Just saw a post on another channel just got my PS5 pro for my birthday and the network is down. Hopefully it's not sabotage from the people being laid off in California.
Negative Xbox news does not need verification if I was a journalist and I said ever every game Xbox releases on PlayStation. PlayStation makes 400% of the profit. Even though that doesn't make any sense, people will take it and run with it.
Microsoft had money literally losing value in the bank and wanted to invest in an asset, and ABK was a good investment. The value of the money is still there. Why would they need to pay back the 68.7 billion dollars. If anything, Microsoft is expecting increased income, but not for Xbox to pay back the vested money.
By the time the deal closed MS made money. ABK was a distressed sale because of the cost of making the CoD and sexual harassment lawsuits. It was valued at $105 Billion about 6 months before. The revenue is increasing and now they own 100% on xbox and 70% on PS and PC.
Shout out to you Mr. VG for providing ongoing content for this stupidity, in my opinion Xbox game pass has already given the best service to play games and these people always making fuss about it, I mean why bother? let the company, the executives etc. do their thing and just play your god damn games. tbh I'm tired watching the same people making stupid arguments all the time, and suddenly they become analyst, marketing experts etc. I'm mean who cares, game pass subscription already provides a ton of games to play, for us to play, and not to become experts of sales or whatever.
The guy realises that the $68bn belongs to Microsoft as a company right? Shareholders were never seeing a penny of that capital and they know it. That cash is an asset to the business. Its like people don't even know fiduciary responsibility is even a thing.
@@fvjtfjnx6535 The 3 times that PSN has been down for this length of time were all hacks. If it isn't a hack it's without a doubt Playstation's biggest technical F' up of all time.
I do find it strange that when people bring up this Activision deal, they seem to forget there were 2 other publishers included, which generates revenue every single month.
Theres always a deflection away from the original topic to a different point of weakness that is actually nothing to do with the original topic. I will create an example then provide a real one: Playstation network is down because xbox did an update. See the format? The argument is the same format every time. Its like a one track mindset. Its from the same content creators. VG will already know that I, like several other regular channel visitors fact check VG's videos. I suspect he prefers it that way. When I am researching a topic my AI is sent to cross check to source material and validate authenticity. Theres an easy way to tell if a youtuber is giving you correct information. Find a basis of fact the youtuber has referenced and see if they got it right and used it in true context, or if they subverted the data usually by not full disclosure or distortion or misassociation. Cross check fact, content, context, relevancy and timeline. There are many ways to distort perception of content. A prime example was Satya Nadella's interview about the xbox recently where the whole section of the interview that was the most important to Xbox users was omitted: The CEO pointed to the company's recent 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign, which showcased the range of devices players can use to access Xbox games, explaining that it's a way Microsoft is "redefining what it means to be an Xbox fan: it’s about being able to enjoy Xbox on all your devices." "And, more importantly, I think in [the] long-term, as a company, we can bring the best of the AI innovation, cloud innovation, console innovation, PC innovation to build the best games that can be enjoyed by gamers everywhere," Nadella added. If you go away and google the part about redefining what makes an xbox fan 99% of the media articles podcasts youtubers etc do not include this most relevant qualifier. Go check. Its a good way to make a yardstick assessment of credibility of websites. Most fail with scores I would rate often less than 3 out of 10. Because they rely on clicks for funding and dramatic presentation to atteact the clicks.
Those number you did are horse manure. BO6 on Xbox having half the sales that on PlayStation? The game is on Gamepass. People won't buy it nearly enough at the same rate. You would have to multiply 0.5 * 0.2 = 10%. Since we have hints that Gamepass drops sales of premium games by 80%. You just don't want to believe that number that industry experts are telling you. Why would they lie?
@@fvjtfjnx6535 No is was not debunk in the video. That's a number that an industry expert has said that that is the number thrown around. Is is an estimate from the industry, since the real number is almost hard to calculate. And I play on PC btw.
