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Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty on PlayStation (www.cnbc.com)
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Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty on PlayStation::Microsoft and Sony have signed an agreement to keep Activision's best-selling Call of Duty series available on PlayStation, after the conclusion of the deal.

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[–] chrisphero 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Not too surprised tbh.

But what will happen to the console market in 10 years? Does it shift to a subscription model and you choose games via your TV and everything is streamed?

But I’m glad CoD will still be around - at least some constant I can rely on haha

[–] echo64 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Likely the same thing that has happened to every other industry.

  • Someone comes out with a disruptive low cost subscription model, consumers like it because it's so low cost and anything that isn't on it they can still buy.
  • People buy less, content producers have to move to the same subscription model to survive.
  • The low cost of the subscription model can't pay for all the content that is normally made by that industry, creatives can't find backing to create content anymore, creative struggle to get paid between there being less money and corporate greed snatching what is left
  • Quality drops, output drops, no one is happy.
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The low cost of the subscription model can't pay for all the content that is normally made by that industry

This is where economies of scale comes in though, especially in tech where you're offering an ephemeral product. Even at say US$10 if you get a million subscribers (not too hard to do, netflix had many times that number at their peak) that's US$10 million dollars. Which you would think should be more than enough to punch out a bunch of relatively low budget productions, pay your neccessaries and still leave you a good chunk of change I feel.

[–] echo64 4 points 1 year ago

You can feel that way but you'd be wrong. Game development costs are enormous these days, 40million has become the norm, quality games that make sales and gain subscribers cost north of 100 million by themselves, not factoring in marketing costs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II generates over $1 billion in 10 days"

Sounds like a bit more than the 10 Million you proposed, and thats only 1 game. It wouldnt be possible to keep up with quality when returns would diminish a ton

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