Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform

• CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only thing that makes me think it might work this time is that for some reason Microsoft has this magical ability to take a bad idea, make the shittiest possible iteration of it and have it mysteriously become the most widely-adopted standard against all logic.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It doesn’t need to work well.

  It needs to sound like it will make more money for MSFT’s board.

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Microsoft Board: But Google lost so much money on Stadia!

    Voice on speaker: but Google didnt have me, Bing.AI!

    Microsoft Board: DONE. MAKE US RICH!

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    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stadia was still a system you buy. What I’m talking about here is having a browser based gaming system where any computer could be used to play games, for subscription price of course.

      There are in fact currently places on the web that offer such services for Minecraft.

      And I’ll bet you anything they’ll make the subscription price really low at first. Borrowing from the Netflix model… Ben wants consoles and PCS have been outmoded and no one owns anything. They jack the price up.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Stadia worked on chrome browsers. I think you needed their controller though, but I got mine for free with a Chromecast purchase.

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Attitudes like that are not how we got a trillion dollars in spare data center infrastructure to find a use for!

  Those consumers will be happy owning nothing THIS time!!

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• Wilson@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh man, those stadia controllers. Not the stupidest $99 I’ve ever spent, but still pretty dumb.

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• dr_robotBones@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why the LLM-driven scarcity in computing parts of course, and a little bit of cartel behavior when Nintendo and Sony inevitably announce the same thing next year.

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