Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate Playstation

Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by jakelazaroff on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:44PM (#36420940)

Is the Persona series even remotely close to Call of Duty or Diablo levels of success? This doesn't seem like a great comparison.

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Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by smoldesu on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:21PM (#36421503)

Not even close. I was just grabbing for a popular PS exclusives and figured Persona was a decent choice.

You could replace my comment with any of the more popular PS exclusives like TLOU, Nathan Drake or Tsushima and I think it would still hold up.

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Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by jakelazaroff on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:39PM (#36421768)

Those are all published by Sony, though. Are you saying that console makers simply shouldn’t work on games at all?

IMO there’s a huge difference between negotiating exclusivity for a handful of popular games you publish, and spending 2/3 of your competitor’s entire market cap to acquire the giant studios making a significant amount of the most successful game franchises on the market.

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