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[onQ123]

Call Of Duty would look bad being outsold by a random game like Helldivers 2 in it's 1st year under Xbox .

 

[Mr Moose]

Phil wanted to make MineCraft exclusive (like he did with Starfield lol), it's a good thing he isn't the big big boss.
I think MW3 would've probably sold less than Spider-Man 2 without PS sales.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

You really build out your thesis.

 

[Loomy]

That's stupid. Phil walked into a conversation like the fucking Kool-aid guy and said "Nope, Starfield exclusive!"

Phil also believes that Nintendo's future is being a 3rd party publisher/developer and that "it's taking them while to realize that". The man is delusional and, at this point, out of ideas.

Steve Jobs quoted the guy who was CEO of Apple before he came back saying "Apple is like a sinking ship. My job is to point it in the right direction".

That reminds me of Phil Spencer right now.

 

[Mr Moose]

That's stupid. Phil walked into a conversation like the fucking Kool-aid guy and said "Nope, Starfield exclusive!"

Phil also believes that Nintendo's future is being a 3rd party publisher/developer and that "it's taking them while to realize that". The man is delusional and, at this point, out of ideas.

Steve Jobs quoted the guy who was CEO of Apple before he came back saying "Apple is like a sinking ship. My job is to point it in the right direction".

That reminds me of Phil Spencer right now.

Yup, Phil Spencer is a fucking idiot.

 

[dano1]

Yeah I doubt that.

 

[onQ123]

That's stupid. Phil walked into a conversation like the fucking Kool-aid guy and said "Nope, Starfield exclusive!"

Phil also believes that Nintendo's future is being a 3rd party publisher/developer and that "it's taking them while to realize that". The man is delusional and, at this point, out of ideas.

Steve Jobs quoted the guy who was CEO of Apple before he came back saying "Apple is like a sinking ship. My job is to point it in the right direction".

That reminds me of Phil Spencer right now.

With Starfield there wasn't much to lose but the money put into Starfield but to let Call Of Duty fall would have been a tragic.

 

[onQ123]

Yeah I doubt that.

You doubt what?


Take PlayStation out of Call Of Duty sales & leave that userbase hungry for a replacement it would not end pretty.

 

[Crayon]

Phil didn't because he wasn't allowed to. There's a reason he ruined Xbox. He puts beating (being) ps above to everything else.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

WTH is Call of Duty?

 

[Investor9872]

Or maybe MS is just trying desperately to recoup some of their $80+ billion dollars that they had paid for Activision!

 

[Raonak]

MS would be stupid to make any exclusives going forward.

The cat is already out of the bag.

 

[tusharngf]

You can't compare juggernaut COD with helldivers. Cod has been on no 1 spot every single year and has only been replaced by rockstar titles.

 

[onQ123]

You can't compare juggernaut COD with helldivers. Cod has been on no 1 spot every single year and has only been replaced by rockstar titles.

Yes which would look bad if they lost the PlayStation sales & PlayStation owners bought another game.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

This is why Xbox community is superior.

They got a magnitude more popular exclusive in Palworld. They simply went out and played it instead of spreading online bullshit like this.

 

[Topher]

Helldivers 2 ain't just some "random game". Did I miss a recent Call of Duty launch or something?

What is this thread? Do I need to be drunk to join in?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

you are wrong. but the actual answer will make Xbox, Phil and MS look like

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This is why Xbox community is superior.

They got a magnitude more popular exclusive in Palworld. They simply went out and played it instead of spreading online bullshit like this.

we are all Xbox community.

 

[Loomy]

With Starfield there wasn't much to lose but the money put into Starfield but to let Call Of Duty fall would have been a tragic.

That is literally everything.

 

[Ozzie666]

I once thought it was impossible to kill Halo and Master Chief, but here we are.
But failing COD would be one hell of an accomplishment, Imagine Battlefront does better.

 

[TrueGrime]

Is this the level of GAF threads these days?

Does OP know that keeping CoD multiplatform is part of their acquisition agreement for a time, so they can't make it exclusive?

 

[Crayon]

Drunk and playing helldivers is not a bad Friday night.

 

[MasterCornholio]

Is this the level of GAF threads these days?

Does OP know that keeping CoD multiplatform is part of their acquisition agreement for a time, so they can't make it exclusive?

Probably as long as the other platforms continue to be big for COD. It will probably be an extremely long time before it goes exclusive especially if they keep failing with hardware. That's assuming that revenue is still their goal though but that can change.

