This Sony/Microsoft CMA case is starting to get a lot more fun than anything in Apple/Epic case. If this continues, the entire confidential gaming industry info might end up being public. And those Sony arguments... I can't believe they can even win with this. I hope CMA gets investigated for corruption if they block the deal. Microsoft simply can't lose this objectively unless CMA is sitting on Sony's pay check.
| Spade said: Sony blocks this deal, I'm smashing my PS5. Real tawk. |
Have you smashed your PS4 already?
| Ryuu96 said: Microsoft
Why do I get the feeling that something is going to come out from all this drama that other publishers won't like, certain data for example, Lol. It may if this ends up going to court. |
Sony is just so obsessed with Call of Duty that they risk digging their own grave, worsening the relationships with third party publishers
shikamaru317 said:
This is obviously false. Battlefield was gaining on CoD, with the gap between Battlefield 3 and CoD MW3 being relatively small that year as I recall. Problem is, EA didn't invest into Battlefield in the way they needed to to keep gaining on CoD, and let the series fall by the wayside. You can't keep up with CoD, which has 3 main AAA studios and a bunch of assistance studios, with just DICE putting out a Battlefield game every 3 years. EA needed to invest and open more AAA Battlefield studios to better compete with CoD. On top of that, DICE never learned the lessons they needed to learn, their campaigns remained lackluster compared to CoD's, they focused too heavily on high end graphics (increasing their budgets too much) and on realism and not enough on fun gameplay, while CoD continued to be good arcadey fun in the multiplayer and over the top Hollywood action movie on the campaigns. Battlefield could have continued to be a CoD competitor, but both EA and DICE ruined their chances there. It doesn't mean that building a CoD competitor is impossible however. Meanwhile, EA's Respawn, built of many former CoD devs, has managed to remain relatively close to CoD Warzone in the Battle Royale genre with Apex Legends. |
To add to the list, it didn't help that Battlefield has been getting worse and worse in gameplay aspect as well with each new entry. Battlefield 3 was probably the peak for DICE.
shikamaru317 said:
I mean it's true. You can't deny the fact that Sony's 1st party regularly produces games that are both commercially and critically successful. Just in the past 10 years Sony's 1st party has released like 8 games that both reviewed 85 average or above and either hit 20m sales lifetime or are trending toward 20m sales lifetime. Xbox 1st party over the last 10 years hasn't even come close to those metrics. |
True. A bit sad fact, but I doubt there is a single Microsoft game outside maybe Forza Horizon franchise that managed to surpass even 10m sales in the last decade.
| Ryuu96 said: Sony has Bungie now, one of the best FPS developers of all time, who are currently running one of the most popular FPS of all time, do something with that if they're so concerned and then make the next Bungie title exclusive to PlayStation. Bring back Killzone and release it in a year without CoD since CoD is moving to a 2-year release schedule now, which gives other companies a chance to grow their FPS franchises. All this panic over one dang IP. Sony will still have plenty of FPS choices, including CoD which will remain multiplatform, plenty of M-Rated titles like CoD to appeal to those same audiences, a domination in the Action-Adventure genre which is proving to be very popular looking at the sales of God of War, Last of Us, Horizon, etc. And an opportunity to create their own set of FPS franchises, all whilst CoD will remain multiplatform and go onto a 2-year schedule, Lol. If your entire business relies on one single IP then that's on you (we know it doesn't though, Sony will be fine without CoD and likely still outsell Xbox, Lol). Xbox was already known as the "Shooter-Box" once before and that was when competition was at its peak and all 3 companies were doing amazing. |
When all the talks about CoD importance started from Sony side, I wondered why nobody cares about Destiny. Microsoft should just use the same argument against Sony. Yes, Destiny is not as big as CoD but it's still very popular. Yet, it wasn't a concern for some reason that Sony might leave Xbox gamers without Destiny when THAT deal was approved.
