This guy is a complete clown.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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This guy is a complete clown.
Not sure if this has already been brought up yet in a previous page, but seems like MS will have to produce documents related to the Nvidia and Nintendo deals.
At least the judge doesn't seem to be playing favorites so far and is asking MS to cough up the goods just like he did Sony.
Here's a question: why does Microsoft's lineup need to tilt the balance in their favour? Why do we need more Xbox consoles sold? More Xbox games played? There's virtually zero reason Xbox has a right to succeed. The market is competitive enough - games compete for our time, not manufacturers. Xbox's dessicated husk won't be missed and another player can enter the void with a better strategy and compete where Xbox failed.
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Wasn't the other banned idiot asking for confirmation on games being cancelled?
The explanation is simple: they’re an American company.
It was pretty wild seeing people accuse Shinobi602 of being a Sony fanboy just for posting this news.
There wouldn’t really be a void without Xbox, and that’s absolutely fine.
When it was just Nintendo and SEGA, gaming was vibrant and game variety was much greater than today due to the limited overlap between the systems, and that’s how a Sony and Nintendo-only world would be too.
Microsoft coming along and basically duplicating what was on PlayStation for over 20 years strangled creativity and stagnated gaming.
The peak delusion is when people say a strong XBox keeps Sony honest and striving for success. The only impact XBox is having at this point is a lesson in what not to do for both Sony and Nintendo. Don't focus on services over games, don't ignore the majority of the world markets to focus on the few you have some success in, don't try to appeal to a select few demographics while ignoring all others, don't mismanage your studios and consistently fail to deliver compelling games, and especially don't mismanage your first party IPs to the point where they no longer have any influence or ability to attract people to your brand.
There's more, but you get the gist. As well, now that MS is trying to force the industry towards Cloud and subscription gaming, they have absolutely nothing of value for me and many others.
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That “keep Sony honest” bullshit is so retarded.
Out of all console makers, past and present, Sony has done the absolute least to screw their customers over. And the only way MS helps with another company’s honesty is by making everyone short of Halliburton and xE look like saints in comparison.
Agreed and it's also just plain wrong. The market decides what it will and will not accept. If a company moves too far in one direction, then customer response and lost business will cause a course correction. This has happened with Sony and Nintendo before. With XBox, MS just keeps throwing money at it. It didn't bother me before, but since their current strategy involves removing choices from people not invested in their ecosystem - it does now. As well, XBox never has to learn the hard way or try to be better because no matter how badly they fail, MS keeps bankrolling them.
It all reminds me of the bullshit neutrals last Gen who were rooting for the Bone in the name of “competition”, when what they were really cheering for was market parity, which stifles innovation and wastes the resources of developers.
Developing two nearly identical versions of the same game is basically taking away 1/3 of another potential game’s budget. That’s why I’m excited by the natural exclusives the current market split is going to give us. Niche games can be big hits when the niche is being served by a platform with 80% of the market, as the PS1 and PS2 showed.
Japan Hardware and Software Charts (Mar 13 - Mar 19)
Japan Hardware and Software Charts (Mar 13 - Mar 19)
https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-sales-3-13-23-3-19-23/ The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows: PS5 – 34,156 Switch OLED – 33,150 Switch – 9,798 Switch Lite – 6,637 PS5 Digital Edition – 6,255 PS4 – 1,115 Xbox Series X – 497 Xbox Series S – 58 New 2DS LL – 138...
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Xbox fans are delusiona! Keep dreaming about Xbox ever getting a Japanese Pub. Capcom, Square & Sega would just take one look at those numbers and say no
The consistent xbot theory is that shareholders have a duty to make as much money as possible for a company and that means (to xbots) that these companies couldnt turn down an acquisition offer because money. Of course they dont take into account if the company even wants to sell, if its a good fit, the fact that the main fanbase isnt on xbox, the different cultures, etc etc. It doesnt matter. Heck by the time this activision deal is done xbox might be staring at a 50 million ps5 user base while xbox languishs at the low 20s and thats with starfield released.Japan Hardware and Software Charts (Mar 13 - Mar 19)
Japan Hardware and Software Charts (Mar 13 - Mar 19)
https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-sales-3-13-23-3-19-23/ The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows: PS5 – 34,156 Switch OLED – 33,150 Switch – 9,798 Switch Lite – 6,637 PS5 Digital Edition – 6,255 PS4 – 1,115 Xbox Series X – 497 Xbox Series S – 58 New 2DS LL – 138...
Xbox fans are delusiona! Keep dreaming about Xbox ever getting a Japanese Pub. Capcom, Square & Sega would just take one look at those numbers and say no
Sega would say yes I think. But that's just how loyal to the same company that cannibalized on them they are.Japan Hardware and Software Charts (Mar 13 - Mar 19)
Japan Hardware and Software Charts (Mar 13 - Mar 19)
https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-sales-3-13-23-3-19-23/ The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows: PS5 – 34,156 Switch OLED – 33,150 Switch – 9,798 Switch Lite – 6,637 PS5 Digital Edition – 6,255 PS4 – 1,115 Xbox Series X – 497 Xbox Series S – 58 New 2DS LL – 138...
Xbox fans are delusiona! Keep dreaming about Xbox ever getting a Japanese Pub. Capcom, Square & Sega would just take one look at those numbers and say no
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Yeah, Sega's been pretty chummy with Xbox lately, though whether that just means some exclusive deals or a buyout is unclear atm.
Of all the Japanese publishers, sega selling out to Microsoft would be the least surprising to me.
Some seem to think Capcom would sell to them as well, but I'm a lot more skeptical of that. Apparently MS tried years back but it fell through.
I feel like any publisher but sega youd have nintendo and sony lobbying japanese regulators to block it. IDK, nintendo seems to be extremely short sighted about all this consolidation in that they dont seem to be against any of it?
Nintendo are probably the only ones out of the big 3 who could survive without much 3rd party support given how much their first party sells.