Yeah, if microsoft can’t be competitive with 23 studios they don’t even deserve to be in gaming.
Nintendo has like 10
Sony's future and possible studio/publisher acquisitions
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Yeah, if microsoft can’t be competitive with 23 studios they don’t even deserve to be in gaming.
Nintendo has like 10
There are many, many things Microsoft doesn't deserve.
I think it will kill xbox because actision/king is how the xbox division will prop its self up without burning through MS billions. I dont think they want to continue to set money on fire indefinitely for xbox.
They included a bunch of Square Enix games on PS+ this month, maybe as part of the deal they got a store featuring for this month or decided to make this special sale to find extra sales thanks to the related visibility bump.A sale dedicated only for Square Enix…is a novelty!
Checked e-shop and Xbox Store, no such sale!
It would make sense that any big publisher they would buy would remain multiplatform, as MS did until now with Minecraft and Zenimax or as Sony did with Bungie.
In the case of Sony's multiplatform publisher acquisitions would be more related to:
- To add the revenue and profit they made on top of what they have
- Helping them reach (and get money from) players who aren't and won't be on PS but are on rival consoles, PC or mobile
- Securing their content protecting it from other acquisitions who keep them outside PS
- Blocking total/timed/console exclusives from them on rival consoles from them
- Securing legacy stuff for PS+ and blocking it from rival subs
- To tie more popular brands to them and use them to improve the marketing of the platform
- Secure content, knowledge and or experience on genres or game types where they don't excel with 1st and 2nd party offerings
- To get IPs with potential for their movie/tv series/anime stuff
In addition to this, Sony is a clear market leader in several gaming areas/markets so it could raise regulator concerns. MS raised them being very far from being a market leader in any gaming market area and having a way smaller market share than Sony, so it would be easier to get blocked in Sony's case.
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Its pretty much what they’re already doing lol
I think people are underestimating how big Final Fantasy XVI and Rebirth are gonna be
Zenimax is no longer console agnostic.
Of course ESO, Doom, etc will continue to be supported on Playstation, and Deathloop and Ghostwrite Tokyo was an honouring of existing deals. But that's it.
Starfield, next Doom/ Quake, ES6 etc will be Xbox/PC exclusive.
Until now they don't have released a single Xbox exclusive. And we'll have to see if the ones who will like Starfield will end being timed console exclusives as the Xbox CFO said (that their plans for Bethesda were multi or timed more than exclusives) or not.
Time will tell, but until now they have a total of zero Xbox exclusives.
If Sony really ends buying SE I think they'll wait to announced it on E3 2023. Seems the UK regulator won't complete their work with ABK until March 2023 and I think they may have to do extra paperwork after it.
Summer 2023 megaton would be a good timing, a few months after the PSVR2 release, the PS5 shipping under fire during several months probably matching supply and demand to a point consoles are found regularly in store shelves, it would be a good counter to the announcement of ABK acquisition being completed and also a good megaton for Sony to have an E3 conference/Showcase, going back to E3 kicking the door.
What a joke, not even in Phil Spencers's wetest dreams MS is going to be close not from a monopoly. MS won't be even market leader in a gaming market as a whole or in consoles, game subs, PC, mobile and cloud gaming. They are too far for being market leaders.
The US military kills more people and does more awful things than the Saudis and they may give $22B to MS for Hololens but seems isn't good enough for them:
'The devices would have gotten us killed.' Microsoft's military smart goggles failed four of six elements during a recent test, internal Army report says
Microsoft won a contract that may be worth as much as $22 billion to build a HoloLens-like Army device. It is getting poor marks from testers.
www.businessinsider.com
Are you concerned about using Microsoft's gaming device to kill people instead of to play Minecraft? And how about being concerned with Saudis to don't buy them oil?
Nah, I think they didn't buy it but may be negotiating it and preparing stuff like restructuring it. And also strategically waiting for the regulators approve the ABK deal before Sony would announce a publisher acquisition to make sure they don't make things easier to MS and to get an easier and faster approval from regulators (once completed Sony could say them 'MS bought ABK so we have to compete buying/securing partners like SE').
