lol you made it sound like Sony does that! In fact Sony has been releasing games their games on PC, bungie remaining 3rd party all those 2 examples alone show that you’re wrong."Hardly change anything" LOL! Sony would immediately fuck over both Xbox and PC gamers that make up the majority of Souls-fans, so the entire community would be broken. MAYBE us PC gamers would get a port of future From games years later, but looking at how Bloodborne and Demon's Souls is still not available on PC I wouldn't hold my breath.
nah, I am talking about MS, put that money on new studios, hire new people fresh out of school. Make them do new IPs, even if it fails it would be better than going out shopping like an entitled rich kid. Even Sony did it with pixel opus. Why MS cannot?
Bit tired of this day one obsession from the green rats. I heard last year we were going to get Tsushima, Returnal, Demon’s Souls on PC after 6 months of exclusivity and then everything would be day one going forward. GT7 was going to be day-one.
Why do you need this day-one validation? Because Xbox does it? I don’t get it.
Because MS will actually keep the game multiplat on PC and Xbox where the majority of the Souls community is.
The Souls series became the phenomenon it is today DESPITE of Sony who thought Demon's Souls was so terrible that they didn't even want to publish the game themselves. There was a lot of bad blood between Sony and From due to how shitty Sony treated them back then.
"For my personal experience with Demon's Souls, when it was close to final I spent close to two hours playing it and after two hours I was still standing at the beginning at the game. I said, 'This is crap. This is an unbelievably bad game.' So I put it aside.
"We definitely dropped the ball from a publishing standpoint, including studio management side. We were not able to see the value of the product we were making."
What if one is a Sony shareholder?You’re a consumer. Act like it
depends on your definition of the time frame!…but they’re doing that already.
Yeah it’s easy to talk, have you tried to convince people here that brand loyalty is bad? That corporations buying big publishers will not add anything positive for anyone expect for brand wars points? I could had used your help back then!You’re a consumer. Act like it.
Thats not correct, Ninja Blade and Otogi are Xbox and Windows exclusives.From already had 3 exclusives with Sony and all their games released on PlayStation, it would hardly change anything except maybe for people that only play on Xbox. The majority of From Software fans own a PlayStation or at least a PC.
If they stop releasing on Xbox just play the games over the cloud on PS+, isn't that the future anyway?
Why do many of you forget you’re consumers? Day one on PC means more options for many for potentially better fidelity or lower prices.
There’s no indication that a day one release would harm profitability for Sony. In fact, they’d sell more games. Consoles themselves are low margin so the only areas of vulnerability could be reduced subscription fees for online play.
You’re a consumer. Act like it.
I meant to say Miyazaki.Thats not correct, Ninja Blade and Otogi area Xbox and Windows exclusives.
I dont think you did, but ok.I meant to say Miyazaki.
?I dont think you did, but ok.
Acti and Beth were doing fine as 3rd, most of their games even sells more in PS than Xbox, but you have those Xbox fanboys that were happy that MS aquired both now coming and try to explain us that "MUH Sony shouldn't buy FS because it will hurt the industry MUH"Bethesda wasn't exactly hurting as a 3rd party multiplatform developer/publisher. That's not what decides who gets bought up and who doesn't.
It’d be a good combatant to losing Elder Scrolls though.Sony dont need the Elden Ring IP, they would have From and Miyazaki. They would be looking at making new IP's. Nobody could make another ER without Miyazaki without fucking it up so its worthless.
Because MS will actually keep the game multiplat on PC and Xbox where the majority of the Souls community is.
The Souls series became the phenomenon it is today DESPITE of Sony who thought Demon's Souls was so terrible that they didn't even want to publish the game themselves. There was a lot of bad blood between Sony and From due to how shitty Sony treated them back then.
What does Elden Ring has to do with Elder Scrolls? When is the next Elder Scrolls game coming out anyway? It took Bethesda 4 years between Fallout 76 and Starfield (7 years if you consider Fallout 4 as their last big game release).It’d be a good combatant to losing Elder Scrolls though.
This is the fun part .Acti and Beth were doing fine as 3rd, most of their games even sells more in PS than Xbox, but you have those Xbox fanboys that were happy that MS aquired both now coming and try to explain us that "MUH Sony shouldn't buy FS because it will hurt the industry MUH"
Acti and Beth were doing fine as 3rd, most of their games even sells more in PS than Xbox, but you have those Xbox fanboys that were happy that MS aquired both now coming and try to explain us that "MUH Sony shouldn't buy FS because it will hurt the industry MUH"
As a mainly console comsumer I want the best possible product on my console of choice. No matter how easy it is to move sliders up and down to adjust graphic settings, if a dev only needs to optimize for a single platform, I will - probably - get a better product.
depends on your definition of the time frame!
