What long running Insomniac made franchise on xbox did you lose when Sony bought them? Don't say Sunset Overdrive becasue that's not a long running franchise and there is no sequel on PlayStation anyway. You think if Sony was looking to buy Activision and take COD away from xbox that Microsoft wouldn't be in-between them? Spoiler alert, they absolutely would. You know what's anti-competitive, instead of using the developers you already had in house, which number more than Sony...
"They finally have competition", this is what it took for MS to be able to compete? MS already had more in house developers than Sony, how much more of a "leg up" do they need? Why can't they create some games from all those studios instead of buying up established multi-platform ip? MS wants to take games away from PlayStation so if anything it sounds like MS doesn't want Sony having a "leg up".
Problem is Microsoft didn't "prove" anything with this other than they are willing to spend even more money on full-page propaganda adds to pressure the FTC into letting the deal go through.
So Microsoft doesn't have its own great 1st party IP? They must own COD in order to compete? No the desperation is clearly on one side and its not Sony's.
"And I hardly think Activision/Blizzard constitutes as them buying the entire industry"
Look at all the developers under those publishers and look at all he ones they got from the Zenimax deal, I never said "entire" but lets not pretend they are not buying up huge chunks of the gaming industry with these multi-billion dollar deals. If in your own words Sony could just make a game that "replaces COD and could be even better" then so could MS. Wh...
It is widely known that McCaffrey is a massive xbox fanboy always has been and always will be, but while others desperately attempt to, not even he can deny facts.
No you don't have to spend $70 you just spend two and a half times that on a subscription service instead. If xbox is doing so great why do they need to buy up major publishers and developers? Aren't you the ones always going on about the $70 price point for PS games? Seems like you guys are always worried about PlayStation gamers finances. Bet we will see plenty of "goal posts moved" when the price of gamepass is inevitably raised just like we are seeing with the xbox conso...
