I'd much rather if MS had invested in new exclusive IP rather than going this route, but they needed content fast to keep people buzzing about Game Pass, so here we are.īut that's all just my opinion and it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Exclusive franchises are what I look at when I'm buying a new console, but not like this. I'm all for exclusives and I love the three console platforms. That part doesn't sit right with me (again, can you imagine if Sony had done this?). I don't like that a large chunk of fans will now potentially be cut off from existing franchises that they previously enjoyed. Sat 15th May Again I'm inclined to agree.Would I rather miss out on HFW and the new God of War or TES 6 and Starfield? As things stand definitely the latter but ideally I wouldn't be forced to make such a choice. Some may have the money, space and time to commit to more than one gaming platform (and bully for those that do) but I suspect the majority don't and we have to make a choice. Is this different from the Zenimax purchase? Yes, it is in my opinion but maybe not different enough. Sony buy developers as well but these are individual companies that often have an existing relationship with the company. What choice would gamers then have but to buy and Xbox or PC? I'm not sure that constitutes actual competition but rather a monopoly. MS certainly have deeper pockets than Sony and in theory could be all other major third party developers (if these were willing to sell of course) and completely remove all their titles from PlayStation hardware. Whether it's more improper to pay for timed exclusivity or buying a developer outright in order to create exclusive content. What is seen as an acceptable purchase and what isn't.
The same becomes true when you buy a company, it is much more aggressive of course.īut I see no problem at Microsoft turning historically multiplatform IPs into exclusive ones (and this is not the case with Starfield) because Sony has been doing this for years.Ĭontrol, Alan Wake and Quantum Break are canonically in the same universe although legally Quantum Break is not part of it, and yet there is exclusive Control content for PlayStatio users, even if Xbox users can understand much more details than those on PS4 / 5, remember Remedy bought the rights to Alan Wake, but he is still exclusive and Microsoft is still the owner of Quantum Break. "You will have this content, just not now, wait because company X paid for you not to be able to play."Īnd unlike Spideman / Street Fighter V and being honest I see Final Fantasy 7 in the same place, games that would not exist without Sony's support, so Sony has the right to have advantages in the game market.
Microsoft has every right to buy exclusive third-party IP's (and we must remember this is not the case with Starfield, it is a new IP with no announced platforms)Įxclusives would come and we all know that, the only ones that didn't wait are the ones that remain in denial, it may not be Starfield, it may not be now, but all these IP's have become exclusive to the Microsoft ecosystem. Sat 15th May Spiderman is one of the biggest IPs in the POP culture, Street Fighter was the biggest fighting IP on the market when Sony bought the exclusivity, Final Fantasy is the biggest JRPG IP in the western market.
It's a tired, old POS that they claim to upgrade with each release but it's still the same ugly defective mess!
All have interviews with From Software designers, Miyazaki and development people from Bethesda have been releasing their games on the same broken engine for years. I know what I'm talking about here, I have the Demon's Souls Artbooks, and the 2 volume Dark Souls: Beyond The Grave books (which cover all the Soulsborne games). Demon's Souls and its gameplay and style are completely different from ARPG's. When Demon's Souls was being imported from gamers in the US and Europe, Sony then gave the game a release in those markets. Bethesda's RPG's were ARPG's and not successful in the Japanese Market. Demon's Souls was picked up cheap by Sony for the Japanese Market ONLY.