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Microsoft and Nvidia Announce 10-Year GeForce NOW Deal, As Microsoft and Nintendo Make Their Deal Of

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edited February 2023 in News & Features Discussion

imageMicrosoft and Nvidia Announce 10-Year GeForce NOW Deal, As Microsoft and Nintendo Make Their Deal Official | MMORPG.com

Microsoft and Nvidia announce a 10 year deal to have Xbox PC games on GEForce NOW, and also finalizes 10-year deal with Nintendo for "same day as Xbox" with content parity Call of Duty releases.

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  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,900
    I would laugh if Sony misses out on this 10 year deal due to all their protests.
  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,989
    edited February 2023
    Nanfoodle said:
    I would laugh if Sony misses out on this 10 year deal due to all their protests.
    It's possible. But even if the the acquisition were allowed, at this point I think it's more likely that the officials would set Microsoft offering that deal to Sony as a condition, and Sony could take it at that point.
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  • MarknMarkn Member UncommonPosts: 308

    Vrika said:


    Nanfoodle said:

    I would laugh if Sony misses out on this 10 year deal due to all their protests.


    It's possible. But even the the acquisition were allowed, at this point I think it's more likely that the officials would set Microsoft offering that deal to Sony as a condition, and Sony could take it at that point.



    They already offered Sony the same deal Nintendo got and they said no.
  • LamiaCritterLamiaCritter Member UncommonPosts: 94
    Please no. Fuck no. Keep those damn CoD players away from my Switch, please ;_;

    I've heard more than I care to hear about CoD players' reputation and their coming to the Switch would just flat corrupt and downgrade the community.
    Tykam123LePetitSoldatMcSleazScot
  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,989
    edited February 2023
    Markn said:

    Vrika said:


    Nanfoodle said:

    I would laugh if Sony misses out on this 10 year deal due to all their protests.


    It's possible. But even the the acquisition were allowed, at this point I think it's more likely that the officials would set Microsoft offering that deal to Sony as a condition, and Sony could take it at that point.
    They already offered Sony the same deal Nintendo got and they said no.
    Sony obviously doesn't want to agree to the deal when they'd need to give their ok to the acquisition to do it.

    It doesn't mean Sony wouldn't take the deal if officials decide that the acquisition is going to happen no matter what Sony does.
     
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,423

    LamiaCritter said:

    Please no. Fuck no. Keep those damn CoD players away from my Switch, please ;_;



    I've heard more than I care to hear about CoD players' reputation and their coming to the Switch would just flat corrupt and downgrade the community.



    The Switch has a community? :)
    Roin
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,423
    edited February 2023
    Just want to make sure I got this right, an American trade union is "encouraging" the EU to allow this merger to ahead. They do realise that the EU is only interested in vested self interest? So if its good for companies or workers in non EU companies and countries they will regard it as being more likely to be bad for the EU. Seems bizarre they don't realise that.
  • MensurMensur Member EpicPosts: 1,531
    People must think that EU is under American law- we most certainly are not- and this deal will never go trough.
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  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,989
    edited February 2023
    Scot said:
    Just want to make sure I got this right, an American trade union is "encouraging" the EU to allow this merger to ahead. They do realise that the EU is only interested in vested self interest? So if its good for companies or workers in non EU companies and countries they will regard it as being more likely to be bad for the EU. Seems bizarre they don't realise that.
    Even if Microsoft plays nice with US trade unions inside USA at the moment, it's questionable whether it's actually advantage at all, unless you count the PR advantage Microsoft's at the moment able to milk for it. After all the unions want better wages and better benefits for their workers, so playing nice with them comes at a cost to the company.

    If some EU official is trying to get most advantageous solution for EU they aren't going to base their decision on something as unclear as what kind of trade union relations inside USA would be good for EU. They are going to just ignore CWA completely, and look at stuff that actually matters to EU, like how EU companies can compete against Activision Blizzard and Microsoft, and what kind of solutions would get EU customers best deals from Activision Blizzard and Microsoft.
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  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383
    edited February 2023
    I don't get how GeForce Now constitutes expanding access and alleviates anti-trust concerns.

    The Switch - I can vaguely get. I don't imagine many Switch owners are itching to play a gimped down version of CoD on their hand-held devices, but at least it's an entry into a wider market.

    GeForce Now is just... streaming PC games. I don't get that one, other than it gets nVidia some press and probably didn't cost either company anything at all. 

