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So it's race to buy up all the publishers?

zerocrates 5y ago
Bungie isn't really a publisher... I guess they maybe self-publish Destiny 2 now? Microsoft's last 2 big acquisitions have been publishers with many underlying studios all included... I don't know that I can think of Sony really ever doing that; they've mostly bought up individual studios. Of course they're not nearly as big as Microsoft is.
- tantalor 5y ago
  > they maybe self-publish Destiny 2 now Yes since 2019 https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47569 https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47569
efficax 5y ago
Sony is about to sunset Playstation Plus and Now and merge them into a service that will try to compete with Xbox Gamepass, and to do that you need games.
- enos_feedler 5y ago
  Its not just to compete with Gamepass, it’s moving to where the customer is. Over the next 10 years, where is the growth in gaming going to come from? Hint: not selling more 400 watt white and black boxes dedicated to gaming that plug into screens. Sony and Microsoft are less interested in competing with each other and more interested in protecting the total market from Google, Amazon and Apple. None of those companies have legacy console business, have enormous cash piles and understand there is a bright future in gaming ($$$)
  - MisterBastahrd 5y ago
    Gaming will eventually be where if you want to play a game, you just plug into a remote computer system pre-built for it, and the only games that will still be installed on consumer devices will be those which need extremely low latency like shooters and fighting games.
- Scramblejams 5y ago
  Should I max out my PS Plus subscription because it's about to get converted to something else at a favorable value ratio?
disambiguation 5y ago
yes, MS wants to create the "netflix of games"
Apocryphon 5y ago
Oligopolize all the markets!
HWR_14 5y ago
In the same way Disney, Amazon, NBC and HBO (now ATT time warner) are trying to buy all the back catalogs if content for their streaming services. Being able to play any game from the past (x publishers only) on your Xbox/ps for a monthly fee is a giant fight brewing.
- syshum 5y ago
  >>now ATT time warner You mean Warner Bros. Discovery, since ATT is spinning off the Media and merging with Discovery to from the new company Warner Bros. Discovery
  - HWR_14 5y ago
    I thought that deal got delayed because of some concern I don't remember.

Bungie isn't really a publisher... I guess they maybe self-publish Destiny 2 now? Microsoft's last 2 big acquisitions have been publishers with many underlying studios all included... I don't know that I can think of Sony really ever doing that; they've mostly bought up individual studios. Of course they're not nearly as big as Microsoft is.

tantalor 5y ago
> they maybe self-publish Destiny 2 now Yes since 2019 https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47569 https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47569

efficax 5y ago

Sony is about to sunset Playstation Plus and Now and merge them into a service that will try to compete with Xbox Gamepass, and to do that you need games.

enos_feedler 5y ago
Its not just to compete with Gamepass, it’s moving to where the customer is. Over the next 10 years, where is the growth in gaming going to come from? Hint: not selling more 400 watt white and black boxes dedicated to gaming that plug into screens. Sony and Microsoft are less interested in competing with each other and more interested in protecting the total market from Google, Amazon and Apple. None of those companies have legacy console business, have enormous cash piles and understand there is a bright future in gaming ($$$)
- MisterBastahrd 5y ago
  Gaming will eventually be where if you want to play a game, you just plug into a remote computer system pre-built for it, and the only games that will still be installed on consumer devices will be those which need extremely low latency like shooters and fighting games.
Scramblejams 5y ago
Should I max out my PS Plus subscription because it's about to get converted to something else at a favorable value ratio?

disambiguation 5y ago

yes, MS wants to create the "netflix of games"

Apocryphon 5y ago

Oligopolize all the markets!

HWR_14 5y ago

In the same way Disney, Amazon, NBC and HBO (now ATT time warner) are trying to buy all the back catalogs if content for their streaming services. Being able to play any game from the past (x publishers only) on your Xbox/ps for a monthly fee is a giant fight brewing.

syshum 5y ago
>>now ATT time warner You mean Warner Bros. Discovery, since ATT is spinning off the Media and merging with Discovery to from the new company Warner Bros. Discovery
- HWR_14 5y ago
  I thought that deal got delayed because of some concern I don't remember.