zero129 said:
ConservagameR said:
Just look at XB One and you'll see what MS does once it believes it has the market cornered. Its harder to see when it's happening inch by inch since PC is far more open to begin with.
Why has Windows been the go to OS for PC with basically no competition for like 30 years now? Why did MS want to partner with Sony or Nin for consoles initially and what did they offer to the platforms? When MS couldn't monopolize console OS, what was their next move and what have they done since like with Game Pass most recently?
You don't need control over everything when you have control of enough things to basically control everything else, but then can use that strategic control to keep gaining more and more control.
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Same thing Sony done when they couldnt own Nintendo software sales with the Nintendo CD... Make their own console...
Also look what Sony done with the PS3 at first when they thought they had the market cornered. They where lucky they had so many company's support them until they got their shit together. And now with the PS5 they are going back to their old ways. Raising console prices instead of lowering them etc etc.
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SvennoJ said:
$499 in 2006 is worth $724 nowadays, so still a ways to go to reach PS3 launch price... If you want to look at disgusting price practices, look at NVidea :/
And erm it was Nintendo that screwed up...
https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/how-nintendos-massive-mistake-led-to-the-creation-of-the-sony-playstation-25-years-ago
“According to the contract, Sony could make and sell CD-ROM games without buying them from Nintendo. Nintendo wanted a monopoly on manufacturing games for its hardware.â€
Rather than bring this disagreement to Sony directly — rather than attempt to work out a new arrangement that was more favourable on the terms Nintendo demanded — Nintendo elected to abandon their deal and strike a better one with a competing manufacturer, leaving Sony in the lurch. (Some have suggested that this may be chalked up to cultural differences and Japanese contract law that no one at Nintendo felt obligated to inform Sony of their decision to renege.) Nintendo felt it was better served focusing its efforts on a CD-ROM peripheral that could be manufactured by Philips without compromising their monopoly on first-party software. Nintendo was already trouncing its only major competitor, the Sega Genesis. No one seemed capable of threatening their dominion — and so, making decisions cavalierly, they felt they had nothing to fear.
So it was Nintendo believing they had the market cornered and doing whatever they wanted. It's also Nintendo that never lowers the price of their first party software... And also Nintendo that's the only one not bringing their games to PC. Nintendo have never left their old ways :/
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This ^. Also, the PS3 launch price was extremely generously subsidized by Sony considering the advanced hardware manufacturing cost.
What has PS ever done to get into MS dominated markets and cause them concern? The recent XB documentary shows MS was simply paranoid about what PS could become so they got into Sony dominated markets. Whatever concern PS seemed to be to them, no longer should've been a concern once PS4 was out, and yet XB now wants to gobble up that entire market with Game Pass.
