Microsoft: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed - Gameranx
Microsoft has argued that the Steam Deck did not need Call of Duty to be successful, a claim that is easily proven by the Deck's success.
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This fixation on call of duty was a huge misstep by Sony both from a legal/business standpoint and PR standpoint.
Call of Duty is not the issue. The issue is that Microsoft is a 2 trillion dollar company, Sony is a 100 billion dollar company, and Nintendo is a 50 billion dollar company.
The problem isn’t COD, it’s Microsoft’s potential ability to outspend their competitors into irrelevance because they have seemingly endless pockets. They can buy studio after studio in a way their competitors can’t, so they are! And consolidation is almost always bad for media.
Microsoft has the ability to take any good studio away nearly at-will in a way their competitors simply cannot and they have been flexing that muscle slowly but surely for the last 10 years. And I’m not even getting into how many studios they’ve allowed to languish.
I think you’re off by a factor of 10
Whoops yes. Definitely a typo first then math-ed the bad number. 40x Nintendo, 20x Sony.
This is a pretty old thread lol how did you find it
Honestly didn’t even realize it was so old. Not sure how I got here, just falling down the rabbit hole I suppose lol
Happens!
