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Originally Posted by Tom Guycott
Why does it seem like that is actually a loss for Sony?
I mean, really: that was their major argument against Microsoft. If you have the rival company put pen to paper to legally bind something they already promised to begin with, didn't you just shoot yourself in the foot?
Seems more like something is telling them this legal business isn't going to stand up, and they want to guarantee it isn't going to backfire by MS turning petty afterwards... again, a thing Sony would totally do themselves if all this were running in the opposite direction.
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Its because Sony has been way too focus towards Call of Duty and not also towards everything else Activision & Blizzard has for games and IPs since right now CoD is a major cash cow for Sony's PSN.
If CoD ends up having another downturn period or goes to the wayside in the future, it won't hurt MS as much as it will Sony since MS' still gets to dip in AB's IPs catalog and as exclusive releases while Sony doesn't have that same privilege.
The funny thing, the biggest winner out of this whole legal mess and bickering has been Nintendo since they got the CoD series back on their consoles without having to lift a finger and since MS doesn't have any real bad blood with them unlike with Sony, it opens the door to MS being even more friendlier when it comes to the next Smash Bros game and getting a Halo or Crash rep for it.
Nintendo even got an easy win over the FIFA & EA feud since EA already promised to put their new non-FIFA game onto the Switch and not as some sort of lazy "Legacy" edition situation.