Microsoft: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed - Gameranx
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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.
    • Contend6248@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      It’s such a weird take, i don’t remember any platform CoD had impact.

      PC was big before, Nintendo is doing their own thing, smartphones were big before and Sony / Microsoft had both CoD anyway

  • Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This was just more MS propaganda so they could buy Activision and consolidate. Further harming gaming competition. It shouldn’t be taken as anything but twisted truth for a profit.

    • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’m conflicted. On one hand, monopoly is absolutely bad.

      On the other hand, Kotick is an abusive, greedy asswipe who is directly responsible for some of the worst trends in AAA gaming; the sooner he gets the boot, the better we all are.

      • Rayspekt@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        My conflict lies more with how Sony fucked up gaming with their exclusive deals for the last decade or so and now Microsoft is pulling the Uno reverse on them, where I as a PC gamer lean more towards Microsoft. That’s the part of this merger I personally like to a degree.

        • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          Two decades. There was the dead years between ~2004 and 2012ish where both MS and Sony played the exclusive game. Then MS realized they could double down and get PC exclusives as well as Xbox, but with PC they don’t have to eat the hardware costs

  • interolivary@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “So, what Valve invested in was WiNE, a protocol […]”. Ah, game journalists; the profession where sniffing glue will actually give you an advantage