Microsoft: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed - Gameranx
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.
Literally go fuck yourself Microsoft.
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.
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
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.
No but it would be nice to have.
This fixation on call of duty was a huge misstep by Sony both from a legal/business standpoint and PR standpoint.
Call of Duty is not the issue. The issue is that Microsoft is a 2 trillion dollar company, Sony is a 100 billion dollar company, and Nintendo is a 50 billion dollar company.
The problem isn’t COD, it’s Microsoft’s potential ability to outspend their competitors into irrelevance because they have seemingly endless pockets. They can buy studio after studio in a way their competitors can’t, so they are! And consolidation is almost always bad for media.
Microsoft has the ability to take any good studio away nearly at-will in a way their competitors simply cannot and they have been flexing that muscle slowly but surely for the last 10 years. And I’m not even getting into how many studios they’ve allowed to languish.
People can cry about it but the numbers don't lie, lmao. Go cry some more.
What numbers specifically are you referring to?
100% correct, steam deck haters can cry some more. The numbers don't lie, steam deck is doing great. Completely agree. No lie detected.
