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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  nope, both are anti consumer.

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  • halvo317@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s a fair comparison. I’ve never had a PC that has worked for 7 years without replacing significant parts. I’ve only had 5 PlayStations total since I was 5. I’ve had at least twenty computers during the same time frame.

    There’s investment made by Sony for games on their hardware. If the hardware were bad, developers wouldn’t use it.

    I work for a start up, and I loved getting the opportunity to build a tech platform while not having to build up the business from the ground up. I can’t do human resources, marketing, sales, yaddah yaddah. I don’t have any way of just getting my product into retail. Two years in, and we’re about to land a $125M contact. It’s green energy, so I feel like I’m saving the world.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      frankly I don’t understand your point. Recently both companies have been porting games to PC, but NOT the other console. If Sony can port Spiderman, God of War, etc to PC there’s absolutely no reason they can’t port them to xbox as well, except to force consumers to buy a playstation. That’s why it’s anti-consumer.

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      • halvo317@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not trying to be confrontational. I want to hear your honest takes. Let me put it to you this way:

        • If I make an app for Apple, do I have to make it for Android?
        • What if I’m not an Android developer?
        • What if I won’t make money if I make it for Android because my reach is already saturated?
        • What if I know that my app will be heavily pirated as soon as I make it available for Android and there’s nothing I can do about it?

        To me, the only reason Sony is doing it with their back catalog is to try to generate new users for their upcoming sequels. The game is at the end of its earning lifespan if they don’t port it, so why not use it to market the upcoming titles?

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    • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Assuming you’ve had every PS since the first one, released in 1994, that’d mean you had 20 computers in at most 29 years, meaning they lasted on average just under 1 1/2 years. What the hell are you doing to your computers?

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      • halvo317@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I currently have 8 computers. 3 for work. 2 for media. 2 old gaming rigs, and my current computer.

        • Work laptops last 3 years on average because of how hard backups and CPU usage are.
        • Media computers just wind up getting dusty and only last 5-7 years.
        • I underspent on gaming PCs growing up and my parts were obsolete pretty much constantly until my newest desktop.
        • My last job, I was an on site tech, so construction debris and hazard made that about one a year.
        • I spent on average like $250 per used laptop through engineering school, so that was like a year and a half per laptop.
        • My family had desktops that had their hard drives fail or got pawned.

        I had twelve salvaged hard drives in my stuff before I bought my house, and I started doing that in college, so it’s at least 20.

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• abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Starting first party studios to facilitate unique games being made on your platform is not anti-consumer

  I mean, it kinda is. The end result is the same: a product that can only be used in a closed ecosystem.

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  • halvo317@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s a practical and ethical difference between creating something for a closed ecosystem and taking a product in an open ecosystem and closing it.

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    • abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But they have the same result, so ultimately it has the same rating of consumer friendliness, which is “non”

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      • halvo317@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If Sony doesn’t invest in their own studios, the consumer just doesn’t get the game those studios make. Without PlayStation, gaming would look significant worse over the last 30 years. Most of my favorite games are Sony exclusives.

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