alexh2o

Don’t forget Sony entered the console market by selling the original PlayStation at a loss – $100 cheaper than the Sega Saturn. They effectively used their $$ to subsidise a strategy Sega couldn’t afford to compete with, and they put Sega out of the hardware business.

While Microsoft are using a different strategy, ultimately it’s the same game as Sony’s of old… leverage $$ your competitor doesn’t have.

History repeats…

You can’t download for offline listening without Spotify Premium which is a total deal breaker when that’s a free feature on basically every podcast app.