...so what you're saying is Sony should buy multiplatform publishers who own gaming's biggest franchises, offer no new games that weren't already coming out and the get all the praise for people buying those games?
I think gaming is better off not consolidating massive parts of the industry and firing thousands upon thousands of workers to benefit a handful of MS's CEO's... Interesting you celebrate this.
...so why continue to fire thousands upon thousands of workers? Oh yes, because you got to keep the greedy well fed.
Celebrating industry consolidation and the loss of countless devs to make a handful of rich even richer is the sort of thing I expect to see from MS.
"Thanks for engaging with me - again"
The more you post the more we can report as spam, the quicker you go away.
Thanks for making it so easy kid.
Aww look, it thinks it's people. This ^ is why you don't let very young children online unsupervised, they don't know how to act online and end up creating spam accounts when their favourite toy is getting obliterated. They don't have the mental maturity to handle it and lash out.
Let Osofulk be a lesson.
“We’re Not Putting Up Walls”... "we tried doing that and it failed, but we'll try again once we buy up more of the industry and turn it into a streaming service"
Or they would have been forced to compete by making and funding new IP's. This is why I wanted Xbox sold to a company that wants to grow the industry instead of buying it.
"When the court saw evidence that they are doing similar things it helped Microsoft case more than anything else."
...do you just conflate what Sony was doing to $80 billion of industry consolidation?!?!... kid you lost any argument you think you've had.
Yes I am overwhelmingly salty over the thousands of devs being fired, the industry losing three major competing publishers through MS's consolidation and homogenisation all so a few rich people could get richer. No new games that weren't already coming, no new studios just endless firings.
Why do you support all this I wonder?
I can blame MS, because of MS and their creative bankruptcy and inability to make games there is less competition thanks to them consolidating a massive part of the industry and thousands upon thousands have lost their jobs because of MS's greed. No new games, no new studios have come from the 80 billion, just a handful of extremely wealthy people got even wealthier at the cost of thousands upon thousands of devs
You're comparing a company that has grown an industr...
Difference is with MS's buy-up of the industry devs are losing their jobs because of nothing else but pure greed. 80 billion spent and nothing to show for it except a handful of extremely rich people getting richer, massive industry consolidation and thousands out of work.
You sound happy that a small handful of extremely wealthy people got even wealthier at the cost of thousands upon thousands of workers and no new games that weren't already coming.
The ban on multiplatform publishers was a failure and now MSs most profitable console platform is Xbox's directed competition.
The only result of MS's 80 billion spending is a massive part of the industry is no longer competing, Xbox is now a dead system outside th...
I do large format image editing, I have 32gb now and have to micromanage that when working. I have a 20,000 dpi scanner.
As with 16gb, you can already bust that now gaming in 4k with a few mods active, it's just not very future proof.
It's a necessity for Xbox, otherwise it's dead. MS spent 80 billion on publishers who's games where already coming to Xbox to ban their sales from competitors, it's failed spectacularly.
Now Xbox has to be multiplatform as the publishers they purchased sell better on all other platforms.
Unfortunately for gaming and gamers because of MS's historic greed we have lost thousands upon thousands of devs and three major publishers are no lon...
Few more days then I can at least put in an order, problem is I got a two week wait for when I do as it's going in a custom build... Still, this time next month I should have it.
Going for a i9 14900k 64gb with the RTX5090, would have gone for the 5080 if it wasn't for the 16gb.
A site that promotes Microsoft products and ran PR for the Activision sale saying a Microsoft service is the best... what a shock!
I don't live in the US, but you guys seem to think your new oligarchy needs to interfere with other countries elections, Russia was bad enough now we have to put up with your new psycho kings.
"And FYI, The REAL elite rich famous politicians are on the side of the democrats. Nancy Polosi, AOC (bartender to a billionaire), Biden, Harris. I can’t believe how anyone can look at how the country was run over the last 4 years and think “yes we need more of this.
I would love to see what his reply was before his new account was banned, he seems to have removed his approval for this article too.
Can you tell them to stay out of other countries, we don't want more US style oligarchies where wealth buys countries.
You guys just handed the billionaires who keep your wages low and social needs privatised the keys.
The eco-friendly packaging is really going to offset the amount of juice I'll be using when running my 5090... I think I might need to plant a few trees.
Just accept you and me are very different Obs
You think more and more being owned buy fewer and fewer to benefit the few at the cost of thousands of jobs should be celebrated, I don't.
Three of the largest competing publishers are longer competing and thousands being fired because of MS's actions doesn't make me want to cheer their profits.