PS5’s three best-selling digital games in April 2025 were all Microsoft titles [VGC]

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• t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For anyone wondering:

  The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, Minecraft and Forza Horizon 5

  Look at that complete lack-of-an-Oxford-comma just sitting there, mocking us.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would say it’s completely unnecessary in this example. Or are you worried that someone might think that, “Minecraft and Forza Horizon 5” is a single game…

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    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the capitalization of the game names is also completely unnecessary in this example

      is it fine to disregard writing conventions just because its possible to understand the meaning without them

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve seen those English dramas, too

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Microsofts endgame: Winning the console wars by shaming Sony.

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  • smegger@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I always thought console exclusivity was a wasted opportunity for more sales. Especially when it comes to selling a PC version.

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    • dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Console exclusivity of games is a way to provide an incentive for purchasing your console.

      Imagine you’re a business and you spent millions on the R&D, manufacturing pipelines, shipping logistics, marketing, etc for this cool new console but you’ve got nothing on it by default that people can’t get elsewhere. In this situation, the first console to launch in a given generation would win. If you profit off of the console (you should), any exclusive that converts a user is price of console + price of game gross revenue.

      This helps explain why we’ve had exclusives, but the winds are changing. These game companies which make both games and consoles see the short-term profits from your aforementioned wasted opportunity as more valuable nowadays while largely ignoring the fact that a lack of exclusives will make their consoles less desirable.

      IMO the PC is going to basically cannibalize the console market (everything goes there and goes on sale, emulation included) and PC hardware can be made to last for a very long time despite a higher initial investment. If Valve can get a Console-like experience that’s plug-and-play with a TV, then Sony and Microsoft are in a bit of a bind.

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