Yeah it’s easy to talk, have you tried to convince people here that brand loyalty is bad? That corporations buying big publishers will not add anything positive for anyone expect for brand wars points? I could had used your help back then!
From Software has made some dozens of PS exlusives since back to the PS1 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FromSoftware#GamesFrom already had 3 exclusives with Sony and all their recent games released on PlayStation, it would hardly change anything except maybe for people that only play on Xbox. The majority of From Software fans own a PlayStation or at least a PC.
If they stop releasing on Xbox just play the games over the cloud on PS+, isn't that the future anyway?
The whole Kadokawa -which would include FromSoft- paid with a good premium, and adding on top a good extra chunk of money for retention bonuses as they did with Bungie could cost $5B.It's funny how it becomes near impossible for Sony to buy any company that might cost $4-5 billion? Not that FromSoft or Kadokawa would cost that much.
If this happens, it will at least prove i'm wrong about Hermen Hulst having shitty gaming tastes.
If PC is the largest, wouldn't someone who releases games on PC on the release day make more sense?I don't know the breakdown of From's games by platform but PC is probably the largest followed by PlayStation so if anyone acquiring From "makes sense" then it would probably be Sony.
oh thats boring imagine all technology have all the same features, all cars offer the same features, all businesses offer the same benefits.... yeahhh lets offer the same things and not differientiate from the competition what a loser dont get into businessIn an ideal world, exclusive shit wouldn't be a thing.
Sure they’re doing stuff that can be done elsewhere. But they’re the only ones doing it. So stop hating.PlayStation is the most overrated gaming company in the space....
I'm not 12 kid. I have been playing video games before you were born. 1975 is when I started playing video games. PlayStation is vastly overrated today. God Of War is nice, but nothing that can't be done elsewhere.
Exactly. Competition drive Big Dick Energyoh thats boring imagine all technology have all the same features, all cars offer the same features, all businesses offer the same benefits.... yeahhh lets offer the same things and not differientiate from the competition what a loser dont get into business
ppl that say this are dumb.
PlayStation is the most overrated gaming company in the space....
I'm not 12 kid. I have been playing video games before you were born. 1975 is when I started playing video games. PlayStation is vastly overrated today. God Of War is nice, but nothing that can't be done elsewhere.
If PC is the largest, wouldn't someone who releases games on PC on the release day make more sense?
Good luck convincing PC players, which as you say are probably the largest, that Sony, who releases games on PC six month later at the earliest, is the best one to buy From
I also have them all, but not all people can afford them and taking a publisher and making it exclusive doesn’t benefit anyone. So I’m glad we can express that view and remain unbiased!Making PC ports day one will not change anything about your end product as a console owner.
Treat the PS5 as the lead platform, and then take off the limits for PC. Done.
Happily enough, I’ve always been a multi-console owner, so acquisitions don’t really affect my options in anyway
making From games PS exclusive would give me a reason to get a PS5. would rather they just stay multi platform. don't want to have to buy a console just for one game.
It’d be a good combatant to losing Elder Scrolls though.
There are better studios that Bungie. Also they don't count since their games will remain multi.You're saying Bungie is shitty gaming taste ?
If you think Elder Scrolls won't show up on a console that moves an average of 100 million units per gen and only sells games at full price (on day one), you're sadly, sadly mistaken.
Having TES 6 on gamepass day one on Xbox and $70 on PS5 benefits microsoft twice; once because their console looks the better value, and again for when they cream in the benefits of selling games at $70 a pop.
This is reserved for Mondays.So, next wednesday?
They’re similar games.What does Elden Ring has to do with Elder Scrolls? When is the next Elder Scrolls game coming out anyway? It took Bethesda 4 years between Fallout 76 and Starfield (7 years if you consider Fallout 4 as their last big game release).
I doubt Sony is buying From Software because they are worried about something that might happen in 2026~2029. If they end up buying From Software it's because of all their success since Demon's Souls released back in 2009.
I don't see it at all, except for them being open world but so are a lot of other games.They’re similar games.
I’m sure due to their mass appeal, the games wouldn’t be made exclusive to Sony…
Indeed.Like elder scrolls
With the exception of the souls games, they would be stupid not to they are trying bring more people into the Playstation ecosystem not send them to other platforms.Who says if Sony buys them, that they'd make the games exclusive?
I commented on this one or two weeks ago and people were clowning on me. Kadokawa would never let FromSoftware slide for less than 5-7 billion. God knows how much they would ask now after Elden Ring's success.They'd have to pay Kadokawa a hefty price after Elden Ring I'd imagine.