Recent content by iroboto

That's not why you buy into Apple ecosystem. It's not first party software. Apple has no contracts over the software release. Discoverability is the largest determining factor of release and if the App Store doesn't help your application get noticed, no one will buy it. These are apples and...

get to Act 3 and you will

And you haven't named a piece of software that people are dying to use on IOS, and is the sole reason they purchase IOS to use this one app. The vast majority of people purchase Apple because they like the Apple ecosystem! And that's great that you have this figured out for yourself. Equally...

which software is exclusive to iOS ? that drives people to buy iOS just for that application? IOS is the platform.

That's a dated model. You ask any child today that is growing up with their software and services on any hardware platform - they're not as interested in buying into a walled garden device that isn't multi purpose.

They don't have an exclusive strategy. Do exclusives make a platform better?

RDR2 was the best of graphics for last gen. This looks like an appreciable upgrade from RDR2, but it looks in line with other very good looking current generation title to me. 30fps allows for the consoles to push the graphical envelope much further which is providing that extra leap in...

nah, that's too much. There's no brilliance there. MS is no longer willing to take any loss on hardware period. The tariffs are at least 25% more as there are some exemptions, otherwise a pure 245% is pretty much an embargo, so that seems to line up directly with the $100 increase and MS does...

I suspect it won't be too far behind. Unless there is a particular reason they don't release on PC which may factor into their bottom line.

Sony owns the marketing rights for GTA/Rockstar for quite some time now. They're more than willing to pay the top dollar to keep it as they were with COD.

looks good, I've never finished one of their games, but I may give this a try. Then gain, I don't have a console anymore, so maybe I need to wait to 2027/28

They are solving their first problem which is just getting people interested back into the brand itself. Which is the first step in building back consumer interest. They've been largely the 'E3' since 'E3' disappeared, and as of last year, they've definitely been the place to be to launch big...

Big year for Xbox. big releases, shadow drops, etc. There’s going to be a lot more attention on their game show this coming June.

About time. Nice to see FM3 homage

Yes, unfortunately it took them a very long time to get running and that massively impacted their ability to compete here in the traditional space. To be fair, hardware was never really their strong suit. They lacked the channels to compete well outside of North America. It's just not...