It’s truly enshittification at its finest. They think they’ve got all these gamers locked into the ecosystem bc PC building/gaming is pricing people out, Steam box will be over $1000, Xbox is fucking up stuff and cutting back, so it’s a race to fuck stuff up but just slightly less than the competition so they have a “competitive edge”.
Now watch everyone flee back to Xbox or Nintendo.
It’s truly enshittification at its finest. They think they’ve got all these gamers locked into the ecosystem bc PC building/gaming is pricing people out, Steam box will be over $1000, Xbox is fucking up stuff and cutting back, so it’s a race to fuck stuff up but just slightly less than the competition so they have a “competitive edge”.
I’d be surprised if Microsoft didn’t follow with the exact same policy tbh
Honestly, they can’t afford to. They fucked up in 2012/2013 with the One and have been playing catch up ever since.
You’d THINK this would be used as an opportunity to leapfrog the competition, but I doubt it.
I’m mostly just surprised that Microsoft didn’t do it before Sony.