What are the alternatives? How does Sony get a legitimate competitor? They can make deals to keep major third party games off rival platforms almost at will. If a competitor can’t acquire brands and IPs people care about how else does that happen. Because today Sony and Nintendo each have their own sector of the market and operate with impunity for any decisions they make. Nobody will ever really challenge Nintendo. Sony and Nintendo have a seemingly unofficial non-confrontation clause where they purposely avoid infringement on the other’s primary customers. Lack of competition has a negative impact on consumers. Look as Nintendo and their online infrastructure. Look as Sony’s attitude towards physical backwards compatibility pre-PS4.
That’s fine. The purchase Doesn’t make the market anti-competitive. Is the point.
They can’t secure games like Call of Duty for Game Pass without paying fees so high it doesn’t make sense to pay them vs buy the company that makes the game. New IPs and old ones with indie games only will take their service so far. They also have to contend with a competitor leveraging their dominant market share to create contracts that exclude games from their service or platform at will.
This is why Sony will likely never agree to any deal to let this merger happen. They'll probably just continue to make noise and try and get it to fail. Every year millions of people buy that game and spend effectively 7 months (60% of a year) of a base Game Pass subscription on it. If you can add a second game like say MLB The Show to that you're over a year's of Game Pass on just those two games. You're right they can't compete with the optics on that especially with cross platform multiplayer.
" and basically does the same shyt. Sony's investment in studios in the early days of the PS3 cycle pays off, PS4 wins almost by default.
Nintendo and Sony don't compete with each other. They cater to different sectors of the market. Sony used to try to compete with Nintendo. They used to make portables, games like Modnation Racers and PlayStation All Stars and things like the PS Move to be in direct competition with Nintendo. They've since stopped doing that. It's pretty clear both decided to just let the other do their own thing. The GameCube was really the list time Nintendo put any effort into competing with Sony and the PS3 for Sony competing with Nintendo.
Really since Nintendo rose to prominence there's only been maybe 2 black swan events.Breh, this is so overly dramatic that it's crazy.
This idea that that gaming market is completely unshakable is crazy, because companies fukking up and blowing their market position is a basic part of business. And even if it was a "black swan" type event for that to happen, you could argue that it's happened incredibly often:
Nintendo miscalculates cartridges vs CD-Roms, Sega completely mishandles the Saturn, Playstation is the unlikely winner of the generation.
Sony clearly dominates the next generation, but again, only by being the most stable option. Dreamcast dies early. GameCube does well, but is the weird console where Nintendo seemed to not be sure who their audience was. Xbox is new, but starts to establish its footing.
Sony gets arrogant, botches pricing and games for the PS3 launch, XBox 360 launches earlier and has a better launch window. Microsoft establishes a huge lead that Sony spends and entire generation chipping away at. Both are ultimately outsold by the Wii, so it doesn't really matter.
Nintendo completely and utterly botches the Wii U, and increasingly isolates themselves from a third party standpoint. Microsoft looks at what Sony did with the PS3, says "Yeah. I like that.
This generation, Nintendo has accepted that being a niche/exclusive platform works perfectly for them, and have been INCREDIBLY successful. Microsoft has the money and infrastructure to not just compete with Sony, but actually won, if we're being honest. Only problem is that they need games.
This idea that Microsoft cannot compete with Sony and never truly has is preposterous. They're just doing what any smart company would do, and using their most abundant resource to compete: money.
It's only natural for their direct competitors to not just sit back and let them acquire that large of an asset.
As a Sony customer why do I care what Microsoft does? I'm getting all major third party games, some major third party exclusives, and Sony first party titles. In order for them to grab my attention they need something I actually value not some abstract "games" new IP that doesn't exist because even if that new IP comes into existence why should I care? I'm good here.
Nah it will be aight
#xbrehs watering the garden with DecaystationBoys tears.