Yes, yes, and yes. By securing a monopoly you at the highest possible profit at lowest possible investment.
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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Capitalism and the free market is supposed to encourage efficiency and innovation in order to remain competitive in order to keep prices low… Is Sony against capitalism? Is it against the free market? Is in adverse to innovation? C’mon Sony … Stop being lazy.
Shayeta@feddit.org 22 hours ago
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sony and Xbox is not true capitalism because their consoles are not free markets so of course they dont like capitalism when they benefit from absolute control and can fix the prices for everything in their ecosystem.
echodot@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
Part of why steam is so successful is because they regularly do enormous discounts.
People come to steam because of how good the deals are but they end up buying quite a lot at full prices as well.