Sony believed that they had so much market share that they could make a console that was leaps and bounds more complicated to code for, which would lock devs in and prevent them from going elsewhere, and they’d just have to suck it up because of said market share. Sony was wrong, and they lost out big time that generation (although they did manage to win the Blu-ray vs hd-dvd format wars).

Microsoft seems to believe they have so much market share that they can force people to upgrade to a privacy invading, ai infested piece of crap, and that everyone needs to suck it up because market share.

I’ve already started hearing wind that people, in statistically significant numbers, are finding alternatives… so is this the same situation as the ps3?

Just a passing musing without much to back up the gut feelings.

  • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
    61·
    16 hours ago

    You keep hearing about the same 3 german states moving to LibreOffice. That’s not quite the same thing.

    • 9bananas@feddit.org
      5·
      6 hours ago

      generally, yes, but it’s a couple more now;

      • Austria’s military is moving to open source
      • couple of french cities (was is lyon?)
      • i think denmark?
      • pretty sure there’s a couple others

      point being: it’s a clear trend!

      it’s slow, yes, but it seems to be picking up steam!

      the idea is being seriously discussed at basically all state institutions.

      and more importantly: the reason for this trend is clearly data security. which states actually care about. so there’s a very clear and easy to understand incentive, which makes it politically palatable.

      we’ll have to see, but the trend seems to be heading in the right direction!