Microsoft can now go ahead and close its giant deal.

  • ampersandrew
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    01 year ago

    If you felt like you had to buy both consoles, that means the market got more competitive.

    • @Hdcase@beehaw.org
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      01 year ago

      Microsoft creates demand for their system largely by buying up publishers and turning all their future games exclusive, that would otherwise have been multiplatform.

      Sony and Nintendo create demand for their system largely by making great games in house, that otherwise never would have existed.

      So yes you’re right but one is much shittier than the other.

      • ampersandrew
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        11 year ago

        The games made in house are functionally identical to buying a studio that already existed. It’s a game that can’t be played anywhere else for arbitrary business reasons. I’d consider Sony’s shittier, because I have to wait two years for a PC port, and Nintendo’s shittier still because those games will never legally leave their platform.