FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated
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And now Sony owns them. As much as I like From, I'm getting ready to cope with them enshittifying.
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Sony owns 14% of fromsoft and 10% of their parent company's parent company. I bet that's enough for them to push some shitty things but it still gives from some room to push back.
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Sony doesn't own them, they're just a big investor in them.
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Sony sucks, using your money to try and buy exclusives is toxic garbage behavior, they deserve any criticism and troubles they come across.
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Sony sucks, using your money to try and buy exclusives is toxic garbage behavior, they deserve any criticism and troubles they come across.
I understand that exclusivity on games can be shit but if, I remember well lots of PlayStation games are already on PC (spider man, last of us and ghost of Tsushima) and steller blade will be soon too.
Not only that, Xbox and Nintendo have exclusives too. Not to forget about Epic Games and their exclusive deals.
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... Nintendo literally personally develops their exclusives, let's not pretend that's an apples to apples comparison.
Xbox is absolutely terrible at buying exclusives though, yes. Worse than Sony, arguably.
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Elden Ring already happened, it’s enshittifying already.
Their next game is a copy pasted cash grab rip off of Elden Ring.
The shit is here.
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Does Xbox still have exclusives though? I thought they were kind of open platforming everything?
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My point is; there are more platforms that do exclusives.
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The problem isn't having exclusives, it's buying exclusives to punish customers, which Sony (and Xbox) does.
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It’s one of their business models, so of course they do. Sony, Xbox and Epic Games.
I don’t like it either but that’s the current world we live in and until majority stop purchasing the exclusives, they will keep doing it.
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It's so weird to me how many people seem to just hate Sony for doing milder versions of what Nintendo and Microsoft have been doing for much longer.
Sony didn't buy Zenimax or Activision-Blizzard. Or heck, you could point to the gigantic graveyard of studios that EA and Microsoft have purchased and shut down over the years.
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Depends on whether you consider Xbox and Windows to count as 2 different platforms or not.
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Nintendo doesn't "personally" do anything. They are a corporation.
And they do purchase both IP's and studios. Just off the top of my head they bought Monolith from Bandai-Namco and Bayonetta has been exclusive ever since the second one.
Microsoft has been way worse than Sony. Zenimax alone was might have been bigger than Sony's entire portfolio depending on how you measure. Activision-Blizzard was far, far bigger. And at least with Zenimax, it seems like most of their studios have gotten worse since acquisition, with a lot of them being shut down.
I don't mean to overly defenf Sony, but just paying publishers for 1 year of exclusivity seems pretty mild in comparison. I'd prefer they didn't buy studios like Bungie, but at the same time the acquisitions of Naughty Dog and Insomniac seem to have worked out pretty well.
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Hey I was a skeptic too but got to play it for an hour during the network test and am actually cautiously optimistic. I could still be wrong but it seemed like they put a lot of thought into the new systems.
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I thought they were putting all their stuff on playstation too, is that not the case?
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I have also expressed doubt about nightreign in the past but am on board now. And calling elden ring part of the enshitification process is absolutely ridiculous. I dont care if you're a "fromsoft purist", elden ring is a phenomenal game by any metric.
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That's been rumored for years. I remember back in the day seeing rumors about Halo coming to PlayStation.
Not entirely without merit. Minecraft has been released on pretty much everything with a CPU, although some of those may have been before Microsoft purchased Mojang. There were a lot of weird scenarios after the Zenimax and Activision-Blizzard where the now-Microsoft-owned studios had pre-existing contracts with Sony they needed to honor. It looks like some of the IP they recently purchased that had traditionally been multiplat might remain that way, like the "Age of ___" series, Doom, and Call of Duty.
I've seen rumors that Starfield might come to PS5, but nothing substantial. I don't think there would have been any chance of that if it had sold well on Xbox and Windows.
I've also seen rumors of Halo, Gears of War, and Forza, but I will not start buying those unless there are more signs that Xbox is giving up on hardware entirely. If they could get deals done to get GamePass on Playstation and Switch that might start to look more realistic though.
Most of their games are still exclusive though. Avowed just released last weekend for Xbox and Windows and no hint of a PlayStation release for example.
The reverse is also true. Sony has published MLB games for the Xbox and Switch for example.
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"to publish customers"
To benefit their company, they don't think about punishing the customers for a single second when they make those decisions.
