Not surprising people are ignoring Phil recently saying this exact same thing (several more years, etc), and that this is even better than the industry standard. Imagine thinking that a company would ever agree to sign a contract saying they're going to fund and develop something they own for their rival, forever. You'd be laughed out of the courtroom.
This is simply Phil executing his company's best interests while Jimbo doing the same for his company (trying to milk more years, perhaps?). Nothing more. Also hilarious are the people who think Sony and Jimmyboy haven't already released this info to regulators and are only doing it
just now, and how now regulators are going to be big mad, somehow. Y'know, even though Jimbo is saying he is only saying this publicly because Phil went public (even though Phil simply responded to CMAs public tweets that were eerily parroting Sony's exact talking points to Brazil, something journalists and lawyers like Hoeg have pointed out and mocked). Or that somehow the legalese of Phil's PR are lies and are now going to be ransacked by regulation, despite everything he's said being carefully worded and vetted by million dollar lawyers.
Still crying about FF on page 23 when they have Starfield, Doom, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, Hellblade 2, Outer Worlds 2 and more. You guys would give it all away if you could play fucking Final Fantasy
It's baffling how certain folk jump through mental hoops to keep spinning this false equivalence narrative in an attempt to defend timed exclusivity (and fully exclusive in perpetuity for many titles).
Microsoft literally
owns the IP and developers for all of those titles. While some were already in production (Starfield, which is ironic because Sony almost nabbed that too, and whats stopping them from pulling a FF7R scenario with Bethesda?), some of those IPs next games you mention haven't even been announced yet, and some others (Hellblade 2) have been confirmed to only be have the scope and budget they do because of Microsoft. Either way, irregardless, Microsoft fully own these titles and developers.
Sony, on the other hand, do not own Final Fantasy and have zero contributions to development and publishment. They're paying SE with the sole intention to keep it off of the rival consoles (and in FF16s case, PC release as obsfucated as possible since it's the next big mainline entry).
Imagine some company renting a good portion of a mall with the sole intention being to keep the rival competition away so they gain all the mindshare and marketshare of the area, only to be
outraged when the rival competition buys the entire mall and still offers to honor their contracts for 3 years (
and let them stay for an additional 3) and willing to renegotiate future terms, instead of kicking them out completely. I've seen way better analogies all over YouTube, but the point is that there is a reason people keep bringing up Final Fantasy. You don't like it being brought up for obvious reasons.
When PS fans ask about those you guys say "it's on PC". Well, FF7 is on PC too so I don't get the complaints.
Don't all of yall have a beefy PC, or did that suddenly change this generation? Where's FF16 on PC? Even Japanese fans are recently asking that question. Funny, FF16 was originally announced for PC, and then any mention of PC was removed from future mentions of the title with it now only being announced for PS5 solely. At least people know that with Bethesda and ABK, all titles are day and date with PC and cloud. To even mention PC unironically makes you look bad.
Its two totally different situations. SONY never had full exclusivity on COD....
Sony never owned or was in the process of owning CoD.
wow timed exclusive, only one month ahead of xbox for some skins or maps.
Year long modes =/= one month DLC. Funny you omit that.
SONY never made the whole game exclusive to its platform.
They easily would if they could, like they've done plenty with plenty of other titles. They just can't because CoD is too big and expensive.
MS can talk all the shit they want, they wont do it either because they would rather make more money by having it on 2 systems because except hardore players and competitors, 50 mil people wont jsut magically jump to xbox because they cant play COD anymore lol.
There's so much blatant ignorance in this statement that it's baffling. One, MS isn't talking shit, this is literally what they offered Jim Ryan. They're literally saying they
don't intend to release it on two systems eventually to "make more money." Secondly, and laughably, the hardcore playerbase represent a very small fraction of gamers on a platform. The majority are the casuals who will indeed flock to where the games they want to play are, and that's CoD, Madden, Fifa, NBA2K, etc (all of which are or will be on Game Pass). As if that's not enough, Sony themselves are saying this exact thing in the leaked Brazilian documents. Sony themselves are saying CoD alone has the power to change the system of choice for consumers. If anything, your latter argument goes against everything Sony themselves are saying.
