Comment on Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
In a perfect world, lawmakers would make antitrust laws that prohibit platform holders from owning games studio. One could only dream.
minfapper@piefed.social 1 week ago
Now I’m actually curious about how things would work in your perfect world.
The current gaming industry in the late stages, so it might be more productive to discuss the mid 2000s.
The vast majority of platform exclusives were made by studios/publishers owned by the platform. Exclusives were in turn a very big part of the value proposition of consoles, causing people to buy them in the first place.
If that had been outlawed by then, who would have produced the iconic games of each platform?
benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Consoles would differ in hardware, ergonomics, style, market segment etc. not their games catalogue.