So this is why MS didn’t care if CoD went to Playstation. If people can just use Game Pass for $10-15/month and possibly already have it, why spend $70 every 1-2 years on new CODs on PS?
I thought that was clear from the start. They haven’t really been shy about it. There haven’t been exceptions to games appearing on Game Pass day 1 when Microsoft owns it; not that I can think of, anyway.
Probably which is probably why it didn’t sate Sony. Sadly it did seem to sate, at least partially, the regulatory bodies.
They are going to get so greedy with game pass once everyone is hooked…
Can you put the existing ones on there already? I’m not shelling out for any of the old games but I sure would like the fuck around with some of them. I feel like they’re only going slow with AB properties so they can get further and further away from the merger date to shore up their case if regulators come back after them. Bethesda games hit gamepass almost immediately after their acquisition.
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And this is what Sony was afraid of, why buy on PlayStation when I can play it on XCloud with gamepass for a fraction of the price? Especially if all I care about is the campaign which doesn’t take lightning fast reflexes and can be played with a small amount of latency.
This is also why the EU was worried about cloud gaming competition, but Microsoft played the long game with gamepass and now it doesn’t matter if their stuff is on other cloud platforms as long as they get that gamepass sub.
The thing is, this whole buyout was Microsoft spending “fuck you” money. They can’t beat PlayStation right now, so they’re playing dirty, shifting their business elsewhere and buying out the competition. Their whole business strategy is just hoping nobody gives a shit at this point, and if someone does give a shit they’ll just pay the fines and continue.
Game Pass isn’t necessarily XCloud though. I can’t imagine playing CoD via cloud streaming. The latency would be pretty awful in a game like CoD.
