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The music was the only good thing about the trailer. The trailer went "so well" that the dislike ratio toppled it all to the point that Naughty Dog removed the comments section, yet Playstation didn't for their channel and you can see how many are not happy with this. Just seems like another modern politics game from Playstation. Ps5 will most likely be the last PS I buy at this rate. This gen has basically demolished all the good will I had for Sony. Ghost Of Yotei looks to be another Sony sequel that will demolish the original

I've not seen a reason why the price increase was 40% after all of these months. Thanks for the reminder Sony cause I absolutely will cancel the Extra tier sub and go for the base online play tier just because my wife regularly plays Tekken 7 even after getting Platinum in it. Absolutely hilarious. The latest Persona game was just put on Gamepass and even on PC you find that Assassin's Creed Syndicate is being given away for free. Between last month and this month, it shows that you really care about your fans during the holidays. My Ps5 will continue to collect dust as I play the Xbox Series instead. Thanks Sony.

@naruball. Exactly. My wife got me a Series S for my birthday just because of Starfield and the fact that Elder Scrolls and Fallout are too important to me. I had a log cabin in Skyrim filled with lore books in the library cause I was intrigued by the lore and the mystery surrounding the Dwarven people. I did the Thieves Guild quest and I needed to know more about Dark Elves and their history. I've watched countless YouTube videos on Fallout and I adore the franchise and games. Once Phil said that Starfield and Elder Scrolls weren't coming to Playstation is when I had to get an Xbox. I'd much rather play the games on Ps5 cause they will be better there as the Ps5 is stronger than the S. These buyouts are not good for the gamers and hostile monopoly takeovers only benefit the company and not the consumer. Microsoft can do whatever they want with these games in the future. Drive up Gamepass costs, axe physical media, determine who can or cannot license the games out, etc. Judging by Microsoft's own lack of legacy titles revisits, people will be disappointed when Microsoft ignores all of the Activision properties. Microsoft have yet to create a team for titles like Banjo And Kazooie even if Rare have moved on from it.

@XenonKnight . That's unfortunate. I'm about 10 hours in and Starfield has sucked me in. I've not felt like this since I was 16 playing Fallout 3 for the first time and now I'm 30. I've barely scratched the surface and I'm enjoying the game immensely. The lore from what I've seen at the UC Museum is really intriguing. I love Elder Scrolls and Fallout and I'm looking forward to jumping into this lore. But as for first party titles from Microsoft ? I'd suggest 360 era like Gears of War 2 and 3. The Remastered original Gears is fantastic. Master Chief Collection for Halo 1-Reach. Rare Replay is a good one too. That's basically it bro, sorry. Sunset Overdrive made by Insomniac is a great Xbox One game.

@PixelDragon . This is true. They've had Rare for over 20 years and have done so little tbh. Basically they've done "Rare Replay" and that's about it when it comes to recent revisits of older franchises. Rare have since made Sea of Thieves and are working on another game that is some kind of Indie type influence like Outer Wilds. That's entirely different from their N64 type work. Microsoft haven't ever bothered with revisiting old Classics from their brands. With so many developers under their wing, I doubt they will do that now.

@cburg. "A company that is smarter" lol. Is that why Playstation is extremely small compared to Xbox and yet it makes more money than Xbox ? It isn't "plastic box" worshipping. Most have friends on a platform and an economy built there.

@PixelDragon . I got a Series S for my birthday from my wife. When Bethesda was made exclusive is what helped me get it. Starfield, Elder Scrolls, and Fallout are too important to me. I don't care about Activision Blizzard, but I would jump on board if Skylanders was rebooted

@MaikonCSGarcia . I didn't like anything from Infinite. Bosses weren't play tested and were trash on Legendary and I hated the open world aspects. I could barely stomach getting through Halo 4 and Halo 5 on Legendary. Just awful. Plus Infinite was a train wreck on the online aspect as many articles will say. Even Microsoft have distanced themselves from it.

