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MyAnswerSucks t1_jdmle8a wrote

Parasite Eve is on there twice, I guess it deserves to be though.

Gravity Rush is on there twice too, though idk about it.

I'd like another Shining Force, in the same style as Neo/EXA, another Grandia would be nice as well.

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mr-blue- t1_jdmlew6 wrote

What are you talking about lol

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Emil_Zatopek1982 t1_jdmlmk7 wrote

Microsoft can't beat Sony in console business, so it aims to selling games business. I think they have pretty different business plans and I would not even be surprised if we don't see another Xbox, but will see PS6. MS clearly has it's eyes on cloud gaming and Sony don't care about that.

Playstation is too strong brand for Microsoft. Sony should just do what it does best and I bet both of them will be fine.

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BlakeRobertsIII t1_jdmmnjl wrote

You don't care about CoD, but the franchise is huge, and a lot of people would choose to stay with CoD over PS exclusives.

I don't care about CoD either, but this is a weak take. Just look at how much Microsoft has been trashing themselves trying to convince regulators the acquisition wouldn't affect Sony.

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ItsLCGaming t1_jdmn631 wrote

It's understandable where Sony is coming from to a point but then they lost the plot

Thing is Sony hasn't changed their business when others did they need to adapt better. Why they are complaining it's not about losing cod but losing the bottom line revenue from Activision

They pumped a lot of money getting deals and receiving money back to fund themselves for the exclusives. They have content in every other game just to PS

This needs to stop and just focus on themselves first. All the money to block games just use your own studios in the first place

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hurdygurdy21 t1_jdmnfg9 wrote

It's funny. I'm scrolling through Reddit while watching FritangaPlays talk about the merger and I see this post. Was half expecting some salt but this is a reasonable take. Sony should focus on all those shelved 1st party titles they have. I would love a new Gravity Rush or Sly Cooper, LBP, hell even a better Knack (second one was pretty fun if I remember right).

I have both consoles so I don't care at this point but it is nuts to see Jim Ryan trying so hard to keep CoD when they have so many other titles that aren't on Xbox and some that will never come to PC (losing hope about Bloodborne, RIP). It's like he doesn't have trust in his brand or something which is not a good look for a CEO.

Oh well. Makes for some good content.

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ItsLCGaming t1_jdmnkxx wrote

Replying to Emil_Zatopek1982 (#2,353,813)

Of course more options but there's always people who want hardware. As good as cloud can be it's nowhere a main source of gaming

All the options ms gives and the series consoles have sold better than any xbox to date in the period they been out

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BlueMikeStu t1_jdmo5pt wrote

It's a good thing you're not in charge of Sony, then.

Microsoft trying to buy third parties is a big deal, and we know their lies about not making everything exclusive are lies after their acquisition of Bethesda. You might not care much for Call of Duty, but it's literally the biggest third-party franchise in existence and competed with Pokemon in terms of sales figures. Microsoft suddenly turning it exclusive is the kind of move that decides the console generation winner by itself.

Sony has to protest it. Jim Ryan would be shit at his job if he didn't. And that's just COD. The acquisition would give them all of Activision's other franchises, as well as Blizzard's. So that's Diablo, Warcraft, Overwatch, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Tony Hawk, and more.

There's no way regulators are going to allow it to go through. It's too big a merger and would give Microsoft a defacto monopoly on the market.

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Emil_Zatopek1982 t1_jdmodug wrote

Replying to ItsLCGaming (#2,353,836)

Of course, I am talking about the future.

And we know that selling consoles is a bad business. The money consoles make comes from other sources than selling the actual console. I think this is why MS already flirts with cloud, but Xcloud is pretty bad and years away from actually working product. GeForce Now is great techwise, but it has a lousy library which MS now makes much better.

But yeah, I agree that consoles are not going away in near future.

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xixipinga t1_jdmoe4r wrote

And they woul use their 500+ people studios full of writers, actors and mocap to turn everyone of those games into a 50 hour of cinematcs drama that barely resembles the originals

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Liquid_Raptor54 t1_jdmv47w wrote

Replying to BlueMikeStu (#2,353,914)

I really can't see people going out to buy Xboxes on mass just because CoD left PlayStation. You really think Microsoft is going to leave that much money on the table just because they bought Activision? Makes zero sense. "Let's shoot ourselves in the foot and lose $$$billions just because we wanna stick it to Sony"?

They couldn't convince PC gamers to buy an extra Xbox so all their former exclusives are now on PC. Couldn't convince enough people to only use their crappy Microsoft store so they seem to not mind sharing the 30% cut with Steam lately. They definitely know a lot of people won't suddenly drop Sony for Microsoft or bother buying Xboxes

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Catty_C t1_jdmxhs7 wrote

It would be neat if MAG returned.

