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Sony Is Not Anti-Consumer for Making PS5 Exclusives - Push Square
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Schrodinger's Consumer:
Where it is anti-consumer to both not make games that take advantage of the full extent of a new product in order to support the old product, but also to make games that exclusively target the new product and not the old product.
Where it is anti-consumer to both not make games that take advantage of the full extent of a new product in order to support the old product, but also to make games that exclusively target the new product and not the old product.
people have completely ruined the term "anti-consumer", to the point where it has absolutely no meaning anymore.
someone doesn't like something that a company is doing? boom, label it anti-consumer.
you, as a consumer, have some rights. is something a company is doing against those rights or violating them? then it's anti-consumer. otherwise you don't get to call something as trivial as not being able to play a new game on a console you already own (which is in no way a right that you should feel entitled to as a consumer) anti-consumer.
same goes for like 80% of stuff people here call anti-consumer here on era. a company isn't willing to put their games on all consoles? that's not anti-consumer. a company isn't willing to devalue their games by dropping their prices? that's not anti-consumer. etcetera etcetera
just cuz you feel something would be good for you as a consumer doesn't mean it's anti-consumer when you don't get it. you are not entitled to all the possible good things.
someone doesn't like something that a company is doing? boom, label it anti-consumer.
you, as a consumer, have some rights. is something a company is doing against those rights or violating them? then it's anti-consumer. otherwise you don't get to call something as trivial as not being able to play a new game on a console you already own (which is in no way a right that you should feel entitled to as a consumer) anti-consumer.
same goes for like 80% of stuff people here call anti-consumer here on era. a company isn't willing to put their games on all consoles? that's not anti-consumer. a company isn't willing to devalue their games by dropping their prices? that's not anti-consumer. etcetera etcetera
just cuz you feel something would be good for you as a consumer doesn't mean it's anti-consumer when you don't get it. you are not entitled to all the possible good things.
People are putting way too much stock into this
It's cool the PS5 will have PS5 exclusives, but people seem to forget early console exclusives tend to suck
PS4 had what, Knack, Infamous, Killzone?
Were any of the early PS3 Sony exclusives great?
XB1 had Ryse, so another classic there
I could be wrong but unless Sony can buck a decade long trend I'm pretty sure the PS5 exclusives from the first year will be among the weakest of the systems exclusives
Even Nintendo haven't started off with a 10/10 exclusive since what, Mario 64?. The Wii launched with a GCN game and the Switch with a Wii U game, so cross gen
I can see why people are disappointed the new Xbox won't have early exclusives, but history would indicate that's not going to be a massive loss, all things considered
It's cool the PS5 will have PS5 exclusives, but people seem to forget early console exclusives tend to suck
PS4 had what, Knack, Infamous, Killzone?
Were any of the early PS3 Sony exclusives great?
XB1 had Ryse, so another classic there
I could be wrong but unless Sony can buck a decade long trend I'm pretty sure the PS5 exclusives from the first year will be among the weakest of the systems exclusives
Even Nintendo haven't started off with a 10/10 exclusive since what, Mario 64?. The Wii launched with a GCN game and the Switch with a Wii U game, so cross gen
I can see why people are disappointed the new Xbox won't have early exclusives, but history would indicate that's not going to be a massive loss, all things considered
I just love these articels purely based on "No shit sherlock" and some random dickheads on the internet.
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He already made one about the word "consumer" and that he prefers to say "customer" instead.
Anti-customer?
This is a very Era thing in recent months. It is starting to be thrown out any time someone finds that a company has done a thing that isn't completely centred around their own personal wants.
Does Nintendo suffer the same treatment because of Mario and Zelda, to name but two of their exclusives?
With this reasoning the risk is seeing publishers hidden behind situations like Street Fighter V.
Not good.
Goes without saying.
This was just a console war fodder narrative anyway...
It looks like they're just making up an article and trying to get some clicks.
Yup.
I believe there are some that have given them shit for it yeah.
Someone read the stupid Era hot takes.
Next gen exclusives being anti-consumer is by far one of the dumbest things i read in a while.
Next gen exclusives being anti-consumer is by far one of the dumbest things i read in a while.
Yeah those are good, fair enough, but they also didn't launch with the system, they came 6 months later
With the last 2 consoles from Sony and MS, I don't think any of the exclusives from launch to a year after launch would be considered in the systems top games
the source isn't exactly well known for insightful articles.
i do agree tho that it's not ant-consumer. but that's like, obvious.
That thread was very thinly veiled console warring, it was complete nonsense
Bizarre.
So then, what is the purpose of a console if exclusive games are off the table? Without exclusive games there is no point in Playstation and XBox as individual platforms.
Why would you even feed such an idiotic thought with an article.
I have seen a lot of garbage articles in general coming from Push Square and in more frequency lately. Dual GPU's and every silly reddit/pastebin rumor like Rockstar being bought by Sony... full on console warrior mode with no filter.
I have seen a lot of garbage articles in general coming from Push Square and in more frequency lately. Dual GPU's and every silly reddit/pastebin rumor like Rockstar being bought by Sony... full on console warrior mode with no filter.
I can see Microsoft's position as pro-consumer, but that doesn't make Sony's position anti-consumer.
I would never get that argument but I don't care like most people do. If I want to play something I'll buy the console except for Xbox. I'll just will never play it.
I mean sure, it's not pro-consumer but a lot of things aren't. Charging for a online gaming isn't 'pro-consumer' for example, and while people are okay not to like it, it's a completely fair thing to do.
While I don't agree with it it personally, money-hatting games is also fair, as companies do not owe customers on competing services and platforms anything.
As a consumer you have your rights, both by law and ethically. When companies actively infringe your rights as a consumer, that is where their actions become anti-consumer.
This whole thing got started because Xbox Series X launch games will also be playable on Xbox One. They're still console-exclusive to Xbox but people are worried about the games being "held back" by the previous gen machine.
Why do such sites (or fans, for that matter) feel the need to defend such a decision? Locking a product to a single product is definitely not pro-consumer. It's the reality of how software often works (a lot of things only run on Windows for example), but it's not a net positive for any gamer, so why the hell are people defending it? Best you can realistically be is "meh, I don't care", but actually being happy about it is the weirdest flex. "Hooray, my shiny new hardware can play this game and the people who bought a different system or updated years ago can't HAHA". I'll never understand this at all.
Your last paragraph is exactly why push square doesn't mind writing these articles. It's entirely possible for people to be ok with this timeframe....and not anything longer. It's ok to have nuance.
First post nails it as usual.
I want sony to bring it for launch, we will have a clear example of what an exclusive focused only game looks like compared to a cross gen one.