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No way people will buy more games when their libraries are full of unplayed games...

No way players will ever accept microtransactions...

Ok, Asia is doomed but no way western players will ever accept microtransactions...

No way...

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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” –Some Microsoft guy

"640k of memory ought to be enough for anybody" -Fake Bill Gates quote

How is that remotely like this at all?

Apparently because the iPhone sold well despite an impossible challenge from Steve Ballmer, any unrelated thing is possible.

I guess we’ll see.

Whether I’m right or wrong about how it does doesn’t indicate whether this can be compared to an iPhone. That’s a bizarre comparison. The steam machine, even if it’s very successful, will sell at most a few million units. And that is truly a big “if.” The iPhone sold almost 40mill units in its first 3 years and its value was reality apparent to basically anyone. These aren’t remotely comparable products.

"Linux will never have more desktop market share than Windows" - someone here probably

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