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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Prediction: in the future it'll be incapable of running games, will be a designated Twitter machine.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Given the comments last week assuring people that Xbox was still going to make consoles, my money is on a streaming only console with no local games.

    Online access required 24x7

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    Just a shit ton more layoffs

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    New indecipherable naming system.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    The New Original Xbox X-S Console Series was just announced with two levels, the X-S Pro-X Phactor or cheaper ST-X Pro-BoxX 2.

    The previous gen Xbox X/S will be re-released as a subscription legacy product called Xbox One 2.0.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The Xbox 12 will run on Windows 12 and is basically a locked down PC that runs another Xbox DRM layer on top of Windows 12 that makes it so you cant actually use it as a PC.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's exactly what microsoft would do

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It’s kinda what they already did

    But now Xbox games just need to target windows and that minimum hardware of the “console” that Microsoft sells. Then if a game is released on Xbox it’s already on PC.

    Of course, it’ll be in the Microsoft Store and not on Steam. M$ coming for Valve’s lunch; thinking they can push them off Windows and onto Linux, which will then not be supported because every AAA game will have a Windows-kernel anticheat and not run on Proton/SteamDeck.

    They’re coming for the gold, boys.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ooh how about this, you can subscribe to Windows as a service on your Xbox for only $9.99 /month? Also, if you want access to the games store you need the full Windows experience on your Xbox.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    See, yes, exactly.

    I guarantee you their upper and middle management would convince themselves this makes sense.

    I used to work for them. The management is basically all fucking delusional, out of touch psychopaths.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Except that you cant actually use it as a computer without DRM without a ton of fucking work, nor as a gaming device without DRM without a ton of work.

    MSFTs development notes and such for the Pluton CPU architecture heavily draws from wanting to be able to stop people hard-modding existing Xboxes.

    A separate, physical security co processor doesnt work because people figure out how do basically flash an Xbox, or do some kind of software stun lock, then physically remove the anti piracy doohickey, then finish flashing the thing into a hackDbox.

    Thankfully the linux community appears to have neutralized that threat for PCs running Linux, at least.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    People spent lots of effort on Xbox 360 hacking just because microsoft spent so much effort making it as unhackable as possible. Fortunately, console gaming is so much less relevant today that it's not even worth remembering what the latest consoles are. Sure, there are some shitty AAA titles that lock things down or are so demanding they need a $100k pc but between the few ethical worthwhile ones and the expansive library of actually good indie games on steam, consoles just aren't worth fucking with anymore.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I'm going to guess they're just going to announce their first party games are coming to PlayStation and Switch 2

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Now if Sony and Nintendo will just return the favour... That would be so great!

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure if Nintendo allowed their games to go to other consoles it would cripple their console market. Their consoles are notorious for being underpowered, so their big selling point is the exclusive games. Why would I get a Switch 2 when the cheapest Steam Deck is (probably) around the same price?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah, you're thinking about this too pragmatically. All they need to do is release it two weeks earlier on switch and add a Luigi donkey skin(he doesn't even need to be playable). Do that, and people will pre-order everything, apparently. Gaming consumers are dumb.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    We need to push to end console exclusivity. It's bad for the consumer because it pushes more sales of a console you may not want, rather than the consoles competing on their own merit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Their fans gonna be mad if they try though

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Finally, it'll be shaped like an X!

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nah, that would be too logical. It would be the Xbox ONE XX

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Oh my god please be Yboy and include an absurd marketing campaign designed by boomers, aimed at zoomers, looking to re popularize 2000s era skinny jeans emo-lite sort of fashion with unimaginable pretention, but with absurd zoomer/gen alpha lingo.

    Be a Yboy. Play a Yboy.

    Get you a man that plays on Yboy.

    Girls be like: Nah, he don't play Yboy?

    Only one thing to say: Y, boy?

    (as the mixed race female instagram influencer manically switches from sultry disappointment to extreme anger, then to giggling, while leaning down exposing her cleavage as she wags her finger)

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    DirectX13 will be a wrapper windows only API for vulkan /s

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Game Pass availability on all consoles. I'm calling it.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They're going back to Windows PC gaming so that Linux doesn't take over.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I hope they announce a controller with gyro

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