All I know is that Microsoft shouldn't be able to buy anyone else for a very long time. They already bought Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Obsidian before Bethesda and Activision Blizzard. They need to manage their stuff and I'm getting tired of people saying "This will push Playstation, this is good". Playstation doesn't need to be pushed. They've been doing outstanding nonstop for awhile and all of this gen so far. Microsoft should be the one pushed to do better. They are in last place of the three as usual due to their own incompetence. Nintendo and Sony earned their way to the top.

@HonestHick . Microsoft would do better as a software company and I believe that. They have good ideas when it comes tech, but they don't handle games or game management well. For people like you that heavily play Xbox, this is a good thing for you. What I'm trying to get you and Jamiie to understand that this is bad for people like me that plays Playstation mainly. Microsoft absolutely will keep everything non Cod off of Playstation. Phil said that Elder Scrolls 6 wouldn't come to Playstation. Then he made Starfield an Xbox/PC exclusive. That game was the first new Ip from Bethesda in over 25 years. Todd said it would be as important to him as Elder Scrolls and Fallout were. For the man himself to say this, we knew it was over when Phil said it would not come to Playstation. I can acknowledge that certain updates are good with Xbox games. I can say that Fallout 3 and New Vegas on Xbox Series has been the best way I've found to play them. 60 fps locked and 1 second loading times. But then I look at how Microsoft built teams for Halo and Gears of War and ran them into the ground. No one was asking for an open world Halo game with a grappling hook or a live service Halo game. Tired of Phil's lies about "Next year will be our year" and the BS excuses. I don't see Nintendo or Playstation doing this cause they are on top of their games.

@HonestHick. Microsoft talked Todd into giving consoles a chance years ago and Microsoft influenced Activision to bring Cod over to consoles due to Halo. It is known that the architecture of Ps3 was very complex and that's why games began to get easier to develop for Ps3 by the end and is why Ps4 was X86 at the beginning to avoid problems. How exactly does any of this equate to Microsoft contributing to the success of these franchises ?

@HonestHick. Why do you want Microsoft to buy Sega and get more ? Like again they can't even get their first party stuff correct and you want them to own dozens and dozens of more studios ? Do you think they can breathe new life into Call Of Duty when Halo Infinite had more development time than any other Halo, it even got delayed over a year, it still was a mess that is basically a graveyard now. Like I'm genuinely trying to see your viewpoint. Is it because people just want to cheap out with Gamepass ? I'm much rather pay full price for quality rather than get dumpster fires for no extra charge.

I have a Series S because Bethesda is too important to me. I've 100%ed + dlc every Fallout game, even Fallout 76. That, Starfield, and Elder Scrolls are too important to me. I had to buy an Xbox just to play previous multi platform games. Absolutely ridiculous. Microsoft had nothing to do with the success of those three franchises

@Jimboss . The FTC said that "Microsoft can finally compete" and it showed how out of touch they were with the landscape. Microsoft are not Amazon where they just got into the gaming market. Microsoft entered way back in 2001, that's over 22 years ago. Xbox found a huge breakthrough with Xbox 360 and it outsold Ps3 for a long time. The hardware failures of the 360 were one thing, but what really killed it was bad business decisions by Don M taking the console to horrible territory like Kinect and dividing the fanbase entirely. The games quality went downhill too because Don approached games with "How do you do fellow kids" while his predecessor was all about gaming and helped the brand grow, especially by 2004 with Halo 2. Xbox One was the nail in the coffin where Don and Phil doubled down on Kinect and anticonsumer behavior and they fumbled all gen.

Sony hit troubled waters too with Ps3 and guess what ? They rebranded themselves and it wasn't cheap either. They rebuilt a Ps3 revision, they changed their awful marketing to being King level tier, they focused on the games, they ended up outselling 360 by the end. They pushed forward with Ps4 and the rest is history. Microsoft are in their position because they couldn't own up on their failures. They had many chances and they squandered it. That's what Ftc failed to see.

