Microsoft May Not Be Investing Into Discord, But Sony Is

Who cares? I’m much happier reading the investments into FPS Boost and the GamePass adds today. Sony can have Discord.

Did not expect this at all. It's certainly an interesting move and if Sony can do this then why wouldn't Microsoft be able to as well? Much cheaper to make a minor investment rather than outright acquiring the company.

But yeah there's no denying that all the power moves Microsoft has been making recently have definitely influenced Sony into becoming more aggressive and investing more themselves. I certainly don't remember Sony investing this much during the PS4 era. This is splendid to see, hopefully this fierce competition will continue for a long time as it just means better products for us consumers.

@LtSarge I agree, Sony seem to be investing in anything other than games these days.

Competition and having all the major three is very important, just like the car and tv markets.
They keep each other in check and create innovative and cutter satisfaction.
Some fans are crazy and say they want the other to totally fail or leave the market, they should think first, if two were left then one, you would not have some of the amazing games that get put out and also good prices and discounts etc.

Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony really need to look at why Google Stadia failed. While it's true that Google overlooked how many people with affordable, fast internet connections would be interested in Stadia, the underlying problem in my opinion was that Stadia was primarily run as a tool to draw customers into the Google ecosystem and as a gaming platform second. And Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony run a similar risk if they involve themselves too heavily with platforms like Twitch, despite the popularity of Twitch among gamers.

I wonder if this is another step in PlayStation trying to be more involved in the PC space.

I think this is a very smart move by Sony, and one that MS should totally follow right away if they aren't buying the company as a whole.

With all the cross platform gaming here already, with more coming, its only makes sense to use the biggest gaming chat platform out there.

I used to used Discord heavily back when it was brand new, run from a garage as basically a charity, and was all about gamers, as a way to organize Splatoon games because Nintendo is Nintendo. But after it branched out and became full on social network I ran and ran and never intend to look back. Eww.

Discord being integrated with PS only really makes sense if you have a multiplatform experience and are tying PC, mobile, and your console together. Otherwise, Sony would only need to rely on what they are using now. This means they are more likely looking to expand their IP and into PC and mobile and add third-party as well. More first-party to PC and growing multi-player offerings. Just saying it makes very little sense if cross-play is not a much larger part of PS then Sony has been willing to allow as of now.

I saw the purpose with Microsoft wanting to integrate Discord along the whole line (not just gaming) and that is why they were looking at spending billions on Discord not a few million for a tiny stake like Sony. On a gaming front, it made sense for Xbox as well because they are truly trying to be cross-platform within their whole ecosystem of gaming endpoints and Discord would provide that ability as being the established messaging platform now.

Meh not fussed, all my thinking was when Microsoft where in talks was, 'man that money could buy some big developers instead'

@Snake_V5 Don't put all your eggs into one basket, I guess.

Sony can have them, I'm glad Microsoft isn't going after them anymore..

@awp69 My thoughts exactly. This has nothing to do with Sony, but I could care less about Discord. I care about playing games on the great Series X.