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/aFreshFix 18d ago

The break them up is ridiculous, but Valve has many anti-competitive practices. They're a corporation like all the others and they do a lot of stuff that's bad for consumers too until they're forced to stop.

Are they better? Yes. But they're far from perfect

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u/GosuDosu 18d ago

Well, they’re not a corporation like all the others. They’re a private company while every other company in that picture is public.

That means Valve can make billions each year and be happy.
The public companies, they need to make more than whatever they made last year to be happy.