• Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    Capitalism and the free market is supposed to encourage efficiency and innovation in order to remain competitive in order to keep prices low… Is Sony against capitalism? Is it against the free market? Is in adverse to innovation? C’mon Sony … Stop being lazy.

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      1 day ago

      Sony, Nintendo and Xbox are not true capitalism because their consoles are not free markets so of course they don’t like capitalism when they benefit from absolute control and can fix the prices for everything in their ecosystem.

      The only true capitalistic store front is steam and funnily enough it’s doing laps around all 3.

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        23 hours ago

        Part of why steam is so successful is because they regularly do enormous discounts.

        People come to steam because of how good the deals are but they end up buying quite a lot at full prices as well.

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      23 hours ago

      Yes, yes, and yes. By securing a monopoly you will have the highest possible profit at lowest possible investment. That is the ultimate goal of every publicly traded company.