FTC sues to Block M$-Activision deal

[Gizmo_Duck]

Acquisition wars

Its about content, you cant buy two major 3rd party publishers and expect the other platform holder not to secure their own content.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Its about content, you cant buy two major 3rd party publishers and expect the other platform holder not to secure their own content.

You also can't lock out major IPs and make exclusive marketing and times deals and expect the other platform not to react.

And since "Nintendon't" count that makes only two high end console makers. Meaning Sony by there own admission (they the ones that moved to have Nintendo not included) has a complete monopoly on high end console gaming. All the while crying about a 3rd party publisher.


It really doesn't add up, and you can smell the worry in the air

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Its about content, you cant buy two major 3rd party publishers and expect the other platform holder not to secure their own content.

yeah sony’s the victim here. poor guy just trying to fight back

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

You also can't lock out major IPs and make exclusive marketing and times deals and expect the other platform not to react.

And since "Nintendon't" count that makes only two high end console makers. Meaning Sony by there own admission (they the ones that moved to have Nintendo not included) has a complete monopoly on high end console gaming. All the while crying about a 3rd party publisher.


It really doesn't add up, and you can smell the worry in the air

Yeah, i mean if you’re gonna continue to act as if two final fantasy games and silent hill 2 (by bloober) are the equivalent to buying all of bethesda and activision i got news for you.

The reason you (and the rest of the xbox stans) think it is is because they are games you care about. None of you really care about Call of Duty, but the platform holders do. So while you’re here celebrating getting activision games Sony is going to go out of their way to secure content of their own, most likely stuff you really like.


and they’re well within their rights to do it when Microsoft is spending 90 billion dollars on securing content

 

[Leasy]

Imagine thinking they won’t be doing even more once MS clear this publisher merger

It will have to be reviewed from here on out probably. Sony lawyers messed up

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

It will have to be reviewed from here on out probably. Sony lawyers messed up

Who’s going to be reviewing timed exclusivity deals, the FTC?

 

[EzekelRAGE]

Yeah, i mean if you’re gonna continue to act as if two final fantasy games and silent hill 2 (by bloober) are the equivalent to buying all of bethesda and activision i got news for you.

They compared timed deals and exclusive marketing to buying major 3rd party publishers

 

[The Mad Titan]

MS should go HAM after the merger.

But Phil is going to be Phil and still play as nice as possible. I respect it


He has billions of dollars to run a muck with and he's being completely civil and sticking to the more people that can game =better for gaming as a whole.


Sony Stan's have made the narrative of no exclusives= why am I buying this for gaming.

So there will be exclusives and timed exclusives. But nothing like what you see from FF7RE or stupid things like extra characters, weapons, quest and skins.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

But Phil is going to be Phil and still play as nice as possible. I respect it

 

[The Mad Titan]

They compared timed deals and exclusive marketing to buying major 3rd party publishers

Because that's how you repsond when you have the resources to do so. Even more so when you trying to build a different platform.


MS literally getting bully by Sony and Sony Stan's for the longest was crying "they should just buy a bunch of stuff and start there"

MS starts buying a bunch of stuff and it's.

 

[Diondon]

XBots = WOAT

 

[The Mad Titan]

Minecraft One of the most popular games of ALL time is releasing on PS5 next Month.

The versions are identical, there is no extra quest like Hogwarts, no extra character like Spiderman in marvel avengers, and no exclusive map or weapons like COD


All those things are ONLY on the PlayStation. Nintendo doesn't even move like that.


But hey MS is the big baddie

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Minecraft One of the most popular games of ALL time is releasing on PS5 next Month.

The versions are identical, there is no extra quest like Hogwarts, no extra character like Spiderman in marvel avengers and no exclusive map or weapons.


All those things are phone ONLY on the PlayStation. Nintendo doesn't even move like that.


But hey MS is the big baddie

Yeah, good guy phil would never participate in timed exclusivity or any type of deals to limit playstations access to once multiplatform games and content

 

[The Mad Titan]

Yeah, good guy phil would never participate in timed exclusivity or any type of deals to limit playstations access to once multiplatform games and content

Two indie companies

1 game that's never been on playstation to begin with and the other most people have never played.


Good job finding 1 example. And for every 1 example with xbox there about half a dozen or more for playstation.


I can promise that you that you nor any of your Sony Stan's friends have played ark


But you know what almost everyone has played in this section....









Final fantasy

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Two indie companies

1 game that's never been on playstation to begin with and the other most people have never played.

As of June 30, 2022, the game has had 76.5 million installs on consoles and PC since its launch, with 33.3 million copies sold and 38.4 million copies downloaded in subscriptions or sales.Oct 11, 2022

But yeah, im sure final fantasy is such a big blow to xbox with the last entry selling a whopping 10 million copies ww on all platforms.

And STALKER we’ve already seen is a paid timed exclusive, xbox has no history with that franchise