Plus: PlayStation division’s headcount went up for the first time since 2023
  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    I sell honey at a local garden market. My sales went up 460% once I started labelling it “A.I. Honey”. /s

  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I have immensely enjoyed a handful of the Sony PC releases, like Horizon and Spider-man titles, even bought some of them at full price. But locking them away from me behind a playstation hardware requirement just means you don’t get any money from me Sony

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    I wish i could not buy, again, the Playstation and Nintendo consoles that i don’t own.

        • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Steam’s records show that an overwhelming majority of playing time is going to older games. The market may not be large enough for Sony to care.

          • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            If the new games were any good, people would play new games. Enshittification + survivorship bias = people play old games.

            There’s good news though. Sony has PLENTY of old good games that aren’t on steam. They could just release them. Making a PC port of a great game is much easier and cheaper than making a great game

    • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      02·
      10 days ago

      Only the children that can’t separate the fascinating technology from the techbros feel that way. The adults and people who understand nuance can clearly draw the line between what’s harmful to society and a new interesting technology with many applications.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Looks like it is time to build a platform for the people. A commoners console if you will. It is clear we have to move beyond these corporations for gaming now. They bought up all the studious and now they are killing them all so they can deliver us AI slop instead.

      • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        It could be as simple as that. But I was thinking a nonprofit with standardized hardware and a team to integrate it with Linux properly. All the games can be open source and community supported.

        We could call it the Playtendobox.

          • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            10 days ago

            You mean Steam… the monopolistic company that is using price fixing on the entire PC game industry?

            Not exactly what I was thinking to be honest. It is certainly standard hardware on Linux that is supported by a community though, so it isn’t all bad.

            • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              10 days ago

              monopolistic

              Something being popular because it works better than all its competitors is not a monopoly.

              using price fixing

              Accused of using price fixing, it’s an ongoing legal process.

              If you’re going to criticize Valve do it by going after the incontrovertible stuff like benefiting massively from loot boxes (gambling, skimming off the secondary market) or providing “community tools” with very little support for moderation or protection from malicious reviews. There’s plenty to criticize.

              • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                10 days ago

                Listen, they meet the market definition of a monopoly with 75%. That is higher than Microsoft, another well known monopoly.

                I really don’t care what the courts say. There are numerous testimonials proving without a doubt they have engaged in price fixing. Specifically, they request that any game that is listed on Steam cannot be listed somewhere else for a lower regular price.

                This is classic monopoly behavior and your feelings really don’t matter.

                Thanks for bringing up their other unbelievably shitty practices though. Did you know they used to not offer refunds? Yeah, a court smacked them down which lead to their stellar return policy.

                Stop pretending they are anything but a corporation.

                • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  10 days ago

                  Specifically, they request that any game that is listed on Steam cannot be listed somewhere else for a lower regular price.

                  Officially this only applies to Steam Keys. Unofficial there are a couple of allegations that they’ve done this in other contexts. This is not “numerous testimonials proving” nor is it reflective of actual policy. Part of the legal process is determining if the allegations are factual and if they represent actual policy or if they’re the actions of individual managers misunderstanding or overstepping policy.

                  If the allegations are true, yes it’s monopolistic behavior. In the meantime you’re free to use Epic, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, GOG, itch.io, whatever Microsoft is calling their store these days, Humble, or wherever else people publish their games.

                  Valve makes it easy to buy and sell, simple to update, and has integrated social features like a friends list and messaging that simply work. They keep margins low by having a small number of employees. They don’t need to engage in anti-competitive price bullying to be embarrassingly profitable. Maybe they are anyway. I’m not going to use a worse store for no gain while I wait for those lawsuits to finish. (I do like to buy through GOG or itch.io when it’s an option because I’d rather have the software unreliant on a third-party or internet-connected launcher)