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troed, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party
@troed@fedia.io avatar

Hate to agree but yeah. We're buying everything for Steam now since we put a Steambox (Bazzite) in the gaming room. The PS5s are now just legacy boxes.

Truscape,

Yay! Make sure to check out some of the cool couch gaming indies - Enter the Gungeon and Duck Game are some of my favorites.

Lfrith,

That would be the case for techy people like us, but growing number of people cant handle anything more complicated than a phone OS these days that I think consoles will continue to have a purpose.

troed,
@troed@fedia.io avatar

I find SteamOS to be as un-complicated as any other modern console tbh.

victorz,

The complicated bit isn’t the OS, it’s installing it. A console comes preloaded with an OS. That’s what sets us apart from non-techy people.

troed,
@troed@fedia.io avatar

Ah ok, yeah. I expect there to be SteamOS/Bazzite boxes you can just purchase.

victorz,

That would be pretty dope! That’s even something someone can start a small business selling without needing a license, I guess! Take orders for hardware and then assemble and install a gaming environment based on Linux. Stoinks go brr!

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

By the numbers, that demographic appears to be shrinking, not growing. PC has grown while consoles have shrunk.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

Meta Quest was the last innovative games console.

brsrklf,

Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it’s meta.

I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

ShinkanTrain, (edited )

Yeah, I didn’t think an OS could feel more skeezy than Windows until I got a Quest 3.

A shame too, cause it’s legitimately great hardware, implemented well (outside the corpo bullshit)

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,

Totally agree. At the moment the Meta involvement is tolerable, but all it takes is a couple of forced ads or intrusive personal information demands.

FalseTautology,

Isn’t buying a quest giving money to Zuckerberg directly? I don’t think I could sleep at night

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,

They are sold at a loss, so you are technically stealing from Zuckerberg directly.

AwesomeLowlander, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

This is the asshole who presided over a significant portion of the enshittification of both Xbox and Blizzard, so we know exactly what his opinion is worth

Agent_Karyo,

I would argue that this actually makes his opinion more relevant, as executive management is more likely to think like Ybarra, as opposed to someone that regrets the decline of Blizzard.

AwesomeLowlander, (edited )

Know your enemy corporate overlord, eh?

ClassyHatter, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party
@ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz avatar

Xbox consoles have been mostly sold out in Finland. Some retailers still have some stock left, mostly Series S, but it seems that Microsoft has exited Finland.

FalseTautology,

You didn’t miss anything significant in since like Halo Reach.

chronicledmonocle, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

Nice idea to make Xbox and PC one platform, but given how badly the ROG Xbox handheld was implemented (since you can’t play Xbox games on this “Xbox”), good luck with that.

Alaknar,

Doesn’t it fully support GamePass? Doesn’t GamePass have all the XBox games?

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

Problem isn’t that, since the handheld is just running windows it can only run games with a PC release. If the game was never ported to PC they currently have no way to play it. They really thought through the whole release real well.

frezik,

Wonder if this will force the issue on a PC release of GTA VI sooner rather than later.

Or maybe Rockstar won’t care.

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

Honestly I’m surprised they’re still thinking about that. The last major release they had was RDR2 in 2018. That was 7 years ago now. In that time not only have handhelds and more PC devices exploded but also PCs as a whole thanks to COVID. It’s just more popular than it ever was. If they go forward with console only they better have a massive kickback from Sony now that Xbox isn’t playing as much, otherwise they’re missing out on tons of sales.

Edit: Actually writing that out, I bet the PC port is planned a year behind and always was, but GTA 6 was planned years ago before the boom. I wonder if we’ll see RDR3’s PC come at the same time.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Yes. Kinda. Some games from the X1 era aren’t available on PC, like Halo 5. X360 games that are backwards compatible but weren’t actually released for PC, like Red Dead Redemption, won’t be available either.

ShinkanTrain, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party
MonkderVierte, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

Like Nintendo, who still sue emulators.

Brkdncr, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

Open source “Xbox”:

  • Peg the performance requirements and a utility to verify them.
  • Allow devs to build games with those specs in mind.
  • filter in the store for games built for that spec.
Truscape,

"We have steam deck verification at home"

  • Microsoft (in a year)
AngryCommieKender, do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

So what is Microsoft going to be doing?

Dozzi92,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

Slapping that ™®© on it and raising the price.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Copilot on PS5, somehow

ADTJ,

Buying the successful studios to obtain their IP and then sacking all the employees to cut costs.

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