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tonytins, 3 miesiące temu do games w Developer’s GDC billboard pokes at despised former Google Stadia exec

Before the ill-fated Stadia, Harrison helped lead Sony’s gaming efforts during the troubled launch of the PlayStation 3, at one point going so far as to brag that “nobody will ever use 100 percent of [the PS3’s] capability.” He then worked in Microsoft’s gaming division during the disastrous rollout of the Xbox One and its confused used game policies.

Yesh. This guy’s track record is awful.

AlexisFR, 3 miesiące temu

He failed so bad he didn’t even get a new job since then.

Pregnenolone, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

Shut up Ars

CrowAirbrush, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

That title alone is all the proof i need.

Clickbait so it’ll never live up to the claim.

warmaster, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

I’m sure MS will shoot themselves in the foot.

LiveLM, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

• A bespoke user interface
• A gaming-focused OS
• [Play] More than just Xbox
• Bring old Xbox games to PC
• Multiple hardware tiers
• “Made for Xbox”

Steam Deck already does 1, 2 and 3.
Now pair it with constant nags (Enhance your experience by signing into a Microsoft account, Subscribe to Gamepass! Have you tried Copilot???), and Microsoft’s inability to ever add anything new to their controllers (bye bye Gyro and Touchpads) and you’ve lost me.

trashboat, 3 miesiące temu

I’m OOTL on the news around this device, but if the joysticks that they install in the thing are just as shitty as the joysticks that they put in current Xbox controllers then there’s no chance I’d even consider buying one

Quazatron, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

Good luck guys, do let us know how it turned out.

aislopmukbang, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

LOL. Remember the Zune? Or Windows Phone?

What I am saying is it may be brilliant but Microsoft has a long history of being too late to the party for it to matter.

tacotroubles, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

Just a bunch of what ifs… that all hinge on Microsoft not doing bare minimum to get a product out.

breadsmasher, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

It probably won’t look exactly like this, but could you imagine if it did?

yeah. its looks awful.

Kelly, 3 miesiące temu

Xbox one era d-pad shows a real attention to detail

DoucheBagMcSwag, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

Beware when sensationalized journalists use the word “killer” cause it usually means they’re full of shit

Remember how HAZE was going to be the “halo killer?”

Remember xDefiant was the “call of duty killer?”

Ars lost a fuck ton of points from me for this dog shit sensationalized title

LucasWaffyWaf, 3 miesiące temu

How many Halo killers have we forgotten about at this point?

smeg, 3 miesiące temu

Apart from the bait title it’s a reasonable article. If they’d have called it “Six things Microsoft need to do for their portable Xbox to compete with the Steam Deck” it could have had exactly the same content.

supersquirrel, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

lol fat chance Microsoft is capable of launching a new hardware line and having the competency and staying power to be sucessful in 2025, maybe 5 years ago, but not today.

newthrowaway20, 3 miesiące temu

They couldn’t do it 5 years ago either.

epicsninja, 3 miesiące temu

10 years ago Michaelsoft launched their own VR headset, which was such a flop you probably don’t even know it happened.

BroiledShit, 3 miesiące temu

I think that was the thing that gave us Young Conker, ms really knows how to use those IPs it has.

quickenparalysespunk, 3 miesiące temu do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

it will most likely run steam, so it will not be any kind of steam deck “killer”. more like “sibling”.

mindbleach, 3 miesiące temu do astronomy w White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

Get rid of Elmo.

muhyb, 3 miesiące temu do astronomy w White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

That should help to put a flag on Mars.

BigMacHole, 3 miesiące temu do astronomy w White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

Woah! We just found a FREE half of Nasa’s Budget not being used! We should GIVE IT to President Elon Musk!