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curl-6 on 10 June 2020
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Have you seen how much Nintendo first party sells their consoles? No. Microsoft is the only brand that should be third party.

I disagree; I think Xbox has an important role to play in preventing Playstation from gaining a monopoly on the dedicated console market. Monopolies tend to be bad for consumers. Plus, I personally tend to prefer Xbox to Playstation in terms of a secondary console to my Nintendo main.



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COKTOE on 10 June 2020
onionberry said:
man these threads are annoying lol



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JapaneseGamesLover on 10 June 2020

Yes, they should have gone third party since GameCube, it is so strange to me why they don’t do it.



curl-6 on 10 June 2020
JapaneseGamesLover said:
Yes, they should have gone third party since GameCube, it is so strange to me why they don’t do it.

Because it's more profitable making money off hardware, online services, first party software, and third party software royalties than just first party software alone.



S.T.A.G.E. on 10 June 2020
curl-6 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Have you seen how much Nintendo first party sells their consoles? No. Microsoft is the only brand that should be third party.

I disagree; I think Xbox has an important role to play in preventing Playstation from gaining a monopoly on the dedicated console market. Monopolies tend to be bad for consumers. Plus, I personally tend to prefer Xbox to Playstation in terms of a secondary console to my Nintendo main.

The only companies that have won gens are Sony & Nintendo. Xbox only keeps PlayStation at bay by having equal amounts of third party. Microsoft is playing a very, very odd game right now saying console sales don't matter and yet are playing pricing games with Sony. Their words don't match their actions.



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curl-6 on 10 June 2020
S.T.A.G.E. said:
curl-6 said:

I disagree; I think Xbox has an important role to play in preventing Playstation from gaining a monopoly on the dedicated console market. Monopolies tend to be bad for consumers. Plus, I personally tend to prefer Xbox to Playstation in terms of a secondary console to my Nintendo main.

The only company that has won a gen is Sony & Nintendo. Xbox only keeps playstation at bay by having equal amounts of third party. Microsoft is playing a very, very odd game right now saying console sales dont matter and yet are playing pricing games with Sony. Their words dont match their actions.

Still better than a Sony monopoly in my opinion; competition drives companies to improve their services. MS getting a thrashing this gen has already seen them investing more in first party studios and producing a more games-centric machine this time around. PS3 struggling against the 360 led Sony to produce a more affordable and developer friendly PS4.



Jranation on 11 June 2020

Oof this did not age well



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Link_Nines.XBC on 11 June 2020

The way this thread and especially the OP aged worse than spoiled milk



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Leynos on 11 June 2020
JapaneseGamesLover said:
Yes, they should have gone third party since GameCube, it is so strange to me why they don’t do it.

This has to be a joke post.



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tack50 on 12 June 2020

Lol a couple days in here (though I have been lurking on and off for more than a year now) and I get a thread from 2017 :P

Anyways, the premise of the thread was dumb then and it is dumb now. Now, if the Switch had been an abject failure like the Wii U, sure this could be discussed but it has been the exact opposite