There's one publisher I see Sony getting and that's Square Enix because Sony won't want anyone else to possibly acquire them. If that happens, no more Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, or many other franchises on Xbox. Let's see how the people cheering this deal accepts that then. Microsoft started this buying wars theme and gamers will lose in the end. Sony bought Bungie to mainly help with infrastructure in other departments rather than strictly gaming because Bungie is very knowledgeable with media.

@HonestHick. You and Jamiie need to realize that I was an Xbox fanboy for a decade and only left them about 2 years ago when Halo Infinite was the straw that broke the camel's back. It caused me to sell my Series X and switch over to Playstation once more. No, I gave solid reasons why Xbox don't need to be buying up all of these companies when their games are suffering and absolutely being dumpster fires. Redfall had 55 players on Steam worldwide and it released far too quickly and in a broken state. They have way too many teams at one time now and so it really is like to many cooks in the kitchen.

Did you really bring up Smart Delivery and Quick Resume to me ? Like are you really grasping at straws from all that I said ? Quick Resume is cool if you play a ton of games at the same time. Smart Delivery is actually a pain in the a$$ because you can't decide which version of the game you want to play as Microsoft decides for you. So you can't just install the Xbox One version of Elder Scrolls Online on the hard drive. You have to choose the X enhanced version for the SSD. I much prefer how Sony gives the freedom for the gamer to decide if they want the Ps4 or Ps5 version of the game.

"By the way I've had more fun with Sea of Thieves than I have had with Sony's Ubisoft action adventure clones". I'm sorry that your standards are fairly low ? Like I got tired of Xbox games a long time ago when the quality nose dived. I've had way more fun with the Sony games over the last 2 years than anything that Microsoft has done in many years. I stayed with them so long cause I had so much invested in my Xbox account. Glad I made the jump anyway and it has been worth it.

You and Jamie say that I'm bitter over this acquisition. Because Microsoft are putting out quantity over quality and taking games away from Playstation in a hostile takeover way. So yeah I am bitter at this tbh. That's more games being taken off the Playstation front that I won't be able to play with my friends.

@HonestHick. Microsoft are very much like Sega with coming up with ideas and yet these ideas are better implemented by someone else. Microsoft came up with achievements and yet Sony's trophies system is so much better. Achievements were fine until the numbers system became problematic with varying degrees of difficulty achievements having the same numbers score. 1000 is typically in game 100% but then dlc messed that up. The Platinum Trophy fixed that and then bronze, silver, and gold were a better system.

"They have been lame with first party titles, but they've danced around Sony with features and services"

That simply isn't true. Phil has admitted that Gamepass is a cannibal to game sales. The sub counts for that have been underwhelming to Microsoft. A lot have dropped the subscription for long periods of times due to droughts and underperforming games like Redfall. I'd imagine most would opt to outright buy Starfield because it is a game that will take them awhile to play and so it is cheaper to buy in the long run.

Xbox live Gold has been restructured into Core and the free games with gold have changed because Microsoft stopped caring about the quality of the games a long time ago. The backlash to these games was so deafening that Major Nelson eventually would close the comments section in these announcements. Compare that to Sony that is giving away Calisto Protocol this month.

If they were dancing around Sony the numbers would show it but they aren't.

"Competition is good and I enjoy seeing them push each other"

The only thing that Microsoft are pushing are their wallets. They repeatedly are buying out developers and major publishers on a grand scale when their management system is so incredible flawed. Look how little they've done with Rare for the past 20 years. Rather than compete in a fair game, they are just buying everyone out to make already established franchises exclusive to them. That's not competing, that's basically hostile takeover.

