Machiavellian said:
Neodegenerate said:
So because I don't get 1% of it for me it no longer qualifies as content? Sounds like someone is cherrypicking how content is defined to fit their narrative in this conversation. If I can't access the product, I also can't access the content of that product. They are hand in hand, not separate.
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So let me get this straight from the bolded part. In your opinion when someone says content, you immdediate think of the Product. So when someone says ingame items, DLC, skins, etc. You have no way to decern the difference between the game and the items in the game. This is pretty much what you are saying. So to take that further, with all the exclusives Sony has paid for with either 1st, 2nd or 3rd party, if you were an Xbox or Nintendo gamer, Sony would be denying you as a gamer those games because you are denied the content within them. Do you see how silly this is making your statement.
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I do discern the difference. I am not the one identifying things as black and white as product != content.
As someone who buys console A I understand that I am not getting the content that is exclusively available from console B when console B's first party studio creates it. Therefore I can make the choice to also buy console B. And also console C.
Also as someone who buys console A I know that I might not get all the content that someone who buys console C gets because console C decided to buy timed, or outright, exclusivity.
However, as the head of console A - the one who normalized the practice of timed exclusivity last gen - it is hypocritical to take potshots at console B for continuing the practice you started. Especially when the only reason those potshots are taken is because you are no longer the one in the drivers seat.
Also, as a consumer of said content on a whole (video games, not just console specific pieces) it is hypocritical to say its ok to keep 100% of content (or to use your term the "product") away from people for X amount of time but not ok to keep 3% of content (from that same differentiated "product") away for X amount of time.
Might be a matter of perspective, but its not my statement that looks silly to me at all. Quite the opposite actually.