I don’t care about metacritic. Are those Xbox exclusives?

If Xbox continues to secure studios and release exclusives day one on game pass do you think your stat will hold up long term?

I thought the argument was about game pass diminishing day one games in general but if we go the exclusive route then yes redfall is an outlier. When you made your comment what was your metric of success then ?

And to your second comment i have no idea . Nothing has been showcased for me to assume that game pass makes games come out better or worse.

Day three is over.That’s it for day 3 of FTC v. Microsoft. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick will testify in the morning tomorrow at 8:30AM PT, after which we’ll resume Dr. Bailey’s testimony. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will testify at around 1:30PM PT too.
Let’s recap Nvidia’s Phil Eisler:

• Activision games were available on GeForce Now beta and Call of Duty was one of the most popular

• Nvidia is understandably happy with its Microsoft agreement

Let’s recap Dr. Bailey:

• Dr. Bailey claims Call of Duty isn’t essential

• Dr. Bailey has a***yzed telemetry data from Xbox and PlayStation

• Call of Duty isn’t uniquely important, apparently

Don’t forget to check out our recap of PlayStation chief Jim Ryan’s testimony and the FTC’s economic expert, Dr. Robin Lee.

Big day ahead tomorrow with live testimony from Microsoft and Activision CEOs. We’ll be back here at 8:30AM PT / 11:30AM ET.

Is Call of Duty an essential game?Microsoft wants to paint Call of Duty as not all that important, because gamers play plenty of other games. Dr. Bailey says there are a “good percentage of gamers” who are playing more than 10 franchises on PlayStation.
Dr. Bailey also looked at whether Call of Duty players spend more money, something that came up in Dr. Lee’s report. We only have an audio feed here so it’s difficult to know what data is being show, but there are comparisons between Call of Duty and God of War Ragnarök. Both games have been bundled with consoles.

Dr. Bailey argues that how often a game is played on a first day is a proxy to how important the game is, but she’s not aware of different game bundles in different US states. That could be a hole in the telemetry a***ysis here.

“Call of Duty is an important game and it’s a popular game, but there’s nothing to suggest it’s... uniquely important,” says Dr. Bailey. She’s also looked at the Nintendo Switch being successful without Call of Duty. Switch share has grown 35 percent without Call of Duty, Dr. Bailey says.

lol

Y'all say exclusives are bad one day and hurt gaming then other days needed to sell consoles depending on the shoooter

And before y'all start saying streaming will downgrade game quality then what the f*** have y'all been complaining about for the past 7 years for gaming? It can't get any worse than it already has right?

Watching y'all become overnight economists has been crazy

You should be able to play every game on every console

Especially since the controllers are all nearly identical now

“Consoles” should simply be a pre-built PC with an interface, and that’s it.

Ideally yes

We stand with Microsoft ❤️

Stop before nobodywins snaps

Haroldschicken would fit in well on resetera where he can pretend his not an Xbox fanboy and console war like a politician. The worst type of fanboy. One that can’t be honest because they need some perceived moral high ground. There is no one in this world that doesn’t have bias. Being unbiased isn’t a thing.

Time for todays meeting

agenda:

Bobby!

CEO of microsoft

maybe nintendo guy

Jim tweaking

This s*** is beyond me

Jeez

He was not worried at all lmaaaaooo. He such a damn liar in court lol

Cod isnt on switch cause bobby made a bad judgement call

$100 million for one game...Gaming is a such a crazy place today

200 million each for tlou2 and horizon 2

Sony messed up redacting documents

files.cand.uscourts.gov/files/23-cv-02880_FTC_v_Microsoft/PX8001_Redacted.pdf