I can throw around a ball or a paper plane. It doesnt mean it affects what affect a game subscription service has on game sales. Common sense, please try to apply it. Since 2017 the same developers have released games again and again on gamepass. Xbox doesn't force them to join. They choose. So if they were losing 80% of their sales they wouldn't put their games on gamepass. After over 7 years they are still putting games on the service. So the developers somehow haven't gone bust. And games going on the service can be bought and do get bought. I buy most of my games either on Xbox Gamepass offers or PC Xbox storefront. And why do these amazing analysts not attack PS+ the same time? It does the same thing just doesn't have day and date first party titles. These "analysts" are just farming for money on sensationalism. Xbox and Microsoft came out and debunked the last lot of crap that came from Patcher. I wonder how many people cancelled their subscription after the press announcement. If Patcher was so good, he would be hired by a top company and he would be rolling in so much money he wouldn't have to resort to subscription hacks like he is doing. And Xbox coming out and debunking proves that very point.
How stupid are you people really? I mean really! It always amazes me that idiots talk about game sales numbers without factoring in console numbers. Idiot if Xbox has less than half the install base of ps, shouldn't it have fewer buyers?
Like I said a long time ago. Games on Game Pass are losing massive amounts of money. Some dudes say to me no they still make enough money, Microsoft pays the companies for there games to be on there. I was like yeah whatever. What's really happening is all game developers are losing millions of dollars by having there games on Game Pass and thus not making any money profit. So what's gonna happen is a lot of developers will leave Xbox and say with Game Pass we are not making enough profit and therefore are leaving Microsoft and not making our games for PC and Xbox anymore. And thus Sony and Nintendo will be top of the world for video games!!!
Game pass came out in 2017. The same developers have been putting games on gamepass for 7+ years. But they keep coming back. You have been thinking this for so long but not used critical thinking to analyse. If the developers were losing so much money, they would either stop coming back and putting their next games on gamepass, or they would have gone bust. But here we are 7+ years later and the games go on gamepass and many also go on PS+.
@@fvjtfjnx6535 Game Pass = Microsoft doesn't give any game publisher any money, thus they lose millions of dollars of profit by not making money on Xbox and PC. PS+ Sony only makes 3 games a month free. I'm sure Sony actually pays out money or waits about 3 to 4 years before a certain game is out for free. Game publishers of course can make money also on the PC verion of there games as they be sold on Steam or GOG or anywhere else. But still the general thing is game puslishers aren't making profit on game pass. Only PS and some PC elsewhere but Xbox/PC game pass.
@@davidbailey9464 Did you just make that up or just hear that on a podcast. Microsoft doesn't give them any money to put games on gamepass? 😂 Phil Spencer said they invest 1 billion a year on gamepass and make back about 5 billion. Again read my response above your comment makes literally no sense.
How does Microsoft effect pc you 🤡 they don’t own epic or steam, do you just pull stuff out of your ass and hope people are dumb enough to listen to your nonsense? As for PlayStation they’ve blown a tonne of money and their future exclusives in development are going to tank due to them being woke as hell. The only console that will win is Nintendo why? They make profit on their console sales, they make big profits on their exclusives and they’re set to start making profit from 3rd party stuff and if PlayStation keeps failing it won’t be long until both Sony and Xbox exclusives are on the switch rendering the PlayStation as completely useless
PSN is down. What a way to start the weekend for PlayStation players.
Just saw a post on another channel just got my PS5 pro for my birthday and the network is down.
Hopefully it's not sabotage from the people being laid off in California.
Negative Xbox news does not need verification if I was a journalist and I said ever every game Xbox releases on PlayStation. PlayStation makes 400% of the profit. Even though that doesn't make any sense, people will take it and run with it.
Microsoft had money literally losing value in the bank and wanted to invest in an asset, and ABK was a good investment. The value of the money is still there. Why would they need to pay back the 68.7 billion dollars. If anything, Microsoft is expecting increased income, but not for Xbox to pay back the vested money.
VG needs to educate these people on fiduciary responsibility and the difference between capital and expenditure.
