Why people like you cannot understand that every person that buys PS is person which will not buy XBox, pay for GamePass or xCloud or buy anything in their store from which they get 30%? Fifa alone gives EA $1 bilion in microtransactions. That's more than $400 milion for company on whose console people are playing. There is way more to gain than money from few milion games sold on PS5.
That's interesting way of saying that Sony fanboys are toxic.
Every game is fun with friends
They are going to use them to grow their brand and their service. They ain’t looking to recoup their investment for a long time. It’s a long game where they already have an eye on the generation afterwards and building an unmissable subscription service.
How do you change that? By having more and better exclusives than the other guy.
wtf is this supposed to mean? lower cash, and its placed under an asset??
60 dollar game sold on PS5 = 42$ for Microsoft, 18$ for Sony.
Yes, and thats you reply to him saying the purchase of the studio wont pay off 7 billion over 10 years? A simple balance sheet journal entry?
These are very loose assumptions on what owning them means. People are going to buy Xbox's anyway and if they are giving it away free on gamepass thats no additional revenue except gamepass subscritions and that is not a huge moneymaker for MS.
All Bethesda games will be on gamepass in 2021 is what I am assuming
They will never pay off a 7 billion dollar investment in them. This is a 7 billion dollar purchase to try to make their game studio's look better as they have mismanaged the ones they have and are unable to produce new ones due to lack of creativity.
It could be a sunk cost fallacy or it could be a vanity or pride project the CEO bought into too, but making corporations spend that much money comes with a burden of proof internally in most scenarios.
See how easily the retardation is reversed? There is no logic or business sense to your 'analysis', just fanboy screeching. Consoles have exclusive services, features or games to make them appealing. Why does this need to be explained on an enthusiast forum? How you can so easily and greasily wank over Sony's stance on the matter, but not their competitor's is feat worthy of some serious self-reflection.
Same way 7 billion was spent on Github to promote Azure Pipelines and 26 billion on LinkedIn to promote Azure Training. It helps them in the long run. No one is desperately trying to squeeze money out of them.
Gotta love business analysts on GAF. Every personal wishlist can just be attached with "It makes sense for business".LOL mister obvious has come to rescue saving the new year already
"We just spent 7.5 billions for nothing! We don't believe in Bethesda games at all"
Now I really wonder how they're going to make the deal work for them.
In 2021 they'll publish PS5 exclusive games which is laughable.
Bethesda has basically only two games planned for the whole generation Star Field and ESVI. And what happened with Cyberpunk has probably changed the landscape of what will be considered acceptable from them as well, things like Skyrim PS3 or Fallout76 will be buried by the media so this will have an impact on dev times as well.
Then they have to make everything profitable somehow and it's not clear how they're going to do it making these huge games that took 5-7 years to be developed available almost for free on Gamepass.
It will be easier with smaller teams like Arkane and Tango whose games do not sell really well traditionally and will be refocused on smaller projects (episodic as well?) that can work on Gamepass.
Interesting times ahead but more on the business side of things.
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No, there was/is negativity only because S**y was left on the doorstep.
They don't waste any money if they don't spend it.
when they gave 3 months or whatever it was for a dollar.Xbox Game Pass subscribers leap by 50% in five months
Buried in yesterday's megaton news Microsoft is buying Bethesda and Zenimax for $7.5bn was an eye-opening statistic on …
exactly. Phil said they would stop paying companies to not release games on other platforms. So how does he get around his own bullshit. Just buy the company directly..
I disagree. If they do not spend it they make some money thanks to whatever interest they generate currently. Let’s call it $X Billion.
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laughing at these posts when I am saying I believe it was a good purchase, it shows they do not read what they comment on)
Oh I get that, ask EA about all their asset studio purchases and how they worked out for the balance sheet.
The last Elder Scrolls game was Skyrim, which is one of the most influential games ever. What are you talking about?
Now that is looking at it with 2nd semester accounting textbook studies.
He just put his opinions as if they where facts, pretty common thing to do it seems.
They won't be exclusives if they are on PC. If they are on PC the purchase of an XsX becomes pointless unless you're poor. It means the PC version of Starfield etc etc will flatten the XsX version. This is still the wrong strategy if MS want to outsell Ps5 they must give us a reason to own an XsX. Without exclusives the XsX is irrelevant.
I didn't say it didn't make business sense. I said that after all of Phils talk about being 'pro-consumer', that it was hypocritical...
I didn't know that one person can be so wrong in one sentence.
The right one would be to fully support and enhance PC gaming as the superior alternative to consoles. Compete with consoles as a whole, instead of conning SEGA fanboys who still blame Sony after all these years. And they could have done that YEARS ago.
When will people realize that Xbox isn't just the console and it is now an ecosystem. Microsoft isn't competing against PC
