This is so hypocritical, SONY is always promoting exclusivity, over and over, now that Microsoft will own a big franchise they argue that owning it will damage competition? come on, they have been doing the same for decades.
What you don't understand is Sony exclusives are either made by their first party studios or are fully or partially funded by Sony like the FF7 remake for example. Microsoft doesn't create shit they haven't been able to compete in gaming with Sony losing every single generation to them in the end, the last one very badly. All Microsoft does is let others be creative and buy them effectively taking what is and has always been third party to make it exclusive. They're taking away games unlike Sony who get exclusivity on things they help make a reality. Microsoft is an antitrust Monster that escaped so many lawsuits with bribes and lobbying that they are today the monopoly of PC operating systems by literally buying or burying the competition with sheer financial longevity. Now they're doing that with gaming and it's absolutely bad for gaming, consumers and everyone involved in the long run. The good guys act they're putting on right now only fools the idiots out there. There's a difference between purchasing studios and gobbling up entire publishers with an entire portfolio of IPs vs growing your talent and acquiring more. Everything Microsoft bought turned to shit because all they care about is the IPs but they can't keep the talent unlike Sony. You wanna talk hypocrisy and villainy? It's all Microsoft man.
Sony creates exclusives or boost titles to where they are preferences on PlayStation. Microsoft is buying established multi platform titles, like what recent Disney does.
@@patrickthewolf840 finally someone who understands. People also forget that sony and nintendo were around before xbox with exclusive games and as soon as microsoft came out with the shitbox they too had exclusives.
"Mom and Dad are arguing again" Mate if Sony and Microsoft was our Mom our Dad then I am pretty sure they should be charged for child abuse and child exploitation on every level.
One of the biggest pos moves Sony did recently was literally bribe Capcom to not let crossplay happen on MHW, we could not play with our PC brethren because of Sony's pissant stance on exclusivity and how it'll hurt their wallet.
Jesus Christ, I didn't know that In all honesty though, Capcom is also to blame on this one. They took Satan's money, and gimped a product that would have been absolutely godlike and praised for decades with this feature
@@robotical4793 except a good game directly translates into a dedicated fanbase that will give you a continous stream of money. But I guess wall street shithead brains don't have critical thinking skills.
i don't think it's been sneaky and idk what's surprising about it when you can copy-paste that same truth to practically any corporations big enough to lead their industry
Sony Fan here and I goddamn agree, Sony needs some pressure to get their collective heads out of theirs asses and focus on good games and user experience
If Sony is really that concerned about this, then they really NEED to backtrack on everything NFT! Sony has to stop being anti-consumer across the board. No ands, ifs, buts nor exceptions.
sony is so full of themselves it's actually getting in the way of their own success. Being late to port games to PC. Late to allowing cross play. taking forever to release support for Dualsense controllers on PC. Holding franchises to ridiculous metrics just to keep them going. Sueing aftermarket ps5 cover companies. They need to listen to the market and adapt.
@TrophyHunter95 Really how so? I been PC since the PS2. Which was clearly the best console ever made yet Sony were greedy dumbasses w/ after the PS2. People gave Sony excuse after excuse. Sony hasn't been bleeding edge for 20+ years. Seriously when the edge was simply total backwards compatibility and a DVD player.
@@ExeErdna agreed. They rested on their laurels and banked on the good will of their die hard fans. Which are a problem in thier own right. The gatekeeping is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. "OH no! a game we love is now more accessible to more players, and now more people can enjoy it. *crying like a baby *"
@@reshad17 Yup all those exclusives and now a lot of them won't even be ported because Sony doesn't care. SO basically legally a lot of games have to die. Which is a whole 180 where the PS2 extended the life of the PS1. They were never losing money by having backwards compatiblility. Yet they did lose money with horrible future console designs and exclusive deals.
Sony: We pride ourselves in our exclusives. We even cry and get moody when we have to share our games with pc because those are our games! Also Sony : XBOX WHY ARE YOU BEING SO MEAN ;_; COD BELONGS TO THE BOTH OF US YOU CANT DO THIS TO US! ALSO GAME PASS?! YALL NEED TO CHILL ;_;
Well if it ain't Sony now, who's it going to be? Nintendo? I know Microsoft gives a rats ass about making console-selling exclusives. They have had all these years to do it, and now with an activision acquisition, you really think that's somehow going to turn around?
I'm totally on Microsoft's side here. Sony has done the exclusivity thing for years and NOW they're crying foul about it. They are making themselves look like hypocritical babies.
People also need to stop defending Microsoft! Sony AND MS are both just as guilty. The console wars were nothing in the past compared to now.. its gonna get far worse going forward. There ARE NO GOOD GUYS HERE! Win or lose, average consumers (majority of gamers) ultimately lose.
@@Mr_Snifflez if the choice would be only either/or without none with someone pointing a gun at me ... yea i`d take MS over sony ... ... but otherwise cod "influencing" platform choice? i´d still take the damn PC ..
Gamepass is just a very good value for a ton of gamers. You can play tons of single player games you wont play twice for much cheaper. While you can just buy the games you will play long term. I personally like "owning" my games so I don't use subscriptions. But no denying it is a heck of a deal.
Gamepass isn't that good. A lot of xbox players are complaining about not getting games. It's mostly all old games. It's basically the same as Playstation Now. All of this is ridiculous
@@lalotz ps now hell no. im on pc gamepass my son has ps4 whilst looking for cross platform games to play,, whilst i had alien firetem on GP, it wasnt on sony's, also WWZ wasnyt on sonys, sniperelite 5 not on ps sub thing, so it was just fortnite fall guys etc, he has xbox but dont use i could just get £1 deal and all those games we can play. ps now is a streming stuttering mess (least it was 4 years ago) ill always download my games, also backward compatibility with my blackops games on xbox is just nice.
Love how Sony threw all their developers under the bus by stating nobody can make a game as big as Call of Duty lmao imagine being Bungie and seeing your new owner's statement
As someone who loves Sony and has owned every generation of Playstation I still believe Sony is on the wrong side of this badly. Microsoft is right, they have options to compete but choose not to do so and rely on market dominance to try maintain the status quo
Sony has been really anti consumer for years, blocking games on other consoles, avoiding crossplay, charging more for games, reselling the same game every generation, not embracing Backwards compatibility, so no you won't get any sympathy from many gamers.
Sony has always been always been pretty shady and anti-consumer. They made the right moves with the PS1 & PS2 which got them a lot of fans then squandered that with the PS3. Then when MS completely botched it with the XB1 Sony got a lot of good will by just mostly maintaining the status quo and making some snarky videos and they've just been riding that no matter how much bullshit they pull. It seems like much of the general public just equates Sony with video games they way many did with Nintendo in the 80's and 90's.
@@Allustar no one can deny what Sony did for the industry but nowadays people should have choice, the console should be the defining factor not the games, like Cell phones, Sony wants to keep their old ways for profit.
@@chasejackson7248 if you really think that you have not been paying attention, yes Microsoft has to make money, yes Microsoft has done some shady things, but they are giving gamers a more cheaper way to play games through gamepass, and cheaper consoles, they did offer BC, they didn't raise the price to 70$, they course corrected on free games with live, that you can keep them even after having the membership expired, Phil Spencer is a gamer first not only a businessman. He even admits liking the switch and plays it regularly.
My question is why only now is Sony voicing their concerns when they should have done so when Microsoft and ABK first announced the acquisition? They're only doing this now because they realize no one else is gonna complain about it, and this is pretty much a last ditch effort to try and stop it. Even Google and Amazon, both of whom could definitely use a title as big as CoD to bolster their admittedly struggling sales, are ok with it.
My guess is that Sony probably feels they have a better chance at attempting to derail the deal in a smaller market. There really was no way that the other big corps were going to come out against deal as that could potentially have adverse effects towards themselves if they were to try to doing a similar sized deal down the road. It still makes Sony's move somewhat of a headscratcher, but also against the context of just how threatening Game Pass reportedly is to their business practices I can see why they are going this route. I still think the deal will ultimately go through regardless.
@@Rainbolt1980 it's a big gamble for them. If i was MS, i would buy abk, and just stop selling in brazil, until they agree lol. Im sure everyone who doesn't live in Brazil wont miss the 2000 ping lol.
@@sgtBONGwater The issue is it gets block in one market, it effectively kills the whole deal (not that I think it will get blocked anywhere). Either way, Sony isn't coming out of this with a good look at all.
@@Rainbolt1980 it doesn’t though… Microsoft can just decide to not sell AKB products in Brazil until they change their mind and trust me, Brazilian or any smaller market will never run the risk to say anything different from what US/EU authorities say…
PlayStation: We have some of the best games in the industry Also PlayStation: Please don't take COD, it will take years before we can make something even close to it
@@kobra6660 yeah, we all get it, you like those games. please stop spamming. I liked killzone(1 and 2 at least) as well, but none of the games you mentioned even collectively compare to the draw CoD has, even if it's trash. artistic integrity is how companies go out of business. if you want there to be any competition in the market you have to realize that. I guess we're all screwed to buying nothing but Microsoft products from from here on out. yay, my whole life is being surrounding by one megacorp.
Sony has no right to say that they "need" Call of Duty when they have FPS franchises like Killzone and Resistance begging for another game in their respective series. Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention that Sony now owns Bungie, who have the rights to the Destiny series. Let them make a Killzone or Resistance game. Bungie is a skilled-enough team that can make good games.
Yeah but sony knows MOST playstation gamers play COD, fortnite or gtav. Killzone and resistance cant even touch Halo. If cod were to go game pass exclusive means millions of cod players gone.
let's not forget that CoD for Playstation specifically always gets an 1 year exclusive gamemode. But yeah, they also got Destiny, which they could try and force Bungie's hand to block it from Xbox, not sure if it's an partnership, or that they're actually owned by Sony. if it's an partnership then Sony doesn't "own" or have "rights" to Destiny, if it's that they own Bungie, then yeah, they own Destiny.
@@DarkDyllon Sony own bungie but it has been stated outright that destiny will remain multiplatform, or atleast untill a theoretical destiny 3 happens. if they got back on that its gonna hurt their reputation way more than CoD being owned by microsoft could.
First of all, I'm curious what Nintendo's stand on this is. Considering how large their first party library is, and how stringent they are with allowing people access to their platform, it would be interesting to see if they agree with Sony or Microsoft. Secondly, Sony sounds like they are not worried whether it is anti-competitive, but rather how losing ABK's libraries would affect their sales. If Microsoft keeps COD multiplatform for the forseeable future (next 10-30 years), then Sony's argument doesn't hold that much water. Especially when you see all the competitors out there. Battlefield, Counter Strike are all games that challenge COD for first place.
Nintendo don't give a flip. Nintendo is absolutely not stringent about letting people develop for their platform. They sold Rare to MS and don't have any particular third party exclusive or timed contracts that I am aware of. They and Sony also have bad blood. I'm pretty certain they are on team MS here. You don't plan for the immediate future, you plan for down the line (post contracts). Yes they are worried because CoD has proven itself to be a system seller and if MS pulls it after their contractual obligations end it's going to be an issue. No military shooter challenges CoD.
@@vaguedreams when I said Nintendo is stringent, I don't mean about people using their platform, all the third party shovelware the Wii, 3DS and Switch show that. I meant about people using their IP. Since the argument between Sony and Microsoft is mostly down to IP access, seeing where Nintendo falls on that debate would be interesting. But you're right, they probably don't care
Nintendo probably gave Micro a pound, told em "good shit on your buy" & thats it really. They arent hurt by Microsoft buyin activision. Besides im pretty certain Micro & Nin have a more amicable relationship than these 2 hav with Sony
This is inadvertently a massive self-own on Sony's part. They object to Microsoft purchasing CoD because they believe it could influence people's choice when deciding on a console to purchase. Yet they themselves participate in this even more, both internal exclusives and through acquiring like Bungie. But they don't mind it when it's their side. So either you could take these statements in two ways: Either Sony being massive hypocrites, or they're basically admitting that they don't believe any of their IPs are good enough to influence console sales. Either way, horrible look for Sony. Edit: It gets even worse, they complain about GamePass even though they literally have a similar service and literally say that it would take years for a competitor (which they are) to be about to make something just as good. Sony is so desperate to block this that they are basically admitting that Microsoft is better in every way and that their offerings suck in comparison.
I think the MS self owns were better. Admitting they can't compete with PS hardware, and saying that Activision/Blizzard has no "must have games" but, they spent 70 billion on it?
@@jonathanwessner3456 Thats The Thing, CURRENTLY Activision Blizzard DOesnt Have any Must haves But In time and with the Freeing of ALL of the studios from just making Cod games They will definately have some Must haves Later on. I Think the wording was specific to a degree and also a kind of partially thought out panic response as well
I say let Sony eat it. They've been anti-consumer and have pulled similar stunts. Let them have their own medicine. That aside EA has Medal of Honor. Sony could also resurrect any IPs that they have, such as Sly Cooper, Jack and Daxter, etc. That they've long abandoned.
I’ve been saying this since the beginning of the acquisition. Although Microsoft will loose quite a bit of money if though go down that route, but I wouldn’t mind haha
Yea I can agree but it’ll push Sony to be more competitive, they already been leading last gen and this generation. And besides cod been multiplat for years and is a big ip so yea it’s a big deal.
