Why do you care that I care?
“What console warriors think they should do to feed their delirious rambling on the internet is irrelevant to how they communicate to investors, which is what this is.”
I am not communicating with investors. What this is, is the comment section of N4G.
And I stand by my point that Microsoft does their reporting in a way that makes it difficult to judge the performance of Xbox it doesn’t matter how long they have been doing it. I have made my case by citing examples of how other gaming companies report their gaming business, and I feel confident that I have shown a contradiction between the two.
And I am actually not a console warrior, I think Microsoft is harming the gaming industry and the money they have from their business outside of gaming is allowing them to have an unfair and anti-consumer advantage. They certainly weren’t buying ABK on Xbox profits…
What I don’t want is for gaming to end up like PC where Microsoft basically has a strangle hold on everything with a 90% stake in PC OS. Meaning that there is virtually zero competition, and even when Linux/Vulcan/OpenGL for example have for years performed better across a variety of computing tasks including gaming they can never achieve any kind of meaningful industry success. And therefore, as consumers the only option we have is to take what Microsoft gives us no matter how buggy or how badly it performs and allows them to be able force things onto people (like privacy issues) they wouldn’t otherwise accept if they had a viable alternative.
It’s not about liking PlayStation it’s about supporting PlayStation because they are the basically the only thing in the way of Microsoft steamrolling the industry and being able to force whatever they want on the industry. Like what they wanted to do with the Xbone and Kinect, the only reason that failed was because consumers had another option which was PlayStation.
It’s not Microsoft keeping PlayStation in check, its PlayStation keeping Microsoft in check.
And ya know what’s way more rare than a “console warrior” in 2025… It’s gaming journalist’s that are willing to criticize Microsoft.
