| RolStoppable said: When you think about it, the competition between PlayStation and Xbox isn't all that beneficial for gamers. They merely get to pick the lesser evil between the two, but the whole thing is run more like a duopoly where companies instead of consumers dictate the shape of products. Quick example: Proper competition would have made Microsoft offer a basic free online multiplayer package as an alternative to Xbox Live Gold; what happened instead is that Sony made PS+ mandatory for online multiplayer. The industry is certainly not complaining about that, because the big third parties probably receive benefits for driving adoption of the mandatory subscriptions for online interactions. |
Nope, we dictate the industry with what we buy.
Our buying habits forced Sony into a 399 launch price with the PS4 after the PS3, we forced MS a mega corporation to entirely back track on their products design and business plan to do what we want. And we forced them to drop the kinetic.
We forced our wants and wishes on both Sony and MS to do what we want. Duopoly, is that a joke ?
