The revenue share generated by selling millions of copies of COD, FIFA and Madden to the "casual" audience provides subsidies for the creation of "hardcore" first party exclusive games. Losing major third party titles would make a decent chunk of change disappear from Sony's cash flow.
Why not, pc guys prefer steam over any other launcher it would definitely add more numbers to their games.
Because they definitely sell to a casual audience, an audience that play them casually and procede to play few if any other games? Much like how pokemon or Mario sell to a casual audience? part of the reason securing their dedicated cod/fifa fans early on is important is because casual cod or fifa player will buy the console their friends play on,
Filthy casual it is then. Well, I can live with that.
People who don't play any other games and have no idea what's going on in the gaming industry buy Call of Duty, Madden, Fortnite, etc.
I dunno, Sekiro is Activision, right? That's pretty hardcore...
What folk here don’t realise is that, yes, having all those IPs is great, but you still need the talent to produce great products. We’ve already seen ex-COD devs move to PS with Deviation games, who are more than capable of building a PS exclusive multiplayer shooter that can compete with COD. I honestly believe this will be a positive for PS fans because Sony are now going to have to fill any voids in their release schedule with new IPs and it seems like they now have the studios to do so. It’s almost as if they saw this coming.
Just my opinion, but every single game could have a hardcore following. There are gamers who are heavily invested in a particular game. You mentioned JRPGs; a hardcore FF7 fan could know every nuance of the game, be invested in every character, collect figurines and maybe even cosplay. That’s how I determine a hardcore gamer. The type of game has nothing to do with it in my mind.
COD has been a good source of income for Sony, do doubt, but it has also been on the decline for a few years now, so Sony may have created the new studios knowing that Activision were a shitshow and worried that COD quality and sales would eventually fall off a cliff. And tbh, I still think the next COD will be on PS5, so Sony probably have a bit of time to build a replacement.
One of the definitions of hardcore:
well... Get hyped on more purchases and controller designs.
We are now at the testing stage I think
Showtime has replaced Skinemax as the softcore of choice, and they didn't even have to change up their name to make it relevant.
With MS they don't need to buy a console at all. No other platform holder gives gamers more ways to play their games. Nothing is lost at all.
I think you'll find it's the opposite - straight after MS announced they were buying both these publishers, all of a sudden their status changed on places like this. We've now got people on here saying COD is irrelevant and Sony can just whip up a replacement FPS that will sell 10+ million copies every single year. People on here are legit trying to convince themself that the highest selling game every year on every platform it releases on is irrelevant lol.
No the only published that game. The right to the IP are at from software
That's some serious copium. Wow!
You got that right.
The opposite to how you're portraying it though.
I tend to think it's pretty obvious that people who expect something generation-defining from Bethesda now are the ones who are flipping precedent.
Been stuck offshore and on nightshift, and this week has just flown by lol.
Actually CoD is most casual game of all ActivisionBlizzard games
