Could you read my comment again. You are missing the point i'm making, I'll answer with 2 parts - one to your point and one why you are missing my point.
My point is that 2 companies while having competition can "harm" the costumer by decreasing the standards. The example is microsoft charged for online and sony followed the example. Sony choose to stop competing and decrease the quality of gaming for everyone. Applying my point to EGS: if EGS continues to buy exclusives and barely upgrading their client, valve can choose to do the same-> decrease the quality of the client as well as buying exclusives.
Your comment is precisely my problem; the competition between microsoft and sony is mostly how low they can get with it.
Example on how console manufactures are not competing for an acceptable standard:
- Sony doesn't even allow to change PSN region.
- neither allow for family sharing.
- neither allow for controllers front their "opposition".
- Both charge for online.
- neither offer complete your game types of bundles.
- No humble monthly subscription type of competition.
- No xbox live/psn key stores.
- consoles with subspar hardware (specially the lack of SSD).
- No backwards compatibility (no exactly true now for microsoft but it was at the start of the gen).
- Old equipment from their brands don't work on new consoles.
Now i can give you even more features that the PC ecosystem has due to more healthy competition going on. My point is that on console space the standards are really low despite the competition. As a costumer I receive an inferior product in console space when compared to PC ecosystem. So if you think i'm blind about sony competition maybe you should increase your standards and see that the competition between both is more about mind share that better service for costumers
Note: i do want to give credit for Microsoft for game pass and play anywhere features which truth be told are inovative and offer better service to costumer.
If this is a real question i'll give it an answer with examples.
Metro exodus is 6 months old and has barely been discounted in EGS.
FM20 is a pre-order and is 39% off (sale in 2game uk using their summersale coupon in case you want to confirm).
That is the price difference. In EGS there is whatever price EGS and discount they want. For the rest of PC storefronts due to all official steam cdkey stores (and the fact that valve takes 0% cut of keys) there is a lot of competition so the prices go down HARD.
However for example for me as a doctor i give very little importance to prices IF the rest of features between EGS and steam were the same. WHich they aren't!
For example i use daily:
- BPM
- steam controller
- steam broadcast
- family sharing
None of those exist on EGS. In a nutshell people that shop in EGS are paying at least 20% more for each game while needing to set up at least 4-8 new programs to do what steam already does. (if they use steam features).
