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Can't trust them? Bethesda had a deal with Sony to keep Deathloop as a timed PlayStation exclusive. After Microsoft bought Bethesda they honored that deal and

by ar9av 4y ago

Can't trust them? Bethesda had a deal with Sony to keep Deathloop as a timed PlayStation exclusive. After Microsoft bought Bethesda they honored that deal and released the game excusively on the competing platform. They never offered to release Starfield on PlayStation just like Sony never offered to release Spiderman on Xbox when they bought Insomniac.

agloe_dreams 4y ago
> Sony never offered to release Spiderman on Xbox when they bought Insomniac. This is an absurd angle for one comical reason: Spiderman...is Sony property. Like Sony Entertainment Corporate. They bought the rights in the 90s. That's why Spiderman only recently joined the MCU. This is Nintendo letting Valve make a Mario game..but requiring it to be on Nintendo platforms. That all checks out. Sony's fair complaint here is that Microsoft made public statements (without contracts) that they wouldn't do what they did and then did it anyways. Their angle is that MS will find ways around the COD problem by releasing new IP or spinoffs based on it.
- doikor 4y ago
  > Sony's fair complaint here is that Microsoft made public statements (without contracts) that they wouldn't do what they did and then did it anyways. Except they never did that. What Microsoft said is that they would keep existing games supported on whatever platform they are on and honour any existing contract. They have done both.
  - agloe_dreams 4y ago
    The article above clearly quoted MS stating that it would be absurd to only release Starfield as an exclusive...and then they did. That is exactly what I said.
    - doikor 4y ago
      That was Todd Howard before the merger went through. So at the time he did not work at Microsoft. Also the paragraph after the being quoted goes. > Elsewhere in the interview, Howard admits that the parties haven't fully discussed the details of multiplatform publishing as part of the purchase deal. Also the quote was about the next elder scrolls but starfield.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  Spiderman is not Sony Computer Entertainment property, and spiderman has been on literally every single console since the original atari. It isn't even remotely the same. The valid comparison would be using Crash Bandicoot, but that actually went multiplatform!

by ar9av 4y ago

agloe_dreams 4y ago

> Sony never offered to release Spiderman on Xbox when they bought Insomniac. This is an absurd angle for one comical reason: Spiderman...is Sony property. Like Sony Entertainment Corporate. They bought the rights in the 90s. That's why Spiderman only recently joined the MCU. This is Nintendo letting Valve make a Mario game..but requiring it to be on Nintendo platforms. That all checks out. Sony's fair complaint here is that Microsoft made public statements (without contracts) that they wouldn't do what they did and then did it anyways. Their angle is that MS will find ways around the COD problem by releasing new IP or spinoffs based on it.

doikor 4y ago
> Sony's fair complaint here is that Microsoft made public statements (without contracts) that they wouldn't do what they did and then did it anyways. Except they never did that. What Microsoft said is that they would keep existing games supported on whatever platform they are on and honour any existing contract. They have done both.
- agloe_dreams 4y ago
  The article above clearly quoted MS stating that it would be absurd to only release Starfield as an exclusive...and then they did. That is exactly what I said.
  - doikor 4y ago
    That was Todd Howard before the merger went through. So at the time he did not work at Microsoft. Also the paragraph after the being quoted goes. > Elsewhere in the interview, Howard admits that the parties haven't fully discussed the details of multiplatform publishing as part of the purchase deal. Also the quote was about the next elder scrolls but starfield.
mrguyorama 4y ago
Spiderman is not Sony Computer Entertainment property, and spiderman has been on literally every single console since the original atari. It isn't even remotely the same. The valid comparison would be using Crash Bandicoot, but that actually went multiplatform!