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Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles (www.polygon.com)
submitted 7 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] golli@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I agree that it is about market power, but one could make the argument that Xbox/PlayStation have a duopoly similar to iOS/Android.

Although I think PlayStation dominated with roughly a 70/30 split worldwide (higher in Europe). Nintendo is somewhat in its own category imo, since they mostly do their own games and don't directly compete in that sense.

But I guess in a way consoles also compete with PCs.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

one could make the argument that Xbox/PlayStation have a duopoly similar to iOS/Android.

You'll have a hard time arguing that. Conventional wisdom groups all video games consoles together:

And overall video game revenue is centered around mobile:

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The arcade experience of having to put in money to play just moved to mobile.