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.
So QA will be ass-shite
Totally going to be a rebranded MSI Claw mark my words.
They would be last on my interest list.
Unfortunately, it is likely to still be running Windows
The End.
Why bother at this point? The market is oversaturated with dozens of devices with very little difference between them.
It seems this is more of a trial run, and the console in 2027 would ideally be an xbox OS handheld compatible with that catalogue of games…
Ideally by then they will be blurring the lines between console and pc, and we will see some form of cross compatability.
We will see if they f that up though.
We will see
ifhow they f that up though.
Oh this is like 90% guaranteed to be bad. Handheld gaming on windows just looks miserable with how bloated the OS is.
Plus they will use it to promote subscriptions. Ubisoft gets hammered for:
“gamers need to get used to not owning their games”
Microsoft who is the company that actually popularised the model, gets no flack.
I literally got censored (because I wrote like a cunt) on sh.itjust.works because I told off one of the ad company representatives sniffing around lemmy. MS spends Elon kinds of money to whitewash their image on social platforms while being one of the worst thing that happened to the gaming hobby.
Ive posted about this before, but yeah the subscription multiplayer model is probably the biggest hurdle keeping xbox games from going fully cross compatible with pc, even more than the technical challenges.
Microsoft could dump funds into a compatibility layer making xbox games work via their UWP-based App store, but they cant because of what that means for their monetization of multiplayer.
People wont welcome them charging for multiplayer on games theyre playing on their PC, so MS would rather focus on a streaming only future, where subscription is mandatory to play.
They will never be good guy Microsoft unless forced. I dont think theyre desperate enough to eliminate the multiplayer subscription, and they will probably liquidate the brand before they ever give up that income stream.
Lol, gamers hate on Microsoft constantly, I don’t think their image is remotely white washed.
And the primary reason that Microsoft is so heavily associated with gaming (and CAD software, etc), is because they’re the ones who built DirectX, which creates an abstraction layer that developers can target without worrying about the underlying hardware and graphics cards.
Nowa days we finally have OpenGL and it’s successors, but Microsoft’s link to gaming was established by spending decades being basically the only company willing to create a more flexible and open gaming platform than consoles. Is that as nice as having open source code and standards as the abstraction layer? No, but it’s a lot nicer than Apple, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, etc who all wanted to tie the hardware directly to the games.
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See what I mean
Lol, gamers hate on Microsoft constantly, I don’t think their image is remotely white washed.
And the primary reason that Microsoft is so heavily associated with gaming (and CAD software, etc), is because they’re the ones who built DirectX, which creates an abstraction layer that developers can target without worrying about the underlying hardware and graphics cards.
Nowa days we finally have OpenGL and it’s successors, but Microsoft’s link to gaming was established by spending decades being basically the only company willing to create a more flexible and open gaming platform than consoles. Is that as nice as having open source code and standards as the abstraction layer? No, but it’s a lot nicer than Apple, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, etc who all wanted to tie the hardware directly to the games.
OpenGL predates DirectX by several years and yet here we have someone spreading manifestly wrong information. Even Direct3D which is what should be mentioned came AFTER OpenGL. Microsoft is a trust, cheats bribes and breaks the law to maintain that trust and as a company should really be exploded into several smaller companies so that the market can have real competition again.
“Rule 9: Use the original source”
So here it is: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-hardware-report-project-keenan-next-gen-xbox-2027
Feels like something that is gonna blow but I am curious to see what they do with it. Though its been a rough few years for xbox.
They will ship it, and then drop support for it after a year.
Sounds about right for Microsoft. Def don’t have the highest hopes for this lol
Honestly the idea of a Gamepass Centric handheld is one I’m surprised they didn’t go for already. If they push it with just the Xbox styled front end, it’ll probably be more appealing than the xbox itself
Its not enough, my steamdeck streams xbox games just fine. Unless their pc handheld simultaneously offers near 100% pc game compatibility with an interface as easy to use as steamOS… They wont make a splash with this product(at ~$500).
That probably doesnt matter because this device is just a brand teamup MS thinks is warming people up to the idea of an xbox handheld, when in reality I think it will dilute its reception.
