Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for 69 billion $

[DonFerrari]

coolbeans said:

DonFerrari said:

Still he never proved me wrong with his good guy attitude.

Just today he said their intention isn`t to move the users from PS5 to Xbox, and that they won`t keep content from being there, same they said about Zenimax. Few months later basically confirmed that all new SW would be exclusive to Xbox and PC.

But sure keep believing in good guy Phil.

Your broad claim is totally mischaracterizing what he's said on the topic.  Quote:

"Obviously I can't sit here and say that every Bethesda game is an exclusive because we know that's not true. There are contractual obligations that we're going to see through as we always do in every one of these instances.... We have games that exist on other platforms and we're going to go support those games on the platforms they're on. There's communities of players, we love those communities, and we'll continue to invest in them. And even in the future, there might be things that have contractual things or legacy on different platforms that we'll go do..."

Thus far, MS has maintained what Phil stated here:

-Timed exclusivity contracts with Zenimax are being honored (Deathloop & Ghostwire)

-Legacy titles, such as Fallout 76 & ESO, still have their place on PlayStation

It's future titles with no previous contractual obligations where MS has free range to determine what is & isn't console-exclusive.  You haven't disproven his "good guy attitude" with this example.

Signed deals they wouldn`t really be able to cancel. Games that are already released there would be no point in removing. But new content won`t release, and that doesn`t really match with "play anywhere on the device you want" that he preaches. Same will happen here, CoD will keep coming to PS until the marketing deal is over, games released will keep for the time, new games won`t come.

That is what everyone expect, but Phil will use silver tongue to pretend he isn`t impacting PS players. But sure you can still think he is a good guy. Next are we going to say he doesn't talk more than every other company PR people combined?