Yeah so historically PlayStation has had a lot of exclusives (Shadow of the Colossus, God of War, The Last of Us) that would be the deciding factor for a lot of players. So Microsoft wanted to ensure that Xbox/PC could synergize and compete against Sony by buying a stake in a ton of game studios. But between bitcoin, AI and enshittification the gaming industry is in shambles so they’re cutting overhead.
nullspace@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What exactly is their plan? Just collect IPs so they aren’t being released on other platforms?
mirshafie@europe.pub 1 day ago
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Don’t worry: their CEO was answering support calls. I’m sure things will be fine.
(Doomed.)
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It is a very old strategy for monopolies to buy up competition so they can kill the competition, it’s how Microsoft was founded.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Founded? I know they did this as they grew, but founded?
echodot@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Not quite. The founding is actually worse.
Bill Gates was shown, in good faith, a tech demo by, I think IBM but I may be wrong with that, for a new graphical user interface they were planning on releasing soon, and he just stole it and released windows, before they could get their product to market.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 50 minutes ago
I looked it up as I was curious.
Apple and Microsodt both licensed some interface stuff from Xerox and they were both working on a windows like OS.
Apple was ahead, and gave them a sneak preview.
Then I guess MS wanted to do something like that and told Apple they’d give them time frame they wouldn’t release anything in (like a year or two later) and then they said fuck it and released it early.
Then Apple sued MS.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I think it was Kodak they stole from, dos they bought