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[SRTtoZ]

I am guessing EA and Activision right? I have a feeling both BF4 and CoD will be exclusive to Durango (excluding the PS360 versions)

No way. Activision already announced Diablo 3 for next gen so there goes that exclusivity right out the window.

 

[Oersted]

Just like how people blindly click "I agree" to TOS and EULA, this is going to be no different. People LOVE their games.

Yep. We already have the "it doesn´t really affect me" party in here.

 

[abadguy]

well lots of people want them to fail here thats why it's pretty blunt in some replies, lol.

I guess i don't understand the "logic" of console warriors, that's probably a good thing too.

 

[ksdixon]

this is exactley what worries me. always online and blocking used games is supposedly being driven by pubs and devs. that ms are making those mandatory suggests pubs in their back pocket/backing them. with the rumors of ea announcing an official partnership with ms at the upcoming xbox event... how many casual/frat gamers are just going to follow madden and battlefeild to xbox infinity? or the timed exclusive dlc cod maps etc. i fear ms has a reason to feel they can get away witb this.

 

[ksdixon]

In the case of Battlefield 4, it's because EA's CFO already mentioned it in conjunction with PS4 during their conference call with investors. Obviously, he's not under the same NDA that DICE is.

As far as Activision is concerned, they've never even supported online passes in the majority of their games. None of the Call of Duty games have an online pass. I'm not sure why they get thrown in with Ubisoft in this regard.

activision bobby said if he cud hed make cod multiplayer its own subscription service, or that they shud get a larger cut of xblive gold profits considering how much cod multiplayer pushes it.

 

[apana]

Microsoft have hardly proven themselves to be juggernauts in the gaming business, don't know why they are following such a risky route. I have not been paying attention to gaming news for a while, I assume Sony is not going to do this.

 

[EvB]

Nah, they will sell less because their install base will be smaller.

Even if their install base was lower, their attach rate would be bigger and I'm sure they have would of run the numbers to make sure they still win out.

What's the point in having a huge install base of consoles if a huge percentage of users buy nothing but preowned or use their hardware for piracy?

 

[EvB]

Microsoft have hardly proven themselves to be juggernauts in the gaming business, don't know why they are following such a risky route. I have not been paying attention to gaming news for a while, I assume Sony is not going to do this.

Who is a juggernaut then?

 

[Xpliskin]

Whatever they choose to go with:


It will always be patchable with an update

 

[joeblow]

In the same way that pay-to-play-online is patchable on the X360?

 

[ascii42]

In the same way that pay-to-play-online is patchable on the X360?

Yes, but the market has spoken in favor of paying for Live. If they hadn't, it'd be free.

 

[imjust1n]

But didn't gamestop support Microsoft in saying that the next xbox is awesome if it didn't support used games that's gamestops way of making money.

 

[grosvenor_92]

Why can't microsoft come out and either confirm or deny this stuff ? All the rumors are getting annoying