Tencent become majority shareholder in Techland (Dying Light 2)

[The Mad Titan]

That's the problem, you're looking at this as if all developers/publishers should be bought by Sony or M$ at one point. I don't.

I'd prefer the MAJOR publishers get bought by Sony/MS or nintendo...

 

[The Mad Titan]

You can't be this naive. MS is just as driven by money as EVERYBODY else. They're no different from an Amazon, Meta or Alphabet. They see a market they want to control and nothing more. You're falling for their cynical approach to PR.

Somehow you got me talking about MS here when I'm talking about Sony, Nintendo and MS.

"dedication to the gaming space that isn't just 100 percent $ and taking advantage of their consumers."

The big 3 are the only ones in gaming that have a proven track record of being about gaming. Not amazon, google, embracer or tencent...

 

[gurf]

I'd prefer the MAJOR publishers get bought by Sony/MS or nintendo...

I'd prefer them fix shyt up in house and stay independent

but to each his own

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Somehow you got me talking about MS here when I'm talking about Sony, Nintendo and MS.

"dedication to the gaming space that isn't just 100 percent $ and taking advantage of their consumers."

The big 3 are the only ones in gaming that have a proven track record of being about gaming. Not amazon, google, embracer or tencent...

Sony and Nintendo aren't large tech outsiders. Mentioning them alongside MS blurs the line in Microsoft's favor. We already know they don't care about the console industry given that Spencer himself proposed shutting down Xbox to concentrate on Mobile. They're just as much a threat as either of the above companies. Advocating for them to consume more of the industry is foolish.

MS doesn't have a good track record. They just buy up and buy out everything until they have total control.

 

[MrLogic]

china

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Sony and Nintendo aren't large tech outsiders. Mentioning them alongside MS blurs the line in Microsoft's favor. We already know they don't care about the console industry given that Spencer himself proposed shutting down Xbox to concentrate on Mobile. They're just as much a threat as either of the above companies. Advocating for them to consume more of the industry foolish.

MS doesn't have a good track record. They just buy up and buy out everything until they have total control.

Microsoft is just the American Tencent at this point.

An unproven entity in gaming that is just good at buying a bunch of shyt. They have no brand identity and very little history of creating valuable IP

 

[The Mad Titan]

Microsoft is just the American Tencent at this point.

An unproven entity in gaming that is just good at buying a bunch of shyt. They have no brand identity and very little history of creating valuable IP

Microsoft is responsible for the biggest shift in gaming since the Sega Saturn and PS1 popularized FMV and 3D graphics on consoles.

MS popularized, fps on consoles, online profiles and accounts as well as gameplay, and western rpgs in general and then some.

But yeah just an unproven entity that hasn't done anything in gaming

 

[Lord Beasley]

Tencent doesn’t make consoles.

I hate consolidation, but this isn’t the same as MS buying up major 3rd party developers

Tencent also doesn't own the most used PC OS on the planet. Microsoft is the Disney of modern day computing

 

[Lord Beasley]

Microsoft is responsible for the biggest shift in gaming since the Sega Saturn and PS1 popularized FMV and 3D graphics on consoles.

MS popularized, fps on consoles, online profiles and accounts as well as gameplay, and western rpgs in general and then some.

But yeah just an unproven entity that hasn't done anything in gaming

i guess GoldenEye didnt exist.
and if you wanna give Microsoft credit for shyt like an online profile (that existed before the xbox), credit them with charging us for online gaming too.