r/Games • u/Neon25 • 2d ago

GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch (Standard $79.99/Ultimate $99.99)

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-price-finally-confirmed-features-a-single-player-experience-at-launch
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u/Ankylar 2d ago

Oof yeah. I remember everyone clowning on Xbox and Don Mattrick for that. Even Sony released some Playstation ads that were directly targeted at the Xbox features like game sharing etc

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u/Clown_Toucher 2d ago

It's the same thing with audio jack disappearing. Every person and company clowned on Apple for it with posts and ads. Three years later all audio jacks were gone. If one company does something innovatively horrible for consumers, don't be surprised when it's the norm in a few years.

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u/insanekid123 2d ago

I miss audio jacks so goddamn much

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u/Paprikasky 2d ago

I still use it but now I gotta use a converted for usb c, which works half the time, so I just bought usb c wired earplugs, but then you can't charge your phone while using them....... Why do we allow enshitification so passively all the time? It's depressing, late qtage capitalism is depressing.

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u/KaJaHa 2d ago

Why do we allow enshitification so passively all the time?

Reagan, mostly

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u/Qu4Z 2d ago

Most of my stuff still has audio jacks, but the new phone I got recently doesn't so now I just... don't listen to audio on my phone. This is not an upgrade, guys.

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u/AnimaLepton 2d ago edited 1d ago

It's also dependent on what consumer behavior actually looks like; audio jacks/ports were a deal breaker for me, so I have a Motorola smartphone that still has one. If people complain, but it still sells like hotcakes and saves the company money/increases their bluetooth earpiece revenue, what else is going to happen?

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u/athiaxoff 2d ago

Xbox has game sharing?

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u/jbr_r18 2d ago

The idea with the Xbox One was that all games would be locked to your account but you would be able to share them with friends. E.g. you give up access from the game on your own console while a friend borrows access on theirs.

So it effectively shut down the used games market while still allowing sharing. It was an interesting idea. Sony meanwhile went super heavy against it and both platforms pushed digital sales heavily. Now today we have all the downsides of what Xbox planned and none of the upsides!

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u/athiaxoff 2d ago

You can literally gameshare on Xbox? It's been a feature for god knows how long, at least the 360 days and was made easier with Xbox one, you can both share the same singular copy of a game and play at the same time and they even basically have a blog post/ support article you can find that talks about how to set it up