what’s next attachments for guns being locked behind exclusivity?
I think Sony is trying to pull the same trick as with crossplay where they were protecting the children. Nobody bat an eye that time because Xbox One was not in the great position and PS4 was well loved market leader.
That’s not the case with Xbox now and especially with Game Pass.
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I wouldn’t bet on it, with the way everything has inflated over the past ten years I suspect a mid-large size publisher in another 5-10 years could do it.
Who knows what will happen, maybe a large asian company will want to buy Nintendo.
Maybe EA and Take Two will merge. That would be a 50B+ company (or 75-85B acquisition easy).
Phil basically saying, y’all best step your game up because if you guys lose your market leading console position …
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Sony can simply fuck off, they act like they have some inherent right to ALWAYS be a gaming market leader and all the crappy anti consumer and anti competitive things they have done over 3 decades is AOK.
Screw them, I hope they get kicked down a few pegs and are forced to compete by actually trying to do good for gamers Instead of just fleecing them.
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Would be hilarious if everything escalates and nobody will take Sony’s side. Aside maybe Square Enix 
Thats a terrible take from Jez. Hes insinuating that Xbox needs playstation for things like Fallout 76 and TES online when Microsoft already has bigger games like Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon 4/5 which are Xbox exclusive.
As for the other bit…yes Sony is terrified of losing Call of Duty…because they in all likelyhood will.
If they have started phase 2 in the UK, then we won’t know much about this until next year, right?
Most likely yeah. They have 32 weeks to make a conclusion, probably won’t take that long but I think it’s safe to assume this deal isn’t closing this year.
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Until November this year probably.
We pretty much already know this is the case from the Brazilian survey. All the publishers who responded basically gave a ‘meh’ apart from Sony.
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I have read that the FTC does not do any kind of statement on this type of agreement and I do not know how it works in other countries, i mean, we have only learned more about the deal thanks to Brazil and the UK regulators lol
We can probably pencil it in to finish by March-April ish next year.
The whole past few weeks got me feeling like this
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Pretty much, I wish I had more middle fingers to flick Sony off. Such a horrible shit of a company
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As I said in the other thread, MS should imply that failing to acquire ABK would free up cash to spend on business activities that Sony have proven over and again are “fine” and lock down CoD exclusivity for years. Make the alternative so much worse.
Imply for whom? Sony is perfectly aware what Microsoft is capable of.
Would be hilarious if Sony taking a piss screws them over getting COD after the additional years.
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Well, at least there were some rumors that in the gaming industry Sony is becoming less attractive than before due to Microsoft’s money and much friendlier attitude. In PS4 era you just did not have an alternative to PS4, which is not the case right now thus there is some discontent.
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