They will be bringing out the football economy comparisons next. Man City, I'm sure have worked hard, but in the end they got bought out by rich person and then spent millions on building a team. Look at them now. They single handedly dominate the gaming market with their Playman Citybox 9000 computer console gmae.
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They're already doing this now with Samsung TVs but it's not comparable to Stadia because you're not purchasing individual titles and you're able to play across cloud, console and PC so it's not eggs in one basket.Originally posted by hudson View Post
Geforce NOW is a competing cloud service so that will definitely be cloud only but Switch I do wonder whether MS may bring COD across as an actual release if this new Switch Pro model actually does exist, and is capable enoughComment
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I suppose the last ditch pitch is effectively them telling the CMA that regardless of how each company got where they are, within the console sector the CMA would be supporting a monopoly rather than preventing one if they deny the deal.
I know leaving Nintendo out of the discussion is wrong but to be fair to MS that's the tact the CMA itself took when initially rebutting the deal so that rod of debate is in place now by default as all parties dismiss Nintendo from the situation. The current eruption of PS5 sales won't help either, demonstrating that Sony otherwise looks likely to extend that lead which is a much worse scenario than PS and XB competing more evenly. We all know what arrogant era Sony is like.
Personally, I still don't see anyway in which the deal is particularly negative for gamers. It's literally just PlayStation affected by it by losing favour of over one title who's reduction in prominence on the market would actually aid competition and other companies ability to market their own games.
I'm in the camp now though that I don't think the CMA will budge and this will fall through now.
And Sony will likely come to regret allowing MS to move it's money and targeting sights elsewhere.Comment
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I think we have to remember that this isn't just Xbox, it's MS and the CMA have tussled with them before over company buying. There is a history between them which won't help MS.Comment
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Yep, if it were Sega with the exact same system and market it'd probably be alright. It's a massive deal but to MS overall I don't think it adds anything to them developing more of a monopoly than they already have via their other ventures.
If this falls through I keep wondering who they will turn their sights to next, it's a puzzler as most of the next best options are in Japan where there'd be objection by default. Maybe just throw a billion or two at Acti as a parting blow and make Modern Warfare 3 Xbox exclusive
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They'll have a back up plan. Maybe pay half the money and own 49% of them.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View PostYep, if it were Sega with the exact same system and market it'd probably be alright. It's a massive deal but to MS overall I don't think it adds anything to them developing more of a monopoly than they already have via their other ventures.
If this falls through I keep wondering who they will turn their sights to next, it's a puzzler as most of the next best options are in Japan where there'd be objection by default. Maybe just throw a billion or two at Acti as a parting blow and make Modern Warfare 3 Xbox exclusiveComment
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they will buy Sony and we will see the Sexbox 69 console emerge in 2028.Comment
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It would have to be a western company as I can’t see any of the big Jap devs or pubs selling up to MS.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View PostYep, if it were Sega with the exact same system and market it'd probably be alright. It's a massive deal but to MS overall I don't think it adds anything to them developing more of a monopoly than they already have via their other ventures.
If this falls through I keep wondering who they will turn their sights to next, it's a puzzler as most of the next best options are in Japan where there'd be objection by default. Maybe just throw a billion or two at Acti as a parting blow and make Modern Warfare 3 Xbox exclusiveComment
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Yep, and in that situation there are so few major ones left that aren't heavily being share courted by the likes of Tencent or wouldn't face the same hurdles as the Activision deal. EA seems like the next best way to accomplish the same goals and at half the cost as well but I just imagine Sony would make the same arguments unless MS could convince authorities that the loss of the FIFA license mitigates that franchise and frankly EA doesn't have a franchise that single handedly has COD's weight - given how much emphasis has been put on that one franchiseComment
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CMA won't put any weight on MS's deal with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty to their console because they believe that the Switch is too poorly powered to run the games and therefore the deal is meaningless
There's really a sense that the CMA knows sod all about gaming. It's not about bringing existing COD's to Switch with all of their obscenely over bloated file sizes etc. It's about bringing the future ones over which MS can easily have developed in a way that sorts of the ridiculous HDD killing file sizes and also likely won't start arriving till Switch 2 is out anyway.Comment
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A US Judge has granted MS's request for access to Sony's internal documentsComment
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Only going back to 2019 though (they'd asked for 10 years or 2012). Still, going to be really interestingComment
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