is the same price that sony choose to pay for not realizing spiderman on other console and not on pc. millions of possible sales left on the table to make your platform enviable over the others which generates a figure chosen by the user to prefer your platform over another one. It will be even easier for Microsoft to do this because it is an enormously more stable company than Sony from an economic standpoint.Early Bethesda games like Starfield will be cross-gen, so you are looking at not just the ~5M PS5 userbase, but at 130M PS4/PS5 userbase.
Bethesda games sell a lot more on PlayStation. That's why they were valued at $7.5B. It'd be a big, bold move (not completely impossible, but a big move nevertheless) to pay $7.5B for games, then remove the biggest market for those games by not releasing them on PlayStation, and then putting those games on Gamepass that doesn't make much profit as of now.
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