You have truth here. There is more to it than just consoles. Sony wants to own your living room. You have Sony speakers, TVs, Propriety Discs like Blu-ray CD and DVD, Hard Drives, Music, Movies, chipsets, earphones, smart room tech like lightbulbs smartphones and cameras, editing equipment for all of that by Sony made and owned tech, and more. During the PS2 era everything in your living room could be made by Sony. Microsoft got in entirely to stop this dominance. Remember the format wars between HDDVD and Blue Ray? That was a huge deal, because the formats meant money could be made by selling the discs to your competitors.
It's really big business, and videogames are just the entry market to sneak it all in.
Consoles being locked down serves the purpose of multiplayer games without (rampant) cheating.
I like to play some TF2 occasionally, but it's not even worth trying anymore. Most matched games are full of robots and when you get one that's not they get in on the next round and out vote actual players so they can't even be kicked out.
Steam isn't even trying to stop cheating, but especially since they've embraced linux there's not much they can even do about it. You need trusted hardware and software to do it.
You have truth here. There is more to it than just consoles. Sony wants to own your living room. You have Sony speakers, TVs, Propriety Discs like Blu-ray CD and DVD, Hard Drives, Music, Movies, chipsets, earphones, smart room tech like lightbulbs smartphones and cameras, editing equipment for all of that by Sony made and owned tech, and more. During the PS2 era everything in your living room could be made by Sony. Microsoft got in entirely to stop this dominance. Remember the format wars between HDDVD and Blue Ray? That was a huge deal, because the formats meant money could be made by selling the discs to your competitors.
It's really big business, and videogames are just the entry market to sneak it all in.
Consoles being locked down serves the purpose of multiplayer games without (rampant) cheating.
I like to play some TF2 occasionally, but it's not even worth trying anymore. Most matched games are full of robots and when you get one that's not they get in on the next round and out vote actual players so they can't even be kicked out.
Steam isn't even trying to stop cheating, but especially since they've embraced linux there's not much they can even do about it. You need trusted hardware and software to do it.