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ConfusedTorchic posted...

unless you're saying the fact that they're going to be putting them on nintendos platform and various streaming platforms aren't making for a better market

Honestly, not that much. By and large, those that care about CoD have already bought a PS or Xbox to play it. You'll get a small handful of people trying them out on Gamepass and maybe deciding they like them, but at the end of the day it's just one game (rereleased annually because apparently that's good enough for people) that most people already have access to in some form or another. Not exactly revolutionary, and certainly not enough to offset the obvious market-wide harm it would do to remove them from Sony platforms.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

in addition, sony has already stepped up their efforts, too. they've made their own purchases. they just recently bought bungie and firewalk. they turned square into essentially a second party with their exclusivity agreements, ect.

And that's also bad for the market. Exclusivity deals only help the owners of the systems to which the games are exclusive. Everyone else - especially consumers - are hurt by them.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

and yet it's still happening.

And yet it's still not worthwhile. Don't get too attached to the idea.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i never said it was how they worked. you did, by claiming microsoft wasn't going to do anything. when historically we know that they do get involved, bad eggs are gotten rid of, hr departments get more robust, working conditions improve, ect. this ain't it chief.

Do you genuinely believe this is an act of charity and not something they expect to be profitable? ABK is as valuable as it is because of how evil they are. That's just capitalism. Buying something valuable and then gutting its value makes zero business sense.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

imagine thinking it's anti-consumer to make something more available on more platforms.

That's entirely the opposite of what I said, and I said the opposite of that in response to you suggesting that it's pro-consumer to make something available on fewer platforms ("Sony won't be able to depend on CoD anymore," to paraphrase).