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They could turn the Xboxss into a streaming console, some games aren’t available on it but you can stream those games if you want for a cost of course.

It’s a big middle finger to people who bought the xboxss, but they are gonna need to get their cloud streaming numbers up to justify the expense at some point, and people are too addicted to the ms office subsidized gamepass service to switch to anything else, as long as it stays cheap.

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danielbln@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I bought an Xbox S and I wouldn’t mind, personally. To be fair, it’s mostly a streaming/Plex machine for me anyway.

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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The way I see it, the current setup they’ve got is a middle finger to both series s and series x owners. Series S owners because they’d be better off being able to play some games with reduced features (especially one like this that won’t matter at all to a decent portion of the players), and series X owners because they can’t play games their system is capable of handling because the s can’t handle all the features.

This issue wasn’t on my radar when I got my ps5 but I’m glad I inadvertently ended up picking the one without this issue.

Though I do wonder why it’s working so differently from the PC market where different capabilities are far more extreme than the difference between the S and X consoles. Is it just because people accept that some systems can’t run some games? Or is the difference between the two enough to reduce the targeted hardware optimisations they can make on consoles that don’t necessarily work as well on PCs?

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- echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No one certifies pc games, so there’s no one saying you can’t release this. The performance level is too poor for this platform. Microsoft won’t let you release if there is a big performance difference between the two platforms.
  
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