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I gotta be honest, as a father dealing with, debt, work and a child with hearing impairments gaming is starting to become more of an expense i can't afford but game pass and microsofts big moves with some of my favorite developers under their banner like ninja theory. Obsidian, and arkane now a huge backlog of games coming in from Activision im considering an Xbox ive console jumped every generation based on what service will suit me best and Playstation will have to show me some serious effort in services going forward im gonna be patient
I'm a father of 3 too and I 100% agree with what you say. Game pass is a life saver for people who maybe only buy 1 or 2 games a year. Series s and gamepass and you're pretty much sorted
Honestly just get a PC. More games, better graphics and a more reliable performance, more accessibility and customizability, and they're much more rugged than either Xbox or Playstation. I used to be a big Xbox fan, but after I made the jump to PC I've never touched my One since.
Sorry to hear about your kid man that’s really rough as a dad. I usually wait two or three years after release and get my games for like $15 on eBay. Just finished Horizon Zero Dawn for my first play through and it’s incredible. Now I’m working through God of War
Not that simple PS2 maybe but PS3 due to how it was manufactured hardware wise is extremely difficult to emulate. The reason why ps now is a thing because it's just not feasible to backwards compatible software wise.
@@epsilon1670 If my laptop, which is not even a gaming laptop, can emulate PS3 at near full speed...of course PS5 can run. Just establish a partnership with RPCS3 but not possible as a lot of piracy happens.
The biggest hurdle for Sony right now, is getting PS5 into hands of those that want them. But because of all that is going on with supply of chips and shipping backlogged. There might come a time where folks will give in and move on and purchase a Xbox. Because if you are Sony hanging your hat on exclusives, if people can't get your hardware what's the use??
As a PlayStation guy this is damn true right here ^ I always end up getting both consoles but this hardware shortage has been bullshit… and fuck paying scalpers 🙄 I never will
@@kriskater yep the scalper situation was the bigger the normal last year and launch year. Trying to recall didn't the pandemic played a part in the shortages
For me sony has simply not made the ps5 itself an enticing buy when I'd normally own both every gen. But with this gen the ps5 is simply worse as a product in almost every way. Worse hardware, more expensive games, being charged to upgrade, worse features/services. Just a whole lot of nope going on with the ps5 right now. Only thing sony is still doing right is still making interesting games but as it stands now for me its making far more sense to just play those games on pc instead of dealing with the ps5 bs.
As someone who finally made the jump to PC gaming after decades of console gaming, I find this move by Microsoft to be a game changer. I realized that most of the first party games on either side eventually end up on PC and so I will never have to choose a side again by having a PC. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft handles exclusively and such but for me its a win across the board.
@@johnnyboogalo4897 You do go the worst of both worlds with AMD and Nvidia screwing their consumers, I honestly think that the value in Pc gaming has been tainted alot by the overpriced market. Consoles right now offer the most value but hopefully it can change once new foundaries enter production and intel enters the game. Maybe then I can sincerely recommend pc gaming to the average person
The ENTIRE stock market moved down today by an huge amount. So a lot of this maybe due to the market and not because investors care about what this means to Sony.
@@sasukeone5795 how did he say anything remotely biased towards sony? The market did dip, even Microsoft took a dip, go look up Microsoft stock for yourself. Everyone's portfolio is hurt.
While I think this acquisition is good, I sure hope it doesn't lead to a buyout war between Sony and Microsoft, that would just be anti consumer and make it harder for people to get into gaming EDIT: And my replies have spiraled into console wars and weird stuff, what I expected for a topic like this tbh, just saying go into the replies with popcorn (someone wrote a full essay lol).
A buyout war won't really happen because Sony can't compete, Microsoft probably has more money that they are able to spend than Sony is worth in it's entirety. A like Modern Scholar said, the industry has been anti consumer since Horse Armor lmao
While I feel the deal has some *huge* red flags attached to it long term with Microsoft's tendencies toward pursuing a monopoly, I'm if nothing else hopeful that a change in leadership and workplace culture can help revitalize Blizzard and help them find their place again as a studio who produce great games loved worldwide without the need for crunch or workplace harassment for the people actually doing the work, and that maybe just maybe it'll help stem the tide of brain drain they've been experiencing as just about everybody that made that company and its games what they were are gone now.
Crunch ain't going nowhere, and the day we start caring about retail workers being treated the same way during the holiday season, I won't care about crunch until then
@@boskilingenfelter9515 that's an odd comparison, but no crunch will eventually have to die. Just a matter of time. Eventually some government body is going to take notice of the working conditions these companies subject people to, do some digging and go, "Yeah, um.... this is illegal what you're doing."
@@twilightgryphon odd comparison how? EVERY industry has a certain time of year where the employees who actually build the product have to put their nose down and get extra work done. I used retail workers as an example because Christmas season is their crunch time, and not only are they being overworked but folks don't respect them at all or even treat them like humans.
@@boskilingenfelter9515 you don't need to lecture me, please. I wasn't saying you're wrong, merely that it's an odd comparison. I've done retail during the Christmas season, I get it. I was merely saying it was odd because it isn't one I would directly or immediately make.
@@MixtapesOfThe90s Steam charts aren't a good measure. It doesn't take into account the people that bought and play the game on the Xbox app & the Xbox console itself.
@@MixtapesOfThe90s steam charts shows the active player count on steam.. that number isnt derivative of the overall player base which is predominantly on Xbox and not PC (steam). Not to mention that many people like myself are playing infinite on PC through the Xbox beta app on win 10 as gamepass for pc has the halo campaign.. so your comment is baseless. If anything is worthy of a lol, it's your attempt to smack talk a game using arbitrary stats pulled from steam charts. Smart moves young one.
Don’t really expect much from anything Blizzard related with how downhill their games and choices have gone but then again with new management comes new ideas and better games hopefully
exactly, Blizzard isn't worth $70 billion to begin with and now they after being bought are worth even less, most of their value was in CoD warzone and mobile game's aggressive micro transactions. If Xbox wants any credibility they'll need to cut that down meaning each of their franchises are worth a lot less. If i were sony I'd buy Square Enix & Ubisoft while they are still there. They have a combined similar catalog to Activation Blizzard but are far less expensive.
@@Jykobe491 They want more games for Gamepass growth. MTXs are a nice plus. They lack enough studios for the giant AAA releases and Activision brings in a lot of experience under their umbrella.
I still don’t like the idea of these companies being able to purchase this much of the market. As a player I’m not too worried, having a PC, PS5, and Switch I’m not really going to miss out on anything.
Honestly speaking, i don't feel like Sony has been headed in the right direction ever since Jim Ryan took the position. I sincerely doubt his leadership.
Yeah I really doubt that having more and more studios owned by smaller and smaller number of major corporations will lead to healthier more competitive market.
It does not but Microsoft makes Great Games and enables Great Games to be made by those Studios. They also Have a Budget Console and an incredible Service, so it's rly not a bad thing. Microsoft could also Buy EA and Ubisoft and let them make good Games again.
@@CASyHD. if you think their games aren't gonna be polluted with microtransactions you're dead wrong. Activision games are gonna have the same bs in it because their fanbase still buys the shit
@@arunabhmahanta are you still stuck in 2015? Forza , hellblade , gears 5 were critically acclaimed games And when we come to brought under the rug studios then you know what happens
@@rubydancer4241 i liked heller XD hes like an angry avenger, plus alex ended up being evil so i dont really want to play as him in a main story unless its a redemption thing.
My problem with Microsoft Is they've done very little to make a mark In this Industry game development wise on their own , they've mostly bought their way through generations ( I'm not talking about any other Innovations they've brought just games ). They've rarely successfully made any great game from the ground up they just bought the developer.
Exactly. The truth no one wants to hear or say. Having a buttload of money doesnt make you creative/innovative. Plus YongYea didnt explain what market value is. Market Value is a company outstanding shares multiplied by it's current market price. So if a copmany trades at $10 per share and has 1 million outstanding shares. Then that's a market value of $10 million. So if said company lost $2 off its share price making it $8. With still 1 million outstanding. Then their market value is 8 million with a loss of 2 million. So yes it seems like a lot but it's only because its considering all the outstanding shares and multiplying it. That 2 million loss mentioned above is just 2 dollars per share. It just get bloated by the multiplier. Last time I checked Sony is at 140 billion dollars. They lost 20 so that's only around 14%. Sony is going to be fine.
@@nucklehead718 sony is creative? microsoft making open world pirate games and honey i shrunk the kids games as well as co-op gears and halo games for the past 20 years whilst all sony release are 3rd person single player games that ive been playing since tomb raider in the early 90's, thats innovation? no FPS games or co-op MP games is innovation? sorry nope.
That's pretty much my mentality. I have a PS5 and Switch but I really support a lot of the pro-consumer practices Microsoft has been making this gen. Personally don't play any Activision games but still a big get for Xbox. I have been genuinely thinking about getting a Series S just for Game Pass so who knows!
Actually microsoft bought all the crap Activision, Bethesda except for Obsidian which is a good company wait for them to buy EA & they got the bundle of greed.
hopefully this serves as somewhat of a wake up call for Sony. Sony has been abusing their lead in sales and are censoring games that come out to their console, which is not good.
They took away communities and made it impossible to see if your friends are in a chat party, and they keep nuking ps4 features. Im about sick of this shit. Hell, they Even charge money for games that are free on steam.
Tbh I agree Sony needs to do more for their fanbase, like having backwards compatibility for not just ps4 games which disappointed me when I saw the PS5 but yeah they've been removing features like communities and changing the party system which I find dumb, they really need a grip. Also wdym by abusing their lead in sales and censorship?
I still believe that those powermoves by Microsoft will activate Sony to do better than sitting back and feeling like the kings of consolewars (for example putting more effort in cross-platform gaming, making PSnow better, implement a good backwards compatibility system etc.)
They never been the king of console wars. No one is. Each console is good in their own way. No one is superior on that front. Because consoles can't do shit against PC. Sony doesn't feelike they're kings. They just have other priorities. Give Sony a reason to do backwards compatibility OR crossplatform? Despite not doing it they're still so popular their consoles are so high in demand that there arent enough of them to go around. Explain that. Xbox has to pull all tricks out to get to playstations level of sales and playstation doesn't have to do shit to get it done. Why bother doing more effort if it pays for itself already. You can use that effort for other things. Besides, Xbox was never ment to do better then playstation. Its just a cheaper alternative then PC gaming. Never ment to dominate. Soooo not really getting your point of view
Sony is in quite a pickle well the PlayStation side of Sony but tbh if they don’t strike back that’s the best option they can do cuz they already got the ok that activision games can remain multi platform but if they strike back then they will suffer the chance of it being excluded to Xbox and pc which honestly wouldn’t be a bad thing
@@cherrydragon3120 it's more like the Xbox is just more convenient over all.. Sony not doing backward compatibility and crossplay is honestly just lazy of them.. Weird way to defend it.
I hear that this strengthen game pass. I also hear that this get more gamers to give up the physical model more and we'll lose more rights to owning the product we purchase and how easy it is for the company to screw us over even easier. Call me overly skeptical but I don't trust this move in the slightest
Good point, allot of people like collecting things be it games or what have you. Who's to say that you can't install and keep these games and eventually they just get removed and its gone from the server? Big companies might not care about the past but ordinary people sure do.
@@maybemaybenot8112 Read what OP said, it's not about not owning it. I don't mind that either. It's about things being removed. Don't you have a favorite game? Wont you like to revisit that game in a decade or so? Netflix removes shows all the time.
Nobody truly owns games from the time Xbox 360/ps3 were released. Even if you own the disc copy of a game, it's only playable by downloading the day 1 and all future patches which is sad.
Microsoft makes about $60-70 billion a year in operating income so they just wrote off a year's profits essentially. As long as it continues they have seen a 30% increase each year so not long.
well, the funny part / is due to them doing an all cash deal --- they won't be hindered like disney is right now with all the debt they are saddled with from the fox purchase in theory / the ROI (depending on how inflation will go) but if you go with an average return rate of 10 percent for stocks basically in order to make it something worthwhile they need something like 6.8 billion a year to in theory break even i would say the real reason for the purchase probably has more to do with apples new silicon laptops as well as solidify its position as the main game streaming platform
@@epsilon1670 Yes BUT you're not thinking it out clearly. The annual cost of running all these studios and paying over 10,000 employess and paying for massive games to be built, only for their games to launch for FREE on gamepass basically. They only have 25 million subs. That is so tiny. All xbox consoles and PC combined. Their operating loss every year is going to be massive, astronomically huge.
@@daLukasMain you can't factor in *just* Xbox revenue. You have to factor in Microsoft as a whole, with subscriptions like Microsoft Office (which is how they recuperated the Bethesda buyout, btw)
Buying publishers doesn’t seem healthy to me especially when the competition will get slimmer and slimmer when Microsoft should be focusing more on their 1st party studios.
thing is Nintendo first monopolized the market before Sony took over back in the mid 90's with the original PlayStation and then they solidified their monopoly with the PS2 but ever since the PS3 they've been slipping more and more while Microsoft have been improving on their hardware and portfolio that said I will have to disagree with you on your stance of buying all the publishers being bad because honestly making games console exclusives hurts gaming more than it benefits it tbh so buying publishers isn't really a bad thing a prime example is Bethesda which everyone is fearful that Activision's games will have the same outcome as Bethesda's did when Microsoft took over which is false because Todd Howard himself has had a very distasteful opinion of Sony as a company and even once said he didn't even want anymore of their games on their console which is why Bethesda's upcoming titles are going to be exclusive to Xbox and PC all in all the outcome of the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard won't be as bad as people think because there's nothing from them even worth turning into a console exclusive and the most I see happening is they take Spyro and Crash Bandicoot and turn them into exclusives but COD will remain untouched since the game doesn't do well in terms of sales anymore
@@theunhingedgamer3762 unfortunately CoD still does well on sales, but your missing the point Microsoft doesn't care too much about individual sales and instead want to drive subscription to gamepass/xcloud as it's a safe recurring income of money so not making it exclusive effects the pull for people to said services.
@@theunhingedgamer3762 so you think Microsoft is going to bring they’re first party games to PlayStation out of the blue. Your logic makes no since whatsoever, That’s like saying all first party Microsoft games that aren’t console sellers are going to PlayStation. Microsoft just bought a company that’s worth about as much as Sony let that sink in, They don’t need Sony’s money. Just like every Bethesda game is exclusive same will be for Activision come 2023.
The problem with sony / playstation: they are not really customer friendly. They have no clear store policy and if you buy the wrong game you have to hope that you get your money back with no certainty ever.
@@RC-cm3hs Evey time I wanted to give a game back I had to write a personal mail to them and i had to wait until they "revived" it. No easy return option or something like this. Btw: why the get fucked?
@@AhurAmud sorry, the get fucked wasn't directed at you, I imagine that's their response to the idea of returns. I think they have the worst returns policy in the industry, though I don't think Nintendo is much better.
The way I see "and hope" future conversations between Microsoft and Sony will proceed is thusly: Microsoft: hey, we own CoD now, and don't HAVE to put it on your platform; but, we're willing to play ball. What are you willing to release to XBox and PC to keep CoD on Playstation? Who knows, if you play nice enough, we'll let you sell future Doom, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc. on your platform. I want XBox owned games to be playable on PS and vice versa (and of course they all come to PC). As a PC gamer, I don't see any sort of down-side to that kind of world. But at the least, we can be happy that Bobby Kotick isn't gonna be a part of our gaming industry anymore (fingers crossed). I forgot to include Nintendo in that last, bit; but obviously them too.
It is true that alot of activision/blizzard games will disappear from playstation unless Sony negotiates with Microsoft on that. Wich will cost Sony alot of money. My ptediction, if the game franchise does NOT pay back for the costs, Sony will just let them go and not bother getting them on the platform. Simple as that. If the franchise, for example CoD earns sony more then they pay for it. They'll Buy licenses from microsoft to get the games on playstation. Simple business strategy
Phil Spencer from XBox already said they're in communication with leadership at Sony and that they want to keep CoD on Playstation, so I'm not sure where so much speculation is coming from
@@rickybobby1157 quality aside, CoD makes a ton of money for the platforms for which they are sold. I haven't played CoD in close to a decade at this point but I can recognize the importance of the series from a business perspective; and that's the one important for this conversation.
