Sony Signals Single-Player Only The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC Requires a PSN Account 3 Months Ahead of Launch

[u/AliTVBG]

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-signals-single-player-only-the-last-of-us-part-2-remastered-on-pc-requires-a-psn-account-3-months-ahead-of-launch

[u/RadBrad4333]

No Xbox gives you short term convenience in exchange for market control and eventual price raises. Industry disruption is not a new concept. They’re gambling on offering a convenient, affordable, and competitive product at a loss until they have a market control at which point they’ll raise prices. This happened with netflix, this happens with spotify, and it will definitely happen with Gamebox Gamepass.

This whole “choice” narrative is marketing bs especially when you look at Xbox’s intentions in the past 10 years. They do not want physical games. You cannot own a physical edition of Halo Infinite, you couldn’t play Minecraft or any xbox game while xbox live was down multiple times last year.

[u/Lootthatbody → u/RadBrad4333]

lol you just explained capitalism. Why don’t think SONY raised game prices to $70? They could have kept them at 60, but they had market dominance. All companies suffer from greed, it’s just a matter of which ones punish customers less. Sony locks everything behind their $600-$800 console paywall or a 2+ year wait WITH account creation on PC (which locks out over 100 countries and territories).

Yea lol, ‘choice’ is marketing bs. What an absolutely insane take. Of course, my choices to play a dozen different ways is just a marketing gimmick lol. All those people who are excited to play Indiana jones on ps5 in a couple months is nothing, all the pc players that got to play Hellblade, and Indiana jones, and every other Xbox day one title is just an illusion. Tell me you have zero idea of how business works without telling me you have zero idea of how business works.

[u/RadBrad4333 → u/Lootthatbody]

You’re missing the point between a practice that allows for games to be made and a race to the bottom for short term game

[u/Lootthatbody → u/RadBrad4333]

No lol, I’m not missing the point because there is no point. You don’t get to say the sky is red and then accuse everyone of ‘missing the point’ when they correct you.

Choice is a major driver in any industry. There have been studies for decades that prove choice is integral to customer satisfaction, and an indicator or a healthy marketplace. All these people that complained about Xbox buying up studios and offering gamepass, cloud, pc day one, gamepass day one, and multiplat games, and you are here saying customers having choice is a bad thing? But at the same time, the very next comment, you described what EVERY business does as a part of normal operations.

You have zero idea what you are saying and what it means lol. You are just trying to sound informed and smart by using these sort of nonsense jargon terms you heard somewhere on a podcast. I would be happy to acknowledge any ‘point’ you make, if and when you are able to coherently make one.