Ah, the hypocrisy. Sony have attained a position of market leadership largely by leveraging aggressive first and third party licencing agreements. That's their modus operandi. Over recent years they've become even more aggressive and monopolistic in this pursuit. So to pretend they're worried about CoD ownership creating a monopoly over one particular segment of gaming (FPS/online shooters) is beyond hypocritical. Of course, Microsoft are correct in their responses; this is really about Xbox outflanking Sony by innovating a new form of game delivery with Game Pass, and Sony trying to prevent them from doing so. Innovation and competition are two things Sony doesn't want.
@@mojojojo1529 And if any of that was enough to win a console war on its own, PS4 wouldn’t have kicked Xbox One’s ass for damn near a decade straight until Microsoft came out with Game Pass and Smart Delivery, more consistently supported crossplay, developed a superior form of backwards compatibility that didn’t share almost every user experience issue with Stadia, and did a better job promoting indie titles instead of obsessing over single player juggernauts like Uncharted and TLOU. All of these are things Sony could’ve done despite having less capital. If you pull your head out of the sand it becomes immediately obvious that Microsoft only turned things around in recent years due to better decision making and more pro consumer practices, with Sony’s previous successes almost entirely disproving the idea that it’s somehow impossible to compete without throwing money around. Sony can do better for their smaller development studios and for their consumers, they’ve always known they can and always could have, and they’re mad that they’re being forced by COMPETITION to grapple with that reality, even though being forced to do better in this way is literally the perfect example of the free market working as intended. Miss me with your dick riding. This is Sony using “muh competition” as a hypocritical excuse to avoid trying to legitimately compete by doing better because they are no longer being lazily carried by their outdated strategy of being worse at literally everything that isn’t leveraging exclusivity, plain and simple.
Xbox can't even deliver a decent Halo game and you think things will get better under Microsoft? OK. You get to think that. Reality will become very disappointing.
@@mojojojo1529 How do you think Sony got into the console business. Do you think they started as a mom and pop gaming shop that built the empire they have from nothing. Nope. They came in as a hardware giant using their money to buy up exclusives from third parties and get the leg up over Sega, Nintendo etc. There is nothing wrong with that off course because it’s it’s business but when someone else much larger than them in Microsoft comes in and does the same thing they don’t get the right to cry about it. Same with exclusivity. Sony has bought up tons of third party timed exclusives. Microsoft is doing the exact same thing but on a much larger scale because they can and have the money. Stop with the hypocrisy!!
Sony has been anti-consumer for years, and now that’s ramping up with horrendous microtransactions in GT7 and possible NFTs. I’d say, let them have it.
Yah but gt7 is just pennies compared to Diablo immortal Which is it’s agree just pay to win game where one player pay 2 win so hard They’re unable to match make
@@kevingame3198 Immortal is a mobile Gacha. It's a terrible practice and I wont defend immortal. But it's a MOBILE game. We cannot compare that to a full fledged, NOT FREE, 70$ game with that level of MT.
@@kevingame3198 Diablo is a F2P game. I don’t like it and think their micro transactions are egregious. *GT7 is a AAA 70$* game. It should not cost *50$* to get a dream car in a video game that’s already 70$
A japanese company being stuck to business practices from 20 years ago and not liking western companies? Shocking. Hell, gamepass could come to Sony Playstation in a perfect world. Epic games could be on Steam. Nintendo games could be on PC with 4k textures and 120fps. But corporate stubbornness and greed won't allow for that.
I've been with Playstation throughout the whole PS4 era, but I recently ditched them for this next gen of consoles and bought an Xbox Series S instead of a PS5, and it had NOTHING to do with Call of Duty. I actually hate Call of Duty and haven't played one for nearly 10 years. The reason I went back to Xbox (other than the Series S being cheap lol)? I'm fed up of Sony being these backwards dinosaurs, gatekeeping their console behind archaic business models from the 80's. Xbox has Game Pass (which is awesome), Game Pass has cloud streaming (again, awesome), Xbox allow mods on games and those mods are allowed to use external assets (unlike the handful of games on Playstation that allow mods). Xbox also will have exclusivity for Starfield and future Bethesda games like Fallout, so I needed to get an Xbox to play those. Microsoft also are way cooler when it comes to cross-platform gaming and letting Xbox players play with Switch and PC. It's usually Sony who don't want to play nice and demand fees and stuff for allowing it. Sony put me off from sticking with them.
@@Philosopher-Z- pc is good but having a xbox in the living room for everyone to just chill on the couch and play can't be beaten remember were not all hardcore gamers that like to sit at a desk
Now only if studios would stop skipping xbox when they make games. As a JRPG fan, It sucks that quite a lot of them skip xbox because they think there games won't sell because of Sony always paying to get the really big JRPGs, like the whole FF7R Saga and FF16. Of course small JRPG studios will skip xbox if they see the leading JRPG studio is making there games only for Xbox. Yet sony acts like doing this does not have any influence on the industry. Same with fighting games to. Oh Sony buys the biggest Fighting tournament the world, all the games will be played on PS devices, have ads and banners of PS all over the venue and stream. You really think people that play Fighting games that see that won't get a PS because it is the tournament standard? I mean evo this year didn't have smash. I wonder why? Is it maybe because they didn't want to go buy a bunch of switches for people to play them on and promote a game that they won't get any profit from if the game is bought? I mean they even had SF5 as a PS exclusive.
Microsoft literally destroyed Sony's counter arguments on COD being unique and Sony not be able to compete.. The amount of cap from Sony is quite telling..
CoD is unique because there are any big CoD like games left. But is it Activision/Microsoft's fault that others stopped developing direct competitors chasing new trends. No direct competitor does not mean there are no games which compet with it but there are no games which copy/simulate the CoD style of shooters.
@@Dhaydon75 The Battlefield debacle is a prime example. It really is a unique place for CoD to be in right now. It's crazy how devs stopped caring about competing with CoD. Like you said, everybody else cares more about chasing trends than sticking to their guns.
You touched on game pass etc. Remember when Sony’s greed said that they didn’t need a subscription service? Now they are coming with their tail behind their back. Look at them crumbling when Xbox wants call of duty. Imagine if it was the other way around Sony’s aggressive standpoint and ego.
Sony is legitimately scared because they are now getting a taste of their own medicine of hoarding all those exclusive IPs to their consoles. What's funny is that they have what they need to compete and be more consumer friendly, but they won't.
@Zack Smith why would Sony then be so outspoken about the Activision deal? They have never prepared for this type of competition of subscription services because they are so invested into the old business model. The reality is, Sony knows people would rather subscribe to a service for a monthly fee instead of paying full price for one game every single year.
Been giving Sony less and less money over the years as they go more anti consumer. Don’t even buy their exclusive games new anymore after raising their prices to $70. You reap what sow.
@TrophyHunter95 Oh, sorry I didn’t realize this was fanboy stuff. You shouldn’t give a corporation your undying loyalty my good man, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, they don’t give a single F about us, you should show them the same courtesy.
This is hilarious coming from Sony, who has an iron grip on exclusivity of tons of titles, their stubbornness about cross-platform games, even with just PC, their games coming to PC *EVENTUALLY* is nice but getting them *YEARS* after their release is also Anti-Competitive, it still pretty much forces people to play and buy PS if they want to play the new hotness. Sony has been Anti-Consumer for years now, and they are still leading in the console race, they have no right to talk about Anti-Competitive and Anti-Consumer, they've even tried to screw over their own consumers with the smi-recent Horizon Forbidden West pricing, originally promising a *free* upgrade from PS4 to PS5, but than changing it to a 10$ upgrade without disclosure. Not to mention their interest in NFTs, which are beyond Anti-Consumer, they are a scam that literally ruined some people's lives. They are not kept in check at all because *THEY* don't have competition right now, so they feel free to screw people over since they know no one will protest, or at least not enough people.
Sony loves to wield exclusivity against its competitor, but when their competitor adopts the same strategy, they go crying to the regulator. This is like the bully who's constantly beating down on the skinny kid who has enough of getting bullied and goes to the gym to get swole, then comes back to beat up the bully, then the bully goes crying to the principal
They usually have exclusives they built from the ground up tho. This is a little different, but I honestly dont give a shit about cod, im not buying a ps5 for cod
It's slightly different, sony buys nornal game devs and studios and creates their own ips whereas Microsoft is just buying major publishers and literally absorbing major franchises many of which have been cross platform and are threatening to make them exclusive its a bit different, but people shouldn't applaud Microsoft and xbox buying everyone, similar to disney buying everything, monopolies aren't a good thing, so technically sony is right to call them out, even if their reasons for doing it are purely selfish
@@anotherhappylanding4746 This is true business wise vs what's morally right. This is where laws and how a person feels about a situation often bump heads. What matters is what will benefit both companies legally and financially to avoid potential monopolies.
@@danielweiss4498 so youre saying that a company doing super well, to the point that they are worth billions and another company is willing to pay that price for the overvalued company, it is simply unfair because smaller companies couldnt afford to pay their fee? Is it unfair if you cannot afford something that you really want, and then it sells out by the time you have the money to buy it?
I'm a PC guy, no dog in the fight, but Sony is just bitching because a game might influence the console people buy? Isn't that the whole point? Buying studios and big IP's ALWAYS tries to pull more people into their respective ecosystem.
@@Alcatraz760 ture PC players (not me ) and Xbox players are in the same table eating side by side when it comes to Sony buissnes pratice. It effects both of us. I on Xbox and you on PC can play gears of war side by side with each other online. There not anything you can't access and there nothing I can't access. Sony what's there consial sales and the full benifits of game sales on there system. That real old thinking.
Damn Sony straight up insulting its devs by saying cod is essential to ps, make Killzone and resistance or even make a new fps IP. Also, PS is known for exclusivity deals and straight-up paying devs to keep games off of game pass so why can't Xbox make a few deals? They are also $180 billion in debt, no wonder they are discontinuing franchises and only sticking to remakes and remasters and reboots. MS is around $48-50 billion but they can pay that off within a year.
So, let me this straight here: It's all fine and dandy when Sony keeps several exclusives on their platform, but when Microsoft does it, it's the end of the world as we know it? Well, I feel fine. You reap what you sow, Sony. You shouldn't have done the "exclusive" bullcrap. Git rekt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be able to afford full priced games every time one they’re interested in comes out and they’re incredibly grateful that GamePass exists and they have such a variety of games to play for a monthly fee instead of buying a 70$ game every other month. I’m grateful too because it opened me up to more variety and interesting indie games I wouldn’t have played otherwise. At this point it almost seems like Sony is jealous of GP and wants to destroy it. I love both Microsoft and Sony games and I think the console wars are ridiculous.
So hold up, Sony get pissy at MS for basically having exclusivity to COD but Sony at the same time have arguably a huge monopoly over the anime industry after the recent Funimation/Crunchyroll merger, Sony by the way also own Aniplex who also own other studios under its belt. hate to say it but with Xbox having game pass, is COD really an exclusive other than it wont be on PlayStation, till sony decide to play ball with pro consumer then I couldnt care less
Sony is a joke .. they are the worst to devs, worst to consumers ( well... mayby nintendo is the same level) , yet they allways cry the loudest... starting to feel like PS5 is my last Sony console, especialy after the statment by multiple JRPG devs that they probably will stop doing PS versions
@@kobra6660 how the hell can gamepass and PS plus be compared, Gamepass gives games day one and have evrything xbox ever relased plus every game that comes to the console... while PS plus gives away a few free games a month, no day 1 games, and barely any games from all the PS consols
It’s because Sony has to rely on third party developers for their shooters to remain competitive for that market. Sony doesn’t have their own flagship shooter like the other developers do. EA has battlefield and Apex, blizzard has Overwatch, Ubisoft has Rainbow Six and MS has halo. What does Sony have to compete in that market? Without CoD and the exclusive deals that Sony had with AB they’re worried they’re not going to push as many consoles.
Sony's own anti-consumer business practices are damaging them far more than losing CoD. Now they're hiking prices of the PS5 everywhere except the United States as well.
"We don't want to have to spend the money to build our own franchise." - Sony I will grant them one thing. As far as Modern Military Shooters go, COD has about as many skulls outside its door as Warcraft does for MMOs.
They may have stopped development on their own franchises to appease Acti-Blizz. It's heavily implied that EA refused to publish on the DC because Sega refused to stop developing their sports franchises.
Cod dose not succeed because its good , if that where the case squad would be the biggest game in the world, no cod succeeds because its geared towards casuals and children so it has 1 brand recognition 2 its what their friends play 3 its easy to get into, not because its the best but because its played to the largest demographic in gaming, brain dead casuals and children
@@Cold_Cactus If it was that easy then how stupid are every other publisher for not having a CoD competitor? It really doesn't matter who likes and supports CoD. What matters is that they support it. It wouldn't matter if it was just a one button shooter where all you had to do is not move and hold the button down. If it moves over 30 million units every year and brings in billions (now) yearly then who cares who plays it? It's a big deal.
