics. Which I loath.
Three, MS isn’t the same corporation they were in the 90s. They have changed a lot.
Four, If I or others want to take the time to go into the History of Sony and MS. You can find a lot of cannon fodder on both. I don’t buy into the narrative that Sony is somehow the...
They never agreed to not take games off their competitors systems. Which they haven’t, Redfall and Starfield were never officially announced for any of the systems. The EU for the Bethesda accusations gave them no restrictions. That means they could have not honored the agreements for games like Deathloop. But Xbox honored those agreements and have allowed other games to stay multi platform.
So who has lied now? The very political FTC. Who bu the way are waisting taxpayers money on a lawsuit thats main tent pole argument has just been taken away by the European Commission calling them out.
I wonder how FTC was so misguided? Well I’m sure Jim Ryan (Sony) and the head of the FTC have something to do with that.
But according to some on here, MS is this big lying company that can’t be trusted. But now, the very weak and baseless lawsuit that others have u...
This has politics written all over it. The head of the ftc, Holly Vedova, Director of the FTC’s Bureau. Promised to hit big tech, so this is nothing more than that. A political move
I wish they would make another Riddick, Butchers Bay was the best.
As a medium, video games have a much harder time of producing masterpieces. You have to coordinate with many more people than you do in other mediums. Like film, most of the games on this article had other studios working on parts of them. It takes a lot of time to produce something good.
The author of the article is correct about the rinse and repeat of video games. How many sequels do we need? Instead of trying something new, we get the next same thing with prettier gra...
By the way….. I know a lot of us have different opinions on gaming. But in the United States it’s Thanksgiving day. So I wanted to wish all of you the best.
By the way….. I know a lot of us have different opinions on gaming. But in the United States it’s Thanksgiving day. So I wanted to wish all of you the best.
By the way….. I know a lot of us have different opinions on gaming. But in the United States it’s Thanksgiving day. So I wanted to wish all of you the best.
You’re right about the publisher, but that’s because they haven’t had to. Instead they make agreements to lock out others of content and games so you’ll buy their system. Nothing stopping them from buying a publisher as well. But that’s the advantage of being number one, you don’t have to buy a publisher. You use your install base to leverage agreements and stick it to the competition. So MS has changed things up with gamepass and that the real threat to them. Why else do they have agreements...
So this is in my view the one of the real reasons why Sony is throwing up a huge roadblock to the Activision deal. They’re behind in this area and they want to keep the status quo.
Well until they actually do something it’s all speculation. This transaction is not even close to a monopoly, especially being in third place.
Sony is playing victim which is to be expected. But they have done more than anyone else to be anticompetitive by locking down agreement after agreement, keeping games off of their competitors. Punishing gamers on Xbox for having to pay the same price for a game with missing content. If it wasn’t for Game Pass ramping up the competit...
Of course it does and will. But it will not be anywhere on the level of the new consoles. It will be a more powerful version of the Switch.