I get what Sony is saying, but it feels weird that one they even said this and two that it's Sony. After exclusive ff games, exclusive basic features in cod, trying to make Starfield exclusive (lol guess it did end up being one) and even making kotor a Sony "timed exclusive" (which might as well mean permanently a console exclusive 'read ff7r remake') it's weird to think about Sony taking about this. How the times change.
It’s going towards a monopoly. In some, immediate ways most people see it as only a good thing. However, in time, we will see the effect of so many, once unique and independent companies an developers be held by strict standards that will likely limit creativity and original games, and likely lead to Microsoft being able to control prices of anything gaming-related: consoles, memberships, peripherals, and of course games just to name a few. I do not see this as a good thing at all.
I love how people can see the articles say this makes Microsoft the 3rd largest gaming company in revenue behind Sony and Tencent and still claim monopoly. Also, Microsoft doesn't really restrict their companies. They used to like 15 years ago, which is why they lost a lot of titles and put out some bad games, but it isn't really a thing anymore. I know that won't sway the naysayers and doom prophets that need attention, but it is a fact, currently.
@@PKSunset yes it is okay but is it okay to be called a doomsday prophet or naysayer that needs attention? Is it okay to insult the person in the process of discourse? Implying that I am any of those are also, uniformed opinions…
As a psn member, this comment is true. They swear we the consumers will take their shit and thank them for it. Good move on Microsoft. Hopefully it doesn’t mean hella console exclusives though
@@crazebamm Agreed, look how long it took to get cross saves and crossplay all because sony wanted to act like a selfish kid that doesnt wanna share their toys.
With all the love Microsoft showed Age of Empires IV and the RTS genre, i really hope Phill gives Blizzard and Relic work on the next Starcraft 3 or Warcraft 4.
@@nahuelleandroarroyo for the current protagonists, yes. But the universe created by Blizzard is big enough for new stories. And if they can't be arsed to write a new story, there's still several post-StarCraft II novels that could serve as inspiration for a new entry into the series.
@@nahuelleandroarroyo never played legacy of the void campain, but i am sure they can just rewrite the story as a sequel or an alternative universe or timeline.
I think gamers should be very wary of MS becoming a monopoly, which is clearly what they would like to be (as they already are in the PC OS market). Remember what they tried to do with XBox games, by blocking resale of second hand titles? MS is a predatory company, who, once they gain sufficient leverage, will seek to shape the market to their own benefit. They only failed in the past, because of competition from Sony, which forced them to backpedal hard, so yes, having two big players is essential, or else I think the gaming landscape is going to become a very ringfenced affair, controlled by a single corporate overlord.
These are the ppl that will make the games 200 bucks! And get away with it! Dont forget. We never playstation-plus. We never had to pay for online games. And now we even have yo pay to play the games that we play offline. We need to be online to play them. Why? Because they make alot of money from ppl paying for ps plus. I like to play with my wife and son. I have to pay 3 times for ps plus just so i can play with my family... All this happened becaus xbox invested in paying for online gaming... Everyone should packed their backs and went to playstation the next day. To bad the playerbase stayed. No long after we got ps plus. Now you pay 60 bucks for a year. Remember this comment. Because of xbox. Next year you will pay 100 for a year.
Exactly what I was thinking. And the fact that investors dunked $20b worth of Sony stock because of this just puts MS further ahead, making it harder for Sony to make its own moves and acquisitions which could help prevent MS from becoming a monopoly. This huge purchase by MS may seem like a pretty good thing for developers, gamers, and investors, but in the long run, it has the potential to be bad for everyone except MS themselves.
I'm honestly more bummed about crash bandicoot than Call of Duty lol It should also be stated that gamepass will inevitably have significant price hikes as time goes on. It can't remain the great deal it is, especially if they want to continue with multi million dollar budgets for all these games.
Why bummed out? MS won't make Crash an Xbox exclusive, their president already stated he doesn't plan on tearing communities appart. Besides, Crash is not even a PS exclusive anymore, it would be idiotic for MS to make it an exclusive again.
@@danielredziniak2996 It's not, there was at least one other that already had an exclusivity deal with Sony and that remains the same. The others are brand new IP. Crash is a completely different situation of an IP that used to be exclusive but now no longer is(same for Spyro) which is what people want. For those IP to once again become exclusives would be a terrible move from MS.
I definitely don't want competition to die - I agree that competition helps keep a level of balance that companies must compete to provide high quality games/products It would be a disaster if things became centralized
Well, it depends. I don't think a lack of competition would suddenly make passionate developers lazy. Just as now how while there is competition you're still getting trash tier games from AAA studios. Just look to BF2042. Centralisation may be a good thing in this case as we will probably see better management leading to better games. For example, I don't play CoD games, but I might if the games were great and this may just lead to that.
@@Bkayplays4270 but centralisation makes it unlikely for passionate devs to be able to move their ideas into reality. Why would Microsoft take a risk with a big new idea when the 70th COD will be practically guaranteed money? Still Indie devs will never go away so their is that at least.
@@Bkayplays4270 I agree but it seems you missed or misunderstood my statement I said Helps keep a level of balance I didn't say it guaranteed anything Also within that level of balance is both good and bad So of course developers aren't just gonna get lazy but sometimes things don't change because there's no push for it and ONE of those pushes can come from competition.
@@darkpixel1128 Also they could charge whatever they want and be as anti consumer as they liked because they'd have a monopoly. This is a disaster for gaming & it frustrates me that everyone is clapping their hands at this like trained smoothbrained seals. Anyone who fails to see just how bad this is for gaming is an idiot pure and simple.
@@Gyanateet2077 Debatable. They arn't like CD project where they released a crap - port on last gens. So I can't fault them. Some people can't get into a story with more that 15-17 hours of dialogue and be able to key into and piece together small details like some.
Yup, Microsoft making bad business decisions as usual. They always acquire the most hated developers in gaming. 343… Bethesda.. now Activision Blizzard. They have no fucking idea what they’re doing lol
I mean Sony isn't looking to become a streaming giant like Microsoft. Remember Microsoft doesn't consider Sony a competition but other streaming services. which is also setting Sony back as Sony isn't looking to change their platform to be a more stream friendly service. Currently Sony is renting Microsoft tech to stream their games while developing nothing of its own. They also don't advertise their own streaming services and developing it.
Good. Dont want this streaming garbage anyway. Which is why limited Run mostly just has Playstation & switch games. Xbox is mostly for people who like streaming and not owning their games. Which sucks for DOOM and fallout etc etc
@@lovelorn88nick thats up to you i guess. But people looking toward the future will have a different viewpoint. Lets be honest here Microsoft has position itself to be more flexible then PlayStation or Nintendo is. With the way things are Microsoft will be leagues ahead and if things change Microsoft is positioned to be in a safer place if all hardware for console become obsolete/not needed and if not Microsoft is safe and positioned itself to service two different group. With people looking to become more environmentally friendly having millions of hardware and disc created and having them fill landfills is just not environmentally friendly.
@@lovelorn88nick what i see is microsoft investing big bucks in removal of software second hand market by gowing digital , wich will eventuality cause the disk's downfall , i don't want my game collection to disappear because my son got banned in god knows what game and got my account banned
They have been telling this ferry tail apple, google, Amazon, facebook buying up publishers and shit for a long time yet nothing has happened... With Activision off the market no company can compete not even when buying EA + Take2. Now Sony is fucked and Microsoft is safe. Its scummy from them.
I’ve never owned anything past PS2 so I don’t know what their store looks like, but I’ve always had a Xbox as a adult. They already have endless amount of games in their store from indie devs and small games that just happen to show up without marketing. Buying these crazy huge publishers is just adding to their already huge catalog if they end up making the titles exclusive.
The stock market is like this, knee-jerk reactions to every move. This isn't really indicative of much, and its not a reflection of a companies' longevity. Nintendo still competes, so will Playstation, Especially given how strong their console sales are. While losing the Call of Duty audience is a big deal, even if you just look to Playstation Studios' games, you can see there's always going to be a huge market for those IP's, just like Nintendo. This really just asks Sony to compete, and they've never had an issue competing with the xbox brand, and they never needed multiplats to do it. Quality is enough to succeed in the industry, and Sony still has a generational leg up on Microsoft there, and any IP under Activision-Blizzard doesn't measure up.
Yeah, wasn't Nintendo pretty much at an all time low for a while until the Switch? Just takes some time, and Sony is still a big company, there's little chance of them just randomly dying without something bigger than this to take them down.
Well I mean, losing elder scrolls, CoD, Doom, Starfield, Hellblade, Crash, Wolfenstein, Quake, Fallout, and many other IPs is going to do something to playstation no matter how you look at it. The reason why playstation was so successful is because of their slaughter in the PS4 era, and the fact that they have been cultivating and evolving their studios to a point where they can deliver such amount of amazing content. But now that Microsoft is encroaching ever more, buying all these studios, they have that power now to deal some blows and cultivate the studios to something bigger, take double fine for example. But the point is that Sony is still the same juggernaut that it is, it's just being caught up by Microsoft in a game they cannot win since they don't have the kind of money for it.
The entire market collapsed on the same day by 5%, while Sony specifically dipped 8%. The Activision news isn't really responsible for the Sony drop in value. There's an overall market correction happening right now.
@@danielredziniak2996 ...The issue could just as easily be both Microsoft and Sony's non gaming related goods that cause the drop as well you know....Microsoft has computers in its bag not to mention its Operating System which makes it a bit more valuable than Sony which mainly focused on appliances/TVs/DVD players, etc and between those 2 the general trend for consumers has been towards computers over stuff like TVs and the like so it's a safer market than Sony's (not to mention outside of Apple does Microsoft even have any real OS competitors?...if they do i can't name one lol. On the other hand Ubisoft, Namco, Square Enix, Capcom, Sega, EA, etc are all mainly just game software developers (well Sega and Namco got some other stuff in the entertainment industry like anime, anime figures, manga, arcades, etc...granted both profited this year though in their game divisions by about $2B+) so as long as their games profit they will overall make a profit....with that said not sure why Ubisoft went up...can't think of any games from them released recently...maybe they privately showed an upcoming game to investors in a meeting that day that's getting them excited i guess. Could also just as easily be that whatever caused all of said companies to decrease that much cause Sony's investors in particular to jump ship even more than the other companies (investors in general start trading like crazy at the smallest sign of danger or profit and screw over their stock sometimes just by doing that...especially when they would've been better off staying in...ultimately though stocks rarely coincide with how much money a company actually makes from the products they sell/make and a company with good stock could have terrible product/services sales time and time again (Disney for example over the last few years) or vice versa).
Its a good example of why not to trust the stock market as an indicator for basically anything. Sony games wasnt about to lose any business because of this acquisition as far as anybody is aware. Even if they did its negligible... the stock dropping 20% over this is laughable and shows how little investors know.
People keep thinking that Microsoft will simply give away all their games to playstation by puting gamepass on playstation and I just dont see that happing on sonys games were to also somehow be playable on xbox as well
Except if you take his wording he says existing communities so with those games not being released they don't technically have a individual community for said game. Same with their wording about exclusives a while back technically it's not exclusive to just consoles as it will be available on PC as well as any device that supports xCloud streaming. How they get around with dumb ambiguous marketing talk.
Elder Scrolls has always been more popular on Xbox and PC so no it isn't, and starfield is literally the first of its series, it doesn't have a fanbase yet.
I mean, Starfield is fair, it's a brand new IP and it's still in development which means Microsoft contributed, so I think it's fair. ES6 on the other hand is an established multiplat IP with millions of fans across systems so it's not that fair to make it exclusive to Xbox. If it's timed exclusive I guess it's fine, they payed 7 billion for it after all, but full on permanent exclusive is kinda bullshit
@@sasharudyy3587 millions of npcs you mean. elder scrolls died a long time ago now you have soulless fucking action games with people buying the same game over and over the fifa concept for the mentally deranged
@@sasharudyy3587 Spider-man was a multi-platform series before Sony bought Insomniac but people pointed and laughed when Xbox fans complained about it not being fair.
Phil Spenser has said many times before that he will let developers have full creative freedom so hopefully we will start to see more activision games build with passion and dedication instead of pure monetization call of duty is the perfect example. i must admit i don't like exclusivity why should people miss out on great games because they brought a different piece of plastic
@@JD-hc5rv Minecraft was already many great things in term of number, sales and popularity before Microsoft got the IP and rights. And the game itself already pretty extensive in content to begin with for a game of its kind. Not the most relevant example to pick.
I’m very concerned about vertical integration with the corporate forces taking over production on top of distribution, as that has never been good for consumers in any industry, however I do hope that increased competition improves the quality of the games coming out, because there’s no way what we’ve seen going on these last 10 or so years is going to be sustainable much longer.
I think Sony (as well as Nintendo) already have an impressive list of 1st party studios producing world class franchises to stay competitive with Microsoft. Still, even if Call of Duty stay multiplatform, do you really rather spent $70 for it (only to get suckered by Halo Infinite style of mtx)? Or getting it day one on Game Pass?
@@hellecia Japanese studios in general are starting to build a relationship with Microsoft which is great for Microsoft because Japan never really liked the Xbox after the Duke controller.
Honestly this is all horrifying. I have all consoles and a pc, I am no fanboy! But, one company monopolizing the industry cannot be a good thing. We need competition to ensure ingenuity and quality. While this is good for gamepass, it is overall a negative for the longterm health of the gaming industry. Look at what Disney did to the movie industry, when was the last time a blockbuster movie wasn't a super hero movie? When monopolies form everything becomes samey garbage.
@IIIlllIII Here is some anti playstation talk if it will make you feel better. Do you remember the last console generation when Playstation had cornered like 80% of the console market? Do you remember the games it released? They were all similar 3rd person action games right? While they were good games, they were growing heavily redundant, which is exactly what happens when one company dominates and stops innovating. I see this same scenario on the horizon with xbox. They will find a pattern that works and replicate ad nauseum.
@IIIlllIII okay, you are just being obstinate. Microsoft was literally declared a monopoly 2 decades ago. So if we are being literal it is literally a monopoly and you are literally a turd
@IIIlllIII you literally just need to search "is microsoft a monopoly" and you will get all the answers you're looking for. Your definition of monopoly is from the 18th century.
If Microsoft did managed to revives those dormant IPs in meaningful way, I would then support Microsoft if they want to buy EA the next time. After all EA did have many dormant IPs on their catalog portfolio, and EA & Microsoft also share similar facet in their business model, acquiring game studios!
@@JrystalTyaeli that's because of Microsoft's commitment to studio autonomy, the people at rare are just not interested in the goldmine legacy of rare and are focused on new IPs. That's a good thing as well as a bad thing, you get new ideas and franchises but at the expense of leaving others behind
what is rare doing? sea of thieves was the one thing they delivered after ms owning them for 10 years and making them make x360 avatars. or then youre right and rare didnt want to make games and ms should have kicked them to make games
@@JrystalTyaeli There have been rumors that a team at Bandai Namco are developing a new KI so yeah it seems like Xbox still wants to utilize Rare's IPs. Also that Battletoads game came out relatively recently but that game was pretty mediocre so I don't blame you for forgetting about it. Oh and of course that Perfect Dark reboot is coming out in probably 1 to 2 years but that was announced a while ago.
Well, Microsoft will make the decision that makes the most financial sense.. COD and Overwatch are large enough potential revenue sources that they may continue to be treated in the vain of Minecraft. whatever a company may gain from making an specific IP exclusive may ultimately lose the real world value of said property by misunderstanding the reasons why that franchise became big in the first place and more importantly continues to have wide appeal..
I think it will be based solely on playstations existing contracts and keeping warzone as the multi platform thing. As soon as they can make the base games exclusive they will, they care more for services than actual sales at this point and that's why it's no longer a console war.