Sony build relationships with teams and then eventually decide to buy them if they are a good fit. They manage their teams extremely well to ensure too quality releases to have their stamp of approval on the cover. Microsoft just buy whatever is popular and they hope that money is then printed for them. That's the difference. Microsoft tried buying Nintendo in the early 00's and they bought Rare and wasted their potential. Microsoft's recent buyouts have even caused Nintendo to make sure that they own their smaller studios by Nintendo outright securing their teams rather than making their usual business deals.

If even you admit that their first party titles are lacking then why entertain these buyout deals ? If they can't even get Gears of War or Halo right then why buyout Bethesda and Activision Blizzard ? It seems they have their priorities in the wrong direction.

@Terra_Custodes. Normally I'd agree that competition is important and that there's a chance that Sony could become complacent and whatnot, but with how Microsoft is acting these days, perhaps it would have been better had they gone under nearly 10 years ago. If they went under and licensed this stuff out, as Sega have been doing for over 20 years now, it wouldn't be that bad. As long as Microsoft makes hardware, Sony won't be interested unless it is software. Plus we always have Nintendo that is competing with Sony in certain ways such as the hardware front and gaming front.

@Terra_Custodes . Microsoft, the Parent and not the Xbox division, came extremely close to closing down Xbox by like 2016. Phil Spencer pitched the idea of his about Gamepass, which was a better version of what he and Don M wanted for Xbox One. Microsoft nearly liquidated Xbox because it was bleeding them of money. It is a misconception that Microsoft likes losing a lot of money because they are so rich. Microsoft wants to see their investments back and so they are entertaining Phil's dreams.....for now. His ideas have costed them further money through lost money through Gamepass, Series S (which has costed them more money than even Series X has) and now nearly $80 billion dollars from buying Bethesda and Activision Blizzard King. I give it a few more years before Microsoft licenses out all of this stuff and pulls the plug on Xbox.

@Old-Red . People have to grasp at straws when thinking of Microsoft's contributions to gaming. They are quantity over quality. All of their games last gen and this gen were underwhelming or straight up awful. If it hadn't been for their deep pockets, they'd have been run out of business long ago. Everything they touch ends up broken. Everything from Halo and Gears to Crackdown to Fable. This will be their last major publisher acquisition possibly ever due to how drawn out this one was and how it was $70 billion dollars, which keep in mind that George Lucas "only" sold Star Wars for about $4 billion dollars to Disney. Microsoft can savor this moment of owning Bethesda and Activision Blizzard until they mess them up through bad management as usual and then the franchises stop printing money to them. Just like when Disney bought Power Rangers, ruined it, sold it back to the creator, he made it successful again. Money only goes so far.

I remember when Netflix was awesome until everyone wanted an app like Netflix and so tons of cool stuff got removed to go to dozens of apps. Then Netflix lost relevance to me. Yep let's just keep dividing up normally multi platform games to many different gaming platforms. Be an adult with bills, being married, full time job, now buy up every gaming platform to play a few select games. Thanks Microsoft. Rather than play Starfield in 4K on my Ps5, I have to play the Series S inferior version. Let's do that for Activision games now !

@Sad_But_True. Actually I applause Jim Ryan for lengthening the deal from 3 years to 10 years. That's plenty more time to save and invest in future projects and in 10 years the Ps5 will be 13 and easily be replaced by the Ps6 by that time. I actually saw that Playstation had interesting military shooter games during the Ps2 such as Socom and Killzone. This was expanded upon with Ps3 such as the Killzone sequels, Resistance Fall Of Man Trilogy, and for better or worse unique ideas such as MAG and Haze. I'd actually like to see these games revisited and rebooted for modern Playstation. The shooting games are overcrowded with Battle Royales or more of the same from Call Of Duty and Battlefield. With Sony now knowing that in 10 years they will permanently lose Call Of Duty, it might be their push to regroup their focus on this genre again with the help of their talented teams like Guerilla Games, Insomniac, Bungie, etc.

