Sony pays to keep Resident Evil Village out of Game Pass

@sirk1264: @Antwan3K

Here's what I mean:

That's what these clauses prevent and in the case of MLB, Sony couldn't add it anymore and had to make it multiplatform if they wanted to keep developing it.

That whole screenshot just boils down to ... "we want first dibs". That seems standard when you're signing a contract for marketing rights. And lets not act like Microsoft doesn't pay off publishers to get their games on GamePass because they 100% do.

It's also interesting to see Capcom go with *this* deal from PlayStation as opposed to lets say Microsoft and, GamePass.

I guess I'll be playing the Village next year

Gamepass is better for gaming though. Gamers play more genres and try different games. No one's doing that if they have to pay full price upfront.

They already are beating Sony with it. 20M Gamepass subs and growing fast. Put all the devices that will get Gamepass aside, if you take all of MSs own content and mix it with a ton of 3rd party content and EA Play, it's an absolute steal for gamers.

This is the real answer, ANTI-CONSUMER! I find it funny the hypocrisy of Cows. I will not be buying a PS5 slim now or anything Sony ever again. I am PC only now and it's gonna stay that way.

Just in case you somehow interested in Xbox. They literally do the same thing gamepass keeping games off other subscriptions, PC is a great choice ~~

Lol.

Sony doing their best to project an aura of ****-you.

Thing I find more messed up by this is Capcom gave this up for paltry compensation of marketing support. If Sony wanted to dump tons of money at Capcom like they did for SFV for exclusivity then that would make sense, sort of, I mean Capcom was still making a resurgence when that offer happened. They should have greater financial security since RE7 and RE2 remake and Monster Hunter and such. But I should probably consider that this deal was made a year ago, and Game Pass really didn't start making bigger waves until more recently.

You'd think with all of the fake Twitter blowups (mostly about Sony) and stuff that people would actually take caution before presenting a Twitter post in such an exaggerated manner, but OP doesn't seem to care -- and possibly just wants there to be a 2013-styled blowup for Sony.

If the news is slow for you, I have something to fill your news feed: that blowup isn't going to happen no matter how hard you spin news negatively.

For reference, the previous "shame on Sony" blowup was from another user reading Capcom leak material and *also* incorrectly interpreting language in marketing agreements between Capcom and Sony about Monster Hunter. A few days later it was squarely debunked, similarly to this bottom-of-the-barrel scraping thread topic.

OT, I guess, marketing deals are so common that it's a non-issue. Also, all companies have paid to keep content temporarily exclusive to services they offer, which should give people praising the "subscription service model" more pause if they don't like this stuff. Ex: it's probably not a coincidence that GTAV left PSnow as it was placed on GamePass. If you want to discuss marketing deals, what people could be paying more attention to is why Capcom (and apparently several other publishers) would go with this marketing deal over whatever MS offered with Gamepass.

A random picture with no context. My guess is Sony paid for the marketing rights( which companies have done for generations) and part of that agreement is not allowing it on other companies subscription services. In other words a good business decision as it would be dumb to pay for marketing rights and have the game appear free somewhere else.

Regardless I will gladly pay full price for this game. I love RE and I enjoyed the demo. Capcom is also one of the best developers in the Industry right now and I will gladly support them.

Was this game even coming to gamepass?

i don't believe a marketing deal is going to prevent twitter posts, sir..

the main difference now is that those twitter posts will start saying, "Sony paid to keep Resident Evil Village off of Game Pass".. so they are trading bad PR onto themselves in an effert to prevent good PR for Game Pass.. not exactly the best move in any case..

and again, i think everyone is already aware of the "why".. people are just saying that these types of practices suck..

If the game isn't on Gamepass, then there won't be a tweet promoting the game on gamepass.

understood.. instead there's just tweets talking about how anti-consumer Sony is.. 🤷‍♂️ not the best trade-off in my opinion..

That's a different conversation. And I would agree with you as a consumer.

Sony doesn't give a crap what goes in and out of GamePass they are selling games to ps4 and ps5 owners if someone owns an xbox an grabs game pass that doesn't hurt sony at all.

IF they are making contractual agreements to dictate what goes in and out of Game Pass, you are factually incorrect..

well, unless you work for Sony, that should be the only way to look at it.. 👍