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LurkerJ on 12 July 2023
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twintail said:

I'm not personally a fan of this sort of publisher consolidation, but it's a business move that MS needs to make to remain competitive. it does make the rush towards consolidation more attractive now, but we'll have to see how that plays out.

RolStoppable said:

It's a good thing because at this point it's obvious that Microsoft has a hard time competing in the gaming space. If Sony is allowed to run away with it all by virtue of Microsoft's ineptitude and AAA third parties' refusal to put their games on Nintendo consoles, then it should be fully expected that Sony will try to pull off garbage. I've heard Sony has ten GaaS titles coming in the next three years and this type of game has a bad reputation for good reasons.

So the acquisition is good for PS gamers because Sony will have to make more games that people care about. Unless of course PS gamers have changed their minds about GaaS in the meantime.

I'm sorry, but this sort of underlying 'gaas is bad' is always going to be a pretty laughable comment considering how popular GaaS titles actually are right now in the gaming space. 

We do already know that SP output from Sony is not decreasing. And GaaS titles are clearly being designed to help Sony confidently put money into the growing costs of AAA games in an era where consolidation is taking away more options for them and their consumers (which leads to less money for them). 

Yeah, what an odd take, especially when non of SIE's existing studios have been retooled to make GaaS titles, SONY's taking a big gamble by funding new studios for entirely new IPs (3 of these gambles have fallen apart already), so they can continue taking bigger gambles and fund even bigger single player games (HZD + TLOU2 cost half a billion dollar), it's like saying making freemium games on iOS is a bad because? reasons...

As for the merger, it's not good for anyone in my opinion, however, I have been consistent in stating that it will go through, I reiterated this before and after the CMA blocked it. The stinkiest part for me has been how Sunak and Hunt running to lick Brad Smith's boots was met with applause by everyone, it's fine to feel helpless in the corporatocracy we live in, but to cheer it on? smh