On the flip side, by folding the game publishers and studios under MSFT umbrella, they *_should_* now be insulated from the short-term demands of shareholders, and thus can focus more on making good games rather than thinking of how to further fleece the gamers. (MSFT's breadth of products & services means the expenses of the Gaming Division can be accounted as investment to prop up their other divisions, e.g. Windows, Azure, etc. MSFT shareholders cannot simply target the Gaming Division and demands it to be "more profitable".) Key word, of course, is "should". We'll just have to wait and see how things unfold.
the most financial sense is add it to game pass and make exclusive everything new that they are contractualy not obligated to release on playstation. This will drive tons of sales for xbox consoles and game pass, cod players used to picked whatever system made more sense or which his friend bought, happened with xbox 360 and ps4 now the platform to play multiplayer games is Xbox, they have most of the big multiplayer games, why buy a ps5 now and pray that the games you want will be on ps5 when you know they will be on xbox game pass day one.
When game companies sign exclusivity deals with Epic Games: Yong Yea - 'This is bad' When Microsoft BUYS the companies and states there will be exclusivity deals Yong Yea - 'This is good'
@@diligentone-six2688 you think Microsoft actually cared about how they were treated? Microsoft could have easily pulled any certifications from their windows platform for their games or rejected their games on Xbox. People are only happy to see this as an exception because they think it's going to do what they want, give the workers a better working environment. Don't get me wrong, it's not that they don't deserve a better environment but it just points out how hypocritical Yong is and anyone who agrees with it. A better working environment could be pushed for without buying them outright. But even then, it's not Microsoft's place to police other companies, the US government should be doing a proper job of that. Now if people don't have an opinion on exclusivity or don't mind it to begin with, fine. But the opinion is shifting so quick here. So if Epic games wants to get exclusives, you aren't in a position to bitch and cry about it just because it's inconvenient to you.
Microsoft is clearly prepare for a feature without a static console model with those acquisitions and more focused on creating a service with game pass similar to netflix but focused on gaming.
I assume you meant "preparing for a future". I hate autocorrect. I think cp2077 shined a spotlight on the fact that even next gen consoles are not going to be able to compete with current PCs. A console will never be as powerful as PC and still be as affordable as they are now. When a current gen gpu is 3k, you can't put em in a 500 dollar console. Plus PC is upgradeable. The next gen games just aren't gonna run on a console very well if at all. Back when Xbox, Nintendo and PS were new (remember Sega) there were PC games you just couldn't get because they wouldn't run on a console. The saving grace of a console was, if you buy a game for console it's gonna work (not so true anymore). You're not gonna have to buy more ram or get a faster cd/dvd (remember I'm talking back then) to play the game. But console games didn't look as good or have the bells and whistles a PC game had. Companies then began trying to make console games compete with PC. Consoles still aren't as powerful so they compensate by making the games specifically for consoles or distinctly for Xbox or PC to take advantage of architecture shortcuts but that's obviously not working so well now.
MS might be a trillion dollar corporation, but purchase of this size will make a serious hole in their pocket regardless. According to MS investor report - "In fiscal year 2021, we delivered $168 billion in revenue, up 18 percent year-over-year. Operating income grew 32 percent to $70 billion." So spending almost 70 billion in one year is a very big deal.
@@Rapunzel879 Microsoft's annual operating income so money after deductions is $60-70 billion so literally a year's worth of pure profit just sitting there. So no it not really a huge deal
Somebody made s good point. Even if cod will still release on PlayStation, you’d still have to pay 70 euro there vs the game pass subscription on Xbox.
I'm more worried about what the hell is Microsoft is going to do to Xbox if or when Phil Spencer leaves someday years down the road. I'm hoping he doesn't leave anytime soon.
It's concerning that Xbox is going the route of 'if you can't beat your competition, buy more studios'. Granted, this purchase isn't going to be finalized until 2023 so there's at least 1 more year where (for example) Call of Duty will be made available to PlayStation. In regards to how long these contracts are for is unknown. So when that contract ends, I'm pretty sure that Call of Duty and the other Activision-Blizzard owned IPs will stay Xbox and PC exclusive. But consider it is their IP, they could (if they wanted to) license out said IPs to PlayStation and Nintendo and charge fees per copy of game sold on other platforms. On a positive note, I do agree that Phil Spencer will likely be a more respectable individual in terms of handling the employees at Activision-Blizzard as well as IPs that haven't been getting attention for years. At the least we can all agree that seeing Bobby Kotick going away is a good thing for everyone.
Can’t beat them? There only a few million sales behind. Game pass has been crushing it for years now. Nothing to do with buying studios. Preparing for the future is the goal.
Cod won't be exclusive. It'll be free on Game Pass though, as will future Activision/Blizzard games. Microsoft is moving towards a new business model and developers are accepting it because they make 99% of their profit from micro transactions anyway. As opposed to sales of the games. So making games free to download means more downloads and more potential micro transactions.
@@MixtapesOfThe90s he said the same about Bethesda,guess what happened to multi platform games he promised wouldn't be like that,they are now exclusively on Xbox an pc now but with this getting so much press i have a tiny feeling it wont go through bc if news medias begin talking about it the government might look into this and if they say its a monopoly then Mycroft is fucked in trying to get the company
For PC gamers - this is not a win nor will this not change PC gaming. MS own windows and I bet you they will force gamers to the latest OS , whether they want to or not, to play these titles in the future. They could also lock out steam in favor of the MS store, require a MS account to play rather than the existing Activision accounts. This all scream anti-trust and should be blocked by the FTC. As this is not a done deal it could be blocked. The FTC and Justice Dept announced, just hours after the MS announcement, that they are rewriting the acquisition rules for these types of mergers. So I would expect this merger to be reviewed very closely.
In a perfect timeline: -Phil Spencer manages to root out the absolute shit culture inside Activision Blizzard -World of Warcraft goes back to its roots, the content gets fixed and more content gets added -The Overwatch scene is either saved with OW2 or a renewal of updates for OW1 -Starcraft 3 happens under World's Edge and Infinite Empires, Microsoft subsidiaries tasked with the revival and renewal of the Age of Empires franchise -Heroes of the Storm does an absolute 180° turn, manages to be fun and profitable and even gets a console release -Diablo issues are solved, Diablo 4 and Mobile launch at premium quality and the Diablo remasters get their issues addressed and fixed -Warcraft 3 Reforged continues development and manages to finish the product to what it should be -Call of Duty yearly releases stop and instead focus on a more content heavy approach, where the Campaign and Zombies mode get the massive funding they need to make it 11/10 -Old Call of Duty games become available on Gamepass, with Multiplayer servers running for games like MW2 and BO2 -Old Activision IP's get revived through Microsoft and Xbox funding It's a lot of hopium on my part but I really trust Phil to do the right thing, because getting to enjoy all of those games on my PC with gamepass would be really, really cool
The problem is that Actvision makes a fuckton of money being terrible, MS has no moral interest in overhauling their business model Though they are in the spotlight for changing the abusive culture after Phil personally called them out
@@Spike2276 I very much disagree. It feels very clear they are gonna make big changes rapidly with bobby kotec (or however you spell his name) being gone
Big company swallowing and industrializing indie devs = bad Big company merger = meh For the most part, if MS had not acquire activision/EA/other big publisher, those companies are already very industrialized money machines anyway. And the worse part is that EA/activision WILL acquire smaller game devs and make them worse (see bioware). By consolidating these bigger companies, nothing will fundamentally change in the market.. What I'm more worried about is the predatory behavior of big companies acquiring smallish, private devs (like when MS acquired Bethesda, that really rubbed me the wrong way, remains to be seen if that'll be a positive thing for bethesda).
I don't think I've ever seen so many salty fan boys in the comments section, it's one thing to support your favourite console and another to worship it almost to a stupid degree.
@@darthtleilaxu4021 behind in what way what are you talking about man Xbox has 2.3 trillion Sony isn't nearly that wealth how are they ahead of microsoft
@@jadengyi4036 the problem isn’t what platform’s get to play as much as if they own enough of everything they can charge any price they want if there’s no competition which we’re slowly but surely going that route, I’m glad their putting a fire under Sonys lazy ass but Microsoft can not keep doing this or all consumers will be in a world of hurt.
@@zopler5537 retail stores are the ones that are in charge of the price of stuff right now. That is why games are still 60/70 bucks even when they are digital but the cost of them is no the same. No shipment fees, no need for game cases or disks. Retail stores won't sell the games if the digital stores sell them cheaper on day one. It been that way all the way back since the NES.
@@MagumoKawasaki yes and no, publisher set the price they want while retail can set their own price the publisher can then start pulling their games off shelves of anyone who doesn’t agree and sell at select retailers they own like ms store or anything they own. My main point is people need to be cautious about this stuff instead of cheering it on no matter who the company is, hell we have idiots who are saying down with Sony or Nintendo or even Microsoft not realizing competition only further benefits us the consumers.
Phil Spencer already went on record saying they'll still bring some of the IPs to Sony consoles, and I doubt they'd want to lose out on an entire playerbase when it comes to CoD. Sony however will definitely not be having that timed exclusivity stuff they have had with CoD in the past. I think they're going to play a wait and see approach to see if Sony is going to continue their trend of buying timed exclusivity for everything. This was a move showing Sony that whatever Sony pulls, Microsoft has the money to do it even more and to not screw with them.
Wording is typical ambiguous talk in which they have outs to pull the exclusive card. And Microsoft don't actually care for individual sales of games and more about services.
Eh...now that i thought of it...another issue is created with CoD and other Activision multiplayer games for Sony...Sony doesn't really allow crossplay that much (unless they changed their stance recently...haven't really played any multiplayers this past year myself though so haven't been paying that much attention to this issue) but with this buy CoD's servers will technically be owned by a console competitor...will Sony even want CoD on their platform if they gotta give any relevant info regarding customers that buy off of them/deal with internet connections to Microsoft to begin with? I don't know exactly what info needs to be shared between Sony and the servers of companies that release games on their platforms for multiplayer but if it's anything regarding finances and the like Sony may just say no CoD in the end rather than Microsoft using the whole 'info would be at risk if internet's connected to other consoles in some way' comment again. Surprisingly i have not seen this issue brought up yet since the announcement of the buyout.
Microsoft will continue to make the claim that they are not interested in pulling games away from their competition (Sony) because this deal to acquire Activision still needs to be approved by the government first. Any anti-competitive language used by Microsoft will only hurt their approval chances.
It is nice to see someone who has at the very least an elementary understanding of competition law and corporate policies. Then again, who are we kidding? It is not like any western government would disapprove any aquisition by a hyper corporation. The difference between massive corporations and goverments is getting hazier and hazier.
When i was in high school Microsoft announced the Xbox, my friends and I all feared that they would just buy out Sony, Sega and or Nintendo. Two decades later and here we are.
Sony was acting too much like a spoiled princess these last couple of years now they will have to reconsider their business strategy and be more consumer friendly
Xbox can't be a monopoly there are rules that prevent that. Now is the best time to be a gamer since there is serious competition now. Before that playstation was clearly superior with their ip's. All Xbox was missing was games. Xbox is now a force to be reckoned with. You PlayStation fanboys are going to have to accept it and live with it. The 3 PC ports Sony gave us was to bring PC players to get a PS5 for the sequels. Guess they will need to do more now
I think it's time for Sony to give us what we been wanting. Full backwards compatibility with all past PS games. Make the PS5 the go to system to play all playstation games with out the bs..
They won't do that without charging more than worth for it though which sucks. I dunno what it is with them, they seem to be so hesitant with backwards compatibility when it's a good thing for the preservation of older titles that have nowhere else to go.
I don't think they can for playstation 3 due to how the console was designed. Which would result in having to do software emulation which comes with huge performance issues. I mean don't they literally run custom PS3 units for their ps now service. To be able to offer those games. PS2 I'm unsure off but the games are old enough that emulation on a software basis should work somewhat.
I'll be honest...they might have a better chance at doing a limited, pre-order only re-run of the systems for those that want to buy said systems again due to their old ones breaking (i still have all my old systems and they still work luckily enough though so wont' do me much good outside of maybe for PS1...though my version of the PS3 can play PS1 games)...better yet if they can get the deals to re-release many of the games on said consoles. Granted the biggest issue there is simply many of these older games resolutions just look bad on modern day TVs now/in general and need a touch up but that's on the developers hands to do, not the console owners if I'm right (and may be something developers may need to do legally). At best maybe make each version of said console also have an online store for said consoles games....could be like a Nintendo mini charged at a cheaper price i guess but with a disc drive for old disks. Granted would likely be a loss as far as profits go for them if people can just play games when they have the disc instead of having to buy them again...worse comes to worse when you put a disc in you get charged say $5 to renew the license and half of said $5 goes to Sony/Xbox/Nintendo while the other half to the original IP owner of the game (if they're still around...if not whoever owns the IP or just to the console owner if no one does i guess).
I don’t think Sony is too threatened tbh Microsoft has done a big power move and not only to just Sony but Nintendo as well…. But with Sony and their exclusives and what they have planned (apparently a game pass type thing) this will be very interesting 🤔 Imagine Sony X Nintendo partner up bringing Metroid or zelda to PlayStation
I gotta say, I wish you could just opt out of the whole investor mess altogether. Encourages you to try and please them instead of customers; it encourages greedy practices, and can get you in trouble just because a competitor did something big, like here.
I mean, you can. It's called being a privately held company. It's just that being publicly traded can be very lucrative, and is a good way to raise capital for investment and growth. Unfortunately, kind of like view numbers on youtube. It can also encourage bad behavior.
It will always be about money. Loot boxes are such a big problem because it's incredibly profitable despite being exploitative and anti-consumer. Why would a business do what's good for the customer when it's just not nearly as profitable? Going public can be very profitable too, and businesses these days feel very shortsighted.
@@Kiwiaq most likely they ll do somthing with wow but my guess would be to give gamepass users a big discount off wow I don't believe they ll make it competly free to them
Sony just needs to make one (or more) of their studios make appealing franchises. They can look at why franchises such as Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Call of Duty, Halo, Warcraft. etc. got to the amount of popularity they did.
it's absolutely amazing to me how the exact same people who cry about how horrible it is for sony or nintendo to have exclusives and how they should release everything on PC have absolutely no problem with microsoft just buying all the large 3rd party studios for the specific purpose of pulling those IPs off their competitors
Some years ago the same thing happened with Gamestop, and it actually suck so much... being almost alone in the market made them cocky and so sloppy that in a few years nobody would care about them closing.
I think you are correct. Both companies will always make a box to sell you but their services will be available on whichever device you want them on (ideally)
Yep Sony and people who still think that Microsoft are competing in the so called console wars are just blind, Microsoft don't care for Sony and competing against consoles it's just another platform to drive gamepass at this point and is visible with their current line up of xcloud for basically any hardware, gamepass for console as your mid tier and pc as the high end.
I don't think Sony Corp's shareholders honestly cared. Remember, Sony is a massive conglomerate and it's primary business is it's consumer electronics, video, semiconductor, machinery and audio business, it's gaming, music and movie businesses being minor operations. Also stock drops and stock recoveries are a common thing.
I think your information is out of date. According to the top result on google, Sony’s game division is currently its biggest revenue driver. Last year they made 25 billion in “games and network services” and in second place was “electronic products & solutions” with 19 billion
@@gameuniverse5973 but the games have been god awful lately, i own vanguard its ok but me personally i dont think cod has been good since black ops 2 back in 2012…warzone is boring too.
@@gameuniverse5973 Activision is surrounded by scandals and lawsuits over its poor workplace environment and treatment of staff, including allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination, and workplace misconduct, and has one of the most hated CEOs in all of gaming.
I've never liked the idea of not owning my games and I really don't like where this is going. Like Netflix, gamepass will increase in cost every month and if your favourite game is only on gamepass in the future, you'll have to subscribe. Yeah,not a fan of that
Massive corporate buyouts like this do not increase competition, they eliminate it. Companies that once vied with each other for market share merged to form Acitvision Blizzard and people lost jobs because less competition means less opportunity for employment. This deal may not directly result in people getting fired like many mergers do, but it won't create competition it'll eliminate it. There won't be a need to make games for multiple platforms, they only need to make games for Windows/X-Box, which means they need fewer people to program them.
