Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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If MS continues to acquire publishers, even great games might not help. Like you said, I hope there is a plan B.
Trash "journalist", but I don't think he's lying about this in particular, considering the timing and circumstances working against Sony here.
Good, the sooner ABK games are out of PlayStation the better. I rather see Sony trying to come up with their own games then depend on games that MS will inevitably remove from PlayStation when it serves them.
Plan A - GaaS
Plan B - PC
Plan C - Mobile
Plan D - Cloud
Plan E - PS+
Plan FU - Selling PlayStation to MS on the cheap to invest in electric cars
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Knowing Jim and Hulust, one could actually believe this.
I disagree. Nintendo barely has big 3rd party games, and it does fine. The question is if Sony will put the foot down against the casualization of its games and stop having them all handhold you all the time.
Whats his source that Sony started it 7 years ago?
What about Stellar Blade? What about the Chinese games they are funding? What about the Japanese indie program they started? Games they helped fund like Kena? All the VR games? Returnal? Helldivers 2? And many others.
Thats a bunch of horse shit
Which is better?
Getting cod and other abk games upto 2027
Or
Getting cod up to 2033
Keep in mind cod launches every year and the other games are maybe once a gen.
Everything about this is so messed up.
CMA better continue to stand firm. Fuck MS.
It’s bunch of horse shit to believe that Jim Ryan cares about Indie games or Japanese/Asian games. Wake up or you will have bad awakening. To your question the report of Genki is legit, Shuhei Yoshida talked about it in an interview. The source was literally inside the tweet: PlayStation blog.
Revealing Rise of the Ronin, a new action-RPG from Team Ninja
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This thread title change is a little premature. The acquisition is blocked until further notice.
Nintendo's games also cost magnitudes less to make than Sony's marquee 1P AAA, and require less time to be developed (on average). They also don't have to splurge as heavily on marketing & advertising (I've seen literally zero TOTK ads on TV for example), never drop their prices on games that much even after several years, and many of their marquee games don't have the transmedia strengths of Nintendo's (at least, not yet, and not in as evergreen of ways).
In that respect what works very well for Nintendo won't work so well for Sony. They still need 3P more than Nintendo does.
I agree they should, but they very likely won't. What'll be super messed up is if the CMA then get the power they wanted, and use that to block Sony trying to acquire a much smaller publisher than ABK because "muh market share" (which Sony earned through superior fair competitive practices in the gaming market itself, FWIW).
Here's my thing: Sony could have leveraged the older deal into a renegotiated deal with ABK following the CMA block, when they had the most power to leverage in the process. Instead they chose to completely cut ABK off and then FTC comes out in June to squander seemingly everything, with the CMA suddenly open to "new negotiations" right after the FTC's appeals get rejected by both the judge & 9th circuit court.
Late March/Early April was the best time for Sony to negotiate an extended COD contract with ABK, and potentially other ABK games on top of that, for at least another four years. Yes 4-5 years is less than 10, but it'd of given them time to cockblock Microsoft enough until the end of this gen, while shoring up to make due without that content at the start of the 10th gen (assuming that's 2028).
Instead Sony now potentially lose out on all new non-COD ABK games for the next 10 years.
Not just their own games but also other competitive 3P live-service/GaaS titles (while securing shares in those companies & making key strategic investments in them for general growth and key content expansion).
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I think Microsoft will continue to release abk games on switch as again they’re not direct competition whereas PlayStation…
To you, perhaps. But the brand optics in new Crash & Spyro, Guitar Hero etc. games not coming to PlayStation, is really problematic for Sony IMHO. Considering PlayStation made those IP popular in the first place.
Good luck getting new Crash, Spyro, Guitar Hero, THPS, etc, that are good any time soon.
MS was never one to care about smaller IPs.