By the time the deal closed MS made money. ABK was a distressed sale because of the cost of making the CoD and sexual harassment lawsuits. It was valued at $105 Billion about 6 months before. The revenue is increasing and now they own 100% on xbox and 70% on PS and PC.
Shout out to you Mr. VG for providing ongoing content for this stupidity, in my opinion Xbox game pass has already given the best service to play games and these people always making fuss about it, I mean why bother? let the company, the executives etc. do their thing and just play your god damn games. tbh I'm tired watching the same people making stupid arguments all the time, and suddenly they become analyst, marketing experts etc. I'm mean who cares, game pass subscription already provides a ton of games to play, for us to play, and not to become experts of sales or whatever.
The guy realises that the $68bn belongs to Microsoft as a company right? Shareholders were never seeing a penny of that capital and they know it. That cash is an asset to the business. Its like people don't even know fiduciary responsibility is even a thing.
This needs to be a video @VGFightSchool 🫡
It was a cash purchase, nothing to pay back.
Expect an influx of comments from our hoofed bretheren as PSN is down.
My Internet is down. I feel like a pony right now.
19 hours and counting.
ABk from a shareholder's perspective is paid off
The stock price only needed to go up 100 dollars not to mention this was an all cash deal in a time of inflation
And a good investment. It's better to have an asset that becomes more valuable over time than cash sitting in a bank.
PlayStation is down Ponies can’t play no games 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂ponies having a bad 2025 year
It seems to have gone down at exactly 0:00 so is more likely an update/server change causing the outage rather than an external attack.
@@fvjtfjnx6535 The 3 times that PSN has been down for this length of time were all hacks. If it isn't a hack it's without a doubt Playstation's biggest technical F' up of all time.
Dring will always bait with negative when related to Xbox. This guy knows nothing.
Thank you, VG, for bringing facts and reason back to gaming! 🤓
I do find it strange that when people bring up this Activision deal, they seem to forget there were 2 other publishers included, which generates revenue every single month.
The worst selling CODs were still the best sellers for the years they were released
Theres always a deflection away from the original topic to a different point of weakness that is actually nothing to do with the original topic.
I will create an example then provide a real one:
Playstation network is down because xbox did an update.
See the format?
The argument is the same format every time. Its like a one track mindset. Its from the same content creators.
VG will already know that I, like several other regular channel visitors fact check VG's videos.
I suspect he prefers it that way.
When I am researching a topic my AI is sent to cross check to source material and validate authenticity.
Theres an easy way to tell if a youtuber is giving you correct information. Find a basis of fact the youtuber has referenced and see if they got it right and used it in true context, or if they subverted the data usually by not full disclosure or distortion or misassociation.
Cross check fact, content, context, relevancy and timeline.
There are many ways to distort perception of content.
A prime example was Satya Nadella's interview about the xbox recently where the whole section of the interview that was the most important to Xbox users was omitted:
The CEO pointed to the company's recent 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign, which showcased the range of devices players can use to access Xbox games, explaining that it's a way Microsoft is "redefining what it means to be an Xbox fan: it’s about being able to enjoy Xbox on all your devices."
"And, more importantly, I think in [the] long-term, as a company, we can bring the best of the AI innovation, cloud innovation, console innovation, PC innovation to build the best games that can be enjoyed by gamers everywhere," Nadella added.
If you go away and google the part about redefining what makes an xbox fan 99% of the media articles podcasts youtubers etc do not include this most relevant qualifier. Go check. Its a good way to make a yardstick assessment of credibility of websites. Most fail with scores I would rate often less than 3 out of 10. Because they rely on clicks for funding and dramatic presentation to atteact the clicks.
Xbox 💚💪💪💪💪💪
Gamepass Ultimate 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥 🎮
I recommend you talk about money illusion. It's an economic fallacy people will have when they talk about that $69 billion.
And fiduciary responsibility.
@@KyleSetFire That's a given.
Do these people not know king own candy crush that makes 1.3 billion a year alone 😂😂
Xbox is the best .everyone should be on xbox .love gamepass
Xbox is American so lets hate it, that's basically everything today
Well that and it's also Microsoft so double the hate.
