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Every time Sony announce another exclusive, Sony vs xbox fanboys:
I remember when Tomb Raider was announced as xbox exclusive on here and MS was blasted for it. This should be no different.
Here we go again with more anti consumerism from Sony. They just can't stop can't they?
Im surprised and glad to see so many on Gaf called out Sony for this shit, like they did when Microsoft started this pathetic trend.
Hopefully this wouldn't affect pc, as I wouldn't buy a console just because of timed exclusives.
GTA was a console exclusive for many years, but still managed to sell well on pc.
Yuck. Nasty Sony is back. They should spend that money on internal development and providing something of value to their customers rather than taking something away from others.https://www.resetera.com/threads/im...nown-multiplatform-games.263403/post-41934720
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im...nown-multiplatform-games.263403/post-41935788
If true, good job sony for going to bat for consumer of your products, I approve.
Yuck. Nasty Sony is back. They should spend that money on internal development and providing something of value to their customers rather than taking something away from others.
How is it Anti Consumerism when they are giving devs a platform that they can focus on next gen software?
Gamers have flipped their responses to timed exclusive deals more than any other subject.
One week they are anti consumer. The next, they are the greatest idea in gaming.
Skimming through this thread again and man, people are kinda taking this a bit too hard here. Sure, I get how this can be annoying for non-PS players, the fact they get less for not having the right plastic box is pretty dumb. But some people take a lot of umbrage from a company trying to influence them into buying their product. Walled gardens can be too detrimental for the consumer, such as the case of Apple prohibiting Microsoft from bringing Game Pass to iOS. However, walled gardens could also be a net positive for consumers that actually buy the product and invest in the ecosystem. Microsoft, as open as they claim to be, is still a walled garden, but they're more subtle with it. There's a reason Game Pass isn't on PlayStation and Switch and probably will never be on those platforms for a long time. To leverage the benefits of Microsoft's Game Pass, you actually have to pay the subscription and invest in that ecosystem. Microsoft is a lot more accessible than PlayStation, but they're no more pro-consumer than Sony is. If a platform is beneficial for the consumer and gives them a lot of value and content, then how is that platform anti-consumer? Netflix will never have their original titles on competing platforms because they want people to subscribe specifically to them. Both Netflix and Microsoft sign checks to make sure certain content is only on their platform, be it for a limited time or for eternity. Sony is doing the same thing as Microsoft, except they're a lot more aggressive with it because they know the PS5 is a much larger financial hurdle for consumers to jump through. They want consumers to feel the PS5 is worth spending hundreds of dollars for. They're incentivizing consumers, not "holding them hostage". Consumers have the choice to opt out of the PlayStation ecosystem and go elsewhere. Sony doesn't have the power to strip that choice away from them. Instead, they have to make sure consumers don't *want* to leave PlayStation and to do that, these third-party deals are crucial in keeping them on board. It's a selling point Sony is offering consumers. If they're being anti-competitive (such as prohibiting Microsoft from selling the Xbox Series X in certain storefronts because they signed an agreement with a retailer chain), then they're also being anti-consumer. That's what Apple is doing with Game Pass, so that would make them anti-consumer. They refuse to allow a competing service to be sold on their ecosystem, despite them having a massive market share.
So, yes, these third-party deals aren't exactly fun or exciting, but they are designed to influence you. Making dramatized arguments about how Sony is "forcing" the helpless gamers into buying their console won't get us anywhere and thus creates an infantile thread that never ends. I personally hope Sony pursues a more accessible strategy like Microsoft is doing, but that's not how the industry is at the moment. In the meantime, let's try not to paint Sony as some kind of imperialist empire that pillages the industry just because they make aggressive third-party deals so people would want to buy their product. Because that practice is fair game and always has been. it's not monopolistic, it's just aggressive, and that's a perfectly legal business practice for Sony to pursue. Albeit, it's not my favorite one, but it is what it is.
Yuck. Nasty Sony is back. They should spend that money on internal development and providing something of value to their customers rather than taking something away from others.
Personally i would but sadly dont know how if u can tell me thatd be greatYou should post screenshots of it. We don’t Click that link here.
Is that part of Trump's grab them by the pussy quote?When you're the market leader, they let you do it. You can do anything.
Sony? Have you seen the last few years of sony games lol whats MS had again?Call me when they have real exclusives. I dont care about time exclusives.
Do these deals keep the games off PC as well?
I remember when Tomb Raider was announced as xbox exclusive on here and MS was blasted for it. This should be no different.
Yes. Grab em by the third party exclusive deal.Is that part of Trump's grab them by the pussy quote?
Call me when they have real exclusives. I dont care about time exclusives.
Less money invested in making games and more money invested in withholding finished games from your competitor.I said this is a other thread, but it will be different because Sony. People cannot see beyond a logo to see the long term ramifications a deal like this will have, if true.
Sony aiming up for a PS2 level wipeout next gen
While it does indeed cost either Sony or Ms a lot of money to obtain timed exclusive titles for their respective consoles, I think a lot of people forget that this also benefits development and makes it much easier for the devs to meet their deadlines since they only have to focus on one console/platform.This is all such bullshit in my opinion. I don't mind timed exclusivity for smaller games like Kena or The Medium or Fall Guys or Spelunker, but big games like Rise of the Tomb Raider, or the alleged Final Fantasy 16, or FF7 Remake? It's bullshit and it's completely pointless. Gives no real benefit to the side getting the "exclusive" game other than the petty bragging rights in console wars. I would much rather the companies use that money to make their own games rather than money hat big third party games for a short while
I remember when Tomb Raider was announced as xbox exclusive on here and MS was blasted for it. This should be no different.
Its no different. It's either looked down on as a practice as a whole or don't complain when the competition does the same thing. Simple as that.Thats different, Tomb Raider was known as a PlayStation franchise*!!
* - due to Sony money hatting multiple Tomb Raider games years before MS money hatted one
Trust me big 3rd party devs are not happy with Microsoft approach it's good for the smaller teams who wasn't going to push pass the limits of Xbox One & PS4 but for the bigger teams that want to move on they see PS5 as the place they can focus on next gen 1st.It's anti consumerism to take away games from other platforms. They were focusing on Playstation already, Sony just pays them for not focusing on others but only theirs.
If you can't see that as anti consumerism, then you are a fanboy.
If true, good job sony for going to bat for consumer of your products, I approve.
It's a statement on the double standard. Like xbox gold being bad but ps plus being ok, gamepass being unsustainable but psnow being a wise model, ads on the dashboard, ect, ect... The practice is either bad or acceptable regardless who does it.But MS wasn't blasted for their 22 timed exclusives
The thing is Sony are already making games.
You jest but that's actually what we call Roblox in our household... So you've now given me the horrible fear of, if Roblox comes to PS5, I'm never gonna be able to play on the PS ever again!It'll be Minecraft 2. XD