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Microsoft is the biggest threat to Xbox.
Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck]
Submitted 7 months ago by thingsiplay@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Naturally Microsoft will respond by further enshittifying their own platform then just buying up the competitors to save themselves.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
the steam deck smells better than the xbox too
krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
the fumes man the fumes
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Fan the Deck turned into a clickbait whore and became like Deck Ready
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
This is the way YouTube likes it, unfortunately
zurohki@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Praise be to the mighty algorithm.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I don’t agree that Fan the Deck became too much clickbait. I know Deck Ready too and its incredibly bad with his clickbait. Stopped watching Deck Ready. But regardless of the title in this video from Fan the Deck, I had same expectations as you, if you watch the content then the title makes sense and is not clickbait. I agree on every point and the recap he did in the beginning too.
Regardless what you think, if I am paid to write this or not, I mean it when I say this video title is not misleading clickbait.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I stopped watching deck ready because they are clickbait whores and found fan the deck because he initially wasn’t and it was a breath of fresh air.
Zworf@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Nah. Playstation is the biggest threat to the Xbox.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You know the PS5 is being discontinued with no PS6 on the horizon right?
LordJer@beehaw.org 7 months ago
As an Xbox owner I’ve come to realize that buying that console may not of been the best decision.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Backwards compatibility is great though. It’s the most convenient way of playing console exclusives from the 360 generation in particular, especially those that run at higher resolutions now.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Honestly Console gaming will be nothing but a distant memory in 10 years
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Meh. They are their own worst enemy. If you’re going to make a console, you have to give people reasons to buy it. Their lack of console selling games isn’t the steam deck’s fault.
I thought the ps3 might kill Sony’s console dreams but they buckled down and delivered with the ps4.
M$ can salvage this, if they genuinely reflect and start delivering.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sony also built up momentum during the second half of the PS3’s lifespan by focusing on what’s most important for a games console: games. And they made the PS3 more affordable and therefore accessible with a great, focused PS3 redesign in form of the PS3 Slim, saving costs while only cutting features that weren’t really important to most potential customers (PS2 backwards compatibility).
They took that momentum, watched Microsoft fail and made a home run with the PS4 based on the perfect storm that was created.
The PS5 was simply a continuation of their good form, and Microsoft has just been going along with their Xbox brand and consoles, seemingly not knowing where to go, buying studios left and right which then proceed to release mediocre titles. They also tried something with their subscription service, but it turns out most people just buy the games they want to play instead of picking from a selection of games of which they wouldn’t have chosen most of them if they weren’t included in a subscription.
warm@kbin.earth 7 months ago
After being away from consoles for a long time now, they really have little appeal beyond their easy setup and cheaper hardware. The exclusives on any console are not worth buying a whole new console to play. There's so much more value in PC gaming, the intial barrier of entry and possible technical problems just put people off.
I really think Steam Machines could make a major comeback now, the deck has proved the software side, SteamOS is much more mature.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 7 months ago
The video content isn’t talking about the current market or the past, but how Steam Deck is the biggest threat to Xbox in the future. Xbox has a lot of potential. The leadership changed (which is addressed in this video too). When Microsoft was at its worse, Steve Ballmer was the boss of Microsoft and Don Mattrick was ruining Xbox in the ground with XBox One. Now we have Satya Nadella and have Spencer, who did bring back the Xbox brand and seem to understand their stuff better.