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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - RUMOR: COD Marketing Coming Back To Xbox This Year With Black Ops IIII

DonFerrari on 07 March 2018

To me it's irrelevant, but good for MS and X1X



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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Angelv577 on 07 March 2018

if I were MS, I would have waited for next gen.



DonFerrari on 07 March 2018
Fededx said:
No idea what IIII stands for...

II+II



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 07 March 2018
V-r0cK said:

What's the benefit of this again? XB1 owners will get DLC earlier than PS4? At this point I dont think that'll make a difference.

I think Sony and Activision already know it's going to be huge sucess and will sell the best on PS4.  If rumours are true I guess letting Activision get some free money from MS is the idea?

We will see a massive change of PS4 to X1 ownership, over 10M consoles just on the Marketing... with the DLC that will reach 50M



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

jason1637 on 07 March 2018

Would have liked for that money to go into making new games. If it's true it sucks fo PS guys but at least I can finally get the DLC early again.



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jason1637 on 07 March 2018
V-r0cK said:

What's the benefit of this again? XB1 owners will get DLC earlier than PS4? At this point I dont think that'll make a difference.

I think Sony and Activision already know it's going to be huge sucess and will sell the best on PS4.  If rumours are true I guess letting Activision get some free money from MS is the idea?

If for the esports community and the CoD fans that like to get the DLC first. It's also a Black Ops game so it should help sell consoles.

FIT_Gamer said:
Sony had a 5 year deal that started in 2013. That would mean they would still have marketing rights.

Started 2015 with Black Ops 3. MS had it for Ghosts and Advanced Warfare.  Deal was for the 3 year dev cycle. The cycle ended with sledgehammer last year and starts all over with Treyarch so the deal is done unless Sony renews.



V-r0cK on 07 March 2018
twintail said:
V-r0cK said:

What's the benefit of this again? XB1 owners will get DLC earlier than PS4? At this point I dont think that'll make a difference.

I think Sony and Activision already know it's going to be huge sucess and will sell the best on PS4.  If rumours are true I guess letting Activision get some free money from MS is the idea?

Activision gets free money no matter who gets the deal.

Either MS are willing to pay what Sony isnt, or Sony just dont feel the need to have the marketing deal anymore. 

Ya I think Sony got what they needed from their deal with BO3 so they're good now and probably wont need to renew their deal.  Also it makes sense if Sony doesn't make a deal since they said they'll be focusing on 1st party.



DialgaMarine on 07 March 2018
jason1637 said:
V-r0cK said:

What's the benefit of this again? XB1 owners will get DLC earlier than PS4? At this point I dont think that'll make a difference.

I think Sony and Activision already know it's going to be huge sucess and will sell the best on PS4.  If rumours are true I guess letting Activision get some free money from MS is the idea?

If for the esports community and the CoD fans that like to get the DLC first. It's also a Black Ops game so it should help sell consoles.

FIT_Gamer said:
Sony had a 5 year deal that started in 2013. That would mean they would still have marketing rights.

Started 2015 with Black Ops 3. MS had it for Ghosts and Advanced Warfare.  Deal was for the 3 year dev cycle. The cycle ended with sledgehammer last year and starts all over with Treyarch so the deal is done unless Sony renews.

 I don’t see why Sony wouldn’t renew. Having that exclusive console during the holidays definitely helps bolster sales a bit. We’ll see how it goes though. 



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RealKackerlacka on 07 March 2018
DonFerrari said:

We will see a massive change of PS4 to X1 ownership, over 10M consoles just on the Marketing... with the DLC that will reach 50M

What evidence do you have of this? People aren't going to switch to an Xbox just because marketing it says its better. Communities are huge and that would require entire groups of friends to switch to a new, and expensive console. I don't think that's likely.



Carl on 07 March 2018

If they use IIII instead of IV I'll actually refuse to buy it just for that reason alone. It'll drive me crazy.

Fuck that.