Activision/Blizzard didn't go on their merry way and then MS just swooped in. These guys were on the verge of bankruptcy due to their own scummy behaviors. This company was either going to cease to exist or they were gonna get bought out.
@@MrJr1976 Bankruptcy? Really? Not very likely, no. This sale is more about protecting Bobby Kotick's personal reputation and his golden parachute than the company itself. ABK is a massively successful company pulling in billions of dollars a year, they're not some underdog that needs to be rescued.
Yeah this is a pretty bad take. First off Sony has been doing acquisitions and third party deals to keep Xbox out, it’s only a problem now because Microsoft has the wallet to compete back. To be a monopoly you need to own at least half of the market. There are still 15 major publishers in the US alone outside what Xbox owns. Come back and cry monopoly when Microsoft buys Sony and Nintendo. Second off, I see so much good coming out of this. Activision is going to get the corporate shake up it needs badly, and we all can kiss Bobby Kotic good bye. With all the studios Microsoft owns and all the IP they’re gaining, a lot of old IP can be brought back. Everything from blur to the skate franchise to spyro and crash. Gamepass is going up even further in value. Meanwhile Microsoft has been much more pro consumer than Sony has been this gen. $70 games? Paid remasters? Xbox has been updating all their games to next gen for FREE. They have super robust backwards compatibility with improved graphics and frame rates, Sony you can’t go any further than PS4. Microsoft supports PC day 1 alongside Xbox. Sony doesn’t. The sheer value that gamepass holds now is going to leave Sony with no choice but to compete back. Be more pro consumer. Support PC. Make a real game pass competitor. That’s not a monopoly, that’s Sony being forced to compete back. They don’t have the luxury of having no competition this gen. And whos going to benefit when Sony is forced to compete again? Thats right, we all win.
@@Shad0wchasers1 Have you been living under a ROCK since 2018? Their reputation and revenue has fallen so hard it's almost hilarious. Mass firings, govt investigations, and games being banned. This company was a couple years out from going under
@@CerberusTheWise I didn't say there was no good that would come of the merger. It's certainly possible that things will work out for the best in the long run. My point is that, historically, big buyouts don't increase competition. That's it.
Yeahhhh, Sony has always touted their exclusivity deals and now they are looking at it being used against them. Will be interesting over the next couple years.
I prefer the hardware based model that's why I'll go from PS4 to PS5 but I recognise that I have the ability to buy the big games as they release. I truly despise the subscription model on X-Box but it definitely serves people who play a lot of games but can't afford to spend $60-$70 on all the games they play. I wish Sony and Microsoft could just coexist financially as they are now and you go where your sensibilities are supported. I really love 90% of what Playstation Studios is/has put out and looking forward to what they have announced.
You despise a subscription model that pays for itself basically in the first month of use? That you can cancel when you run out of games to play? The one that if you already have paid to play online you pay the one time fee until your xbox live service expires?
@@Slayer1106411 I do. I don't like subscription models of any kind. I dropped my gym membership a long time ago and bought equipment so I could have control over my schedule. The only monthly payments I make are for internet and other utilities because I use them almost every hour I'm awake and they are necessities. I'd rather buy physical discs and play them whenever I have time as opposed to paying for a service that I may only use once or twice a month during a busy month. You pay upfront and you don't know how your month will pan out. Subscription models only exist for you to pay forever and keep the service providers in the green. I'd rather buy physical media and have control over my access rather than let some mega corporations control my access to it.
Insane that MS can pay that much for COD and Overwatch. Blizzard franchises has taken a massive hit lately. Hopefully we get a decent StarCraft, Warcraft, or Diablo out or this. The big question is ...when MS aquires all the studios, will game pass exists in its original state? Will there still continue to be massive AAA titles or do they just churn up average games knowing itll be on game pass?
Nah, a huge part of gamepass is having triple a games out on it day one. I think most people would tune out if that wasn’t the case. At least for me the biggest reason I got gamepass is because games like halo infinite and others drop on it day one. For example elder scrolls 6, star field etc will drop day one on gamepass. Don’t know if they’ll be Xbox/pc exclusive
@@cibinomin6540 I'm sure they will be purging where it's needed , as a businessman I wouldn't want my name tarnished .. especially when your name is Microsoft!
@@MixMeister5000 but if they were just replacing all the devs anyway they could have just purchased select IPs and poached devs with better job offers.
@@gubernational57 Let's hope so. To me, 2 things will happen, quality of AAA goes down (not as epic as it could be) or price of game pass rises substantially (different tiers).
And one thing more. I was seriously more stunned when I heard about Bethesda or other smaller developers was bought by Microsoft. Activision has only one serious (right now) IP, CoD. Warcraft, Diablo and others fall with Blizzard last couple of years, so they (Activision) are bigger than are interesting. Ok, I am not CoD player, I am not interested in WoW and Diablo has ended for me after D3. But i seriously prefer Hell's Blade 2 than any other title from Activision.
Maybe I’m joking maybe I’m being serious but Sony Might have to buy out Ninentdo and in Term Pokémon. That alone will get that back to competition. Nintendo game back log is worth it alone and Pokémon would be icing on the cake. Idk how much that would cost but they need to do that XBOX is 5 steps ahead at this point
Ended up buying an xbox series console immediately when I heard they bought activision 😂😂😂. Basically felt “let me buy a xbox before I can’t play something that all the sudden is exclusive”
@@krazyd0nut404 What deal for Sony? I was saying PC will get Xbox exclusives. BTW PC has God of War (2019), Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice, and Horizon Zero Dawn
It’s just investors reacting to headlines. Now is the time to buy Sony stock before it bounces back. There’s also the possibility for FTC chair Lena Kahn to block the merger (she’s a big antitrust proponent). If that happens, it will likely have a positive impact on Sony shares.
...Kinda want to see her block the deal, not so much cause it will hurt Microsoft'stock (probably will) but because it would outright obliterate Activisions and be the executioner's axe at this point (the stock went up 30% at said announcement, i bet a block would hit the stock about double that amount lol...EA and activision are basically the 2 game companies I have little to no goodwill towards...Tencent and Konami are up there too i guess so seeing one fo them get fucked would make my day lol).
There's no chance it gets blocked my boy. Even with this acquisition they're behind Playstation as #3 in gaming revenue. It'll be hard for Sony to cry foul on anti competitive practices when they've built their empire on exclusivity. Remember they have Cod exclusives right now. Stop dreaming Sony fan. Buy an Xbox
@@ifrit1937 here's another example where people have no business perspective or knowledge. If by chance the acquisition gets blocked Activision will receive $3B from Msft. They're not going anywhere but hopefully Kotick that pis and finally some internal leadership changes
They won't block it, and by law they aren't in any case under antitrust laws. They're still behind PlayStation in game revenue and Microsoft can buy much more and they still would only own a fraction of the gaming market
@@ianwparedes Right. My issue is that it's the wrong company that's doing it not the fact that a single corporation is able to own so much that it can make sure noone else can compete without having a bigger wallet than them. Not that they can do that yet but this is a pretty big step. But what more should I expect. Nuanced argument or opinion from someone who's big takeaway was "stop crying"? Either grow some brain cells or big enough testes to just say you can't handle people saying there's something wrong with stuff you like.
"We will fulfill existing obligations" So Phil, do you mean like how you lied about ES6 not being exclusive, or do you mean how you crippled Deathloop by moving half the team to Redfall resulting in the game launching and remaining unfinished before conveniently being patched into a remotely finished state AFTER it was announced to no longer be Sony exclusive?
@@undertakernumberone1 not technically exclusive when you can play on Xbox, pc and whatever device that has xcloud support. How they get around that comment
Investors are fickle like that, this doesn't surprise me in the least bit. It'll be interesting to see how all of this will affect the gaming landscape and the competition among the big 3 in the long term.
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I gotta be honest, as a father dealing with, debt, work and a child with hearing impairments gaming is starting to become more of an expense i can't afford but game pass and microsofts big moves with some of my favorite developers under their banner like ninja theory. Obsidian, and arkane now a huge backlog of games coming in from Activision im considering an Xbox ive console jumped every generation based on what service will suit me best and Playstation will have to show me some serious effort in services going forward im gonna be patient
if I still played on console I'd have stopped buying games years ago, too expensive for me.
What would you need to enjoy gaming again without the expense?
I'm a father of 3 too and I 100% agree with what you say. Game pass is a life saver for people who maybe only buy 1 or 2 games a year. Series s and gamepass and you're pretty much sorted
Honestly just get a PC. More games, better graphics and a more reliable performance, more accessibility and customizability, and they're much more rugged than either Xbox or Playstation. I used to be a big Xbox fan, but after I made the jump to PC I've never touched my One since.
Sorry to hear about your kid man that’s really rough as a dad. I usually wait two or three years after release and get my games for like $15 on eBay. Just finished Horizon Zero Dawn for my first play through and it’s incredible. Now I’m working through God of War
This is a good opportunity for Sony to implement a real decent backwards compatibility for PS2/ PS3 for the PS5 or somethin.
Not that simple PS2 maybe but PS3 due to how it was manufactured hardware wise is extremely difficult to emulate. The reason why ps now is a thing because it's just not feasible to backwards compatible software wise.
@@epsilon1670 If my laptop, which is not even a gaming laptop, can emulate PS3 at near full speed...of course PS5 can run. Just establish a partnership with RPCS3 but not possible as a lot of piracy happens.
@@epsilon1670 Microsoft dropping $70 Billion isn’t that simple either. If Sony really wants to help their situation they’ll find a way.
@@Redshiftdragon It's not as complicated when you earn 3 times that per year.
@@bananasaur5209 no, they make 60 billions per year
The biggest hurdle for Sony right now, is getting PS5 into hands of those that want them. But because of all that is going on with supply of chips and shipping backlogged. There might come a time where folks will give in and move on and purchase a Xbox. Because if you are Sony hanging your hat on exclusives, if people can't get your hardware what's the use??
As a PlayStation guy this is damn true right here ^ I always end up getting both consoles but this hardware shortage has been bullshit… and fuck paying scalpers 🙄 I never will
@@kriskater same bro. Not paying scalpers. Good on us.
@@kriskater yep the scalper situation was the bigger the normal last year and launch year. Trying to recall didn't the pandemic played a part in the shortages
Wtf are you talking about? Lol you can't get an Xbox any easier than a Ps5. They're both impacted.
For me sony has simply not made the ps5 itself an enticing buy when I'd normally own both every gen. But with this gen the ps5 is simply worse as a product in almost every way. Worse hardware, more expensive games, being charged to upgrade, worse features/services. Just a whole lot of nope going on with the ps5 right now. Only thing sony is still doing right is still making interesting games but as it stands now for me its making far more sense to just play those games on pc instead of dealing with the ps5 bs.
As someone who finally made the jump to PC gaming after decades of console gaming, I find this move by Microsoft to be a game changer. I realized that most of the first party games on either side eventually end up on PC and so I will never have to choose a side again by having a PC. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft handles exclusively and such but for me its a win across the board.
@@otakuConnthis is very much true sadly. I overpaid for my current computer, but it'll run anything and I got a PS5 for Bloodborne and Demon's Souls
Yeah PC gamers get best of all worlds lol any pc gamer mad about this move is an idiot or some ps fanboy that is salty.
Monopolies are never good for the consumers.
@@sertaki Don't care i'm on PC so i get best of all worlds.Cry about monoplies pc gamers don't care
@@johnnyboogalo4897 You do go the worst of both worlds with AMD and Nvidia screwing their consumers, I honestly think that the value in Pc gaming has been tainted alot by the overpriced market.
Consoles right now offer the most value but hopefully it can change once new foundaries enter production and intel enters the game. Maybe then I can sincerely recommend pc gaming to the average person
The ENTIRE stock market moved down today by an huge amount. So a lot of this maybe due to the market and not because investors care about what this means to Sony.
Sure Sony boy
@@sasukeone5795 the Dow Jones does not drop 2,000 points so often and especially when expected rallies fall short on every stock in every category :)
@@sasukeone5795 how did he say anything remotely biased towards sony? The market did dip, even Microsoft took a dip, go look up Microsoft stock for yourself.
Everyone's portfolio is hurt.
@@sasukeone5795 ...what? Stop being a child
@@sasukeone5795 bruh I haven’t seen a console war in the comments since like 2007
Microsoft is like Tyrion from GoT, talking to game studios, "just remember if you get an offer from Sony, I will always pay more."
And remember, the Gamers mustn't know.
While I think this acquisition is good, I sure hope it doesn't lead to a buyout war between Sony and Microsoft, that would just be anti consumer and make it harder for people to get into gaming
EDIT: And my replies have spiraled into console wars and weird stuff, what I expected for a topic like this tbh, just saying go into the replies with popcorn (someone wrote a full essay lol).
I can see what you are saying but it already is anti consumer has been since horse armor
Nintendo should buy Xbox and just win
A buyout war won't really happen because Sony can't compete, Microsoft probably has more money that they are able to spend than Sony is worth in it's entirety.
A like Modern Scholar said, the industry has been anti consumer since Horse Armor lmao
@@worldsworstartist What
I want Sony to buy square Enix
While I feel the deal has some *huge* red flags attached to it long term with Microsoft's tendencies toward pursuing a monopoly, I'm if nothing else hopeful that a change in leadership and workplace culture can help revitalize Blizzard and help them find their place again as a studio who produce great games loved worldwide without the need for crunch or workplace harassment for the people actually doing the work, and that maybe just maybe it'll help stem the tide of brain drain they've been experiencing as just about everybody that made that company and its games what they were are gone now.
Crunch ain't going nowhere, and the day we start caring about retail workers being treated the same way during the holiday season, I won't care about crunch until then
@@boskilingenfelter9515 that's an odd comparison, but no crunch will eventually have to die. Just a matter of time. Eventually some government body is going to take notice of the working conditions these companies subject people to, do some digging and go, "Yeah, um.... this is illegal what you're doing."
@@twilightgryphon odd comparison how? EVERY industry has a certain time of year where the employees who actually build the product have to put their nose down and get extra work done. I used retail workers as an example because Christmas season is their crunch time, and not only are they being overworked but folks don't respect them at all or even treat them like humans.
@@boskilingenfelter9515 you don't need to lecture me, please. I wasn't saying you're wrong, merely that it's an odd comparison. I've done retail during the Christmas season, I get it. I was merely saying it was odd because it isn't one I would directly or immediately make.
how are they going to go back to producing great games when all the talent left? theres only people left that produce steaming piles of shit.
The stock market has always been very reactionary
@@MixtapesOfThe90s >better exclusives
You are absolutely delusional
@@MixtapesOfThe90s Lol still care about console war crap? Is it 2007?
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The same old movie games
@@MixtapesOfThe90s Steam charts aren't a good measure. It doesn't take into account the people that bought and play the game on the Xbox app & the Xbox console itself.
@@MixtapesOfThe90s steam charts shows the active player count on steam.. that number isnt derivative of the overall player base which is predominantly on Xbox and not PC (steam). Not to mention that many people like myself are playing infinite on PC through the Xbox beta app on win 10 as gamepass for pc has the halo campaign.. so your comment is baseless. If anything is worthy of a lol, it's your attempt to smack talk a game using arbitrary stats pulled from steam charts. Smart moves young one.
Sony: Do you make exclusives?
Phil: *No, I buy them*
Sony bought Insomniac, Guerilla and Naughty Dog
Buying activision isnt something to boast about imo
@@TihetrisWeathersby all those studios made exclusives for Sony even before Sony bought them, though.
@c0ya1 whats wrong with it?
@@ryantheanimator1156 didnt insomniac make sunset overdrive the xbox exclusive?
Don’t really expect much from anything Blizzard related with how downhill their games and choices have gone but then again with new management comes new ideas and better games hopefully
exactly, Blizzard isn't worth $70 billion to begin with and now they after being bought are worth even less, most of their value was in CoD warzone and mobile game's aggressive micro transactions. If Xbox wants any credibility they'll need to cut that down meaning each of their franchises are worth a lot less.
