r/pcmasterrace • u/Nullhitter PCMR: CachyOS | 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB of DDR5 RAM • 19d ago

News/Article Sony patents PlayStation controller that could accept tap-to-pay from phones and credit cards

https://www.techspot.com/news/113988-sony-patent-shows-playstation-controller-could-accept-tap.html
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u/DimensionalFruit 19d ago

I really needed this the other day when some dumbass was calling valve a monopoly and is bad and should be broken up.

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u/TylerBourbon 19d ago

If there is one thing confuses the F out of me, it's the "Steam is a monopoly" bs. They do nothing to stop people from selling games on other platforms. How would one even "break them up"?

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u/DimensionalFruit 19d ago

The only way I can rationalise it is that people want to destroy anything that is making lots of money or is doing better than them in life.. just some weird jealousy thing.

On that same thread someone was asking when people were going to start benefitting from all that money valve makes... Like what ? Dude thought he was entitled to some of that money

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u/env33e 19d ago

IT should be partly that, but IMO? its mostly the brand loyalty, and how insulated your average gamer can be from the mechanisms of wealth extraction. how many of y'all grew up with play station, Xbox, Nintendo, etc? pretty sure we ALL did in some form or another.

those people look insane to us because we already realized long ago these companies NEVER had our best interest in mind

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u/DimensionalFruit 19d ago

I agree, I had all the playstations except for 5, Wii, Xbox 360, DS Lite, multiple PSPs etc etc. but they're all shit compared to a PC and it's not even close.

Why buy multiple consoles when you can just have one PC and swap out components every 5+ years or whenever we want? Makes no sense.