Microsoft Believes That Sony is Capable of Creating its Own Alternative to Call of Duty

[InVasMani]

Git gud become a bigger monopoly like us in some other way if you don't like it.

 

[Kohl Baas]

M$ knows exactly this is bullcrap otherwise they could done the same instead of just buying the whole circus and disclosing Sony is the whole point of it. That's why it doesn't matter what they say about it.

No exclusive franchise can grow as big as a multiplatform. It's just as basic as water is wet and fire is hot. This is bad for all the CoD buyers/fans that only has/will have PlayStation without giving anithing that could benefit players/buyers on other platforms.

 

[Colddecked]

So can you, Microsoft. Stop buying shit and ruining it and try to come up with something by yourself. You can dump even more money than Sony into making a CoD alternative and yet you strong arm the market with your billions.

But didn't Sony just buy Bungie? Strong arming the market, lol... no one is forcing you to play CoD or any other acti/blizzard games.

 

[Kohl Baas]

But didn't Sony just buy Bungie? Strong arming the market, lol... no one is forcing you to play CoD or any other acti/blizzard games.

Which is funy because Microsoft had Bungie between 2000-2007.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Sony ditched their greatest and one of my personal favorite FPS for robotic dinosaurs game. Get fukd Sony.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
As shooters go CoD is only one I'll likely not consider anymore.
I still have the first CoD urban warfare on dvd it pretty much sucked.

 

[chrcoluk]

Do we have people here saying Sony has forgot about exclusives? and also that exclusives are a good thing.

Exclusives are anti consumer, locking the player down to specific hardware. I have never really had a problem with first party exclusives so much, , but have always frowned upon 3rd party exclusives, the latter of which Sony is doing much more aggressive than Microsoft, depending on how you look at it.

Lots of games I play are still not been released on Xbox, because of Sony making deals to lock then down to PS4/5. Usually from Japanese developers. Microsoft even recently mentioned it in their defence of their takeovers.

Sony locked down FF7 remake for a year on Sony platforms, then intergrade for another period on PS5, after that was allowed on the PC market, but in nowhere to be seen on Xbox. Almost certainly SE have been compensated for that.

Tales of Zestiria and Berseria not released on Xbox. Other examples.

At first I though Microsoft did the good thing and stopped this anti consumer practice, but instead they are taking another approach, they are buying up successful franchises, so they become first party owned. These are still multi platform however, I assume they will make them exclusives at some point though. I dont agree with this and its now changed my view on first party exclusives.

The benefit of consoles is the lower cost of entry on the hardware and that they are designed for exclusively as a casual gaming device. It is interesting people feel instead that the benefit is not the entry cost or the design, but the exclusivity of content. I have always considered the latter as a hindrance, e.g. I love nintendo games, but dont play them as I havent brought a nintendo console other than the wii-u (which they abandoned which then made me abandon nintendo, my decision to not purchase a switch was based solely on this).

Its also the reason I hate Epic as their strategy is exclusivity of content.

Essentially Microsoft have seemingly decided they dont like the risk of making new first party games so much, and instead want to buy successful brands. Its a further regression of the games market, where at one point we had a constant supply of new offline single player games, and new ideas. But now its more and more rehashes of old ideas, games as a service, online and sequels.

 

[sepheronx]

Call Of duty hasn't been good since like what, 2nd game?

These tacticool shooters are boring. Killzone had an interesting story. I think Sony could look back at that. There is also Resistance. Maybe try to fix where they went wrong with Haze and try again?

But playing it safe is good for investors, so they will just keep to that instead.

 

[Scrizz]

Call Of duty hasn't been good since like what, 2nd game?

These tacticool shooters are boring. Killzone had an interesting story. I think Sony could look back at that. There is also Resistance. Maybe try to fix where they went wrong with Haze and try again?

But playing it safe is good for investors, so they will just keep to that instead.

Yes, I enjoyed Killzone 2 and Resistance FoM