Weirdly different reactions online today.

Your statement is essentially, PC market share is at 25%, so 75% of people don't want to play on PC. But, by the same token, you could also say, consoles are at a 31% market share, so 69% of people don't want to play on consoles.

75% and 69% are both very high numbers of people that don't want to play on a given platform. You're statement is irrelevant and sidesteps the issue that you don't have any data to back up.

That's not my statement, like, at all. That's an absurdly false misreading of my statement. My point is that a sizable part of the console market does not want to play on PC. So if only one console were to exist, or if one console offered so many advantages that it became de facto the only viable console option, then the provider of that system could act monopolistically in the console space.

I don't care about the people who don't play console or who don't want to play console, they are entirely irrelevant to this argument.

And you seem to have ignored every piece of historical data I laid out which clearly establishes that no one player in the console market has been able to establish a monopoly.

I mean you seem to just be ignoring my point. Say for example Microsoft also went out and bought EA, Acitivision, Ubisoft, Take2, WB Games, Square Enix and Capcom. In that scenario do you see a way that Sony or any other company really could compete with that? I sure don't. At that point MS would control so much of the industry that competing against them would be essentially impossible. They'd have an uncontested monopoly.

In no generation prior has that ever happened, not even remotely. At the end of the PS2 generation, Sony didn't own huge parts of the industry or something for instance.

That's why I'm saying, MS taking control of a huge player in the industry can be viewed as a move towards a monopolistic position in the console market.

And finally for this weird stalking attempt.

What are you even trying to say? My account is over 7 years old and I hardly create threads nowadays. I haven't even made 10 over the last 12 months, so sorry for not having enough of a presence on this subreddit for your liking.

But if you're stalking me, you could at least also check for comments, cause I have commented here before.

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