And also strategically may want to wait until demand and supply of PS5 is back to normality, it isn't a good momento to waste hype bullets now, specially when they may keep the attention on GoW and PSVR2. I think that around summer (E3) would be a good moment to annouce any big publisher acquisition if they already have any secured.
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Same for PS, if the deal goes thru it pretty much hurts Sony to the point where they might have to consider closing or selling sie if Sony is unable to come up with a couple fps ip. MS would pretty much own the wrpg and all the top shooters. How would Sony compete with all that?
This buyout is gonna kill one of them depending on the outcome imo.
I don't think it'll be that dramatic for either one. What might end up killing xbox is Microsoft getting another ceo who doesn't feel like wasting anymore money propping up xbox.
I disagree with that. Sony and playstation can survive without cod, but theyll have to make more moves and spend more money than theyd want to im sure. I still think they go after a japanese pub or 2 despite their rhetoric now. Nintendo doesnt have cod and look at them now.
When did they say Starfield will be a timed exclusive?
No chance that happened their wording on Bethesda was pretty clear, it was the reference to Activision content that was potentially open:
Clear as day. The only reason there have been zero exclusives so far is because Sony had a prior agreement for Deathloop and Ghostwrite: Tokyo, and because Zenimax studios have been beset by delays, and because MS is shit at managing studios.
No chance Starfield and other new IPs are coming to Playstation. Locking down new IPs is all about forcing the GamePass model as they try to consolidate huge parts of the industry.
Har har har, he he he, ho ho ho.
With major fps off the plate for Sony from Bethesda, plus their wrpg. Now toss in cod being nixed off the platform and Sony have a BIG problem.
If the deal fails i don’t see nedela sticking it out with xbox.
Spend more money when they just lost a chunk of recurring revenue from cod casuals?
PS is synonymous with cod, they cant afford to lose it and somehow be ok or even better. And thats just cod.
They also likely to lose all major Bethesda ip. Imagine a gaming platform without cod, tes, fallout, doom. That is not a good situation for Sony, thats considerable damage. What do you think folks are playing on ps in between 1st party releases?
TES and fallout come out once every 10 years. Doom is big on pc and did like 3-4 million on both consoles, so its not THAT huge a franchise. Bethesda in general has really gone down hill. Yes losing cod will hurt sonys bottom line, but im sure one or two of the GAAS they have in development can stem the bleeding plus they have bungie and their new ip on the way. What sony needs to do is make sure they dont lose key partners like square and capcom.
Look im not saying its all sunshine and rainbows for sony. They need to acquire a publisher or 2 of their own and hope one of these GAAS really hit. Its all within their means i guess is what im saying even if its not exactly what they want to do.
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Do you speak english? Make an argument. Explain to me in big boy words how Sony survives with none of these ips.
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There is somebody I looked up:
In this article tweeted by Square Enix, there is this account for official Square Enix staff:
Playstation is the only one who is following this account, neither does Nintendo or Xbox. I would see it, because I also follow Xbox, Phil Spencer and Nintendo accounts on Twitter.
Second look how big this new HQ of Square Enix will be! There will be space for 5000 employees. And it’s the most expensive area in Tokyo.
This building is even bigger than the whole of Sammy Sega Corporation!
In this article tweeted by Square Enix, there is this account for official Square Enix staff:
Playstation is the only one who is following this account, neither does Nintendo or Xbox. I would see it, because I also follow Xbox, Phil Spencer and Nintendo accounts on Twitter.
Second look how big this new HQ of Square Enix will be! There will be space for 5000 employees. And it’s the most expensive area in Tokyo.
This building is even bigger than the whole of Sammy Sega Corporation!
You lose cod and you take their psn+ revenue, you take the cod casuals that potentially buy 1st party games because they already on the platform for cod, you lose GTA players that play gta with their cod friends then you lose gta psn+ revenue. There is a huge knock on effect. There is no ok after this, its too many major ip lost to the platform that are tied to their bottom line.