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twintail said:
Leynos said:

Sony seems content to abandon creative new IPs and just pump out what's trending. 

If you don't know what you're talking about, please don't.

That's the thing. I do. Don't bother replying.



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Leynos said:
twintail said:

If you don't know what you're talking about, please don't.

That's the thing. I do. Don't bother replying.

Trending? Oh, you mean all those Sony made first person online shooters and battle royales? Yeah, that Sony, such a trend hog.



Even if all of Act/Blizz games became Microsoft exclusives, I wouldn't personally miss anything here. However, one has to feel worried for the direction this seems to be going, with MS buying everything. Will Sony be around in the long run?
I guess I'll just ride the PS5 into the sunset and then see what to do next.



If Sony and Nintendo become irrelevant in the future, I'll feel like I will in a few monthes for the soccer world's cup. Will I enjoy the content and watch the games or will I consider how this cup was obtain and in which conditions the stadiums were built.



Game pass gonna be lit, and not only when it comes to a sheer number of games. If they make battle net GP exclusive, that's over 20M customers, with a potential to reach 50M (their peak) ... from Blizzard alone. Not to mention COD games, which are consistently at the top of the charts, all year long. Plus if the rumours of replacing the XB live (100M active users - 25M from the GP = 75M) with GP are true, the GP will dominate the market in 3-4 years time, through brute force of the economy of scale. Sony better not pull Nokia on this one.



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What does the financial service department from Sony do exactly? Because if i think what it does they need to keep a certain covering ratio in liquid assests



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Dante9 said:
Leynos said:

That's the thing. I do. Don't bother replying.

Trending? Oh, you mean all those Sony made first person online shooters and battle royales? Yeah, that Sony, such a trend hog.

They follow their own trends. Not always in a good way: unfortunate for God of War to lose some of its original identity for The Last of Us dad simulator.



KLAMarine said:
Dante9 said:

Trending? Oh, you mean all those Sony made first person online shooters and battle royales? Yeah, that Sony, such a trend hog.

They follow their own trends. Not always in a good way: unfortunate for God of War to lose some of its original identity for The Last of Us dad simulator.

I think that was the ambition of the creators, not trend following. It's clearly a narrative Cory really cared about and the changed gameplay perspective works extremely well in delivering an outstanding experience. 



twintail said:
Dulfite said:

I am hopeful with the increased power of Switch 2 that Gamepass will come to it. Nintendo would rather make a cut of subscription than no sales for those games at all. If I could do Gamepass and Nintendo games on one device... Oh the dream!

This would have to be through streaming right? (which is fine; it's an acceptable way to play games). These games wouldn't natively work on a Switch (unless developed for it).

If Switch 2 uses dlss I think it could be native. I'm using it in PC and it's stunning.



KiigelHeart said:
DonFerrari said:

They will do things different with Activision Phill said it... they will buy it kkkk.

Well at least again it isn`t a publisher I`ll miss.

Guess as Xbox fans like to say this is likely a reaction to Sony acquiring Firesprite.

No, we like to say this is likely a reaction to you writing silly nonsense about Phil.

Still he never proved me wrong with his good guy attitude.

Just today he said their intention isn`t to move the users from PS5 to Xbox, and that they won`t keep content from being there, same they said about Zenimax. Few months later basically confirmed that all new SW would be exclusive to Xbox and PC.

But sure keep believing in good guy Phil.



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