• Shadow
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      811 months ago

      Why? Microsoft hasnt been pushing for it like Sony has. Sony has been crazy anti competitive.

      • EquipLordBritish
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        2711 months ago

        One company buying another is always anti-competitive. The literal definition of removing competition.

      • Eggyhead
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        1211 months ago

        Future Bethesda games are exclusive. They weren’t going to be, but they are now.

        • @Derproid@sh.itjust.works
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          -311 months ago

          Well yeah, that’s the point. Maybe Sony will stop forcing exclusivity and sign a deal with MS to get Bethesda games back on PS and FF and others on Xbox.

          • Eggyhead
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            211 months ago

            That would be fantastic, but it’s really hard for me to have that much faith in corporations. We’ll see though. I was really looking forward to seeing Bethesda make another RPG for PSVR, but I’m sure the odds of that happening now are less than zero thanks to Microsoft.

              • Eggyhead
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                211 months ago

                Comments like this kind of suck when you no longer have the kind of money to “just get a pc”.

              • @Derproid@sh.itjust.works
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                111 months ago

                It does matter though. Can’t play a lot of old PS exclusives on PC. That is starting to change for some new games though.

                • verysoft
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                  111 months ago

                  Of course you can, this is why emulation is popular.

          • @fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml
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            211 months ago

            Great a duoloply again. That’s what I want instead of independent game studios just making games and letting people play them on what ever platform they want.

      • imaBEES
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        611 months ago

        Part of the problem is that since Sony is so heavily invested in exclusives, if Microsoft doesn’t have any exclusives and all their games also come out of Playstation, that’s incentive for people to purchase a PS5 over an Xbox because they know they’ll get all of the games that both Sony and Microsoft make. So even if Microsoft doesn’t want to do exclusives, they kind of have to if they want to keep people from just purchasing their competitor’s console.

        • verysoft
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          311 months ago

          Xbox are not trying to sell consoles, they are trying to sell game pass.

        • @Saneless@lemmy.world
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          211 months ago

          Or they can be like me, just get a PC and if you really need a console, a cheap Xbox.

          PC gaming is a plus and game pass is a plus. Sony will eventually give me their games. I’ve bought multiples of every Sony system in the US since the PS1 through the 4. But I’m done with them