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Remember, kids, if you buy a console, you enable closed ecosystems that won't allow you to use the software you want on the hardware you bought.
If everybody quit buying consoles, from day 1 all software vendors would be forced to provide their software on more open platforms. The same software would still be available if we boycott synchronously.
Synchronicity is and has always been the issue. If everyone decided to stop going to work today, we'd have a 4 day work week with decent pay by the end of the month.
The twentieth century has seen enormous progress in work conditions and it didn't spring forth from the bosses’ kindness. Coordinated effort is not trivial but it is possible and has bore fruit before.
Ye olde prisoner's dilemma.
if everybody
Is the start to a pointless sentence.
You're preaching to PC gamer enthusiasts. The majority of normies see PC as too advanced and complicated. Most go looking for consoles. The console market isn't going down any times soon and devs can make plenty of money from this huge and very lucrative consumer.
Do check your stats, because PC as gaming platform surpassed consoles about a decade ago and the distance has been increasing since then.
I'm certainly biased, though. I bought the last console of my life a very long time ago.
They'll come back.
It was pretty darn obvious that hardware sales would fall if they released their exclusives on PC. I'm sure they did their math and it's more profitable to go back to console only.
I think they were planning to use their PSN account required BS to make up that difference by gathering and selling user data. But then that didn't work because it turns out you can sell computer games in markets where PSN isn't available so there was obvious backlash.
They think people care about their exclusives as much as Nintendo. They're wrong of course. But that perspective helps explain the thinking a bit.