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Message: [QUOTE="Ezri_Muldoon, post: 274127, member: 29375"] Nintendo has declared war on the second hand game market. Switch 2 cartridges having single use authentication keys will do irreputable damage to accessability. No. Shut up. I don't care if "Only third party games do it" Nintendo gave them the option and I vividly remember the Xbox One always Online & EA/Ubisoft third party DRM on PC. This won't end well. Especially when these single use activation keys cost a [I]minimum[/I] of $80. Additional DLC will not be kind. Microsoft is going full game pass, rumours of the next Xbox running steam (if true) will relegate their hardware to glorified entry level gaming PC's. The promised Steam Machine made manifest. I can't deny the convenience of Gamepass. Stay winning microsoft. The PS5 has no games. And with Sony putting all of its "exclusive" games onto steam this potentially puts them onto the next gen Xbox. The PS6 will have no games. The Steamdeck still requires a major marketing push to become mainstream, but like the Vive/Index before it Valve won't go in all on Hardware. It will remain niche. And the fact payment processors are threatening to cut off digital store fronts over certain content means that gamergate has yet again been justified as the single greatest watershed for the games industry. Those who fought for journalistic integrity and consumer rights lost. It's 2025, games you brought have been delisted. We both know this won't stop at NSFW content don't play dumb. RIP future Asian games receiving legitimate western releases. But how else can activists push the next Dustborn without removing "problematic" competition Oh and lets not forget if the rumours are true, Grand Theft Auto 6 will normalise $100 as the default price point for AAA Games. That's before DLC & Pre-order content. The future is looking rough, yet we endure. We need as industry crash & the ensuing 10/15 years of recovery to course correct this mess. We all have a back catalogue long enough to ride it out, let it happen. [/QUOTE]

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