Isn't that Microsoft? They couldn't make any exclusives that stuck outside of Halo & Gears, so now they're going around buying everything up. Look I'm not taking sides here, MS & Sony are both crappy at the end of the day. But what's with this sudden surge in Microsoft favouritism? Like you do realise they're doing exactly what Disney does? Which is monopolising the industry in it's favour. Either way, AAA industry is f*cked no matter what. Sony would've done the same thing if they had the money.
So PlayStation tries to basically make anything Japan exclusive and was extremely successful at that for the last gen, but COD is were the line is drawn for them? Bruh whole country = okay COD a series that peaked a decade ago in sales = unfair madge :(
Really crap how most of the Japanese games were PS3 exclusives, I could have been playing then on XONE's backwards compatibility in another universe. Thankfully the PS3 is dirty cheap now, and EMULATORS are very good now
Actually, Modern warfare 2019 was by far the best selling cod of all time, and MWII coming this year will probably break that record, so cod is technically bigger than it's ever been
I’m loving this. Doesn’t do any good when Sony and Microsoft have a bromance. Taking shots at each other means competition. Competition means better service and more innovation.
And clearly Sony is having trouble handling the thought of competition. They've become too complacent in their situation. Time to strip that away with what's good, competition!
I'm still pissed about the controller situation. $60 for controllers with weaker joysticks than PS2/PS3, and they straight up copyrighted the buttons, so nobody else can put X, O, square or triangle on aftermarket controllers. Then the crossplay and exclusivity issues, and having to pay a subscription fee just to get online. I know Xbox does those last 3 things too, but as a PC player that can use a used, $16 Xbox360 controller for everything else, this really irritates me.
Or that they do and refuse to accept that they need to get off their greedy asses and start ramping it up for their consumers. Month over month now I have been astonished at the way Microsoft has put in the effort to make their product the best. As a PlayStation user I would love to see the same type of commitment and product value. .
@@dobispr3963 I get totally what you’re saying. I’m not an Xbox user or PlayStation user. I’m a PC user but personally, I’m sure that SONY doesn’t have the money. Microsoft is worth a lot more compared to SONY. This is a tactic from a business that’s afraid of competition. Because it’s a battle SONY will lose even though they were buying a lot of exclusives for themselves for a long time.
Why is Sony talking like they don't have the Killzone franchise? Bring that back, make it a groundbreaking reboot/return to the series, and you've got your COD competitor right there that could help shift players to the Playstation that aren't happy with the current state of COD (of which there are plenty).
They have both Killzone and Resistance, and yet Sony refuses to bring either or back. Halo Infinite’s in a terrible state, they could literally use that opportunity to make a glorious return for Killzone.
Sony, you have no right complaining about exclusivity in gaming when you yourself have had timed exclusives for a couple years now. Even before that you were big proponents of console exclusives, so it's about time you got a taste of your own medicine.
@@halofreak1990 thats not beating them at their own game though they are buying every big name sony brought most of those when those companies were small or help fund some of those games
@@chasejackson7248 It's actually worse what Sony did. At least MS has the excuse that they bought and now 100% own CoD. Sony didn't even own that shit not to mention that shit launched on all other platforms. How the hell does a company get greedy enough to block content from a game that already launched and people bought on other platforms. What MS did is booked the entire restaurant. Sucks but it's perfectly legit and you don't get to buy from the restaurant but you didn't lose any money. What Sony did is walk into the restaurant while people were ordering and took everyone's entree as it came out. Remember that everyone on all other platforms paid the same price but got less of a game for a few months to a year. Sony bought Destiny and if that became exclusive completely I'd be ok with that but if they start cutting parts of future content out that people pay the same price for across platforms and making it exclusive, that's fucked up.
Of course Sony would think that, they've been keeping modes exclusive for it for years now after all, but now that the eggs are in anothers basket they throw a fit. You reap what you saw.
@@Karaksonen Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.“ galatians 6:7-8 Based on a biblical verse.
I see Microsoft getting real aggressive in terms of market strategy against Sony now that each others cards have been revealed. Microsoft won't take Sony going after its acquisitions lightly no doubt.
@@randomassname445 um, xbox literally doesn't care if you buy xboxes. They care about you buying games. Microsoft by and large makes far more money than Sony because they don't need to care about being competitive.
Sony: No, you have to Keep COD muti-platform it does a huge discredit to the smaller devs and sways people to get Xbox instead of Ps5... Xbox: So what about all the exclusive/time exclusive games you have? Will you make them muti-platform... Sony: That's different and we're talking about you and not our hypocrisy...
The thing I hate the most about this situation is how it's gonna reignite the console war tribalism all over again. Just when things were finally starting to wind down a tiny bit.
I play on Xbox, should I be laughing my ass off at Playstation players throwing a tantrum because they can lose CoD? I'm not mentally 12yo and I know better. Console wars is just cringeworthy. Just play your damn games, you're not partisans, people. Right?
If that allegation of Sony paying devs to not release games into Game Pass is true, then Sony could be sued for it in an antitrust lawsuit. Remember that Intel did something similar with 3rd party companies against AMD, got sued for it, lost, then had to pay AMD approx $1.25 Billion.
If they have marketing rights then they have every right to pay for games to not be in certain platforms. Things like that existed since gaming was gaming. Do you people not understand the basics of business?
@@Indigo_1001 This has nothing to do with marketing rights. So clearly you've shown you don't know shit about business or the verticals related to a product from conception to delivery. Paying developers hush money because you don't have enough cash to out-right pay for the intellectual property (i.e. acquire studio) and have a backroom agreement due to said payment to not sell your game on any other platforms has nothing to do with marketing and everything to do with developer/publisher greed. IF this was marketing, they'd simply be sold as "exclusives" and Sony would then be able to MARKET the game as a PlayStation exclusive title. But that's NOT what was found to be going on. The games ARE being sold on other platforms, but Sony in an effort to hurt Game Pass' library is sneakily giving devs/pubs cash up front and demanding they not partner with XBOX to put their game on GP. Entirely different issue. Stay in school.
There is an alleged leaked document of an agreement between Sony and Capcom explicitly stating that they are to not release Resident Evil 8 on services such as Stadia and Gamepass. This is looking real bad for Sony
closest thing we have as proof so far is the RE8 PS contract with capcom that states you can't put RE8 on any sub service for one year and it specially mentions game pass. It also said that after that year Sony has the rights to first dibs on making an offer to putting the game on there Sub service and if they get turned down and get an offer from else where they have to know how much was offered to see if they are willing to out bid.
Sony reminds me of Blockbuster Video. They refused to adapt, stubbornly saying that subscription models were bad. Heck, they even refused to buy Netflix for pocket change when given the opportunity. I wonder how they're doing today.
If it weren't for gamepass, I'd never even know about Hellblade: Senua's sacrifice. I loved it so much I bought it for myself. It's great to be able to playtest different games instead of having to carefully analyze and wait 3 years before buying a game with a R$250 price tag so it lowers to something affordable and justified.
I think that Microsoft's approach will actually bring in more new players to COD, and with the Xbox game pass that it will allow gamers that haven't played COD before, to try it before being it the game and will even keep it (COD) as cross platform for all consoles and PC. That's just my humble know next to nothing opinion. That and the discounts that can be earned by doing various "quests" to earn points to be redeemed for credits to be put to games and or movies or apps.
Sony says that nothing competes with Call of Duty, and no company even with a massive AAA budget could ever make anything that competes against it. Fortnite's 2021 revenue was $5.8 billion. Activision Blizzard as a whole company had $8.8 billion in revenue in 2021 which includes Call of Duty and many other games. Sony says that they can't compete with Microsoft, but Microsoft have literally told them how to compete. Sony plugs their ears and screams louder that they can't compete. It's ironic that they won't look to the future when one of the biggest boons for them in the gaming landscape was Squaresoft refusing to put Final Fantasy on a cartridge any more causing a massive swell in profits for them whilst taking it away from their competition. Sony's current posture and decision making is reminiscent of Sega in the late 80s and early 90s. Refusing to adapt, thinking that you own the market, assuming that because you're the big dog now, you always will be. Several gaming companies have made this error. We forget about them in the modern day because these errors are what made them obsolete and allowed the likes of Sony and Microsoft to create a new industry. I'm not saying Sony will disappear any time soon, but they're certainly not bringing in prospective players with this kind of stuff.
Sony isn't reminiscent of sega, sony is reminiscent of themselves, more specifically mid 2000s Back when they made the PS3 they made the architecture complected af, to the point that not even they can understand it and can't make emulators for it, and they made it super expensive They did those 2 thing thinking developers and costumers were going to suck it up and deal with it and what happened? Everyone bought a 360 and developers started working on the 360 first and then porting to ps3 which resulted in the ps3 version being worse They spent that entire generation rebuilding the trust they lost from everyone but they clearly didn't learn shit because here we are again with Playstation believing they can do no wrong and that we are just going to put up with their bs I hope Xbox humbles then again because I like Playstation but hate this behavior of them, also Jim needs to go
@@vaguedreams I mean, Call of Duty Vanguard is exactly the same type of game. Or is a game with Call of Duty in the title not CoD enough? Not that that particular comparison makes a difference. It's a competitive shooter that appeals to the same market as CoD in general. Given those things, it's comparable enough to be in the same category and be within consideration.
Sony for YEEEAAAARS! Have been buying all these exclusivity rights to influence consumers choice of consoles. And to make it worse, it wasn't even on games they own. They went to studios and gave them money to not release games on rival consoles.
Exclusivity has really, REALLY effected my buying of consoles back in the day. I was a 100% PlayStation fan back then. Problem is that nowadays, PC gaming is a lot more affordable across the board instead of some elite gaming niche like it was 20 or so years ago and Microsoft owns PC. Microsoft essentially owns two major gaming platforms and PlayStation is worried that it'll feel the pinch.
Well considering Sony's Ps plus/gold games Has most of them requiring online and they seem to be edging on NFT using as well as some dickish behavior towards indie devs while Xbox dosent see the good in NFTs, has spectacular backwards compatibility (of which they sadly stopped supporting but is still a good list of Xbox 360/ Xbox games) and its omega tier game pass (with the fact that...well they own COD now) I say let Xbox Handle my favorite franchise Sony. It's for the better
@@xcellentcreations3312 no we shouldn't be encouraging or applauding monopolies, regardless of whether it's Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo the ones doing it
I need to sell my PS5 ASAP, because: - Sony is losing a lot of exclusive IPs (ex: Fallout). - The ones still with Sony are getting as shady as ever (ex: Gran Turismo). - Games are so expensive (they are much cheaper on Steam for PC). - The new Playstation Plus service sucks. - The amount of new games is a far cry from what it used to be in the past.
COD is a over glorified arcade shooter. But instead it's treated like a diva. Years ago there were so many awesome shooters that never got to see the lime light because of this shitty game hogging it all year after year after year..
I honestly hope Microsoft puts down the COD series for at least a few years so all the victims behind it can work on actual games and not the same exact shooty bang bang that has been brutally milked hard.
@@ghostlegit bro look at modern warfare 2019 then look at vanguard then look at mw2 gameplay that just came out they didn’t even bother to change the ui
Saw Sony for what they were years ago, moved to xbox and havent looked back. Game pass is amazing and ive enjoyed my series s, cant wait to upgrade to a series x soon. Sony should welcome honest competition, if their product is good it will shine on its own merit. A talent cant be honed to perfection without constant overcoming of adversity and challenge.
I love my PS4 used to love Sony but a lot of my good will has kinda been burned at this point. I still play games on my PS4 but with Sony being assholes to the competition and trying to force people to buy their stuff is only forcing people like me further away. I got a PS4 launch day, and I still love it but at the same time I think both should be treated equally. A lot of people still favor Sony's exclusives but sooner or later even those will be gone and Sony instead of using the competition to it's advantage is trying to crush all hope of it. That and the PS Plus additional Tiers already put kinda a bad taste in my mouth. I don't know if I'm gonna get a Next Gen Console but it's looking increasingly clear that if I do, I won't be going PlayStation. They even took over EVO and turned it into a PlayStation advertisement.
MS blocks publishing on Playstation by buying entire publishers... Just because they haven't managed to build up their studios properly for 2 decades.... Also, a deal like this to block games on Gamepass ALWAYS involves 3 parties... The studio PROBABLY accepted a deal... But where was Microsoft's counter-offer? They probably don't want to spend money on that... And publishers are only bought because it's becoming obvious that it's not worth it and nobody wants to put their games in the game pass... Sony has NEVER had to buy entire publishers or studios for exclusive deals... But Sony are the bad guys again because they don't want to play the race to the bottom...
@@feldartillerie1620 lol no matter how much you try to defend sony. every one can see an read between the lines . Even Sony started a gamepass for their system ,and then wants to cry when Microsoft found a way around thier BS .Microsoft will just buy the company. Maybe Sony can buy some company’s with that $70 price tag for games, and that over priced premium service.
@@feldartillerie1620 No commonsense whatsoever in this comment. The fact that for so long PlayStation has paid developers and studios to keep their games off of xbox, also deals to get exclusive items, dlc and etc in their platform. But now xbox does it u have a problem, although xbox has expressed that they're gonna keep cod on xbox.
