Microsoft screwed up with the announcement of the Xbox One and they were never able to recover from that. They basically made one big mistake that has screwed them over. You are right but we are talking about a mistake from 10 years ago.
Yes they were, they have been doing it for years including in the PS4 generation. The distinction between funding and paying for however is a complicated one since we don't know whether or not something would have existed if it was not for Sony stepping in.
A few examples of this practice from Sony:
FF7 remake (3 years ago) and FF16 (there is no way in hell you can convince we either of those would not have been made without money from Sony)
We know from yesterday Sony tried to make Starfield exclusive
GhostWire Tokyo and Deathloop (both of these have since come to Xbox but it is unclear if this would have ever been the case if Microsoft had not bought Bethesda)
KOTOR remake that has yet to come out
Death Stranding (The exact situation for this is a bit unclear, but I doubt sony specifically funded it considering it is on Game Pass but not on Xbox)
It is not a hard to find a list of third party exclusives that Sony has paid for.
And again this also doesnt even get into the exclusive content for games. Meaning someone playing on another platform is spending the same amount of money and getting less of a game. "But its just one mission" I don't care, we spent the same amount of money. Off the top of my head I know of Call of Duty, Harry Potter, Destiny 2, and I know there are others.
The exclusive content thing during the 360 era was to counter MS buying up timed exclusives. Sony basically said, sure you can do time exclusivity for MS but we demand that games that launch late on our console have content exclusive to it or you don’t launch at all. So I guess developers just cut content from the 360 version and repurpose it as exclusive content for PS3.
Does Sony still do it now? I’m a bit out of the loop. Which games have they demanded exclusive content and are they timed exclusive to MS?
Edit: I think the real issue with MS buying Activision-Blizzard is games that were original multi-platform, i.e. available on PlayStation and Nintendo consoles, becoming exclusive to MS platforms. PlayStation and Nintendo consoles will lose games.
No one cares that God of War is exclusive to Sony’s machines. No one is losing anything - you can’t lose what you never had.
IMHO if you cannot stomach say Sony buying EA and making all their sport franchises exclusive to PlayStation then you shouldn’t be OK with the MS and Activision-Blizzard merge either.
> PlayStation and Nintendo consoles will lose games
No one loses games. Previously published games will still be playable. They may not have access to new titles in those series, but they were never guaranteed that anyway. Just like with console generations, sometimes you have to buy a new box to play the next game in your favorite series.
It seems that switch owners may even get access to Call of Duty, which they never would have without the aquisition.
Microsoft has been messing up the stewardship of their platform, the games on it and the studios that make them for a long time. Not just with the early Xbox one.
Halo's fall from grace as an IP, for instance, cannot in any way be blamed on anyone other than Microsoft, at multiple times and with multiple bad decisions. It's not due to one bad big screwup with the Xbox one; it's an ever-continuing quality problem with Microsoft.
I was fully ready to but an XBONE but ended up getting a PS4 after that. Could've lived with the downsides, but not with all the arrogance that they were announced with. Based on the games that generation I probably made the right choice too.
Don Mattrick fucked up good and proper and Sony owes him a huge debt of gratitude.
> "Microsoft screwed up with the announcement of the Xbox One and they were never able to recover from that."
Put the blame where it belongs: Don Mattrick screwed up the positioning and announcement of the Xbox One and they were never able to recover from that.
Yes they were, they have been doing it for years including in the PS4 generation. The distinction between funding and paying for however is a complicated one since we don't know whether or not something would have existed if it was not for Sony stepping in.
A few examples of this practice from Sony:
FF7 remake (3 years ago) and FF16 (there is no way in hell you can convince we either of those would not have been made without money from Sony)
We know from yesterday Sony tried to make Starfield exclusive
GhostWire Tokyo and Deathloop (both of these have since come to Xbox but it is unclear if this would have ever been the case if Microsoft had not bought Bethesda)
KOTOR remake that has yet to come out
Death Stranding (The exact situation for this is a bit unclear, but I doubt sony specifically funded it considering it is on Game Pass but not on Xbox)
It is not a hard to find a list of third party exclusives that Sony has paid for.
And again this also doesnt even get into the exclusive content for games. Meaning someone playing on another platform is spending the same amount of money and getting less of a game. "But its just one mission" I don't care, we spent the same amount of money. Off the top of my head I know of Call of Duty, Harry Potter, Destiny 2, and I know there are others.