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  1. KickNamesTakeAss

    Xbox Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

    Despite MS's best efforts to downplay the significance of COD to regulators its the key piece they need for future plans of growth. In fact it's scary how many of MS future plans rely on having COD and why divestiture was never an option. Talk about putting the cart before the horse. Phil...
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    Discussion Sony 'Not in Talks' with CD Projekt RED About an Acquisition.

    We haven’t seen a single second of realtime gameplay for any of those games so far and you’re already calling them obvious guaranteed flops? Nothing more than irrational thoughts at this stage.
  3. KickNamesTakeAss

    Discussion Sony 'Not in Talks' with CD Projekt RED About an Acquisition.

    COD isn’t doing any harm to Sony. But COD under Microsoft control is a whole different matter making the business decision to find success in gaas games a wise choice. Also there’s no guarantee for making a successful gaas game. Sony agree that’s why they’re making so many to increase their...
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    Discussion Sony 'Not in Talks' with CD Projekt RED About an Acquisition.

    Can you imagine if Sony just pigeon-holed themselves to only single player games and not catering to the massive multiplayer base. COD is a prime example that Sony needed to seriously expand into multiplayer of their own and not depend on third party for it. And Jim has smartly invested in...
  5. KickNamesTakeAss

    Discussion Sony 'Not in Talks' with CD Projekt RED About an Acquisition.

    Sony are not interested in making AAA single player games?? Now that’s crazy talk right there. And this rumour was always just made up click bait.
  6. KickNamesTakeAss

    Xbox Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

    That's such a U-turn right there I almost got whiplash. Whatever new evidence MS put forward must have been so compelling the CMA have gone from divestiture as the option to yeah we're good no worries. :ROFLMAO: Trying to calculate the feasibility for MS to foreclose is crazy when thinking...
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    Xbox Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

    You've just described one of the biggest own goals in gaming history. An entire plan undone the moment they played their hand with Bethesda. And an endeavour now seemingly unsustainable without huge IP to drive subscribers. I also ponder if things could get worse, though it depends on the...
  8. KickNamesTakeAss

    News PlayStation VR2 launches in February 22, 2023 for $549.99

    Can see why for many its gone from impulse buy to I'll wait and see to strong hard no. Its more than I expected for sure (no more than the price of the console) but I'm still buying it day one because I'm really excited by the hardware itself and its potential for gaming (something I thought the...
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    News Richard Leadbetter (Digital Foundry): Why the return of 30fps console games is inevitable

    Respect your pro pc gamer point of view (though quite gloaty) however what you say here is hardly rocket science. Nobody buys a console expecting 4k 60fps from every game or for it to be even close to what high end pc's can achieve. You're comparing devices constrained by cost, heat, silicon...
  10. KickNamesTakeAss

    News Call of Duty would stay on PlayStation thru 2027 if Sony accepts offer

    Sorry but, I still can't believe the nerve of MS / Phil Spencer. They come across to me as if they look down on Sony because of the market cap and spending difference. Yet shown very little evidence throughout his time at Xbox that he knows what he's doing or know how to manage studios, just...
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    Discussion The idea that sony pays for 'Blocking rights' on premium games is nonsense: These developers don't want to be in gamepass in the first place

    Yeah the definition of exclusivity has changed this year. It’s no longer a marketing deal, it’s now blocking the other platforms or even worse in the eyes of its supporters blocking Gamepass. Of course it was always that, it’s a competitive market and deals exist but now it’s used as some way to...
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    Comparison PCs will be the ideal platform for Sony devs over the PS5

    Just to let you know Returnal does use raytracing on PS5 for the lighting. Obviously not as sexy as full raytraced reflections you probably have in mind, however the raytracing hardware is used. "By leveraging PS5's raytracing hardware, we are able to deliver high-quality lighting in real...
  13. KickNamesTakeAss

    News Sony: "Giving Microsoft control of Activision games like Call of Duty" has "major negative implications"

    Oh its bold alright. I'm not sure how his admission can help the current deal with regulators. Maybe they think they're too rich to stop? Despite regulatory concerns MS seem almost over confident and assured of buying the biggest publisher in gaming. How many more developers / publishers do they...
  14. KickNamesTakeAss

    Discussion If the MS-ABK acquisition fails, do you see MS becoming a 3rd-party publisher?

    Some great replies so far. I personally don’t see them going 3rd party even if the ACTI deal is blocked so far PlayStation, Nintendo, apple, meta, Google and Amazon have shown zero interest in having Gamepass on their platform. They could publish Gamepass games individually to sell on all...
  15. KickNamesTakeAss

    News PlayStation: Xbox's Call of Duty offer was "inadequate on many levels"

    Since Phil Spencer brought the matter of COD's future to the public, It's good to finally get a clear message of their true intent with the franchise. Thanks Jim. And that message is clear, MS don't plan to compete anymore. The past 20 years were spent doing that and they've had enough...
  16. KickNamesTakeAss

    Discussion Insomniac's Spiderman was made with a 25MB/s throughput limit 🤯

    Its exciting stuff indeed. Of all the hardware upgrades over last gen CPU, GPU, RAM its the ridiculous I/O capabilities of PS5 and its affect on game design that excites me the most going forward. Insomniac already made huge leaps upgrading the engine for Ratchet with super fast loading of...
  17. KickNamesTakeAss

    Welcome to IconEra (Now 1,000+ Members)

    Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. Glad to be here !
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