The Saturn bit is not true, when the decision to put FF7 on Playstation was made the Saturn was actually outselling the Playstation in Japan. Sony bought their way into keeping that off the Saturn. 

The deals for FFX, GTA3, MGS2 were announced even before the GCN/XBox launched, again Sony paid ahead of time to lock those out from other systems. 

It took the XBox 360 to finally shake FF exclusivity and I bet MS had to work Square's ass for a long time to get that to happen.

Of course FF will sell better on the Playstation when Sony has a history of locking it off from other userbases. 

So no, I don't feel particularly bad for Sony that Microsoft is now knocked them on their ass. What goes around, comes around. 

If anything, let them compete with eachother so we might get some nice new quality games out of it.

I can't really fault Nadella's methods. After trying for years to make some exclusive franchises succeed outside of Halo, Gears and Forza (+maybe Fable) not many other of their exclusives have made a splash so it totally makes sense to buy companies with already proven IPs.

I had to process my thoughts for a long time regarding MS's purchase of Bethesda and overall, I think it's good. I'm not into Xbox so I may not be able to play the future Fallout games and that sucks for me (if they do manage to make Fallout good again) but this kind of competition is good overall. If it means Sony will work their butt off to win this gen, it can only benefit us the consumers.

As long as it stays competitive, I think we are the biggest winners.

lol, no. I said that Sony buying Insomniac isn't the same as MS buying Bethesda. The reason should have been obvious, when looking at the post you originally quoted. "Yeah, MS buying Bethesda is like Sony buying a dev team which almost exclusively develops for Sony for ages."

Unknown studios was obviously referring to other Sony acquisitions in your wikipedia list. Or do you seriously think, that I was claiming that the makers of Spyro, and Ratchet were unknown in 2020, when Sony bought them?

Your reading comprehension is terrible.

Well they'll have to get used to what the other platforms have had for decades, especially PC, the platform that gets dicked around by all 3 consoles for years.

This has honestly been a really long time coming, because since they entered the race, they joined out of revenge and arrogance (the first price reveal was absolutely drenched in it), and that's something that needs to be kicked right out of the system.

People don't understand that fallout and elderscrolls , starfield is still going to come to ps5. They need to make their money back and there is alot to be made with license fees to sony. Making it console exclusive and hoping to bring in millions more won't do it. Think about it, there will be a big install base ezpecially for starfield/elder scrolls on pc. Those that bought xbox. Those who chose ps5 as console of choice aren't going to or intend to ditch the ps5 and their exclusives because of one or exclusives they would like. Those who would even consider switching, i'm sure they are well aware of the playstation having more exclusives that they want, which is why they would go for ps5 in the first place. How many are on the fence thinking about which console of choice to go for?? You might see some people buying a ps5 and series s, but that would be small percentage. There will also be huge backlash against them if they opt not to, and it will cause damage to them , more so through social media.

Releasing on on the PS platform is a maybe, but if it does it will most likely be on a 12 month timed exclusive basis so as to increase the attractiveness of Game Pass which has become the main priority for MS. Releasing to the competition at the same time would be counterintuitive in my opinion hence why MS bought Bethesda in the first place - to make the xbox/ game pass platform more attractive to gamers. 

You go, girl.
I think overall, that is a very positive move for the industry and for the consumer. And if someone has to do it, I'm glad it's Microsoft.

Are people serious about a narrative where Microsoft is some kind of victim?  That they stood noble and pure against the nasty tactics of their competitors until they had enough and suddenly decided to "push back"?

Anyone remember Dead or Alive 3?  The original Xbox exclusive that Microsoft bought to be a launch game?

Because I do.  Yeah, Microsoft has been throwing the moneyhat from the very beginning of Xbox history.  They're just as guilty of it as anyone else.  There is no moral high ground for ANY of the video game manufacturers.

It's a silly argument because these are all corporations that would fuck ALL of us over in a second if they thought it was to their advantage. 

Stop being puppets and stooges.  You're making the people who play video games look like complete jokes and the businessmen who only care about your money are laughing at you while you look like nimrods for defending them.

By doing what?  Providing the core and casuals a quality successful product?