Microsoft has argued that the Steam Deck did not need Call of Duty to be successful, a claim that is easily proven by the Deck's success.
  • nik282000@lemmy.mlEnglish
    291·
    1 year ago

    Microsoft explains that Call of Duty doesn’t have to be on every console, because it isn’t that important to the video game industry.

    I feel like they should not be the ones making that judgement when deciding if some company is going to be buying up large portions of an industry.

    • johnthedoe@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Cod is like one of the few games non gamers play. People buy consoles just to play it. They either insanely out of touch or they couldn’t think of a better excuse

  • oo1@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    aren’t they just admitting that they do vertical bundling ? assuming its fairly cheap to allow cod on steamdeck.

    so the issue should be “how much does or would that bundling harm call of duty consumers (including marginal non-buyers)” by reducing their choices.

    Steam deck isn’t entering the market of “hardware that cod players can use” so not relevant to that segment of the hardware market.

    what is relevant is the market for FPS software (and play servers?), whether a steamdeck user can buy a reasonable substitute ; how good of a substitute it is determines the level or harm.
    so if most players are near-indifferent to switching to a steamdeck FPS, then the bundling is not very harmful.

    that’s why bundling , say, photoshop with windows would be worse - as lots of ps customers will have a high cost of switching -because they don’t want to be called gimps.

  • izzent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    1 year ago

    People can cry about it but the numbers don’t lie, lmao. Go cry some more.

        • Ferk@kbin.social
          8·
          1 year ago

          Why so defensive?
          I love my deck, got one of the early 512 GB units, but even in the article you linked they are saying that “It is clear Steam Deck remains a niche portion of the PC gaming landscape”. Did you read it?

          Sadly, 3 million is nothing next to the over 129 million from the Switch, for example.

        • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          First of all this didn’t politics. It’s a video game toy. And not sure why my question made you think I’m unable to read sales numbers. I literally asked you what number you’re referring to.

          Anyhow how. 3 million is not impressive. Consoles sell millions a day.

          From your own source:

          “It is clear Steam Deck remains a niche portion of the PC gaming landscape,” commented James McWhirter, Senior Analyst covering Games at Omdia. “However, this is unlikely to deter Valve, which has plans beyond just selling hardware units.”

    • Stephen304@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      100% correct, steam deck haters can cry some more. The numbers don’t lie, steam deck is doing great. Completely agree. No lie detected.