It’s going to be awesome. Starfield and Phantom Liberty look amazing.

Sony buys exclusivity all the time and they are the market leader. It’s easier for them to buy it because, as the market leader, the developers won’t lose out on the majority of potential players by going exclusive.

But this creates a positive feedback loop where Sony can get lots of exclusives which leads more players to move to PlayStation due to the exclusives which helps Sony get even more exclusives etc.

The FTC should really investigate those deals.

It’ll probably be portable though. It’s competing more with the Steam Deck etc. than a PS5.

Kotick says PlayStation’s CoD revenue is 2x higher than Xbox CoD revenue; says PlayStation being successful has lead to CoD’s success too

This is why the paid exclusivity deals from Sony seem really anti-consumer, even if they are only temporary exclusivity (most sales happen at launch).

If you already have the most market share, and by quite a large margin (the Switch is bit of a different market), then it’s a lot easier for you to buy exclusivity deals because a developer will be losing a lot less sales by being exclusive to PlayStation than by being exclusive to Xbox.

Of course, these exclusivity deals then further grow PlayStation’s higher market share in a positive feedback loop and this ultimately leads to less competition and worse outcomes for consumers.

You can still buy the games outside of Game Pass.

Skyrim.

Wow, I’ve never played the Payday games, I thought it was just a wave shooter.

But this looks really cool!

It seems crazy, like Insomniac Games cost Sony $229M, so MSFT could have bought or built like 300 AAA studios for the price of ATVI.

I just really don’t see how it is worth it.

This is probably organised crime, like a digital version of a protection racket, demanding money or the DDOS will continue.

Hopefully, they find the people responsible.

Haha, America moment. How are the management allowed to do this anyway?

That’s earlier than I was expecting.

• CP2077 DLC
• Starfield
• AC Mirage
• Baldur’s Gate 3 (although my potato PC won’t play it, and it’ll probably be awful to play with a controller on console)

I wish we had decent Arena Shooters like UT99. Splitgate was close.

I think it’ll be close as TOTK is a really, really strong contender. In any other year Starfield would get it for sure. But TOTK is pretty incredible.

It’s probably going to be the game of the year, maybe beaten by TOTK. Certainly it’ll be one of the best selling games of all time.

This is such a neckbeard take.

It says the company wants to work in games, film, books, graphics novels, and podcasts.

That seems impossibly broad? Usually the companies that do that are like megacorps with really strong IP. Like Disney or whatever.

I don’t get the controversy over 30fps. Like I played RDR2 at 30fps and didn’t even notice it.

The gameplay itself is far more important and on that front Bethesda has been second to none. There isn’t even one single game that comes close to what they have achieved in The Elder Scrolls. Kingdom Come: Deliverance was close but much smaller in scope (which makes sense given the size of the studio).

I’ve played every single one of their games since Morrowind and while Fallout 76 was a flop and Fallout 4 was perhaps a bit disappointing, at least without DLC, almost all of their games have been incredible.

In Todd we trust.