• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 day ago

    Hey don’t discount them that much, they also can’t make games either. They’re going for full on business-only approach, consumers are not a priority for them at all anymore.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      You can sell consoles with advertisement and marketing. The product is a secondary concern.

      And with AI + bunch of privately owned mass media, you can saturate the brains of the next generation of gamers with endless targeted ads.

      Fully expect Discord to begin vomiting ad spam into random chat streams like Reddit channels are getting bombarded with Crypto Casino promotions.

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      24 hours ago

      It really does seem to follow the classic arc of going from marketing to consumers to B2B but like, you can’t sell games B2B can you? It’s so direct to consumer