Where is Tim Sweeney? shouldn´t he already planning the next 198fortnite campaign against monopoly?
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Microsoft CEO Nadella: ZeniMax/Bethesda acquisition is "all about future of software", will consider buying even more video game companies in future
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Where is Tim Sweeney? shouldn´t he already planning the next 198fortnite campaign against monopoly?
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so about the same time sony's stuff will hit, so starfeid v god of war.
I'm sorry. Did you just call Playstation's business models more antiquated than Nintendo's?
Like come on. I've happily owned every Nintendo console since the original Game Boy but I would never in a million years call them more progressive on a business level than literally anyone in the industry.
Yes, Microsoft who has finished a distant second, a close third, and a distant third in back to back to back generations is to blame for the current state and subsequent downfall of the gaming industry.
They announced the game in 2018 it would be an act of god the game comes out in 2021 try 2022 or 2023.
I mean if roumers are corect, and I belive they are, it was sony trying to pay devs, not for excusives, but to literly keep games off of xbox. I think ms is allowed to fight back.
Anything's possible (although that's likely improbable), but your initial response concerned 2023.
But it's always been a "buy out/consolidation" game; that's nothing new. Why? Because it's always been about creating value for your company. Acquiring studios is just the means to that end.
I am convinced that MS-in a few years time- will have some really good fruits to ripe from the whole studio shopping spree. and yes, it will be some sort of showdown at some point this gen, thats what that whole thing is about.
the question remains if the customer benefits from all of this or not
Ive been saying this for years. They are the Disney of gaming and have the kid market on lockdown. Nintendo sub would be HUGE.
Sony has been going for timed exclusivity (which sucks!), but it's okay that Microsoft is locking down PERMANENT exclusivity? Truly equivalent force.
Remember when Matt Booty said they "deliver a game every three to four months" and people laughed it off?
Well they clearly were not joking.
Well they clearly were not joking.
We don't know which games, if any, will be exclusive to only Xbox and PC.
Everyone thought MS would take Minecraft exclusive and here we are 5 years later and it's thriving across all platforms.
Sony monopolized Spider-man.
Xbox monopolized Fallout/Elder Scrolls/Doom/Wolfenstein/Dishonored/Starfield...etc.
I think PlayStation players will still be able to play the above on their console, once they push Sony to allow Game Pass on PlayStation, we know that's gonna come when Starfield drops.
Xbox monopolized Fallout/Elder Scrolls/Doom/Wolfenstein/Dishonored/Starfield...etc.
I think PlayStation players will still be able to play the above on their console, once they push Sony to allow Game Pass on PlayStation, we know that's gonna come when Starfield drops.
Lets be really honest, by the time all these aquisitions will come to fruitation it will be quite a few years into this gen.
its weird arguing its unfair since sony throw the first punch here. the old phrase dont bring a knive to a gun fight applies, also dont pick a fight with someone who has a gun, when all you have is a knive.
MS attempting to partner with Sony and Nintendo is literally how they got into the console business, maybe they should've taken them up on the offer.
true. But in comparison, one game to a whole publisher. if A big part of subscription content is going to be based on consolidating third parties, that'll be worse.
but its not permanent exclusivity, its owning the developers and supporting them in the games they want to make.
yup but will still be faster than building a studio from scratch.
Starfield has been in active development for years now. 2021 is probably when we'll see it and development won't be impacted by the acquisition.
So does anyone think that in 10 years MS will be a massive video game software company with much less focus on hardware? Once they get Sony and Nintendo to allow ganepass onto their hardware I think that is a much bigger cash cow than making expensive hardware. Basically Netflix but with a far bigger warchest
Comments like this boggle my mind. Nintendo usually keeps to themselves and Sony has been on a moneyhat spree this entire generation, cultivating "The Playstation Advantage".
It's literally been every company for themselves this generation, but somehow it's on MS to be the one to keep playing nice and use their money to keep everyone afloat?
I sort of felt that MS, like with Nintendo, wanting to close more of a gap with Sony. Especially with cross-play, etc. Do you know what the answers where to that? "Haha, MS. You're not the market leader anymore, why do you want to do this now? Haha, MS. Good business decision for you, but not Sony. It's all about business. Haha, MS.. you did it last gen and Sony is free to do the same thing this gen."
Everyone always wants MS to do the right things for everyone else, but gets shocked when they make a business decision that benefits them and seem to forget Nintendo and Sony have been making business decisions all generation to benefit themselves.
Why would Sony EVER put Game Pass on their console? It would literally be a way for Microsoft to steal third party sales from them and give them nothing for it. What value is there to Sony in a deal like that?
I think we have enough of a track record from Microsoft by now to know exactly what they'll do: follow any and all pre-existing legal contracts and obligations and the second those obligations are met, poof - no more Playstation support.
Anyone expecting any major new AAA games from any Microsoft studios to come to PS5 is in for a rude awakening.
The day Sony allows MS gamepass on their console will be the day gaming as we know it died. and no that is no console warring, that is the sad truth.
when this will be the outcome, why not make a Microsonysoft Playbox?
But didn't you hear? Sony bought Insomniac, and even worse, money-hatted an exclusive character in Avengers, so that makes Microsoft buying an entire publisher okay.
Honestly, I think Sony's qualms were losing third party revenue. But a feasible Microsoft owned studios only gamepass?? I actually see that being feasible and substantial enough for both parties that Sony would actually be fucking stupid to turn that down.
The difference for me is that Sony buying timed exclusivity gives the benefits to Sony by taking it away from Xbox. The value gained is solely in taking it away from others.
With Xbox purchasing Zenimax the benefit isn't in sony not getting it, it's in gamepass becoming a literal steal of a deal. Yes sony only users may miss out but thats not where the main benefit is, it's in gamepass.
And with MS buying these studios they have to fully fund them, funding the entirety of a games development is a lot different than throwing some cash to make them hold off on releasing it elsewhere for awhile.
I dont really see how that would kill gaming as we know it. It would be very different but I don't see Sony or Nintendo leaving the hardware business soon. Ultimately though I do think this kind of massive consolidation is not good for the business
Brilliant strategy on MS part. Very curious if this is going to set a new precedent.
and Sony and Nintendo are getting their "war chests" ready as well.
and Sony and Nintendo are getting their "war chests" ready as well.
It's amazing how one franchise or IP is somehow equal to multiple studios worth of historically multiplat titles. When Sony money-hatted SFV (which I'm not condoning), they didn't cut off your access from Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter, etc.
At the end of the day, all I see is not being able to play those games. I don't give one remote nano-fraction of a shit about the value of GamePass, so at the end of the day, they took games away from Playstation to "add value" to their service with games they were already getting.
I do not see a functional or appreciable difference. Both strategies are shit.
MS has a really strong studio portfolio by now, i think this gen will turn out to be the toughest since the 90s. if it turns out as a benefit for the players is another thing.
one thing is for sure, this gen will be ruthless.
Holiday 2021/Early to Summer 2022 are probably likely.
This is Bethesda's release history:
Oblivion - 2006
Fallout 3 - 2008
Skyrim - 2011
Fallout 4 - 2015
Fallout 76 - 2018
Starfield - ???
The Elder Scrolls VI - ???
We know Starfield was announced in 2018, and in 2016 they stated that Elder Scrolls VI was in development but a long ways off - with Starfield releasing prior to it. They average anywhere from 3-4 years in between releases, so I'd say 2021 definitely isn't out of the equation. It's been in development since after 2015, and likely received the brunt of their studio's focus after Fallout 76's release.
until mhw saved capcom there were roumers of it eing sold, some even think sony might buy it, but I doubt sony is ready to spend 10B on it.