People keep saying this, but that hasn't helped them in the last 20 years.
This is same as Microsoft buying Playground games.
Yup, seems like everything other than Doom Eternal has been lacking from them, and that game is not going to produce like they would hope a successful Fallout 76 live service game would. Notice after the acquisition Doom Eternal gets microtransactions, which they said they would never do. Microsoft cannot resist milking a successful product to the point that it becomes worse off.
I'm guessing it has more to do with the alignment of Bethesda games in decline while MS needs to pad game pass rather than a cake party from 15 years ago. MS DID do a lot back then to help make consoles more friendly for PC devs, but that's old news and something Sony caught up to with the PS4.
My point still stands that MS and Bethesda had very close and strong partnership since the OG Xbox.
No matter what people say, Bethesda has created millions of fans on playstation platforms. No other studio Sony has acquired so far can match this. But the big villain in this case for these fans is only Bethesda. Microsoft got the money and they accepted the deal.
Sony and Nintendo won't give if Zenimax stops releasing games an DLC on PS5 and Switch because Zenimax game sales were a tiny portion of PS4 and Switch/WiiU/3DS game sales, specially when compared to their 1st party output.
Considering they have no output after the acquisition yet, that remains to be seen. I predict a decline of several of their IPs and others will inevitably be released back to playstation to salvage profits.No matter what people say, Bethesda has created millions of fans on playstation platforms. No other studio Sony has acquired so far can match this. But the big villain in this case for these fans is only Bethesda. Microsoft got the money and they accepted the deal.
Holy fucking shit
They say that nowit’s amazing what having a slightly weaker console makes them come out with no it’s always the way, You can bet your life if the PS5 was like the PS4 was to the Xbox one they’d be talking hard.
They say that now
I have a PS5 by the way I just hate double standards.
It's not exactly important for them now. They have no desire to make a console that's consistently better than Playstation. They are trying an opportunity to make a killing with subscriptions.
If I'm Sony and have $50 bucks in my pocket, I can afford to purchase Bethesda for $10, but it's a dent on my wallet. If I'm Microsoft and I have $500 bucks in my pocket, a $10 Bethesda purchase is nothing.
Sony created the SpiderMan IP?
Games make the console and there PlayStation has always been better.
He means they are buying studios who they've worked with anyway. They aren't going out and buying random teams who were putting out games on all platforms. Insomniac, Bluepoint, and Housemarque have basically been PlayStation studios anyway for as long as they've been around
Sure, but it makes it seem like they are in fact in an arms race.
They always were pretty clear about Minecraft, no? Why are you trying to equalize both things? It means that every Sony "exclusive" will also come out on PC? Like Horizon for example?Enjoy your yellow Metacritic exclusives
They are not a mom who is afraid to spend her 10 dollars. for a company, that free cash will have to be invested anyway. So they will pay that 10 regardless. It is just that they chose to spend it wisely because that's what people call smart and efficient business
From the moment Microsoft purchased Mjoang/Minecraft, they stated clearly that they had no intention of removing it from existing storefronts and platforms. Zero equivalency.
Maybe if Sony took some pointers from Microsoft on how to run "efficiently", they too would be a 2-trillion dollar company.
Because they cannot afford to remove them
. That game becomes worthless if you remove it from other store fronts
Settle for scraps? Uhh MS use their money to get games on Gamepass day one: Outriders, Back4Blood, MLB, Hades, A Plagues Tale Requiem, Stalker 2 etc.
The 2 trillion dollar valuation means nothing. It's a stock market bubble of all digital tech companies around the world. It will bursts someday. Microsoft has no advantage from that 2 trillion because no one want to be sold for bubble stocks. Even Bethesda didn't accept stocks, they only wanted cash.
When they bought that huge Minecraft IP they continued releasing its stuff as multiplatform. They also have been pretty clear saying their strategy is 'first or best on Xbox' with Zenimax and that will continue supporting communites they have in other platforms and that other projects will be released on other consoles due to contractual stuff.
These 2-trillion are so important for gaming that 20 years after MS debbuted on consoles Xbox continues being the 3rd and Sony continues being the 1st.
Just how Sony now cannot afford to not put their once console exclusive games on PCBecause they cannot afford to remove them
Yep, cash that Sony was unable to match
Source?
The fact is, they were upfront from the get go with Minecraft, they said several times they would not take it away from other platforms.Their position with Zenimax is totally different.
