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1. Jim (jim@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 02:05:14 JST Jim
   Actually now that I think about it Sony has taken two of the worst strategies and merged them together. They've taken the pricing model of the Neo-Geo and the flood the market with numerous devices model of Sega. You've got a company pumping out VR headsets, handhelds, ear buds, numerous models of controllers all while increasing the pricing on systems, games, and online.
   
   I don't get it.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 02:06:41 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Jim Sony has kinda failed at being an electronics giant for years. They want to be badly seen as a premium price electronics but sure don't make products like it
   • Jim (jim@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 02:08:29 JST Jim

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     • burner
     Even more than that if you add in Steam always having sales and Epic giving away games every few weeks anyone just starting out, even with an older build, will end up with a solid library of choices within a year for minimal if any cost.
   • burner (burner@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 02:08:31 JST burner

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     Crazy how getting started with PC gaming with couple gen old hardware is way cheaper now
   • Aviz :kuruminha_think:🇧🇷 (aviz@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 02:12:40 JST Aviz :kuruminha_think:🇧🇷

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     This happens when companies are one entity in name but in reality are a collection of competing teams/sub-divisions who don't trust each other and start to treat one another just like the competition.
     
     Its what happened to SEGA.
   • Jim (jim@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 02:12:40 JST Jim

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     • Aviz :kuruminha_think:🇧🇷
     PS5 feels like a repeat of PS3 where there weren't many games (at least it felt like that for years), the system was overpriced at launch, cool features eventually got stripped out via firmware updates like removing the ability to install your own OS on the PS3 (who knows what they'll strip away from the PS5). I really thought they pulled things back by the end of the PS4 era with a solid library and two solid skus but it's like they learned nothing.