Actual data of games available says otherwise and was presented to the regulatory agencies.
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Been available don't mean be the best seller and be the main target of the switch, If you take the top 20/30 of the game best sales on Nintendo Switch there will be mostly Nintendo games and mostly family game. If it was the case we can say than Sony and MS have family game but if you see out of Minecraft or Roblox the best seller are games for teenager or adult.
List of best selling Switch game
List of best-selling Nintendo Switch video games - Wikipedia
I think one example was Bayonetta 3, which may have been a popular seller.
Bayonetta 3 sold a bit better than Bayonetta 2 that sole 1.04 million.
This is a best seller on Switch and the last Pokemon sold more than 10 million in 3 days. We are far above the number of copy sold by mature games...
Of course the streaming market isn't 100% analogous to the video game market. But again, this is about market share and regulatory scrutiny. Honestly, I don't care that it was Sony that purchased Crunchyroll and Funimation, only that a market is allowed to consolidated without regulatory scrutiny in one case, and much more scrutiny in another.
And Sony wouldn't have to acquire Take2 to make GTA a Playstation exclusive. The series was exclusive in the past. And rumors suggest that 6 will be a timed exclusive as well.
And boohoo. Sony is so broke they can only buy $5 Billion companies.
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Compared to Crunchyroll, Netflix and Disney plus are in another segment of the market. And if Nintendo were to buy Activision, would the regulators get involved? Why would Sony's objections matter if Nintendo is in it's own little space. Or do these special market segments only matter sometimes.
Again Netflix and Disney plus and Amazon Prime are competitor of Sony anime stuff. Anime are more and more popular if they want to buy the right of some anime giving more money than Sony they can and they did it. Sony is not a the only producer of anime.
Sony isn't broke but no deep pocket like GAFAM company. There is a reason regulator have eyes on this company not only Microsoft.
There are better rumor than believe than GTA 6 will be temporary exclusive to PS5.
They have the marketing right for sure, this is the reason the first PS5 showcase began by a PS4 GTA video saying we continue our partnershup with Rockstar game. When Sony bought the exclusivity of GTA 3 it was cheap and it was before the franchise become very popular.
Nintendo is part of the console market no matter how much CMA trys to twist things. They sell console hardware and there are a lot of kids that own xboxs and playstations. If that is what the CMA is basing things on then they are dumber than I thought.
If sony can't buy take two then that sounds like a sony problem. Sony has no problem opening up their wallet for companies. Maybe instead of buying dozens of companies they should buy a single larger company.
In 2022 Sony has bought Savage game studios , right stuf , repeat.gg , bungie , haven , lasengle , ultra records
in 2021 they have bought Valkyrie entertainment , bad wolf , som livre , bluepoint games , fabrik games , firesprite, crunchyroll , nixxes , house marque , somethin' else , evo , awal
So don't cry a river for sony , they can buy lots of stuff.
Also you might want to get check out for your take two obsession
Do you see how this makes zero sense ?
Are there childrens games on the playstation ? are there adult games on nintendo platforms ? if the answer is yes then they are competiting with each other in the same way that Disney plus and Amazon prime have some anime on their platform and they compete with Sony's anime stuff.
You can't have it both ways.
It's funny but I am a 40 year old adult who owns a switch and I also own 6 of the top 10 games on the switch platform. I also have no children. how can that possibly be ?
If you like the Nintendo this is not a problem but at the end most of the games are family friendly and can be played by anyone, player of all age and people with children too not like Resident Evil for example or Callisto protocol or God of war or Gears of War.
Compared to Sony and MS exclusive there is much more family friendly games and they are on the top of the sales not God of war Ragnarok or Gears of War like games charting high on Switch.
but you understand that those games still compete with playstation and xbox. When a person goes into the store to buy a console they will look at all 3
No they aren't competing with the sheer number of mature game on PS5 and Xbox. Many gamers know they don't want to buy a Switch or a Xbox/PS console. Some want to have all type of game and buy a PS/Xbox plus a Switch. Some gamer buy switch for children and play on PS/Xbox or PC.
Like CMA said this is not the same market segment. If I remember well there is more girl/woman playing on Switch than other consoles for example and more children too.
It does seem as if the thought was "its only cartoons" and when the Discovery/WB merged it was "its only movies". That right there makes it ludicrous that so much attention is being paid to MS/ABK since "its only games".
Thank you eastmen for the copy/paste, I know and understand what I posted. You on the other hand ..
So I will explain it more simply for you. Naughty Dog, Insomniac and Sucker Punch were all 2nd party developers working on Sony owned IPs. Yes they developed games for other companies/platforms, however so did xbox studios like Rare and Ninja Theory before microsoft bought them up. Bungie also developed games on other platforms before microsoft bought them and tried (unsuccessfully) to turn them in Halo-studio.com. Sony and these developers liked working together and enjoyed a close relationship with Sony's internal studios ( SIE Santa Monica etc) and it felt natural to be part of the SIE family. Microsoft are just merely gobbling up publishers because they are desperate.