    I guess because Xbox has their own streaming service and they wanted to show how they are being open minded? But if you bought CoD on Steam (and Microsoft sells many of their games over there) you could use it on GeForce Now anyway... so I don't really get it.
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  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,900

    Vrika said:


    Markn said:



    Vrika said:




    Nanfoodle said:


    I would laugh if Sony misses out on this 10 year deal due to all their protests.




    It's possible. But even the the acquisition were allowed, at this point I think it's more likely that the officials would set Microsoft offering that deal to Sony as a condition, and Sony could take it at that point.

    They already offered Sony the same deal Nintendo got and they said no.


    Sony obviously doesn't want to agree to the deal when they'd need to give their ok to the acquisition to do it.

    It doesn't mean Sony wouldn't take the deal if officials decide that the acquisition is going to happen no matter what Sony does.



    Sony has flat said no to the deal more then once. MS representatives at these hearings are in hand offering this to Sony at each meeting. If the deal passes without Sony signing the agreement. Why would MS do that then? Not saying MS would pull CoD from PS platform but at that point, if I was Ms I would make Sony work for it going forward.
  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,900

    Ridelynn said:

    I don't get how GeForce Now constitutes expanding access and alleviates anti-trust concerns.

    The Switch - I can vaguely get. I don't imagine many Switch owners are itching to play a gimped down version of CoD on their hand-held devices, but at least it's an entry into a wider market.

    GeForce Now is just... streaming PC games. I don't get that one, other than it gets nVidia some press and probably didn't cost either company anything at all. 

    I guess because Xbox has their own streaming service and they wanted to show how they are being open minded? But if you bought CoD on Steam (and Microsoft sells many of their games over there) you could use it on GeForce Now anyway... so I don't really get it.



    Geforce Now has about 25 million active users. They also sell a streaming console thats still the best option as far as budget gaming goes. For about $150 bucks and for about $8 a month you can get a stream service to allot of AAA games.
  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,989
    edited February 2023
    Nanfoodle said:

    Vrika said:


    Markn said:



    Vrika said:




    Nanfoodle said:


    I would laugh if Sony misses out on this 10 year deal due to all their protests.




    It's possible. But even the the acquisition were allowed, at this point I think it's more likely that the officials would set Microsoft offering that deal to Sony as a condition, and Sony could take it at that point.

    They already offered Sony the same deal Nintendo got and they said no.


    Sony obviously doesn't want to agree to the deal when they'd need to give their ok to the acquisition to do it.

    It doesn't mean Sony wouldn't take the deal if officials decide that the acquisition is going to happen no matter what Sony does.



    Sony has flat said no to the deal more then once. MS representatives at these hearings are in hand offering this to Sony at each meeting. If the deal passes without Sony signing the agreement. Why would MS do that then? Not saying MS would pull CoD from PS platform but at that point, if I was Ms I would make Sony work for it going forward.
    Because, like I said in the first post of this quote pyramid: If the officials approve the deal, it's likely they would do it on the condition that MS offers the deal to Sony.

    The officials can give conditional approval like that.
     
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  • GorweGorwe Member Posts: 1,609
    I don't like this large scale grouping. At all. Whenever was the lack of corporate competition good for us?
  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,900

    Gorwe said:

    I don't like this large scale grouping. At all. Whenever was the lack of corporate competition good for us?




    DarkZorvanReturns said:

    I'm calling it now. PS5 is the last Playstation. SONY is just running themselves into the ground. Even if they accept MS deal, this merger stacks the deck so far into MS favor SONY will only survive by whatever "deals" MS deigns to allow them in the future. If giving MS an exclusive to my game puts me not only on Xbox, PC, mobile (streaming), but also Nintendo ( and MS will make more deals with Nintendo )? Yeah, I'm not going to give PS a single thought.



    Sony has about 290 exclusives, MS only has about 50ish. This deal will not change the landscape for gamers when it comes to buying consoles, unless Gamepass looks better to someone because all they care about is CoD. Even then, buying CoD over a monthly sub would be cheaper as we only get a new CoD title every 2 years. Sony will still have the upper hand by a large margin. In the console war, after activation deal is closed (if it happens) Nintendo and Sony will be ahead. All this does is give MS the ability to compete. This means MS can make money off more gamers that play on the console they want, PS, Switch or any other platform.
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