Microsoft gives market share against PlayStation

[mjk45]

NobleTeam360 said:

Darc Requiem said:

The is a reason regulators want to discount Nintendo. They scuttle their entire argument. The Switch is the 3rd best selling game system of all time and it's never had a Call of Duty title. Nintendo's success flies in the face of their narrative that CoD is required for success. Sony was the a far larger company when it entered the industry and leveraged that to great success. As of yet, MS hasn't been able to do the same after over two decades in the console space. They used Sony's playbook but haven't had the same results. I really hate having to defend MS because I don't like all this industry consolidation. However Sony's position and that of most regulators don't hold water. You can't ignore something because it doesn't fit your narrative. Sony is acting like the kid that cries and takes the ball home when the game isn't going their way.

Yes, absolutely agree with everything you stated. 

it doesn't necessarily scuttle any argument it a bit like saying Sony never had Mario but they had the best selling games system of all time, so Mario isn't important to Nintendo, but even that isn't a real issue, the issue that should be considered is whether or not all those games (COD is really a proxy for all of them) being owned by MS as opposed to 3rd party will benefit the consumer.

We are in the age of subscription models and ecosystems like PS plus and game pass with the elevated importance of having access to product on your service in both growing your service and retention now sees an age where content ownership  is rated high enough to not only overcome the old adage of why pay for ownership of a product we get anyway but to do it on a scale never seen before in gaming, so the trend toward these services and how they have reshaped the games industry means that these deals are more likely to be put under the microscope.

Last edited by mjk45 - on 26 February 2023