Haha, yeah but not for an Xbox fanboy.
I don't think Zenimax has much of any real value to Microsoft, they just wanted their subsidiaries and IPs. It wouldn't make much sense for Zenimax to do a sell of all that unless they needed the money or wanted to drastically change the company. /armchair analysis
You make it sound like Bethesda was this struggling small publisher, they have some of the biggest gaming IPs, they were big enough to have an E3 conference and they were bought for a freaking 7.5 billion dollars. That's almost double the money that Disney spent to acquire Star Wars or Marvel.
Im not really a fan of acquisitions be it sony, microsoft or nintendo doing it as it can lead to talented developers leaving company's if the workflow changes to much, we've seen this in the past.
how long do you imagine this deal took?
sony is a big multinational conglomerate company, with like a 100b market cap, but they make things - id wager a huge portion of their $ is tied up in mfg, but they also make risky things like movies and music.
sure. I don't think most Sony or Xbox gamers actually love excluding others from playing their games either (don't get me wrong, there are some, but there also are loads of pc gamers who don't care that much if their games go on console but love to gloat about the kind of games available on pc that would never go to consoles). My point is that all these complaints about exclusivity are not from supposed moral or ethical standpoints. That's why supporting Microsoft but not Sony seems hypocritical to me.
This is what i think too, the ps5 timed exclusives are so meaningless for me as a consumer if i still have to pay the 60-70 dollars for the game. That's what MS is doing good, adding value to your ecosystem as a whole, not just the games.Day one Gamepass >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PS5 timed exclusivity.
Yup. Sony's been doing a lot of wrong things when it comes to these types of deals. It feels kinda like how epic makes it so games are only on the epic games store.
i heard that exclusives were the way the game was played and that MS needed to git gud at it?
People are too entrenched in tribalism here, if Sony goes and buys Capcom/SE next month the same people complaining about this buyout won't complain about it at all, the writings on the wall
Good for PR, but I suspect they've understood that PC gaming is not a direct threat to their console ambitions. It's a separate market with a separate audience that can be exploited alongside their console and cloud goals.
Why? Let's say you get 50 million people subscribed at 10 dollars a month, you are asking less money in a year from your costumer than 2 Playstation games.
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Man, lol
Imran Khan: "Sony has locked timed exclusivity for some huge and widely known multiplatform games" News
think about games that involve outer space and/or gunswww.resetera.com
edit: to be clear, this was referring to starfield at the time
At least I would assume it's deep in to development and not troubled. I think it's fair to say that Sony probably saw a slice of the game and liked what they were seeing if they were trying to negotiate timed availability.
I don't own a PS Anything and I have Game Pass Ultimate. It's good for me. I also don't believe that this consolidation is going to be the death of the industry, pearl clutching gamers have been crying about this industry dying for years
Exactly. Microsoft has and always will be a software company first. They're no longer playing by the same rules as Sony.
