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The event was hold in the Microsoft theatre…MICROSOFT…Of course aome from them should have been there.
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Sony Wants To Grow PlayStation By Making Xbox Smaller, Phil Spencer Says
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The event was hold in the Microsoft theatre…MICROSOFT…Of course aome from them should have been there.
Flutta
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Lmao that’s basically what you’re trying to do by buying up Act and Bethesda to make PlayStation smaller. 
Maybe learn how to manage your Studios better so you don’t have to be so damn desperate with these aquisiitions. How long has this mouth piece been the head of the green rats? The Xbone days? Srs i don’t remember a singel game under his leadership that stands out. Mattrick did a much better job then this clown that people worship for some weird ass reason. Disgusting!
Maybe learn how to manage your Studios better so you don’t have to be so damn desperate with these aquisiitions. How long has this mouth piece been the head of the green rats? The Xbone days? Srs i don’t remember a singel game under his leadership that stands out. Mattrick did a much better job then this clown that people worship for some weird ass reason. Disgusting!
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Liamario
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Well then why isn't halo on PlayStation?
It seems to me that Microsoft's own studios can't compete against Sony's. So rather than solving that problem by investment, they decide to buy whole 3rd party publishers to keep those games from Sony.
Surely Microsoft who want games everywhere shouldn't have any console exclusive games. Because to do so would be counter to their alleged goal.
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Flutta
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LordCBH
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Philly will probably pipe up again and go “well we offered to put Gamepass on PlayStation” despite knowing full well PS+ would never be welcome on Xbox.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
It is so clear you are disagreeing with yourself. But no, buying the biggest publishers and making them exclusive to their platform is just fine no wait they are expanding their reach
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jm89
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Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Lmao that’s basically what you’re trying to do by buying up Act and Bethesda to make PlayStation smaller.
Pretty much.
Massive projection.
Valkyria
Banned
Sony entered the Market with MSX a microcomputer in the 80’s.
Regarding the news, boy the FTC news really rustled some feathers.
alabtrosMyster
Banned
MS is on a buying spree to buy existing companies that were the middle ground of gaming, they mostly made games for all viable platforms out there. They intend to eventually make all or most of these games away from gamers on competing ecosystem.
In the case of Activision this is a giant number of games franchises, Bethesda was pretty significant in and of itself. The reasons are clear as day, MS wants to push their MS account login everywhere, forcing
I don't think anyone ever complained too much about the existing system of exclusivity (ok well, there was to a degree, from all sides), everyone understands that can happen (hellblade started on ps3)... But that never happened to the degree where a platform owner got out and bought something like Bethesda (pretty big deal) then Activision.
Now MS are there on Twitter offering deals for stuff that's not even theirs to trade yet. Can you imagine how they will use their leverage after they buy ea and ubi? They're certainly not about to bring games to more gamers, that makes no sense. If that was their intent they would ship games from their current studios on other platforms--as opposed to buying tons of studios to make multiplat games that were already in development exclusives.
Liamario
Banned
I've no interest in Halo personally, but Phil's actions go against his words.
Phil wants game pass on PlayStation because he wants people to give MS the money, not Sony. They're struggling to compete against Sony, so they're going to try and drink their milkshake instead.
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ProtoByte
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Says the guy who's essentially locked the entire WRPG genre from PlayStation.
Even the things Sony has done that stray away from traditionalism don't benefit the consumer, not really. Microsoft just wants to change the nature of the game because they are unable to compete. This, despite having the financial resources of a trillion dollar company that the closest thing to an actual monopoly in a completely seperate market.
Christ, the arrogant lack of self awareness.
And thank fuck for that. None of this nonsense actually increases the audience for gaming. It's just getting more registrations, scraping revenue from the bottom of the barrel, and trying to gain marketshare whilst devaluing the actual games. None of this has worked for Microsoft, why should anyone else take this on?
Even the things Sony has done that stray away from traditionalism don't benefit the consumer, not really. Microsoft just wants to change the nature of the game because they are unable to compete. This, despite having the financial resources of a trillion dollar company that the closest thing to an actual monopoly in a completely seperate market.
Christ, the arrogant lack of self awareness.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
So Phillip had zero at TGA so he trots this line out to deflect?
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semiconscious
Member
there's four-dimensional chess, & there's four-dimensional tic-tac-toe. phil's apparently a four-dimensional tic-tac-toe kinda guy...
A year maybe before but sony keeps pushing and pushing. Still dont see ff7 r on the xbox thats been a year or kena.
Hard to money hat a game not in development. They got deathloop, ghost wire tokyo and about to close star field. If sony wants to money hat like that i don't have issues with Microsoft fighting back buying publishers.
Forspoken will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive for over two years
Forspoken will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive for over two years. Sony has confirmed the news in a recent PS5 trailer.
www.gamebyte.com
akimbo009
Gold Member
A year maybe before but sony keeps pushing and pushing. Still dont see ff7 r on the xbox thats been a year or kena.
Hard to money hat a game not in development. They got deathloop, ghost wire tokyo and about to close star field. If sony wants to money hat like that i don't have issues with Microsoft fighting back buying publishers.
Forspoken will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive for over two years
Forspoken will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive for over two years. Sony has confirmed the news in a recent PS5 trailer.
Yeah, I almost hope MS just keeps buying developers and publishers just to see Sony cry more. The hypocracy is entertaining.
gothmog
Gold Member
Nice guy with a loaded gun to your head model.
