Wccftech talked to MIDiA Research senior analyst Karol Severin to get his take on the Microsoft/Nintendo Call of Duty deal and other recent news concerning the two platform holders.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't think AI will reduce employment or lower development costs, and calls it "stupidest thing" he's ever heard.
They already have AI trained to do coding.......
How he thinks it's stupid is beyond me, Especially since we see it happening in real time.
I think maybe sometimes we give people in these positions too much credit when it comes to intelligence.
As long as it doesn't effect his inflated executive salary or his ridiculous bonuses I'm sure he's fine with it.
Windows Central writes: "Many PlayStation Studios games that are ported to PC get dedicated PS5 DualSense support, which allows users to experience haptic feedback and adaptive trigger support without actually having to own a PS5.
According to Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, it's still the company's intent to launch the bigger single-player games on PS5 first, before later bringing the games to PC. This might not be the case for multiplayer games however, which are considered okay to launch simultaneously on console and PC."
My guess is after god of war. Probably last of us 2 that's a almost 4 year old game now and by the time it's released on pc it will be more than 4 years old or close to 5.
Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.
Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player
It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.
NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.
Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.
Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!
Of course is win win... for Microsoft. They take away a sales monster from its main competitor to put it on their subscription model which was made because of their low sales situation.
This is a big win for Microsoft and a big fail for the gaming industry. We will witness the fall of COD as we did with Xbox own franchise Halo.
This is a big win for gamers as they will have the option to choose where they want to play COD.
Whether it's Gamepass, Cloud on mobile, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and PC.
COD will be even more accessible than ever and it doesn't change how you normally play COD.
The most notable on here is COD on the cloud. Without a doubt, the latency and quality will improve over time.
That means 3 Billion mobile gamers will have access to play COD on their phone.
Imagine a fraction of 3 billion subbing to gamepass to play COD on their phone. These are you non-console gamers and when they hear that console version COD is playable on game pass cloud service, they're going to sub straight away.
You can see how big this deal is for gamepass.
Let's say that incrementally over Years MS markets COD for mobile, as well as the cloud service, drastically improves over time.
They will start off slow but this is what it might be
1% of 3 Billion= 30 Million
5% of 3 Billion= 150 Million
10% of 3 Billion= 300 Million
If you add the growing gamepass members you can see that number piling up. Also when it lands on Nintendo console it will be adding those players as well.
After this deal and after they put COD and other Activision games on gamepass you can see that they will be making a killing off gamepass.
Lets range between 60 Million and 300 Million Subscribers in the long Run.
They could be making £7.2 Billion to £36 Billion a year fro Gamepass
With these growing numbers and how much the game pass, you can easily see that the Billions they are paying for Activion/Billzard is worth it.
Pretty much. It's only not a win-win if you're Sony. Mostly everyone else is fine with it at this point - and more gamers than ever will have access to COD.
It's a win-win for Microsoft not for others.
Ms is an embarrassment, they can't compete by making there own games, they been on 3rd place for the last 20+ years and even fronting about teraflops can't get them out of 3rd place and here they're trying to buy cod because they can't compete with playstation. Xbox sucks always has always will