lol stop. Just take it on the chin for once. It’s true, and the more you sound like your standing up in defense here the more Realnoize’s point is made.

“In the current content wars, it seems like a good bet that Sony’s back catalog will end up natively playable on PS5 at some point.”

This is super ironic to me. Let me tell ya, I’ve been served, time and time again, the eternal argument AGAINST backward compatibility by Sony fanboys saying that they much prefer Sony invest its money in making new games instead, and that BC was for Xbox losers, that anyone who wants to play old game should just keep…

Sounds like you and I have to fight.

I hope the genre continues to prosper and we see even more indie titles that use the quirky mechanics to great advantage.

Nah...you'll be streaming that shit off the cloud...this is where it's all going.

This. Relegating any potential principled actions regarding massive shifts within any industry to the perview of gutted government entities is how some would argue how we got here. I certainly don’t have answers but deciding it’s fine until dead canaries start chirping just sounds like acquiescence.

I don’t think anyone (serious) was arguing that this was the final infinity stone for Microsoft to snap away the rest of the gaming industry. The issue is that its an anticompetitive move among a flurry of anticompetitive moves in a contracting industry. You don’t need to even have majority market share, you just need…

Yes, they also kinda won those cases in the US. Had they lost, pretty sure they wouldn't have been in a position to launch Xbox in the first place.

The problem is that the 90s proved that antitrust doesn’t really work anymore. They went after Microsoft (ironic) and LOST. While yes, it did make MS less aggressive and likely allowed new gigantic players to crop up like Google and Amazon, doing the same thing today would likely still have the same result: temper the…

This is my prediction as well. Alot of folks are worried about xbox locking exclusives, and we do see the start of that with Starfield, but MS didnt drop 70 bil for some console exclusives. They dropped 70 bil to make their game subscription service the best in the industry. I say start the countdown until game pass…

I’d sign up in a heartbeat if it came to PS5. Even if it were the cloud based version on the Switch.

I dont think the One is why people switched from Microsoft to Sony for COD, i think its because of the Time-Exclusivity deals COD used to have. Started with Microsoft getting DLC’s a month before Sony, eventually shifted to Sony getting that deal (before The One released), which then eventually changed to only 1 week…

Microsoft would sell Game Pass on PlayStation and Switch if they could.  All they want is as many people signed up as possible.

they weren’t completely wrong, they just tried to push too far, too early.

It’s what made the cut.

I feel like if the people in charge at G4 didn’t want that vibe, maybe they shouldn’t have revitalized the G4 brand? So much about G4 was gross and sexist, so it should be no surprise that its fans expected more of the same. Sure, maybe updated a bit, but of course the people most excited about “G4 is back!” are toxic.

Meh, as a Twitch casual user I didn’t know who she was until one of Kotaku’s articles reference her awhile back.

Yeah, I’d love to fucking move on.  But I’ve got two kids under 5 that can’t be vaccinated yet.  I have to think about them.  And yes, it’s going to be endemic, but our hospitals are fucking full.  Right now.  So stop being a selfish asshole, and think about others for a minute.

Faulty logic since the vaccinated can (and sometimes do) also still catch COVID, and on rare occasion die from it. So your whiney little “im not wearing a mask forever” is literally you saying “fuck you if you die, I dont like the EXTREMELY FUCKING MINOR inconvenience of wearing a mask.”