The effort to squash unlicensed controllers hurts plenty of paying customers, and might not even achieve its goals

  • coyotino [he/him]
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    142 years ago

    dang i had not heard about this unlicensed controllers thing. I find this move very baffling, given Microsoft’s current position in the gaming market. This is the kind of move you make when you are in first place, because you have market dominance to shield your company from the effects of bad publicity. Yet in spite of two massive acquisitions, Xbox is still the third-place console. And after 3 years of the Xbox SeX and PS5, it’s kind of looking like they’re going to stay in last place unless they start packing their release calendar with A-tier exclusives.

    So if Xbox is still in last place, why are they going out of their way to burn the goodwill they’ve been building up over the last 6 years?

    • Zoidsberg
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      82 years ago

      Remember when xbox was the console? Like, the weird anime kid had a PS3 and everybody else had 360s. How did they lose that much of a lead?