Sony is 10 years for COD only. Not other games.
They have no contract for other games, meaning MS could make them all exclusive.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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They have no contract for other games, meaning MS could make them all exclusive.
Microsoft is salty about CMA.
Could be a legal thing about NDA enforcement. And isn't Eurogamer French?
MS seems to, on some level, believe they have influence in the industry they don't have. I also don't see the point in hoarding games when their sub, console, and software sales are all doing poorly. But they seem to have an attitude not of "build it and they will come", but simply "make them come". Taking so many IPs from rival platforms is emblematic of that attitude. I do wonder how long they'll keep it up, though. I suppose Starfield will be a significant test of this, so far, unsuccessful approach.
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It should be really it's so blatantly obvious what's going on there who's bright idea was it to take a picture for that bias to be out in the open
I mean who's going to stop them? They've been doing this for yearsIt should be really it's so blatantly obvious what's going on there who's bright idea was it to take a picture for that bias to be out in the open
I've never payed attention to digital foundry either way but after this I certainly wouldn't trust a single word they said lol
The original deal got blocked. You were wrong. Get Rekt.
Microsoft will shortly be acquiring the whole of Activision-Blizzard. Get rekt.
What a shitty, shitty deal for them though. They'll literally have to pay Ubisoft to stream their own games. Does gamepass have download option or is it all streaming? I wonder if they'll change how A-B games are distributed to get around that? Its almost all mp shit, you'd have to connect to official servers to play anyway. Or does that count as streaming, too?
So Microsoft / Xbox has just hired someone that worked at playstation to be head of Japan something or other lol
Imagine being aware of institutional corruption and actively cheering for the worst offender.
Your other troll account has even been permed, I know...
lol playstation is a distant second in japan so that person's expertise clearly isn't that valuable. the only software that sells in japan is nintendo or homegrown mobile games.
The new deal includes divestment, so no, they will never own all of them. That deal got blocked.
Licensing something out would mean they could still keep rights to said thing. MS is not allowed to publish ANY Activision/Blizzard games on cloud. That right now belongs entirely to Ubisoft. MS has no say what platforms those games go to.
That's a divestment of their cloud gaming business when it comes to any and all Activision/Blizzard games.
They are getting paid for it, I don't think the details are public but I assume yearly. That is licensing it out, not a divestment. Just like how Hershey's has a perpetual liscense for Kit-Kats in the US. Nestle still owns Kit-Kat, Hershey's pays them for it, I believe yearly, but Hershey's has final say over KK in the US as long as they abide by the terms of the agreement.
Its going to be an honorary port begger job. Xbox's footprint and market share is collapsing even in the west and they have no profile in the east. Best they can do is sniff around what sony may be going after and at least pay enough to justify a port to be day one. But yes, they are not ready to give up and are burning money with abandon while yet somehow still becoming more and more irrelevant.
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They are divesting the rights to Ubisoft and Ubisoft will own all rights to cloud stream new titles developed over 15 years by ABK (or more accurately both by ABK and those using ABK properties). We don't know what the further compensation entails, nor what the structure is, but the rights belong to Ubisoft.