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Post by breakingcups » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC

iknowstuff wrote: post #494

permo-w wrote: post #478

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Which is odd because the major reason Xbox is petering out is because it's been completely mismanaged. Sony and Nintendo are still doing just fine. Nintendo even had a dodgy console that no one bought within relatively recent memory. Xbox messed up with the One and then have just failed to get back on track. It's not like the industry is dying.

Sony’s best selling console is still the PS2. They make more profit per console these days but the market doesn’t seem all that healthy. I think Microsoft will just allow strong DRM to prevent cheats/piracy in PCs instead of dedicated xboxes.

Post by boca_honey » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 10:43 PM UTC

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #562

boca_honey wrote: post #437

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>when was the last time you knew someone that went out and bought a Windows-based computer for anything other than gaming? I'm sorry, what? I don't know if this is because of the developer-bubble mindset on HN (or the wealth gap that comes with that), but Windows adoption on the consumer level is around 70% and close to 90% on the business level. This actually falls short from what I see anecdotically (I don't live i…

I'm sorry, but what!? Right back atcha. If you'd have bothered to have looked at the chart in link I posted, you'd have seen that market share of "consumer compute" for Windows was 26% as of 10 years ago. You're going to have to do a lot better anecdata to find a 44% resurgence over the last 10 years, especially given the dismal things that have happened to it as a platform over that time.

Post by dajt » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 7:51 AM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #442

dajt wrote: post #435

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That's been obvious for years. It feels like they're extracting whatever remaining money they can get from the home PC market while it lasts but won't much miss it when it's gone. I'm surprised they haven't given up on xbox and games but perhaps there's enough money there to keep it going.

That's been obvious for decades. Everyone who worked in the 90's or 00's has stories about coming in one day to find that the VP has been conned into a $1m contract for MS office or development software everyone hates and now we all have to use it because if we don't then he made a huge mistake and VPs don't make huge mistakes. So we have to eat shit or find open source software to work around MS's garbage check-box-…