Sony is just as bad. Sony use the same tactics to vendor lock its users.
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bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months agoGamepass 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
DaseinPickle@leminal.space 6 months ago
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months 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
pycorax@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
GeForce Now requires you to own the game already. Completely different ballgame.
pycorax@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Ah gotcha