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  1. Sony Ponies: Xbox has no games Microsoft: Buys studios to get exclusive games Sony Ponies: No that isn't fair
    17 points
  2. Also Sony fans: If you have a problem with PS exclusives just buy a PS. Microsoft: A game that isn't on PS. Sony fans: *meltdown*
    15 points
  3. Cant we just say chairman anymore, or is that a sexist slur these days?
    10 points
  4. Funny how quickly it's gone from 'PS5 is the best because exclusives' to 'exclusives bad, Microsoft bad'...
    9 points
  5. I think a chairperson is: A) a person pretending and acting like a chair B) a person whose job is to get paid sitting in a chair all day C) check A) and B).
    9 points
  6. Microsoft elects Satya Nadella as chairperson for board of directors

    You can say whatever you want, if you are so easily triggered I'm just sick of all this woke/politically correctness bs!!
    7 points
  7. Facebook is testing ads inside its Oculus Quest headset

    Any other thing would've been naive to think.
    7 points
  8. Here are the wallpapers included in the leaked Windows 11 build

    Your comment merely serves to remind us that you consistently lie about the OS you are using.
    7 points
  9. Dreary? What do you want? Dancing hippos, and glittery unicorns? The majority of Windows PC users I reckon probably set their own wallpaper anyway.
    7 points
  10. 6 points
  11. I don't see any Sony exclusive studios apologizing for not bringing their games to Xbox.
    6 points
  12. I went to the PS subreddit for some laughs and there were some funny comments like: "All I need is PS5, Bethesda games are overrated" Which reminded me of the fable about "The Fox and the Sour Grapes". Very amusing analogy.
    6 points
  13. For the last how many years Sony/fans have been beating the drum about how their platform is the best, largely in part to exclusives. Sony spends many millions to ensure exclusivity to their platform. And now they want to raise a ruckus because of game exlusivity? Get over it, and yourselves. You helped build the industry and it's practices, so no sense in whining about your poor choices to everyone else.
    5 points
  14. Exclusivity is never fair. It's a system that only screws over the customers. So I agree with your "Sony Ponies" on that. However, the fact that Microsoft also releases everything on PC helps a bit, even though the most ideal solution would be if they could have released Game Pass on Playstation and released the game on all platforms. You are missing the point. Sony buys a studio and makes games exclusive: praise Microsoft does the same: BOO Of course exclusives are bad for everyone but the corporation, but people seriously thought MS would drop 7.5 billion dollars on Zenimax and then not make those games exclusive to Xbox/Windows?
    5 points
  15. Facebook is testing ads inside its Oculus Quest headset

    "We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures" - Ready Player One.
    5 points
  16. Here are the wallpapers included in the leaked Windows 11 build

    Of course you have.
    5 points
  17. Bloomberg via MSN This is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983. There are now 11 Federal holidays.
    4 points
  18. I expected more fixes than that in the 2+ months since 1.2/1.21/1.22 came out, honestly!
    4 points
  19. Microsoft elects Satya Nadella as chairperson for board of directors

    Since you're the first person to be on-topic in this thread, thank you. To answer your actual question, yes, I was thinking along the same lines. Seems like a clear conflict of interest to me.
    4 points
  20. Microsoft elects Satya Nadella as chairperson for board of directors

    You have a typo in the title: chairman, not a chairperson
    4 points
  21. Facebook is testing ads inside its Oculus Quest headset

    Oculus died when it was purchased by Faceboob. Anything that company does, I avoid like the plague!!
    4 points
  22. I appreciate that. No BS, no attempt to provide an upside to Playstation players. Just a simple, "yep it sucks for Playstion gamers, guys. I'm sorry about that."
    4 points
  23. What a shock - but thanks for letting us know.
    4 points
  24. Here are the wallpapers included in the leaked Windows 11 build

    some gorgeous wallpapers I've gotta say
    4 points
  25. Falcon 9: GPS III SV05

