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Azzanation on 05 February 2024
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javi741 said:
Azzanation said:

You are clouded by the notion of Competition is better. There is always a catch when companies play around with pricing. Companies find other ways to make you pay them back for their discounted prices. Nothing is for free. They literally all locked up Multiplayer behind a paywall, that was Competition that did that, not a monopoly. 

Competition does not equal better games, and to debunk your points on pricing, look at the industry today. We have price increases across the board, in a industry with Competition. Companies will price hike regardless. Because they know when one does it, they all follow to push the agenda

The industry is better when we move away from exclusive boxes and focus on open platforms. Exactly how PCs and the mobile marker work.

We have literally seen more bad things happen when it comes to competition than we have seen with gains.

You keep only mention the small negative stuff competition brought but completely ignore all the great thing competition has brought to the industry, competition brought far more positives than negatives.

If Nintendo didn't release the revolutionary NES controller with a D-Pad and A & B buttons, we'd still be playing games on a worse joystick type controller. Other competitors like Sega & Sony copied many of Nintendo's control schemes to keep up, improving the industry as a whole. The whole reason why Sonic exists is cause of Mario, and many games were influenced heavily off one another in positive ways. Many developers were inspired by games like Mario 64 & Zelda OOT for how well they handled 3D games and used concepts from those games to keep up and improve their games, only possible with extra competition and more options to be inspired by. Games like Doom, Goldeneye, Halo all contributed to an improvement towards FPS. The GC & Xbox controllers was inspired by the PS1 two handlebar design. Online gaming improved heavily because Sony looked directly at how well their competitor Microsoft was doing with Xbox Live and implemented many of their features on their system. It's just basic economics, more competition drives innovation and provides more and better options for the consumer cause everyone is trying to 1-up each other, it's not even a subjective matter whether or not more competition is better.

You pretend these innovations are only exclusive to 1st party companies competing. All Companies will continue to innovate the industry, regardless if they have a console or not. Companies what to make money and those that see the opportunities will take them.

Last edited by Azzanation - on 06 February 2024