| Zippy6 said: I can't say this random discord screenshot posted on neogaf is legit or not. Dude supposedly knew info about Indiana Jones before the direct such as VA, Harrison Ford model etc. But I'm not really interested in discussing if what they said is true or not I'm more interested in just the hypothetical idea they put forward when they said "in talks with some manufacturers to make their own version of xbox consoles." I guess this would be kind of similar to what Valve wanted to do way back when they introduced Steam Machines. So different manufactures could all make their own "Xbox". I'm wondering how a strategy like that could turn out and if it would be a viable option for Xbox's next generation. I guess really it would turn out to be more like a set of prebuilt pc's with a windows based OS using a frontend optimised for gamepad.
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That doesn't sound good to me. id Software's next game has hardware selling capability most likely, so going multiplatform on it and other upcoming Bethesda games would be bad for them. 3rd party licensed Xbox consoles just sounds like it will be Steam Machine 2.0, PC manufacturers making cheaper, console form factor PC's branded with Xbox logos running a lower level, stripped down Xbox OS designed around controller useage. Steam Machine flopped spectacularly the first time around, they sold less than 500k of them across all manufacturers before it was cancelled 3 years after launch, and only a single model still survives to my knowledge (minus the Steam branding and OS, now runs Windows), and that is Cyber Power PC's Syber C series, which started as Steam Machines: https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/page/Syber/Syber-C/
I just don't see how giving away key system seller software to other platforms and making Steam Machine 2.0 would be a good thing for Xbox. Hopefully this guy just saw an early leak of the Developer Direct and then made up some BS to go alongside his accurate Indiana Jones details, it's definitely kind of sus that he leaked this only 3 days before the show, definitely seems like he may have just seen the show early somehow.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 19 January 2024
