Why they don't need to react? You still think MS care about short term profit? They'll make all their money back once they get rid of Sony.They don’t need to react but people want them to.
They have already made key investments and can proceed with the plan as it happens. They are already market leader by a huge amount and have the software needed to keep momentum.
Gamepass is at its core destructive and cannot fund AAA game development. Unlike Microsoft, Sony’s business model will not bankrupt its game studios. This alone is the key factor. They do not have to act. Microsoft will continue to not understand the industry and kill studios and revenues for themselves.
The first move is to remove ps plus paywall and give a fair competitive playing field for all multiplayer games vs the f2p giants.
And if they were to react with a purchase that would all be subjective. I disagree with buying publishers and IP. IPs don’t mean shit to me long term… I’ve seen both Halo and Star Wars turn to shit in my lifetime so there’s that.
But if I wanted to make a more perfect Sony in the image of my choosing; they already have my favorite studio so I’d just finish the dream team by signing Kojima Productions and From Software. And then I’d have Sony buy Toho in Japan to strengthen their japan library and get Godzilla and all other properties from the legendary Japanese movie studio.
How fucking incompetent does Xbox need to be so that adding Bethesda + Activision + Blizzard + more than 10 other studios won't massively change things in the console space? Regardless of how much better PlayStation is in term of market share it still only 2:1.
We are on a whole new era, Sony added more studios than ever and yet it pales in comparison to how much MS has grown.
AAA games are taking longer than ever to get made as well so it's not like a single one of their studios is going to put out 3 new Uncharted games + TLoU in the next 6 years. Sony will get one or two games from ND this gen at most, maybe another one from SSM and mostly one from their other AAA studios.
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