@lighting: “Baby steps because the moment they do anything drastic they step on rakes.”
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The first thing that came to mind while reading that was Tom setting the last mouse traps in a corner with the whole room full of them 🤣
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@Christopher: “because without them it would just be two very different console markets doing whatever they want without someone to remind them to do their best constantly.”
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I partly agree with you where I disagree is that there will never be only 2 consoles there will always be a company/corporation willing to jump in and fill the 3rd spot, Microsoft is shaking for the next gen and Valve is already getting gritty to take that 3rd spot from them.

This is wishful thinking, how can they drop the price of game pass? When just few months they raised the price of subscription service?

Look, I'm no fan of where they've taken the brand, but it's still one of the strongest brands out there regardless of where it is currently. We're in a small market and none of the big 3 are hurting to a point where they need to close shop or anything. And we need Xbox out there, because without them it would just be two very different console markets doing whatever they want without someone to remind them to do their best constantly.

And only the first half of that, god that was such a great time to be an xbox gamer.

Yeah no...

Unless you're a fanboy but nobody cares what fanboys want or think.

You do realize the intent is to go after every major digital market place, PlayStation just happened to be first but the class action lawsuit statement names xbox marketplace, apple store, Nintendo online store etc. they're all guilty, so holding it as something ms has over ps is dumb

Valve the peoples store choice on PC also has the same class action against them here in the UK.

It's not valve fault competing store front are rubbish. Barely any pc gamers want to buy from the MS/Xbox app or epic games or Uplay as they are garbage compared to steam.

As for Sony they have no competition unless you consider Nintendo there competition. Both lawsuits are going to go no where. Sony ain't forcing anyone to buy a playstation or to even buy digital for that matter. People can go and buy a switch to or for some reason a Xbox series or a pc.

Same goes for valve. People are free to go and use other store fronts if they wish valve ain't keeping them hostage.

They will probably try it with Nintendo next.

"especially this site"

Isn't this site an aggregate?

100%!

I agree but they started to ditch that right after the successful 360 era

This would be amazing especially if they did a Switch 2 version.