Apple historically only charges a policy like this when they are readying to bring out their own competing service. They make things difficult or impossible to do (ie. costly, or have to do unnecessar...

@Barighm: That is because they are released 2 years or more after the Sony games were released on PS. That affects sales. If they were (looking at MS sales comparison with their games being 0 day) Son...

@j3diknightdave:The issue is not necessarily the size. The issue is A/B has a broad number of interests and it is a public traded company with certain worker issues. You notice as soon as the union ga...

@joejoe1639: You would also have to ignore that PS sales are dramatically down because Japanese gamers are not focused on buying consoles period. Japanese gamers have transitioned to mobile. Sony coul...

@zerojuice:COD following the Nintendo model incoming:COD Kart. COD Tennis, COD Bowling, COD Soccer, COD Haunted Mansion, COD Golf, Paper COD, COD Party Superstars, COD Maker, COD at the Olympics, COD ...

@Carpetfluff: Well the MLB The Show (a Sony first party) will be day one on Game Pass again this year (2022 arrives next week on GP). Will it even be on PS+ Extra 3 months from now when that service c...

@Barighm: Google wasn't going to buy A/B/ They didn't even want to keep investing in their one internal studio or the couple of small devs they already bought. Closing them all down only a year into S...

@sabredj: The problem is not this console gen. The problem for Sony is that they will be a small fish when the other tech giants start to move and gobble up developers. And Sony will watch as these ne...

@thesorrowfuldeity:Take-Two is not happening. They will have a market cap of around $32 billion after the Zynga purchase goes through. I doubt they have any interest in selling. And if they did it wou...

@mursexxx:If you add up the control and revenue of Tencent, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all that does not reach 50%. So other than being hyperbolic by calling a company a monopoly, the video gaming ...

Let's be honest Sony can't afford it. EA has a market cap of $37 billion. So with a 50% premium, you are looking at the very minimum $55 billion for a very willing EA. And I doubt EA is going to be t...

@squidracerX: I love Game Pass too. But, just relying on that you are missing a lot of good games that have not come to or won't ever be on Game Pass.I do think Xbox will offer an additional service (...

@Barighm: He is right. Most of the best studios were acquired. All but 3 were acquired. What is left after that are either smaller studios, or studios that support other studiosInsomniac - acquiredBen...

@Pierce_Sparrow: Except that all incoming PS games will be on PC too. In fact, I am betting by end of next year it won't be a year or two later after a game's release, but first-party will start appea...

@Barighm: Wow the denial is strong with this one. PS has by far the worst of the worst shills in existence. This whole repetition of will they won't they about Bethesda is because of PS shills.

"The Ascent Had Record Sales Success Despite Launching On Game Pass"Since when has Game Pass ever negatively affected a game sale? Time after time developers have said their game sales have actually i...

@acepilot: LOL this post did not age well did it? Where are those awesome RDNA 3 features? People were so right PS5 is going to be a quasi RDNA 1 (RDNA 1.5 a few features grabbed late in the PS5 devel...

@allencc3: Xbox 360 BC was between completely different architectures. With PS4 BC we aren't talking PowerPC or Cell architecture to x86. PS4 BC is nothing close to that much more complicated 360 BC e...

@nikolistary:They know what the case looks like. Oh my! I can see it now after the VGA announcement Cerny immediately called his team: "We know everything. Microsoft has shown its hand by displaying t...

@reznik00:Get ready for a shocker. Sony is going to be doing the same thing. The writing is on the wall. There is not going to be this mass flood of new customers for the PS5. Yoshida (CEO of Sony) ca...