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LudicrousSpeed on 15 April 2022
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ConservagameR said:
curl-6 said:

Eh, i still can't see Xbox going for aggressive exclusivity when the trends of recent years has seen fewer and fewer games being locked to one console, and the fact they've already said they'll keep their biggest new acquisition, COD, on the competition. Microsoft's focus has been less and less on trying to push hardware and more and more on pure profit going back years now. Elder Scrolls 6 on PS5 is just too lucrative for a company with this focus to pass up on.

MS probably has to be a little bit careful. Sony acquiring Bungie was partially a warning, in terms of potential and not funds.

If MS makes too much exclusive, it's hard to believe that Sony won't go after the big audience games, like COD. If Sony were to put a major focus on creating a relatively successful COD competitor, it would make the MS $70 billion acquisition worth way way less than what it was worth.

Sony would only need to competitively challenge a few newly acquired MS franchises and the loss to XB will be great, while the benefit to PS would be even greater.

Sony could even do this through Bungie, or that same type of scenario with another acquisition, so they could put PS COD on XB and even Game Pass.

Sony already tried to emulate CoD when they made Zipper doodoo up SOCOM 4 and the results weren’t pretty. It’s extremely difficult to make an industry leading franchise, especially one of CoD caliber. In terms of sales, of course. I think the games have been trash for awhile. 

You make it sound so simple, lol. So Sony would “only need to competitively challenge a few franchises” to make the MS acquisitions worth much less. Ok, good luck to Sony countering:

CoD

Elder Scrolls

Doom

Fallout

Diablo

StarCraft

Those are just the six most obvious and biggest selling, there are tons more that im not listing because they’re likely multi platform, like Overwatch, or new IPs like Starfield. Or even ones with no console port announced but could happen, like WoW.

Yeah, I’m sure Sony hasn’t already dedicated resources to try and capture some of these huge audiences. That’s sarcasm of course, Sony has already announced they’re working on a slew of GaaS titles. They’re already trying. 

I gotta laugh at the idea that Sony massively overpaying for Bungie is some kind of warning to MS ???