Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 months agoJudging by how Sony is doing even though they clearly “won” with the PS5, it looks like consoles as we know them are not long for this world, and that seems to be the idea Microsoft is pivoting around.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Xbox should just go straight pc game setup for the living room. A mass produced windows (I know, blegh) pc with a pretty solid gpu and Xbox controllers. Basically the steam deck treatment for the living room.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
That’s pretty much what the Xbox has been since the beginning. The original runs fucking directX and runs so similarly to PCs of the era under the hood that porting shit to it is famously easy. It’s why the homebrew scene for it was so mind bogglingly huge.
Numerous times at E3 when they had demo units of new consoles people saw that the debug menus meant for staff were some mangled form of the current (at the time) Windows OS.
Most modern game consoles don’t use much specialty hardware anymore. The OG Switch uses the nvidea shield CPU just downclocked, and can run android easily. Some emulators literally run better on the Switch through Android than as homebrew “native” apps.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Yes, but games were always “xbox” games. I straight up mean open for pretty much all PC games to run on. If a game dev makes their game work with an x box control scheme, you can play it.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or if you want to plug in a mouse and keyboard. Or they could support controller mapping, like Steam. Or they could just let you install Steam on it.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I remember the OG XBOX was a Celeron processor and off the shelf PC components.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think signs are pointing toward that being their plan.