Spencer warned us: Another Sony moneyhat (CoD e-sports)

[Mr Puggsly]

Burek said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Activision will advertise who ever throws the most money at them. Which is fine, these deals dont stop people from buying CoD on their prefered platform.

Frankly, marketing deals with CoD isnt worthwhile for MS. Xbox has Halo, Gears, and CoD. Xbox is objectively the best platform for shooters and they are leaning on that.

So, the CoD deal is bad for MS because they have Halo and Gears? Then why have they had it for the entire past decade? Did they just now realize they were stupid to throw all that money to Activision?

Wow, such enlightenment, it took them only about 10 Callofduties to figure out that they shouldn't support it, it just happens to coincide with Sony obliterating them sales-wise.

 

Actually, I find that possible. That's Microsoft, always late to the party, trying to copy success. It took them years to kill Zune, why not take a decade to figure out that CoD deal is bad and trick Sony into paying a fortune to get saddled with it?

I'm saying at this moment I don't think the CoD marketing is important to MS. MS has a lot of money invested in games to push this holiday, Sony has no notable exclusives to push so they're leaning on multiplats. Sony needs to market something, why not CoD?

Does marketing CoD discourage people from playing CoD on the competitors platform? I don't think so. Does PS4 need the CoD marketing deal to succeed this holiday? No.

Anything MS does or doesn't do this gen seems to coincide with, "Sony obliterating them sales-wise." Even when MS does something good for consumers its interpreted as desperation. For example, I've never Sony fans so angry about BC even though that's always been great features in past Sony consoles.

I don't think the CoD marketing is a bad deal per se... but its obvious why Sony would REALLY want the CoD deal this holiday. Its an abysmal year for Sony 1st party, arguably the worst in a long time.

Seriously, still using Zune to make a point? Sony has been selling buildings, selling studios, and getting rid of divisions yet you're gonna mock MS for having failures? Hey, know where I can get a Vaio?