Sony's third party plan has been as obvious as it has been successful.
Pay for exclusivity on genre defining titles that then lead to adoption of those that like that genre to boost sales and starve the competitor of that market leading to more favourable deals in the future that continue to solidify their position.
Example in point by securing Final Fantasy as defacto exclusive, all fans of that genre will inevitable buy a Playstation leading to a ...
What an unnuanced take. Perhaps if you aren't an expert or at least conversant on how takeovers proceed and hearings like this go, don't write an article saying you can't see it happening just because Sony says no? Its got way more considerations than just how it effects Sony.
Concessions are coming in thick and fast, can't see this deal not going through now.
Seems a small difference that will be patched out once the game is out of Beta like so many new releases do.
Em either the original via backwards compatibility or the remake thats a native version?
Awesome news. I've wanted to play AW2 for a very long time
@shinoff2183, Absolutely but they already have deals in place that basically cut out their competitor from having access to the game. Not sure the savings on not paying for that would be worth the cost to buy.
Would they be much of a get as this point? FF isn't the franchise it once was and they make so much money on Nintendo sales that to cut that off to have slightly more exclusivity than they have now doesn't make sense.
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I expected exactly what we got, as they said they would only show those 4 games. Hi Fi Rush was a surprise and the only thing I didn't get what I expected was a Forza release date. Was a good show by M$
Looks banging good fun
Sea of Thieves has had poor support? What on earth are you talking about, its one of the best supported live service games there is.
He went back to his role he had before he stepped in to get Halo Infinite to launch.
Absolutely loved it, It even made me crave for eating bread and cheese with a bit of meat.
Its for games releasing in the next few months.
Glad to see Tunic and Pentiment ranked up there, I enjoyed both of those immensely.
Its a chicken and egg situation though, Sony pays for genre defining titles not to appear on its competitor i.e FF or Street Fighter, and as such fans of those genre's buy Sonys console and sales of the genres that do get released naturally are lower due to the pull of the ones that Sony has made exclusive. Without FF exclusivity you would naturally find bigger audiences on the xbox.
Interesting that MS launched the most new IPs of the big three.
Worked for me in the UK
Exactly. Due to previous exclusivity that Playstation has employed in these genres. FF16 isn't the starting point of this process just a continuation. And every game on PS4 sold massively better than on Xbox one due to how much of a shite console the xbox was.