Couldn’t there simply just be a contract between sony and Microsoft about the specs and keeping them under a specific umbrella and that’s it? I feel like it’s an incredibly easy solution
Couldn’t there simply just be a contract between sony and Microsoft about the specs and keeping them under a specific umbrella and that’s it?
That’s what the World Wide Web Consortium did for the internet and then Microsoft made Internet Explorer, used their Windows monopoly to push IE onto every PC, “enhance” the specs umbrella in incompatible ways, and squeeze competitors like Netscape out of the market.
Sony would absolutely come after Microsoft if there was any breach of contract. You’ve seen this whole way sony has reacted throughout this when they pay a ton of companies to keep games ps5 exclusives and/or timed released and/or timed content releases.
There is also a difference where by the time ps6 is in protype phase and for games to be tested on it the new Xbox would be also. There is no way after years of development on a console that Microsoft would re architecture their console because of something they saw on ps6
There is no way after years of development on a console that Microsoft would re architecture their console because of something they saw on ps6
You’re funny. PS5 and Series X are already based on the same AMD architecture with differences in the details, such as Dual Sense. Chances are it’ll be AMD again with PS6 / Series Y. MS could copy controller ideas within months. It’s not like Microsoft is sharing early specs and prototypes with Sony San Diego Studio (developer of MLB The Show, also for Xbox) either.
So then if sony wont send a prototype or give specs would the ps6 just get a miserable port?
PlayStation will not get any ports of any Activision Blizard game except maybe Call of Duty if MS succeeds. The sole concession MS made to authorities was about Call of Duty. No Overwatch 3, no Diablo 5, no Pyro, no Tony Hawk Pro Skater, no Candy Crush, no “upcoming game with new name by the makers of Call of Duty”,…
Couldn’t there simply just be a contract between sony and Microsoft about the specs and keeping them under a specific umbrella and that’s it? I feel like it’s an incredibly easy solution
That’s what the World Wide Web Consortium did for the internet and then Microsoft made Internet Explorer, used their Windows monopoly to push IE onto every PC, “enhance” the specs umbrella in incompatible ways, and squeeze competitors like Netscape out of the market.
Sony would absolutely come after Microsoft if there was any breach of contract. You’ve seen this whole way sony has reacted throughout this when they pay a ton of companies to keep games ps5 exclusives and/or timed released and/or timed content releases.
There is also a difference where by the time ps6 is in protype phase and for games to be tested on it the new Xbox would be also. There is no way after years of development on a console that Microsoft would re architecture their console because of something they saw on ps6
You’re funny. PS5 and Series X are already based on the same AMD architecture with differences in the details, such as Dual Sense. Chances are it’ll be AMD again with PS6 / Series Y. MS could copy controller ideas within months. It’s not like Microsoft is sharing early specs and prototypes with Sony San Diego Studio (developer of MLB The Show, also for Xbox) either.
Good point. So then if sony wont send a prototype or give specs would the ps6 just get a miserable port?
PlayStation will not get any ports of any Activision Blizard game except maybe Call of Duty if MS succeeds. The sole concession MS made to authorities was about Call of Duty. No Overwatch 3, no Diablo 5, no Pyro, no Tony Hawk Pro Skater, no Candy Crush, no “upcoming game with new name by the makers of Call of Duty”,…