A PC, supposedly being able to replace OS, would be counterproductive as it would “disturb” Xbox closed ecosystem if successful. Something locked like a modern android smartphone would be a bit more conservative, but still dangerous if successful.

At this point the most closed/safer option for Microsoft is to simply roll out a mobile Xbox (protected and customized hardware to make impossible to use as alternative). Microsoft could sell at loss, and they could decisively go below SteamDeck price and count that “sleepy Valve” wouldn’t counterattack with anything.

GTAVI will not be just a console exclusive, probably it will become an Epic Store exclusive on PC. There could be tons of useless discussion about what companies shoud or should not do; but in the end, companies exist only to the extend of their customer’s money. T2 strategy paid off, becouse their customer bougt GTAV repetedtly when came on PS3 generation, then PS4, then PS4Pro, then Epic Store and etc. etc.They sold one single AAA multiple time with relatively low effort (definetly not the cost of this many AAA games): their growth was done on their customer’s stupidity, so they now employ the same exact stratgy that works on stupid people… and make money.

BattleBorn, Lawbreakers, Skull&Bones and Concord; the biggest f* to AAA (and “AAAA”) industry. You crash, so the Indie rise.

They will monetize GTVI like GTAV, they will double/triple dip with exlusivity on both hardware (console) and PC launcher (Epic): customers wallet voted for this to the bone.

Don’t forget you can always backup and store all your games, the EULA companies make you sign don’t substitute the laws: if they are selling you stuff, if the use the word “buy”… they either owe you a product or they are lying.

The argument of the “exclusivity” is a really weird one; I know there’s some social engineering so people get aside logic in favour of tribalism.

But you don’t need that much logic, it’s really basic.

1. If a game isn’t exclusive for your console… you can still buy and play it
2. If there exclusive games for your console… by competition rules the console of “your enemy” also need to have exclusives: less choice you have in the run.

Not for cyberpunk 2077 on GoG, Assassin Creed [stuff] on uPlay, whatever EA thing EA is selling on Origin etc. Also, you can sell steam keys for your own gane, on your own store, without having to pay Valve.

Well the industry is looking at Baldur’s Gate 3 to learn how fantasy RPG are supposed to be made. CEO thinks the only thing really missing is the only thing BG3 does NOT have.

I swear, in the future history books end of 1900 and early 2000 will be see as the era of “joke industry”… and the clowns are all the CEOs. Same shit with VR and their closed ecosystem, instead open source such as Linux, Apache server and HTML open standard that made what internet is today.

Corpo shit: “We will have hardware with this great math/science discover. But it will wallgarden so the hardware will strictly tied to make us money and nobody else”

Common sense: “what about open source? It will serve more people and, thus, more money”

Corpo shit: “BUT I WANT ALL THE MONE”

fancy new tech becomes fad.

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Not a build, what I am thinking it’s exactly as a raspberryPi5 is, just slightly more powerful. The idea is to kickstart sort of DIY PC console, in which Valve sell you just the very bare bones (CPU/GPU/ram and only strictly necessary I/O, just like the RPI5 board) + some key license for games to test things out, then anybody can build up whatever they want, even plugging an external GPU if so they desire.

edit: also this may be of interest

What does Valve actually need: sell a x86 SoC PC for extra-extra cheap… barely capable to run 720p60fpd high quality, and extremely well optimized, videogames such as Resident Evil4 Remake and latest Doom, bundle the SoC with those games to the point it may look as you’re just buying regular bundled games but the PC to run it comes for free.

IE: 140€ to get Resident Evil Remake 2,3 and 4 for +the SoC: You just need to add the disk space (MictoSD/SSD) to download&run OS+games.

Dunno why, probably some trickery on pcgamesn, the actual headline was fine when I read it through RSS update, it was fine when I’ve open the article… but then Lemmy suggested the scummy headline (and I didn’t notice) that pcgamesn was still hiding somewhere. I had to manually fix the title, I guess this is a scummy trick for reddit instead: you can’t edit titles over there

Edit: for those confused, you can still read the usual scummy clickbait title in the post content over there

People is going crazy with these b/w filter just to make variations of Elon’s salute.

To counterbalance the two stick up in his ass

Roblox is making lot of money… so why they (gamersplan) need to make an ad for it?

Why even do this? All this does is make scalpers rich. When will NVDIA learn

Scalpers helps with price inflation. What did Nvidia learn it’s to keep making trillions; I wonder if they are realizing they are quickly becoming an hated company.

Wait, you actually mean that Sony doesn’t give you money for free so you can make even more? That’s shocking!

All true, but too many people tend to forget that the very first game in the world of console generation to have online cross play was Fortnite for Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox.

Also, Sony and Microsoft held back PUBG crossplay in the very momentum in which battle royale was exploding (ignited by PUBG itself)