Why does day 1 matters so much anyway? For the last year MS had like Pentiment and Dusk Falls while Horizon Forbidden West was already included on PS+ and so were games like Miles Morales, Returnal and Demon's Souls that are better than anything Xbox had in ages. They made a big deal out of Persona games and those games had been released on PS long ago and even given away already (like in the case of Persona 5).
"Not a big deal, i never cared for square anyways."
To be honest, hardcore Sony fanboys used the same for Zenimax/Bethesda and now Activision as well.
I loved reading your clashes with them. You were quite famous on GAF cutting their fairytales off. xD
Yes but we PlayStation fans buy their games. FF7R sold in the launch year 5 million copies on PS4 and additional 2 million on PS5. This is pretty impressive to sell 7 million for an Action RPG.
Bethesda was a big loss for me, Arkane, BGS, and ID I used to always show up day 1 for. ACTI has been irrelevant to me since the ps3 days. Only good thing they did last gen was sekiro and thats not even their IP or studio. On forums, nobody gave two shits ABK for like a decade? It was until this merger did they magically become some needed publisher. As far as consoles go, all they have is call of duty, which is overdue a falloff IMO and wont move the needle for MS.
Yeah that was released alongside sony and microsofts response to the updated PF.
MS have had a suspiciously large number of "supporters" come out of the woodworks to go to bat for them during this ordeal, I agree. If you look at the sales and marketshare difference between the two platforms, one wouldn't suspect that Xbox would be popular enough to have this many people and organizations coming out to root for them to buy everything out. Still though, I find it hard to believe that they would actually have so many shills across every discipline.
Of all publisher Bethesda and Ubisoft would be the first two I would chose to get rid off. Good riddance.
It won't be nearly as huge if it's ever removed from PlayStation and Sony put all their market behind Respawn/BF games. Marketing deals is something that just work in favor of the console with a bigger audience otherwise it just hurts the game as it makes the version most people are going to play seem inferior.
The professor's submission was definitely suspect. He's been paid by MS in the past (believe he declared that) but says he was not commissioned to write in. I mentioned that he shoots himself in the foot because he claims the companies MS is offering cloud deals to aren't competitors and offering COD to them only benefits Microsoft's bottom line. That's absolutely true.
That is exactly what is happening, they have spent more money than PlayStation is worth to remove content from PlayStation.
Their lesson from all this time being in last place is probably that their game division can't coexist in the gaming space with Sony.
Larian and CDPR are better than anything MS has bought and so is FromSoftware obviously.
Its not. They are trying to grow their own business and have pounced on deals when they come up. Activision was on the block because of the scandals and lawsuits, Bethesda because leadership wanted to cash out and the previous ones were an island of misfit toys that were all happy to get out of having to sell themselves every single game.