 

[Crayon]

I keep seeing this thread on the front page and it's eating at my brain.

 

[CoreyFlawless]

? I’m confused. Don’t think this game even come close to sales wise of cod to even think that

 

[JackMcGunns]

Is this the level of GAF threads these days?

Does OP know that keeping CoD multiplatform is part of their acquisition agreement for a time, so they can't make it exclusive?

This is what Gaf has devolved to unfortunately

 

[Lucifers Beard]

You really set this post up for discussion didn't you?

He can't make it exclusive anyway, he has said that Xbox will continue to make the game multiplatform as part of the deal when purchasing the publisher.

 

[I'm nobody]

Helldivers 3 budget gunna be huge

I'd like 6 players n a couple sat inside the ship controlling our battle ground eg ac130 shooting bugs n orbital strikes shot from live players

 

[twilo99]

WTH is Call of Duty?

Apparently Sony’s biggest money maker ironically owned by Microsoft.. really weird

 

[Ribi]

Ok but palworld outsold HD

 

[richdot]

Call of duty runs like shit on series x to say they own it why do I have to keep playing it on my ps5 the camo texture blur bug on Xbox is a disgrace everybody moans like hell about it yet they don't fix it ?

 

[OverHeat]

What is OP smoking?

 

[Pelta88]

OP sidestepped Satya Nadella in his thesis.

 

[onQ123]

What is OP smoking?

Nothing at all I don't smoke or drink .

You might not understand what I'm saying but in a simple way I'm saying the industry can easily be shifted so doing something crazy like limiting Call of Duty to a small userbase like Xbox will open the door for another game to grab up the audience.

 

[Little Chicken]

Phil wanted to make MineCraft exclusive (like he did with Starfield lol), it's a good thing he isn't the big big boss.
I think MW3 would've probably sold less than Spider-Man 2 without PS sales.

No he didn't, what a load of garbage.

 

[richdot]

Nothing at all I don't smoke or drink .

You might not understand what I'm saying but in a simple way I'm saying the industry can easily be shifted so doing something crazy like limiting Call of Duty to a small userbase like Xbox will open the door for another game to grab up the audience.

People that play cod will carry on playing cod on which ever platform they want? Xbox isn't limiting cod? They are quite dumb but not that dumb...

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Ok but palworld outsold HD

Steam, not Xbox.

You can't compare juggernaut COD with helldivers. Cod has been on no 1 spot every single year and has only been replaced by rockstar titles.

Only because it has no competition. The day someone makes a fun World War FPS, COD is dead. It's a very risky move, though.

 

[Mr Moose]

No he didn't, what a load of garbage.

FTC lawyer James Weingarten cited a 2019 chat in which Spencer agreed with an idea to keep then-upcoming Minecraft Dungeons off non-Xbox/PC platforms (but the game then did launch on non-Xbox/PC platforms).

 

[Crayon]

Other publishers were probably throwing shit at the walls dreaming up products to fill the vacuum the day abk was announced. You'd have to be a pretty dedicated cod player to buy a console they didn't want so they can keep playing. How many of the ps players are supposed to do that? Especially if one or more copycats show up? It puts cod as a brand at risk. Stupid plan.

 

[onQ123]

People that play cod will carry on playing cod on which ever platform they want? Xbox isn't limiting cod? They are quite dumb but not that dumb...

Huh?

 

[Arsic]

What is OP smoking?

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Phil wanted to make MineCraft exclusive (like he did with Starfield lol), it's a good thing he isn't the big big boss.

If this is true, Minecraft would be dead. Holy shit lmao

 

[richdot]

Huh?

Who's limiting cod I don't understand what your saying?

 

[ManaByte]

The day someone makes a fun World War FPS, COD is dead.

Tell that to EA.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

GAAS threads are like pizza. Even the bad GAAS threads are really stupendous.

 

[tmlDan]

what is this thread, thought there'd be a well thought out OP, or an article.

why you causing shit for no reason

 

[LiquidMetal14]

What the hell is this

Why was it made

And keeps getting bumped. Damn.

 

[Varteras]

 

[onQ123]

Who's limiting cod I don't understand what your saying?

No one , I said if they would have limited to Xbox

 

[poppabk]

Only because it has no competition. The day someone makes a fun World War FPS, COD is dead. It's a very risky move, though.

It has no competition because it destroyed everything that went up against it. Battlefield still exists but it's days of being a possible CoD killer if they just did *this one thing* are over.