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woelkchen, do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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Microsoft is edging closer to a monopoly

Windows is a monopoly, Xbox is not.

woelkchen, do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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And this is legal because they aren’t as big as Apple?

Apple can do whatever they want on iPads, Mac, and Vision Pro. At least WRT Gatekeeper status in the EU, only iPhone is covered.

woelkchen, do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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A VM and a container are two completely different pieces of technology…

I’m sorry I mixed up the terminology. I was sure the point of “Microsoft can ship Windows with Xbox” came across no matter what.

woelkchen, do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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Even Microsoft knows windows containers are fucking shit

The Xbox System Software contains a heavily modified Hyper-V hypervisor (known as NanoVisor) as its host OS and two partitions. One of the partitions, the “Exclusive” partition is a custom virtual machine (VM) for games; the other partition, the “Shared” partition is a custom VM for running multiple apps including the OS. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software#System

Xbox already runs two VMs. Just throw in a third with real Windows.

woelkchen, do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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Apple doesn’t have a monopoly though, there’s still Android.

Based on revenue, it has, though. iPhones are being bought by people who spend more money in app stores than the average Android user.

woelkchen, do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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Are there any other virtual stores on the console?

No but since none of the console vendors have a monopoly, antitrust laws don’t apply. They can do practically any shit as long as none have a dominant market position.

woelkchen, (edited ) do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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Fun fact: Microsoft can already do that: Just ship a Windows container VM on Xbox.

Edit: Apparently “container” is the wrong term.

woelkchen, do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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if Apple’s model is not legal, then neither is Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo…

Except it’s not about the model itself, it’s about market power. Neither game console maker has a monopoly, not even Nintendo.

woelkchen, do games w God of War (PC) is now available on GOG
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For example, this game is Windows only

OK, cool:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f1f77aad-0199-4bfb-84c0-6e025a720de0.png

Thx Valve.

woelkchen, do games w God of War (PC) is now available on GOG
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Please give us Galaxy on Linux, GOG, so I can shop with you over Steam.

Buying games on Steams results in development of the Linux technology stack. No other game company funds open source upstream development like Valve. As nice as DRM-free games are, GOG is not a force for Linux advancement.

woelkchen, do games w Epic Games reportedly hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info
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Gosh, what happens to my payment info in such a case?

woelkchen, do games w Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
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AFAIK rooted Switch consoles are used to decrypt the games and Yuzu just tries to execute whatever nonencrypted Switch binary. Unless Nintendo can prove that either the Yuzu developers themselves are behind ripping commercial Switch games or directly colluded with the rippers, they’d have a hard time to actually win. That said, regular people with normal income levels will probably just sign everything because a prolonged lawsuit is about just bankrupting them, not being ruled the win by the judge.

woelkchen, do games w Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions
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I don’t give a shit, nor will I ever give a shit

Yes, you do. If you truly didn’t care, you would have no incentive to even comment at all.

Why people care so much is beyond me.

Namco cares. That’s why they had hidden the feature from the launch version.

woelkchen, do games w Xbox is still committed to making consoles, says boss Phil Spencer
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Surely you still have to update drivers and OS?!

Drivers are part of the OS and OS updates happen everywhere. Game consoles or Steam Deck are no exceptions.

woelkchen, do games w Xbox is still committed to making consoles, says boss Phil Spencer
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True, but if I’m spending thousands on a machine, I tend to want to be able to do other things on it so unfortunately Windows usually enters the equation.

Then it’s still Windows maintenance, not PC maintenance. For Intel and AMD GPUs, any regular convenience Linux distribution (like Fedora) works with negligible maintenance. It’s only those NVidia users or people who feel the urge to tweak everything steer themselves into maintenance hell.

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