Even in a cloud only future you'll still need dedicated hardware for gaming specially on the go, almost nobody wants to play traditional games on their phones.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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There are actually many bastards who want to play traditional games on their phones. Never understand why and do not want to understand why.
Not that many people given how bad all these streaming services are doing. Mobile players want to play mobile games.
I agree ATM but things change , I still like buying my games & owning them but I expect a subscription only future when Microsoft gets its way
We've seen Microsoft is willing to take anticompetitive and monopolistic moves whenever there isn't an iron-clad contract. There's no doubt that in the off chance they acquired ABK with COD, they would do something devious in the near future that degraded the experience for PS users to siphon away the userbase. Jim's doing the smart thing and mitigating risk.
There is not future where you play a traditional AAA like Uncharted or God of War game on your screen. Either these games are going to be heavily altered to caters to mobile degenerates or they'll be played on dedicated devices.
They 100% are going to do it, we saw in the emails how they think, they didn't like that Minecraft wasn't superior on Xbox. To start with they'll drop adaptive triggers and haptic feedback, Xbox version will likely get early access, discounted price, exclusive items, etc.
Again he should have accepted the deal and help Microsoft with the merger? He didn't bet on regulators. Regulatory bodies are there for a reason. He only was against the merger after Xbox tried to screw them over and went public lying.
Either way who carws if he looks pathetic? He got a longer deal and by doing so, buys themself sometime to hopefully come up with a few things to eventually ween their audience off COD.
I promise you Jim doesn't care what fanboys and media shills thinks of him. He's the reason the merger almost crumbled.
These most likely won’t be revived. And if they are, they’ll be like the recent crash game: pure trash. So who cares anyway?
Jim Ryan has been the head of Playstation since Feb 2019 and that was said in Sept 2022
Sure, signing a deal is still one of the better options, but I just find it pathetic that Jimbo now needs to crawl back to Xbox head office to sign a deal that he was not only against at first but also wanted to block the entire ABK deal.
If he was not against the deal then he should have taken the 10 years deal then? You are saying regulators are on their own, so that means Sony accepting the deal will have no effects on regulatory decisions then.
I‘ll believe he has a plan when he actually shows it. COD remaining on PS means it will be harder to lure players to a new game.
Lol almost crumbled? In what way exactly? The deal is now close to being completed and Jimbo has no choices but to accept the newly proposed deal.
Nobody knows.thread title change. Is it official now? Just walking in the door
No. The only thing we know for sure is that the CMA block still stands, which means the acquisition in its current form has no chance of closing legally. People fell for MS propaganda, and to be fair, it's been overwhelming.
You don't even know what you are talking about. The first deal was for 3 more years of COD and existing IP's... Jim is the reason everyone including Nintendo even started getting deals of 10 years.
They are making a brand new Survival MMO brand new world/IP. Diablo 4 is huge and will be a 10 year title more than likely. They also have starcraft 3 in development which I believe if done correctly control wise will be huge on console.
Especially if the early hints of mixture of third person stuff is true.
Not to mention all the back catalog IP they have.
Terminally ill twitter user. These people live and breathe twitter. They also don't play xbox games, so go figure.