That was only ever the PS3, and they course-corrected. Meanwhile my household still needed to buy two Xbox 360s because of the red ring, so it’s not like MS was winning or anything.

He’s not correct. Condoms have had exclusives since at least *Atari 2600*. Sony uses and often abuses exclusives (meaning third party excited), but by no means did they invent the practice. They weren't even *interested* in game consoles when exclusive games were born. 

The CEO is not correct, at least in the sense that this is not a thing that Sony started. This has literally been how the industry has worked for decades.

PS3 outsold Xbox 360 btw. Sony is SO dominant that since X360 came within 90% of PS3 sales, sonybots insist Playstation was somehow the underdog, when they have not once lost a console gen to Xbox Game Studios. 

Eh, I don’t know if it’s grooming, but...

Be quiet, Microsoft. Everything you’re accusing Sony of doing (paying studios for console exclusivity, keeping DLC exclusive to one platform over others, etc), you have also done in the past.

“The dominant player there [Sony] has defined market competition using exclusives, so that’s the world we live in. I have no love for that world.”

Feel that.

To be fair, there are barely any couch co-op games for consoles these days either. Much to my dismay. 

Tech execs famously don’t use their own products.

I’ve always found it weird that people are attracted to Jack—not physically, I get that, obviously—but more that everything about her is ‘this is every ex with damaging mental health issues compressed into one utterly fucked-up person, stay the hell away’ energy roiling off her.

This is the person for whom your entire…

It doesn’t look like the sub is shutting down, it seems Mojang is just pulling out of using it as an official channel for updates and feedback. From what I can see, the sub will still continue to run.

Firstly, I’d like to say that developers are allowed to modify their games however they see fit! However, I’d also like to make a certain point clear:

the russian announcer would have been voiced by mike z right? like that was the whole point of it. he’s gone, so that was no longer on the table.

mike z also made a very racially insensitive joke (literally about george floyd) that caused the devs a lot of negative attention. so that kind of contextualizes their…

Name a more iconic temper tantrum than Gamers™ getting upset over the removal of loli panty shots and Nazi iconography.

No one’s repainting the Mona Lisa here. It’s a video game, and the very minor edits in question had nothing whatever to the story (to the extent that fighting games have story). This is fine and good.

“DLSS is massively superior to FSR 2, so I don’t understand why Microsoft / Bethesda would sign a deal that will lock DLSS out of Starfield,” The Verge’s Tom Warren tweeted. “These deals are simply anti consumer and won’t help AMD sell GPUs. Build a better product instead.”

For what it’s worth, Microsoft has a history of monopolist behaviour including one of the largest antitrust judgements ever against them. So having a different standard for Microsoft is actually reasonable, especially since they’ve been showing signs of going back to their old habits that got them into so much trouble…

Says the person who is clearly an Xbox fanboy.

Your right, but people seem to also be equating buying some dev studios to buying the 2 biggest publishers not just game dev studios. Zenimax and Activision publish a huge amount of games.