The reason Sony isn’t allowing people playing Fortnite on PlayStation 4 to interact with people playing the same game on other platforms, given by a former Sony executive, is pretty much a microcosm of why Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are in the console business to begin with. It’s all about walled gardens, and when a game gets as popular as Fortnite, it starts to push the envelope of the entire console video game business. Continue reading
One overarching subject came to my mind during Microsoft’s E3 2018 media briefing when the company was revealing the video game studios it had acquired for the purpose of making exclusive games. When people were cheering these acquisitions I realized you’d probably never see reactions like that in other entertainment industries, not for a platform holder or service provider locking up future content exclusively to its platform and services. E3 has almost always been a vehicle for platform wars, and that’s one of the things that’s still really peculiar about console games. Continue reading
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