There is evidence of consolidation all around the gaming industry. Look at what’s happened to sports games over the last 15 years. We went from having multiple entries for every sport, lots of competition and really great games. Now each sport generally has one game made by one company and they all suck now.

lol this is the worst take I’ve read yet. If a company like Microsoft dominates the market, they’ll have immense bargaining power with developers, potentially locking out newcomers. Look at Google, a company with enormous resources, which still struggled to make a significant impact with Stadia. Therefore, while it’s…

While Nintendo is undeniably a significant player in the global gaming industry, their impact on the U.S. market may be perceived as somewhat limited when discussing the potential for a Microsoft monopoly. This is primarily due to the fact that Nintendo’s audience tends to skew towards younger players and those…

Indeed, the trajectory seems to indicate that Microsoft, by steadily increasing its market share via strategic acquisitions, will potentially edge out other console competitors. This scenario will essentially leave consumers with a single option - Xbox Cloud GamePass. Similar to how Google has become synonymous with…

Perhaps you’re not fully cognizant of this, but the PC and console markets operate independently of each other. To draw a parallel, when the FTC blocked AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile years ago, the opposition wasn’t because landlines provided market competition. Rather, the issue at stake was AT&T potentially gaining…

While I agree that my take might seem dramatic, it’s not without precedent. Recall the early days of the Xbox One, when Microsoft attempted to enforce an ‘always-online’ DRM policy. Perhaps you weren’t old enough to be gaming back then to remember, but the uproar forced them to backtrack, it was a clear illustration…

Your analogy to Monopoly misses the mark. Yes, the gaming industry isn’t a single, static game board, but the underlying principle of consolidation is very real. The ‘Atari days’ you reference were during a time of industry infancy, where barriers to entry were low. That was a long time ago, a lot has changed since…

Gamers are an instant gratification group. This is a perfect example of celebrating instant gratification with no foresight on what it means 10-20 years down the road.

And for those against it, there’s no way MS would cut off CoD from PS now as it would prove Sony right and potentially block any future acquisitions that MS might want to make.

Can’t wait till 2040 when we have just one console and one company making games for said console.

Yall are delusional. What’s abusive is releasing the texts to public shame him. If she wasn’t cool with his boundaries she could’ve left the relationship a lot earlier, just as I’m sure she would wish if he wasn’t respecting her boundaries as well.

Do you think you were born dumb or did you become that way as you got older? 

lol no?!? My god how have you tricked yourself into thinking it is?

This is stupid and Sarah absolutely in no way was abused unless there are more texts she hasnt shared, because what shes shared is not indicative of any form of abuse. 

The ship has definitely sailed, I cannot imagine a reality where Bluesky is anything but a boutique twitter-like app.

Counter point, the journalist should be smart enough to come to these same conclusions already on their own.

Or maybe youre just dumb

This is just me, but I thought it was pretty boring. 

The engine knows it has seen those patterns in millions of photos

I got a job and could do it. Doesnt seem that hard lol