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Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty on PlayStation (www.cnbc.com)

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Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty on PlayStation::Microsoft and Sony have signed an agreement to keep Activision's best-selling Call of Duty series available on PlayStation, after the conclusion of the deal.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Not too surprised tbh.

But what will happen to the console market in 10 years? Does it shift to a subscription model and you choose games via your TV and everything is streamed?

But I’m glad CoD will still be around - at least some constant I can rely on haha

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Likely the same thing that has happened to every other industry.

Someone comes out with a disruptive low cost subscription model, consumers like it because it's so low cost and anything that isn't on it they can still buy.
People buy less, content producers have to move to the same subscription model to survive.
The low cost of the subscription model can't pay for all the content that is normally made by that industry, creatives can't find backing to create content anymore, creative struggle to get paid between there being less money and corporate greed snatching what is left
Quality drops, output drops, no one is happy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like Game Pass to me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does and that's the real issue.

MS has the power, reach and financial means to completely steamroll the market by underpricing games pass to kill any competition. Then once they've done that they can set prices, control labour and production to reduce costs too and monopolise the market to their shareholders cold dead money grubbing hearts content.

To put the scale of the issue in perspective.

Microsoft has a market cap of 2.5 Trillion dollars. Or 2500 billion.

Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, Valve, EA, Take Two and Ubisoft combined don't even reach 700 billion. We take Tencent out of the equation and it's only 300 billion.

So we're talking 4x that of all their combined global competition. If we only look at "western" companies its basically 8.5x.

But getting rid of Bobby Kotick will make gaming better /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed. At first, I cheered for them because I wanted a better Blizzard and saw it as an opportunity to get rid of Kotick exactly as you say. But the more it drags on and the more I read/hear about context... the more I wish it fell through.

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