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Comment on Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio

DaseinPickle@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Sure that’s how it is now. As soon as the technology is mature enough, they will slowly begin to make a push for cloud only games. In that way they have total control. They can’t do it now because the technology is not quite there yet, and people is not ready. But you can see where they are heading. All business software such as Office and other cloud services is already there.

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bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Gamepass is clearly not doing well and xcloud has been in beta for years now. I wouldn’t worry too much. Sony also has cloud gaming yet we are talking about the company that’s currently floundering lol

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- pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  There’s also GeForce Now and they seem to be doing okay but at supposed 25 million registered users, that doesn’t seem like that much all things considered. For comparison, I can’t get the number of registered Steam users but they alone have around 30 million concurrent users on a typical day.
  
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  - bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    GeForce Now requires you to own the game already. Completely different ballgame.
    
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    pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Oh I agree with you, I was just adding onto your point to the person you’re replying to. There’s plenty of options in the cloud gaming space but they’re not doing well enough to impact traditional gaming where you run the game on your own hardware which they were worried about.
    
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- DaseinPickle@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Sony is just as bad. Sony use the same tactics to vendor lock its users.
  
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  - bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    No doubt about it. Yet all we ever hear about is Microsoft! The only heat I’ve seen Sony get in in the last five years is charging $70, which everyone ended up doing, and linking accounts for helldivers 2, which was a very isolated thing and got reversed anyway because even they understand when the PR damage is too much.
    
    Everybody focuses on Microsoft/xbox but no one wants to look too closely at Nintendo or Sony. Brand loyalty is a motherfucker. All of these companies are trying to get as much money out of us without giving us anything in return
    
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