The problem is Microsoft pumps a lot of money into marketing of which made them relevant.
They forced Sony to spend money to compete with said marketing.
Microsoft went after third party game and content making them exclusive and used their marketing muscle to sell themselves as direct competitors.
By “marketing” I mean media more than actually commercials.
They forced Sonys hand into fighting fire with fire.
Once Sony did fight back, Microsoft w...
I mean, Microsoft leaked the information during the activision merger..
There is no mystery with who released the information.
Due to their monopolizing of third party games, they also get closed door access.
Not true at all.
Microsoft had to buy the ip because the contract ran out on keeping it exclusive.
Microsoft took no risk, they just marketed the game and payed for a contract.
Not hard to find out.
M.A.G.
I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.
Your point has validity in life…
But in this case, Microsoft brought more marketing, good and viral attack marketing, than anything else related to gaming.
They went over a decade not making a single new AAA ip.
What “competition” are they bringing to push competitors?
I mean, you say “less innovation” yet Sony had to dumb down their console engineering to play ball with Microsoft and their strangle hold on computing,
Sony, for worse, had to compe...
Putting people on to things is what causes everyone to over spend.
The market is crashing.
People are not spending as much in said hobby.
These layoffs are not going to stop for all companies in gaming,
Good games sell, but they take a lot of money and years to do them.
They actually won.
The whole point was to force Sony into playing ball so that they could not put “windows” in more jeopardy than it was at the time.
Apple, Google, then Sony innovating while partnered with Linux…
When will people realize it has never been about gaming as to why Microsoft got into gaming?
Trojan horses people.
@neon
My point still stands..
That 3080 cost more than a console…
And you got absolutely nothing exclusive for upgrading.
Just performance.
No
Ask pc enthusiasts
They upgrade all the time yet have any games exclusive to their pc upgrades.
Just improved graphics and performance.
It is just fandom viral attacks.
The articles or even the click revenue mean absolutely nothing..
Traffic.
Traffic pushes said headline in search results.
Consumers type Sony and then due to the traffic of people on sites like this results in average people seeing said tag lines.
Microsoft was the master of this… so much they were sued for said practices due to having so much money in media.
It has obviously evolved aft...
@rebel
Not really.
They re-painted the same textures..
But obviously 1000x more pixels.
Bushes etc were updated.
Laura looked clean.
But that was the most amount of remodeling.
@seth
“The game is built around the tank control”..
No. Or part of the marketing would not have been “updated controls”.
I get what you are saying, but that is more saying how it played, not how it should play,
I bought it… 11 minutes later asked for a refund.
Not because it is not a remake or modern graphics…
The “updated” controls are unusable.
Since that was a part of their marketing, that was what I expected to be “modern”…
Nope.
Nit picking, but zero updates to the cut scenes was a “really?” moment.
15fps?
Had the controls been truly updated, I would not have been disappointed.
This...
Madden would like a word.
Now, do me get wrong…
It sells, but not like the glory days when it was the cod of every year.
It will run its course.
Especially now when 80% of what cod is, is just recycled content with even their microtransactions being recycled from previous years.
It will run its course.
PlayStation 3 took off in year 3
PS4 took off in year 2
Ps5 is holding a line…
But has yet to scream gen defining as of yet.
I have no doubt they will…
But this is the slowest of gens as of yet and yes.. Covid had its impact.
The good news is, where Sony was going to go with live service is not the goal any longer.
They have read the market, and the market no longer is on board with “attempts” at live service.
That and Microsoft has a lot of money in “media” outlets.
A lot.
It means the deal that Microsoft touted about promising ten years is not going to be ten years… it is going to be 4 years.
They put $20 on a generic color for halo infinite…
Microsoft is not going to be a solution.