@@feldartillerie1620 Tell me what studio Sony build from the ground up and there is a difference for a company for paying to get the most people play for a game in a service to pay for not allowing people to play a game, just look at cod exclusivity, years ago xbox had dlc exclusivity for 1 month which was anticonsumer by the way but is more anticonsumer to had a 1 year deal and prevent not only xbox players from accessing that content but also pc players and here you say Ms is more anticonsumer.
@@OMGWasntMe Besides an anomaly of 2019 (with a mobile release as well), that trend had been steadily going down since 2014; and is most certainly true if we're taking 'top selling' as a phrase literally. In fact from 2016 to 2020 is was kind of bad (barring 2019). Does it make a lot of money? Sure. I don't think it's going to be a straw that breaks the camels back tho. It doesn't make so much money as to make other games irrelevant. Not by a long shot. Lol, and I didn't even realize that their 'newest' coming game is just MWII again. That's kind of hilarious. Yeah, much like Halo, it's 10 years past its prime. It's just not going to be the most important game anymore.
@@MemoriesDestroyUs That hasn't been true for a number years. It's up there but it's lost 'best selling' a long time ago; barring MW2019 as the only exception I can find from 2014-2021. Also Vanguard has tanked their short term image by a lot... they're riding solely on Warzone and COD mobile right now.
Sony has proven time and again that they dont want to play nice with others. This is just another example of that. Sony needs to get with program and realize that their antiquated way of doing things is is not the direction most gamers want to go. They will just end up hurting the industry more than helping if they dont.
I love every second of this! All companies need competition to keep innovation alive and stay competitive with game releases and features to avoid a doing what EA is doing with Fifa they know that they have a monopoly so they can be super lazy and not change and innovate cause there's Noone contesting their market so every year is the same shit new price
It feels weird seeing this happen because of a game series I've never been interested in lol. Sure I get it - it's interesting to enough for the gaming community that it's become *THIS* important to the corpos and their money, but it still just feels odd watching this insanity going on from across the street in my bubble of games/game genres I enjoy.
@@TheErikjsm Hence why I stated that I understood the reasoning behind Sony getting up in arms about it. Though I agree with Yongyea that they have no case and are just making themselves look bad.
The companies are still on that mindset that cod is the biggest thing and we need to replicate that. Which is why the PS3 and 360 era sucked at the end, cause every game tried to be like it.
When Sony accuses Microsoft of being anti consumer but the final fantasy 7 remake will never be on an Xbox console even though it was first called a timed exclusive. I mean it's even on pc but not Xbox lol
I own a ps5 and think it is a great improvement over the ps4 especially in loading times. The problem though is that the majority of the games I am playing on it are ps4 games or ps4 games that were updated for the ps5 Most games I am interested in getting at the moment are on the switch or pc. If Sony wants me to buy more ps5 games, then they really need to up their game with more ps5 original games. They have tons of interesting franchises that they could bring back or even take a risk and make something new rather than looking like a whiny baby because Microsoft got COD.
See I have a X may build a PC thou I'd just hook it up to my TV (perfer a big screen and apartment not that big and it was either a TV or PC set up) I want to play the new spider man and FF7 remake part 2 but I won't get a ps5 till I can snag one at reatial or maybe used when the dust settles. But on exclusive It be best for consumers of regulators say no more exclusives.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Sonys so worried about the wrong things like cod, battle royal games, nft’s, it’s so mind boggling. Where’s the creative mindset of original and compelling games, bringing back memorable favorite IP’s in your roster? Sonys library is massive and I’m a sony fan but this is truly pathetic imo.
I don't think there should be any exclusives whatsoever. I wan't consoles to compete with what is a better machine. Not which one buys the most major game companies.
Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have the right to keep their 1st and 2nd party exclusive to their platforms and block a competitor's IP from coming to their platforms. You don't go to McDonald's for a Whopper. You don't go to Burger King for a Big Mac and Happy Meals.
And yet, if the shoe was on the other foot, Sony would be going into long diatribes about how console exclusivity is good for competition. Basically, makes us money = good, causes us to lose money = bad. Corporate math 101.
with how censorship crazy sony is, they deserve to lose call of duty and a massive amount of fans and players, they deserve to lose everything regarding their video game division and they definitely deserve to be forced out of the gaming industry completely, also, sony saying that cod has no competition just makes them delusional
@@VagueSpaces For the past decade I've been finding CoD to become boring over time. I'm willing to call Half Life competition or even a couple of Fallout games in the first person genre even though they don't do yearly releases. The quality of the games released by Valve is enough to keep me around for years. To claim that it doesn't have competition when there are plenty of other first person shooters and other games in similar genres just sounds like a flat out lie to me. I'll add a little note down here and say I believe Halo is competition in a way.
@@VagueSpaces there are several games that play exactly like cod, saying cod has no competition or there are no other games like cod makes you and sony delusional
How many times has Sony lined Activision blizzards pockets to get cod exclusive maps and earlier access to dlc wtf man. Its business. Strap up and get to work Sony instead of pouting
I'm very happy to see Sony shaking in their boots. They should be scared of GamePass and the value that MS is offering gamers. Sony has to remember or find out what value means to their customers, and it doesn't include charging for next-gen upgrades, charging full prices for remakes, or blocking crossplay for a cut among other things. Sony, you're a big rich tech company that employs many intelligent people, I'm sure you'll think of something, hopefully that something isn't a manipulative money making scheme.
This is so hypocritical, SONY is always promoting exclusivity, over and over, now that Microsoft will own a big franchise they argue that owning it will damage competition? come on, they have been doing the same for decades.
They’re scared plain and simple
What you don't understand is Sony exclusives are either made by their first party studios or are fully or partially funded by Sony like the FF7 remake for example. Microsoft doesn't create shit they haven't been able to compete in gaming with Sony losing every single generation to them in the end, the last one very badly. All Microsoft does is let others be creative and buy them effectively taking what is and has always been third party to make it exclusive. They're taking away games unlike Sony who get exclusivity on things they help make a reality.
Microsoft is an antitrust Monster that escaped so many lawsuits with bribes and lobbying that they are today the monopoly of PC operating systems by literally buying or burying the competition with sheer financial longevity. Now they're doing that with gaming and it's absolutely bad for gaming, consumers and everyone involved in the long run. The good guys act they're putting on right now only fools the idiots out there.
There's a difference between purchasing studios and gobbling up entire publishers with an entire portfolio of IPs vs growing your talent and acquiring more.
Everything Microsoft bought turned to shit because all they care about is the IPs but they can't keep the talent unlike Sony. You wanna talk hypocrisy and villainy? It's all Microsoft man.
@@patrickthewolf840 Yikes, fanboyism really made this dude write an essay length comment that no one will ever read.
People are weird.
Sony creates exclusives or boost titles to where they are preferences on PlayStation. Microsoft is buying established multi platform titles, like what recent Disney does.
@@patrickthewolf840 finally someone who understands. People also forget that sony and nintendo were around before xbox with exclusive games and as soon as microsoft came out with the shitbox they too had exclusives.
"Mom and Dad are arguing again" Mate if Sony and Microsoft was our Mom our Dad then I am pretty sure they should be charged for child abuse and child exploitation on every level.
But yes us as kids would still be happy our parents weren't Ubisoft and EA.
@@3Rayfire at that point id just off myself, quicker and less painfull way to go
beautifully said ✌
@@3Rayfire or ABK or Riot... well, we would suffer abuse from any company if they were our parents. No, thanks.
Damn LMFAO
One of the biggest pos moves Sony did recently was literally bribe Capcom to not let crossplay happen on MHW, we could not play with our PC brethren because of Sony's pissant stance on exclusivity and how it'll hurt their wallet.
And this is fucking why I hate Sony.
Forgot about that, MHW would have been even better if they added crossplay
Want that proven to be false?
@@Indigo_1001 no, it was proven true.
Jesus Christ, I didn't know that
In all honesty though, Capcom is also to blame on this one. They took Satan's money, and gimped a product that would have been absolutely godlike and praised for decades with this feature
Sony saying exclusivity deal is bad for competition is like EA saying "lootbox regulation is bad for the industry". Lmao
@@kobra6660 He's a businessman. He's not a gamer and hes shouldn't care about games.
Think before speaking.
I just want bloodbourne on pc but nooooo
They didn't seem to mind getting exclusive content for the PlayStation version of these games.
@@robotical4793 except a good game directly translates into a dedicated fanbase that will give you a continous stream of money. But I guess wall street shithead brains don't have critical thinking skills.
@@robotical4793 that’s funny coming from a guy that cannot spell correctly.
Sony has been so sneakily anti consumer for years it's actually surprising that very few people hold them accountable if they fumble
i don't think it's been sneaky and idk what's surprising about it when you can copy-paste that same truth to practically any corporations big enough to lead their industry
unlike microsoft of course, obviously. lol
@@sinisterthoughts2896 take it easy bro, your tears can be found all over the comments section
They suck so hard that their brand name ownership has jumped two whole zaibatsu's to the US and might jump a third time lol.
@@ardent835 haven't read any of his other comments, so no comment on those, but his sarcasm in this one is on point at least.
Microsoft: "Evolve or die."
Sony: "Guess I'll just die, then."
To sum up: Sony is worried that they're going to actually have to compete, which means maybe giving up some of their anti-consumer practices.
Will no one think of the billion dollar companies?
FACTS
@@SageVallant don’t worry they have plenty of stans
Sony Fan here and I goddamn agree, Sony needs some pressure to get their collective heads out of theirs asses and focus on good games and user experience
💯 TRUTH
If Sony is really that concerned about this, then they really NEED to backtrack on everything NFT! Sony has to stop being anti-consumer across the board. No ands, ifs, buts nor exceptions.
They know their fans will support anything they do soo that will stay
@@lildevin16 I didn't. And I'm not the only one walking away from Sony and their anti-consumer crap.
When have Sony been sued for being anti consumer
*or exceptions. The double negative defeats the meaning of what youre trying to say
@@craigharris41 when did anyone say they were sued?
sony is so full of themselves it's actually getting in the way of their own success. Being late to port games to PC. Late to allowing cross play. taking forever to release support for Dualsense controllers on PC. Holding franchises to ridiculous metrics just to keep them going. Sueing aftermarket ps5 cover companies. They need to listen to the market and adapt.
Yup, they so behind the times yet act like they're trailblazers.
@TrophyHunter95 how so?
@TrophyHunter95 Really how so? I been PC since the PS2. Which was clearly the best console ever made yet Sony were greedy dumbasses w/ after the PS2. People gave Sony excuse after excuse.
Sony hasn't been bleeding edge for 20+ years. Seriously when the edge was simply total backwards compatibility and a DVD player.
@@ExeErdna agreed. They rested on their laurels and banked on the good will of their die hard fans. Which are a problem in thier own right. The gatekeeping is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. "OH no! a game we love is now more accessible to more players, and now more people can enjoy it. *crying like a baby *"
@@reshad17 Yup all those exclusives and now a lot of them won't even be ported because Sony doesn't care. SO basically legally a lot of games have to die. Which is a whole 180 where the PS2 extended the life of the PS1. They were never losing money by having backwards compatiblility. Yet they did lose money with horrible future console designs and exclusive deals.
Sony: Objection!
Judge: On what grounds?
Sony: It's devastating to our bottom line!
Judge: Overruled.
Sony: Good Call!
@@3Rayfire
Judge: Not for you
Isn’t Sony the company that has been consistently bribing their way into having exclusive to PlayStation modes and features?
Yeah it’s massively hypocritical of them
Its okay when they do it but when it happens to them they cry
Its funny yeah
Exactly 😂 as long as it’s a Sony exclusive it’s ok.
Yes. Kinda why a timed exclusive FF7 is still on PS4/5
Sony: We pride ourselves in our exclusives. We even cry and get moody when we have to share our games with pc because those are our games!
Also Sony : XBOX WHY ARE YOU BEING SO MEAN ;_; COD BELONGS TO THE BOTH OF US YOU CANT DO THIS TO US! ALSO GAME PASS?! YALL NEED TO CHILL ;_;
microsoft deserves to burn.
sony proceeds to kill many of its exclusive studios~
@@flynnhtt ya as they have been right? They're worse than EA. lol... ok there pal.
Sony is mad that their long reign of being the only one with console-selling level exclusives is coming to an end?
Yep
Nintendo
Well if it ain't Sony now, who's it going to be? Nintendo? I know Microsoft gives a rats ass about making console-selling exclusives. They have had all these years to do it, and now with an activision acquisition, you really think that's somehow going to turn around?
@@mr.excellent6510 Thing is Nintendo's been doing it for decades so it's kind of like they are in their own little corner
Nintendo LIVES off exclusives and ports.
I'm totally on Microsoft's side here. Sony has done the exclusivity thing for years and NOW they're crying foul about it. They are making themselves look like hypocritical babies.
Cringe coonsumer
Yeah screw that billion dollar company, I’m on the other billion dollar company’s side
People also need to stop defending Microsoft! Sony AND MS are both just as guilty. The console wars were nothing in the past compared to now.. its gonna get far worse going forward. There ARE NO GOOD GUYS HERE! Win or lose, average consumers (majority of gamers) ultimately lose.
