The PvP is free to play…
The campaign was going to be through a purchase.
Not sure if they ever did pre-orders etc being that the og sales pitch was as such.
Not what they want.
The media has focused on the one game…
The fight is over the far reaching ramifications of patents, ips, licenses, etc…
The cma was proactive off of the monopoly of one specific aspect.
They also will over-inflate a score on a bad/broken game… to push impulse purchasing of said game.
There is no code of conduct when it comes to video games.
Most are 100% for marketing dollars… both ways.
@MrNinosan
Game cube, wii, Wii U and now the switch…
And this is a decade of no longer trying to be in that hardware war.
Winning what?
Number of handheld hardware units sold?
While being demolished by more revenue and ips by the competitors?
Example Nintendos generating revenue since 2017 to the 3rd quarter of 2022 is near $60billion…not bad.
Whereas Sony last year alone generated a record $26 and some change billion.
Nearly one third of nintendos almost 6 years of collective revenue.
They are pushing zero innovative boundaries nor do they any long running...
This whole topic is very misleading and more based on what the gaming media actually covers.
Sony has not backed off of creativity… their YouTube/Social media is full of said coming games bi-weekly.
Are they massive AAA games? Not nearly, but that does not mean the push is dwindling.
It just means a lot of those games are proven to move more at a lower price. Ie indie style games.
The trickery is all on how Sonys offerings are covered t...
Microsoft’s only standing in the gaming market had to do with third party contracts keeping them off Sony or acquisitions.
Lets not forget the developers purchased and then eventually dissolved from the Xbox to Xbox 360 days.
The 360 push had exclusive games or content deals with EA and activision etc..
In fact, Microsoft was so aggressive per these deals and then pop up gaming media content partners to paint popularity and to drag Sony down… to the point Sony had t...
“you have to know when to stop throwing good money…”
That is just it…
Budgets determine the quality.
Microsoft will throw more money into advertising than the game.
“Do not sell what the people want, make the people buy what you are selling” Bill Gates
So if Microsoft is not throwing money at hyping up a game, one should be VERY concerned with the game.
Microsoft wants cheap development, high marketi...
The dollar deal is gone now
“Whatever that means”
It means always having the inside knowledge of their competitors future hardware plans due to needing to share it as new versions of the largest fps on the market needs said test kits.
Of which also could mean controlling how Sony designs any future iterations of hardware or losing the ip.
Means all the patents held by said companies are theirs to control.
Means all older ips are theirs to control
Means they can, wit...
There are 100% people who see the silver lining. They are called Xbox players.
See, this what they get.
Sea of thieves, crackdown 3, halo infinite etc…
Rushed unfinished products that Microsoft is forcing out because THEY HAVE NOTHING BUT THIS GAMES.
They are trying to appear to be a gaming company.
They throw a high price tag on cheap games to make gamepass look appealing because a group of people think for the subscription price, they are savin...
If after a decade of nothing and you still throw support to Microsoft… you WILL always tune in,
And you will always comment defending them.
When the price is bloated due to gamepass…
Just like crackdown and sea of thieves..
There is no good to come of this.
These are at best cheap or free to play games getting massive price tags to push said system
The masses do not want a high resolution throw back game..
They want new, innovative and fresh off of the roots of the game.
Infinite is THE prime example of that because it is back to the throwback being as basic as can be.
They also want a campaign full of mystery, lore and wonderment.
@sparky
Crackdown is THE best example of the shady tactics from Microsoft.
Yes.. 100% it was a gamepass game with how generic it was.. then Microsoft throws on a AAA price tag to try make gamepass more appealing.
This game is no different. It is not a AAA game.. it is a free to play game with a price tag to make gamepass look more appealing.
Ie there are a lot of gamepass players out there that continuously boost a game becaus...
Actually the argument was pixel counting..
Not many realizing fps is far more important than resolution.
Ie 1080p at 120fps looks far better than 4K at 30 or 60 fps due to the clarity of a game in motion and a far lower latency in controls.
4K 120fps is nowhere near the standard.
1440p mid settings or maxed 1080p I would agree giving the latter is the standard for pc according to steam.
It is not.
Blizzard has been dealing with a group of frustrated gamers who do this in protest for various reasons.
They did this to ea as well.
With some simple searching one can easily find this out.
I would not say fallout, microsoft threw money at this guy to try and make something of infinite… and he did what he could do..probably by contract and said contract ran out so they both said their goodbyes.
But that is just with Microsoft.. they throw money at things and tell them to make games as good as they advertise it to be.
5 million og xbox was not successful
Halo was.
Xbox 360 was successful for that first year of no competition allowing Microsoft to lock exclusives from ea, activision, Ubisoft etc etc…
Microsoft had exclusives that helped them gain the level of success they had… but just not theirs.
Once those contracts dried up… so did Microsoft’s market share.
The reason the xbox one flipped was because Microsoft was on a 3 year drou...