If i were sony I'd buy Square Enix & Ubisoft while they are still there.
They have a combined similar catalog to Activation Blizzard but are far less expensive.
@@HereticDuo Square Enix & Ubisoft also generate significantly less profit
@@HereticDuo did Microsoft buy this from a standpoint of "we want to make all the microtransaction money" or " we want to give Xbox players games"?
@@Jykobe491 They want more games for Gamepass growth. MTXs are a nice plus. They lack enough studios for the giant AAA releases and Activision brings in a lot of experience under their umbrella.
Blizzard is making money on the phones. Mobile gaming with WoW, and Diablo.
I still don’t like the idea of these companies being able to purchase this much of the market. As a player I’m not too worried, having a PC, PS5, and Switch I’m not really going to miss out on anything.
“This much of the market” still only totals to about 10%. Far from any realistic accusations of a monopoly
Blame sony
In this case I really don't care as Activision are one of the worst in the industry and need to be fixed
Well good for you
Nice for you
Give phil some credit, dude saw an opportunity and took the plunge.
He's on the grindset for sure
@@marbsj9633 Hi got yet another Porsche from Daddy, but he still does not know how to drive it. Just another car in Phils garage rosting away.
"dude saw an opportunity and took the plunge." That will describe his eventual sexual misconduct scandals in future.
Honestly speaking, i don't feel like Sony has been headed in the right direction ever since Jim Ryan took the position. I sincerely doubt his leadership.
I agree man. He’s like the Don Mattrick of Sony.
Well, maybe not as bad as Don, but not too far off.
Wait until he reads this
its not Jim Ryan's fault, its small group of developers around Cory Barlog who are ruining Playstation, fookin PC beggars, hope Sony CEO fires them
@@kalibr22 yeah, its just the devs. totally not the man in charge thats at fault.😐
Yeah I really doubt that having more and more studios owned by smaller and smaller number of major corporations will lead to healthier more competitive market.
It obviously won't and that's the point.
@@tob564 If he was being sarcastic in the vid, I really missed that one >D
It does not but Microsoft makes Great Games and enables Great Games to be made by those Studios. They also Have a Budget Console and an incredible Service, so it's rly not a bad thing. Microsoft could also Buy EA and Ubisoft and let them make good Games again.
@@CASyHD. if you think their games aren't gonna be polluted with microtransactions you're dead wrong. Activision games are gonna have the same bs in it because their fanbase still buys the shit
@@arunabhmahanta are you still stuck in 2015?
Forza , hellblade , gears 5 were critically acclaimed games
And when we come to brought under the rug studios then you know what happens
I'd love to see a third [Prototype], or a reboot. The possibilities.
God i hope this Franchise gets some love. The games were glorious.
Hmm..I wonder if Transformers: Fall of Cybertron could be remastered even.
@@rubydancer4241
Yep. James Heller sucks. Bring back Alex!
I would lose my sh*t if they anounced that. Or another free roam hulk game, either or ill flip my lid.
@@rubydancer4241 i liked heller XD hes like an angry avenger, plus alex ended up being evil so i dont really want to play as him in a main story unless its a redemption thing.
My problem with Microsoft Is they've done very little to make a mark In this Industry game development wise on their own ,
they've mostly bought their way through generations ( I'm not talking about any other Innovations they've brought just games ).
They've rarely successfully made any great game from the ground up they just bought the developer.
Exactly. The truth no one wants to hear or say. Having a buttload of money doesnt make you creative/innovative. Plus YongYea didnt explain what market value is.
Market Value is a company outstanding shares multiplied by it's current market price.
So if a copmany trades at $10 per share and has 1 million outstanding shares. Then that's a market value of $10 million.
So if said company lost $2 off its share price making it $8. With still 1 million outstanding. Then their market value is 8 million with a loss of 2 million.
So yes it seems like a lot but it's only because its considering all the outstanding shares and multiplying it.
That 2 million loss mentioned above is just 2 dollars per share. It just get bloated by the multiplier.
Last time I checked Sony is at 140 billion dollars. They lost 20 so that's only around 14%.
Sony is going to be fine.
@@nucklehead718 sony is creative? microsoft making open world pirate games and honey i shrunk the kids games as well as co-op gears and halo games for the past 20 years whilst all sony release are 3rd person single player games that ive been playing since tomb raider in the early 90's, thats innovation? no FPS games or co-op MP games is innovation? sorry nope.
At first I was like: “Sony, you need to up your game”
Then I thought: “ oh yeah, I don’t buy activision games…”
Except most casuals do buy Activision games sadly regardless how crap they are
That's pretty much my mentality. I have a PS5 and Switch but I really support a lot of the pro-consumer practices Microsoft has been making this gen. Personally don't play any Activision games but still a big get for Xbox. I have been genuinely thinking about getting a Series S just for Game Pass so who knows!
Actually microsoft bought all the crap Activision, Bethesda except for Obsidian which is a good company wait for them to buy EA & they got the bundle of greed.
My thoughts exactly. If they bought square or capcom it would actually affect me...but activision? I haven't owned a cod game for about 8 years.
hopefully this serves as somewhat of a wake up call for Sony. Sony has been abusing their lead in sales and are censoring games that come out to their console, which is not good.
I know if I was an exec for Sony I’d be shitting bricks to scrape up something big enough for a comeback to Microsoft
They took away communities and made it impossible to see if your friends are in a chat party, and they keep nuking ps4 features. Im about sick of this shit. Hell, they Even charge money for games that are free on steam.
Tbh I agree Sony needs to do more for their fanbase, like having backwards compatibility for not just ps4 games which disappointed me when I saw the PS5 but yeah they've been removing features like communities and changing the party system which I find dumb, they really need a grip. Also wdym by abusing their lead in sales and censorship?
@@wealthybone2990 Ps3 games would be hard to emulate. People are forgetting on how hard it was to develop ps3 games.
Nu-sony is ran by California bule haired sjw's
Its not about making profit to them its about sending a message
I still believe that those powermoves by Microsoft will activate Sony to do better than sitting back and feeling like the kings of consolewars (for example putting more effort in cross-platform gaming, making PSnow better, implement a good backwards compatibility system etc.)
They never been the king of console wars. No one is.
Each console is good in their own way. No one is superior on that front. Because consoles can't do shit against PC.
Sony doesn't feelike they're kings. They just have other priorities.
Give Sony a reason to do backwards compatibility OR crossplatform? Despite not doing it they're still so popular their consoles are so high in demand that there arent enough of them to go around.
Explain that. Xbox has to pull all tricks out to get to playstations level of sales and playstation doesn't have to do shit to get it done. Why bother doing more effort if it pays for itself already. You can use that effort for other things.
Besides, Xbox was never ment to do better then playstation. Its just a cheaper alternative then PC gaming. Never ment to dominate. Soooo not really getting your point of view
Cope
Sony is in quite a pickle well the PlayStation side of Sony but tbh if they don’t strike back that’s the best option they can do cuz they already got the ok that activision games can remain multi platform but if they strike back then they will suffer the chance of it being excluded to Xbox and pc which honestly wouldn’t be a bad thing
Stop abandoning their handhelds
@@cherrydragon3120 it's more like the Xbox is just more convenient over all.. Sony not doing backward compatibility and crossplay is honestly just lazy of them.. Weird way to defend it.
I hear that this strengthen game pass. I also hear that this get more gamers to give up the physical model more and we'll lose more rights to owning the product we purchase and how easy it is for the company to screw us over even easier. Call me overly skeptical but I don't trust this move in the slightest
Good point, allot of people like collecting things be it games or what have you. Who's to say that you can't install and keep these games and eventually they just get removed and its gone from the server? Big companies might not care about the past but ordinary people sure do.
I mean no one is stopping you from continuing to buy physical copies of games.... I still do.
I left physical games behind when gamepass came out. I'm 100% fine with not actually owning the games, I look at it like Netflix.
@@maybemaybenot8112 Read what OP said, it's not about not owning it. I don't mind that either. It's about things being removed. Don't you have a favorite game? Wont you like to revisit that game in a decade or so? Netflix removes shows all the time.
Nobody truly owns games from the time Xbox 360/ps3 were released. Even if you own the disc copy of a game, it's only playable by downloading the day 1 and all future patches which is sad.
I’m curious to see how long it takes for Microsoft to see a return on investment from the Activision acquisition
Look what they did with minecraft. Every game is going to have s***y marketplace now.
Microsoft makes about $60-70 billion a year in operating income so they just wrote off a year's profits essentially. As long as it continues they have seen a 30% increase each year so not long.
well, the funny part / is due to them doing an all cash deal --- they won't be hindered like disney is right now with all the debt they are saddled with from the fox purchase
in theory / the ROI (depending on how inflation will go) but if you go with an average return rate of 10 percent for stocks basically in order to make it something worthwhile they need something like 6.8 billion a year to in theory break even i would say the real reason for the purchase probably has more to do with apples new silicon laptops as well as solidify its position as the main game streaming platform
@@epsilon1670 Yes BUT you're not thinking it out clearly. The annual cost of running all these studios and paying over 10,000 employess and paying for massive games to be built, only for their games to launch for FREE on gamepass basically. They only have 25 million subs. That is so tiny. All xbox consoles and PC combined. Their operating loss every year is going to be massive, astronomically huge.
@@daLukasMain you can't factor in *just* Xbox revenue. You have to factor in Microsoft as a whole, with subscriptions like Microsoft Office (which is how they recuperated the Bethesda buyout, btw)
As long as both keep making good games, it's a win for all of us gamers.
How is it a win one publish owns more of the market
@@invidatauro8922 it's a win because atleast Activision blizzard environment will be better and they might make some good games.
@@thundershooter301 Work environment might be better but I see literally no indication quality of titles will improve.
Buying publishers doesn’t seem healthy to me especially when the competition will get slimmer and slimmer when Microsoft should be focusing more on their 1st party studios.
That's the whole point of corporations.
They HATE competition. They're just not saying it loud enough.
thing is Nintendo first monopolized the market before Sony took over back in the mid 90's with the original PlayStation and then they solidified their monopoly with the PS2 but ever since the PS3 they've been slipping more and more while Microsoft have been improving on their hardware and portfolio
that said I will have to disagree with you on your stance of buying all the publishers being bad because honestly making games console exclusives hurts gaming more than it benefits it tbh so buying publishers isn't really a bad thing
a prime example is Bethesda which everyone is fearful that Activision's games will have the same outcome as Bethesda's did when Microsoft took over which is false because Todd Howard himself has had a very distasteful opinion of Sony as a company and even once said he didn't even want anymore of their games on their console which is why Bethesda's upcoming titles are going to be exclusive to Xbox and PC
all in all the outcome of the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard won't be as bad as people think because there's nothing from them even worth turning into a console exclusive and the most I see happening is they take Spyro and Crash Bandicoot and turn them into exclusives but COD will remain untouched since the game doesn't do well in terms of sales anymore
@@theunhingedgamer3762 unfortunately CoD still does well on sales, but your missing the point Microsoft doesn't care too much about individual sales and instead want to drive subscription to gamepass/xcloud as it's a safe recurring income of money so not making it exclusive effects the pull for people to said services.
@@theunhingedgamer3762 so you think Microsoft is going to bring they’re first party games to PlayStation out of the blue. Your logic makes no since whatsoever, That’s like saying all first party Microsoft games that aren’t console sellers are going to PlayStation. Microsoft just bought a company that’s worth about as much as Sony let that sink in, They don’t need Sony’s money. Just like every Bethesda game is exclusive same will be for Activision come 2023.
The problem with sony / playstation: they are not really customer friendly. They have no clear store policy and if you buy the wrong game you have to hope that you get your money back with no certainty ever.
They have a very clear policy; get fucked.
@@RC-cm3hs Evey time I wanted to give a game back I had to write a personal mail to them and i had to wait until they "revived" it. No easy return option or something like this. Btw: why the get fucked?
@@AhurAmud sorry, the get fucked wasn't directed at you, I imagine that's their response to the idea of returns. I think they have the worst returns policy in the industry, though I don't think Nintendo is much better.
Microsoft in my experience is clearly the best when it comes to getting refunds. Sony and Nintendo are a headache.
@@RC-cm3hs ah ... sorry I missread you comment yes their policy is to get fucked. I think that the only one who kind of makes it right is steam
The way I see "and hope" future conversations between Microsoft and Sony will proceed is thusly:
Microsoft: hey, we own CoD now, and don't HAVE to put it on your platform; but, we're willing to play ball. What are you willing to release to XBox and PC to keep CoD on Playstation? Who knows, if you play nice enough, we'll let you sell future Doom, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc. on your platform.
I want XBox owned games to be playable on PS and vice versa (and of course they all come to PC). As a PC gamer, I don't see any sort of down-side to that kind of world. But at the least, we can be happy that Bobby Kotick isn't gonna be a part of our gaming industry anymore (fingers crossed).
I forgot to include Nintendo in that last, bit; but obviously them too.
good luck getting nintendo to share their games
It is true that alot of activision/blizzard games will disappear from playstation unless Sony negotiates with Microsoft on that. Wich will cost Sony alot of money.
My ptediction, if the game franchise does NOT pay back for the costs, Sony will just let them go and not bother getting them on the platform. Simple as that.
If the franchise, for example CoD earns sony more then they pay for it. They'll Buy licenses from microsoft to get the games on playstation. Simple business strategy
Phil Spencer from XBox already said they're in communication with leadership at Sony and that they want to keep CoD on Playstation, so I'm not sure where so much speculation is coming from
CoD is meh though. They can keep CoD.
@@rickybobby1157 quality aside, CoD makes a ton of money for the platforms for which they are sold. I haven't played CoD in close to a decade at this point but I can recognize the importance of the series from a business perspective; and that's the one important for this conversation.
Haven’t wasted time or money on Cod in 3 years and nothing else Activision offers excites me so yeah. 🤷🏽♂️
@@pegasuskiller9905 lmao damn
Agreed, this announcement doesn't effect me since I don't play any of the listed franchises.
@@pegasuskiller9905 Activision is ass lil bro😂
I haven’t paid for a cod sense modern warfare 2, zero idea how any one you got into any of the new stuff is beyond me
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I get what Sony is saying, but it feels weird that one they even said this and two that it's Sony.
After exclusive ff games, exclusive basic features in cod, trying to make Starfield exclusive (lol guess it did end up being one) and even making kotor a Sony "timed exclusive" (which might as well mean permanently a console exclusive 'read ff7r remake') it's weird to think about Sony taking about this.
How the times change.
FF7 R is no longer a Sony exclusive you know...
Hipocrisy at it finest.
@@Ashurman666
It's definitely a console exclusive and it was exclusive for longer then it was originally planned to be.
But true PC did a get port.
There's a difference between paying for exclusives, and using the funds of a trillion dollar company to wipe out your competition .
@@logandenton6467 It's not a console exclusive anymore, it's out on pc, thus it's not exclusive to console.
It’s going towards a monopoly. In some, immediate ways most people see it as only a good thing. However, in time, we will see the effect of so many, once unique and independent companies an developers be held by strict standards that will likely limit creativity and original games, and likely lead to Microsoft being able to control prices of anything gaming-related: consoles, memberships, peripherals, and of course games just to name a few. I do not see this as a good thing at all.
I love how people can see the articles say this makes Microsoft the 3rd largest gaming company in revenue behind Sony and Tencent and still claim monopoly. Also, Microsoft doesn't really restrict their companies. They used to like 15 years ago, which is why they lost a lot of titles and put out some bad games, but it isn't really a thing anymore. I know that won't sway the naysayers and doom prophets that need attention, but it is a fact, currently.
@@Koranthus well my jump my shit why don’t you? Christ, it’s an opinion. I’m sorry you feel the need to say I need attention.
@@AIC5150 It’s a uninformed opinion, which is okay. It’s okay to make guesses, but it’s also okay for people to respond to what you say.
@@PKSunset yes it is okay but is it okay to be called a doomsday prophet or naysayer that needs attention? Is it okay to insult the person in the process of discourse? Implying that I am any of those are also, uniformed opinions…
While i dont like one company owning so much, its nice to see sony humbled because they've been acting like their shit doesnt stink lately.
