▲ 531 ▼ Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform (gamesbeat.com) submitted 5 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world 164 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago* (5 children) This has been tried before and never worked well. What makes you think its going to work any better now? I even have a free controller google gave me when they tried it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago The only thing that makes me think it might work this time is that for some reason Microsoft has this magical ability to take a bad idea, make the shittiest possible iteration of it and have it mysteriously become the most widely-adopted standard against all logic. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago* (1 child) It doesn't need to work well. It needs to sound like it will make more money for MSFT's board. You're approaching this from the angle of 'is this a sensible and sustsinable long term business strategy.' Nobody cares! They care about LINE GO UP BIG FAST NOW! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) Microsoft Board: But Google lost so much money on Stadia! Voice on speaker: but Google didnt have me, Bing.AI! Microsoft Board: DONE. MAKE US RICH! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Stadia was still a system you buy. What I'm talking about here is having a browser based gaming system where any computer could be used to play games, for subscription price of course. There are in fact currently places on the web that offer such services for Minecraft. And I'll bet you anything they'll make the subscription price really low at first. Borrowing from the Netflix model... Then, once consoles and PCs have been outmoded and no one owns anything, they jack the price up. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago* Stadia worked on chrome browsers. I think you needed their controller though, but I got mine for free with a Chromecast purchase. For TVs you needed a Chromecast or a Android TV permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago Attitudes like that are not how we got a trillion dollars in spare data center infrastructure to find a use for! Those consumers will be happy owning nothing THIS time!! permalink fedilink source parent [–] Wilson@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago Oh man, those stadia controllers. Not the stupidest $99 I've ever spent, but still pretty dumb. permalink fedilink source parent [–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 1 point 5 months ago Why the LLM-driven scarcity in computing parts of course, and a little bit of cartel behavior when Nintendo and Sony inevitably announce the same thing next year. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago The only thing that makes me think it might work this time is that for some reason Microsoft has this magical ability to take a bad idea, make the shittiest possible iteration of it and have it mysteriously become the most widely-adopted standard against all logic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago* (1 child) It doesn't need to work well. It needs to sound like it will make more money for MSFT's board. You're approaching this from the angle of 'is this a sensible and sustsinable long term business strategy.' Nobody cares! They care about LINE GO UP BIG FAST NOW! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) Microsoft Board: But Google lost so much money on Stadia! Voice on speaker: but Google didnt have me, Bing.AI! Microsoft Board: DONE. MAKE US RICH! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Stadia was still a system you buy. What I'm talking about here is having a browser based gaming system where any computer could be used to play games, for subscription price of course. There are in fact currently places on the web that offer such services for Minecraft. And I'll bet you anything they'll make the subscription price really low at first. Borrowing from the Netflix model... Then, once consoles and PCs have been outmoded and no one owns anything, they jack the price up. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago* Stadia worked on chrome browsers. I think you needed their controller though, but I got mine for free with a Chromecast purchase. For TVs you needed a Chromecast or a Android TV permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) Microsoft Board: But Google lost so much money on Stadia! Voice on speaker: but Google didnt have me, Bing.AI! Microsoft Board: DONE. MAKE US RICH! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Stadia was still a system you buy. What I'm talking about here is having a browser based gaming system where any computer could be used to play games, for subscription price of course. There are in fact currently places on the web that offer such services for Minecraft. And I'll bet you anything they'll make the subscription price really low at first. Borrowing from the Netflix model... Then, once consoles and PCs have been outmoded and no one owns anything, they jack the price up. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago* Stadia worked on chrome browsers. I think you needed their controller though, but I got mine for free with a Chromecast purchase. For TVs you needed a Chromecast or a Android TV permalink fedilink source parent
[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Stadia was still a system you buy. What I'm talking about here is having a browser based gaming system where any computer could be used to play games, for subscription price of course. There are in fact currently places on the web that offer such services for Minecraft. And I'll bet you anything they'll make the subscription price really low at first. Borrowing from the Netflix model... Then, once consoles and PCs have been outmoded and no one owns anything, they jack the price up. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago* Stadia worked on chrome browsers. I think you needed their controller though, but I got mine for free with a Chromecast purchase. For TVs you needed a Chromecast or a Android TV permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago* Stadia worked on chrome browsers. I think you needed their controller though, but I got mine for free with a Chromecast purchase. For TVs you needed a Chromecast or a Android TV permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago Attitudes like that are not how we got a trillion dollars in spare data center infrastructure to find a use for! Those consumers will be happy owning nothing THIS time!! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wilson@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago Oh man, those stadia controllers. Not the stupidest $99 I've ever spent, but still pretty dumb. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 1 point 5 months ago Why the LLM-driven scarcity in computing parts of course, and a little bit of cartel behavior when Nintendo and Sony inevitably announce the same thing next year. permalink fedilink source parent