Azzanation said:
Of course Hardware isnt meant to make the bulk of the money. So the chart is not exactly a good example here. RnD eats up alot of the net sales profits. Its why MS care more about the software side of things. Sure Sony gains access to 20 other games, however alot of them are not industry leading games and wont be making its money back on the purchase. If games like GTA get locked behind a paywall than why cant MS invest in there own GTA? It will cost 1/10 of the price and they wont have the burden of owning a big studio to do so, also the market will welcome it as its the only way to play a GTA game if they game on other platforms so T2 will be opening up there own competition except this time it will be competing with a game thats on majority of platforms. Its Possible. Also owning a buisness isnt as easy as purchasing and sitting back. There is alot more involved plus a bunch more staff to pay and manage. It could work but it can also be a huge waste of cash leaving Sony weaker against competitors like Samsung. |
Hardware was 1/5th of the chart. The bulk of the conversation and the main point is about software. Exclusive software means nothing if gamers don't have your hardware though.
Some of the games are not near the same level as GTA, but that doesn't mean they won't make their money back on the purchase. It also means those lesser games don't cost T2 that much to make either then, unless PS were to give them bigger budgets. The fact they will get extra marketing because they would be a PS exclusive is something they may not have had before, and marketing means a lot in today's world, while past budgets and sales back that up. You think just tasking a random studio that's available with making a GTA knockoff with 1/10th the budget will be able to produce something that compete's on a level that's worth worrying about for PS? Look at what it took some of the PS first party studios that are well established to create worthwhile games that sold millions, and they didn't have much competition either in certain genres. Now add GTA as your competitor and you'd be lucky to sell a couple million copies, vs how many tens of millions of GTA copies? Lets assume MS does this, and by the 3rd iteration in the series they've caught up to GTA. By then T2 has been paid off already anyway, and other games that MS could have made, weren't, because of the new GTA knockoff focus. That likely means there were other PS games that didn't receive XB competition and made tonnes of money. PS doesn't care if GTA makes the money or is a distraction, as long as the money comes in one way or another.
Is any or all of it possible? Sure, but I'd have to say while PS purchasing T2 is unlikely, MS trying to directly compete with those big franchises is far more unlikely, and MS making a copycat and coming anywhere near to GTA success in general, if ever, is highly unlikely. SNY obviously would need to reorganize T2 and probably add some positions and remove others. When you spend billions of dollars acquiring a company, you don't do so because your bored and need something to do quickly. SNY will have planned everything out as much as possible and will be ready to execute asap, once the deal was final, baring a few exceptions along the way.
