***You speak as if MS is the only Platform out there. There’s also Sony, there’s checks and balances MS moving away from ownership would kill what little they have left already.***
I spoke about Microsoft’s plan to undermine Sony. Literally brought it up in my first comment to you above. Please, read all my stuff, not just part of it.
***Especially knowing Sony will do pro consumer moves (like owner ship) MS can’t be that dumb to have 0 ownership across everything and subscriptions only games. ***
Unchecked, Sony would do the exact same thing. Let’s not be ignorant here. Everybody needs to compete in the same market, not try and create new markets by undermining the market that exists, leveraging your massive market in cloud services, and throwing money at the situation to get people to move towards the Netflix of games and the new market of video games rather than the hardware market.
And, the big block Microsoft has isn’t even Sony, it’s Valve. Valve will be the holdout for their goals. Sony will eventually either lose enough market share to not be able to produce hardware, because they are a small company by far compared to Microsoft and gamers go where it’s ‘cheap and affordable’ because they’re dumb and are easily led astray by companies selling worse products, or they’ll cave in and will allow Microsoft’s content and continue to be fighting on hardware but lose out on profits from Microsoft games (and likely as well as companies like Epic or whomever else forces Sony to do what they want).
In the end, this is all profit seeking companies fighting each other, but right now, the lesser of all these evils is the system we have now. The one where publishers rely on hardware but don’t dictate it and where hardware manufacturers are actually competing instead of letting one monopolize entirely and decide what is best for consumers.
