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[DForce]

SIE released an official letter stating losing CoD will be detrimental to their revenue and console sales. They also say it's nearly impossible for them to make a competing franchise.

Jim Ryan stated, just at the thought of receiving a 'degraded' version of CoD "our business will never recover"

I'm not just telling you things we already know, I'm mostly quoting official communique, without much or any paraphrasing. It's not non-sense, through out 2022 and the first half of 2023, Sony has, in one way or another, stated how important the CoD franchise is to the playstation eco-system. If you can find me some instances where anyone from Activision said vice-versa, I'll happily acknowledge it.

Try quoting everything he said.

Any degradation in the price, performance, or quality of play on PlayStation or any delays
on release would quickly harm SIE’s reputation and cause a loss of engagement and of
players. As SIE’s CEO, Jim Ryan, explained to the CMA at the Remedies Hearing, if
PlayStation received a degraded version of Call of Duty, it would “seriously damage our
reputation. Our gamers would desert our platform in droves and network effects would
exacerbate the problem. Our business would never recover.”

How can you not understand this?

Look, I'll make it easier for you.

If Microsoft started releasing COD with terrible performance on PlayStation (degrading quality) and started delaying releases, then that would hurt the PlayStations' reputation which they cannot recover from because that would be their output going forward. That is in no way saying how they would survive as a company, they're talking specifically about reputational damage.

Reputational damage and not being able to recover is how MS claims they were not able to recover from what happened in 2013 during E3. But this and that are not comparable situations.

TL-DR, when you say this:



It's not accurate.

It is. You move from, "They will go out of business without COD" to "It will hurt their reputation."

 

[ShakenG]

Gran Turismo 7 pulling numbers after so long! This will surpass GT4 and most likely match GT5 numbers.

Wondering if it was worth doing a PS4 version. Doubt the numbers are good.

 

[Unknown?]

Wondering if it was worth doing a PS4 version. Doubt the numbers are good.

Probably not and now the PS4 version is the equivalent to Series S games, a gimped version missing features.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Unless call of duty mixes it up I’m giving my money to dice I’m not sure why people bought literally the same game as 2022. I love call of duty 4, world at war, black ops, vanguard, world war 2 this is a historic franchise in decline.

 

[H-I-M]

Seems like that lazy Naruto game flopped and we love to see it.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Good to see Sony supporting Xbox's newest 1st party at #1 in both North America and the EU.

Well soon enough we’ll be supporting all Xbox games on PlayStation. Cheers!

 

[Rockman33]

Spider-Man 2 pulled off #2 even with the Black Friday sales on other games? nice

Could be wrong but i think it’s based off money spent. Or at least that’s how NPD is.

 

[Thief1987]

Could be wrong but i think it’s based off money spent. Or at least that’s how NPD is.

Nah, it's literally called "top downloads" list.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

It's not accurate.

Sony didn't have the top selling "home" console in history without cod?

 

[adamsapple]

Sony didn't have the top selling "home" console in history without cod?

They've never had a case where the biggest selling IP was published by a rival console either. Jim didn't say "we'll be fine, remember the PS2" to FTC/CMA.

 

[K' Dash]

Sony bringing the big bucks for MS

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Every dollar PS gamers spend on COD, MS gets 70%. Keep on spending gamers

 

[Unknown?]

SIE released an official letter stating losing CoD will be detrimental to their revenue and console sales. They also say it's nearly impossible for them to make a competing franchise.

Jim Ryan stated, just at the thought of receiving a 'degraded' version of CoD "our business will never recover"

I'm not just telling you things we already know, I'm mostly quoting official communique, without much or any paraphrasing. It's not non-sense, through out 2022 and the first half of 2023, Sony has, in one way or another, stated how important the CoD franchise is to the playstation eco-system. If you can find me some instances where anyone from Activision said vice-versa, I'll happily acknowledge it.


TL-DR, when you say this:



It's not accurate.

It is accurate. COD leaving PS won't kill it but COD collapsing will utterly kill Activision.

 

[adamsapple]

It is accurate. COD leaving PS won't kill it but COD collapsing will utterly kill Activision.

CoD is too big to collapse in the short to medium term. Even in their worst received entry year where the development was done in a rushed manner, widely reported as such, it's still the chart topper on all platforms.

 

[Unknown?]

CoD is too big to collapse in the short to medium term. Even in their worst received entry year where the development was done in a rushed manner, widely reported as such, it's still the chart topper on all platforms.

That doesn't change anything in regards to what I said.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

CoD is too big to collapse in the short to medium term. Even in their worst received entry year where the development was done in a rushed manner, widely reported as such, it's still the chart topper on all platforms.

COD isnt going anywhere.

Not only does it still sell shitloads of copies, but there's also tons of F2P Warzone gamers who spend money, but who wont show up in sales unit charts.

 

[adamsapple]

That doesn't change anything in regards to what I said.

It does though, you're agreeing with the point that CoD need Sony, CoD will be fine without Sony. But it's not gonna come to that in the first place, Sony will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

They've never had a case where the biggest selling IP was published by a rival console either.

Currently...that still isn't the case.

Unless we are referring to Minecraft but even then GTA has that beat.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

It does though, you're agreeing with the point that CoD need Sony, CoD will be fine without Sony. But it's not gonna come to that in the first place, Sony will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.

Because Sony makes a shit ton of money with cod.

 

[adamsapple]

Currently...that still isn't the case.

Unless we are referring to Minecraft but even then GTA has that beat.

Collectively, the CoD franchise has reportedly 425 million sales per 2022. GTA franchise is at 410 million sales per Nov '23.

Minecraft is the single highest selling game of all time.

 

[MagnesD3]

Great example of popularity not being a great measure of quality.