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This is about Activision purchase. Hey regulators, look we play well with others companies... and 10 years is pretty good right we can buy Activision now right?

This is about Activision purchase. Hey regulators, look we play well with others companies... and 10 years is pretty good right we can buy Activision now right? (10 years 1 day later all Activision games are Xbox XL exclusives)

mynameisvlad 4y ago
There is no indication that Microsoft would do that. Their entire MO this generation (and part of last) has been to try and offer GamePass games on as many places as possible. Their current strategy would be to push the subscription and cloud service onto the Switch (and PS4) but Nintendo has refused. If anything, this would very much be a Sony move, where exclusives show up on PCs years later and never on other consoles.
- nerdix 4y ago
  No indication other than the fact that they purchased ZeniMax and then almost immediately cancelled the PlayStation version of Starfield. They still haven't come out and said definitively that Elder Scrolls 6 will release on Playstation. It will very likely be an Xbox exclusive. If they intend to continue support for non-Microsoft platforms past 10 years then they should codify that in the contract. It's telling that the deals that they offered Nintendo, Nvidia, and Sony have all been for 10 years.
  - autoexec 4y ago
    > It will very likely be an Xbox exclusive. Aren't most xbox games just PC games anyway? It seems like exclusives are mostly limited to Nintendo these days. Everything else is dumbed down console ports of PC games. Here's wikipedia's list of Xbox one exclusives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox_One-only_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox_One-only_games Halo 5 is the only one that really matters.
- anonymousab 4y ago
  > There is no indication that Microsoft would do that. They immediately did so for any upcoming Bethesda/zenimax games that did not have a prior agreement with Sony.
pjmlp 4y ago
Regulators have had enough time to look into Sony exclusives and XBox being on the third place. However Sony crying how poor they are seems to be winning them.

mynameisvlad 4y ago

There is no indication that Microsoft would do that. Their entire MO this generation (and part of last) has been to try and offer GamePass games on as many places as possible. Their current strategy would be to push the subscription and cloud service onto the Switch (and PS4) but Nintendo has refused. If anything, this would very much be a Sony move, where exclusives show up on PCs years later and never on other consoles.

nerdix 4y ago
No indication other than the fact that they purchased ZeniMax and then almost immediately cancelled the PlayStation version of Starfield. They still haven't come out and said definitively that Elder Scrolls 6 will release on Playstation. It will very likely be an Xbox exclusive. If they intend to continue support for non-Microsoft platforms past 10 years then they should codify that in the contract. It's telling that the deals that they offered Nintendo, Nvidia, and Sony have all been for 10 years.
- autoexec 4y ago
  > It will very likely be an Xbox exclusive. Aren't most xbox games just PC games anyway? It seems like exclusives are mostly limited to Nintendo these days. Everything else is dumbed down console ports of PC games. Here's wikipedia's list of Xbox one exclusives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox_One-only_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox_One-only_games Halo 5 is the only one that really matters.
anonymousab 4y ago
> There is no indication that Microsoft would do that. They immediately did so for any upcoming Bethesda/zenimax games that did not have a prior agreement with Sony.

pjmlp 4y ago

Regulators have had enough time to look into Sony exclusives and XBox being on the third place. However Sony crying how poor they are seems to be winning them.