Yeah, like if this is a simple moneyhat like Khan says, it is quite possibly the dumbest one ever.
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Imran Khan (Kinda Funny Games): Microsoft probably courted Sega for exclusivity (Paid for Yakuza 7 exclusivity)
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then it should mean that Bethesda's future games that already doesn't have a contract will not come to PS5.. considering Phils shiftiness.. amirite?
He's the same person that announced Xbox One X having VR support.
I mean, would it though?
This is the first physical Yakuza release on the Xbox, so we have no idea what the sales would actually be like sitting on the shelf.
I imagine whatever sales Yakuza 0, K, K2 came through GamePass.
Plus the game is still releasing day-and-date on PS4. So it's not like they cut off the main source of income.
I can't imagine the price for Y7 Day 1 on GamePass couldn't be as high as saying "No PS5 version day 1".
If anything getting it on GamePass would probably be cheaper since Sega knows the demand is there with Y0's GamePass performance.
This would had to be disclosed right. Like with the PS timed exclusives right? I mean we have these times with Deathloop, Ghostwire, FF7R, FFXVI and others .
Clarification by Imran
Video on the OP should be timestamped, but if it doesn't work it's 25:16.
We dont know. Officially, there's not even a PC version announced.
So it isn't a timed exclusive, it's a timed patch? For 4 months? So if you have a PS5 you can still play it but just not with a patch. That's so strange. I mean they obviously paid for Game Pass day one but why pay for such an odd thing when you have Game Pass day one.
This probably cost very little, but the comparisons of "Yakuza 7" are going to be a native XBox Series X game vs a PS4 game running in BC mode on PS5. On launch week, stuff like that is a big deal.
oh shit you're right, it's not on GamePass...that does make the "courting" rumor a pretty sus
PSO2 clearly has Microsoft money floating around (though I suspect it's far less than most people do) and with that all along it's development they never once mentioned even the Steam version until a week or so before it came out and we still have no word on a PlayStation 4 release. Though, I imagine that will come around the time the visual upgrade does.
With Yakuza: Like a Dragon, nothing really adds up in terms of it being a timed exclusive. Just 112 days? No marketing deal saying 'play next gen version only on Xbox'? Sony still openly allowed to market the game, they've even shown off footage from the PlayStation 5 build. Saves not transferring over is the crummiest thing ever too and I hope SEGA can find a workaround for that if nothing else.
I do not think Ryu ga Gotoku Studio got PlayStation 5 devkits late or anything silly like that (in fact I bet they were one of the first Japanese devs to get one), but I think if Microsoft truly was majorly involved here, launching on game pass would have been a priority above all else.
I would love to be proven wrong as it's certainly not close to some of the dumbest moves SEGA has done, but I would really appreciate Imran coming in this thread to make it clear.
With Yakuza: Like a Dragon, nothing really adds up in terms of it being a timed exclusive. Just 112 days? No marketing deal saying 'play next gen version only on Xbox'? Sony still openly allowed to market the game, they've even shown off footage from the PlayStation 5 build. Saves not transferring over is the crummiest thing ever too and I hope SEGA can find a workaround for that if nothing else.
I do not think Ryu ga Gotoku Studio got PlayStation 5 devkits late or anything silly like that (in fact I bet they were one of the first Japanese devs to get one), but I think if Microsoft truly was majorly involved here, launching on game pass would have been a priority above all else.
I would love to be proven wrong as it's certainly not close to some of the dumbest moves SEGA has done, but I would really appreciate Imran coming in this thread to make it clear.
it wouldn't have to be disclosed because they already announced the PS5 release date. Even if they hadn't there isn't like there are rules in place for this that says these companies can't skirt the edges of being deceptive.
Then what the fuck is the point of this thread then? That was Sega's decision not Microsoft.
There was pretty obvious signs pointing to it being a deal, so not surprised. Definitely up there for most pointless moneyhat there is though, like we've seen more PS5 footage the XSX even.
Are you talking about the exclusivity period? Not really. Rise of the Tomb Raider is pretty infamous, and it was exclusive to Xbox consoles for 3 months before being released on PC and almost a full year for PS4.
This was the case for both really looking back on the two main conferences if you can call Microsofts that.
So less a moneyhat and more a marketing deal with an allocation of resources to compensate (like how Bethesda tended to put extra TLC into optimizing their games on Xbox after the marketing deals)?
C'est sur que je n'aurais probablement pas l'essayer, t'as pas mal raison XD
Et en plus ils ont rajouter Funimation a Game Pass LOL. I think I'll download it and give anime another shot...
PS5 owners can still play Yakuza 7 on launch day via backwards compatibility
And check the threadmarks, this is all moot anyway
Anyone with a brain could have seen that making a next-gen version exclusive makes zero sense.
Sony and Nintendo have never come out and said they didn't like these types of deals though.
ok so it wasnt a money hat ? lol. Sad you even had to clarify, not once did i even see you say what the OP claims you did, unless i missed it
Both of these.
It's a pretty weird and pointless get, I'll take Imrans' word on it though.
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It's not on Game Pass day one. At least it hasn't been announced for it.
Why? The game has been out a long time in Japan already. Typical SEGA treatment of the series and Japanese development in general is to wait to invest in next gen development.
This entire "controversy" is crocodile tears from people who waited on localisations that were delayed by literal years prior to now, and all of a sudden they can't tolerate a 4 month delay on a console nobody owns yet. Blown out of all proportion.
Yeah I have a decent gaming laptop, but it's a few years old and I'm sure the tech is pretty outdated by PC gaming standards (I don't really know anything about building PCs and the various parts/specs). It's good for playing old games on Steam that aren't available elsewhere, but I don't think it could handle any current games.
So, the argument that "it's on PC, so it doesn't matter if it's not on the console you own!" is pretty silly. In essence, PC is not a platform that I have, and if that's true for me, then I assume that's true for the vast, VAST majority of casual gamers.
I gifted The Witcher 3 to my brother in law a couple years ago, and his computer can't even run that without being a stuttery mess, so he still hasn't played it lol.
Nor did MS. They said they hate moneyhatted DLC (and to their credit they don't really do it anymore. Worst I can think of recently is 500 free Atoms with Xbox versions of Fallout 76).
Which by the sounds of it from that Imran statement would not have happened for either console this year. MS paid for marketing and paid for their version to be done, not sure I would expect them to pay for Sonys version too.
Ooof there it is. A lot of posts in this thread have not aged well
Yes, and (rightfully) go yell at Sega about that, but it is not evidence of that 2016 Phil Spencer quote being hypocritical
No because a true-money hat would have kept the PS4 version delayed as well.
This was a Sega decision.
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