@@coreymckee4844 it's still funny to see them tho, both are less than ideal but I'd rather be on the slightly better side
@@Mr_Snifflez if the choice would be only either/or without none with someone pointing a gun at me ... yea i`d take MS over sony ... ...
but otherwise cod "influencing" platform choice? i´d still take the damn PC ..
Gamepass is just a very good value for a ton of gamers. You can play tons of single player games you wont play twice for much cheaper. While you can just buy the games you will play long term.
I personally like "owning" my games so I don't use subscriptions. But no denying it is a heck of a deal.
Gamepass isn't that good. A lot of xbox players are complaining about not getting games. It's mostly all old games.
It's basically the same as Playstation Now.
All of this is ridiculous
@@lalotz ps now hell no. im on pc gamepass my son has ps4 whilst looking for cross platform games to play,, whilst i had alien firetem on GP, it wasnt on sony's, also WWZ wasnyt on sonys, sniperelite 5 not on ps sub thing, so it was just fortnite fall guys etc, he has xbox but dont use i could just get £1 deal and all those games we can play. ps now is a streming stuttering mess (least it was 4 years ago) ill always download my games, also backward compatibility with my blackops games on xbox is just nice.
To summerize:
Sony: Haha, u don't have exclusives
MS: Bet * buys Activision/Blizzard *
Sony: That's anticompetitive! 😭
Love how Sony threw all their developers under the bus by stating nobody can make a game as big as Call of Duty lmao imagine being Bungie and seeing your new owner's statement
Not just their own developers. Even 3rd party dev teams
I mean they aren’t wrong though, would hardly call that throwing them under the bus. It’s just a fact
@@Mr_Snifflez truth
They mean right now. They talk about taking years to develop a rival. It's not throwing anyone under the bus.
Call of duty isn't even good tf?
As someone who loves Sony and has owned every generation of Playstation I still believe Sony is on the wrong side of this badly. Microsoft is right, they have options to compete but choose not to do so and rely on market dominance to try maintain the status quo
This kind of thing making us games say fuck the console war and come together to make these companies make good products
Microsoft acquiring Activision and other developers is competing, Microsoft is just playing to their strengths, their wallet.
Sony has been really anti consumer for years, blocking games on other consoles, avoiding crossplay, charging more for games, reselling the same game every generation, not embracing Backwards compatibility, so no you won't get any sympathy from many gamers.
Sony has always been always been pretty shady and anti-consumer. They made the right moves with the PS1 & PS2 which got them a lot of fans then squandered that with the PS3. Then when MS completely botched it with the XB1 Sony got a lot of good will by just mostly maintaining the status quo and making some snarky videos and they've just been riding that no matter how much bullshit they pull. It seems like much of the general public just equates Sony with video games they way many did with Nintendo in the 80's and 90's.
Besides the Sony fanboys who can’t handle when people give Sony deserved criticism.
@@Allustar no one can deny what Sony did for the industry but nowadays people should have choice, the console should be the defining factor not the games, like Cell phones, Sony wants to keep their old ways for profit.
@@chasejackson7248 if you really think that you have not been paying attention, yes Microsoft has to make money, yes Microsoft has done some shady things, but they are giving gamers a more cheaper way to play games through gamepass, and cheaper consoles, they did offer BC, they didn't raise the price to 70$, they course corrected on free games with live, that you can keep them even after having the membership expired, Phil Spencer is a gamer first not only a businessman. He even admits liking the switch and plays it regularly.
Game pass is just a way for them to control games and I don’t trust Microsoft or Sony
My question is why only now is Sony voicing their concerns when they should have done so when Microsoft and ABK first announced the acquisition? They're only doing this now because they realize no one else is gonna complain about it, and this is pretty much a last ditch effort to try and stop it. Even Google and Amazon, both of whom could definitely use a title as big as CoD to bolster their admittedly struggling sales, are ok with it.
My guess is that Sony probably feels they have a better chance at attempting to derail the deal in a smaller market. There really was no way that the other big corps were going to come out against deal as that could potentially have adverse effects towards themselves if they were to try to doing a similar sized deal down the road. It still makes Sony's move somewhat of a headscratcher, but also against the context of just how threatening Game Pass reportedly is to their business practices I can see why they are going this route. I still think the deal will ultimately go through regardless.
@@Rainbolt1980 it's a big gamble for them. If i was MS, i would buy abk, and just stop selling in brazil, until they agree lol. Im sure everyone who doesn't live in Brazil wont miss the 2000 ping lol.
CEOs are getting too old, brain capacity slow to adapt change
@@sgtBONGwater The issue is it gets block in one market, it effectively kills the whole deal (not that I think it will get blocked anywhere). Either way, Sony isn't coming out of this with a good look at all.
@@Rainbolt1980 it doesn’t though… Microsoft can just decide to not sell AKB products in Brazil until they change their mind and trust me, Brazilian or any smaller market will never run the risk to say anything different from what US/EU authorities say…
I’m on PlayStation, but Sony are being real hypothetical through all of this. That PS4 success got to their heads.
Hypothetical? More like hypocritical :P
@@youwayo auto correct
PlayStation: We have some of the best games in the industry
Also PlayStation: Please don't take COD, it will take years before we can make something even close to it
Microsoft: we have Nothing ! We must
@@raider_reaper_4194
PC: we'll wait till they inevitably port it to us
commercially, yes. CoD dominates sales, even if it is a trash title.
Honestly glad I got away from Playstation years ago and moved back to PC.
better options, better value
@@kobra6660 yeah, we all get it, you like those games. please stop spamming. I liked killzone(1 and 2 at least) as well, but none of the games you mentioned even collectively compare to the draw CoD has, even if it's trash. artistic integrity is how companies go out of business. if you want there to be any competition in the market you have to realize that. I guess we're all screwed to buying nothing but Microsoft products from from here on out. yay, my whole life is being surrounding by one megacorp.
Sony has no right to say that they "need" Call of Duty when they have FPS franchises like Killzone and Resistance begging for another game in their respective series.
Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention that Sony now owns Bungie, who have the rights to the Destiny series. Let them make a Killzone or Resistance game. Bungie is a skilled-enough team that can make good games.
Yeah but sony knows MOST playstation gamers play COD, fortnite or gtav. Killzone and resistance cant even touch Halo. If cod were to go game pass exclusive means millions of cod players gone.
let's not forget that CoD for Playstation specifically always gets an 1 year exclusive gamemode.
But yeah, they also got Destiny, which they could try and force Bungie's hand to block it from Xbox, not sure if it's an partnership, or that they're actually owned by Sony.
if it's an partnership then Sony doesn't "own" or have "rights" to Destiny, if it's that they own Bungie, then yeah, they own Destiny.
@@DarkDyllon Sony own bungie but it has been stated outright that destiny will remain multiplatform, or atleast untill a theoretical destiny 3 happens. if they got back on that its gonna hurt their reputation way more than CoD being owned by microsoft could.
if they get CoD then they have to give up Final fantasy exclusivity for the rest of its existence.
Stop being NAIVE you can add up all those games together and they dont even scratch the surface of Call of Duty
First of all, I'm curious what Nintendo's stand on this is. Considering how large their first party library is, and how stringent they are with allowing people access to their platform, it would be interesting to see if they agree with Sony or Microsoft. Secondly, Sony sounds like they are not worried whether it is anti-competitive, but rather how losing ABK's libraries would affect their sales. If Microsoft keeps COD multiplatform for the forseeable future (next 10-30 years), then Sony's argument doesn't hold that much water. Especially when you see all the competitors out there. Battlefield, Counter Strike are all games that challenge COD for first place.
Nintendo don't give a flip.
Nintendo is absolutely not stringent about letting people develop for their platform.
They sold Rare to MS and don't have any particular third party exclusive or timed contracts that I am aware of. They and Sony also have bad blood. I'm pretty certain they are on team MS here.
You don't plan for the immediate future, you plan for down the line (post contracts). Yes they are worried because CoD has proven itself to be a system seller and if MS pulls it after their contractual obligations end it's going to be an issue.
No military shooter challenges CoD.
@@vaguedreams when I said Nintendo is stringent, I don't mean about people using their platform, all the third party shovelware the Wii, 3DS and Switch show that. I meant about people using their IP. Since the argument between Sony and Microsoft is mostly down to IP access, seeing where Nintendo falls on that debate would be interesting. But you're right, they probably don't care
I was under the impression that Nintendo doesn't care, they're doing their own thing.
Nintendo aren’t likely to care. They exist in a very different niche. Their closest competition in terms of consoles is the Steam Deck.
Nintendo probably gave Micro a pound, told em "good shit on your buy" & thats it really. They arent hurt by Microsoft buyin activision. Besides im pretty certain Micro & Nin have a more amicable relationship than these 2 hav with Sony
Honestly Sony have been making these 2 years timed exclusives on a a lot of games so let them have a taste of their own medicine…
Aww, poor baby. Microsoft buys out everything, what would you like Sony to do?
@@yostugotz5619 o don’t think they can do anything
Yep. 💯agree
@@yostugotz5619 you are clueless...
i also love monopoly's
This is inadvertently a massive self-own on Sony's part. They object to Microsoft purchasing CoD because they believe it could influence people's choice when deciding on a console to purchase. Yet they themselves participate in this even more, both internal exclusives and through acquiring like Bungie. But they don't mind it when it's their side. So either you could take these statements in two ways: Either Sony being massive hypocrites, or they're basically admitting that they don't believe any of their IPs are good enough to influence console sales.
Either way, horrible look for Sony.
Edit: It gets even worse, they complain about GamePass even though they literally have a similar service and literally say that it would take years for a competitor (which they are) to be about to make something just as good. Sony is so desperate to block this that they are basically admitting that Microsoft is better in every way and that their offerings suck in comparison.
Sonys head got so big, they forgot how they got there and forget they almost sunk because of the start of PlayStation 3 era..
They complain about game pass when they are doing the same, and even considering paying devs to have exclusive games in their service
I think the MS self owns were better. Admitting they can't compete with PS hardware, and saying that Activision/Blizzard has no "must have games" but, they spent 70 billion on it?
@@jonathanwessner3456 when did they say that… cite sources
@@jonathanwessner3456 Thats The Thing, CURRENTLY Activision Blizzard DOesnt Have any Must haves But In time and with the Freeing of ALL of the studios from just making Cod games They will definately have some Must haves Later on. I Think the wording was specific to a degree and also a kind of partially thought out panic response as well
The sheer lack of self awareness from Sony is truly astounding.
I say let Sony eat it. They've been anti-consumer and have pulled similar stunts. Let them have their own medicine.
That aside EA has Medal of Honor. Sony could also resurrect any IPs that they have, such as Sly Cooper, Jack and Daxter, etc. That they've long abandoned.
This. Cry more.
I’ve been saying this since the beginning of the acquisition. Although Microsoft will loose quite a bit of money if though go down that route, but I wouldn’t mind haha
If they put that on game pass, it’s over
Yea I can agree but it’ll push Sony to be more competitive, they already been leading last gen and this generation. And besides cod been multiplat for years and is a big ip so yea it’s a big deal.
Not with a major foundational IP it's worse than EA battlefront fiasco.
Ah, the hypocrisy.
Sony have attained a position of market leadership largely by leveraging aggressive first and third party licencing agreements. That's their modus operandi. Over recent years they've become even more aggressive and monopolistic in this pursuit.
So to pretend they're worried about CoD ownership creating a monopoly over one particular segment of gaming (FPS/online shooters) is beyond hypocritical.
Of course, Microsoft are correct in their responses; this is really about Xbox outflanking Sony by innovating a new form of game delivery with Game Pass, and Sony trying to prevent them from doing so. Innovation and competition are two things Sony doesn't want.
@@mojojojo1529
And if any of that was enough to win a console war on its own, PS4 wouldn’t have kicked Xbox One’s ass for damn near a decade straight until Microsoft came out with Game Pass and Smart Delivery, more consistently supported crossplay, developed a superior form of backwards compatibility that didn’t share almost every user experience issue with Stadia, and did a better job promoting indie titles instead of obsessing over single player juggernauts like Uncharted and TLOU.
All of these are things Sony could’ve done despite having less capital. If you pull your head out of the sand it becomes immediately obvious that Microsoft only turned things around in recent years due to better decision making and more pro consumer practices, with Sony’s previous successes almost entirely disproving the idea that it’s somehow impossible to compete without throwing money around. Sony can do better for their smaller development studios and for their consumers, they’ve always known they can and always could have, and they’re mad that they’re being forced by COMPETITION to grapple with that reality, even though being forced to do better in this way is literally the perfect example of the free market working as intended.
Miss me with your dick riding. This is Sony using “muh competition” as a hypocritical excuse to avoid trying to legitimately compete by doing better because they are no longer being lazily carried by their outdated strategy of being worse at literally everything that isn’t leveraging exclusivity, plain and simple.
Sony creates new IPs.
Evil cannot create.
Xbox can't even deliver a decent Halo game and you think things will get better under Microsoft?
OK. You get to think that.
Reality will become very disappointing.
