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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The problem is if Sony has a monopoly on the premium console market, they can charge any number they want and consumers have no other option. Less competition always means prices go up.

Sony's practice of paying money not for exclusivity for their platform, just to stop developers from developing for Xbox for a period of time, is anti-consumer and needs to stop.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The problem is if Sony has a monopoly on the premium console market

"premium console" is such a weird qualifier to get around the fact that Nintendo Switch is the best selling console and Sony has no monopoly anywhere. Microsoft is the company that bought Activision-Blizzard, Bethesda, Minecraft, and more. They are the one with anti-consumer practices, scooping up everything with their money from their Windows and Office monopolies. You're just bitter because you sank a lot of money into a bad system nobody likes. It really is not Sony's fault that everybody wants God of War, Spider-Man, etc. and nobody wants mediocre games like Starfield, Redfall, Halo, etc.

Blame Microsoft for promoting the Series S to customers as being identical to Series X, other than games are just lower resolution and lacking a disk drive. It is Microsoft's fault that the performance profiles of their two distinct consoles is that the Series S cannot play Baldur's Gate multiplayer and that the policies prevented Larian to port their game to Xbox until they got a special exemption for feature disparity. It is Microsoft's fault that the proclaimed 1440p system (Series S) needs further resolution, graphics quality, and framerate downgrades compared to Series X. It's Microsoft who don't even care that much about Xbox because all their games are better of Microsoft's other platform (Windows) anyway.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, defend the mega corporation more. Good job lickin' them boots.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, defend the mega corporation more. Good job lickin’ them boots.

You speak of yourself and Microsoft's boots, right?