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Literally go fuck yourself Microsoft.
Microsoft explains that Call of Duty doesn’t have to be on every console, because it isn’t that important to the video game industry.
I feel like they should not be the ones making that judgement when deciding if some company is going to be buying up large portions of an industry.
Cod is like one of the few games non gamers play. People buy consoles just to play it. They either insanely out of touch or they couldn’t think of a better excuse
aren’t they just admitting that they do vertical bundling ? assuming its fairly cheap to allow cod on steamdeck.
so the issue should be “how much does or would that bundling harm call of duty consumers (including marginal non-buyers)” by reducing their choices.
Steam deck isn’t entering the market of “hardware that cod players can use” so not relevant to that segment of the hardware market.
what is relevant is the market for FPS software (and play servers?), whether a steamdeck user can buy a reasonable substitute ; how good of a substitute it is determines the level or harm.
so if most players are near-indifferent to switching to a steamdeck FPS, then the bundling is not very harmful.that’s why bundling , say, photoshop with windows would be worse - as lots of ps customers will have a high cost of switching -because they don’t want to be called gimps.
This fixation on call of duty was a huge misstep by Sony both from a legal/business standpoint and PR standpoint.
Call of Duty is not the issue. The issue is that Microsoft is a 2 trillion dollar company, Sony is a 100 billion dollar company, and Nintendo is a 50 billion dollar company.
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Sony is 20x the size of Nintendo.
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Microsoft is 20x the size of Sony and 400x the size of Nintendo. (Yes I know that’s not “size” but I’m keeping this stripped down).
The problem isn’t COD, it’s Microsoft’s potential ability to outspend their competitors into irrelevance because they have seemingly endless pockets. They can buy studio after studio in a way their competitors can’t, so they are! And consolidation is almost always bad for media.
Microsoft has the ability to take any good studio away nearly at-will in a way their competitors simply cannot and they have been flexing that muscle slowly but surely for the last 10 years. And I’m not even getting into how many studios they’ve allowed to languish.
I think you’re off by a factor of 10
Whoops yes. Definitely a typo first then math-ed the bad number. 40x Nintendo, 20x Sony.
This is a pretty old thread lol how did you find it
Honestly didn’t even realize it was so old. Not sure how I got here, just falling down the rabbit hole I suppose lol
Happens!
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No but it would be nice to have.
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People can cry about it but the numbers don’t lie, lmao. Go cry some more.
What numbers specifically are you referring to?
Why so defensive?
I love my deck, I got one of the early 512 GB units, but even in the article you linked they are saying that “It is clear Steam Deck remains a niche portion of the PC gaming landscape”. Did you read it?Sadly, 3 million is nothing next to the over 129 million from the Switch, for example. Regardless of how superior it is to the Switch in several aspects.
I do have hopes for the numbers to improve, but I wouldn’t say it has reached the levels of mainstream devices just yet.
First of all this isn’t politics. It’s a video game toy. And not sure why my question made you think I’m unable to read sales numbers. I literally asked you what number you’re referring to.
Anyhow: 3 million is not impressive. Consoles sell millions a day. 3 million is a joke. The Nokia handheld console N Gage sold 3 million in the same amount of time.
The Nokia N GAGE.
This thing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage_(device)#/media/File%3ANokia-NGage-LL.jpg
A device that’s considered to be the ultimate butt of jokes in the gaming world. Second to only the Nintendo virtual boy.
That said, sales don’t determine if a device is good or not. I’m sure the Steak Deck is absolutely wonderful. And I had it pre-order day one. I just don’t game as much lately so I couldn’t justify the purchase on release. Didn’t want to have a device sitting around; after not using my Valve Index I became more hesitant about buying more hardware.
From your own source:
“It is clear Steam Deck remains a niche portion of the PC gaming landscape,” commented James McWhirter, Senior Analyst covering Games at Omdia. “However, this is unlikely to deter Valve, which has plans beyond just selling hardware units.”
The steak deck doesn’t need to be successful in sales to be a great product. It’s a PC with a different form factor. There’s no downside to it being unpopular as long as you enjoy it.
lol what the hell is wrong with you?
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100% correct, steam deck haters can cry some more. The numbers don’t lie, steam deck is doing great. Completely agree. No lie detected.
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