Can Sony and Microsoft ever come to an agreement to make cross-platform online gaming between Xbox and PlayStation platforms possible?
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
I don’t understand what you’re saying. Xbox IS microsoft so there’s no “paying back “.
And MS gross profit in 2023 was over 140 billion dollars so forget your 2 decades.
Unless you mean the money MS invested in Xbox (acquisitions included) and the time it will take for xbox as a brand to gain that money back on it’s own, then yeah, that could take a while.
The better term to use might be return on investment, xbox is simply a division of Microsoft one that MS can easily do away with if profit margins are not met. So in that regard he's right, if xbox isn't showing the expected return on investment the higher ups are expecting than it's unlikely Microsoft will acquire any other studios any time soon, especially if they are spending billions buying developers just to shut them down in the end.
“There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future”
No bro, there do be is for Microsoft not acquiring for what is now if not what it be is 😂
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Microsoft has been doing this for years. They simply want the IPs. Look at Nokia. Look at Skype. This time it simply expanded to games. Gaming is not as important to Microsoft’s executives as it was to the founders too. Bill Gates was willing to sell the og Xbox at a loss. Steve Balmer approved the red ring of death fiasco. This CEO isn’t really a gamer.
Maybe it's time though to put a stop to it and use a big giant like Microsoft as a huge example to the rest of these big companies.
There has to be a line drawn somewhere.
People like the FTC and the like went against Microsoft yet their Actvision deal was still allowed to go through yet look what's happened...it's not even Acitivisions studios aswell, it's Bethesdas.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
ID software, the makers of Doom and Wolfenstein that have been with us since 1991 could be gone and MS will keep the IPs.
I hope some of these studios can buy their freedom from MS otherwise this is going to be even more devastating for the industry and gamers.
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For the sake of their customers, I hope they do.
It seems both have no problem with cross platform play between Nintendo consoles though
They are direct competitors, so that is a really tricky thing to do for both, especially for the one on top. It happened last gen, it is happening now, and will happen the next. What would Ms do if they were on top? Sure some people think MS has been taunting Sony witn cross play for the greater good when instead they know they have nothing to lose with it. Sony as the leader has every right to not cross play with their rivals and I'm not sure how some people label them as anti consumer for that. Their excuse for that, however, was very poor. They deserve to be questioned and laughed at, but that's it!
Maybe Sony should limit cross play to games that are not a thread to their sales like Rocket League or Minecraft, but not big mainstream titles like COD and Destiny. And these titles need no cross play to stay alive. As much as some people would love to play witn their friends having different consoles, well we can't always have what we want. Welcome to earth! That said, Overwatch cross play could be pretty interesting
As long as MS doesn't force anyone to create/use an/their XBL account or force the use of their network, I think there can be an amicable agreement. Sony also needs to drop the protect the children nonsense, too.
WHO CARES. Honestly, I don't get the appeal. Also in a competitve game it seems like it would create an imbalance, Different amounts of input lag, though minute would lead to complaining about it not being an even playing field.
These are closed systems. Every year xbox writes its self closer to obsolete. Every game can be played on pc, you can play with people on other systems... So what is the point of owning an xbox??? I know why I own a Ps4 and a Switch but that question is one that has cost microsoft a sale this gen (had original xbox and had a 360 till it red ringed but have no reason to get the x1)