2y ago

Microsoft claims: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed

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Microsoft: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed - Gameranx

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2y ago

Microsoft: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed - Gameranx

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Nobody needs CoD to be Successful.
- 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
  
  Yeah, if anything consoles made CoD big, people willing to pay for fucking online are also willing to pay 60 bucks each year for the same game...
- Nintendo switch says "sup?"
  
  Nintendo has their own IPs to carry them, I don’t think CoD is helping them much, if at all.
  
  Who buys a Switch to play CoD?
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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Kotick is an abusive, greedy asswipe who is directly responsible for some of the worst trends in AAA gaming
  And that's why giving him a payout is good?
  the better we all are.
  I don't think I'm better off when Blizzard games will be exclusive to MS platforms.
  
  And is it confirmed that Kotick will leave after ActiBlizz bought by MS? Usually for big company purchase like this, the key people will be kept and/or integrated to main company
  
  He's reported he wants to leave. Because he'll become an even bigger billionaire. But there's no guarantee that we've seen, is there? He's egotistical enough he may want to stay on.
  MS has lately had a fairly light touch on their acquisitions. They just want their profits to be theirs and to use their IPs to push Xbox sales.
  But even if he leaves, it's unlikely MS is going to radically shift their games to be more consumer friendly. CoD and King already prey on children and make bank doing it. MS isn't throwing that away.
  
  I dunno if he moreso deserves the boot or the sword at this point.
  As in, criminal penalties for basically running a harassment ring, if applicable.
- Yeah this isn't news.
"So, what Valve invested in was WiNE, a protocol […]". Ah, game journalists; the profession where sniffing glue will actually give you an advantage
It’s amazing how so many people are falling into the trap and arguing against or even in favor of Microsoft’s CoD argument.
A single game of whatever size or importance is not the problem. But it’s in Microsoft’s best interest that the discourse keeps being this lacking in nuance and centered in aspects like this.
LMAO as if anyone needs that shit to have measurable success
Why can't the steam deck run COD exactly? Is Microsoft trying to ship it as some alien UWP app
- Malware labeled "anticheat software" that wants obscene access to low level OS information and is a massive security liability.
  
  The driver-level anti-cheat that was used by Genshin Impact and then later on ransomware should always be brought up on the topic of anti-cheat.
- It outsold all expectations and was successful enough that it brought several traditional PC makes (Asus and Lenovo) into the market.
  It's obviously sold less than established consoles, but it's done well for itself. Also even though it's a small percentage of steam users, it seems to represent some of the more active players/spenders on steam. Thanks to that, steam deck players seem to be an actually significant percentage of steam sales for many games despite the lower number of steam deck players.
- Oh yeah it did, they weren't going for mass adoption, but there was a niche market that needed it and they filled it. Preorders took a year to produce. Being successful and profitable didn't use to mean literally every person needed to own one
- less than 2% of steam users bought a deck.
  Well seeing as there are a billion accounts and 120M active users, that's a LOT of decks sold. Numbers online saying 1.2M decks sold which is a lot for a niche PC handheld. There's already copycats.
- While I disagree with your core argument about the success of the Steam Deck, I absolutely agree that I'd love to see a desktop variant of SteamOS become available for general use. To the point that I'd likely even finally make the leap from Windows.
- 2% of a large number is a large number
- Wouldn't that be several million units with the size of Steam's userbase? Of course established consoles are more successful but that doesn't sound like a terrible start, especially for a handheld.
- It's not even available yet in my country and im sold, among a dozen of my friends.
- All my PC gaming friends have one now after that last sale, and I see the internet buzzing about it still.
I am not very familiar with the gaming industry (casual gamer only) but, while the argument is true, the conclusion that the big players can apply monopolistic practices without constraints leaving smaller players unaffected, is simply false.
Z. Zstd.

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