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Originally Posted by tredadda
Which sucks for the gamer. I get Sony doing it for the studios they developed, but Microsoft just buying up everyone to keep their content off of Playstation is petty. I will say that both would make so much more money by making games available on all platforms. I just can't see keeping them exclusive so that people buy a console moves the needle enough to justify exclusivity. Again, I don't know so perhaps I am way off on this.
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For MS, it's more about securing titles for Game Pass. MS actually takes a bit of a loss on every console they sell. They don't want to sell hardware, they want to sell subscriptions.
MS is counting on their existing install base of Windows PC's. Sony doesn't have that embedded base so they have to sell physical machines just to get you into their ecosystem.