gamingeek said:

Do you remember when Phil Spencer put out some memo saying that "we lost" the most important generation?


That being the PS4 generation? I think he was saying it because that's when mass digital game ownership started. And now people feel entrenched with whatever collection they've built up over the years.


I didn't really feel it before, but now having bought so many Switch 1 games and being able to carry it across to the following platform.


I do feel entrenched. How about you?

Yeah, that’s definitely what he was talking about. Nowadays people have a user profile attached to any given company’s ecosystem. Contains a whole host of things such as digital games, friends list, achievements/trophies, etc. The longer people stay in that ecosystem building all those things up, the more entrenched they’ll get and won’t want to give them up. This is why I think Nintendo would be wise to implement their own achievement/trophy system as well.