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BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have a little bit of schadenfreude at the PS fan club moaning about exclusives, since their whole system is built around exclusives.
But in the end the point stands, exclusives (from anyone) are bad for consumers.
Sony has a twenty-plus year track record of buying studios and talent to produce IP and growing them. Microsoft buys studios for existing IP and doesn’t improve it. Their “exclusive” strategies are very different.
Microsoft passed on the Spider-Man IP luckily for everyone. They would have fucked it up.
I disagree with the “doesn’t improve” statement. Starfield has launched in a much better state than most Bethesda Studios games due to the extra development time MS money gave them. Also Pentiment, a game Sawyer said he wouldn’t have been able to do without MS support for Obsidian.
It’s funny that the quality criteria for a Bethesda game is “not as buggy and unfinished as previous games”. Which still means plenty of bugs, of course.
Well yea, it makes sense that you would compare a new game with previous games from the same studio in the context of a discussion asking “did the owner/publisher help improve the productions of this studio they bought out ?”
I’ve had one bug in Starfield so far, my right thumbstick stopped working. 😂 I had to restart the game
The size of the games they make with the amount of variables, I can understand how some stuff gets through QA. I’m not just talking about bugs though, stuff like touching up the graphics in the last year, getting ID to help tighten the gunplay, etc.
That’s not what I meant by not improving it. Take any Studio that Sony has purchased and compare the quality of their work before to after, and then ten years after. I’m not talking about bugs, I’m talking about visual fidelity, narrative, technological advancement, etc. Uncharted, Last of Us, God of War, Horizon, Spider-Man, Ratchet and Clank. Sony also gives these devs the freedom to stop making their successful IPs and move on to something else.
Technological advancement? After ten years? In the gaming industry? A true miracle.
Sony has a twenty-plus year track record of buying studios and talent to produce IP and growing them.
Lol Sony propaganda right here.
Pixelle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kushan@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I think you were down voted by suggesting that your own personal experience is representative of all PlayStation owners.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve waited patiently and now Spiderman will be on Steam.
Id say go PC and join us.
darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The best part is how these games all run great in Linux, so Microsoft doesn’t get your money.
Astroturfed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Microsoft owns the game company. So unless your pirating it…
fushuan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Maybe it’s the fact that Sony has a huge history of creating exclusives for its console, that people now don’t give a fuck that Sony won’t get a game. That’s what it gets for crying wolf so long.