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Originally Posted by Julio Riddols
I see it as competition, which is ultimately good for gaming.
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It's an artificial competition though. Sony and MS sell nearly identical products. Their hardware and software essentially do the same things.
The only competition there is comes in the form of "exclusives". A manufactured competition that is anti-consumer and goes against what a console should be. Consoles should be built to support games, not the other way around. You have no backwards compatibility effectively eliminating generations of games. You have a difficult development environment and closed system for distribution limiting who can develop (or mod games).
To put it into perspective, this would be akin to each brand of TV having "exclusives". So Game of Thrones could only play on a Panasonic TV and so forth. TV shows over 5 years old couldn't be watched. Each brand would require a special camera and editing tools to work for them. And the TV manufacturer would have final say on what is and isn't allowed to be seen on their TV.
It's a backwards ass industry that is the antithesis of competition.
And for the record I do own a next gen console. I like playing games with friends who have it and it does double as a device I can use to watch Netflix and HBO.