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[Ryuu96]

It's just Derek's opinion and Derek tends to have pretty bad opinions I noticed during the FTC trial which made me unfollow him, Lol. He's also talking about Square Enix which I mean...Lol...If anything they're an example why exclusivity is a bad thing, they aren't growing their IPs, Sega and Capcom are an example of why multiplatform is a good thing, their IPs have increased by quite a bit.

He is good at compiling data, reporting on information but when he inputs his own opinion I find myself a bit "eh" about many of his thoughts. I'm not the only one either, most recently he tweeted baselessly that Xbox may have missed their internal projections for Warzone Mobile based on an estimate firm estimating that Warzone Mobile pulled in less revenue that COD Mobile.

Now a few issues with that, first is that it was an estimate firm, second is that he doesn't have a clue what Xbox's internal estimations were, third is that COD Mobile being bigger than COD Warzone isn't a surprise at all, COD Mobile was COD arriving on Mobile for the first time, COD Warzone is the follow-up, Warzone Mobile is straight up competing with COD Mobile and Warzone Mobile + Warzone Console share the same purchases so less avenues for repeated MTX revenue, anything you buy on Warzone Mobile is available on Warzone Console and vice versa.

Then he was like "Mobile gaming was cited as the biggest reason that Microsoft chose to buy Activision--at the time, mobile represented the largest-earning platform for ABK. That may no longer be the case." and I mean, c'mon bro, it still is, Lmao. They still made $1.4m in 4 days, they still have COD Mobile, they now have Warzone Mobile, they have King, they have Diablo Mobile.

Anyway, Xbox is still a platform with a near 30m install-base and whoever plays on Xbox One.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 01 May 2024