As a psn member, this comment is true. They swear we the consumers will take their shit and thank them for it. Good move on Microsoft. Hopefully it doesn’t mean hella console exclusives though
@@crazebamm Agreed, look how long it took to get cross saves and crossplay all because sony wanted to act like a selfish kid that doesnt wanna share their toys.
Companies having a monopoly of something is never a good thing, gaming or otherwise.
@@nerobiblios4086 I never said it was.
@@Mikel23xd I never said you did, I was just stating my opinion.
With all the love Microsoft showed Age of Empires IV and the RTS genre, i really hope Phill gives Blizzard and Relic work on the next Starcraft 3 or Warcraft 4.
Starcraft 3 i doubt, the history pretty much ended
@@nahuelleandroarroyo for the current protagonists, yes. But the universe created by Blizzard is big enough for new stories. And if they can't be arsed to write a new story, there's still several post-StarCraft II novels that could serve as inspiration for a new entry into the series.
A good dawn of war game would be nice.
@@drogozi3308 dont think Microsoft owns the dawn of war franchise.
@@nahuelleandroarroyo never played legacy of the void campain, but i am sure they can just rewrite the story as a sequel or an alternative universe or timeline.
I think gamers should be very wary of MS becoming a monopoly, which is clearly what they would like to be (as they already are in the PC OS market). Remember what they tried to do with XBox games, by blocking resale of second hand titles? MS is a predatory company, who, once they gain sufficient leverage, will seek to shape the market to their own benefit. They only failed in the past, because of competition from Sony, which forced them to backpedal hard, so yes, having two big players is essential, or else I think the gaming landscape is going to become a very ringfenced affair, controlled by a single corporate overlord.
These are the ppl that will make the games 200 bucks! And get away with it!
Dont forget. We never playstation-plus. We never had to pay for online games. And now we even have yo pay to play the games that we play offline. We need to be online to play them. Why? Because they make alot of money from ppl paying for ps plus. I like to play with my wife and son. I have to pay 3 times for ps plus just so i can play with my family...
All this happened becaus xbox invested in paying for online gaming...
Everyone should packed their backs and went to playstation the next day.
To bad the playerbase stayed. No long after we got ps plus.
Now you pay 60 bucks for a year.
Remember this comment.
Because of xbox. Next year you will pay 100 for a year.
Exactly what I was thinking. And the fact that investors dunked $20b worth of Sony stock because of this just puts MS further ahead, making it harder for Sony to make its own moves and acquisitions which could help prevent MS from becoming a monopoly.
This huge purchase by MS may seem like a pretty good thing for developers, gamers, and investors, but in the long run, it has the potential to be bad for everyone except MS themselves.
@@aitnobetafaq bs and sony already charges 70 for all their games.
you do not know what a monopoly is do you?
@@Violet-Spark exactly
Maybe Sony can try to be more consumer friendly now??
👍🏻 Good point.
get ready for 100€ day 1 games 😈
I'm honestly more bummed about crash bandicoot than Call of Duty lol
It should also be stated that gamepass will inevitably have significant price hikes as time goes on. It can't remain the great deal it is, especially if they want to continue with multi million dollar budgets for all these games.
Why bummed out? MS won't make Crash an Xbox exclusive, their president already stated he doesn't plan on tearing communities appart. Besides, Crash is not even a PS exclusive anymore, it would be idiotic for MS to make it an exclusive again.
The price hike will still be worth it,,
@@Ashurman666 They said the samething about bethesda and look like ESO is the only game
@@danielredziniak2996 It's not, there was at least one other that already had an exclusivity deal with Sony and that remains the same. The others are brand new IP. Crash is a completely different situation of an IP that used to be exclusive but now no longer is(same for Spyro) which is what people want. For those IP to once again become exclusives would be a terrible move from MS.
Gamepass price hike excuses are getting old. Why don't we talk about how bullshit the 70 dollar price tag for Sony games are.
Thank you for no ads. before the video. It's such a breath of fresh air
Good.
Now maybe Sony can now acknowledge Ape escape, Jak & Daxter, Sly cooper, Twisted metal, and more's existence.
Seriously!! Like man we have more to offer than just CoD exclusives. Ffs
Another Jak & Daxter would be great, but I really want them to hire Level 5 and make Dark Cloud 3.
Ape Escape 4, Specter creates Bored Ape NFTs to scam humans so Spike and friends have to stop him
I would love another twisted metal and jak and daxter, but I suspect sales numbers don't reflect market interest in those franchises anymore.
@@hyperreal rumor is that twisted metal is coming. I think Jak and Daxter is lost to the ages though.
Wow.
Stock holders have arguably too much faith in Activision Blizzard.
I'd say faith in Microsoft.
Video game related stock has seemed a little off since the GameStop incident
Stock holders, too much faith, full stop. XD
Not really. Their strongest IP is Candy Crush, which made more money than any AAA game.
I will translate this comment, ok.
"World Of Warcraft"
"Stock holders and Activision Blizzard is daddy"
I definitely don't want competition to die - I agree that competition helps keep a level of balance that companies must compete to provide high quality games/products
It would be a disaster if things became centralized
Well, it depends. I don't think a lack of competition would suddenly make passionate developers lazy. Just as now how while there is competition you're still getting trash tier games from AAA studios. Just look to BF2042. Centralisation may be a good thing in this case as we will probably see better management leading to better games. For example, I don't play CoD games, but I might if the games were great and this may just lead to that.
@@Bkayplays4270 but centralisation makes it unlikely for passionate devs to be able to move their ideas into reality. Why would Microsoft take a risk with a big new idea when the 70th COD will be practically guaranteed money?
Still Indie devs will never go away so their is that at least.
@@Bkayplays4270 I agree but it seems you missed or misunderstood my statement
I said Helps keep a level of balance
I didn't say it guaranteed anything
Also within that level of balance is both good and bad
So of course developers aren't just gonna get lazy but sometimes things don't change because there's no push for it and ONE of those pushes can come from competition.
Exactly
@@darkpixel1128 Also they could charge whatever they want and be as anti consumer as they liked because they'd have a monopoly.
This is a disaster for gaming & it frustrates me that everyone is clapping their hands at this like trained smoothbrained seals.
Anyone who fails to see just how bad this is for gaming is an idiot pure and simple.
They keep sliding in Everytime a company becomes hated. Bethesda now Activision blizzard.
It doesn't matter HOW GARBAGE THE COMPANY IS, what matters are their games its that simple
Naughty dog soon by that logic lol
@@Gyanateet2077 sony owns naughty dog
@@Gyanateet2077 Debatable.
They arn't like CD project where they released a crap - port on last gens. So I can't fault them. Some people can't get into a story with more that 15-17 hours of dialogue and be able to key into and piece together small details like some.
Yup, Microsoft making bad business decisions as usual. They always acquire the most hated developers in gaming. 343… Bethesda.. now Activision Blizzard. They have no fucking idea what they’re doing lol
I mean Sony isn't looking to become a streaming giant like Microsoft. Remember Microsoft doesn't consider Sony a competition but other streaming services. which is also setting Sony back as Sony isn't looking to change their platform to be a more stream friendly service. Currently Sony is renting Microsoft tech to stream their games while developing nothing of its own. They also don't advertise their own streaming services and developing it.
Good. Dont want this streaming garbage anyway. Which is why limited Run mostly just has Playstation & switch games. Xbox is mostly for people who like streaming and not owning their games. Which sucks for DOOM and fallout etc etc
@@lovelorn88nick thats up to you i guess. But people looking toward the future will have a different viewpoint. Lets be honest here Microsoft has position itself to be more flexible then PlayStation or Nintendo is. With the way things are Microsoft will be leagues ahead and if things change Microsoft is positioned to be in a safer place if all hardware for console become obsolete/not needed and if not Microsoft is safe and positioned itself to service two different group. With people looking to become more environmentally friendly having millions of hardware and disc created and having them fill landfills is just not environmentally friendly.
@@lovelorn88nick Damn you probably have netflix or other streaming services. hypocrite
@@lovelorn88nick what i see is microsoft investing big bucks in removal of software second hand market by gowing digital , wich will eventuality cause the disk's downfall , i don't want my game collection to disappear because my son got banned in god knows what game and got my account banned
They have been telling this ferry tail apple, google, Amazon, facebook buying up publishers and shit for a long time yet nothing has happened...
With Activision off the market no company can compete not even when buying EA + Take2. Now Sony is fucked and Microsoft is safe.
Its scummy from them.
I’ve never owned anything past PS2 so I don’t know what their store looks like, but I’ve always had a Xbox as a adult. They already have endless amount of games in their store from indie devs and small games that just happen to show up without marketing. Buying these crazy huge publishers is just adding to their already huge catalog if they end up making the titles exclusive.
xbox has always being the go to console for multiplayer especially the xbox one even if it is weaker then the base ps4
The stock market is like this, knee-jerk reactions to every move. This isn't really indicative of much, and its not a reflection of a companies' longevity.
Nintendo still competes, so will Playstation, Especially given how strong their console sales are. While losing the Call of Duty audience is a big deal, even if you just look to Playstation Studios' games, you can see there's always going to be a huge market for those IP's, just like Nintendo.
This really just asks Sony to compete, and they've never had an issue competing with the xbox brand, and they never needed multiplats to do it. Quality is enough to succeed in the industry, and Sony still has a generational leg up on Microsoft there, and any IP under Activision-Blizzard doesn't measure up.
Yeah, wasn't Nintendo pretty much at an all time low for a while until the Switch? Just takes some time, and Sony is still a big company, there's little chance of them just randomly dying without something bigger than this to take them down.
the entire stock market took losses yesterday as well kind of a non-story here
Well I mean, losing elder scrolls, CoD, Doom, Starfield, Hellblade, Crash, Wolfenstein, Quake, Fallout, and many other IPs is going to do something to playstation no matter how you look at it. The reason why playstation was so successful is because of their slaughter in the PS4 era, and the fact that they have been cultivating and evolving their studios to a point where they can deliver such amount of amazing content. But now that Microsoft is encroaching ever more, buying all these studios, they have that power now to deal some blows and cultivate the studios to something bigger, take double fine for example. But the point is that Sony is still the same juggernaut that it is, it's just being caught up by Microsoft in a game they cannot win since they don't have the kind of money for it.
You are reaching so hard 😂
Might as well buy the dip 🤷♂️
The entire market collapsed on the same day by 5%, while Sony specifically dipped 8%. The Activision news isn't really responsible for the Sony drop in value. There's an overall market correction happening right now.
Sony Dropped by 13%*
Some how ubisoft and other game comapies went up, cope bud
@@danielredziniak2996 ...The issue could just as easily be both Microsoft and Sony's non gaming related goods that cause the drop as well you know....Microsoft has computers in its bag not to mention its Operating System which makes it a bit more valuable than Sony which mainly focused on appliances/TVs/DVD players, etc and between those 2 the general trend for consumers has been towards computers over stuff like TVs and the like so it's a safer market than Sony's (not to mention outside of Apple does Microsoft even have any real OS competitors?...if they do i can't name one lol.
On the other hand Ubisoft, Namco, Square Enix, Capcom, Sega, EA, etc are all mainly just game software developers (well Sega and Namco got some other stuff in the entertainment industry like anime, anime figures, manga, arcades, etc...granted both profited this year though in their game divisions by about $2B+) so as long as their games profit they will overall make a profit....with that said not sure why Ubisoft went up...can't think of any games from them released recently...maybe they privately showed an upcoming game to investors in a meeting that day that's getting them excited i guess.
Could also just as easily be that whatever caused all of said companies to decrease that much cause Sony's investors in particular to jump ship even more than the other companies (investors in general start trading like crazy at the smallest sign of danger or profit and screw over their stock sometimes just by doing that...especially when they would've been better off staying in...ultimately though stocks rarely coincide with how much money a company actually makes from the products they sell/make and a company with good stock could have terrible product/services sales time and time again (Disney for example over the last few years) or vice versa).
Imagine a Hexen developed by the same studio that did DOOM 2016 and Eternal at Bethesda. That would be POG. 😮
You mean machine games
So, graven is coming soon and it's from the same team who previously created hexen2. It's spiritual successor of sorts
Its a good example of why not to trust the stock market as an indicator for basically anything. Sony games wasnt about to lose any business because of this acquisition as far as anybody is aware. Even if they did its negligible... the stock dropping 20% over this is laughable and shows how little investors know.
Actually, the entire stock marlet fell.
You don't expend a colossal amount like that to keep releasing titles on the competition's platforms.
Well, if he keeps, is more money, and gamepass will be huge
@@gabrielggag True. Either way its a win. With either bolstering their platform or just making more straight up revenue.
People keep thinking that Microsoft will simply give away all their games to playstation by puting gamepass on playstation and I just dont see that happing on sonys games were to also somehow be playable on xbox as well
"We won't pull those communities apart" he said and then proceeded to make ES6 and Starfield exclusive .
Except if you take his wording he says existing communities so with those games not being released they don't technically have a individual community for said game.
Same with their wording about exclusives a while back technically it's not exclusive to just consoles as it will be available on PC as well as any device that supports xCloud streaming.
How they get around with dumb ambiguous marketing talk.
Elder Scrolls has always been more popular on Xbox and PC so no it isn't, and starfield is literally the first of its series, it doesn't have a fanbase yet.
I mean, Starfield is fair, it's a brand new IP and it's still in development which means Microsoft contributed, so I think it's fair. ES6 on the other hand is an established multiplat IP with millions of fans across systems so it's not that fair to make it exclusive to Xbox. If it's timed exclusive I guess it's fine, they payed 7 billion for it after all, but full on permanent exclusive is kinda bullshit
@@sasharudyy3587 millions of npcs you mean. elder scrolls died a long time ago now you have soulless fucking action games with people buying the same game over and over the fifa concept for the mentally deranged
@@sasharudyy3587 Spider-man was a multi-platform series before Sony bought Insomniac but people pointed and laughed when Xbox fans complained about it not being fair.
Microsoft after adding Activision into its Infinity Gauntlet: "I am inevitable."
Steam: "I am Steam."
Epic Games: "I've committed numerous health code violations at my restaurant. Some of them will shock you."
Phil Spenser has said many times before that he will let developers have full creative freedom so hopefully we will start to see more activision games build with passion and dedication instead of pure monetization call of duty is the perfect example. i must admit i don't like exclusivity why should people miss out on great games because they brought a different piece of plastic
Yes believe the corporate sock puppet
@@invidatauro8922 They did good with minecraft.
@@JD-hc5rv Minecraft was already many great things in term of number, sales and popularity before Microsoft got the IP and rights. And the game itself already pretty extensive in content to begin with for a game of its kind. Not the most relevant example to pick.
@@invidatauro8922 to be fair, ms studios are pushing out some amazing games that shy away from regular monetisation bs - like outerworlds, for example
@@TSarczuk00 I wouldn't call outworlds amazing. I'd call it "at least it was better than 76"
Kinda crazy how things changed so quickly. I remember initially Sony had all the momentum, and now it’s completely switched.
I’m very concerned about vertical integration with the corporate forces taking over production on top of distribution, as that has never been good for consumers in any industry, however I do hope that increased competition improves the quality of the games coming out, because there’s no way what we’ve seen going on these last 10 or so years is going to be sustainable much longer.
But this is literally the opposite of creating competition.
@@sertaki Yup, this is basically destroying competion and consolodating power.
I think Sony (as well as Nintendo) already have an impressive list of 1st party studios producing world class franchises to stay competitive with Microsoft.
Still, even if Call of Duty stay multiplatform, do you really rather spent $70 for it (only to get suckered by Halo Infinite style of mtx)? Or getting it day one on Game Pass?
I only play CoD for campaign so having it show up on Game Pass is a steal for me.
not gonna worried with Nintendo, they have good relationship with Microsoft 👏🏻 also they have triple A studios so only Sony gonna be heavily impacted
@@hellecia Japanese studios in general are starting to build a relationship with Microsoft which is great for Microsoft because Japan never really liked the Xbox after the Duke controller.
