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Microsoft is reportedly set to release an Xbox handheld gaming PC in 2025, but it apparently won't be the one making the device itself. (www.pcgamesn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

Plus they will use it to promote subscriptions. Ubisoft gets hammered for:

"gamers need to get used to not owning their games"

Microsoft who is the company that actually popularised the model, gets no flack.

I literally got censored (because I wrote like a cunt) on sh.itjust.works because I told off one of the ad company representatives sniffing around lemmy. MS spends Elon kinds of money to whitewash their image on social platforms while being one of the worst thing that happened to the gaming hobby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

if i had to guess that's because their subscription is cheap, was even cheaper before, and offered a lot more than ubisoft. enshittification spiral is relatively recent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

It's called dumping, it's how they fish the idiots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

huh? it's priced roughly the same as the competitors, ea play fits that definition much better

edit: my regional pricings makes the comparison a lil harder, but it's 3 bucks for ea play and like 6 for game pass, i think the proportions are the same elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Explain how. I'd like to hear your reasoning for this. Not saying EA is not dumping, just how that's at all relevant to the BIGGEST company in gaming dumping or not.

Windows is the most deployed non business OS in the entire world. Every single Win10 and 11 user gets constant popus reminding them of gamepass offers. Every single computer electronics item, laptops et al sold in the EU has 1-3 months of FREE gamepass attached. Each laptop sold with Windows gets 3 free month's worth of Gamepass. I'd like to know how EA play is worse (especially considering till Satya whipped Spenser like the little bitch he is you could get GP for 12-48€ for a year, some people subscribed for several years).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago

Every single Win10 and 11 user gets constant popus reminding them of gamepass offers

lol i don't, check your settings maybe

Every single computer electronics item, laptops et al sold in the EU

ah, there's the problem. nothing like that where i live so ea undercutting gamepass by 100% seems like they're the ones dumping

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