My simple question is to you is .. If the Microsoft/Bethesda/Activision business relationship is the same as the Sony/Naughty Dog/ Insomniac etc relationship (like you claim), then what microsoft owned and published IPs did either Activision or Bethesda develop in a 2nd party relationship with microsoft? (Not counting Starfield or any other Bethesda game released after microsoft bought them)
Not that i agree ir disagree with that logic but this sounds like binding the reality to fit narrative. If we say that Nintendo do not compete with Sony and Msft so we can also say that Sony don’t compete with Microsoft becouse they are focusing more on big AAA movie like games with super hero’s. While msft is focusing on PC/Xbox mixed market with more mixed content for everyone.
But the end result is I have so many hours per day to play and I will spend it playing on PlayStation Xbox switch or pc.
But the end result is I have so many hours per day to play and I will spend it playing on PlayStation Xbox switch or pc.
Thank you eastmen for the copy/paste, I know and understand what I posted. You on the other hand ..
So I will explain it more simply for you. Naughty Dog, Insomniac and Sucker Punch were all 2nd party developers working on Sony owned IPs. Yes they developed games for other companies/platforms, however so did xbox studios like Rare and Ninja Theory before microsoft bought them up. Bungie also developed games on other platforms before microsoft bought them and tried (unsuccessfully) to turn them in Halo-studio.com. Sony and these developers liked working together and enjoyed a close relationship with Sony's internal studios ( SIE Santa Monica etc) and it felt natural to be part of the SIE family. Microsoft are just merely gobbling up publishers because they are desperate.
My simple question is to you is .. If the Microsoft/Bethesda/Activision business relationship is the same as the Sony/Naughty Dog/ Insomniac etc relationship (like you claim), then what microsoft owned and published IPs did either Activision or Bethesda develop in a 2nd party relationship with microsoft? (Not counting Starfield or any other Bethesda game released after microsoft bought them)
The relation between MS and Bethesda is good Skyrim and Morrorwind were temporary or fully exclusive to Xbox after the relation between Xbox and Acivision is a normal relationship.
Sony exclusives are one thing, third party are other thing and the big commercial success are nearly the same on PS/Xbox from third party side.
I'm not sure this will satisfy you, but here's a sort of related section of a recent interview with Todd .
Off topic but that was very interesting interview. Got me really excited for starfield.
You know some gamers buy a switch and play games themselves. You do understand that right ? You also understand that some gamers buy a playstation or xbox for children and never once touch it.
CMA can say what they want but that doesn't make it true.
Thank you eastmen for the copy/paste, I know and understand what I posted. You on the other hand ..
So I will explain it more simply for you. Naughty Dog, Insomniac and Sucker Punch were all 2nd party developers working on Sony owned IPs. Yes they developed games for other companies/platforms, however so did xbox studios like Rare and Ninja Theory before microsoft bought them up. Bungie also developed games on other platforms before microsoft bought them and tried (unsuccessfully) to turn them in Halo-studio.com. Sony and these developers liked working together and enjoyed a close relationship with Sony's internal studios ( SIE Santa Monica etc) and it felt natural to be part of the SIE family. Microsoft are just merely gobbling up publishers because they are desperate.
My simple question is to you is .. If the Microsoft/Bethesda/Activision business relationship is the same as the Sony/Naughty Dog/ Insomniac etc relationship (like you claim), then what microsoft owned and published IPs did either Activision or Bethesda develop in a 2nd party relationship with microsoft? (Not counting Starfield or any other Bethesda game released after microsoft bought them)
You sure because you still don't seem to understand what you posted .
So these studios were independent making games for another company's platform. Last I checked that is exactly that Bethesda and Activision did. Bethesda and Activision are both closely linked with Microsoft platforms. So why is it okay for Sony to buy those studios but not MS to buy these other studios ?
Todd Howard has already talked about his close relationship with Microsoft and how Microsoft is the company who brought them to consoles with morrowind.
I find it hilarious how you wax poetically about sony buying companys and then say that MS is desperately gobbling up publishers.
Recently Microsoft has bought Zenimax , Double fine , Obsidian , Inxile , Playground , Compulsion and Ninja theory since 2018. They are in the process of buying Activision
Sony has bought Audiokinetic , Insomniac , Evo , Somethin'Else , housemarque , nixxes , Firesprite , fabrik , bluepoint , valkyrie , lasengle , haven , bungie , repeat.gg and savage games.
So MS has bought / in process of buying 8 companies
Sony has bought 15 companies.
Of course its MS gobbling up everything. I 'd love to hear you wax poetically about Sony's releationship with fabrik or savage games
I think you have a fundamental problem when you converse to me. I actually don't have a problem with either company buying publishers. I think its fine for both of them to do it and I haven't complained about either company doing it. My position is simply that if the Market leader is allowed to buy up publishers with no over sight ( and they bought up 15 companes in 4 years) then MS who has sold half the consoles that Sony has sold should be able to buy companies to improve their position in the market and that it makes sense that MS goes after more established companies with strong ip because sony already has a lot of strong ip and is adding more developers so MS not only has to grow to get to where sony was but grow faster to catch up to sony.
At the end of the day Sony/MS/Nintendo having equal market share or as close to equal market share as possible is the best thing for us. It's the same on the pc side. IF epic / steam / gog / xbox and whatever all have as close to equal shares as possible its a good thing for us as a consumer.
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