its 2013 all over again, instead this time they trying to fuck their competition.
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I never used GeForce Now, but as I remember you can't buy games or dlcs, but only streams PC games you own elsewhere, like in Steam. So Nvidia wouldn't lose anything.
Outside of the 10 or so shill accounts on twitter and the same 5 guys on resetera, what fanbase?
Yep, now it makes sense why they were only doing deals with BYOG providers. You already have to own the game so this wouldn't make that big of a difference for them.
But for services like PS Plus, Amazon Luna, or even Netflix games, they would literally LOSE money by having COD on their platform if they can't recoup it with in app purchases.
Then that service is totally useless. You play the COD campaign and nothing else.
Just play on PS5 instead. So lame.
Seriously, the reason Sony is losing the PR battle is because they don't have a Tom Warren or Windows Central. They don't have users sharing information to Reddit or farther afield showing Microsoft's true colors.
It's mostly one way traffic.
Any publisher blocking games on GeForce Now is a fucking cunt, they shouldn't even have that right. You bought the game already.
I'm not 100% sure of how GeForce Now works, but if I understood properly I think would be like this:
The idea of GeForce Now I think it's that you buy your game, dlc, season passes etc on Steam. But let's say you have a crappy PC but a decent internet connection.
So you pay a subscription to Nvidia play these games (plus your dlcs etc) you own in their top tier PC hardware via cloud.
So with the CoD deal, the only change for Nvidia would be that they'd add CoD to their list of supported games, so it would benefit them.
Buut, the same deal for Sony has very different results. Sony could have CoD on PS and PS Cloud Gaming, but MS would get 100% of the revenue made by the game sales, dlc sales, IAP sales, passes sales on PS5, and Sony 0%. So Jimbo obviously found it insulting and told them to fuck off.
I have no idea how the other unknown cloud gaming services work, but I assume that they may have a very limited catalog to have CoD there would make their services more appealing.
MS in the news appearing as being so generous that they share CoD with everybody. But in reality it's a PR stunt to try to trick the regulators while also making their competitors lose money.
They are the owners of these games, so they can -or should- avoid other people making money from their games without their permission.
If Nvidia shares enough part of the money they make with the publishers of these games then pretty likely they'll allow Nvidia include the games there.
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They never really needed the to win the PR battle.
They just needed to win the battle with the regulators, which is all that matters in the end.
Microsoft bringing this fight to the public has now left a trail of receipts that they will regret.
Yoooooo what? Why isn’t anyone talking about this? That’s fucked up. No way could this deal have gone through.
Somebody make a thread on trashera. Damn green rat hypocrites.
Is Sony losing PR battle? Can you show an example please?
Or it was like "Sony is too quiet"... "MS talks everyday about Series X"... "Sony didn't show anything about PS5"... "Sony is having trouble with PS5 because they are not talking about it"... "Sony didn't show any PS5 game yet".
And so when we got in March to late 2020... BOOM... Everything was PS5... and everything was right and going great for the launch.
While issues with Series X started to show.
Sony doesn't do circus.
Sony delivers the goods.
The thing is... even if they didn't behave this way, you are essentially relying on the idea of a "benevolent dictator" by allowing corporations such power influence through consolidation in the first place, even if they're currently playing nice. It's the same reason we don't want governments to restrict our rights "because we'll only use it against the bad guys, we swear" and then later on another administration comes and completely abuses that power to suppress dissenters/protesters/critics.
Ohhhhhh ERA Started to ban from the thread anybody that agrees with CMA 
Now you can insult CMA and call what you want of them but you can't ask to people be respectful with CMA.
Now you can insult CMA and call what you want of them but you can't ask to people be respectful with CMA.
I agree 1000%! All those companies who wanted to stick it to Sony out of pure spite especially Nintendo look like idiots now and can suck a fat one!
So
PlayStation has far more engagement than Microsoft. They talk with games, they don’t personalize the company. Sony is the “silent monster” while Microsoft is the Whiny rat.
Sony is not losing any PR battle, though, because it doesn’t exist.
PlayStation has far more engagement than Microsoft. They talk with games, they don’t personalize the company. Sony is the “silent monster” while Microsoft is the Whiny rat.
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Glad that PS users aren't so fucked up and brainwashed like Xbox fandom. I mean, supporting a company to bully a country and threatening too just to put COD on Gamepass. Yeah, Xbox is awesome