There was a time when console wars raged in the playgrounds, but builders tried to calm things down over the generations. Except that since the announcement of the takeover ofActivision-Blizzard by Microsoftthe latter and sony are made the most beautiful of wars with declarations interposed on the Web.
I have to say that sony would lose big by being deprived of call of duty on his playstationbut Microsoft is open for discussion. This one must indeed make the round back a little so that the repurchase ofActivision-Blizzard is validated by the various market regulatory bodies, and at the beginning of the month, the Federal Trade Commission put a spoke in the wheels of the American manufacturer.
no way for Microsoft to let it go, the war continues, and this time, the manufacturer accuses sony to sign contracts with third-party studios to exclude certain games from Xbox. Microsoft thus asserts that Final Fantasy XVIthe remake of Silent Hill 2 or Bloodborne and FFVII Remake will never see the light of day on its consoles, the fault of sony and its agreements with Square-Enix, Konami or FromSoftware.
In addition to having purely exclusive content, Sony has also entered into agreements with third-party publishers that require the “exclusion” of Xboxes from all platforms on which these publishers can distribute their games.
Some prominent examples of these deals include Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix), Bloodborne (FromSoftware), the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix), and the recently announced Silent Hill 2 remaster (Bloober Team).
Let us nevertheless specify that Silent Hill 2 will be a complete remake of the survival horror of Konami by Bloober Teamand not a remaster in high definition. Whatever, The objective of Microsoft here is clear: show that sony has small arrangements with third-party developersdifficult for him to point the finger at the takeover of call of duty by Microsoft as for him, he also offers third-party exclusivities.
Otherwise, These are only statements of Microsoftwhich may not be fully justified. The remake of Silent Hill 2, for example, was announced as a temporary console exclusive, available for release on competing platforms after 12 months. The title will arrive next year on PS5 and PC, then probably in 2024 on other consoles, but obviously, Microsoft knows it won’t be on his Xbox Series X|S. FFXVI is officially a PlayStation 5 exclusive, although a port at least on PC after the fact is probably to be expected. You can also pre-order the RPG of Square-Enix to €79.99 per Fnac.
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