@@mojojojo1529 How do you think Sony got into the console business. Do you think they started as a mom and pop gaming shop that built the empire they have from nothing. Nope. They came in as a hardware giant using their money to buy up exclusives from third parties and get the leg up over Sega, Nintendo etc. There is nothing wrong with that off course because it’s it’s business but when someone else much larger than them in Microsoft comes in and does the same thing they don’t get the right to cry about it. Same with exclusivity. Sony has bought up tons of third party timed exclusives. Microsoft is doing the exact same thing but on a much larger scale because they can and have the money. Stop with the hypocrisy!!
Your grammar is BEAUTIFUL! 10/10
Sony had SOCOM, which they ran into the ground trying to make it more like COD. We need a new, no respawn, squad based SOCOM.
sony literally blocked an entire game mode in one of the COD's for a year exclusivity. wtf
Sony has been anti-consumer for years, and now that’s ramping up with horrendous microtransactions in GT7 and possible NFTs.
I’d say, let them have it.
Yah but gt7 is just pennies compared to Diablo immortal Which is it’s agree just pay to win game where one player pay 2 win so hard They’re unable to match make
@@kevingame3198 i agree. $500,000+ to max out your character is a tragic mess
@@kevingame3198 Immortal is a mobile Gacha. It's a terrible practice and I wont defend immortal. But it's a MOBILE game. We cannot compare that to a full fledged, NOT FREE, 70$ game with that level of MT.
@@kevingame3198 Diablo is a F2P game. I don’t like it and think their micro transactions are egregious.
*GT7 is a AAA 70$* game. It should not cost *50$* to get a dream car in a video game that’s already 70$
@@tank70g How to mention getting all the legendary cars will cost you $3000 which is roughly pennies compared to Diablo Immortal’s $500,000
A japanese company being stuck to business practices from 20 years ago and not liking western companies? Shocking.
Hell, gamepass could come to Sony Playstation in a perfect world. Epic games could be on Steam. Nintendo games could be on PC with 4k textures and 120fps. But corporate stubbornness and greed won't allow for that.
I fucking hate japanese companies
Who cares about game pass.
I've been with Playstation throughout the whole PS4 era, but I recently ditched them for this next gen of consoles and bought an Xbox Series S instead of a PS5, and it had NOTHING to do with Call of Duty. I actually hate Call of Duty and haven't played one for nearly 10 years. The reason I went back to Xbox (other than the Series S being cheap lol)? I'm fed up of Sony being these backwards dinosaurs, gatekeeping their console behind archaic business models from the 80's.
Xbox has Game Pass (which is awesome), Game Pass has cloud streaming (again, awesome), Xbox allow mods on games and those mods are allowed to use external assets (unlike the handful of games on Playstation that allow mods). Xbox also will have exclusivity for Starfield and future Bethesda games like Fallout, so I needed to get an Xbox to play those.
Microsoft also are way cooler when it comes to cross-platform gaming and letting Xbox players play with Switch and PC. It's usually Sony who don't want to play nice and demand fees and stuff for allowing it.
Sony put me off from sticking with them.
I went gaming pc
Xbox is useless Get a PC lol
@@Philosopher-Z- some people don’t want or can afford a PC, the form factor of the series s is all some people need
@@Philosopher-Z- pc is good but having a xbox in the living room for everyone to just chill on the couch and play can't be beaten remember were not all hardcore gamers that like to sit at a desk
Now only if studios would stop skipping xbox when they make games. As a JRPG fan, It sucks that quite a lot of them skip xbox because they think there games won't sell because of Sony always paying to get the really big JRPGs, like the whole FF7R Saga and FF16. Of course small JRPG studios will skip xbox if they see the leading JRPG studio is making there games only for Xbox. Yet sony acts like doing this does not have any influence on the industry. Same with fighting games to. Oh Sony buys the biggest Fighting tournament the world, all the games will be played on PS devices, have ads and banners of PS all over the venue and stream. You really think people that play Fighting games that see that won't get a PS because it is the tournament standard? I mean evo this year didn't have smash. I wonder why? Is it maybe because they didn't want to go buy a bunch of switches for people to play them on and promote a game that they won't get any profit from if the game is bought? I mean they even had SF5 as a PS exclusive.
Microsoft literally destroyed Sony's counter arguments on COD being unique and Sony not be able to compete..
The amount of cap from Sony is quite telling..
CoD is unique because there are any big CoD like games left. But is it Activision/Microsoft's fault that others stopped developing direct competitors chasing new trends. No direct competitor does not mean there are no games which compet with it but there are no games which copy/simulate the CoD style of shooters.
@@Dhaydon75 The Battlefield debacle is a prime example. It really is a unique place for CoD to be in right now. It's crazy how devs stopped caring about competing with CoD. Like you said, everybody else cares more about chasing trends than sticking to their guns.
@@maverickrx8 thats because Dice fucking sucks at making games
You touched on game pass etc. Remember when Sony’s greed said that they didn’t need a subscription service? Now they are coming with their tail behind their back. Look at them crumbling when Xbox wants call of duty. Imagine if it was the other way around Sony’s aggressive standpoint and ego.
Sony is legitimately scared because they are now getting a taste of their own medicine of hoarding all those exclusive IPs to their consoles. What's funny is that they have what they need to compete and be more consumer friendly, but they won't.
@Zack Smith why would Sony then be so outspoken about the Activision deal? They have never prepared for this type of competition of subscription services because they are so invested into the old business model. The reality is, Sony knows people would rather subscribe to a service for a monthly fee instead of paying full price for one game every single year.
I'm assuming Sony putting their major exclusives like God of War and spiderman just, don't count as being consumer friendly?
@@tranquility6789 putting them on their subscription service? Or putting them on other platforms?
@@Abezilla if god of war took along of money to make how will they made their money back with subscription services
@@TheCoolgame24 Gears 5 and Halo Infinite took a ton of money to make, and they still came to gamepass day one. 🤷♂️
Been giving Sony less and less money over the years as they go more anti consumer. Don’t even buy their exclusive games new anymore after raising their prices to $70. You reap what sow.
Totally! I'd buy them off the second hand market too until the egregious practices are reversed, or rather, if they ever are reversed.
@@gogreengameon2146 inflation is gonna make it really funny for you when you grow older.
@TrophyHunter95 How am I part of the problem, bud? What problem are we talking about here?
@TrophyHunter95 Oh, sorry I didn’t realize this was fanboy stuff. You shouldn’t give a corporation your undying loyalty my good man, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, they don’t give a single F about us, you should show them the same courtesy.
This is hilarious coming from Sony, who has an iron grip on exclusivity of tons of titles, their stubbornness about cross-platform games, even with just PC, their games coming to PC *EVENTUALLY* is nice but getting them *YEARS* after their release is also Anti-Competitive, it still pretty much forces people to play and buy PS if they want to play the new hotness.
Sony has been Anti-Consumer for years now, and they are still leading in the console race, they have no right to talk about Anti-Competitive and Anti-Consumer, they've even tried to screw over their own consumers with the smi-recent Horizon Forbidden West pricing, originally promising a *free* upgrade from PS4 to PS5, but than changing it to a 10$ upgrade without disclosure.
Not to mention their interest in NFTs, which are beyond Anti-Consumer, they are a scam that literally ruined some people's lives.
They are not kept in check at all because *THEY* don't have competition right now, so they feel free to screw people over since they know no one will protest, or at least not enough people.
Sony loves to wield exclusivity against its competitor, but when their competitor adopts the same strategy, they go crying to the regulator. This is like the bully who's constantly beating down on the skinny kid who has enough of getting bullied and goes to the gym to get swole, then comes back to beat up the bully, then the bully goes crying to the principal
They usually have exclusives they built from the ground up tho. This is a little different, but I honestly dont give a shit about cod, im not buying a ps5 for cod
It's slightly different, sony buys nornal game devs and studios and creates their own ips whereas Microsoft is just buying major publishers and literally absorbing major franchises many of which have been cross platform and are threatening to make them exclusive its a bit different, but people shouldn't applaud Microsoft and xbox buying everyone, similar to disney buying everything, monopolies aren't a good thing, so technically sony is right to call them out, even if their reasons for doing it are purely selfish
@@anotherhappylanding4746 This is true business wise vs what's morally right. This is where laws and how a person feels about a situation often bump heads. What matters is what will benefit both companies legally and financially to avoid potential monopolies.
True, but 75 Billion IS questionable. This Money IS absurd, so IT could be unfair
@@danielweiss4498 so youre saying that a company doing super well, to the point that they are worth billions and another company is willing to pay that price for the overvalued company, it is simply unfair because smaller companies couldnt afford to pay their fee?
Is it unfair if you cannot afford something that you really want, and then it sells out by the time you have the money to buy it?
I'm a PC guy, no dog in the fight, but Sony is just bitching because a game might influence the console people buy?
Isn't that the whole point?
Buying studios and big IP's ALWAYS tries to pull more people into their respective ecosystem.
Very true. And look at Sony with their ongoing exclusivity of FF7 Remake, as well as various Marvel games. Bit hypocritical.
@@Alcatraz760 ture PC players (not me ) and Xbox players are in the same table eating side by side when it comes to Sony buissnes pratice. It effects both of us. I on Xbox and you on PC can play gears of war side by side with each other online. There not anything you can't access and there nothing I can't access.
Sony what's there consial sales and the full benifits of game sales on there system. That real old thinking.
@@Alcatraz760 this is why I exclusively “legally emulate” Sony games. Fuck em, also Nintendo. Cause fuck em.
@@dane4073 Microsoft’s best descisipn was making as many Xbox games as possible playable on the pc
SONY HAS FUCKING SPIDER-MAN. You know how many goddamn ppl that swayed when buying a console? Damn near everyone who could afford to
Damn Sony straight up insulting its devs by saying cod is essential to ps, make Killzone and resistance or even make a new fps IP.
Also, PS is known for exclusivity deals and straight-up paying devs to keep games off of game pass so why can't Xbox make a few deals?
They are also $180 billion in debt, no wonder they are discontinuing franchises and only sticking to remakes and remasters and reboots.
MS is around $48-50 billion but they can pay that off within a year.
Microsoft is to honorable when it comes down to there business practices. Sonys acting way too scummy and thirsty on this situation.
@@OscarG787 Bet CoD can be given to Sony at 70 a pop just fine, while gamepass can be elsewhere.
@@OscarG787 true, MS has been playing fair and accessible for years, they deserve to play a move like this
So, let me this straight here:
It's all fine and dandy when Sony keeps several exclusives on their platform, but when Microsoft does it, it's the end of the world as we know it?
Well, I feel fine.
You reap what you sow, Sony.
You shouldn't have done the "exclusive" bullcrap.
Git rekt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You can keep CoD. I’ll keep my games for ps5.
@@d3adp94 If you had any
@@d3adp94 What games? Lmao... clown.
@@d3adp94 Mate, I own a PS5. The games are still lacking.
Sony fanboys slowly realising that Sony doesn’t care about having a good platform and service
I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be able to afford full priced games every time one they’re interested in comes out and they’re incredibly grateful that GamePass exists and they have such a variety of games to play for a monthly fee instead of buying a 70$ game every other month. I’m grateful too because it opened me up to more variety and interesting indie games I wouldn’t have played otherwise. At this point it almost seems like Sony is jealous of GP and wants to destroy it. I love both Microsoft and Sony games and I think the console wars are ridiculous.
So hold up, Sony get pissy at MS for basically having exclusivity to COD but Sony at the same time have arguably a huge monopoly over the anime industry after the recent Funimation/Crunchyroll merger, Sony by the way also own Aniplex who also own other studios under its belt. hate to say it but with Xbox having game pass, is COD really an exclusive other than it wont be on PlayStation, till sony decide to play ball with pro consumer then I couldnt care less
Sony is a joke .. they are the worst to devs, worst to consumers ( well... mayby nintendo is the same level) , yet they allways cry the loudest... starting to feel like PS5 is my last Sony console, especialy after the statment by multiple JRPG devs that they probably will stop doing PS versions
Not even that... they're just mad that MS is buying COD. There is no exclusivity... unless Sony doesn't permit the sales on their consoles.
@@kobra6660 how the hell can gamepass and PS plus be compared, Gamepass gives games day one and have evrything xbox ever relased plus every game that comes to the console... while PS plus gives away a few free games a month, no day 1 games, and barely any games from all the PS consols
It’s because Sony has to rely on third party developers for their shooters to remain competitive for that market. Sony doesn’t have their own flagship shooter like the other developers do. EA has battlefield and Apex, blizzard has Overwatch, Ubisoft has Rainbow Six and MS has halo. What does Sony have to compete in that market? Without CoD and the exclusive deals that Sony had with AB they’re worried they’re not going to push as many consoles.
@@weybye91 Nah Playstation has their own version of gamepass and basically all the big exclusives are on there.
Sony is literally just Homer's dad yelling at the clouds right now.
Sony's own anti-consumer business practices are damaging them far more than losing CoD. Now they're hiking prices of the PS5 everywhere except the United States as well.
"We don't want to have to spend the money to build our own franchise." - Sony
I will grant them one thing. As far as Modern Military Shooters go, COD has about as many skulls outside its door as Warcraft does for MMOs.
