| Immortal said: It's ridiculous to say that Sony's presence isn't affecting my experience at all, though. It is, in a number of ways. For one, Sony doing this stuff may push Nintendo to follow similar strategies, which means that Nintendo might not offer the kind of stuff I like. Also, as long as Sony is a dominant force in the industry, third parties will be more inclined to make the kinds of games that I don't like and will focus their efforts away from Nintendo consoles, both of which negatively impact me. Plus, competition drives Nintendo to do much worse, in my experience, so Sony's presence is just distracting Nintendo from entertaining me. There's about a million other reasons why. |
I see. For me, it sounds like Sony isn't the direct cause of your problem. Instead, it's how Nintendo and 3rd parties respond to Sony's actions. And that really should be more of a problem with Nintendo and 3rd parties. Sony's actions don't inherently or directly cause harm to you; its how other companies respond to them. In fact,you would be fine with Sony’s action if it weren’t for how Nintendo and 3rd parties's lack of integity and/or competence. I think that's telling of what your true problem actually is.
This is similar to the argument people use to justify hating Call of Duty. They say they dislike Call of Duty because it inspires other companies to release similar, casual games. Well this doesn't make sense as it is not Call of Duty's or Activision's fault that other companies lack the integrity and/or skill to make their own original successful games.
Now you could agree with above, yet still find it beneficial if Sony left because they would no longer indirectly harm yourself. They’re actions are part of a cause-and-effect cycle that eventually ends with you having a worsened experience. That’s understandable, but if you really want to go up the cause-and-effect cycle, away from the direct cause (Nintendo's/3rd parties actions) to an indirect cause (Sony's actions), then you might as well go all the way up to the root cause which is deeper Sony’s actions.
Sony's actions are just the effect of the demand of a particular segment of the market. Sony’s purpose and mere existence relies on meeting the demands of a sufficient amount of costumers. Because Sony’s actions are just an effect of a deeper, root cause, then there’s no point in being happy if Sony left the business. If Sony were gone, the market that they used to cater to wouldn't just silently vanish. They would still exist and Sony’s exit would be replaced by a new company, continuing the cycle leaving you with a worsened experience.
In summary, the only way you wouldn’t end up with a worsened experience is if the root cause (gamers that enjoy Sony's products) or the direct cause (Nintendo/3rd party actions) of this cycle vanished. If Sony vanished, your situation would probably stay the same for the most part.