    3 points
  26. Frankly, Satya deserves it for all he has done for the company. This is in contrast to another Indian American, Sundar Pichai, who took over Google in a similar time frame (2015) and continues to steer a relatively directionless company running on ad money.
    3 points
  27. Sony isn't going to pay you 5 penny! Never understood when people are loyal to a company, they don't give a dime (they will take your dimes though). In this Sony started this nonsense of exclusives, so i guess I am fine with them getting test of their own medicine. It also seems like people are forgetting that Sony actually tried to make Starfield a PlayStation exclusive before MS grabbed all of Zenimax itself. But it seems that somehow that little tidbit would've been just fine, in some bizarre way.
    3 points
  28. I think thats an easy statement to make if you're not one of the pished off players. If you've been impacted by this decision, you'd probably welcome a little more tact rather than coming across like a-hole. Since when is saying "I apologize" considered being an A-hole? If you think that, then it wouldn't matter what the guy said, you would still say he's an A-hole.
    3 points
  29. Exclusivity is never fair. It's a system that only screws over the customers. So I agree with your "Sony Ponies" on that. However, the fact that Microsoft also releases everything on PC helps a bit, even though the most ideal solution would be if they could have released Game Pass on Playstation and released the game on all platforms. Does it really though? Is your life somehow in shambles if platform A has something platform B doesn't? Why isn't this a issue when it comes to streaming video services and only games? The moaning about exclusives in gaming is BS, like it's somehow a new thing, it's not. Since the start of consoles they've always had a number of exclusives, back then no one moaned about them and they were just called "system sellers" and people moved on with their lives. Besides, like you said, everything is on game pass so it's on your console your pc or streamed to your phone, soon your tv, and soon your last gen Xbox to. And I seem to remember that some people said Xbox's games aren't exclusives because they're also on the PC, how is that narrative changed now? Agreed, I'd love to play games like Horizon Zero Dawn on Xbox, but I can't because Sony chooses to have exclusives too. I'm not going into a meltdown over it. I choose the Xbox platform because it has distinct advantages over PlayStation and I'm a big PC gamer too, which makes the Game Pass Ultimate sub a no-brainer, especially as it includes streaming now too. I'm not going to whine and cry because I can't play some PS games, as much as I might want to.
    3 points
  30. Exclusivity is never fair. It's a system that only screws over the customers. So I agree with your "Sony Ponies" on that. However, the fact that Microsoft also releases everything on PC helps a bit, even though the most ideal solution would be if they could have released Game Pass on Playstation and released the game on all platforms. Does it really though? Is your life somehow in shambles if platform A has something platform B doesn't? Why isn't this a issue when it comes to streaming video services and only games? The moaning about exclusives in gaming is BS, like it's somehow a new thing, it's not. Since the start of consoles they've always had a number of exclusives, back then no one moaned about them and they were just called "system sellers" and people moved on with their lives. Besides, like you said, everything is on game pass so it's on your console your pc or streamed to your phone, soon your tv, and soon your last gen Xbox to. And I seem to remember that some people said Xbox's games aren't exclusives because they're also on the PC, how is that narrative changed now?
    3 points
  31. Sony might be a dominant console but Microsoft can afford to 100% subsidize the Xbox division. Add everyone on Windows 10 to their potential playerbase and Xbox ecosystem overtakes Sony so quickly it isn't even funny
    3 points
  32. You can say whatever you want, if you are so easily triggered
    3 points
  33. Here are the wallpapers included in the leaked Windows 11 build

    We all wish Settings was better... much better.
    3 points
  34. It will be a good thing for India. As a matter of fact, for any nation. 😜 *Sigh* Ok, fine. I get that some people hate Twitter and similar networks for whatever reason. But there are also plenty of people, including those in India, that use it as a legitimate service. My point was, if the Indian government want to try and dictate how Twitter runs their service or wants to hold them personally accountable for what users post, could Twitter not just shut India out to avoid India's threats? I guess they would need to make a decision. Is it worth the legal battles to remain in India, or is it cheaper to cut them out? "We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong" Someone has to call out Twitter. They are a publisher, not a platform
    3 points
  35. Any company that picks and chooses what it allows on its platform should be held liable for what it allows to be published.
    3 points
  36. Microsoft's second event for June 24 is aimed at Windows developers

