Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty on PlayStation::Microsoft and Sony have signed an agreement to keep Activision’s best-selling Call of Duty series available on PlayStation, after the conclusion of the deal.
Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty on PlayStation::Microsoft and Sony have signed an agreement to keep Activision’s best-selling Call of Duty series available on PlayStation, after the conclusion of the deal.
Not too surprised tbh.
But what will happen to the console market in 10 years? Does it shift to a subscription model and you choose games via your TV and everything is streamed?
But I’m glad CoD will still be around - at least some constant I can rely on haha
Likely the same thing that has happened to every other industry.
Sounds like Game Pass to me
It does and that’s the real issue.
MS has the power, reach and financial means to completely steamroll the market by underpricing games pass to kill any competition. Then once they’ve done that they can set prices, control labour and production to reduce costs too and monopolise the market to their shareholders cold dead money grubbing hearts content.
To put the scale of the issue in perspective.
Microsoft has a market cap of 2.5 Trillion dollars. Or 2500 billion.
Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, Valve, EA, Take Two and Ubisoft combined don’t even reach 700 billion. We take Tencent out of the equation and it’s only 300 billion.
So we’re talking 4x that of all their combined global competition. If we only look at “western” companies its basically 8.5x.
But getting rid of Bobby Kotick will make gaming better /s
Indeed. At first, I cheered for them because I wanted a better Blizzard and saw it as an opportunity to get rid of Kotick exactly as you say. But the more it drags on and the more I read/hear about context… the more I wish it fell through.
And yet the notion of taking a step back and dusting off the old system is actively rebelled against by consumers because they’d rather have convenient shit than quality if it means having to pay for it.
Then we just play all of our roms via emulation.