Apparently some lawsuits have started on Sony’s potential price-fixing of all games on their platform since they’re now the only retailer. Before anyone gets excited, these are probably going nowhere, but it’s neat that something is happening. The idea seems similar to the Epic vs Apple/Google lawsuits.

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I can’t help what you infer from what I said, but I didn’t say runaway. I said it’s been ceding ground over decades, which it has. For another thing that’s not captured in that broad graph, something like half of all playtime on consoles is only a few of the biggest live service games, which does skew things like dollars earned for those platforms while not reflecting the situation for the likes of companies that are putting out new video games every couple of years. No surprise that subscriptions haven’t affected playing Fortnite on PS5, because free to play games don’t require that subscription fee like Elden Ring does.

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      1 hour ago

      Again…

      From 2006 to 2026:

      • Console market share dropped 24%
      • PC market share dropped 22%

      PC isn’t “cannibalizing” shit… They are both losing to Mobile.

      You can’t just ignore data that doesn’t agree with your argument…

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        1 hour ago

        You put “cannibalize” in quotes as though I said it. I did not. Please don’t invent an argument that I didn’t make.

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          1 hour ago

          …the console market has ceded market share to PC over the past few decades…

          That statement is untrue; both have lost market share to mobile.