Sony believed that they had so much market share that they could make a console that was leaps and bounds more complicated to code for, which would lock devs in and prevent them from going elsewhere, and they’d just have to suck it up because of said market share. Sony was wrong, and they lost out big time that generation (although they did manage to win the Blu-ray vs hd-dvd format wars).
Microsoft seems to believe they have so much market share that they can force people to upgrade to a privacy invading, ai infested piece of crap, and that everyone needs to suck it up because market share.
I’ve already started hearing wind that people, in statistically significant numbers, are finding alternatives… so is this the same situation as the ps3?
Just a passing musing without much to back up the gut feelings.
lol no. As much as I would love for Microsoft to go die in a hole, nobody is moving away from Windows. Sensationalist headlines heralding the downfall of Microsoft due to Windows $CURRENT being the worst ever version of Windows have been around since the epoch of Windows itself. People are always moving in droves to Linux. People are always refusing to update to Windows $CURRENT. I’ve heard it. You’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it. And we’ll all keep hearing it until the end of times. In the meantime, corporations still depend on that one piece of software they paid for 10 years ago that only runs on Windows, and people are still buying new machines that an OEM already put the latest version of Windows on.
Yes and no
Windows market share is falling to other platforms. It won’t go away overnight but the current trajectory of Microsoft isn’t good.
Honesty a large portion of the market share is now days is Android. People are choosing mobile devices over desktops.
Sure, Windows has been steadily losing marketshare to mobile for years now but that has nothing to do with Windows 11 being so bad that it will destroy Microsoft. I’m not saying Windows isn’t gonna die eventually, I’m saying there’s no sudden “statistically significant” shift away from it that will impact Microsoft the wat the PS3 impacted Sony. Things are as they’ve always been and, by the look of things, they’ll continue to be that way until desktops are mostly phased out by phones.