Message from @Matt606
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I might get a ps5 I really haven't decided
I can see the appeal there, just for me I've never been into Xbox
and the stuff I did want, has been ported
so I'm going PS5
Sony is probably going to have the games I'm most interested in
but Demon's Souls Remastered and FF7 Remake alone are enough for me
exactly
Demons souls
and I'm going to put this very bluntly
in my eyes, Game Pass's existence is a death cry
go off
it's Microsoft saying "Okay, we cannot really compete in the console space" and they're laying down the groundwork to basically become a steam competitor in the PC space because that's just more profitable
totally
because Xbox has never really done all that well outside of America, Xbox One did particularly bad, and the fact that there's Xbox Game Pass Ultimate that covers Xbox and PC?
and you can upgrade to it from Xbox Live Gold, which is console only?
yeah that tells me they're gearing up for a transition
Xbox will become a series of desktop gaming computers and laptops
well I think it's both. Like you can game on your pc or xbox
it's a different experience sitting on your couch with a controller than on your pc with m and key
yeah but it definitely feels like they're trying to sort of shift the Xbox brand into a segment of PC gaming and out of console
because they could just add the radio chips for the xbox controllers to their own line of gaming laptops and desktops
let me put it to you this way
suppose Microsoft made an Xbox Laptop with a Docking Station
you put it in the dock, you have a console hooked up to your TV
you take it off and it's a general purpose/gaming laptop
that's the kind of stuff I think they might be looking at doing
I thought Valve was going to do that with steam consoles 5 years ago, but I think it's pretty finnicky. The average consumer doesn't want something like that
the issue with Valve trying was that it was linux based and finnicky because it was a company with no experience
MS has experience making consoles, they also have experience making a very successful line of laptops and tablets
I think either MS will switch gears and sort of fold Xbox into the Surface brand in a way, or we might see some crazy reverse shit happen like 10 years out
where the custom ARM chips MS is testing in some of their tablets get good enough that they basically make an Xbox that's a Switch
It kinda feels like they're gearing up for a total streaming console, with the S
I mean I guess that's what it is basically
you just download the titles instead of streaming them
right now
eh that's nothing new
there's a big difference between that and a full streaming console
full streaming consoles can't and won't catch on until the underlying infrastructure can support it
right I mean they might just market it that way in the future
$300, turn it on, title screen of any game in 10 seconds