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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea I have largely stopped preordering 90% of the games. There are some where I'll preorder like the new Zelda game but majority of the games, I am like no thanks. The only reason I even played the new star wars game is cause it came free with my 7800X3D otherwise I wouldn't have touched it with a 10 ft pole. What's the biggest kicker is that the price of these new games increased by $10. So the new Star Wars game is $70. So what are they doing with that extra money? Just spending it hookers or what? And yea, they all probably fired the QA department, least that's what it feels like.

Well according to that "No one wants Xbox around" thread, "competition keeps prices in check"

yeah... because that's kept the extra $10 Sony/SE peddled in check, or Battle passes and paid versions from cropping up, or paid for "time skip" items/mechanics, or console exclusive content, or the fact that the savings from these Epic exclusivity deals HAVE NOT LOWERED PRICES ON PC..

I'm starting to think, it does hurt my noggin, but I'm starting to think some folks are buying way, way too hard into thinking competition=auto resolve my problems, when it doesn't always even work out that way (certainly did fuck all on PC, besides GoG Galaxy, and getting Cities Skylines when EA fucked us over on PC). 

I think people have a miss understanding of competition vs competitive landscape. People think just because there is another company that "competes" means that it's a competitive landscape but that hasn't been true for a very long time. Just look at something like the telecom industry where you have like 3 big companies that are in charge for phones and internet and such yet they only have deals with one of the other 2 have deals and the deals are basically the same.

That is kind of where we are at with a lot of gaming products. GPUs for example isn't a competitive landscape. Nvidia sets the prices, AMD follows. CPUs are a competitive landscape, AMD comes out with CPUs, Intel comes out with better CPUs for competitive price, AMD discounts slow CPUs and brings out fast ones for competitive price, then Intel does the same. Consoles have kind of turned into a landscape that isn't competitive. This isn't the 360 vs ps3 era where Playstation and XBox are taking shots at each other. This is Playstation Winning while Xbox finding ways to stay relevant while Nintendo does their own thing. Xbox may have bought a ton of studios but by the time one of them releases an AAA exclusive, Sony has 5 more out.

The biggest shame is that future generations will never experience the crazyness that was the past era of gaming. The amount of drama and shots and excitment of the yester year was oof. These days it's just boring and quite lame.