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PlayStations revenue is about 50% more than Xbox’s.
Minecraft, Bethesda, and Activision Blizard are not part of Xbox. They are separate publishing arms within Microsoft. How is that so hard to understand? How can one not grasp such a simple thing?
I just hate this whole “only stupid people who don’t know about tech buy iPhones” rhetoric.
But that’s the audience Apple primarily attracts. I work in office IT, so it involves people doing stuff with smartphones and the amount of people not knowing basic shit how to use smartphones is staggering among iPhone users.
Me: “So here’s your VoIP app…” *user already disables microphone permission in the middle of me starting the introduction* “You need the microphone for the other party to hear you.”
Customer: “No, I don’t want to allow microphone access because of spying apps.”
Me: “Well, you wanted to use a VoIP app and without that permission, you cannot make a call.”
Customer: “You cannot expect me to know such things! I’m just a regular user!”
Samsung and Google have caught up in prices. I guess only Google is a tiny bit cheaper, Samsung is definitely right up there with Apple.
Only when you’re not able to pick a different model.
It’s not actually using user data AFAIK, so there are no privacy implications in this specific instance IMO.
Funny how Apple and their users keep repeating this but when one sets up an Apple device for the first time, the wizard asks so many “Can Apple use your data?” questions. There would be no need if Apple did nothing.
Something organic will replace it.
Unless there is beef among developers and they fork their own CoMaps with blackjack and hookers
I think you can run DOOM on it
Running Doom on a Linux device with Wayland is not really that much effort once you have a way to execute 3rd party binaries.
Sony easily beat them lol.
PlayStation consoles beat Xbox consoles but that’s not the whole gaming market. Microsoft and their subsidiaries publish games for PlayStation, Nintendo, iPhones, Windows,… This is really not hard to understand.
Did you even look up the numbers?
Yep, revenue numbers from when ABK was still independent, user numbers of the various Minecraft editions, etc. All public information easily to find for any person with basic media competency.
Articles like https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-was-the-no-1-games-publisher-in-the-world-last-month/ are really easy to find.
A big problem is that we’ve gotten so used to streaming services delivering visual slop, like YouTube’s 1080p option which is basically just upscaled 720p and can even look as bad as 480p.
YouTube is locking the good bitrates behind the premium paywall and even as a premium users you don’t get to select a high bitrate when the source video was low res.
That’s why videos should be upscaled before upload to force YouTube into offering high bitrate options at all. A good upscaler produces better results than simply stretching low-res videos.
.ml user who doesn’t read past the headline. Name a more iconic duo.
I think her dad was a trial attorney.
Yeah, defended some minor sportsman. It’s not like the family name only got famous through the blood of innocent victims or anything like that. The Kardashians were picked up by MTV back then only by pure happenstance.
You’re confusing the word “dominant”. They’ve never been even remotely close to being dominant in gaming.
Look up the revenue numbers. Nobody else comes close. Minecraft alone with its different editions is massive.
Unless you literally turn this feature on, then open the Xbox game bar and go to the widget and select to use it - it’s not just some “always on” thing, you have to open it to use it - then it doesn’t do anything.
“You can disable the Gaming Copilot widget from the game bar, however from experimentation so far the network traffic is still running with the user interface not open — I don’t know if this is a feature or a bug.”
If only Microsoft ever had that position. They’ve been distant third since the Switch 1 came out, distant second from day 1 of the PS4.
Wrong. You confuse the Xbox console with Microsoft’s overall position as game publisher which includes all of Activision-Blizzard-King, Bethesda, Minecraft, Halo, Forza,… across multiple platforms.
the vast majority of people will be OK with this
I don’t think the vast majority of Windows users are even aware of the Xbox Game Bar to begin with, let alone all the features there.
The rounded corners are cosmetic. Using the 3-dots menu you cannot put a video into more than playlist at once any longer. The checkboxes are gone and clicking the new bookmark icon next to a playlist closes the window.
I use it all the time to categorize music.
Imagine Microsoft’s top management was competent and leveraged their PC operating system monopoly with their dominant gaming position (ABK + Minecraft alone are massive, not even counting Bethesda and the older 1st studios).
The G isn’t silent but there is definitively no vowel between G and N.
So baffling so many of you cannot pronounce Gn with a non-silent G (or Kn with a non-silent K). Both Gnome and GNU are pronounced almost like the equivalent German words:
We also don’t know if McLaren did anything to RBR leading up to this.
Considering that apparently RB have been doing this since quite some time and McLaren reacted with stronger adhesive, I’m sure there is all kinds of shenanigans from everybody we don’t even hear about.
A monetary fine doesn’t seem fitting for an attempt to sabotage a competitor’s race/race start.
You didn’t read the article. It outright says that McLaren has placed the marker on an unregulated area which means that other fiddling with it is also unregulated.
The fine wasn’t for fiddling with the marker, it was for attempting it after the gate closed.
Everybody does everything to direct competitors that’s not outright prohibited. See also when Mercedes and Red Bull put a mechanic in the pit box, so that the competitor’s cars have to drive around him and not cross the markings. I’ve read that Mercedes started that but I didn’t verify myself.
It began when they named their shitty island Great Britain.
Not all of them.
Scottish football fans are usually very fun in Germany, united in hate for the English.
Activision-Blizzard is not part of Xbox. Both are separate branches under Microsoft Gaming.
I also thought it was clear that by “dominant position in game publishing” I didn’t mean the revenue taken solely from the 30% platform tax and not from hardware sales but from the combined sales of their games. It was my mistake to not clarify this. Sony releases only a handful of games per year. I also referenced user numbers of Minecraft, a cheap game with a massive user base but it would be madness to include the revenue of the Minecraft movie into a comment about the standing in game publishing.
I thought I made myself clear that my comment was about using all those games properties and Windows monopoly to further hurt the market. Making Minecraft exclusive to Windows and Xbox would be such a move.