But paying developers to make exclusive content on 3rd party games and 1 year plus timed exclusivity deals to keep content off of the other platform is okay?
At least MS has kept games like Deathloop and Ghost Wire on Playstation. Sony hasn't nor wouldn't put ANY game on the Xbox platform unless someone twists their arm. Like MLB wanting their game The Show multiplat or by a contractual deal like with Death Stranding.
It's about the ecosystem now. "The way future"(Howard Hughes). Buy whatever hardware you want. Login and try/buy your games.and play. Like PC but more accessible by not having to build.
MS is slowly removing the barriers. So that next generation it won't be about what box you have but what service you're going to frequent, and So far Game Pass/X Cloud is in the lead.
Looking forward to this game!!!
I'm a big fan of Gungrave series
Spiderman the character is being kept of of other platforms which is the reason he's only a playable in Playstations version of the Avengers game. Another 3rd party game that Sony has paid for exclusive content.
Like other have said on this board this is NOT a monopoly. Because Nintendo has never had COD and does not need it. If MS buys Sony then I'd start to worry about monopoly but that's not happening.
Sony has said that they are going to ...
Nor the best analogy on the last part of what I said, but you get what I mean...lol
@generic user
So Sony "funds" a 3rd party IP that has been multi platform for all of its games before and say we'll help you make your game but don't release it in any other platform...deal? Still doesn't sound any better.
Most of Square Enix games have been released on other platforms but "the beloved" FF7, a 3rd party IP (also the upcoming FF16) is not coming to any other platforms?
Money hating has b...
It wouldn't look bad if Sony just did what it is good at. Marketing their 1st party games and focus on business behind closed doors.
They did not have to respond publicly to MS about the deal.When they did that not once but twice!?
Showed that they are pretty shook
Yes, but MS is not the market leader right now. Sony is. So the leverage is not in thier favor. The caveat for the Disney deal had to be made because there were no other big sports networks to compete with ESPN. This is not the case with this deal as Nintendo Apple and Google ans Sony all compete in the same space as MS. Also the other competitors don't have a issue with the deal only Sony.
Street fighter 5 for a whole generation- paid to keep it off competitor. Final Fantasy 14 and 7 Remake as well. Project Eve was multplatform but now Sony exclusive, Forespoken 2 year console exclusive deal.
So Sony wanted to keep dropping the money hat, now MS is willing to drop a bank.
Going to have to buy 2 systems to play games from either side unless you own a really good PC.
This deal is going through. Sony is just posturing to slow the process and get a longer term Cash out.
Wiiu Dude
Hoeg Law just did an video on your exact question. Check youtube.
https://youtu.be/yTd0xquejY...
Sony helped "paid to make" a 3rd part game that every other iteration of it has been multplatform for years, and not an IP that they own to only release on one platform?
I understand that this business and both MS and Sony have been doing this since ps1 and og xbox. But now MS has more money to compete with Sony's money hating games. Project Eve now a PS exclusive? Or now that Sony can't exclusive mode/map COD anymore, they are doing it with Hogwarts Legac...
@CR7 JUVE
Just answering your question about a multi platform title that Sony permanently kept off off of another platform...Street fighter 5
You said name one
@Foxtrot
If your competition consistently cuts deals like:
RE8 not being able to be released on Game Pass, before the ABK deal?
COD exclusive maps/modes only on competitors system for at least a year before being released to other platforms, before the ABK deal?
Street fighter 5 not being released on any other platform, before ABK deal?
Final Fantasy 7 Remake not on other platform, befor.... you get...
Go tell that to Sony! Please ask them why they are paying for 2 years of exclusivity on Forespoken or why Final Fantasy 7 Remake has nor been released on any "other platforms" while you're at it? Thanks
"The best Call of Duty experience on Playstation" is Jim's code for Exclusive content/modes that we can lock away from xbox for at least a year.
This deal is going through no matter how much Sony does want it to. The market leader is sounding pretty shook right now!
Exactly!
Will not stop the acquisition from going through. I believe that this deal will be done by late fall early winter right in time for the Christmas holiday right when MW2 drops and will be added to Game Pass.
^^^^Yes, and if you wanted to buy the game to own you can get a good discount.
Like it or not it's going to happen! ;)