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gothpunkboy89 t1_jdn0r4m wrote

>These are just my own thoughts and opinions but I have to say as a Playstation fan I'm beginning to get really annoyed and frustrated by them over how much they are complaining about "Call Of Duty" as well as Microsoft stopping them from getting it too

You are getting mad that a company is trying to act in their best interest and by extention the interest of their player base?

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mwhite42216 t1_jdn2q0u wrote

Replying to BlueMikeStu (#2,353,914)

All they said regarding the aquisition of Bethesda was that they wouldn't make all their games exclusive. You're a fool if you thought Starfield wouldn't be exclusive. But unless Fallout and Elder Scrolls become Microsoft exclusive (Doom and Wolfenstein as well), you really have no argument here.

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mwhite42216 t1_jdn3i4d wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,354,455)

But it's not just going to Microsoft, Playstation still gets the games as well. Obviously now Microsoft benefits from those sales too, but it's not a total loss for Sony. Microsoft aren't stupid enough to take away the revenue they would recieve from keeping the franchise on Sony consoles too.

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xixipinga t1_jdnbj8d wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,356,426)

I love cutscenes, the orignal cutscenescand acting in the original gow were fantastic, sony had everything in the right measure, but they decided that a 10 hours of gameplay and 2 hours of cutscenes would not be enough to fullfill the myth of the 50+ hours long game and then transformed gow into a game movie

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BlueMikeStu t1_jdned11 wrote

Replying to mwhite42216 (#2,355,598)

Microsoft said they'd decide it on a case by case basis, and every case has been for exclusivity. Regulators are not morons who say "Tee-hee, you got us!"

Microsoft violated the spirit of their agreement with regulators with Bethesda merger, so those same regulators aren't going to take them at their word now.

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BlueMikeStu t1_jdnf1sy wrote

Replying to Liquid_Raptor54 (#2,354,705)

> Makes zero sense. "Let's shoot ourselves in the foot and lose $$$billions just because we wanna stick it to Sony"?

Almost like making Bethesda's new game Starfield a Microsoft exclusive costs them billions to stick it to Sony would be shooting themselves in the foot? That exact thing that happened?

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BlueMikeStu t1_jdng8ez wrote

Replying to hurdygurdy21 (#2,353,818)

Call of Duty is literally the fourth biggest franchise in all of gaming, after Mario, Tetris, and Pokemon. By itself, the merger is big enough to warrant investigation by regulator bodies, and that's before you factor in all the other IPs which Microsoft would acquire with the merger on top of that, like Diablo, Overwatch, Tony Hawk, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, etc etc.

A single Call of Duty game has outsold the lifetime sales of any franchise on OP's list. A single Call of Duty game has outsold the lifetime sales of the entire original Halo trilogy.

Pretending it's just another game series which can be easily replaced is fucking asinine.

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LaserGadgets t1_jdnoa6o wrote

Finally one who likes Infinite Warfare! Like a playable episdode of a new galactica show! Love it!

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OkCrantropical t1_jdnr04q wrote

Replying to BlueMikeStu (#2,356,866)

A critical eye is not a no. It’s a critical eye. And while I’m not saying I agree with the acquisition, there is no solid legal standpoint to block it, and if anyone did they’d immediately be contested. It’s going to go through.

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LaserGadgets t1_jdnsjrw wrote

Replying to undefeated_Equality (#2,357,906)

Why? they had the right pew pew guns for me and the regular everyday-sick-n-tired-of-it shotguns and machineguns :p BOIII was all automatic weapons it felt like. Not a fan. Its the future. I wanted that plasma charge gun so bad!

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emi_yagami t1_jdnu7g5 wrote

Exclusives are bad for consumers, and we shouldn't support any system having them. Sony has been poring some games over to pc, so that's a step in the right direction. I'd like to see more posts about wanting these franchises on other platforms. Not just over to pc. I'd love to see the day xbox players get to play them too, but that'll likely never happen.

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mwhite42216 t1_jdnzrcr wrote

Replying to BlueMikeStu (#2,357,684)

It's still not an existing IP. Sony fans have not been deprived of any titles they've been able to play for years. Outside of Bethesda, Microsoft also owns Mojang and Minecraft. That a hugely successful title that is still available on multiple platforms. Microsoft could have taken that away. They could have taken Fallout, Skyrim etc away but they haven't.

If Sony had the money to do the same thing Microsoft is doing, would they do things any different than Microsoft? Sony's exclusive developers/games remain exclusive to their consoles. The outrage seems to be that you and everyone else hates that Microsoft has more money. But unless they take all these pre-existing titles away, what is there to really complain about?

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