Sony believed that they had so much market share that they could make a console that was leaps and bounds more complicated to code for, which would lock devs in and prevent them from going elsewhere, and they’d just have to suck it up because of said market share. Sony was wrong, and they lost out big time that generation (although they did manage to win the Blu-ray vs hd-dvd format wars).

Microsoft seems to believe they have so much market share that they can force people to upgrade to a privacy invading, ai infested piece of crap, and that everyone needs to suck it up because market share.

I’ve already started hearing wind that people, in statistically significant numbers, are finding alternatives… so is this the same situation as the ps3?

Just a passing musing without much to back up the gut feelings.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    1 day ago

    they did manage to win the Blu-ray vs hd-dvd format wars

    They didn’t win them: they bought them. Blu-ray won via payola more than popularity or technical superiority. HDDVD has way better error correction and thus longevity, but you can see why corpos wouldn’t want that at the peak of the planned obsolescence / e-waste years.

    • scutiger@lemmy.world
      10·
      23 hours ago

      The PS3 including a BD drive certainly played a part though.

      MS tried to push HD-DVD but required a separate device to use it on 360.

      It feels like that was the generation of poor console decisions.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      21·
      22 hours ago

      Blu-ray appears to have presided over the premium segment of the video-disc market just as it went down the tubes entirely. These days you can buy used DVDs 2 for $0.99, and Blu-Ray for $1.99 each - super 4x premium market they’ve cornered there.

      • bobgobbler@lemmy.zip
        3·
        19 hours ago

        Them being cheap means nothing in reference to the quality… and is also a function of winning the war.

        If consumers went with HDDVD you would be saying the same thing about them. Price is a function of production and corps aren’t going to produce a tech en masse consumers don’t want or aren’t purchasing.

        • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          Them being cheap means consumers no longer value them - which is what the wars are all about: value translated to sales and profits. Price is a function of what consumers will pay, which has little or nothing to do with what a thing costs to make.

          If consumers went with HDDVD you would be saying the same thing about them.

          Absolutely. BluRay was Captain of the Titanic, and is going down with the whole physical media ship. Vinyl LPs are the lifeboats.