Microsoft Blocking pre-orders for Persona 3/4 on Switch and PS4 in order to cook books for the xbox versions, purposefully gimped the PS5 version
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Imagine the scenes if this was the other way around. The internet would be calling out Sony for noncompetitive practices, saying they need to be closed down.
Since it's MS doing it, it's ok.
Since it's MS doing it, it's ok.
Absolutely. We're in the world of corrupt biased media and double standards.
In the end, it won't matter much. The ps4/5 and switch versions will sell much better than any of the xbox versions. Between the lack of interest in jrpgs on the system and gamepass killing game sales overall, it's going to sell poorly.
The hashtag didn’t do dick, the PS4 humiliating the Bone in sales was what got publishers to tell Microsoft where to stick the Parity Clause.
Aren’t they on gamespass? It’s not going to sell anything on Xbox.
Looks like this scheme of MS was just to sway PS gamers from buying gimped versions to sub for gamespass for a proper next gen port.
Dirty Xbox tactics
Looks like this scheme of MS was just to sway PS gamers from buying gimped versions to sub for gamespass for a proper next gen port.
Dirty Xbox tactics
That’s disgusting and petty by MSPhil is also blocking a native PS5 version.
Persona 4 Golden And Persona 3 Portable Don't Support High Framerates And Resolutions On PS5 - PlayStation Universe
Atlus's Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden don't support higher frame rates or resolutions when being played on a PS5,www.psu.com
I’m getting it on a discount. Fuck Atlus for accepting this shitty deal
Imagine expecting ps gamers to buy a séries x for 4K persona 4? It’s never going to happen, MS gonna MS I guess
The game was average looking even by PS2 standards.
4K 120 isn’t gonna help. Like polishing a pebble.
If anything it makes things look worse at times.
P3 Portable is even worse looking. They’re was no free roaming either apart from the dungeons.
You’re not going to rush out and drop $500 to play a slightly upgraded handheld game from a decade ago? You’re crazy!
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lack of upgrade path and no save carryover for PS4->PS5 version of Persona 5 was done to hurt sales on PS5, too. Another part of MS's backdoor dealing no doubt. I know a ton of people who skipped the PS5 version for that reason.
the same had happened to me with my Yakuza 7 save.
This is unprecedented. Where as Sony is sending developers to clean up and ensure multiplats run up the best they can on PS5, like they did with Callisto Protocol, MS takes the opposite approach and PAYS 3rd party to GIMP the competitors versions instead.
What an anti-consumer, anti-competitive behaviour.
And the MS apologists either bury their head is the sand, pull out the nonsense excuse that it's the Xbox's smart delivery being responsible for the lack of a native PS5 version (LOL - that's not how this works) or just go for the old 'atlus gonna atlus hoohoho" shitposting.
I really hope they get skipped on Persona 6. They really don't deserve the game after this, straight up.
the same had happened to me with my Yakuza 7 save.
This is unprecedented. Where as Sony is sending developers to clean up and ensure multiplats run up the best they can on PS5, like they did with Callisto Protocol, MS takes the opposite approach and PAYS 3rd party to GIMP the competitors versions instead.
What an anti-consumer, anti-competitive behaviour.
And the MS apologists either bury their head is the sand, pull out the nonsense excuse that it's the Xbox's smart delivery being responsible for the lack of a native PS5 version (LOL - that's not how this works) or just go for the old 'atlus gonna atlus hoohoho" shitposting.
I really hope they get skipped on Persona 6. They really don't deserve the game after this, straight up.
This is really bad timing for something like this to happen, with MS under scrutiny from the FTC and other trade regulators.
Engaging in wildly anticompetitive behaviour while attempting the largest merger of software publishers is kinda dumb!
Sony didn't send anyone to help with Callisto Protocol.
Only thing what Sony did, it was helping with motion capture and animations, because they have studio for that. to add, countless games and developers used the same studio, this is completely normal.
but because xbots FUD dried up, they created new one.
I recall reading that the devs for Callisto did have some help from the ICE team.
If MS truly are to blame for the gimped Playstation versions of these games, and you have no issue with the practice, then you have no right to get mad whenever Playstation gets a third party exclusive.
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There is nothing to get upset over about FF and SIlent Hill for instance, both games were PlayStation exclusives at a time, and have limited availability on xbox throughout their history to begin with. The first FF on Xbox was 13. T H I R T E E N!
Sony also co-published the first FF7 game so Xbox has no claim to that universe whatsoever.
Persona on the other hand has been a PS exclusive since the 90's.
What MS is doing here is worse. It's trying to disrupt and harass an entire community of gamers by paying money to actively make our experience worse.
This is like if Sony sent GIMPING RIGHTS money to an beloved Xbox developer, like paying to make the the next Fifa or Madden run worse on Xbox.
This does kind of hurt MS argument that they would never kneecap anyone else's version of a game if they are in fact responsible for this.
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Tbh, fuck atlus. The only thing that sets their games apart is the music. I don't think they are necessarily screwing over playstation due to being paid by MS, because this isn't the first time they've done bullshit, they clearly treat playstation players like paypigs. Imagine charging full price on p5 -> p5r and providing no upgrade path to the ps5 version, you gotta buy it at full price again.
Anyone who buys a PS5 version of a game they already own the PS4 version of is an idiot anyway.