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Me:
You:
Nice reading skills. How do you expect any discussion if you start by putting something in my mouth I never even remotely said?
Anyway.
Yes, Sony was bullish in the PS2 days, and their arrogance lead to fairly botched PS3 launch, which they needed years to recover from. But even the launch PS3 was a pretty good console on its own, the main problem were their dev tools.
MS had a hiccup with RROD, but otherwise the X360 was a massive hit and became the default console of that generation everywhere except Japan. Together with the Xbox interfaces for Windows, the ABXY Xbox buttons was a synonym for gaming.
MS had massive good will, all they needed is to just keep going.
But what does a company like MS do when they have momentum? They try to strangle the market. Always. They are incapable of working in any other way. And so instead of a proper gaming console, the xbox one was designed as machine for ads delivery, rental, DRM and spyware, with games only being an afterthought at best.
They also pulled that shit with Windows 10, but I'm not getting into that.
And they are doing it again with GamePass, their goal is for you to eventually have no other option then to rent games in perpetuity.
After they gobble up all the game studios and starve the market of everything else, after they gain enough dominance in yet another market, then you'll see the same disgusting dystopian corporation that has been pushing IE, Office, Windows and other cancer.
We've been there many many times.
And you'll see it again. Maybe not very soon, but in 10 years it'll be the same again.
You like Xbox? Let's have the Xbox brand fully separate from MS. Not be a subsidiary, a fully separate company with no relation to MS. Maybe then I'd give it 1% chance, but even then I wouldn't have them acquire fucking Activision. Heck, even if MS was the good guy here, Activision alone is a poisonous tumor that's been sucking the game industry dry. So how can this ever end well?
Anyway, I'm out. Got better things to do. Nice venting, tho.
If all you got from what I said is "You like Xbox" then I agree there's no point in continuing the discussion.
Good talk.