Still not comparable from a financial standpoint to the money-printers Microsoft would buy with that move. Cod and Candycrush alone.
Honestly this is all horrifying. I have all consoles and a pc, I am no fanboy! But, one company monopolizing the industry cannot be a good thing. We need competition to ensure ingenuity and quality. While this is good for gamepass, it is overall a negative for the longterm health of the gaming industry. Look at what Disney did to the movie industry, when was the last time a blockbuster movie wasn't a super hero movie? When monopolies form everything becomes samey garbage.
@IIIlllIII you clearly dont know wtf you're talking about
@IIIlllIII Here is some anti playstation talk if it will make you feel better. Do you remember the last console generation when Playstation had cornered like 80% of the console market? Do you remember the games it released? They were all similar 3rd person action games right? While they were good games, they were growing heavily redundant, which is exactly what happens when one company dominates and stops innovating. I see this same scenario on the horizon with xbox. They will find a pattern that works and replicate ad nauseum.
@IIIlllIII okay, you are just being obstinate. Microsoft was literally declared a monopoly 2 decades ago. So if we are being literal it is literally a monopoly and you are literally a turd
@IIIlllIII you literally just need to search "is microsoft a monopoly" and you will get all the answers you're looking for. Your definition of monopoly is from the 18th century.
@IIIlllIII It's okay, we both know you looked it up and proved yourself wrong. Feel free to apologize whenever your ego gets out of the way.
I never get tired of Yong's savagery towards Bobby
If Microsoft did managed to revives those dormant IPs in meaningful way, I would then support Microsoft if they want to buy EA the next time.
After all EA did have many dormant IPs on their catalog portfolio, and EA & Microsoft also share similar facet in their business model, acquiring game studios!
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Doubtful. How many IPs from Rare are MS sitting on?
@@JrystalTyaeli that's because of Microsoft's commitment to studio autonomy, the people at rare are just not interested in the goldmine legacy of rare and are focused on new IPs. That's a good thing as well as a bad thing, you get new ideas and franchises but at the expense of leaving others behind
what is rare doing? sea of thieves was the one thing they delivered after ms owning them for 10 years and making them make x360 avatars. or then youre right and rare didnt want to make games and ms should have kicked them to make games
@@JrystalTyaeli There have been rumors that a team at Bandai Namco are developing a new KI so yeah it seems like Xbox still wants to utilize Rare's IPs. Also that Battletoads game came out relatively recently but that game was pretty mediocre so I don't blame you for forgetting about it. Oh and of course that Perfect Dark reboot is coming out in probably 1 to 2 years but that was announced a while ago.
That don’t mean shit Spider-Man made box office history. Sony can recover that lost change.
Well, Microsoft will make the decision that makes the most financial sense.. COD and Overwatch are large enough potential revenue sources that they may continue to be treated in the vain of Minecraft. whatever a company may gain from making an specific IP exclusive may ultimately lose the real world value of said property by misunderstanding the reasons why that franchise became big in the first place and more importantly continues to have wide appeal..
I think it will be based solely on playstations existing contracts and keeping warzone as the multi platform thing.
As soon as they can make the base games exclusive they will, they care more for services than actual sales at this point and that's why it's no longer a console war.
On the flip side, by folding the game publishers and studios under MSFT umbrella, they *_should_* now be insulated from the short-term demands of shareholders, and thus can focus more on making good games rather than thinking of how to further fleece the gamers.
(MSFT's breadth of products & services means the expenses of the Gaming Division can be accounted as investment to prop up their other divisions, e.g. Windows, Azure, etc. MSFT shareholders cannot simply target the Gaming Division and demands it to be "more profitable".)
Key word, of course, is "should". We'll just have to wait and see how things unfold.
the most financial sense is add it to game pass and make exclusive everything new that they are contractualy not obligated to release on playstation. This will drive tons of sales for xbox consoles and game pass, cod players used to picked whatever system made more sense or which his friend bought, happened with xbox 360 and ps4 now the platform to play multiplayer games is Xbox, they have most of the big multiplayer games, why buy a ps5 now and pray that the games you want will be on ps5 when you know they will be on xbox game pass day one.
You don’t spend 70 billion to let your competitors have the stuff you bought
@@TheDecitron
True.
When game companies sign exclusivity deals with Epic Games:
Yong Yea - 'This is bad'
When Microsoft BUYS the companies and states there will be exclusivity deals
Yong Yea - 'This is good'
@@diligentone-six2688 you think Microsoft actually cared about how they were treated? Microsoft could have easily pulled any certifications from their windows platform for their games or rejected their games on Xbox. People are only happy to see this as an exception because they think it's going to do what they want, give the workers a better working environment.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that they don't deserve a better environment but it just points out how hypocritical Yong is and anyone who agrees with it.
A better working environment could be pushed for without buying them outright. But even then, it's not Microsoft's place to police other companies, the US government should be doing a proper job of that.
Now if people don't have an opinion on exclusivity or don't mind it to begin with, fine. But the opinion is shifting so quick here.
So if Epic games wants to get exclusives, you aren't in a position to bitch and cry about it just because it's inconvenient to you.
Microsoft is clearly prepare for a feature without a static console model with those acquisitions and more focused on creating a service with game pass similar to netflix but focused on gaming.
I assume you meant "preparing for a future". I hate autocorrect. I think cp2077 shined a spotlight on the fact that even next gen consoles are not going to be able to compete with current PCs. A console will never be as powerful as PC and still be as affordable as they are now. When a current gen gpu is 3k, you can't put em in a 500 dollar console. Plus PC is upgradeable. The next gen games just aren't gonna run on a console very well if at all. Back when Xbox, Nintendo and PS were new (remember Sega) there were PC games you just couldn't get because they wouldn't run on a console. The saving grace of a console was, if you buy a game for console it's gonna work (not so true anymore). You're not gonna have to buy more ram or get a faster cd/dvd (remember I'm talking back then) to play the game. But console games didn't look as good or have the bells and whistles a PC game had.
Companies then began trying to make console games compete with PC. Consoles still aren't as powerful so they compensate by making the games specifically for consoles or distinctly for Xbox or PC to take advantage of architecture shortcuts but that's obviously not working so well now.
@Tan 89% of U.S. households, 85% in Europe, have a computer and more than half have multiple computers. Sounds like the masses to me.
MS might be a trillion dollar corporation, but purchase of this size will make a serious hole in their pocket regardless.
According to MS investor report - "In fiscal year 2021, we delivered $168 billion in revenue, up 18 percent year-over-year. Operating income grew 32 percent to $70 billion." So spending almost 70 billion in one year is a very big deal.
Yet they will basically make almost it all back within a year or so.
Thing is that $70 billion was all cash on hand that was just sitting in the bank not making them money.
For sure, but it was still half of their war chest, and the deal was all cash. Microsoft has more money than god, let's be real.
they make 300milion+ from one month of gamepass
@@Rapunzel879 Microsoft's annual operating income so money after deductions is $60-70 billion so literally a year's worth of pure profit just sitting there. So no it not really a huge deal
I want Resistance and Socom to come back hopefully this means Sony will be looking into their dead ips.
Resistance was fucking cool. I remember that game.
@@augingma5518 lol remember it ... had fat PS3
@Carlos I remember wanting to play that game but being broke 😂
So this means that sony is going to check its basement??? I found my Wii u there a while ago
Hope so, and no more censorship, got get everyone you can at this point.
Somebody made s good point. Even if cod will still release on PlayStation, you’d still have to pay 70 euro there vs the game pass subscription on Xbox.
I'm more worried about what the hell is Microsoft is going to do to Xbox if or when Phil Spencer leaves someday years down the road. I'm hoping he doesn't leave anytime soon.
It's concerning that Xbox is going the route of 'if you can't beat your competition, buy more studios'. Granted, this purchase isn't going to be finalized until 2023 so there's at least 1 more year where (for example) Call of Duty will be made available to PlayStation. In regards to how long these contracts are for is unknown. So when that contract ends, I'm pretty sure that Call of Duty and the other Activision-Blizzard owned IPs will stay Xbox and PC exclusive. But consider it is their IP, they could (if they wanted to) license out said IPs to PlayStation and Nintendo and charge fees per copy of game sold on other platforms.
On a positive note, I do agree that Phil Spencer will likely be a more respectable individual in terms of handling the employees at Activision-Blizzard as well as IPs that haven't been getting attention for years. At the least we can all agree that seeing Bobby Kotick going away is a good thing for everyone.
Can’t beat them? There only a few million sales behind. Game pass has been crushing it for years now. Nothing to do with buying studios. Preparing for the future is the goal.
Cod won't be exclusive. It'll be free on Game Pass though, as will future Activision/Blizzard games. Microsoft is moving towards a new business model and developers are accepting it because they make 99% of their profit from micro transactions anyway. As opposed to sales of the games. So making games free to download means more downloads and more potential micro transactions.
@@MixtapesOfThe90s He said the same about the Bethesda purchase.
@@MixtapesOfThe90s he said the same about Bethesda,guess what happened to multi platform games he promised wouldn't be like that,they are now exclusively on Xbox an pc now but with this getting so much press i have a tiny feeling it wont go through bc if news medias begin talking about it the government might look into this and if they say its a monopoly then Mycroft is fucked in trying to get the company
Sony bought almost all their studios lol. Try again
For PC gamers - this is not a win nor will this not change PC gaming. MS own windows and I bet you they will force gamers to the latest OS , whether they want to or not, to play these titles in the future. They could also lock out steam in favor of the MS store, require a MS account to play rather than the existing Activision accounts. This all scream anti-trust and should be blocked by the FTC. As this is not a done deal it could be blocked. The FTC and Justice Dept announced, just hours after the MS announcement, that they are rewriting the acquisition rules for these types of mergers. So I would expect this merger to be reviewed very closely.
In a perfect timeline:
-Phil Spencer manages to root out the absolute shit culture inside Activision Blizzard
-World of Warcraft goes back to its roots, the content gets fixed and more content gets added
-The Overwatch scene is either saved with OW2 or a renewal of updates for OW1
-Starcraft 3 happens under World's Edge and Infinite Empires, Microsoft subsidiaries tasked with the revival and renewal of the Age of Empires franchise
-Heroes of the Storm does an absolute 180° turn, manages to be fun and profitable and even gets a console release
-Diablo issues are solved, Diablo 4 and Mobile launch at premium quality and the Diablo remasters get their issues addressed and fixed
-Warcraft 3 Reforged continues development and manages to finish the product to what it should be
-Call of Duty yearly releases stop and instead focus on a more content heavy approach, where the Campaign and Zombies mode get the massive funding they need to make it 11/10
-Old Call of Duty games become available on Gamepass, with Multiplayer servers running for games like MW2 and BO2
-Old Activision IP's get revived through Microsoft and Xbox funding
It's a lot of hopium on my part but I really trust Phil to do the right thing, because getting to enjoy all of those games on my PC with gamepass would be really, really cool
I doubt half of these things will happen, but honestly, as long as 2 or 3 of them come true I'll be happy.
I want Prototype to come back with a banger
The problem is that Actvision makes a fuckton of money being terrible, MS has no moral interest in overhauling their business model
Though they are in the spotlight for changing the abusive culture after Phil personally called them out
Nice hen pfp
@@Spike2276 I very much disagree. It feels very clear they are gonna make big changes rapidly with bobby kotec (or however you spell his name) being gone
funny fact: most selling games on playstation is not exclusives... its activision games
You mean like CoD?
Damn, I thought people stoped buying trash.
Big company swallowing and industrializing indie devs = bad
Big company merger = meh
For the most part, if MS had not acquire activision/EA/other big publisher, those companies are already very industrialized money machines anyway. And the worse part is that EA/activision WILL acquire smaller game devs and make them worse (see bioware). By consolidating these bigger companies, nothing will fundamentally change in the market..
What I'm more worried about is the predatory behavior of big companies acquiring smallish, private devs (like when MS acquired Bethesda, that really rubbed me the wrong way, remains to be seen if that'll be a positive thing for bethesda).
I don't think I've ever seen so many salty fan boys in the comments section, it's one thing to support your favourite console and another to worship it almost to a stupid degree.
@@pl3459 but you did take your time to respond though
I’m really confused why people think one company having a monopoly on the entire gaming world is going to be a good thing.
An entire monopoly ? Half of the market is on mobile and MS is not in this market.
MS will be still behind Sony and Tencent after this acquisition.
@@darthtleilaxu4021 behind in what way what are you talking about man Xbox has 2.3 trillion Sony isn't nearly that wealth how are they ahead of microsoft
The fact that Microsoft is becoming a monopoly in the gaming industry as well isn't good at all in my opinion!
If they keep games on all platforms then it doesn't matter who owns the company.
@@jadengyi4036 the problem isn’t what platform’s get to play as much as if they own enough of everything they can charge any price they want if there’s no competition which we’re slowly but surely going that route, I’m glad their putting a fire under Sonys lazy ass but Microsoft can not keep doing this or all consumers will be in a world of hurt.
Well they are not close to being a monopoly. The only one who kinda have a monopoly is nintendo on the handheld market.
@@zopler5537 retail stores are the ones that are in charge of the price of stuff right now. That is why games are still 60/70 bucks even when they are digital but the cost of them is no the same. No shipment fees, no need for game cases or disks. Retail stores won't sell the games if the digital stores sell them cheaper on day one. It been that way all the way back since the NES.
@@MagumoKawasaki yes and no, publisher set the price they want while retail can set their own price the publisher can then start pulling their games off shelves of anyone who doesn’t agree and sell at select retailers they own like ms store or anything they own. My main point is people need to be cautious about this stuff instead of cheering it on no matter who the company is, hell we have idiots who are saying down with Sony or Nintendo or even Microsoft not realizing competition only further benefits us the consumers.
Phil Spencer already went on record saying they'll still bring some of the IPs to Sony consoles, and I doubt they'd want to lose out on an entire playerbase when it comes to CoD. Sony however will definitely not be having that timed exclusivity stuff they have had with CoD in the past. I think they're going to play a wait and see approach to see if Sony is going to continue their trend of buying timed exclusivity for everything. This was a move showing Sony that whatever Sony pulls, Microsoft has the money to do it even more and to not screw with them.
Wording is typical ambiguous talk in which they have outs to pull the exclusive card. And Microsoft don't actually care for individual sales of games and more about services.
Eh...now that i thought of it...another issue is created with CoD and other Activision multiplayer games for Sony...Sony doesn't really allow crossplay that much (unless they changed their stance recently...haven't really played any multiplayers this past year myself though so haven't been paying that much attention to this issue) but with this buy CoD's servers will technically be owned by a console competitor...will Sony even want CoD on their platform if they gotta give any relevant info regarding customers that buy off of them/deal with internet connections to Microsoft to begin with?
I don't know exactly what info needs to be shared between Sony and the servers of companies that release games on their platforms for multiplayer but if it's anything regarding finances and the like Sony may just say no CoD in the end rather than Microsoft using the whole 'info would be at risk if internet's connected to other consoles in some way' comment again.
Surprisingly i have not seen this issue brought up yet since the announcement of the buyout.
Microsoft still cant pull off a top tier campaign even with all that money.
Microsoft will continue to make the claim that they are not interested in pulling games away from their competition (Sony) because this deal to acquire Activision still needs to be approved by the government first. Any anti-competitive language used by Microsoft will only hurt their approval chances.
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It is nice to see someone who has at the very least an elementary understanding of competition law and corporate policies.
Then again, who are we kidding? It is not like any western government would disapprove any aquisition by a hyper corporation. The difference between massive corporations and goverments is getting hazier and hazier.
If disney isnt considered a monopoly then microsoft definitely isnt
When i was in high school Microsoft announced the Xbox, my friends and I all feared that they would just buy out Sony, Sega and or Nintendo. Two decades later and here we are.
Fuck'em. I'm loyal to the company the provides the most value for my dollar
did i miss something? did they buy out sony sega and/or nintendo? prettty sure its about activision blizzard
Sony was acting too much like a spoiled princess these last couple of years now they will have to reconsider their business strategy and be more consumer friendly
Making every ip microsoft exclusive is the exact opposite of consumer friendly.
