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smroadkill15 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.

That's certainly easier said then done. Even established franchises like Battlefield, Titanfall, Destiny, Halo and other large FPS IP's don't have the same grab as CoD does. We have already seen what Sony has released before when they try their hand at shooters. Nothing bad, but still not even close to less popular shooters like Halo and Battlefield. CoD is staying multiplatform anyways so I'm not sure why you think Sony is going to do something about it. 

Along with their own CoD, they will make their own ES, Doom, Fallout, Overwatch, and so forth now if MS doesn't play nice? Lol I think if we have learned anything, chasing successful franchises isn't the way to go when it comes to Sony. When they specialize in their own stuff is when they do well.