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Don't sugarcoat it. Valve has to make sure this is advertised as a PC to keep the licensing good on the games you've bought and that they are allowed to sell. M
by godzillabrennus 11mo ago
Don't sugarcoat it. Valve has to make sure this is advertised as a PC to keep the licensing good on the games you've bought and that they are allowed to sell. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have closed ecosystems with their consoles. Well, Microsoft seems to be throwing in the towel on consoles.
- ehnto 11mo agoBut it is also a PC, so I don't see the issue even if this were true. It's just a box running an Arch Linux flavour.
- justin66 11mo ago> keep the licensing good That’s an imaginary issue.
- jmkni 11mo ago> Well, Microsoft seems to be throwing in the towel on consoles. Can you expand on this? I'm not a massive gamer, I thought xbox was doing well?
- mlacks 11mo agoHalo was announced for PS5 recently
- LollipopYakuza 11mo agoAlso they state that the console will remain the centerpiece, they want to make Xbox a "platform" to reuse their own term. It becomes an ecosystem rather than a hardware product. They idea is that as long as you have a gamepass, you can play on whatever you want - except macOS and Linux...
- tekchip 11mo agoI think they think that's converted by streaming unfortunately.
- littlestymaar 11mo ago> They idea is that as long as you have a gamepass Didn't they just blow the remaining goodwill they had by increasing the gamepads price by 50% overnight?
- KeplerBoy 11mo agoYou can play gamepass on mac and linux via cloud streaming.
- thoroughburro 11mo ago> I thought xbox was doing well? It very much isn’t.
- kattagarian 11mo ago>I thought xbox was doing well? Microsoft lost the console wars. Their new generation (Series S & X) sold almost 1/4 of what PS5 did because they basically don't have any exclusive game that you can only play in their hardware. Microsoft invested heavily in their Gamepass subscription (that has more than 35 million users) and they believe that the future is on PC. The newest xbox hardware, a handheld made by Asus, is a PC running windows. The next generation of xbox hardware that will compete with the PS6 will also very likely be a PC. The xbox console is dead.
- xeonmc 11mo ago“I already have an Xbox One from 2013, why would I buy an extra X or S version?” “Oh, there’s a PlayStation 5 now? Man I gotta upgrade from my PS4!” Microsoft evidently did not learn from the Wii U.
- nkrisc 11mo agoMicrosoft’s naming scheme has to be one of the biggest self-goals in console gaming. Number go up.
- PaulHoule 11mo agoBack in the 1980s you got your Mom to buy you a game console and you would have needed a logical naming scheme so she would know an PS 3 was better than a PS 2. XBOX cultivates a "gamer" who is heavily invested in the identity and is well educated in the various versions of XBOX and how the naming scheme works and since they are an adult buying the console for themselves they don't need to explain it to outsiders.
- _carbyau_ 11mo agoThere are always first timers. How you treat your newbies says a lot about your respect for your customer. If your marketing makes it hard to figure out what is what, well a Playstation $int[max] it is...
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- georgeecollins 11mo agoIf only they had a game company like Bethesda or Actision. /S
- marricks 11mo agoDidn't Xbox pivot to be an entertainment system a couple generations ago and flop compared to PlayStation?
- fullstop 11mo agoIt probably didn't help that they removed all of those features over time.
- BlueTemplar 11mo agoYou mean compared to the PS3, one of the strong points of which was also having a Blu-Ray drive ?
- philwelch 11mo agoThis was the Xbone/PS4 generation. The Blu-Ray drive is basically no added cost since the games were already distributed on optical disks, it’s like how the PS2 was one of the most popular DVD players. The problem with the Xbone was that, at least judging on their marketing at the time, Microsoft was far more focused on broadening the scope of the device beyond games while Sony stayed focused on gaming. That’s why I bought a PS4 despite previously using an Xbox 360.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo ago> it’s like how the PS2 was one of the most popular DVD players I worked for a Sony dealer when the PS2 launched, and they wouldn't give us one :-/ What I thought at the time was insane was that they were still selling a 200-disc carousel CD changer, and DVD version of the same thing (same box, different shade of silver grey, different drive mechanism, two chips different on the PCB) - but they had no plans to sell a 200-disc carousel PS2. Imagine if you could have had all your movies, audio CDs, PSX, and shiny new PS2 games in one big box, tucked away out of sight, with your spiffy new 576p projector and 5.1 speakers hooked up to it!
- hannasanarion 11mo agoXbox One/PS4 is when both sides standardized on BluRay. When Xbox360 and PS3 came out, the format war was only just starting, and the consoles were on either side of it. PS3 came with a BluRay drive and the games were delivered on BluRay. Xbox360 came with software support for HDDVD, but the actual disk reader hardware was a DVD reader (famously, a large off-the-shelf part selected at the last minute that required a redesign of the cooling system to accomodate its size), and the HDDVD drive was an optional add-on that nobody bought. The fact that every PS3 could read BluRay, but you needed a special extra to play HDDVD on Xbox 360 is arguably the main reason BluRay won the format war.
- wat10000 11mo agoThis could be restated as: open systems mean you don't need a tangled web of partnerships to provide content, and Valve is taking advantage of this.