Microsoft has essentially destroyed consoles, as a concept. In this thread there’s people lamenting how Xbox only has half a dozen games they care about. In other threads there’s people lamenting how Playstation has even fewer. What both groups mean is, the hundreds of other kick-ass games from this generation are on every platform, because developers got sick and tired of being lashed to one company’s customers.
Platforms are an obstacle. Platforms are something you have to buy into, before game studios can sell you anything. Playstation becoming ‘the only console’ wouldn’t give them a monopoly on jack-shit, because multiplatform development won twenty friggin’ years ago, and it’s been gnawing away at Sony’s console-war pantomime ever since.
Microsoft isn’t talking about Halo on Playstation because they need the sales. Sony isn’t flipping out about Helldivers because your e-mail is oh-so-valuable. One of these companies has been winning a war that the other is slowly erasing.
I agree with what you’re saying, but Xbox disappearing would mean Sony could do whatever they want with their ecosystem, which is not the case right now because they don’t want to be seen as worse than Xbox.
Yeah most games are multiplatform and that’s fine, but it’s not the only thing.
Microsoft or Sony could just decide to dump bluray drives, to not allow to play a physical game which was already linked to another account or things like this.
For these things, having two giants fighting for market is good for consumers.
Start?
I’m sure they could go way further if they had a monopoly
Here’s the weird thing: they wouldn’t.
Microsoft has essentially destroyed consoles, as a concept. In this thread there’s people lamenting how Xbox only has half a dozen games they care about. In other threads there’s people lamenting how Playstation has even fewer. What both groups mean is, the hundreds of other kick-ass games from this generation are on every platform, because developers got sick and tired of being lashed to one company’s customers.
Platforms are an obstacle. Platforms are something you have to buy into, before game studios can sell you anything. Playstation becoming ‘the only console’ wouldn’t give them a monopoly on jack-shit, because multiplatform development won twenty friggin’ years ago, and it’s been gnawing away at Sony’s console-war pantomime ever since.
Microsoft isn’t talking about Halo on Playstation because they need the sales. Sony isn’t flipping out about Helldivers because your e-mail is oh-so-valuable. One of these companies has been winning a war that the other is slowly erasing.
I agree with what you’re saying, but Xbox disappearing would mean Sony could do whatever they want with their ecosystem, which is not the case right now because they don’t want to be seen as worse than Xbox.
Yeah most games are multiplatform and that’s fine, but it’s not the only thing.
Microsoft or Sony could just decide to dump bluray drives, to not allow to play a physical game which was already linked to another account or things like this.
For these things, having two giants fighting for market is good for consumers.