NecessaryWeevil

@NecessaryWeevil@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I mentioned Trump on Reddit’s world news sub, I got shouted down for talking about “irrelevant” US politics. I tried to explain his potential impact on the politics of other countries, but they didn’t want to hear it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass offer cut from a month to 14 days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  However, I have a strong suspicion that video game subscription services will end up following a similar trajectory to TV/movie streaming services at some point… Gamepass doesn’t really have any major competitors, and has been priced very aggressively in order to build market share, and it reminds me a lot of Netflix in its early digital stages.

  Netflix pricing has always had a lot of pressure on it because the company has no product diversity. All Netflix offers is Netflix, so all of its revenue comes from there. Meanwhile, MS has Office as the world’s default productivity suite, and it rakes in billions from corporate Windows licensing and cloud services. As of about a year ago, gaming was actually less than 10% of their annual revenue. So they can support narrow margins on Game Pass pretty much indefinitely. And they are motivated to do so as the heavy underdog to Sony, whose consoles consistently outsell theirs by a ratio of about 2:1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 would arrive in the second half of 2024 and development kits are already out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless I’m missing something here, this website does not provide a link to the original source and adds little to the discussion. They don’t even refer to them by their full name.

  This is the original source: videogameschronicle.com/…/sources-nintendo-switch…

  This is considered to be very scummy behavior not just in games journalism, but in journalism in general. If you can’t do your own coverage, at least have basic respect for the people who can.