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> But Sony having some real competition is a good thing. Sony has a bad tendency of anti-consumer tendencies in their gaming space when they are the leader and they get cocky. They did it with the PS3 and they are repeating some of that with the PS5 generation.

PS5 is widely regarded as the best playstation experience since the PS2.

Great backwards compatibility and third-party support.

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I don't think the parent comment is referring to PS5's success, but rather things like their recent significant price increases[0] to their PS Plus service, which is required for multiplayer for a lot of their games.

[0] https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-raises-price-of-playstatio...

Exactly this,

Yes the PS5 is successful and they are now making some cocky decisions because of it. I also believe that they made some cocky decisions with the PS5 given how well the PS4 was.

In the same regard they made some decisions with the PS3 because of how well the PS2 did. The exception then was gamers reacted negatively so they were forced to change. This time that is not happening.

They have earned the right to be cocky. XBOX only ever was in the lead for like what maybe 1-3 years in the 360's lifespan? They got that by shipping an incorrect design(360 RROD) to market and consumers paid the price in lost gaming time and lots of frustration due to that mistake.

Every other instance of Microsoft being in this industry is either themselves being cocky (Xbox one launch), releasing a non compelling product, or just plain incompetence.

Just a reminder of who is ultimately responsible for having to pay for multiplayer in the first place: Microsoft. The PC remains the final holdout for for free multiplayer. Since Microsoft owns a sizable portion of the PC tech stack, that may not last forever.

Microsoft could have followed the PC gaming blueprint if they didn't want to pay for the multi-player services.

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