ProtoByte
Member
Spider-Man himself isn't an inherent flex either.
It is true that Spider-Man and Marvel IP generally have a higher ceiling for gaming than Indiana Jones ever will. It's also true that IP has a very low floor in gaming, no matter what it is. After years of bad licensing conceived as money grabs, people are conditioned to stay as far away from IP games if they're anything less than great. The branding is actually much more likely to hurt the game than help it. As recently proven with The Avengers apocalyptic failure, despite being developed by a studio that had recently released 2 blockbuster Tomb Raider title; and with Guardians of The Galaxy. A decent game that wasn't good enough to supercede its poor marketing and Avengers' bad leftover taste.
Ironically, Insomniac's Spider-Man proves why true blue exclusives are good for the industry. It's not a juggernaut because of the brand. Many Spider-Man games before it outright flopped, despite some of them being decent games. The money, time, tools and guidance Sony provided to Insomniac, who wouldn't have had access to the IP without PlayStation going to them after being approached by Marvel, summed up to a high quality game that otherwise wouldn't have existed in the same form.
And remember: Marvel didn't just go to Sony about licensing their IP. They also went to Microsoft, who turned them down. Also note that the only reason Xbox now has Indiana Jones coming its way exclusively is because Microsoft gobbled up Bethesda.
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Quezacolt
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Man, Phil is so full of BS nowadays.
He seemed like a cool guy when he become the boss at the xbox division. But in what way has he really improved the brand?
Only real good thing, imo, is the BC. Everything else seems to be about subscriptions, or the cloud.
Why would i get an xbox over any other console? For 3rd party, i have sony and nintendo. The few 1st party games that interest me from MS are back on the OG xbox, the 360, and the few good ones from the xbone and the series consoles are on pc too.
Buying studios doesnt change the fact that they dont know how to lead those studios. And they have proved that many times already.
Sony and Nintendo also have issues, and many practices i might dislike, but you know what they do well? Games.
They have amazing 1st party teams, and they know how to work with 3rd party studios to make great exclusives. They know the games are the most important thing to attract people to your platform.
Did any MS exclusive appear at the game award? Did any receive any award at all? Hell, what have they doing this entire year? Promoting Game Pass and trying to buy studios, because that's the only thing they seem to know how to do, instead of improving the studios they already have
They are lucky that forza has been constantly good, because they have been dropping the ball with everything else, and Phil should be ashamed of that.
He seemed like a cool guy when he become the boss at the xbox division. But in what way has he really improved the brand?
Only real good thing, imo, is the BC. Everything else seems to be about subscriptions, or the cloud.
Why would i get an xbox over any other console? For 3rd party, i have sony and nintendo. The few 1st party games that interest me from MS are back on the OG xbox, the 360, and the few good ones from the xbone and the series consoles are on pc too.
Buying studios doesnt change the fact that they dont know how to lead those studios. And they have proved that many times already.
Sony and Nintendo also have issues, and many practices i might dislike, but you know what they do well? Games.
They have amazing 1st party teams, and they know how to work with 3rd party studios to make great exclusives. They know the games are the most important thing to attract people to your platform.
Did any MS exclusive appear at the game award? Did any receive any award at all? Hell, what have they doing this entire year? Promoting Game Pass and trying to buy studios, because that's the only thing they seem to know how to do, instead of improving the studios they already have
They are lucky that forza has been constantly good, because they have been dropping the ball with everything else, and Phil should be ashamed of that.
nowhat
Member
In his defense, Sony made it smaller.
Gavon West
Spread's Cheeks for Intrusive Ads
Rick Dangerous
Member
At last some here see what Microsoft is all about : words, words, and fake news . They should have a shot with Trump...
Gavon West
Spread's Cheeks for Intrusive Ads
He's right. What's the issue? I'm confused ...
He's basically projecting what he's trying to do to Playstation using the financial power of his company.
They have more studios than Sony how about managing them properly and release great games as a strategy to grow their brand? As proved by the early 360 days and by Sony's own success it works and without monopolistic tricks.
They have more studios than Sony how about managing them properly and release great games as a strategy to grow their brand? As proved by the early 360 days and by Sony's own success it works and without monopolistic tricks.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
"At least some" I think the vast majority is dumping in poor Phill.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
The guy is out there on twitter every time Sony drops a big game and congratulating them to the sound of crickets and tumbleweeds in return. Sony has no reason to play along with Phils vision for the industry.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Gavon West
Spread's Cheeks for Intrusive Ads
Tell me you don't know what monopoly means without telling me you don't know what monopoly means. Lol
ProtoByte
Member
They're frustrated because they can't just throw money around and win. It takes a lot more than that.
JackMcGunns
Member
In other words, they're attempting to stop Xbox's growth instead of growing themselves. Bet that flew over most people's heads lol.
nowhat
Member
I dunno. Haven't met him in person, but after all the images and videos online I've seen, he seems quite opaque to me. Maybe under ideal conditions one could see through him.
SSfox
Member
Welp right or not it's subjectif. He should STFU and focus on his brand and stop giving advices to other companies on how they do their shit, specially in the case where the other companies are doing much more and better than his own (and by spending way less).
He has so much time to nonsensical blablah with crying and whining over Sony's success all day, but none for actual concrete stuffs.
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jm89
Member
Not really they are growing themselves, just not the way some used car salesmen wants them to.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
More like fall of 76 billions
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