Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨‍🔬 8 January, 2025

• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I need it to run games pass before its a serious consideration for me.

  I love steam, most of my games are in steam. But I cant justify ~1k on a steam OS handheld then 100 bucks on a new AAA title if its on gamespass for free.

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t play a wide enough variety of games to get games pass. If it ever becomes available on a SteamOS handheld you know Microsoft have given up

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    • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever noticed Lemmy do this before, but:

      ** Happy Cake Day!**

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      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thank you. I haven’t seen it come up either, it could be the app I’m using to browse Lemmy.

        Being on Aussie.zone has been one of the more pleasant parts of the past year

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was explaining this to the mrs the other day. Now that they have this “everything is an xbox” campaign I guess the question is does that extend to devices they compete with? iPhone/Android they dont have a horse in that race. Neither TVs or tablets. But Linux they directly compete with. So is EVERYTHING an xbox? Or just stuff they dont compete with.

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      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It goes deeper that Valve also released a gaming device. Gaming was over thing keeping people on Windows on their personal PCs, and not only did valve release and Xbox competitor, but with a different OS.

        Although, I did hear Microsoft would rather sell an Office 365 subscription rather than a one off copy of Windows. Games pass fits that business model as well so they might just get out of OSes and hardware and just become another subscription service provider

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