I just want to see people I follow. My feed is full of random people and accounts I don’t care about, so I won’t use the app.

When I open the app, it’s a wall of influencers and brands posting the most boring things possible. What gets engagement on Instagram (people being hot) doesn’t make for good content on a text-based app (being smart or funny). They really need to change the algorithm to serve up good content, not content from people…

I seriously doubt that’s the case (and I say this as someone who bought a Playstation 5 Ragnarok bundle on a $50 discount from Best Buy a month ago, and have only played it for 40 minutes or however long it took to get to the haptic trigger exercise in Astro’s Playroom before getting distracted by my existing game…

“Hi, rather than compete, we’re going to just buy out our competitors. Then when someone has something worth competing against us with, we’ll just buy them before they can get market share.”

Monopolies *never* benefit consumers. 

This is sarcasm, right? Considering how Sony was acting like this merger going through would spell certain doom for them.

you are comparing the companies as a whole and not explicitly their gaming business. 

They are allowing the largest software company in the world, and the third largest company in the world by market cap, to purchase the largest game software company in the US (non first party).  That is fucking horrible.

I believe they are referring to the video game market.

I’m talking specifically video game market not total company revenue. including total company revenue would make comparisons inaccurate. for example say google opened a single hot dog stand. if you just go by total company revenue google then becomes the biggest hot dog company in the world even though they only own…

Mergers and acquisitions of any kind are a net negative for the regular consumer. Call of Duty is on the way to exclusivity and that means a required Xbox purchase if not this gen, then next gen for 1 million+.

I think this is a terrible deal for the industry overall but saying it’s going to significantly harm Sony in any foreseeable timeframe is pretty silly.

This is a very naive take. This doesn’t put Sony in any kind of trouble. If anything, it’ll provide incentive to compete more on the services side of gaming, which it’s already made strides in with PS Now. I’d argue that they still have a ways to go there when compared to Game Pass and xCloud, but at least they’re…

Nonsense. 

I don’t think Sony is going anywhere. The only losers here are the gamers. 

Sony is still making more money than ActivisionBliz and microsoft combined currently. this deal makes microsoft the 3rd largest in the gaming market. blocking this merger is really just providing Sony an opportunity to solidify a monopoly they have been barreling towards since the xbox one flopped.

Narrowing the focus of the case to Call of Duty, to the exclusion of most other of Activision’s IP was a huge mistake and negatively affected the strength of FTC’s case.

It would be more useful if the horse didn’t have to be nearby for it to even work. I get what they’re going for, and in theory riding the horse is a great way to move around and see everything, but I think the whole stable bullshit is something that should’ve stayed in BOTW. And I don’t think the horse is much fun to…

I can’t think of a single time in Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom where having a dedicated whistle button to call my horse was useful. I would have been totally ok with that being grouped in with the other rune (BotW) or hand (TotK) abilities.

Down arrow to call a horse. There hasn’t been a horse nearby me for the last ~100 hours.

The home builder is severely limiting.