• Brokkr@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You summed it up pretty well. Consoles are basically dead at this point. Sony is hurting too.

    Both companies badly mismanaged this last generation and there’s a significant sentiment that the value of the consoles wasn’t justified. Why would consumers want to buy another one?

    Sony should have done the subscription model in the last generation. They would have buried Xbox.

    Xbox has a chance now if they become a competitor to the steam machine, but the price will have to be much better than that system. If it isn’t free, then it will need to offer steam as a marketplace.

    The only way either system could survive any other way is if they went handheld like steam deck or switch, but that might be even harder.