@Ken_Kaniff . I've been a Playstation fan since Ps1 and I can say that the Ps5 launch is the strongest of any console that I've ever seen. The first 3 years have completely demolished the first 3 years of every Playstation prior to it and most consoles actually. So if there are 2 "lull" years, it doesn't matter. Within 3 years we've gotten a new Horizon game, God Of War game, and two Spider-Man games. Like it took 4 years to get Horizon Zero Dawn. 5 years for God of War. 5 years for Spider-Man. That's just 3 examples. Sackboy is criminally undermentioned and I'd go as far to say that it is the most important Platformer leap forward since Super Mario 64.

"I don't expect Sony to match their output". They can't financially, but they can in quality. Starfield has been the only true success for Xbox in many, many, years. If Microsoft keeps up their management strategy, they will founder and I'm waiting for it at this rate. Plus I'd like to mention that Playstation has been a Top tier contender for 30 years now. Their new president won't be some amateur brought in from the streets. He has been with SIE for many, many, years. I trust the company

@MasterPlayerOne . You keep saying that Sony is defeated when it was actually Microsoft that have had to go through huge amounts of money with $70 billion for Activision Blizzard King and $8 billion for Bethesda all in the course of 3 years. Then Microsoft admits that Gamepass cannibalizes sales and they've lost tons of money going that route too. That reminds me of Sega of North America that pushed a lot of money around too and couldn't act patient at all and came up with all of these ideas that had them bleeding money left and right. They eventually folded as a hardware company and opted to license their games out to stay out of foreclosure. They tried to take on Sony too, just as Panasonic and Phillips did. They all fell in the end, just as Microsoft will too. A decade of no good Xbox games caused them to buy publishers out of desperation

@OldGamer999 . People like Nintendo and Sony won't care to put all of their eggs in a single basket and they will opt to continue with physical media just like we still have DVD and Blu Ray movies in 2023. Nintendo considers themselves a Toy company in the words of Miyamoto. They obviously won't go all digital since most toys are physical items.

@OldGamer999 . Xbox is actively pushing for a digital only future and has been since 2017 with Gamepass. Xbox releases their games Day 1 through Gamepass and this also includes Bethesda and now Activision Blizzard games as they are under the Xbox umbrella now just like Playground, 343, and The Coalition already are. "When Activision Blizzard King is under the Xbox umbrella, we want to have as many of their games as possible on Gamepass" -Phil Spencer. Sony cannot put their new releases Day 1 on PS+ as they would hemorrhage money over this just as Xbox is doing. Xbox can afford to take the lost sales, Sony cannot. Sony is putting out physical games and that shows no signs of changing. Microsoft has a higher probability of axing physical games (Game preservation) compared to Sony.

@MasterPlayerOne. You really should change your profile picture to only show a Joycons controller and an Xbox controller. You don't need the Ps4 controller there since all of your posts have been negative towards Playstation. Competition is a good thing and I'm sure that gaming as a whole would take a devastating hit if Playstation ceased to exist. They are very important to the landscape and have been for nearly 30 years now. Playstation is focused on good games and innovative technology. Compare that to Xbox that has the Series controller being identical to the last gen's controller and the fact that Microsoft have nothing to show when it comes to successful games over the past decade. Every new game has Xbox fans hoping it will be good and that's the sad state of things over there. Redfall was supposed to be a huge win for Xbox this year and that didn't happen. All they've had going for them is Starfield from Bethesda as if anyone doubted that would be good as it was Todd's main focus for a long time.

@Deityjester . I don't see Cloud gaming being a reality anytime soon unless Aliens are real and land on Earth to help us like Vulcans helped Humans in First Contact. There are a lot of people out there with either poor Internet reception or they have limited options with providers. Data caps are still a thing here in USA and most limits are 1TB, which goes by fast with game streaming. It is one of the reasons why Xbox One's "Always Online" faced backlash and even Valve had to create an offline mode for Steam. Here in my area of North Carolina, Cloud gaming is a pipe dream. It is actually why I got a Ps3 again to play Ps3 games. Streaming them on my Ps5 would have been painful.

