So in the future MS and Sony will own most of everything. The thing that annoys me with Sony is they tend to grip more exclusive titles to try and force gamers onto their platform than Microsoft has in the past; which makes me not want to buy into their platform.
While I agree with you, I think most people are forgetting another player here: Nintendo. Nintendo has been living off their exclusives (and second party developers) since they made the NES.
I don't like exclusives, but for Microsoft and Sony to be buying companies and IP isn't outside the practice of one of the leading companies of the last 30 years. It sucks, like a lot of things in the industry.
Eh. There's a key difference.
Most Nintendo and Sony exclusives enrich the industry. They are built for their platforms from the start, and they are meant to be games of such excellent quality that they sell the platform on merit.
Microsoft's recent moves haven't been value creation - they've been value destruction. Pulling established and popular franchises away from other platforms.
MS is pressuring to let Gamepass go on the Sony consoles. If they made a long term deal for that I could se MS eventually abandoning consoles.
Sony is also the one that tended to prevent cross platform play. They aren't the "good guys".
So in the future MS and Sony will own most of everything. The thing that annoys me with Sony is they tend to grip more exclusive titles to try and force gamers onto their platform than Microsoft has in the past; which makes me not want to buy into their platform.
While I agree with you, I think most people are forgetting another player here: Nintendo. Nintendo has been living off their exclusives (and second party developers) since they made the NES.
I don't like exclusives, but for Microsoft and Sony to be buying companies and IP isn't outside the practice of one of the leading companies of the last 30 years. It sucks, like a lot of things in the industry.
Eh. There's a key difference.
Most Nintendo and Sony exclusives enrich the industry. They are built for their platforms from the start, and they are meant to be games of such excellent quality that they sell the platform on merit.
Microsoft's recent moves haven't been value creation - they've been value destruction. Pulling established and popular franchises away from other platforms.
MS is pressuring to let Gamepass go on the Sony consoles. If they made a long term deal for that I could se MS eventually abandoning consoles.
Sony is also the one that tended to prevent cross platform play. They aren't the "good guys".
Literally no one are the "good guys." They all have their ups and downs, and I'm perfectly happy to praise Gamepass while reminding you that Microsoft are responsible for the Halo 5 Guardians microtransactions video that openly berated critics of pay to win.
And it's not really about petty platforms wars. I'm pretty platform agnostic in general. My household holds them all.
I'm just calling it as I see it, as someone who actually openly *hates* both Bethesda and Activision (and Bungie on Sony's side), and thus has no reason to personally care yet. Doesn't mean I'm not imagining a grim scenario in which an acquisition which does negatively affect me happens. I've got a few nightmare scenarios.
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MS is pressuring to let Gamepass go on the Sony consoles. If they made a long term deal for that I could se MS eventually abandoning consoles.
Sony is also the one that tended to prevent cross platform play. They aren't the "good guys".
And it's not really about petty platforms wars. I'm pretty platform agnostic in general. My household holds them all.
I'm just calling it as I see it, as someone who actually openly *hates* both Bethesda and Activision (and Bungie on Sony's side), and thus has no reason to personally care yet. Doesn't mean I'm not imagining a grim scenario in which an acquisition which does negatively affect me happens. I've got a few nightmare scenarios.