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Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by lockhouse on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:52PM (#36421949)
I’d love to play God of War, The Last of Us, Drake’s Uncharted, Horizon Forbidden West, and a bunch of other PS5 exclusives.

Somehow this is different though, because Microsoft.

Sony went all in on exclusivity agreements and were dragged kicking and screaming into allowing cross play with other platforms. They are not the good guys here.

Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by muro on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:38PM (#36422521)
Many of them are on PC, they are no longer PS exclusives
Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by lockhouse on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:56PM (#36422770)
So then there’s nothing wrong with Microsoft buying Activision-Blizzard as long as they release all their titles on PC as well as XBox?
Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by autoexec on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:27PM (#36424853)
With the possible exception of "Drake’s Uncharted" which I've never heard of, none of the other games you listed (including all currently released games in the Uncharted franchise) are PS5 exclusives (although most were initially only released on PS 2, 3, or 4)
Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by lucubratory on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:47PM (#36425757)
If that's the standard you're using to define exclusives then Xbox has no exclusives at all, because every single Xbox game comes out on PC.
Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by autoexec on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:09PM (#36425997)
It's kind of true. I've always looked at Xbox as a low-end gaming PC that can't do much else but play games. Last time I checked there were only a few PS5 exclusives, and all of the biggest titles for the PS5 were either also PC games or remakes of PS3 or PS4 titles.
Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by shlubbert on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:05PM (#36425961)
The difference is that the games you mentioned were made by developers that have been Sony in-house or second-party studios for literal decades, and weren't hoovered up from the open market like Microsoft is trying to do now because of how badly they mismanaged their own studios (343 Industries, The Coalition, Rare, etc).
Re:Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to el... by nanidin on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:20PM (#36427642)
FYI at least God of War and Horizon are not PS5 exclusives as they are also available on PS4.