These deals are for Microsoft to help make the case that if it acquires Activision-Blizzard MORE people will have access to its games. However if we're honest, some of these cloud services do not have a large playerbase and, considering Google with all its resources and expertise was unable to make its Stadia platform work then these cloud services are not likely to be around in the long term either.
Microsoft has said it wants to bring its service to more people and is using these no-name cloud services as proof of that but these other platforms are nothing but a smokescreen. The reality is Microsoft wants to attract the PlayStation player base to Game Pass which will be better value as the games will be 'free'.
@343 you're back with boosteroid, our privately held Ukrainian company that hardly anyone knows anything about. They could tell you they have 100M customers if they wanted.
Lol at you being bothered that so many more people are going to enjoy all of Microsoft games. Can you not afford another platform? That’s the things it’s the cloud you don’t need hardware just a subscription im assuming. Why does it bother you this is such a good thing people must really be a hardcore Sony fanboy the type that stalks and threatens people like we see in the news to get bothered that millions more will get access to all of Xbox games.
People with some perspective are just calling this out as being a big nothing burger used to manipulate people's opinions, that's all. Nothing against businesses trying to make a living streaming, they have nothing to lose with this. But trying to help people from getting suckered by MS BS
@crazy are you that naive that you think people are not that smart enough all this is just for show so the deal goes through. It’s like thanks captain obvious.
But the thing is yea it’s for posterity but at the same time so many people are benefiting from this. So it’s actually a good thing even if it’s for show. So many people are benefitting. which is why I wonder why people are getting mad at this it’s kind of weird that they are getting upset it’s like they are the police and they must right something lol that everyone is fully aware of. So they end up looking sad and weird.
The site is full of Sony bots that downvote and report anything remotely against Sony. Don't even bother. Go to reddit for actually good comments and people with common sense.
Seriously, I don't know how MS can say with a straight face that all they want is to "put their games on as many screens as possible and bring them to as many users as possible when in 10yrs time, they will yank CoD off of any and all platforms that don't fall under the Xbox ecosystem. Like they're really saying oh yes we want these games to reach as many people as possible.... for a limited time until we pull a 180 and then don't want that.
"Like they're really saying oh yes we want these games to reach as many people as possible.... for a limited time until we pull a 180 and then don't want that."
Lol! That fact that millions of gamers worldwide will be able to play Xbox games is eating you alive. XD
More games to more customers. Who is Sony bringing games too? PlayStation owners? Who else?
The deals are are commitment to other companies meaning they have to make good on their agreement. So based on your logic how could it possibly be just “for show”? You big mad!!
Think the real issue is that MS can "alter the deal, prey I don't alter it any further!"
Once the Xbox brand is on multiple competing services, there's going to be levels of dependency or expectation from the user bases of those other services. A good percentage of Nintendo users play COD on Switch ten years from now, be a shame if by the end of that deal MS takes it away. Maybe Nintendo should pay MS to keep COD on the Switch? Hell, maybe Nintendo should just sign - a bit of - themselves over?
Don't know why people are disagreeing this is something Xbox will certainly do. Give it to them "free" for now so they can get the ABK sale through only to force the other pubs to pay later for continued support or take the franchise away in the hopes that people will make the leap to Xbox.
Seems like a thing scummy companies like MS would do.
Microsoft doesn't use these words anymore in describing their approach. But EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH is still their bottom line in how they do business.
But some of these gamers are oblivious to their shady behavior. And past history.
Hi Fi Rush literally just came out. Starfield, Redfall, and Forza are all set to come out this year as well. Why do some people have such short term memory when it comes to Xbox?
It is a brilliant game, I absolutely love it, cannot say enough great things about HiFi Rush…. But I did not drop $500 on “history’s strongest console EVER” to play AA cell shaded beat-based button mashers.
And Starfield is the only other Xbox release I care about this year; but Xbox didn’t even make it, they bought it.
Lol what? The game is literally published by Microsoft and is made by a studio owned by Microsoft. How is it not made by Microsoft/Xbox? Unless you are saying Phil Spencer himself have to make the game in order for it to be a Microsoft’s game which then would make you more satisfied?
If the goal was to block PS6 out of content, then why did Microsoft offer the same deal to Sony? That would guarantee content parity on PS6, assuming it comes out within 10 years. Which I think it's safe to assume it will.
You have to hand it to them with this strategy. When you read how government regulator types talk about the games industry, it's clear that the vast majority of them have little or no idea what's going on. To someone with no concept of how meaningless these deals are, MS signing deals with all these companies makes it seem like they are super flexible.
Sony is desperate, and they have good reasons to be. More and more gaming companies are joining Microsoft while leaving Sony to cry alone in a dark corner.