Sony can work on its backwards compatability
Xbox can't be a monopoly there are rules that prevent that. Now is the best time to be a gamer since there is serious competition now. Before that playstation was clearly superior with their ip's. All Xbox was missing was games. Xbox is now a force to be reckoned with. You PlayStation fanboys are going to have to accept it and live with it. The 3 PC ports Sony gave us was to bring PC players to get a PS5 for the sequels. Guess they will need to do more now
@Thpider-Man bruh they charged you £10 just to upgrade to ps5 while the competition did it for free...
Thats anti-consumer
@Thpider-Man so sony relies on nostalgia games from the past by charging people for basic things no on elese charges for and lets their greed show?
@@Martin-rh6bn Xbox relies heavily on Halo.
Seeing Phil excited with old games and wanting them to come back puts the biggest smile to my face! Let's go!
im still worried about the whole monoply thing but other then thar im pretty stoked for the future assuming the deal isnt stopped
I bought xbox this gen and games pass such an amazing deal and a no brainer for me to which console offers the most currently.
I think it's time for Sony to give us what we been wanting. Full backwards compatibility with all past PS games. Make the PS5 the go to system to play all playstation games with out the bs..
They won't do that without charging more than worth for it though which sucks. I dunno what it is with them, they seem to be so hesitant with backwards compatibility when it's a good thing for the preservation of older titles that have nowhere else to go.
I don't think they can for playstation 3 due to how the console was designed. Which would result in having to do software emulation which comes with huge performance issues. I mean don't they literally run custom PS3 units for their ps now service. To be able to offer those games.
PS2 I'm unsure off but the games are old enough that emulation on a software basis should work somewhat.
I'll be honest...they might have a better chance at doing a limited, pre-order only re-run of the systems for those that want to buy said systems again due to their old ones breaking (i still have all my old systems and they still work luckily enough though so wont' do me much good outside of maybe for PS1...though my version of the PS3 can play PS1 games)...better yet if they can get the deals to re-release many of the games on said consoles.
Granted the biggest issue there is simply many of these older games resolutions just look bad on modern day TVs now/in general and need a touch up but that's on the developers hands to do, not the console owners if I'm right (and may be something developers may need to do legally). At best maybe make each version of said console also have an online store for said consoles games....could be like a Nintendo mini charged at a cheaper price i guess but with a disc drive for old disks.
Granted would likely be a loss as far as profits go for them if people can just play games when they have the disc instead of having to buy them again...worse comes to worse when you put a disc in you get charged say $5 to renew the license and half of said $5 goes to Sony/Xbox/Nintendo while the other half to the original IP owner of the game (if they're still around...if not whoever owns the IP or just to the console owner if no one does i guess).
If i remember correctly Sony "believes In generations". Meaning that backwards compatibility will not be a thing that they consider viable
I don’t think Sony is too threatened tbh Microsoft has done a big power move and not only to just Sony but Nintendo as well….
But with Sony and their exclusives and what they have planned (apparently a game pass type thing) this will be very interesting 🤔
Imagine Sony X Nintendo partner up bringing Metroid or zelda to PlayStation
Sony is only worth 260 billion while Microsoft is worth a whooping 2.5 trillion, Microsoft can just buy Sony if they want to.
@@tomatowithaweiner shh don't tell the Playstation fanboys that
Except that MS and Nintendo have already been in talks regarding that. So a partnership between MS and Nintendo is more likely.
I gotta say, I wish you could just opt out of the whole investor mess altogether. Encourages you to try and please them instead of customers; it encourages greedy practices, and can get you in trouble just because a competitor did something big, like here.
I mean, you can. It's called being a privately held company. It's just that being publicly traded can be very lucrative, and is a good way to raise capital for investment and growth.
Unfortunately, kind of like view numbers on youtube. It can also encourage bad behavior.
It will always be about money. Loot boxes are such a big problem because it's incredibly profitable despite being exploitative and anti-consumer. Why would a business do what's good for the customer when it's just not nearly as profitable? Going public can be very profitable too, and businesses these days feel very shortsighted.
I'm hoping that once everything is set up, the prices for Blizzard games becomes more affordable and become more accessible.
They ll all be added to gamepass so they ll definitely all be accessible cheaply
@@De1usionsofGrandeur wait even WOW?
@@Kiwiaq most likely they ll do somthing with wow but my guess would be to give gamepass users a big discount off wow I don't believe they ll make it competly free to them
Sony just needs to make one (or more) of their studios make appealing franchises.
They can look at why franchises such as Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Call of Duty, Halo, Warcraft. etc. got to the amount of popularity they did.
They tried that already example Killzone was suppose to be they’re Halo, Flop.
@@bihimtheman I enjoyed killzone more than any halo tbh.
@@phase_1471 I enjoyed it too but it wasn’t worldwide excepted/a console seller
Stadia is the shorty in the back of the concert jumping up and down to glimpse the stage.
it's absolutely amazing to me how the exact same people who cry about how horrible it is for sony or nintendo to have exclusives and how they should release everything on PC have absolutely no problem with microsoft just buying all the large 3rd party studios for the specific purpose of pulling those IPs off their competitors
Some years ago the same thing happened with Gamestop, and it actually suck so much... being almost alone in the market made them cocky and so sloppy that in a few years nobody would care about them closing.
Well because the first reason is gamepass and the second reason is that most of their games are ported to pc
There’s no console war, it’s a content war and nobody told Sony.
I think you are correct. Both companies will always make a box to sell you but their services will be available on whichever device you want them on (ideally)
Sony just got fucking blitzkrieged
Yep Sony and people who still think that Microsoft are competing in the so called console wars are just blind, Microsoft don't care for Sony and competing against consoles it's just another platform to drive gamepass at this point and is visible with their current line up of xcloud for basically any hardware, gamepass for console as your mid tier and pc as the high end.
PC > Consoles
@@grigoris.7732 blitzkrieg*
i discovered you lately. I like your presentations and your flow of speech. Keep going !
I don't think Sony Corp's shareholders honestly cared. Remember, Sony is a massive conglomerate and it's primary business is it's consumer electronics, video, semiconductor, machinery and audio business, it's gaming, music and movie businesses being minor operations.
Also stock drops and stock recoveries are a common thing.
Ummm..playstation is huge for Sony...not sure where u get that it's minor for them
I think your information is out of date. According to the top result on google, Sony’s game division is currently its biggest revenue driver. Last year they made 25 billion in “games and network services” and in second place was “electronic products & solutions” with 19 billion
I’m pretty sure gaming is the largest of all of Sony’s branches. So definitely not minor.
Sony a year ago: "I'm better than everyone HAHAHAHAAA."
Sony now: "Stop buying everything I have no money."
I like xbox but buying up washed up companies like activision isnt a big deal tbh
@@kushweiser Activision literally owns cod one of the biggest casual money makers ever
@@gameuniverse5973 but the games have been god awful lately, i own vanguard its ok but me personally i dont think cod has been good since black ops 2 back in 2012…warzone is boring too.
@@gameuniverse5973 Activision is surrounded by scandals and lawsuits over its poor workplace environment and treatment of staff, including allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination, and workplace misconduct, and has one of the most hated CEOs in all of gaming.
@@emperorleachicus2199 they still make money regardless so it still a win for Microsoft and pretty sure there gonna put there guys in charge
I've never liked the idea of not owning my games and I really don't like where this is going. Like Netflix, gamepass will increase in cost every month and if your favourite game is only on gamepass in the future, you'll have to subscribe. Yeah,not a fan of that
Massive corporate buyouts like this do not increase competition, they eliminate it. Companies that once vied with each other for market share merged to form Acitvision Blizzard and people lost jobs because less competition means less opportunity for employment. This deal may not directly result in people getting fired like many mergers do, but it won't create competition it'll eliminate it. There won't be a need to make games for multiple platforms, they only need to make games for Windows/X-Box, which means they need fewer people to program them.
Activision/Blizzard didn't go on their merry way and then MS just swooped in. These guys were on the verge of bankruptcy due to their own scummy behaviors. This company was either going to cease to exist or they were gonna get bought out.
@@MrJr1976 Bankruptcy? Really? Not very likely, no. This sale is more about protecting Bobby Kotick's personal reputation and his golden parachute than the company itself.
ABK is a massively successful company pulling in billions of dollars a year, they're not some underdog that needs to be rescued.
Yeah this is a pretty bad take.
First off Sony has been doing acquisitions and third party deals to keep Xbox out, it’s only a problem now because Microsoft has the wallet to compete back. To be a monopoly you need to own at least half of the market. There are still 15 major publishers in the US alone outside what Xbox owns. Come back and cry monopoly when Microsoft buys Sony and Nintendo.
Second off, I see so much good coming out of this. Activision is going to get the corporate shake up it needs badly, and we all can kiss Bobby Kotic good bye. With all the studios Microsoft owns and all the IP they’re gaining, a lot of old IP can be brought back. Everything from blur to the skate franchise to spyro and crash. Gamepass is going up even further in value.
Meanwhile Microsoft has been much more pro consumer than Sony has been this gen. $70 games? Paid remasters? Xbox has been updating all their games to next gen for FREE. They have super robust backwards compatibility with improved graphics and frame rates, Sony you can’t go any further than PS4. Microsoft supports PC day 1 alongside Xbox. Sony doesn’t.
The sheer value that gamepass holds now is going to leave Sony with no choice but to compete back. Be more pro consumer. Support PC. Make a real game pass competitor. That’s not a monopoly, that’s Sony being forced to compete back. They don’t have the luxury of having no competition this gen.
And whos going to benefit when Sony is forced to compete again? Thats right, we all win.
@@Shad0wchasers1 Have you been living under a ROCK since 2018? Their reputation and revenue has fallen so hard it's almost hilarious. Mass firings, govt investigations, and games being banned. This company was a couple years out from going under
@@CerberusTheWise I didn't say there was no good that would come of the merger. It's certainly possible that things will work out for the best in the long run. My point is that, historically, big buyouts don't increase competition. That's it.
Yeahhhh, Sony has always touted their exclusivity deals and now they are looking at it being used against them. Will be interesting over the next couple years.
They have better exclusives, all xbox has it terms on their own exclusive is halo and thats on pc as well
I prefer the hardware based model that's why I'll go from PS4 to PS5 but I recognise that I have the ability to buy the big games as they release. I truly despise the subscription model on X-Box but it definitely serves people who play a lot of games but can't afford to spend $60-$70 on all the games they play. I wish Sony and Microsoft could just coexist financially as they are now and you go where your sensibilities are supported. I really love 90% of what Playstation Studios is/has put out and looking forward to what they have announced.
You despise a subscription model that pays for itself basically in the first month of use? That you can cancel when you run out of games to play? The one that if you already have paid to play online you pay the one time fee until your xbox live service expires?
@@Slayer1106411 I do. I don't like subscription models of any kind. I dropped my gym membership a long time ago and bought equipment so I could have control over my schedule. The only monthly payments I make are for internet and other utilities because I use them almost every hour I'm awake and they are necessities. I'd rather buy physical discs and play them whenever I have time as opposed to paying for a service that I may only use once or twice a month during a busy month. You pay upfront and you don't know how your month will pan out. Subscription models only exist for you to pay forever and keep the service providers in the green. I'd rather buy physical media and have control over my access rather than let some mega corporations control my access to it.
Insane that MS can pay that much for COD and Overwatch. Blizzard franchises has taken a massive hit lately. Hopefully we get a decent StarCraft, Warcraft, or Diablo out or this.
The big question is ...when MS aquires all the studios, will game pass exists in its original state? Will there still continue to be massive AAA titles or do they just churn up average games knowing itll be on game pass?
there is no talent left at activison blizzard so the games wont turn good magically. itll still be trash under a different name
Nah, a huge part of gamepass is having triple a games out on it day one. I think most people would tune out if that wasn’t the case. At least for me the biggest reason I got gamepass is because games like halo infinite and others drop on it day one. For example elder scrolls 6, star field etc will drop day one on gamepass. Don’t know if they’ll be Xbox/pc exclusive
@@cibinomin6540 I'm sure they will be purging where it's needed , as a businessman I wouldn't want my name tarnished .. especially when your name is Microsoft!
@@MixMeister5000 but if they were just replacing all the devs anyway they could have just purchased select IPs and poached devs with better job offers.
@@gubernational57 Let's hope so. To me, 2 things will happen, quality of AAA goes down (not as epic as it could be) or price of game pass rises substantially (different tiers).
And one thing more. I was seriously more stunned when I heard about Bethesda or other smaller developers was bought by Microsoft. Activision has only one serious (right now) IP, CoD. Warcraft, Diablo and others fall with Blizzard last couple of years, so they (Activision) are bigger than are interesting. Ok, I am not CoD player, I am not interested in WoW and Diablo has ended for me after D3. But i seriously prefer Hell's Blade 2 than any other title from Activision.
Actually i didnt get a crap about those games . What has me hyped our the ips that might be brought back . proto type , Crash , Spryo, tony hawk
@@MrSmilykid damn, imagine a next-gen Prototype. It could rival Sony’s Spider-Man
Maybe I’m joking maybe I’m being serious but Sony Might have to buy out Ninentdo and in Term Pokémon. That alone will get that back to competition. Nintendo game back log is worth it alone and Pokémon would be icing on the cake. Idk how much that would cost but they need to do that XBOX is 5 steps ahead at this point
Ended up buying an xbox series console immediately when I heard they bought activision 😂😂😂. Basically felt “let me buy a xbox before I can’t play something that all the sudden is exclusive”
PC will get exclusives
@@lecomingbegend497 if Sony did this deal, no more pc for anyone until 2-3 years later.
@@krazyd0nut404 What deal for Sony? I was saying PC will get Xbox exclusives. BTW PC has God of War (2019), Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice, and Horizon Zero Dawn
@@lecomingbegend497 no one cares
@@ForeRunnerODST I do.
It’s just investors reacting to headlines. Now is the time to buy Sony stock before it bounces back. There’s also the possibility for FTC chair Lena Kahn to block the merger (she’s a big antitrust proponent). If that happens, it will likely have a positive impact on Sony shares.
...Kinda want to see her block the deal, not so much cause it will hurt Microsoft'stock (probably will) but because it would outright obliterate Activisions and be the executioner's axe at this point (the stock went up 30% at said announcement, i bet a block would hit the stock about double that amount lol...EA and activision are basically the 2 game companies I have little to no goodwill towards...Tencent and Konami are up there too i guess so seeing one fo them get fucked would make my day lol).
There's no chance it gets blocked my boy. Even with this acquisition they're behind Playstation as #3 in gaming revenue. It'll be hard for Sony to cry foul on anti competitive practices when they've built their empire on exclusivity. Remember they have Cod exclusives right now. Stop dreaming Sony fan. Buy an Xbox
@@ifrit1937 here's another example where people have no business perspective or knowledge. If by chance the acquisition gets blocked Activision will receive $3B from Msft. They're not going anywhere but hopefully Kotick that pis and finally some internal leadership changes
They won't block it, and by law they aren't in any case under antitrust laws. They're still behind PlayStation in game revenue and Microsoft can buy much more and they still would only own a fraction of the gaming market
Gotta love massive companies acquiring more and more things it used to be illegal for them to own.
@@ianwparedes Right. My issue is that it's the wrong company that's doing it not the fact that a single corporation is able to own so much that it can make sure noone else can compete without having a bigger wallet than them. Not that they can do that yet but this is a pretty big step. But what more should I expect. Nuanced argument or opinion from someone who's big takeaway was "stop crying"? Either grow some brain cells or big enough testes to just say you can't handle people saying there's something wrong with stuff you like.
"We will fulfill existing obligations"
So Phil, do you mean like how you lied about ES6 not being exclusive, or do you mean how you crippled Deathloop by moving half the team to Redfall resulting in the game launching and remaining unfinished before conveniently being patched into a remotely finished state AFTER it was announced to no longer be Sony exclusive?
"We dont believe in exclusivity... until we buy big multiplatfom devs."
@@undertakernumberone1 not technically exclusive when you can play on Xbox, pc and whatever device that has xcloud support. How they get around that comment