Wasn't Sony just going bankrupt according to fanboys and media?

Scalebound, ReCore, and Sunset Overdrive are not moneyhats. *facepalm*

He is right to a certain extent. Marketshare is one factor, but it's not the factor. Let's not pretend that publishers plaster PS4 logos all over games for free because that isn't the case. Bigger marketshare can certainly grease the wheels in some cases, but it doesn't actually guarantee anything. If marketshare had such a big influence then you wouldn't see the XB1 getting any exclusive marketing deals or exclusive indie games. Same with the PS3 last gen, and Xbox/GCN before that. An indie game like No Man's Sky going exclusive would proably be influenced by marketshare, but a major western AAA game like Mass Effect suddenly becoming exclusive to PS4 would obviosly not be influenced by marketshare. Titanfall, ROTTR, SF5, and DR3 are all unique situations. The jury is stil out on the FF7 remake..

Marketshare influences some games, but not all. 

Call of Duty's marketing deal changing platforms was likely not influenced by marketshare because the game is big enough for people to know that it will be on every console no matter who markets the game, i.e, you won't fool people with ads like this.

OTOH a game like the Kingdom Hearts HD Remix being exclusive to PS3 was definitely influenced by marketshare because the PS3 is bigger in Japan. The same thing applies to Disgaea, and all of those niche Japanese PS4 exlcusives. 

And then you have Assassin's Creed which was marketed on PS3 last gen, on Xbox One last year, and will be marketed on PS4 this year...

CoD deal was definitely affected by marketshare.

There is no doubt about that.

Activision will go always to the bigger userbase... that is why it was easy to Sony finally have the CoD deals.

Except they do. I think I know. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana.

5 years is nothing if we're talking about a potential multi-billion dollar market share.

And you think 10 years is a vast amount of time for a historian who, for example, specializes in the Greek dark ages? Everything is relative.

Another (rare) PR trip up by Phil.
Off the top of my head he also dropped clangers over talking about Tomb raider and the parity clause.

I disagree with him, and I'm sure he doesn't know how much his competitors paid for each deal, that's top secret stuff.

But generally he's great and great for xbox.

Pedal around the houses all you want, it won't make you right.

you better warn the Roman and Medieval historians then, their entire historiography was based on predicting the future. I suggest looking under rocks.

Neither Tacitus, Livy, Caesar, Suetonius nor Sallust wrote of future events, just various intepretations of past roman history.

Some historians may choose to make predictions based off of what they learn through analysis of historical records, but that prediction is not encapsulated by the term historian nor is it the norm for such predictions to be made, the large majority of predictions that ARE made are massively off base, too.

So lets be clear here, being a historian does not mean you deal with the future, it means you deal with the past, if you make a prediction BASED off of the past, it is simple that, a prediction, and has no bearing at all on being a historian beyond the ill perceived notion that a future event will result based from past events alone.

The correct term for someone who explicitly deals with the future BASED off of the past is "futurist"

Try harder.

I honestly don't think so because like I said, CoD has gotten so big that the game will sell a lot on both consoles either way. I highly doubt they care at all which stage the game gets shown on, just as long as someone else pays for the marketing. I also doubt it was any easier for Sony to get the deals. Signs point to MS having a 5 year CoD deal that they didn't renew.