@GilbertXI Fortunately, Sony isn't as rich as Microsoft. According to Nintendo Life, Nintendo is richer than Sony, too (they reported that Nintendo is the richest Japanese company). Sony can't buy Take-Two Interactive (owner of Rockstar) nor Square Enix 😊 and Take-Two won't sell the best-selling company of the generation.
Phil's confirmed they'll honour the upcoming games that have already arranged to be exclusive .... Future ones will come to XBox & PC. Other consoles on a case-by-case basis, too!
@BlueOcean yeah, for now at least. They're on uncomfortably good terms with square enix, and have been since final fantasy VII. It doesn't take too much of an imagination to go one step further and at least make a couple of their franchises exclusive to Sony. Timed exclusivity is all right in my opinion, I'm patient, but making a sequel to a game already on another platform is not okay. That's the one thing I didn't like about Xbox, they made the hell blade sequel exclusive. Oh well, if Sony keeps up what they did this gen, I think they'll both do well in different areas.
@BlueOcean Maybe if they compared their gaming divisions. I'm pretty sure that Sony's market value as a whole is bigger than Nintendo.
Nintendo sits on a ton of money, that's true. But in general companies use their revenue to invest in other stuff, so their estimated value is higher. But yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo has the most moolah on the bank, because that's all they do. Rake in the money and sit on it.
@Octane True. Nintendo certainly don't invest much in development lately 😅.
@GilbertXI Sony will be alright commercially although they are approaching the arrogant era again and people might like them less than before. Every Final Fantasy game since VII is or will be available on Xbox, I hope it remains like that, I like that franchise very much. Microsoft has become Square-Enix's friend too, they got all the Kingdom Hearts. My opinion about the timed exclusivity of VII Remake and XVI is that Square Enix likes the extra cash that gets from Sony, that's all. Otherwise, they wouldn't be friendly to Microsoft.
Bethesda had previously agreed to debut two of its upcoming games, Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo, on Sony’s new PlayStation rather than Xbox. Both games were announced as “timed console exclusives,” meaning that they would be restricted to the PlayStation 5 for a fixed period of time before coming to Xbox.
So those two games will come to Series, you made it sound like they won't:
Phil's confirmed they'll honour the upcoming games that have already arranged to be exclusive .... Future ones will come to XBox & PC. Other consoles on a case-by-case basis, too!
@GilbertXI I agree that this move will cause Sony to buy up companies. Konami, Square Enix, etc. (there's constant rumours about a fully PS5 exclusive Silent Hill game for example)
I think the Xbox platform would've been stronger only having the day 1 Game Pass side of the Bethesda deal rather than becoming a 1st party.
There are definitely massive positives too though. The competition over first party exclusives really drives them to try and create much more advanced (and big budget) games, and take risks on certain things that big publishers normally wouldn't.
Just think how many of the best games of the last generation were first party exclusives. Probably like 80% of them, depending on your tastes. That's not an accident. It's because having that backing of a platform holder gives them the resources and time needed to produce really good stuff.
So I decided to finally try out Viva Piñata 2 on Rare Replay, being the only Viva Piñata game I hadn't played at all in ever, and suddenly unlocked a diamond achievement for playing both Viva Piñata titles...
So, you're going to tell me than in all the years this collection has been available... Less than 5% of the people with Rare Replay have taken the time to launch both Viva Piñata games at least once...
That's shocking to be honest.
(Says the person that has owned the collection for about a year and has only played one game from it)
@Grumblevolcano@Dezzy I'm not necessarily knocking down what Xbox is doing, I doubt they'll be exclusive, permanently at least. I'm just a bit worried about Sony's response. They will make the games exclusive if they acquire it, which can be bad. Konami might be all right, but Square Enix would be horrible.
@GilbertXI That's what I was saying though, Bethesda being a Xbox 1st party causes Sony to buy more 1st party studios and make them permanent Playstation exclusives meanwhile if Microsoft only did the day 1 Game Pass part of the deal then at worst Sony would've done more timed exclusives like FFVII Remake and FFXVI.
So far, Phil, Larry, Pete & Todd are carefully NOT saying anything about any future exclusive games ..... If they are planning anything like that, they need to say so, clearly, ASAP, so people can adjust to it
@Grumblevolcano Sorry, was only half replying. I highly doubt the games will be anything besides gamepass day 1 or timed exclusive for only 1-6 months. But the acquisition in the first place sony will see as an invitation to do that anyways. No matter how little the exclusivity will be, Sony won't care. They'll take it as a challenge and go full exclusive with final fantasy stuff, seems like something they will do. I'm just voicing my worry on that, I doubt it will matter to Sony.
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