| Ryuu96 said: @Zippy6 Did that Discord leak mention February as the date too? Cause if so, that Discord leak looks legit now, Lol. I still can't wrap my head around how it makes financial sense for the manufacturers though. Basically treating Xbox like Windows, OEMs will build hardware while Xbox licenses the Xbox OS or the Windows OS? So we'll still have hardware but by multiple different OEMs, different types of hardware like handhelds. Still not sure where the money comes in from the OEM unless Xbox gives them a decent split of the store revenue. But Steam Machines failed |
It's an odd concept for sure. To build a PC that roughly matches the specs on a Series X currently, you'd have to spend about $600. That is buying parts at retail of course, the OEM manufacturers Xbox will be partnering with will be buying parts wholesale, which will save them a fair amount in build cost over what a home-PC builder would spend, but still they will need to price them high enough to make a profit (unless Microsoft subsidizes some of the build cost), so the cost to buy one will be no less than just building your own PC at any spec level most likely. It just doesn't make sense to me, there is a reason why Steam Machine failed.
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