It´s getting hard and harder for Sony to convince regulators of a gaming monopoly by Microsoft.
This deal will pass through and Sony will be the sole loser in the end.
You sure talk alot, call me crazy but isnt the company trying to buy all these studios more desperate. I'm wondering why they dont rely on the studios and IPs they already own to compete, do they think they're not good enough? You're comment history makes it perfectly clear that you dont play playstation, at least for the past 10+ years, and you expect others to just abandon their console of choice? The thing is I can see through xbox fanboys, you never believe Microsoft games were worse, or that they needed help, in the end this is about getting rid of Sony right? "Microsoft is too rich they can get out of any situation with the power of money!" and "Microsoft is richer so its better", is how most of you think.
The fact that people downvote for saying that contracts always have specific duration (something that has been a golden standard for contractual obligations), blows me away.
Sony fanboys (pretty sure MS fanboys would argue the same if the positions were switched) arguing that a deal should be offered on a lifetime basis, is on another lever of ignorance.
Which would exclusively hurt Microsoft's pocket in a bigger way regarding COD than anything else. They clearly know this and that is another reason they aren't going with what you're proposing.
I actually think that is a good thing . If they alienate a majority of its player base that are on PS then we can hopefully see the start of CoD fade to oblivion lol . They've only been shoving in our faces for the past 20 years . I really wanna see Sony bang out some HQ FPS like the PS3 era to compete against them with the likes of GG, Bungie and insomniac on the FPS front and VR support.
"I really wanna see Sony bang out some HQ FPS like the PS3 era to compete against them with the likes of GG, Bungie and insomniac on the FPS front and VR support."
Best selling PS3 games:
1st: GTA IV 2nd: CoD Black Ops II 3rd: CoD Modern Warfare III 4th: CoD Black Ops 5th: Gran Turismo 5 6th: CoD Modern Warfare II 7th: GTA IV 8th: CoD Ghosts
the "HQ FPS of the PS3 era" did not stand a chance against CoD.
"COD might end up to be exclusively not on PlayStation."
Yeah... and if Playstation end up as the only platform without COD games, I can see the vast majority of the Playstation userbase making demands for Lying Ryan´s head.
Microsoft: Hey Sony, do you want to keep COD on your console, we would like to release it on your systems on the PS5 and PS6 for the next decade!
Sony: NO! We don't want you to own the franchise and we do not accept your offer to release this game on our systems!
N4G: "I'll pat him on the back for standing up and fighting for millions of PlayStation owners. If Call of Duty isn't on PlayStation, the only reason is because of Microsoft's actions."
The regulators aren't that stupid. The can see easily what Microsoft is trying to do... They are so desperate for this deal to get aprroved. It's scary
The regulators with the exception of the FTC can't stop Microsoft from buying ABK, they can only keep gamers from playing those games in that market, wonder how well that will go over?
You people are delusional, and apparently all have faulty crystal balls predicting the future. How the hell can anyone know what the gaming landscape will be 10 years from now?
Feel free to make all these wild and totally speculative theories and present them as facts until your little hearts content. The reality of it's is, Actions speak louder than words, anytime any place anywhere, and MS are clearly taking action right now while you all and Sony can produce nothing but hot air.
They were asked to make concessions and guess what they made... hella lot of concessions, that is what matters in court, actions and facts....10 year's in the future motives be damned, no one cares lol.
Why doesn't Sony sign the 10 year deal, they can still fight against the merger. If it goes through and Sony haven't signed what sort of deal would they be offered then, if any?
The fact that I even have to explain this shows how silly some are on here. How the hell can one complain about an acquisition and then go around and make a deal with assumption that the deal goes through... That would be more ammo for Microsoft to "say see we even have a deal in place to keep cod with the very people who oppose this deal and say it's anticompetitive." Come on now...
😂 Wow
These deals are just a show. MS will drop support after the 10 years and COD doesn't sell on those platforms so they don't have any impact.
I don't know how can you make a legal deal based on a product you don't own.
What's next? 10 years deal with Atari?
They make it seem like if this deal doesn’t go through, then “the” games are in fact NOT coming…
Wtf Xbox, how hard is it to make games?!? Of course it is hard, but your competitors manage…
This deal is so that Microsoft blocks PS6 out of content.
So why would Sony agree???
Edit:
If this goes through, next headline would be Microsoft lays of 15k people out of Activison / Blizzard due to restructuring and cost savings.
You have to hand it to them with this strategy. When you read how government regulator types talk about the games industry, it's clear that the vast majority of them have little or no idea what's going on. To someone with no concept of how meaningless these deals are, MS signing deals with all these companies makes it seem like they are super flexible.