Basically this lol
They may have stopped development on their own franchises to appease Acti-Blizz. It's heavily implied that EA refused to publish on the DC because Sega refused to stop developing their sports franchises.
Cod dose not succeed because its good , if that where the case squad would be the biggest game in the world, no cod succeeds because its geared towards casuals and children so it has 1 brand recognition 2 its what their friends play 3 its easy to get into, not because its the best but because its played to the largest demographic in gaming, brain dead casuals and children
@@Cold_Cactus If it was that easy then how stupid are every other publisher for not having a CoD competitor?
It really doesn't matter who likes and supports CoD. What matters is that they support it. It wouldn't matter if it was just a one button shooter where all you had to do is not move and hold the button down.
If it moves over 30 million units every year and brings in billions (now) yearly then who cares who plays it? It's a big deal.
Isn't that Microsoft?
They couldn't make any exclusives that stuck outside of Halo & Gears, so now they're going around buying everything up.
Look I'm not taking sides here, MS & Sony are both crappy at the end of the day.
But what's with this sudden surge in Microsoft favouritism?
Like you do realise they're doing exactly what Disney does?
Which is monopolising the industry in it's favour.
Either way, AAA industry is f*cked no matter what.
Sony would've done the same thing if they had the money.
So PlayStation tries to basically make anything Japan exclusive and was extremely successful at that for the last gen, but COD is were the line is drawn for them?
Bruh whole country = okay
COD a series that peaked a decade ago in sales = unfair madge :(
Really crap how most of the Japanese games were PS3 exclusives, I could have been playing then on XONE's backwards compatibility in another universe. Thankfully the PS3 is dirty cheap now, and EMULATORS are very good now
Ever since Sony was sold off to California, it just got worst from there on.
Actually, Modern warfare 2019 was by far the best selling cod of all time, and MWII coming this year will probably break that record, so cod is technically bigger than it's ever been
@@Stribog1337 do you know a good ps3 emulator I want to play some of my old tales of games
@@halo129830 afaik the only relevant PS3 emulator is RPCS3
Every body can say they don`t like exclusivity but SONY!!!
I’m loving this. Doesn’t do any good when Sony and Microsoft have a bromance. Taking shots at each other means competition. Competition means better service and more innovation.
And clearly Sony is having trouble handling the thought of competition. They've become too complacent in their situation. Time to strip that away with what's good, competition!
I'm still pissed about the controller situation. $60 for controllers with weaker joysticks than PS2/PS3, and they straight up copyrighted the buttons, so nobody else can put X, O, square or triangle on aftermarket controllers. Then the crossplay and exclusivity issues, and having to pay a subscription fee just to get online. I know Xbox does those last 3 things too, but as a PC player that can use a used, $16 Xbox360 controller for everything else, this really irritates me.
Sony realized that it doesn’t have the money to compete with Microsoft.
Or that they do and refuse to accept that they need to get off their greedy asses and start ramping it up for their consumers. Month over month now I have been astonished at the way Microsoft has put in the effort to make their product the best. As a PlayStation user I would love to see the same type of commitment and product value. .
@@dobispr3963 I get totally what you’re saying. I’m not an Xbox user or PlayStation user. I’m a PC user but personally, I’m sure that SONY doesn’t have the money. Microsoft is worth a lot more compared to SONY.
This is a tactic from a business that’s afraid of competition. Because it’s a battle SONY will lose even though they were buying a lot of exclusives for themselves for a long time.
Why is Sony talking like they don't have the Killzone franchise? Bring that back, make it a groundbreaking reboot/return to the series, and you've got your COD competitor right there that could help shift players to the Playstation that aren't happy with the current state of COD (of which there are plenty).
They have both Killzone and Resistance, and yet Sony refuses to bring either or back. Halo Infinite’s in a terrible state, they could literally use that opportunity to make a glorious return for Killzone.
Sony, you have no right complaining about exclusivity in gaming when you yourself have had timed exclusives for a couple years now. Even before that you were big proponents of console exclusives, so it's about time you got a taste of your own medicine.
But Microsoft did the same thing during xbox360 days they only became anti-exclusive during this gen cause they got their ass kick last gen
@@Steven9567 So what? Sony's basically been doing this since the dawn of time. So why blame Microsoft for trying to beat Sony at their own game?
@@halofreak1990 thats not beating them at their own game though they are buying every big name sony brought most of those when those companies were small or help fund some of those games
Sounds like what a fanboy would say
@@chasejackson7248 It's actually worse what Sony did. At least MS has the excuse that they bought and now 100% own CoD. Sony didn't even own that shit not to mention that shit launched on all other platforms. How the hell does a company get greedy enough to block content from a game that already launched and people bought on other platforms. What MS did is booked the entire restaurant. Sucks but it's perfectly legit and you don't get to buy from the restaurant but you didn't lose any money. What Sony did is walk into the restaurant while people were ordering and took everyone's entree as it came out. Remember that everyone on all other platforms paid the same price but got less of a game for a few months to a year. Sony bought Destiny and if that became exclusive completely I'd be ok with that but if they start cutting parts of future content out that people pay the same price for across platforms and making it exclusive, that's fucked up.
Of course Sony would think that, they've been keeping modes exclusive for it for years now after all, but now that the eggs are in anothers basket they throw a fit.
You reap what you saw.
Reap what you sow*
I agree, just thought id correct you on that saying
@@TC70 Downsides of english not being your native tongue, so many words just look and sound the same, cheers for correcting me.
@@Karaksonen wasnt trying to be mean, promise.
English is my first language.
@@Karaksonen Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.“ galatians 6:7-8
Based on a biblical verse.
Nobody is going to mention Apex Legends as a COD alternative? It's certainly more popular than Battlefield or Rainbow Six.
I see Microsoft getting real aggressive in terms of market strategy against Sony now that each others cards have been revealed. Microsoft won't take Sony going after its acquisitions lightly no doubt.
And sony is gonnna step it up too.
But on its terms. Playstation is outselling xbox 2 to 1
@@randomassname445 That is PlayStation 4 and Xbox 1. This gen MS is behind 5 millions which is fast because Sony is 21 mil and MS is 16 mil.
@@randomassname445 yeah no its not.
@@LouSassol69er Xbox announced that they sold less than half of ps4. So Xbox sold about 55million compared to 117 million ps4s
@@randomassname445 um, xbox literally doesn't care if you buy xboxes. They care about you buying games. Microsoft by and large makes far more money than Sony because they don't need to care about being competitive.
Yong:"I guess I gotta explain to the kids what's going on."
Me: Man, I'm 34 and this is still tiring and confusing with what's going on.
Sony being a 2 year old having a temper tantrum
Sony: No, you have to Keep COD muti-platform it does a huge discredit to the smaller devs and sways people to get Xbox instead of Ps5...
Xbox: So what about all the exclusive/time exclusive games you have? Will you make them muti-platform...
Sony: That's different and we're talking about you and not our hypocrisy...
It is a little different though, they are taking a franchise and making it exclusive instead of building an exclusive franchise from the ground up
Quite Ironic that Sony is all over this subject isn't it? Fear truly is a great advantage
The thing I hate the most about this situation is how it's gonna reignite the console war tribalism all over again. Just when things were finally starting to wind down a tiny bit.
Same.
I play on Xbox, should I be laughing my ass off at Playstation players throwing a tantrum because they can lose CoD? I'm not mentally 12yo and I know better. Console wars is just cringeworthy. Just play your damn games, you're not partisans, people. Right?
Endless cycle. Power shifts every other decade it seems
Lol who cares? play PC.
@@Stribog1337 It's so fucking dystopic, imagine pledging yourself to a fucking Souless corporation like that.
It's refreshing to see companies treat other companies like shit instead of just their consumers and employees.
If that allegation of Sony paying devs to not release games into Game Pass is true, then Sony could be sued for it in an antitrust lawsuit. Remember that Intel did something similar with 3rd party companies against AMD, got sued for it, lost, then had to pay AMD approx $1.25 Billion.
If they have marketing rights then they have every right to pay for games to not be in certain platforms.
Things like that existed since gaming was gaming. Do you people not understand the basics of business?
@@Indigo_1001 This has nothing to do with marketing rights. So clearly you've shown you don't know shit about business or the verticals related to a product from conception to delivery. Paying developers hush money because you don't have enough cash to out-right pay for the intellectual property (i.e. acquire studio) and have a backroom agreement due to said payment to not sell your game on any other platforms has nothing to do with marketing and everything to do with developer/publisher greed.
IF this was marketing, they'd simply be sold as "exclusives" and Sony would then be able to MARKET the game as a PlayStation exclusive title. But that's NOT what was found to be going on. The games ARE being sold on other platforms, but Sony in an effort to hurt Game Pass' library is sneakily giving devs/pubs cash up front and demanding they not partner with XBOX to put their game on GP. Entirely different issue. Stay in school.
There is an alleged leaked document of an agreement between Sony and Capcom explicitly stating that they are to not release Resident Evil 8 on services such as Stadia and Gamepass. This is looking real bad for Sony
@@Indigo_1001 Thats a different thing
closest thing we have as proof so far is the RE8 PS contract with capcom that states you can't put RE8 on any sub service for one year and it specially mentions game pass. It also said that after that year Sony has the rights to first dibs on making an offer to putting the game on there Sub service and if they get turned down and get an offer from else where they have to know how much was offered to see if they are willing to out bid.
Sony reminds me of Blockbuster Video. They refused to adapt, stubbornly saying that subscription models were bad. Heck, they even refused to buy Netflix for pocket change when given the opportunity. I wonder how they're doing today.
The funny thing is they have a subscription service, its just shit
Yeaaaaaahh no
So Sony is arguing AGAINST console exclusives?
Only do it if it benefits us - Sony probably
Sony is really good at pissing everyone off, excluding their fanboys
You're wrong, you should see some of these guys reacting to Sony games coming to PC.
@@bconxept I know man, I saw that right after posting this lmfao
I’m a PS fan. I’m willing to listen to their arguments. But in the end, even I gotta say to Sony, quit whining and get back to work.
If it weren't for gamepass, I'd never even know about Hellblade: Senua's sacrifice. I loved it so much I bought it for myself. It's great to be able to playtest different games instead of having to carefully analyze and wait 3 years before buying a game with a R$250 price tag so it lowers to something affordable and justified.
Sony up here acting like a selfish toddler throwing a temper tantrum. Grow the eff up Sony.
Sony was the one who kept survival mode in MW 2019 exclusive for 1 year. And they have Spider-Man exclusive to Avengers.
I promise you nobody cares about spiderman in avengers
@@Mr_Snifflez I will say, as someone who has played as Spiderman in Avemgers. ITS AWFUL. The character, that is. They've completely messed him up.
@@Mr_Snifflez The point is that Sony are hypocrites.
@@SourRobo8364 they dropped the ball on that game sadly.
I think that Microsoft's approach will actually bring in more new players to COD, and with the Xbox game pass that it will allow gamers that haven't played COD before, to try it before being it the game and will even keep it (COD) as cross platform for all consoles and PC. That's just my humble know next to nothing opinion. That and the discounts that can be earned by doing various "quests" to earn points to be redeemed for credits to be put to games and or movies or apps.
If they ended up day one on Game Pass, I'd be tempted to play CoD again for the first time since BLOPS 3!
@@LianaSunburster once they are like fully owned by microsoft i assume they will release day one the same as every other xbox exclusive dev.
If we're lucky we will also see cheaper COD releases, none of the 3 so far have released even worthy of 30 at launch
It's not even that. They have a deal with Samsung to put Game Pass on their new TV. So on the future you wouldn't even need a console.
I don't think so. They can't even fix the game and handle 343
Wait. Did Sony just say Battlefield sucks, without saying Battlefield sucks? Lmao
Brazil having transparency in their system is somehow the most surprising thing about this
Sony says that nothing competes with Call of Duty, and no company even with a massive AAA budget could ever make anything that competes against it.
Fortnite's 2021 revenue was $5.8 billion. Activision Blizzard as a whole company had $8.8 billion in revenue in 2021 which includes Call of Duty and many other games.
Sony says that they can't compete with Microsoft, but Microsoft have literally told them how to compete. Sony plugs their ears and screams louder that they can't compete. It's ironic that they won't look to the future when one of the biggest boons for them in the gaming landscape was Squaresoft refusing to put Final Fantasy on a cartridge any more causing a massive swell in profits for them whilst taking it away from their competition.
Sony's current posture and decision making is reminiscent of Sega in the late 80s and early 90s. Refusing to adapt, thinking that you own the market, assuming that because you're the big dog now, you always will be. Several gaming companies have made this error. We forget about them in the modern day because these errors are what made them obsolete and allowed the likes of Sony and Microsoft to create a new industry.
I'm not saying Sony will disappear any time soon, but they're certainly not bringing in prospective players with this kind of stuff.
