I mean, msft keep saying this is more about google Amazon etc and not Sony/Nintendo.Almost like his job is to provide maximum value to shareholders instead of winning an imaginary console war.
Sony Says Activision Games Will Stay on Playstation After MS Deal
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Yakuza made the call
"Sony Playstation users will still be allowed to boot existing installations of Call of Duty."
Almost like his job is to provide maximum value to shareholders instead of winning an imaginary console war.
Negged for making sense.
But all jokes aside, nikkaz want mufukkaz to break laws and contracts
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Captain Crunch
Veteran
Yakuza made the call
Warzone will still be on Sony, as well as the next 1-3 COD games. Once the deal is finalized, I think either COD '23 or COD '24 is exclusive.
Yakuza made the call
The key word here is existing agreements. Once those are done, cod will be exclusive
iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
Phil means Warzone. So COD will ultimately will remain on PS systems in that form. They can't say anything and this looks good to the government for anti-trust stuff.
I don't think anti trust laws care about the individual games, but access to the publisher. Does having Activision stifle competition and prevent other publishers or companies from operating in the market? Probably not. If this was an Xbox/Playstation merger then there's an argument that there aren't any home console makers and that entity would have a stranglehold on the market - they'd point to Nintendo and probably the Steam Deck as examples otherwise.
iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
This is going to be very easy to show, Their games will now be on Steam for example. They will evade anti-trust with ease.
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
Yall will still get Warzone prolly
Prince Akeem
Its not that deep breh....
Yup. You gotta peep the specific wording. Plus Phil isn't going to make it hot before the deal clears and gets past regulators.
Google Amazon are the competition.
Elaborate?
Companies with the cloud/server infrastructures, software experience, user hardware/software, investments and money to leverage and compete beyond console gaming.
those are some of the only companies that could, organically, by nature of their investments, host and provide content on a global level, with enough proliferated user hardware/services to drive user (gaming) subscriptions beyond a gaming console and buy mindshare so you’d have to offer their service on other platforms.
Sony and Nintendo are not vertically integrated enough, beyond producing gaming consoles and software to compete on a non niche level like MSFT is aiming for.
which is gaming accessible on every device, beyond Xbox.
Imagine if, they were able to not only get people to subscribe to gamepass on Xbox, but surface tablets, then eventually, tvs, then if popular enough, fire sticks, rokus, google chromes, iPhones, android etc. much like Netflix is today.
That’s a whole lot of 15.99 game pass subs.
that’s how you get Nadala to spend almost 100 billion on 2 publishers.
just look at his latest interview. Phil signals who the real competition is.
which lines up with the quote from 2 years ago…
Xbox says Nintendo and Sony no longer main rivals - BBC News
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
Lmfao at “desire”
Phil a slick ass nikka when he wanna be
Phil a slick ass nikka when he wanna be
Yakuza made the call
To me, this reads like every existing and currently in development game at Activision/Blizz will operate as planned (similar to Bethesda and Deathloop - that game isnt on PC Game Pass until the exclusivity period ends despite MS owning the developer due to existing contractual agreements)
*And* (keyword)
MS desires to keep Call of Duty [the franchise] on Playstation. I don't particularly know what that means…desires can be interpreted a lot of ways and was used separately to intend.
Maybe it means beyond the contractual agreements, Call of Duty will stay on Playstation.
