Seems to be the in thing for companies to destroy any and all goodwill they have.
Yeah except most consumers no longer care about goodwill when buying new products so they’ve just figured out that it doesn’t matter what they do. So if a company has goodwill at this point, it might as well just be unspent money.
It feels like they’re turning focus to PC and abandoning Xbox. I don’t own an Xbox myself though.
Honestly, it think thats a really good idea. Proprietary consoles are a relict and its great if they go away and get replaced by open platforms like the steamdeck and steam machines (not necessarily affiliated with valve though).
locking down consoles to games only always felt stupid when they are basically pcs anyway. they should have been multipurpose machines all along instead of walled gardens.
Fully agree. I would even outlaw the walled garden concept completely. I would necessitate interconnecting APIs for everything. So that I can call apples app store over their api from any machine for example.
If someone comes up with an example that overburdens a company, they need to allow others to make such tools for free.
Also, i would outlaw any fee on things that cant be explained logically. Like apple tax for example.
Same obviously goes for consoles.
open standards and interoperability should be the law.
Amen
intereresting read, thank you
I’ve been saying this for years now ever since they pulled out of Gamescom and just let Sony have Europe.
When was that? 2016?
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-opts-out-of-xbox-gamescom-press-conference
Or even before that… 2012, bailing on BOTH Gamescom AND Tokyo Game Show:
https://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/06/14/microsoft-opts-out-of-gamescom-tgs.aspx
I mean I bailed on gamescom even before that, given how badly the event was always organized.
