PS Game market

24/05/2023

The news is hardly shocking: you don’t typically spend billions acquiring a bunch of studios without making at least some of those games exclusive to your own hardware. It makes perfect sense from a business perspective. However, it’s hardly a good look for Microsoft who are currently battling to buy Activision-Blizzard while talking about wanting to gamers to be able to choose where they play. Both the US and the UK have concerns over the deal, and while it seems unlikely that Microsoft will make Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox and PC, the fact that they quite recently bought a whole company and decreed many of the games it was making to be exclusive to their hardware does not help calm fears.

24/05/2023

23/05/2023

These changes may be related to an event that happened last year when advertisement watchdog Truth in Advertising contacted the Federal Trade Commission with concerns about Roblox. The complaint contains over 40-pages of information detailing various issues including deceptive marketing tricks, influencing children and much more.

22/05/2023

The Internet reaction to this has been a little odd, with quite a lot of people hailing this as a revolutionary new feature that is going to crush Microsoft, while the more level-headed gamers are busy pointing out that both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 already do this, with the exception of being able to play the game while it’s actually downloading.