r/videogames • u/TheDuckClock • Sep 10 '26

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This is just wild. PlayStation wanted to end their partnership with Hideo Kojima. So Xbox was like: "Your loss."

This year is really starting to feel like an inverse of 2014 when Xbox ruined their public image with some insane Always Online DRM requirements and PlayStation capitalized on that.

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u/theinfernumflame Sep 10 '26

They clearly think they're too big to fail, and it's up to consumers to show them otherwise.

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u/Andromeda-OC Sep 10 '26

Granted, Microsoft and Xbox are almost equally shit at the moment. It’s a real would you rather get slapped in the face or kicked in the nuts type situation. PC is definitely the favored platform but building one has unfortunately ballooned a lot in price.

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u/FinalOdyssey Sep 10 '26

I think saying "almost equally" is really disregarding a lot of the great things about the Xbox ecosystem as opposed to what Sony is doing. Options for digitizing your physical disks so discless/PC systems can play them, free PC versions of games with Play Anywhere, they managed to secure Kojima for the next (at least) ten years, they're moving back into exclusivity as the majority of players were calling for to make their platform more enticing. There's still a lot of unknowns and some of the decisions are questionable but I think it's fair to give credit and not pull them down with this absolute farce that is Sony right now.