Plenty of people here have and plenty of websites have too.
that already has happened and the year of exclusivity was pushed along with it. A deals a deal. But if they did attempt to keep the 2 exclusive games off of PS5 it would further cement my belief that it’s sticking in his craw. Otherwise, just let them have it. No big deal, right?
either way, Msoft spending 7.5 billion ends up a short term coup for Sony. They either get the exclusives during a crucial time, or, Msoft publicly goes back on their word and appear weak.
Nothing you're saying makes any sense. When MS made the deal with Zenimax, when they said they wouldn't keep people from playing the games, that NEVER meant bringing those games to PlayStation. That is something certain fans on the extreme fringes keep insisting, but that was never actually the case.
None of us have the contracts, so none of us know where those exclusivity periods are at now with the delays. Like I said, these companies operate on a whole other level when it comes to malleable contracts and making them work for their own self-interests. I would not be surprised if both Ghost Wire and Death Loop have shortened exclusivity periods. IIRC something similar happened with Capcom and the "Capcom 5" for the Gamecube way back in the day. RE4 was originally supposed to be a Gamecube exclusive, and contracts were established for this. However we all know what eventually happened: the PS2 version got listed and known before the Gamecube one came out (affecting Gamecube sales of the game), and the PS2 version came out only 9 months after the Gamecube one, with a ton of extra content, too.
A clear-as-day example that contracts can change anytime, so no, a deal actually ISN'T a deal (I mean, it kinda is when money is exchanged, but that can also change depending on if there's a bigger player involved with a lot more money involved. Which would be Microsoft in this case). We can go back even further, to when Nintendo reneged (publicly) on their deal with Sony for the original Nintendo Play Station add-on, as another example of contracts being broken quite often, massive ones in fact. The last part of your statements feel more like a rub or tongue-in-cheek if anything. It wasn't that long ago people were questioning how Microsoft were even going to compete with the timed exclusivity deals Sony were rumored to be making. And those rumors were running wild, to even speculating things like GTA6 being a timed exclusive. "Other people" around the internet were speculating this too, and a certain doom-and-gloom narrative was seemingly forming for Microsoft as a result.
So you had a lot of those same people, wondering how Microsoft would compete. They just got an answer they aren't comfortable with, because it reinforces to them that in reality, if Microsoft wants to, they can easily outspend a company like Sony in netting virtually any major developer, publisher, or 3P exclusive content. It's arguable if Sony's rumored aggressive dealmakings stirred stuff like the Zenimax deal (keep in mind, MS were discussing this with them back in 2018), but they probably helped reinforce the push for seeing those deals go through.
Then of course the narrative changed again, to Microsoft obtaining a monopoly (they didn't), and just buying their way to exclusive content (Sony did the exact same thing with the original PlayStation, way back in 1994). The narrative is constantly in flux, in a sense. Regardless, they seemingly answered those concerns from others and while Sony are certainly looking to obtain some studios and content of their own, people should just keep in mind if any of that involves particularly big players, they'll have companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google etc. in those discussions as well, and chances are more likely one of those three win out in those bidding processes. It's just capitalism at work.
EDIT: Also, there's a flimsy argument that in order for Microsoft to make back the money on the Zenimax deal, they need to support the PlayStation ecosystem with that content. That seemed like a stretch considering the nature of the deal, but it turns out that notion isn't true at all.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/04/pentagon-says-it-will-stick-with-microsoft-for-jedi-cloud-contract.html
Apparently MS was making a contract with the Pentagon for $10 billion last year. Amazon got involved and the proceedings were paused, but as recently as last month the Pentagon decided to go with Microsoft and IIRC the deal is pretty much settled now, though there's probably still some proceedings to go through.
Basically, this deal alone covers the
entire Zenimax purchase and
then some. I reckon Disney wish they had such things in place when they purchased Star Wars (you could say they technically did thanks to the Marvel films, but I dunno how much net profit they actually brought in on those).