A Sony Pictures game is coming to Xbox One.

[Cloudman]

MikeRox said:

Cloudman said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Cloudman said:
Q-bert? You mean that cute orange guy who jumps on blocks? That is owned by Sony..??

I dunno if Sony and MS would like to support each other, haha... They aren't friends, and business is about making money, and not helping each other out. They probably do better through competition, which ends up being better for the consumer.

The two own a lot of patents and software so they already have a working relationship.

Minecraft being multiplat shows there are benefits of supporting a competitor. Q Bert may be Sony testing the water.

Minecraft is that sort of weird exception while it does belong to MS, it originally didn't, and since it was already on Sony consoles there wasn't really much they can do. Since you're already in that deep, may as well go all the way, haha.

Qbert kind of falls into the same grey area, since it was on many platforms before, so Qbert doesn't seem like a stranger to the idea of going to other platforms. Other than that, I don't really see that situation happening that much.

 

In Minecraft's case, there may also have been contractual obligations. But a lot of it also just shows how much bigger the overall companies are.

If Columbia Pictures own the IP, although that is Sony owned, it is wholly independent of SCE. Columbia Pictures will do what is in Columbia Pictures' best interests, rather than SCE's as a result of this.

I'm not sure how Mojang fits into Microsofts structure, but has it been brought under Microsoft Studios, ergo expected to put the resource into Xbox now? Or is it still operated independently of Xbox meaning there would be no obligation at all to not "support" rival products.

Hmm, if I had to say, it's probably more beneficial to MS to get as much profit from Minecraft as possible, since it still brings in a lot of money, and it's still somewhat obligation as well.