Sony Corp. has reached a preliminary agreement with Viacom Inc. to carry the media company's cable channels on its planned Internet-based TV service, a person familiar with the matter said, a significant boost for the Japanese company as it races to secure content rights against technology firms vying to offer similar services.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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Bring this to PS3 and suddenly I can see another reason the 12GB PS3 makes sense. No cable box required.
If it's gaining them money that they can spend on game budgets again I'm ok with it.
That's pretty cool that the PS4 will have a good amount of TV functions.
Edit:
But I am pretty sure that most sony fans do not care about the TV functions of the PS4.
@Godmars
Nothing wrong with the Xbox camp since we were embracing the TV functionality from the very beginning. Maybe you should speak to your Sony camp and their limited short vision as they mocked MS for the supposed focus on TV functionality of the Xbox One.
TV is shit period.
I thought it was bad to have TV functions
Now it's cool I guess lol