I just hope that if “everything becomes an xbox” like they have stated they want to accomplish, that I’ll have access to my full library of titles via pc.
They’ve destroyed their brand through a million cuts over the past decade
It’s not possible to continue releasing ever-more powerful hardware every few years, while remaining affordable. Xbox Series X and S are still relatively expensive 5 years after release. Their price is apparently higher than before, possibly due to inflation.
Hopefully they consider doing a refresh of series X / S, with slightly more efficient hadware but similar computing power. Adding more compute has diminushing return on game quality anyway. And there’s probably room to fit more without changing storage/compute by optimizing games and software.
It’s probably a harder sell marketing wise to release new hardware with the same capacity. So they’d have to innovante another way.
It would be interesting if they did what they did with the windows MR VR headsets and let 3rd parties design devices based on a kind of template of sorts. So you could get an Acer Xbox and an Asus Xbox. Considering they are just small pc’s
This would be fine if Xbox Cloud Gaming were available on Switch and PlayStation.
Honestly the future is dumb streaming boxes. I don’t like it but there it is.
Sony is behind the curve. If Nintendo is their only competition, PlayStation 5 will see another price increase and PlayStation 6, if it happens, will price itself out of the market. Nintendo gamers don’t care.
Sony should have made their own GamePass years ago, and as a peace offering, Microsoft and Sony should have offered each other’s streaming service. That would extend hardware out another year or two as people have access to more games.
Disagree with everything you said. The future is not dumb streaming boxes. And game passes are a terrible model. NOBODY is excited about streaming a video game abs playing with shitty latency and compression.
So you also like it? You disagree with everything I said… including the part where I said I don’t like it? It sounds like you just want to be antagonistic. I’m not the future — being mean to me on social media won’t stop the future from happening. It just makes you slightly less of a good person.
The reason streaming boxes are the future in gaming is the same reason they are in movies and music. In movies and music, the common players don’t support physical media anymore — they’re too small. How do you get a tape, CD, or vinyl record into an iPhone? You stream it. Same with games. Even now, vs 20 years ago, physical releases are getting rarer and rarer. This generation, Xbox and PlayStation have digital-only models, and a lot of games are digital-only.
The compression is a trade-off and it exists in movie and music streaming as well. Latency will be mitigated by more servers.
And it’s actually already here. There are “Smart” TVs out there that play Xbox games. Via Cloud Gaming. I know guys out in the sticks who do cloud gaming. The myth that it’s only going to work in NYC, LA, and Chicago hasn’t ever been true. Seems like every town has servers now. And the fiber and cable running everywhere is good enough to solve most of the latency. Of course, there will always be latency… hell, I can’t catch fish in Animal Crossing if I’m using a wired controller, I have to take the damn Switch out of the dock and play handheld, but if I do that, I can catch the 5-star rarity fish every time, first try.
You don’t have to like it. I sure don’t. But, how’s refusing to accept things you don’t like working out for you? You wish us a good president yet, or do you actually like the one we have (in the US)? Your wishes in tech are about as effective… same as mine.
So you also like it? You disagree with everything I said… including the part where I said I don’t like it? It sounds like you just want to be antagonistic.
If you’re deliberately misinterpreting what they said like that, you’re the one being antagonistic.
I’m right there with you on the Steam Deck! Its still sad to see and it gives me PTSD when Sega killed the Dreamcast early in its life and got into publishing 3rd party only. Having only 2 console makers in the space makes me fear for innovation and creativity. The silver lining this time around is PC and the success of indie games recently.
I dont expect this to last very long, considering how easy and fast it is to apply the patch. Completely delisting the games feels a little bit excessive.
Also, some of these games aren’t even effected by this, such as Avowed being an Unreal 5 game and Grounded being an Unreal 4 game. The only two games effected by this are Pillars of Eternity (depending on which version of Unity they used to create the current build, seeing as build 1.0 most certainly used an uneffected Unity version from 2015), PoE II, and Pentiment.
From what I heard, they delisted only the premium editions of Avowed because some part of those use Unity. It looks like the same is true for the other games. Even for Pillars they only delisted the definitive edition.
This feels unnecessary and overblown. From what I’ve heard, the exploit in question requires a local file and only operates at the privilege level of the game itself, so you’re unlikely to encounter it unless you’re adding files to your game install.
So you’re vulnerable if you install malicious mods, in other words. Which, considering Unity mods are done via DLL injection, is already the case even without this exploit.
Unity literally issued a statement that every game that is affected by this should be patched with the fix ASAP… and this is people doing that.
Not like anyone ever runs a game with admin priveleges or anything, right?
Not like malware from some other source often exploits weird little shit like this that just nobody ever noticed before and thats why that malware stays hidden, right?
The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product’s direct control.
Extended Description
This might allow attackers to execute their own programs, access unauthorized data files, or modify configuration in unexpected ways. If the product uses a search path to locate critical resources such as programs, then an attacker could modify that search path to point to a malicious program, which the targeted product would then execute. The problem extends to any type of critical resource that the product trusts.
Some of the most common variants of untrusted search path are:
In various UNIX and Linux-based systems, the PATH environment variable may be consulted to locate executable programs, and LD_PRELOAD may be used to locate a separate library.
In various Microsoft-based systems, the PATH environment variable is consulted to locate a DLL, if the DLL is not found in other paths that appear earlier in the search order.
Yeah sounds fairly serious to me, its an 8.4 out of 10 on the severity scale for a reason.
Oh probably at least some of them, though shouldn’t be a problem, after all, the rootkit kernel level anti cheat is within the game directory and its standard privelege/permission model, and is only there for your safety.
maybe we’'ll get lucky and they’ll burn out so hard they have to sell the titanfall, mass effect, and dragon age IPs to companies who won’t fuck them up.
You laugh, but AI is a pretty good fit for EA. Repeatedly churning out new iterations of the same exact thing over and over every year, with the roster changed and the art fucked about with a tiny irrelevant amount? Yup
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