PlayStation Reversing Course On Helldivers 2 Is Both Smart And A Sign Of How Inept It Is

PlayStation often makes unforced errors that make you wonder how it gained such a significant foothold across the last few console generations and such a fiercely loyal audience.

Mostly unforced errors from other companies. It's dumb decisions all the way down.

Yeah they both make a bunch of really anti consumer choices constantly, I never got the diehards who go hard for the console. Exclusive games I can at least understand, but is an Xbox really that functionality different from a PlayStation?
I was a Nintendo kid in the 99s, then had a PS2 followed by a 360, I really only got a PS4 cause the opportunity for a deal came up, and I only got a PS5 cause I already had a PS4.
Admittedly that's probably where most of the fan clubbing comes from, generationally upgrading until you're to use to the system to change.
- Playstation won with the PS5 because MS realized PC players have more money and went back to them.
  MS left the game because they found a better game.
- Playstation's exclusives are on the whole, a lot more interesting to me. I honestly have almost no interest in Xbox because of that. It's not the hardware, it's purely the software.
I think the answer is simple (they probably mentioned it in the article I'm not reading). Sony makes good hardware and good games. They don't really need to compete with Nintendo since they kinda do their own thing at this point, and Microsoft is really no better. I also think Playstation is generally regarded as having better exclusives, even during the 360 era where Xbox clearly won.
- Actually in the 360 era, the PS3 ended up selling more by the end.
  So in the public eye people usually consider the 360 winning but by other metrics, the PS3 did.
How do you tell everyone you like baseball without telling them you like baseball.
I feel like we‘re not seeing/talking about the reason the console market is another duopoly. Its a harsh failure on cartel prevention laws imo. New consoles should pop up here and there yet they dont (very small opening for steamseck likes). Its not a healthy market.
At first glance I think the IP laws are the problem here. A new console should be able to run xbox games and/or ps5 games and compete on hardware and ergonomics alone imo. That way the competition would drive prices down and decisions would again be for improving the service, not the bottom line.
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- the reason the console market is another duopoly
  hmm...
  Sony... Microsoft... Nintendo...
  Duopoly...
  I feel like you've made an error even if we're only talking about the major 3.
  Also wonder if you're blind.
  New consoles should pop up here and there yet they dont (very small opening for steamseck likes)
  They do. You just don't hear about them all the time because the main 3 are so present in the discussion. Atari released the VCS (2021) for example. Oculus I would argue should count at this point too. There's many examples we could go on about. But I have a feeling you don't actually care about this discussion since you want to discount the obvious forefront contender of the SteamDeck.
  A new console should be able to run xbox games and/or ps5 games
  This is not at all the problem. You need to compile the game for the platform. That wouldn't be IP laws, that would simply be development... except in the case of console exclusives. Which would still not be IP laws, but instead would be contract law between the developers and the console company. The developers of the game 100% have a right to the source code of their game and to compile it for whatever they want.
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  Can you block yourself on Lemmy? I've never tried.
  Edit: In a move that surprised no-one. They downvoted my post and didn't say anything in return. I guess they have no further argument.

Article gets kinda weird at the end and calls the review bombing harassment. Seems like a 180 from the beginning of the article, unless the writer thinks Sony would have changed its mind with 0 protest action.

It also calls all the customers who don't want to be locked out of the product they paid for 'fickle' and brought up gamergate out of nowhere, so I'm honestly not sure what sort of agenda they're pushing.
- kotaku moment
What a delusional perspective. I wish I could get "harassed" by thousands of fans clearly explaining what they want from my software.
Game reviewer mad when people review a game "wrong"? More likely than you think.
The whole article was poorly written honestly, but yeah, that part really felt off. If the only thing they care about is money, then by nature our only real means of protest is to affect their money.
It's probably them just trying to go for a synonym to describe what happened as they're not usually allowed to repeat themselves.

Attempted in the name of greed, reversed in the name of greed.

Corporations are the answer to "what will make the most amount of money?"

The only thing they learned, for the next week, is that a healthy playerbase is more profitable than an exclusive one.

What's weird about the whole incident is that anyone with even the slightest knowledge of the PC gaming space could have told you that this is exactly what would happen.

The biggest stumble seems to be from releasing without the requirement initially, and making the game available for sale in non-PSN countries.

Other studios like EA and Microsoft have traditionally required their accounts on online games since release; but unless I’m wrong, those accounts are also available in more countries.

As always, probably a decision that came from up high, I assume everyone actually on the floor in Sony know this world be a terrible thing and universally hated and argued as such.

Very smart of arrow head to announce the update to get the public's opinion before the change was implemented.