@MasterPlayerOne . I wouldn't really call this a defeat for Sony when the Ps5 has sold extremely well since Day 1. This is also factoring that Gamepass had been going on for 3 years by that time and Xbox also had a companion console that was $300 too. Spider-Man 2 is only releasing for Ps5 on Day 1 and it will easily be one of the top selling games of the year. This is a game that will make PC gamers pull out their Ps5. PC gamers can already play Xbox games on PC. That's the difference. Sony is pushing games and hardware and their franchises continues to see success. Halo Infinite was such a disaster that not only was it delayed more than a year after current gen launched when it was supposed to be a Day 1 exclusive, it failed miserably. Microsoft actually began to replace the Series S/X console box art of it with Starfield after the Bethesda acquisition. Lol.

@Chidoro . I would have preferred someone like Amazon to have purchased Activision Blizzard because maybe I could trust them to keep these games on Playstation. I can't say the same for Microsoft with "We don't want Bethesda on Playstation anymore". Do you think Amazon would have made Activision Blizzard exclusive for Luna ? Luna is comprised of multi platform games with Control being their hot item lol.

@Old-Red. Microsoft haven't contributed anything to the video game industry. Halo was made entirely by Bungie and then Gears of War was made by Epic. Microsoft eventually acquired the rights to both when the Xbox One was near. Microsoft built The Coalition for Gears and 343 Industries for Halo. Both franchises foundered badly under Microsoft's control and now both are a joke. When I think of how much Halo is actually a masterpiece, it really makes me sick. I cried like a baby at the end of Halo Reach, Bungie's final Halo, because what a journey and sad ending to Noble 6. All Microsoft can do is be the rich kid that basically buys out the theme park cause they don't like waiting lines.

@DarthOreo. "You didn't shed tears when Naughty Dog stayed off limit to Xbox players"

Since when did Naughty Dog make games for Xbox ? They basically have been with Sony since day 1 with Crash Bandicoot and then Jak And Daxter after that. Then came Uncharted and you know the rest. Also one studio is entirely different from dozens and dozens if you look at Bethesda and Activision Blizzard. Microsoft also aren't even doing well on their first party front. Gears of War is dead and then Halo is basically a morbid corpse puppet at this rate. Microsoft had to buy out publishers, something Sony or Nintendo have ever done, in order to stay relevant. This is bad for the gamer because Microsoft can do a Thanos snap and even more games won't come to Playstation.

Phil promised that Bethesda would stay on Playstation and that didn't happen at all. Redfall and Starfield remain Xbox and PC exclusive. Phil then announced that Elder Scrolls 6 won't come to Playstation either. I don't believe a word about Activision Blizzard games coming to Playstation other than Cod since Jim had to make a pricey business deal to allow that. Xbox fans are cheering while forgetting that just a generation ago, Microsoft were not consumer friendly and would have been even more anti consumer had Xbox One launched with the original plan. Looking forward to most physical games getting axed in the future, them being on Xbox or PC only, and Gamepass being like $70 a month. Limiting consumer options never works out well for the consumer.

@Hesse . They did and it is called Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town. I have it on Ps4

I hope this deal doesn't go through. I don't care about Activision or Blizzard, but many do. COD is a franchise that people will factor in when they are choosing a console based on their friends. Combine this with Bethesda and it is not good for PS fans. Microsoft could always get another Don Matrick and this would screw over non Xbox users, including the PC market if they continue with these acquisitions. Sony is right about Microsoft cannot be trusted with honoring deals when they backpedaled over Bethesda being multiplat. Some people have even said "We don't know if Starfield was ever going to come to PS". Lol, um yeah I'm sure it was. It and Elder Scrolls are confirmed to not be on PS and so why would Doom, Wolfenstein, or Fallout be any different ? One day all of these Gamepass worshippers will wake up to see Gamepass being $70 a month like a certain Disney bundle is.