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The sad part is that there are parts of this forum that would celebrate that
If it is Japanese game, I don't think that the timed exclusivity will be so strange. Sony is already getting some of their games as [timed] exclusives already.
But it could be some big western game. Looking at what they have currently announced, maybe it's again connected with Bethesda. Starfield?
Be the nice guy. And sell the top of there line console for $100 less with 3 months of game pass included.
I for one applaud Sony for keeping PC players and Xbox players in their place.
Stuff like this is going to make sure crossplay doesn't take off this gen.
Stuff like this is going to make sure crossplay doesn't take off this gen.
But that's my point. They're gonna have to counter if Sony is out there buying up timed exclusivity to some of these bigger games and MS has a lot more money to spend than Sony. It's one thing to do this shit with indies, but AAA games that have a history of being multiplatform is an entirely different story.
It doesn't end well regardless of which platform you're playing on.
GTA 6 won't be out for another 3 years. Even if a deal was in place no one would know of it in 2020.
The price for GTA6 exclusivity would probably be enough to buy a small country lol
They did it a few months ago with MW2 Remastered.
Sony would never pay for timed exclusivity on a brand-new Call of Duty, though. Even Crash Bandicoot is too expensive for them now.
Yeah. Like in Nioh's case at least Sony actually publishes the damn games.
Just Sony giving Square a check to screw over Xbox owners or Microsoft paying Sega to fuck over Playstation owners, though...come on. It's shit.
Hope is is not true. Competition should be great for us if console market is like 360-ps3-wii era, very similar market share and we had a lot of quality games and every stakeholder giving the maximum they could.
MS is still doing it , it just harder for them to get bigger games because Sony has bigger user base and expect to also in next gen .
That gen was full of this , i mean you really think some of those Japanese games that was MS system for a while were not going to be multiplatform or time DLC.
If MHW2 ends up timed exclusive after Capcom deliberately got PC dev up to speed now, I'm gonna cry.
It's going to be a real annoying few years. This is why I hate new generations.
It would be the PS2-era all over again, so actually not unthinkable, but also not very likely (they'd have to pay astronomical amounts of cash). It would be a huge blow to MS.
And it would be incredibly shitty, so it's not something anyone should want (besides Sony). I'm absolutely expecting FF16 to be a timed-exclusive though (already happened with FF7).
They better be supremely confident in their pricing and are somehow able to convince these developers that the pricing is fair--especially during a pandemic. I cannot imagine how people will react if the PS5 is $500-$600 USD and they've secured a bunch of exclusives in some fashion, locking people out of those games or experiences by sheer virtue of cost.
The games division does not. They have at best similar buying capabilities.
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