Those number you did are horse manure. BO6 on Xbox having half the sales that on PlayStation? The game is on Gamepass. People won't buy it nearly enough at the same rate. You would have to multiply 0.5 * 0.2 = 10%. Since we have hints that Gamepass drops sales of premium games by 80%. You just don't want to believe that number that industry experts are telling you. Why would they lie?
They made up the 80%. That was covered in the video.
How's your playstation network today?
@@fvjtfjnx6535 No is was not debunk in the video. That's a number that an industry expert has said that that is the number thrown around. Is is an estimate from the industry, since the real number is almost hard to calculate.
And I play on PC btw.
I can throw around a ball or a paper plane. It doesnt mean it affects what affect a game subscription service has on game sales.
Common sense, please try to apply it. Since 2017 the same developers have released games again and again on gamepass. Xbox doesn't force them to join. They choose. So if they were losing 80% of their sales they wouldn't put their games on gamepass. After over 7 years they are still putting games on the service. So the developers somehow haven't gone bust. And games going on the service can be bought and do get bought. I buy most of my games either on Xbox Gamepass offers or PC Xbox storefront.
And why do these amazing analysts not attack PS+ the same time? It does the same thing just doesn't have day and date first party titles.
These "analysts" are just farming for money on sensationalism.
Xbox and Microsoft came out and debunked the last lot of crap that came from Patcher.
I wonder how many people cancelled their subscription after the press announcement.
If Patcher was so good, he would be hired by a top company and he would be rolling in so much money he wouldn't have to resort to subscription hacks like he is doing. And Xbox coming out and debunking proves that very point.
How stupid are you people really? I mean really! It always amazes me that idiots talk about game sales numbers without factoring in console numbers. Idiot if Xbox has less than half the install base of ps, shouldn't it have fewer buyers?
Like I said a long time ago. Games on Game Pass are losing massive amounts of money. Some dudes say to me no they still make enough money, Microsoft pays the companies for there games to be on there. I was like yeah whatever. What's really happening is all game developers are losing millions of dollars by having there games on Game Pass and thus not making any money profit. So what's gonna happen is a lot of developers will leave Xbox and say with Game Pass we are not making enough profit and therefore are leaving Microsoft and not making our games for PC and Xbox anymore. And thus Sony and Nintendo will be top of the world for video games!!!
Game pass came out in 2017.
The same developers have been putting games on gamepass for 7+ years.
But they keep coming back. You have been thinking this for so long but not used critical thinking to analyse.
If the developers were losing so much money, they would either stop coming back and putting their next games on gamepass, or they would have gone bust.
But here we are 7+ years later and the games go on gamepass and many also go on PS+.
@@fvjtfjnx6535 Game Pass = Microsoft doesn't give any game publisher any money, thus they lose millions of dollars of profit by not making money on Xbox and PC. PS+ Sony only makes 3 games a month free. I'm sure Sony actually pays out money or waits about 3 to 4 years before a certain game is out for free. Game publishers of course can make money also on the PC verion of there games as they be sold on Steam or GOG or anywhere else. But still the general thing is game puslishers aren't making profit on game pass. Only PS and some PC elsewhere but Xbox/PC game pass.
@@davidbailey9464
Did you just make that up or just hear that on a podcast.
Microsoft doesn't give them any money to put games on gamepass? 😂
Phil Spencer said they invest 1 billion a year on gamepass and make back about 5 billion.
Again read my response above your comment makes literally no sense.
So you chose ignorance today
How does Microsoft effect pc you 🤡 they don’t own epic or steam, do you just pull stuff out of your ass and hope people are dumb enough to listen to your nonsense? As for PlayStation they’ve blown a tonne of money and their future exclusives in development are going to tank due to them being woke as hell. The only console that will win is Nintendo why? They make profit on their console sales, they make big profits on their exclusives and they’re set to start making profit from 3rd party stuff and if PlayStation keeps failing it won’t be long until both Sony and Xbox exclusives are on the switch rendering the PlayStation as completely useless
VG clown at it again, thinking he is megamind.