    I'm really excited about what comes out of the Windows Store remake. I hope they use Winget for the free portion (it would have hundreds of programs people actually use on launch). Not sure how they will handle DRM, from IAP, to paid apps to games (and Gamepass) But at this point I will take ANYTHING over the current Windows Store
    2 points
  37. A fix is coming for Galaxy S21 camera problems, confirms Samsung

    Not entirely related but don't know why phone makers are insist on having a camera bump. Make the whole phone slightly thicker an give everyone a slightly bigger battery or something...
    2 points
  38. Doubt it, It'll sell well, it's not like this is the first ever Bethesda game to be exclusive to the Xbox, people forget the past quick. Besides, console+PC, there's a huge chunk of users ready to buy it. And by 11/11/22 they'll probably let you stream it to the last gen Xbox One along with all the other devices game pass supports.
    2 points
  39. It's that good old double standard and loads of hypocrisy coming out in force.
    2 points
  40. Isn't this kind of a conflict of interests?
    2 points
  41. Microsoft elects Satya Nadella as chairperson for board of directors

    LOL. You seem to have the evolution of language and yet I don't see you writing like Shakespeare. Curious.
    2 points
  42. This article has been written by articleperson
    2 points
  43. Facebook is testing ads inside its Oculus Quest headset

    I was thinking about getting a VR headset. This news makes me doubt getting an Oculus. If I pay for the device and the game I don't want to be receiving ads on top of it.
    2 points
  44. It will be a good thing for India. As a matter of fact, for any nation. 😜 *Sigh* Ok, fine. I get that some people hate Twitter and similar networks for whatever reason. But there are also plenty of people, including those in India, that use it as a legitimate service. My point was, if the Indian government want to try and dictate how Twitter runs their service or wants to hold them personally accountable for what users post, could Twitter not just shut India out to avoid India's threats? I guess they would need to make a decision. Is it worth the legal battles to remain in India, or is it cheaper to cut them out? "We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong" Someone has to call out Twitter. They are a publisher, not a platform But you're missing my point. Regardless of if Twitter's actions, or their decisions about their userbase, is right or wrong, if a country decides that they are going to take legal action against the company there is nothing to stop the company from no longer being a presence there, correct? Just like how Facebook blocked Australia a few months back. Twitter could just say, "ok then. We'll not provide Twitter to India" and see if the population care enough to complain to their government and try to get change to happen. Again, I'm not saying whether this is a good or bad power to have. I'm just pointing out that it is there for them to use. It's interesting. TikTok was more popular in India than Twitter. But it was banned hard and fast. See the result? People moved over to other homegrown platforms. It is TikTok (Byte Dance) who lost the most where they are looking for buyers.
    2 points
  45. Nah. I don’t really want to get into discussions about socialism vs capitalism but any suggestion of giving something to some people for free, while others have to pay for it is always going to be controversial - especially when the people paying are the very same ones being asked to provide the subsidies. If there is cash in the proverbial bank, why not invest it into the country’s communications infrastructure and essentially subsidise the wholesale cost of the service? In essence, subsidise the service providers and legislate to bring the retail cost down across the board.
    2 points
  46. Steam Next Fest has over 700 demos from upcoming indie games to try

    Demo festivals are stupid af
    2 points
  47. R.I.P. OnePlus. They had started to suck with sky high prices and third class quality of buggy updates. My OnePlus 7 after 2 yrs and 2 updates has stopped doing camera autofocus. Same with WoWifi. Works for a bit then stops until I reboot.
    2 points
  48. Twitter, Facebook and Youtube have been publishers for years. They don't apply their rules equally and they pick and choose who they will keep and who they will ban (notice how they banned Trump only when he stopped being useful for clicks)
    2 points
  49. They just renamed Windows 10X to Windows 11
    2 points