Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days agoI don’t understand how that’s any different than what I’m saying. They “aren’t even thinking about it until next year at least.” How is that at all incompatible with what I’m saying? That’s not even a promise that they’re going to make one. It’s the verbal acknowledgment that within a year they might think about building something again. That’s so flimsy and does not require any accountability/commitment from them.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, I did. I also didn’t read between the lines and take that to mean that they’re not working on it, investing in it, etc. It just means that we can’t predict the future, and what makes sense now might not make sense in a few years when the technology does exist. The Outlook section was the author’s conjecture of what could come to pass, but he can’t predict the future either.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It’s not reading between the lines. They are literally saying they are not working on it right now, and that they might next year. If if if’s abound. I just don’t understand how you’re treating this as another steam deck is in the works.
Like throw down a date. Give me a year. When do you think they’re going to drop another steam deck? Based on the information you have seen, I don’t understand how you can come to any sort of concrete statement without reading between the lines yourself.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“We are working on Steam Deck 2,” Aldehayyat chimed in. “There is going to be a successor.”
That was seven months ago, and it’s very clear. Successful gaming hardware usually starts prototyping the next one very quickly, even if it’s years away. If they didn’t, then they’d always lag far behind the latest technology. Valve don’t know the year. With tariffs alone, trying to set a release date for a new piece of hardware could be a nightmare.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It’s strange to me that they said that and then in the more recent article walked back that promise but fair enough. I’ve never seen this one before so TIL