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Hynad on 04 February 2016
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Chazore said:
Hynad said:

I know all that about Microsoft. That's not really relevent though. 

My point is that the same would apply for any of the companies. If they would be owned by a single entity, there is nothing that would prevent them from releasing on PC if they so wanted. Nintendo and Sony may not be doing it, but if they controlled all the big titles being released, either everyone would game on their consoles, or they'd release those titles on as many viable platform as possible.

Except it is because they still have a stake, they still delievr at times comapred to the others ebcause they know that market exists, the other two simply choose to ignore that market because it won't adhere or adapt to them let alone them not being able to have it all, otherwise we'd have seen movements years ago.

The single entity part doesn't matter because in the end when you are owned by a single entity and are not autonomous then you are to do as that entity tells you to. It's like you are trying to say that even if they are all as one they still won't release for PC or that they culd release for PC currently, the dfiference here is that they don't bother because I explained that above already.

@Bolded, yeah that would be a beautiful monopoly for them to have but not good for a PC gamewr which was why I preffered Kapi's option where exclusives are no longer a thing and you know as well as I do that PC isn't owned by a company, it's a platform where devs sell to so bno one can moneyhat exclusives or buy a company to make games exclusively for them, with PC it's up to the dev entirely or the hardware that dictates.

You seem to forget that it is a "what if" scenario. The current state of things wouldn't dictate the situation of a near monopoly (near, since there would still be some indies). There wouldn't be any moneyhatting anymore since a single company would own most everything. What would be left to moneyhat other than some indie titles? And moneyhat from who? Your own company? xD

If every big publishers were owned by a single entity, the gaming landscape would definitely change. What you assume about each companies right now wouldn't necessarily apply in such a scenario.