![]() So, I guess that now we'll start to hear more about the witness and experts lists. On the FTC side, the discovery phase was finally closed (on April 7th). ![]() Then, early May should bring the decision from the EC and in late May we should get the one from SAMR in China.įinally, add the decisions from South Korea, Turkey, South Africa or Australia during April - May. I updated the OT with next key dates and the last 15 days.Īs you can see, the rest of April is fully packed with potential relevant news. Could this in part, also be due to Sony making deals for certain games? Based upon Sony's behavior towards Xbox you can't outright dismiss it. By continuing to treat the Switch/Nintendo hardware like a second class citizen when it comes to multiplatform releases, it continues to have second class support. We live in a world where the Wii and WiiU got CoD games but not the Switch, despite Switch buyers showing far better support to buy 3rd party titles. ![]() The idea that a CoD port wouldn't have been successful on Switch was silly, yet ABK couldn't be bothered to do it themselves and Nintendo wasn't going to pay for it. It's easy to understand why when many 3rd party titles either get late ports to the Switch (even in 2023 we're seeing this with titles like Terf Legacy and Gollum) or never get natively ported/a cloud only port despite being technically feasible (Kingdom Hearts). You often hear on sites like this people say "I don't buy Nintendo hardware for 3rd party titles just Nintendo 1st party". In a lot of ways it's kind of how Nintendo has been with most 3rd party titles for awhile. Instead Sony pays enough to keep the game off Xbox for years, and then 3rd parties probably do the whole "well a late port likely wouldn't sell enough for us to fund it independently *wink*" to try and get a GP deal. I have a hard time believing that if FF7R or FF16 were day 1 on Xbox worldwide that said version wouldn't sell enough to have justified the port from SE point of view. Xbox gets spotty Japanese support, so people who care about Japanese games are less likely to buy the system, even in a scenario where they prefer Xbox hardware/exclusives over PS's.Īll four of these all feed each other and continue the downward spiral. Third parties love to take gamepass deals to port games to gamepass as it's no risk all profit. Sony pays to keep specific big Japanese titles off Xbox worldwide/in Asia territories. Japanese games historically don't sell well on Xbox.
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