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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sony doesn’t buy IP and deny it to other platforms. Their IP starts on Sony. If Microsoft never wanted to release Halo to Sony, it’s their decision to do so, but buying something that don’t had access to, then denying it is a shit move.

[–] eochaid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Lol, Starfield was originally going to be a Sony exclusive. That means Sony was literally going to pay Beth money to deny Xbox gamers access.

MS just made the better offer.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Gaming isn't bedroom coders knocking out games in basic for microcomputers any more, it's a huge entertainment industry and that's how those industries work.

This is no different from Disney pulling Fox properties of other steaming platforms to put them on Disney+ since they brought them out.

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes they do. They used to buy exclusive rights back during PS2 days but eventually both MS and Sony realized it's cheaper to just buy the studios. Sony has only a small number fewer acquisitions than Microsoft. Both companies have always bought exclusivity.