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Dulfite on 19 January 2022
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the-pi-guy said:
Dulfite said:

So much salt from people. The reality is for those of us with a medium or better PC rig, we just got a bunch of free games. For those on the fence about which console to get, the choice just got easier. For those that were going to buy both reluctantly, you at least have more reasoning to stick with just one and save some money.

Many people have a console + another console, or a console + a mid range or better PC. With dlss, going forward you won't even need that decent of a rig to play on PC. With cloud improving it will be even more accessible.

>The reality is for those of us with a medium or better PC rig, we just got a bunch of free games.

Not everyone wants Gamepass. I like owning my content, and I don't like subscription services, especially where content lives or dies based on what the company feels like.

Yeah, this stinks for those that absolutely refuse to game in any other way other than Nintendo/Sony natively, but the number of people in that category are growing smaller each gen. The market will always focus on where the industry is heading in general, not on an increasingly small minority of purist fanboys.

This isn't a fanboy issue. 

It's not about not wanting to play games on Xbox. It's about the health of the entire market. Companies need competition to make for the best scenario for consumers.

Those same games on PC Gamepass are and will be purchasable on windows store. 

MS has tons of competition still, and more will arise. When there are voids, that's when new companies pop up. If the quality or amount of games these studios make decreases going forward, then that gives new studios the wiggle room to pop up and have success in the market taking advantage of those companies not satisfying the market.

In the next 20 years there's going to be new companies that rise to the level of activision/blizzard, Bethesda, etc. Companies we don't even know the name of yet because they don't exist yet. They will have IPS that don't currently exist that all of us will be talking about 20 years from now because of how popular they will become. This is how capitalism works and the market works. Voids fill naturally.

And if there aren't many of those new Studios and aren't many new IPS by those Studios that's because the studios that were purchased by larger companies continue to release quality product at a pace the market deems is acceptable.