Ellery
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i dont understand his point?
He is saying that Sony and Nintendo are the good forces in the gaming industry pouring in passion, blood and sweat to create things from the ground up that gamers love whilst hypercapitalism is looming over the gaming industry trying to find entry points of using big money to make even bigger money.
People here have really no idea how powerful big american tech is. More powerful than many nations on our planet. So powerful that countries have embassies in silicon valley.
Phil is basically pointing out that Nintendo and Sony are not big/powerful enough and what they are doing is for gamers. They make games. They don't create context (big high five to my homie Kojima for predicting that 20 years ago with MGS 2 my god genius dude) like the other big companies that have a different angle. Those companies make you the product, sell you, have their algorithms put you into carefully created digital bubbles and analyze your every move to the point that they know what you are purchasing before you even know it might exist.
And lastly Phil wants to be the powerful good guy.
TL;DR a very easily comprehensible way to understand this would be : Facebook, Amazon, Google, etc = bad because they would use big acquisitions like activision to use their technology and IPs to create big "metaverses" that create another digital layer to spend money on and spend your time in. Sony and Nintendo are too small and create video games. They are small japanese video game makers and not trillion dollar american tech giants. Phil Spencer wants to be big and powerful for gaming and find the right way to do the right thing (from his or Microsoft's pov) with what they get. Probably a middle way of Xbox handling games and Microsoft controlling the metaverse side of things, but at this point I am going into speculation.