Machiavellian said:
That would be an incorrect analysis. Since Sony is also purchasing companies. MS is purchasing Devs and Publishers not in response to Sony but instead response to the market. Right now everyone is purchasing Devs and publishers are up for sale. People continue to live in the Console war mindset but those wars are pretty much gone. MS purchase Bethesda and Activision not because of Sony but because they were up for sale and if they are going to make Gamepass the defacto subscription then content is king. I looked at Apple earnings and you just know they are coming into the game, its only a matter of time. 2 billion devices out in the wild. You guys forward vision continue to limit you in understanding a big shift happening in the market. |
Microsoft doesn’t even try to hide this but for whatever reason no one wants to take their word on it. All of these moves have been to feed gamepass, and all of these moves are ultimately because Microsoft wants a bigger slice of the entertainment pie.
it’s been repeated so many times it’s almost a cliche at this point, but Microsoft is competing with Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Disney, anyone that wants your subscriber dollars in exchange for entertainment content, regardless of what that content is.
This isn’t a war for living room set top boxes anymore and I think even Sony realizes that too. Every device streams now, every device plays games now. The game console is just not the be all end all of the living room anymore, controlling the content is more important than controlling a box
