Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

• moakley@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  3DO and Atari were never really competitors. They were minor players in the console market that were already considered unsuccessful by the time the PS1 was released.

  Sega is one company. Sony has outlasted one competitor, which makes it odd to say “yet another”.

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  • zewm@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s a nice opinion but Atari and 3DO were selling consoles at the same time PS1 was out. That makes them competitive, no matter how large the margin.

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    • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, Sony “outlived” two minor competitors that were already failing when the PS1 released.

      Much like how I outlived actor Carey Grant, who was 80 years old when I was born. That’s definitely how I’d phrase that.

      But hey, those examples were “just to name a few”, so there must be more, right?

      But seriously, the way your original comment was phrased makes it sound like Sony is some kind of console war juggernaut, outlasting its many competitors over decades. The reality is that Sega folded to Sony and Nintendo back in the early aughts, and then it was 25 stable years of having three big console makers, and that’s it.

      That’s all I’m saying.

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