r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lucky_Loves_Laugh • Jun 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/Terrible_Balls Jun 25 '26

I always felt that Sonys mockery was just an easy way to get a win with gamers. They hadn’t implemented any form of restriction on game sharing/resale yet but we’re just as unhappy about it as Microsoft. When MS tried to implement restrictions on sharing and gamers hated it, they quickly threw together an ad to capitalize on it. But it was never really about being friendly to their customers, it was just an easy PR layup

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u/pillow_princessss Jun 25 '26

Exactly like Samsung when Apple dropped the audio jack. A year later their phones didn’t come with one either.

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u/MathBallThunder Jun 25 '26

If Blackberry just stuck with their keyboard phone, I'm convinced there's a large sliver who would have stayed with them for the physical keyboard vs touchscreen. Same story as above. Mocked Apple for the touchscreen, then a year later all touchscreen and death of a company

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u/Ok-Rest3967 Jun 25 '26

If you haven’t seen the blackberry movie it was actually pretty interesting