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[Krizalidx11]

Epic thinks Xcloud is a competitor (gee i wonder why?!! ) so they refused to allow Fortnite on it






Sony Spent 200m $ 2 weeks ago in Epic games btw

Sony invests another $200 million in Epic Games

Its second major investment in two years.

www.theverge.com

 

[K' Dash]

If Sony is really money hatting everyone to keep games from MS platforms I'll just wish them good luck...

 

[SLB1904]

 

[MasterCornholio]

So what does Sonys investment have to do with this?

 

[Drewpee]

So what does Sonys investment have to do with this?

I wonder

 

[Demon2blades]

Fortnite's on everything anyway isn't it ?

 

[Wandering Leopard]

So what does Sonys investment have to do with this?

I had a quick glance and couldn't see the correlation either.

I think the op calculated 2+2 and got 5

 

[Entroyp]

Wow… people are really this thick uh?

 

[DForce]

Krizalidx11 with another fanboy post.

 

[Krizalidx11]

If Sony is really money hatting everyone to keep games from MS platforms I'll just wish them good luck...

Sony's plan is to spend 1bil$ investments in various studios from 1st party to 3rd part games, this round of spending out of that 1billion $ budget went to Epic Games who showed an exclusive Next-gen UE5 demo for PS5 exclusively and the Epic CEO called PS5 a machine faster than current high-end PCs !!!

Epic loves Sony a lot

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

Epic loves $ony a lot

FTFY

 

[MasterCornholio]

I wonder

I had a quick glance and couldn't see the correlation either.

I think the op calculated 2+2 and got 5

I was expecting to read something in the article about Sony paying Epic to keep Fortnite off Xcloud but I didn't see anything.

Krizalidx11 maybe you just forgot the source for that?

 

[bender]

Somehow this is Jim Ryan's fault.

 

[The Hamburglar]

That persecution complex pays dividends in humour.

200 million is literally nothing to epic.

 

[Raekwon26]

Sony's plan is to spend 1bil$ investments in various studios from 1st party to 3rd part games, this round of spending out of that 1billion $ budget went to Epic Games who showed an exclusive Next-gen UE5 demo for PS5 exclusively and the Epic CEO called PS5 a machine faster than current high-end PCs !!!

Epic loves Sony a lot

FTFY

Idiots unite.

 

[Jaguar Victory]

The question is why would they do that? They have the game on every platform. Why would xCloud specifically be a breaking point for them? I guess they want folks on mobile to buy from them directly?

 

[DForce]

Fortnite is a free-to-play game on Xbox, and the only way to currently access the game on an iPhone is through Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Epic Games partnered with Nvidia last year to launch Fortnite on GeForce Now and has helped Nvidia offer a number of other games from its PC game store on the Nvidia cloud gaming service, where all of the revenue from the original game’s purchase or any in-app purchases goes back to Epic rather than Nvidia. As far as Epic is concerned, the game is simply running on a PC.


That is likely a key reason why Epic has favored Nvidia over Microsoft to host Fortnite in the cloud. Microsoft doesn’t currently allow rival game stores on Xbox or xCloud in any form, and all transactions go through Microsoft there. In fact, Kreiner even admits that Epic Games hasn’t tried to negotiate with Microsoft over the requirement to have to use the Xbox maker’s store and commerce engine.

 

[Krizalidx11]

That persecution complex pays dividends in humour.

200 million is literally nothing to epic.

It's a total of 450mil, there was another investment in July 2020 by $250mil

Sony invests $250 million in 'Fortnite' maker Epic Games

Sony is taking a minority stake in Epic, in a strategic investment deal that expands on an existing relationship between both firms.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Tutomos]

50% of Fornite's revenue is from PS4. That's worth way more than $250 mil.

 

[The Hamburglar]

It's a total of 450mil, there was another investment in July 2020 by $250mil

Sony invests $250 million in 'Fortnite' maker Epic Games

Sony is taking a minority stake in Epic, in a strategic investment deal that expands on an existing relationship between both firms.

www.cnbc.com

And do you know how much money epic makes? 1 billion is nothing to them.

Keep clutching at straws for evil Jim Ryan. Like i said the persecution complex is hilarious and sad at the same time .

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Sony isn't paying $450 million fucking dollars to keep Fortnite off of a streaming service, jesus.

HALF of Fortnite's revenue comes from Playstation. Let me ask you, does Sony need Fortnite, or does Fortnite need Sony?

 

[Krizalidx11]

50% of Fornite's revenue is from PS4. That's worth way more than $250 mil.

Because it was pulled from iOS devices

 

[Hendrick's]

That persecution complex pays dividends in humour.

200 million is literally nothing to epic.

It's enough to cover whatever MS was offering for Fortnite.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I remember when epic said that the exclusivity period for the unreal engine 5 demo would end in early 2021 so they could show the tech demo running on pc...then there was another investment and that demo is no where to be seen. No one seems to be asking epic about it though :/

 

[FrozenFlame]

It's really sad that it reached a point where I no longer can distinguish trolling from fanaticism.

 

[yurinka]

Is that tweet a joke or he's just a fanboy saying crazy stuff?

 

[Krizalidx11]

And do you know how much money epic makes? 1 billion is nothing to them.

Keep clutching at straws for evil Jim Ryan. Like i said the persecution complex is hilarious and sad at the same time .

Money is money brother and it's not about Jim Ryan (i like him for breaking exclusivity and porting PS games to PC)

 

[Cyber_hunter026]

 

[The Hamburglar]

Is that tweet a joke or he's just a fanboy saying crazy stuff?

Tom Warren is an embarrassing Xbox fanboy like half the idiots in this thread who are jumping on it like it’s ‘evidence’

 

[kingpotato]

I wonder if Epic had any recent qualms about platform holders and their restrictive policies regarding monetization and fees?

Can anyone think of any president for selectively choosing a platform for this group ?????? Could it be that the platform interferes with the way the developer wants to operate the platform?????

Spoiler: For those with short memories

I'm sure they are preemptively avoiding another Apple iOS style battle, right? This has nothing to do with Sony/PlayStation

 

[kyoji]

LMAO, kids please dont do drugs. you end up like slime poo poo and the OP.

Mods ill take my infraction for name calling, it was worth it.

 

[Lanrutcon]

Listen, it's Fortnite we're talking about.

Everyone should be paying to keep it off everything.

 

[Interfectum]

Epic thinks Xcloud is a competitor (gee i wonder why?!! ) so they refused to allow Fortnite on it






Sony Spent 200m $ 2 weeks ago in Epic games btw

Sony invests another $200 million in Epic Games

Its second major investment in two years.

www.theverge.com

 

[mckmas8808]

The question is why would they do that? They have the game on every platform. Why would xCloud specifically be a breaking point for them? I guess they want folks on mobile to buy from them directly?

DING DING DING!

 

[Thirty7ven]

It’s on GeForce now.

Try to look at business decisions without descending into fanboy hell.

Here:

Microsoft games aren’t on GeForce now hmm why hun wat wat wat u sayin? Oh AMD has a chip on Xbox and they usin fidelity FX só of course they won’t allow their games on GeForce now because it’s fkin war man

 

[Jose92]

Two unrelated events.

They refused to put it on xCloud So it cant be played on apple devices.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Is that tweet a joke or he's just a fanboy saying crazy stuff?

There are way better Xbox fans in this forum than Tom fucking Warren. For that clown, I have 0 time or energy.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

What if Sony is about to "sign" Capcom and Epic exclusively for their "Game Pass" thingy?

 

[MasterCornholio]

Ahh the good old days with the Nuns and their rulers.