Games Inbox: Sony vs. Xbox Game Pass, Gotham Knights doubts, and Overwatch 2 hype

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The Friday letters page ponders why PlayStation owners are more loyal than Xbox fans, as one reader questions the first year of Nintendo Switch.

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Warring states So it looks like things are starting to get nasty between Sony and Microsoft, with all these investigations over the Activision Blizzard buyout. If it doesn’t go through though I will be absolutely shocked because even though it does give Microsoft an unfair advantage what are they chances that anyone looking into this understands the nuances of the games industry or is going to say no to Microsoft? Especially as none of the third party publishers have said anything against it (probably because they’re scared of Microsoft too).

The whole ‘block rights’ thing from Sony sounds absolutely true too but I’m struggling to be too outraged about it. The whole Game Pass situation has come about solely because Microsoft is a lot richer than Sony, so if Sony has to fight dirty by paying publishers not to put their games on Game Pass, then I can’t blame them. It’d presumably be cheaper than getting them on PlayStation Plus and it’s not like the publisher couldn’t just say no.

I’m not one to cheerlead for any multinational corporation but if Xbox beats Sony purely because it’s got more money I think that’d be a shame, especially if it’s games aren’t as good. You know, if it had any games.Wotan

Four good years I think if you’d asked whether PlayStation owners are more loyal than Xbox back when the Xbox 360 was big you would’ve got a very different answer. That’s the only time Xbox has been ahead and plenty of people were ‘loyal’ to it, until Microsoft started messing around with Kinect and then Xbox One.

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