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@Tea, it sounds like a solid workaround and nudging one in the right direction.

I think what also contributes to my initial post is that there are so many games this generation year after year delivering AAA and even AA titles that excels. I think in the long run console gaming, or even just the games, is getting pretty expensive. This generation already saw what the market is doing with price hikes a year after launching base models. This in itself doesn’t make software any less expensive . Nintendo made a benchmark on new titles by charging $80 a game. The rest will follow suit.

My objective opinion is that we can already see what the next generation is going to offer in terms of hardware. Example, the price tag of the PS5 Pro is the next benchmark for the PS6 base model. Sustainable? Is it still following the cheapest way of getting to game? Philosophy one-o-one.

Tea

19 May at 15:30

i get it too tbh - remedy it with 2 things.

1. A genuine break from games (read/ hike/ tv series etc.)

or

2. Select a completely random game I usually wouldn't play , and give that a go~

Those two get me gaming again!

KnightFall500

19 May at 8:22

Gaming fatigue is for noobs

Gamer 4 Life!
But yea, adult responsibilities can get in the way.

ElderofSmoke

19 May at 6:50

Goooooood mornin’ NexusHub (que Good Morning Vietnam soundtrack),

Do you ever experience gaming fatigue? It’s a phase now and again talking with respects to myself. I’m just wondering if it is a reality to feel this way. I mean, I’ll never give up on my most favorite art medium, sometimes I just manage to take a breather - of courselife happens in between and gaming would never be the same since you hit the adult world full of responsibilities.

KnightFall500

15 May at 10:22

LOL

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FTC Loses Appeal Against Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

by Sam Aberdeen on 08 May, 2025

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost its appeal against Microsoft’s acquisition of Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard. Microsoft officially acquired the publisher in October 2023 but not without a bit of pushback from the FTC, which argued at the time that the merger would hurt the games industry. The US District Court for the Northern District of California denied its request for a preliminary injunction, leading to the merger being allowed to go through.

In December 2023, the FTC appealed the court’s decision, though that appeal has now been rejected. In a recent report by Bloomberg, the court ruled that the judge was correct to reject the FTC’s motion for an injunction. It goes a bit deeper than that. The FTC also failed to show evidence that Microsoft, following the acquisition, would prevent rival companies like PlayStation from gaining access to Call of Duty. Last year, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 also launched on PS4 and PS5.

The main argument for the FTC’s appeal was that Microsoft would make several games under Activision Blizzard exclusive to Xbox. While that wasn’t the case, the court argued that this was standard for the games industry anyway. “All major manufacturers have engaged in this practice,” said the court, adding that PlayStation and Nintendo “both have significantly higher number of exclusive games on their platform than [Microsoft] does.”

On the contrary, since the deal has gone through, Microsoft not only continued to release Call of Duty games on PlayStation but also began porting several of its own Xbox exclusives over to Sony’s console including Forza Horizon 5, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle and the upcoming Gears of War: Reloaded.

It seems like Xbox might be going down the publisher route for the future. Once a hardware competitor to PlayStation, this generation has shown the PS5 pull ahead of Xbox Series X/S sales by quite a large margin.

Source: Bloomberg

Original article on GLITCHED

Sam Aberdeen

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Lurch

Give Microsoft and Xbox is effectively a mega-publisher now with few remaining exclusives (which I would guess will come to PS5/Switch 2 soon enough), it was likely getting harder and harder to make this stick.

Meanwhile we've seen no shortage of former PS5 exclusives coming to Steam, some now coming to the Switch 2, and even several older PC ports DRM-free on GOG.

I'd love to see their third-party exclusivity deals as they presumably exclude Xbox for perpetuity.

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