Machiavellian said:
RJ_Sizzle said:
Why get mad on a company's behalf? People tend to get angry when Microsoft does it because of their low market position. People buy a PS4 expecting to get these games due to the huge userbase. Considering that Xbox games aren't even exclusives, these keepaway moves with assumed multis tend to look more spiteful than anything else. And in the case of games like Tomb Raider, they don't seem to be gaining them mindshare. MS really don't help themselves much when they come off as "woe is me" like they're not a company with a half a trillion dollar market cap when they get blowback.
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So when Sony gets all these 3rd party exclusives, how do you think they occur. Do you believe that MS made no effort to get these games on their system or do you believe these business out of the goodness of their heart just decide to only develop on the PS system ignoring revenue on other systems. When MS pay a studio to make a game for them, its MS nothing having a strong First Party system, when Sony does it, its smart business. The real key is that there is a lot of hypocritical statement from gamers because they do not even see they have fallen into Fandom. They pick a side and they ignore the practices of that side and see a corporation as benevolent.
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Seriously? Up until the Switch popped up, PS4 was the place to put your AAA games in Japan, often with a PC port. It's less of a Famicom vs Master System situation, where Nintendo was locking games up in their corner, and more of a PS1 vs Saturn situation, where one system fell off fairly quick and the other garnered the userbase. You're tilting at windmills here.
Sony has deals out there like this one. What makes this case annoying to people is:
1. MS always goes after high profile titles in this manner. The most high profile case I can think of this gen for Sony is Destiny DLC.
2. The Xbox figurehead talks like they are above this sort of thing for good PR when they're obviously not.
3. The money devoted to this temporary measure could have been allocated to something more permanent, like a new game.
I don't have a dog in this race, but this thread just keeps going and the responses just keep getting sadder. This is nothing new; if "the gaming community" wants to castigate the MS for anything right now, it sounds like their adding of lootboxes to Forza 7 would be a better place to start.