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KLAMarine said: 
EricHiggin said: 

Could have to do with PUBG and it's deal with MS since it's competition

But MS and Nintendo are EG's business partners.

The MS business relationship with Epic wouldn't be near as close and important as PUBG though. PUBG is like what Playground Games was to MS up until they outright purchased them and MS wouldn't really want Fortnite to show up PUBG, especially on their own platform. With Nin it's like Epic is married to PS and is cheating here and there with Nin. Just look at COD on PS4 and BF on XB for marketing. They purposely take a side, just not entirely so they don't lose out on other platforms.

KLAMarine said: 

EricHiggin said: 

While for some people this seems like PS is the only one in trouble

A lot of people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1N-TTwYIJw

Ya ok, but what about everyone else? It's not the norm for the people who don't care or are ok with the situation to make a fuss about it on YouTube or wherever. It's like election polls sometimes. Looks like it's pretty one sided one day, the next day you have no idea how the tables 'completely turned'.

KLAMarine said:

EricHiggin said: 

and this negative press being backed by MS and Nin.

Negative press that reflects badly on Sony, not Epic Games.

If a group of people today built an explosive device that was much more devastating than a nuke, and a certain Country was willing to pay for the rights to a key factor in that tech that was necessary for it to work fully as intended, but wouldn't exclude other Countries from getting most of the tech, and that group knew that certain Country was going build many devices and use them to hold the rest of the world hostage with their time advantage, who would be more at fault? The group that created it and sold it, or the certain Country who used a type of leverage to gain an advantage over it's rivals?  Epic is the device maker and PS is the certain Country.

KLAMarine said:

EricHiggin said: 

for others like myself, it means Epic is in more trouble than PS. If this negative press leads to MS and Nin gamers boycotting Fortnite at some level, then it wouldn't be a dumb idea for Epic to strengthen their locked down player base on PS4 to make up for those losses.

I suppose if you twist logic far enough, it could seem like Epic is in more trouble but it makes no sense for Epic to do this to their own playerbase and account holders. It makes sense why Sony would want to do this.

It also doesn't make sense why some woman can marry men who beat them or treat them like dirt. You can only assume sometimes that the fact he is super rich and she lives a life of luxury way more often than not, must be enough for her to deal with the negativity here and there. Is it right? Is it ok? Most would say no, but it's her life and her choice. It's Epic's game and it's their choice. If they are willing to take the 'abuse' from PS and/or the fans so they can live large, then so be it.

KLAMarine said:

EricHiggin said: 

There have also been rumors of PUBG coming to Switch, so all the more reason for Epic to perhaps double down on PS4 since PUBG doesn't and may never exist on that platform.

Or perhaps more reason for EG to not worry about Fortnite on PS4 since PUBG won't be coming to that platform and aim towards making sure X1 and Switch Fortnite players invest more time towards Fortnite than PUBG.

If that were the case, then why work on a Fortnite bundle for PS4? Why wouldn't they make bundles for XB and Nin instead? Probably because XB has PUBG and Switch may be getting it. With XB and Nin getting all cozy with Minecraft and cross play, it wouldn't be crazy to think Epic see's this and figures PUBG may end up the same between them. Why try and fight PUBG on other platforms while you have the entire PS4 platform to yourself?