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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 months agoThere was a time where it was worth the money because it was far and away better than any free online offering. That time was probably up to about 2010. Now that servers are paid for with digital game sales, it would behoove them to drop the fee. Instead, I think they’re just about to change the console market as we know it.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Instead, I think they’re just about to ~change~ end the console market as we know it.
FTFY
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Also accurate. But it’s looking like we’ll still have $500 machines called Xboxes and PlayStations, except they’ll just be fancy PCs. That’s my guess anyway.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Possibly. I can see Xbox backing out personally, and just putting their games on PC and the other consoles.
Sony will probably carry on… and Nintendo likely has a detailed business plan for the next 100 years.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sony’s already not carrying on. They’ve started putting their games on PC, which is a market that is, for the first time, larger than their console for the same game releases. Nintendo’s got another generation of hardware before they’ll need to change anything.
mememuseum@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They already are just PCs and have been since the PS4/XBone. It’s all just slightly customized PC hardware inside.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Even as far back as the first xbox, I remember some people installing Linux on it. It’s also why Halo later came out for the PC, because porting it wasn’t that difficult. Iirc, the first xbox didn’t run any Windows kernel but it did use direct x.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They don’t run the same executables that Steam does though, and I think that’s what’s about to change.