Is Windows really that much of a consumer product? Most Windows PCs are manufactured by different companies and Windows is free. MS themselves have a very miniscule market share in PC hardware. Windows is something people use because it’s what’s wildly available and familiar. What makes most of the money is their licencing and Office most of which is licenced by organizations. And Mac is growing extremely fast each year and it’s a brand of Apple that people get intimate with lol, with not much which MS can do apparently.
Absolutely IMO. Maybe it’s because I work in a setting where I’m using MS products everyday.
It may not be as sexy as Sony’s consumer products but it’s absolutely a consumer product.
Nah, Windows argument won’t work out because Microsoft does miusse their control over Windows for some nefarious actions.
It is like that fundamental misunderstanding of a monopoly. Monopoly is not bad per se, the problem with the monopoly is when the monopolistic power uses its control to suppress the competition.
For example let’s say a bakery N(newcomer) wants to offer a new bread product. And the whole area is controlled by bakery M (monopoly). Now due to their ties with various shops, bakery M makes a deal with the shops not to sell bakery N products - or for example to buy all the free spots available for the bakery N. Due to their ties and relations, bakery M can do that cheaply and easily, while what options are left to bakery N? Open their own shop? What if all the free areas are bought out by bakey M? That’s when the monopoly becomes a problem (it is actually similar to corruption).
Even arguably price fixing and lowering prices is sometimes a type of a monopolistic action, but it is a tougher case to prove.
I think you’re misreading our convo lol.
I’m not saying this will be used at all in the discussions for this deal.
We’re strictly talking about how Sony fans on twitter make it out that PlayStation is the underdog in this.
I think I’m just viewing from a different consumer perspective. What I mean is that people don’t really “love” Windows or become fanboys for it, they just use it because it’s what’s known and familiar and supports the widest range of software. If Mac does all the things Windows does, I don’t think people will stick with Windows.
It’s a personal observation of mine, but we know Windows has the bigger market share by a mile, but when you see in social media, if someone posts something showing their PC or laptop, most likelihood it’s gonna be a Mac. People love it, they are proud of it and boast about it and show it, this is not something MS have with any other product, Xbox and gaming is their chance with that.
Yeah I feel you. It just doesn’t have that “sexy” appeal despite being one of the most used products of our generation.
It is no different from Android vs iPhone. iPhone do have relatively bigger market share, but one of the reasons why you see it a lot of the media is because iPhone is the most popular phone in USA. And USA folks are one of the most loudest on Twitter and in other media.
Like all those IGN, Kotaku, even Twitter - it is all USA organizations. It is like that move with the price increase - by not increasing it in USA, Sony was able to avoid any backlash because folks in USA were not affected.
The Surface devices are sexy af though I gotta admit, but they are a small market.
iPhone is made and operated by a single company, Apple. Android has many different manufacturers. The global OS split leans more towards Android but in the manufacturer split iPhone is ahead with no close competition.
100% and this is something I said when I saw the announcement.
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Yeah I think a lot of it was perception. When we think about console prices we often default to the American pricing as the biggest region, I mean I’m in the UK and I still refer to games as $60 or $70 dollars as the standard or talk about the console pricing in American terms. By not increasing the price in America they retain the perception of a $500 console, “it’s just a price increase in certain regions”.
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Maybe it’s just me but most post I see of a PC are gaming rigs, with really cool looking cases and they all run windows.
Yeah you are correct in this, my observation is probably limited, I guess I eliminated the gaming part because that market is basically all Windows by default and what I meant is anything else but gaming related.
New Destin video.
With a headline of " The Best Arguments AGAINST the Microsoft Activision Deal", I expected it to be a 0 second video.
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Either that or a minute video on repeat saying the word…
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The only thing I can see it doing is to weaponize the fan base. All the back and forth along with arguments and offers would have been submitted to the relevant competition commissions so would have no relevance to the proceedings
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Street Fighter 5 is enough to explain their hypocrisy #jimbo
Not so sure. From what I remember reading on Resetera, Xbox could’ve had it, but chose to go with Killer Instinct instead.
Console exclusive ، Who’s crazy who doesn’t want Street Fighter on his platform!
That’s an old article from 2015, the info I read was from last year, it may have come out of the leaked Capcom documents.