Sony isn't reminiscent of sega, sony is reminiscent of themselves, more specifically mid 2000s
Back when they made the PS3 they made the architecture complected af, to the point that not even they can understand it and can't make emulators for it, and they made it super expensive
They did those 2 thing thinking developers and costumers were going to suck it up and deal with it and what happened? Everyone bought a 360 and developers started working on the 360 first and then porting to ps3 which resulted in the ps3 version being worse
They spent that entire generation rebuilding the trust they lost from everyone but they clearly didn't learn shit because here we are again with Playstation believing they can do no wrong and that we are just going to put up with their bs
I hope Xbox humbles then again because I like Playstation but hate this behavior of them, also Jim needs to go
Fortnight is not in the same type of game as CoD.
@@vaguedreams I mean, Call of Duty Vanguard is exactly the same type of game. Or is a game with Call of Duty in the title not CoD enough?
Not that that particular comparison makes a difference. It's a competitive shooter that appeals to the same market as CoD in general. Given those things, it's comparable enough to be in the same category and be within consideration.
@@tylersmith3533 fortnite and call of duty are very different games.
Sony literally out here being childish.
If you're nothing without COD, you shouldn't have it in the first place.
Sony for YEEEAAAARS! Have been buying all these exclusivity rights to influence consumers choice of consoles. And to make it worse, it wasn't even on games they own. They went to studios and gave them money to not release games on rival consoles.
Yeeeeeaaaaah no
Sony: You took my only food. Now I’m gonna starve.
Exclusivity has really, REALLY effected my buying of consoles back in the day. I was a 100% PlayStation fan back then.
Problem is that nowadays, PC gaming is a lot more affordable across the board instead of some elite gaming niche like it was 20 or so years ago and Microsoft owns PC. Microsoft essentially owns two major gaming platforms and PlayStation is worried that it'll feel the pinch.
Well considering Sony's Ps plus/gold games Has most of them requiring online and they seem to be edging on NFT using as well as some dickish behavior towards indie devs while Xbox dosent see the good in NFTs, has spectacular backwards compatibility (of which they sadly stopped supporting but is still a good list of Xbox 360/ Xbox games) and its omega tier game pass (with the fact that...well they own COD now) I say let Xbox Handle my favorite franchise Sony. It's for the better
Slight correction, as of now they don't own CoD. The merger has yet to be completed, it is expected to be done by mid-2023.
@@LianaSunburster oh right. But still my point stands
@@xcellentcreations3312 It does, yes. Just a little detail incorrect. But ignore me, I'm just a pedantic arse when it comes to stuff like that! 😂
@@LianaSunburster it's k man!
@@xcellentcreations3312 no we shouldn't be encouraging or applauding monopolies, regardless of whether it's Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo the ones doing it
I need to sell my PS5 ASAP, because:
- Sony is losing a lot of exclusive IPs (ex: Fallout).
- The ones still with Sony are getting as shady as ever (ex: Gran Turismo).
- Games are so expensive (they are much cheaper on Steam for PC).
- The new Playstation Plus service sucks.
- The amount of new games is a far cry from what it used to be in the past.
I love PS5 but little by little I’m regretting it. 🫤
Asoon as i learn that you need ps+ only to back up your saves on the cloud (since you can't do it with a usb) i completely lost any interest in a ps5
Huh? Fallout was never exclusive to Playstation.
Welcome to pc race
@@ipot399 you're right, I thought one thing and wrote another. I meant that some important IP's are now becoming exclusives to X-Box.
COD is a over glorified arcade shooter.
But instead it's treated like a diva.
Years ago there were so many awesome shooters that never got to see the lime light because of this shitty game hogging it all year after year after year..
I honestly hope Microsoft puts down the COD series for at least a few years so all the victims behind it can work on actual games and not the same exact shooty bang bang that has been brutally milked hard.
They already are next year.
They've already said that they will.
Cod isn't the exact same every year. This is a dumb 🤦 did u play elden ring. It's just dark souls. See how stupid it sounds.
Agreed. After MW2 just keep on updating warzone 2 for the next couple years.
@@ghostlegit bro look at modern warfare 2019 then look at vanguard then look at mw2 gameplay that just came out they didn’t even bother to change the ui
Saw Sony for what they were years ago, moved to xbox and havent looked back. Game pass is amazing and ive enjoyed my series s, cant wait to upgrade to a series x soon. Sony should welcome honest competition, if their product is good it will shine on its own merit. A talent cant be honed to perfection without constant overcoming of adversity and challenge.
How fun not being able to own your games
I love my PS4 used to love Sony but a lot of my good will has kinda been burned at this point. I still play games on my PS4 but with Sony being assholes to the competition and trying to force people to buy their stuff is only forcing people like me further away. I got a PS4 launch day, and I still love it but at the same time I think both should be treated equally. A lot of people still favor Sony's exclusives but sooner or later even those will be gone and Sony instead of using the competition to it's advantage is trying to crush all hope of it. That and the PS Plus additional Tiers already put kinda a bad taste in my mouth. I don't know if I'm gonna get a Next Gen Console but it's looking increasingly clear that if I do, I won't be going PlayStation. They even took over EVO and turned it into a PlayStation advertisement.
@@Steven9567 You can say the same for PS games as well since disc games don't mean jack anymore
@@Steven9567 you have Netflix buddy 😂😂 no one buys disks unless you’re hardcore and care about the highest quality
@@Steven9567 Nobody cares about owning games
love the fact that sony just essentially threw every dev/publisher under the buss by saying that none of them could make a game like COD.
Call of Duty doesn't decide what console I buy.
This has just shown how dirty Sony is,and how anti consumer their business practice is. pony’s trying to defend this is a joke.
MS blocks publishing on Playstation by buying entire publishers... Just because they haven't managed to build up their studios properly for 2 decades.... Also, a deal like this to block games on Gamepass ALWAYS involves 3 parties... The studio PROBABLY accepted a deal... But where was Microsoft's counter-offer? They probably don't want to spend money on that... And publishers are only bought because it's becoming obvious that it's not worth it and nobody wants to put their games in the game pass... Sony has NEVER had to buy entire publishers or studios for exclusive deals... But Sony are the bad guys again because they don't want to play the race to the bottom...
@@feldartillerie1620 lol no matter how much you try to defend sony. every one can see an read between the lines . Even Sony started a gamepass for their system ,and then wants to cry when Microsoft found a way around thier BS .Microsoft will just buy the company. Maybe Sony can buy some company’s with that $70 price tag for games, and that over priced premium service.
@@feldartillerie1620 No commonsense whatsoever in this comment. The fact that for so long PlayStation has paid developers and studios to keep their games off of xbox, also deals to get exclusive items, dlc and etc in their platform. But now xbox does it u have a problem, although xbox has expressed that they're gonna keep cod on xbox.
@@feldartillerie1620 Tell me what studio Sony build from the ground up and there is a difference for a company for paying to get the most people play for a game in a service to pay for not allowing people to play a game, just look at cod exclusivity, years ago xbox had dlc exclusivity for 1 month which was anticonsumer by the way but is more anticonsumer to had a 1 year deal and prevent not only xbox players from accessing that content but also pc players and here you say Ms is more anticonsumer.
Right on!
Regardless of the situation, Sony made themselves look really bad..
Sony off all companies being against exclusivity is the most ironic shit ever😂😂😂
But Microsoft was for exclusively back in the 360 days they were only against it cause they their ass handed
COD is ten years past its prime now. It hilarious that that's the breaking point.
Because the worst Call Of Duty is still the top selling game year after year.
Still the best selling game every single year. PlayStations best selling game going forward will be an Xbox first party title. It’s funny
@@OMGWasntMe Besides an anomaly of 2019 (with a mobile release as well), that trend had been steadily going down since 2014; and is most certainly true if we're taking 'top selling' as a phrase literally. In fact from 2016 to 2020 is was kind of bad (barring 2019).
Does it make a lot of money? Sure. I don't think it's going to be a straw that breaks the camels back tho.
It doesn't make so much money as to make other games irrelevant. Not by a long shot.
Lol, and I didn't even realize that their 'newest' coming game is just MWII again. That's kind of hilarious.
Yeah, much like Halo, it's 10 years past its prime. It's just not going to be the most important game anymore.
@@MemoriesDestroyUs That hasn't been true for a number years. It's up there but it's lost 'best selling' a long time ago; barring MW2019 as the only exception I can find from 2014-2021.
Also Vanguard has tanked their short term image by a lot... they're riding solely on Warzone and COD mobile right now.
Sony has proven time and again that they dont want to play nice with others. This is just another example of that. Sony needs to get with program and realize that their antiquated way of doing things is is not the direction most gamers want to go. They will just end up hurting the industry more than helping if they dont.
I love every second of this! All companies need competition to keep innovation alive and stay competitive with game releases and features to avoid a doing what EA is doing with Fifa they know that they have a monopoly so they can be super lazy and not change and innovate cause there's Noone contesting their market so every year is the same shit new price
That's right. That's why COD needs to be on playstation.
It feels weird seeing this happen because of a game series I've never been interested in lol. Sure I get it - it's interesting to enough for the gaming community that it's become *THIS* important to the corpos and their money, but it still just feels odd watching this insanity going on from across the street in my bubble of games/game genres I enjoy.
even though its not your cup of tea call of duty had been among the most sold game each year since 2007, so it makes sense its a huge deal
@@TheErikjsm Hence why I stated that I understood the reasoning behind Sony getting up in arms about it. Though I agree with Yongyea that they have no case and are just making themselves look bad.
At least you aren’t saying “CoD is trash” or “CoD is dead.” I’m actually sick and tired of seeing those kinds of comments.
The companies are still on that mindset that cod is the biggest thing and we need to replicate that. Which is why the PS3 and 360 era sucked at the end, cause every game tried to be like it.
What's "weird" about it? Why would your personal opinion of a game have anything to do with corporate business decisions?
When Sony accuses Microsoft of being anti consumer but the final fantasy 7 remake will never be on an Xbox console even though it was first called a timed exclusive. I mean it's even on pc but not Xbox lol
Ah yes, essential. Because everyone and their mother is going out every year to get the newest and bestest CoD
It’s not an iPhone, Sony
Actually cod is the iPhone of games
I swear the COD sales are going down too.
Vanguard did shit over here in the UK.
@@dbkwk9 I've not touched the last 2
Not a fan of CoD but it *IS* the best selling game every year.
@@SawdEndymon
No it isn't, it's a top ten for sure but not the number one *every* year. COD has been on the downwards for the last several years.
I own a ps5 and think it is a great improvement over the ps4 especially in loading times. The problem though is that the majority of the games I am playing on it are ps4 games or ps4 games that were updated for the ps5 Most games I am interested in getting at the moment are on the switch or pc. If Sony wants me to buy more ps5 games, then they really need to up their game with more ps5 original games. They have tons of interesting franchises that they could bring back or even take a risk and make something new rather than looking like a whiny baby because Microsoft got COD.
See I have a X may build a PC thou I'd just hook it up to my TV (perfer a big screen and apartment not that big and it was either a TV or PC set up) I want to play the new spider man and FF7 remake part 2 but I won't get a ps5 till I can snag one at reatial or maybe used when the dust settles.
But on exclusive It be best for consumers of regulators say no more exclusives.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Sonys so worried about the wrong things like cod, battle royal games, nft’s, it’s so mind boggling. Where’s the creative mindset of original and compelling games, bringing back memorable favorite IP’s in your roster? Sonys library is massive and I’m a sony fan but this is truly pathetic imo.
just get pc at this point since MS game are bound to be there sooner or later.
I don't think there should be any exclusives whatsoever. I wan't consoles to compete with what is a better machine. Not which one buys the most major game companies.
Unless it best console machine quality and really good/fun exclusive game?? Other company is in trouble 😂👌
Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have the right to keep their 1st and 2nd party exclusive to their platforms and block a competitor's IP from coming to their platforms. You don't go to McDonald's for a Whopper. You don't go to Burger King for a Big Mac and Happy Meals.
And yet, if the shoe was on the other foot, Sony would be going into long diatribes about how console exclusivity is good for competition.
Basically, makes us money = good, causes us to lose money = bad. Corporate math 101.
with how censorship crazy sony is, they deserve to lose call of duty and a massive amount of fans and players, they deserve to lose everything regarding their video game division and they definitely deserve to be forced out of the gaming industry completely, also, sony saying that cod has no competition just makes them delusional
@@VagueSpaces For the past decade I've been finding CoD to become boring over time. I'm willing to call Half Life competition or even a couple of Fallout games in the first person genre even though they don't do yearly releases. The quality of the games released by Valve is enough to keep me around for years. To claim that it doesn't have competition when there are plenty of other first person shooters and other games in similar genres just sounds like a flat out lie to me.
I'll add a little note down here and say I believe Halo is competition in a way.
@@VagueSpaces there are several games that play exactly like cod, saying cod has no competition or there are no other games like cod makes you and sony delusional
How many times has Sony lined Activision blizzards pockets to get cod exclusive maps and earlier access to dlc wtf man. Its business. Strap up and get to work Sony instead of pouting
I'm very happy to see Sony shaking in their boots. They should be scared of GamePass and the value that MS is offering gamers. Sony has to remember or find out what value means to their customers, and it doesn't include charging for next-gen upgrades, charging full prices for remakes, or blocking crossplay for a cut among other things.
Sony, you're a big rich tech company that employs many intelligent people, I'm sure you'll think of something, hopefully that something isn't a manipulative money making scheme.