Xbox controversially raised the base price of its mainline games to $80 in an announcement a few weeks ago. Now, it seems to be backtracking. Good, I say.
  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Consoles are a walled garden - the only reason they can do what they do is because of the lack of options for the customer to use their hardware.

    PCs are the only gaming platform (apart from perhaps smartphones) that have an open framework untouchable by publishers or game platforms. You don’t have to publish with Sony and Microsoft, and the majority don’t.

    Unless your console has homebrew, you will always be screwed by the platform holder.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      open framework untouchable by publishers or game platforms

      Splitting hairs here, but Steam is a pseudo monopoly at this point. Sure, one can not publish a game there, but that’s hard. And on multi-store releases, I don’t think publishers are allowed to undercut it on other platforms.

      Which is fine since (even though 30% is not cheap) Steam is behaving and working well…

      For now.

      • lennee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        and steam is going to keep behaving well because they are very aware that they are replaceable if they dont, cant replace sony on my ps5 tho

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Are they?

          They crushed other storefronts pretty good. They have a loyal following.

          Maybe they won’t go full GFWL, but I fear they could enshittify substantially with the critical mass they have now.