Microsoft can now go ahead and close its giant deal.

  • ampersandrew
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    12 years ago

    You do have choice. You have choice between group of exclusives A and group of exclusives B. It’s better for competition but worse for the consumer. In order for it to be better for the consumer and competition, you’d need to eliminate the concept of exclusives entirely. And I’m all for that, but I don’t know how to make that happen.

    • Neato
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      42 years ago

      It’s better for competition but worse for the consumer.

      🤨

    • @[email protected]
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      02 years ago

      Well since exclusives will continue to exist, imagine if, hear me out here, third party titles remained cross platform and group B developed their own set of games at worst through infant studio acquisitions instead of, idk, acquiring the second largest third party publisher in the world (and thus all their studios).

      • ampersandrew
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        12 years ago

        Then that would be decidedly less competitive between the two consoles.

        • @[email protected]
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          02 years ago

          Yeah the poor trillion dollar company couldn’t possibly compete with the billion dollar company by organically building an attractive portfolio. It’s not like they did it before and only lost their position due to their own mishandling of studios and misunderstanding of the market.

          • ampersandrew
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            12 years ago

            They seemingly can’t compete, so this is how they’re making up for the ground that they lost, because right now the console market is not particularly competitive.