The irony is the people caught up in short term are thinking about this buyout as some exclusive utopia. Thats not what this is gonna end up as
Sony does exclusives to sell consoles, microsoft isn’t spending all this money to sell consoles. Sony is still acting as a games company, microsoft is approaching this as a tech company that wants to expand its reach in cloud
So they not FUTURE PROOF is what you’re saying, and Xbox is building a gaming service like Sega did
they literally tried to go the cable route before the Netflix route but Comcast got greedy/afraid. The deal breaker was DVR built into the Xbox one. Comcast makes decent money over dvr and didn’t want Xbox offering that for free, backed off of Microsoft’s plans and sued to make sure they couldn’t release that functionality.
All the TV and movie plans from last Gen, somehow you Stans treated all that like it was bad? No, that was trying to create a box that does everything, and we would be able to trade our digital games, lend then out, sell them/etc. They went into great detail what they wanted to do, how they wanted every Xbox connected via the cloud so we could use the combined power to make more power games and you laughed at the attempt
So they was like fukk it, we’ll get there without your help and now the cloud doesn’t need us to exist. But you (Sony) will need it to exist
These truths and more can be found in a kennel near me…
Not only that but they still have to spend money on top of the money they already paid developing those games. It’s gonna cost a lot of money to run 33 mega studios on an annual basis, market gamepass, and development cost and still put those titles on a 10 dollar service.
If they don’t put those games on playstation they are upping the price of their services 10 fold
Sony lost 20 billion so they better make Wolverine multiplat to recoup some of those lost wages. That means they lost 1/7th of their worth just by looking like little broke bytches in the scheme of things
They need to get to 4k 60 streaming like Netflix and I'll cop a gametrash subscription.
Microsoft is about control and hardware provides a way consumers actually still control their product. With gamepass you ain't gaming without paying which seems like an easier base to exploit and make money from. Trophy's and user profiles tied to an online only account. Gamers are food
You don’t have to stream, but if you choose to you won’t notice a drop in quality. It scales the image to 4k and does a great job because again I can’t tell the difference when I play or stream and I’m on an oled
we don't need that shyt nikka
who the fukk you think you playing with? Sega?
Yeah you don’t need cod, you guys can just play battlefield all year long