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by donatj 48 days ago
I never understood what the heck they were thinking.

I've been an Xbox diehard since the early 2000s but bringing your exclusives to PlayStation just makes me genuinely consider switching to PlayStation.

You are telling me I can now get all the games I want to play on PlayStation, or some of the games I want to play on Xbox? You're really making the case for me to switch.

And the whole "This is an Xbox" marketing strategy, claiming a Firestick streaming Xbox is as good as an Xbox? Firstly it's dumb and no one is buying it. Secondly, if people did believe it, at best you're just canabalizing your market share. You're not going to build any sort of brand loyalty to a dime a dozen streaming platform.

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I switched to Playstation. The Pro hardware has an edge up on Microsoft, and I can get all the games I want to play. Remedy, Kojima, Bungie - all on Sony too, and slicker. Sure, Sony's had huge live service stability problems, but they do better now. Their UI is fine. There are regular sales. There's just no differentiator.