TimothyOilpants

You could have protected your account info in the first place…

That you think strips of paper, or numbers on a screen have an equivalent value to your time and labor is not Sony’s fault…

“My home builder is totally useless! I left my door unlocked and someone stole all my shit!”

You better keep your promise.

As soon as you said you have employees, your perspective and respect lost all value.

You are not a part of the future of humanity; you are an opponent of it.

BAAAA!

…non-exploiting capitalist.

Did you read that term in a fairytale? 😂

Is your business structured as a worker cooperative or are you the owner?

If you take home a single penny more than the other people in your company, you are an exploitative capitalist and a labor thief. Take your market fundamentalist virtue signaling somewhere else…

Your “gotcha” reply just killed any credibility you might have argued on this topic. You are no better than the companies you’re criticizing, you’re just less successful at it.

I don’t need to advertise my contributions to strangers on the internet, and rationalize my behavior to satisfy a guilty conscience… The people in my community know what value I add.

Do better.

Because >20,000 children have died in Gaza since 2023 as a direct result of the same exploitative capitalism, and selective outrage over video games seems ignorant, performative, and wasteful of my energy…

Because every moment spent advocating for the “rights” of 1st world consumers is an affront to millions of lives lost so you have the comfort and privilege required to care about something so fucking stupid and selfish…

The only thing I am challenging is your claim that console has ceded market share to PC.

“Market share” has a defined meaning. Revenue for console and PC have both increased, one more than the other, but neither have gained any market share.

Maybe you just used the wrong metric to illustrate your point?

And see what, that no one has physical media and no one cares?

Selective outrage; got it. 👍🏻

PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo users can’t do that. They are forced to pay hefty prices for their games and then still get locked out of their games.

Based on the instance you’re on, you should know this statement is completely untrue…

…the console market has ceded market share to PC over the past few decades…

That statement is untrue; both have lost market share to mobile.

Again…

From 2006 to 2026:

• Console market share dropped 24%
• PC market share dropped 22%

PC isn’t “cannibalizing” shit… They are both losing to Mobile.

You can’t just ignore data that doesn’t agree with your argument…

It’s very clear that PC and Console have remained relatively flat and comparable, while Mobile eats BOTH their lunch. PC has not experienced the runaway capture your intentionally vague wording implies it has…

From 2006 to 2026:

• Console market share dropped 24%
• PC market share dropped 22%

…Nespresso, SodaStream, Swiffer, HP, Gillette, Glade, Brita, Oral-B, Cricut, GE, Keurig, iRobot, Dyson, Shark, Breville, Weber, Traeger, Pentair, Ring, and Tovala enter the chat…

The actual data does not support your conclusion.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/11/gaming-games-consels-xbox-play-station-fun/

There are an estimated 3,600,000,000 active video game players worldwide…

Why does it never occur to anyone in these threads that YOU might just be an insignificant but vocal minority?

Yeah, stick to the companies that really care about the consumer like Intel, Gigabyte, and NVIDIA! 🤡

It’s like anything… Think about how many people ride bicycles. Now go to ANY online community where people talk about cycling; it will likely be the most insufferably pedantic assholes you can imagine.

99% of people who buy video games don’t identify as “gamers”, they don’t read gaming media, and they certainly don’t interact with gaming discussion online.

As both an industry professional (former), and a self-identified gamer, I stopped giving a shit what “core gamers” had to say 10 years ago.