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| VersusEvil said: MS played themselves exactly like Jim Ryan wanted lol. Deal is still dead tho. |
Lol. Not really, barely anyone cares about Cloud streaming and Sony will still have to pay Ubisoft for the Cloud streaming rights on PS+ and Ubisoft can charge whatever they want to, which may be too much for day one. Suppose Sony still gets ABK content through Ubisoft+ on day one but Ubisoft+ isn't Sony's service and Xbox users would have access to that too.
All Microsoft really loses out on is technically no exclusives from ABK for 15 years because they'd all be available via Ubisoft+ Cloud Streaming (which is on PlayStation) or be available for Sony to acquire for PS+ Cloud Streaming but the content will only be available via Cloud Streaming on PlayStation (if it was intended to be exclusive to Xbox consoles).
We know CoD is staying multiplat, Diablo is a 10 year franchise, Overwatch 3 has no reason to happen, so they probably lose out on some new Blizzard IP being exclusive and Spyro/Crash as they'd be available via Cloud Streaming on PS platforms. But Cloud is a tiny reason for this deal, Microsoft wants ABK for Mobile (which represents nearly 50% of their revenue) and they still get huge revenue drivers on Console/PC + day one Game Pass.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 22 August 2023
