Nah, fandom is a neutral thing. All it means is that you like something.

Ok, but the competition will still exist in the form of: should I buy this game, or this other game? Then the better game will win out. When VHS (post-Beta) were still a thing, we didn’t have to worry about which VCR played which tape. We just rented the movie we most wanted to watch. 

That’s my thought as well. It’s good that there are two console makers directly competing (Nintendo is off very successfully doing their own thing like they always do), but bad that they’re trying to bludgeon their way to superiority via exclusives.

I’m a lifelong console gamer, but I hate consoles. I like Playstation. My longtime gamer friends have XBoxes. I’d love for more games to be cross-platform and crossplay multiplayer. Exclusivity is only good for the console makers.

This.   Making games multiplatform is always a win for gamers.  I don’t personally care to play Starfield, but I know at least a few people who will be ecstatic they can play it on their PS5 if this is true.  I would also support Sony and Nintendo making their exclusives multiplatform.

More players being able to access games the better

Availability is a choice factor. If a game is available on three platforms, I have three choices of where to play said game. If a game is available on only one platform, I only have one choice. This is basic math.

I’m saying, and have said multiple times, that it doesn’t matter if it would or could have been released on multiple platforms.

So in other words, you’re ignoring 20 years of historical precedent because your entire arguments rests on games not being multiplatform by default.

Being able to play games on your platform of choice has the following benefits for consumers:

Third-party exclusivity deals (which are distinct from first-party exclusives) are all about suppressing competition. The contracts specifically require that the games not be released on competing platforms for x amount of time.

That’s assuming that Xbox gets rid of its hardware division entirely. That’s certainly a possibility, though they might keep it around as another way to access Game Pass.

Not sure how you equated “I don’t like Switch hardware” with “the Switch was a colossal failure.” The Switch offers portability, something that sets it apart from its competitors and a feature that’s highly valued by a lot of consumers. It’s just not valuable to me and doesn’t offset the Switch’s weak CPU and GPU or…

As a consumer, I don’t care about platform sales. If you want me to buy into your platform, it needs actual features that set it apart. For example, PC has modding, superior image quality and performance, flexible peripheral support, lower prices, free multiplayer access, extensive backwards compatibility, etc. I…

This is great. Relying on arbitrary exclusivity to sell hardware has always been dumb. People should buy hardware because the hardware itself provides benefits they find appealing, not because buying that hardware is the only way to play specific games.

Loving the big-yikes energy here.

I can see how the concept works. If the issue is about death threats than it shouldn’t matter who is receiving them at all. That’s the point, the posts here are not about sympathy for victims but all about “well you can’t say that about them because why didn’t you feel that about about this?” Aka: Whataboutism.

Dude, fuck off with your whataboutism. You don’t give a shit about anyone other than feeding into whatever culture war you’re currently jerking off to.  No one needs your concern trolling.

The entire thing just breaks my brain, and it’s both infuriating and sad. How do you get so twisted up that your response to “I don’t like something that happened in a video game” is that?

Holy eff, what the fuck people. Don’t do death threats. Don’t harass. Don’t do any of this. These are just people trying to create art for you to enjoy. Didn’t enjoy it? Make a fan fic or commission one. Or heck, complain about it, but don’t do this.