343 industriesCall of duty is struggling with putting out a game every year as is. I'm going to laugh if this agreement with Nintendo completely degrades the quality of of cod because they can't keep up. They already have all their studios working on call of duty; where are all these extra people going to come from to put out a nintendo version?
Lol, disastrous take. This is no truer than the OG Xbox being the "baseline spec" for Doom 3 or Half-Life 2, or that the Switch was the "baseline spec" for The Witcher 3 or Ark Survival Evolved. Microsoft spinning up a porting studio whose job is to rebuild COD for Switch could easily pay for itself and then some. I'd also imagine a company like Nintendo would waive certain feature parity items - such as cross play or voice chat - when they don't align with their particular brand of walled garden.Damn the Switch/Switch 2 is actually going to be the baseline spec for COD/ABK games going forward that’s crazy.
My reasoning before was based on Phil Spencer’s court testimony where he admitted COD on Switch would be a different game from Xboc/PlayStation.
Props to MS for making that adaptive controller, it paved the way for others to follow.
Uughh, no. Not you Sony-girls and Sony-guys.
Lol, disastrous take. This is no truer than the OG Xbox being the "baseline spec" for Doom 3 or Half-Life 2, or that the Switch was the "baseline spec" for The Witcher 3 or Ark Survival Evolved. Microsoft spinning up a porting studio whose job is to rebuild COD for Switch could easily pay for itself and then some. I'd also imagine a company like Nintendo would waive certain feature parity items - such as cross play or voice chat - when they don't align with their particular brand of walled garden.
Yearly they aint big. How many Diablo and Overwatch games will be released in 10 years, vs how many cod?What about blizzard now? Overwatch? Diablo? Those are huge franchises
>Spend resources embargoing a merger
>Spoil the good relationship with ABK
>Gain hate from the general public
>Decline a favorable settlement proposal
>Cheers for the rejection of the merger
>See the purchase being authorized
>Look for MS to make a deal without so many guarantees to use to your advantage
>Get a worse contract than the initial one
>Watch fanboys applaud the "business strategy"
Congratulations to Sony. It was brilliant to turn down the deal.
>Spend resources embargoing a merger
>Spoil the good relationship with ABK
>Gain hate from the general public
>Decline a favorable settlement proposal
>Cheers for the rejection of the merger
>See the purchase being authorized
>Look for MS to make a deal without so many guarantees to use to your advantage
>Get a worse contract than the initial one
>Watch fanboys applaud the "business strategy"
Congratulations to Sony. It was brilliant to turn down the deal.
Sony shot themselves in the foot lol. Could've got it all but threw a shitfit instead. Oh well, hope they're happy with just CoD
That's a completely different situation. The Wiiu wasn't the weakest system those versions came out, or at least it was comparable to Xbox 360 and PS3. The next Switch definitely isn't going to be on par with PS5 and XSS/X.The WiiU wasn’t the baseline for COD the last time it was on a Nintendo console. Why this narrative now?
There's a galaxy sitting between your two assumptions and you know it. Playing the fool here does nothing. I've already explained that the games can be rebuilt if Microsoft want to invent the time and money - and they evidently do - and I've explained that crossplay is only a requirement if Nintendo wants it. In the event that Nintendo do want it, there's little in Call of Duty's multiplayer that can't be achieved on the Switch as is if the content is remade accordingly. This is part where you start arguing symantics, conflating presentation with features using quotation marks.So let me get this right, first I say Nintendo isn’t getting the same game, get called on it because the agreement states native versions with feature and content parity, so I take the logical conclusion that it becomes the new baseline target spec, and you say it’s a disastrous take because signed agreements are for idiots and Nintendo is getting a different game?
Can’t keep up. Native, content and feature parity means not a cloud version and it absolutely means crossplay.
Fortnite has crossplay so don’t give me that BS about “walled gardens”
Yeah, I will always praise MS for this.Props to MS for making that adaptive controller
“Nintendo has a contractual right to obtain Activision content post-merger, including Call of Duty,”
>Spend resources embargoing a merger
>Spoil the good relationship with ABK
>Gain hate from the general public
>Decline a favorable settlement proposal
>Cheers for the rejection of the merger
>See the purchase being authorized
>Look for MS to make a deal without so many guarantees to use to your advantage
>Get a worse contract than the initial one
>Watch fanboys applaud the "business strategy"
Congratulations to Sony. It was brilliant to turn down the deal.
>Spend resources embargoing a merger
>Spoil the good relationship with ABK
>Gain hate from the general public
>Decline a favorable settlement proposal
>Cheers for the rejection of the merger
>See the purchase being authorized
>Look for MS to make a deal without so many guarantees to use to your advantage
>Get a worse contract than the initial one
>Watch fanboys applaud the "business strategy"
Congratulations to Sony. It was brilliant to turn down the deal.
They will only get one or none releases in 10 years so.... Microsoft really knows how to devalue, with the lost Blizzard/Acti revenue they will be worth a lot less.What about blizzard now? Overwatch? Diablo? Those are huge franchises
I for one hope that the takeover will allow Activision to make smaller games again. I don't care about CoD or the new Diablo, I would gladly play (and pay for) THPS 3+4, Prototype remake, new Spyro / Crash or something else from their IP portfolio.What have Activision made CoD aside in the past 10 years? Crash, Spyro and THPS 1&2 - was there anything else?
This was never about the games for Sony, it was about the potential removal of a massive yearly revenue stream (CoD).
They don't have the talent to make those new editions of those games, though the remakes could be doable.I for one hope that the takeover will allow Activision to make smaller games again. I don't care about CoD or the new Diablo, I would gladly play (and pay for) THPS 3+4, Prototype remake, new Spyro / Crash or something else from their IP portfolio.
Wii had good ports of call of duty up to Black Ops, these ports are never made by the main studio but someone else, only Treyarch had a Wii team.That's a completely different situation. The Wiiu wasn't the weakest system those versions came out, or at least it was comparable to Xbox 360 and PS3. The next Switch definitely isn't going to be on par with PS5 and XSS/X.
>Spend resources embargoing a merger
>Spoil the good relationship with ABK
>Gain hate from the general public
>Decline a favorable settlement proposal
>Cheers for the rejection of the merger
>See the purchase being authorized
>Look for MS to make a deal without so many guarantees to use to your advantage
>Get a worse contract than the initial one
>Watch fanboys applaud the "business strategy"
Congratulations to Sony. It was brilliant to turn down the deal.
Fair point, but it's probably Warzone that's going to be the biggest challenge.Wii had good ports of call of duty up to Black Ops, these ports are never made by the main studio but someone else, only Treyarch had a Wii team.
2027? Seems Sony just got got. They already released overwatch 2 and diablo 4. No way there will be anything significant by then. That and the wording means MS loopholes themselves into scenario where they technically could just delay games passed that date and skip PS with nothing at all.
Bu but Sony got dur bess deal, no?Jimbo messed this one up badly.
Sony isn't your friend either.General public cheering this aquisition is stupid. MS consolidate this industry will backfire general public ass soon or later. No big tech is your friend.
Well at least they delivery high quality SP only games for the last 15 years that I want to play.Sony isn't your friend either.