Microsoft is a mega corp. they’ve done a lot of shady crap. I’m not some blind fan.
But I’ll take Microsoft over a company like Google anyway. Because Google would have locked their new studio behind Stadia, a product that I and millions of other people can’t even use and won’t be able to use for a decade or more until rural bandwidth catches up with what urbanites have enjoyed for five years now.
It’s called picking your poison. One of them will make you a little sick, the other makes you die. Easy choice.
Sony fans will have to realize that Sony was going to get screwed either way the winds went. If Microsoft didn’t start buying up these publishers, then Tencent or Google or one of the other Gods would have.
At least with Microsoft I’ve got an option besides streaming and the God awful input lag that comes with it.
PS3 and PS4 as well. Sony has always been cool and always will be cool.
I think every console maker makes a good console. And each have games worth playing. I’m a Sony fan first and foremost, but I also own a Switch and I’ve owned an Xbox and a 360. Planning on getting a Series S or if I can swing the money building a PC and picking up GamePass.
And like I said to one of my comrades over on Push Square, look at this acquisition this way. I would rather have Microsoft, who still believe in offering a traditional console and traditional methods of acquiring games, have this big purchase than a James Bond villain like Google or Tencent who will lock the games behind streaming. That would be awful for us rural gamers because I doubt we will ever have the bandwidth needed for streaming to really work for us.
I see this not so much as a plan to screw Sony, but more of a way to gear up for the real fight against the Gods of Tech. Google, Apple, Amazon, and Tencent. When Microsoft talked about Sony “not being their real competitor anymore” I believe that the intrusion of the mobile holder tech giants into traditional gaming was what they meant by that.
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Re: Microsoft Is Buying Activision Blizzard, Reportedly For $70 Billion
@eagletrippin
Microsoft is a mega corp. they’ve done a lot of shady crap. I’m not some blind fan.
But I’ll take Microsoft over a company like Google anyway. Because Google would have locked their new studio behind Stadia, a product that I and millions of other people can’t even use and won’t be able to use for a decade or more until rural bandwidth catches up with what urbanites have enjoyed for five years now.
It’s called picking your poison. One of them will make you a little sick, the other makes you die. Easy choice.
Re: Microsoft Is Buying Activision Blizzard, Reportedly For $70 Billion
@Banjo-
Sony fans will have to realize that Sony was going to get screwed either way the winds went. If Microsoft didn’t start buying up these publishers, then Tencent or Google or one of the other Gods would have.
At least with Microsoft I’ve got an option besides streaming and the God awful input lag that comes with it.
Re: Microsoft Is Buying Activision Blizzard, Reportedly For $70 Billion
@eagletrippin
Better Microsoft than some two bit villain like Google.
Re: Microsoft Is Buying Activision Blizzard, Reportedly For $70 Billion
@Banjo-
PS3 and PS4 as well. Sony has always been cool and always will be cool.
I think every console maker makes a good console. And each have games worth playing. I’m a Sony fan first and foremost, but I also own a Switch and I’ve owned an Xbox and a 360. Planning on getting a Series S or if I can swing the money building a PC and picking up GamePass.
And like I said to one of my comrades over on Push Square, look at this acquisition this way. I would rather have Microsoft, who still believe in offering a traditional console and traditional methods of acquiring games, have this big purchase than a James Bond villain like Google or Tencent who will lock the games behind streaming. That would be awful for us rural gamers because I doubt we will ever have the bandwidth needed for streaming to really work for us.
I see this not so much as a plan to screw Sony, but more of a way to gear up for the real fight against the Gods of Tech. Google, Apple, Amazon, and Tencent. When Microsoft talked about Sony “not being their real competitor anymore” I believe that the intrusion of the mobile holder tech giants into traditional gaming was what they meant by that.