Xbox |OT|

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G2ThaUNiT said:

Ryuu96 said:

The Xbox Ally seems to be getting a lot of positive impressions, I'm a bit surprised, Lol, I didn't expect it to be bad or anything but I thought it would be a fairly "meh" response, especially since we heard rumours that Xbox's UI stuff was way off but it seems like there are some genuinely good performance gains and the device itself is pretty good.

Also...

I had a play on the new Xbox handheld. They may not sell in huge numbers, but by increasing engagement, they're potentially very lucrative

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— Christopher Dring (@dringo.bsky.social) 9 June 2025 at 15:24

We'll need to tap this sign a lot for everyone who thinks because this thing doesn't sell 20m+ it's a failure, Lol.

Yeah I'm seeing a LOT of positive impressions from tech youtubers who got to get some hands on that I trust like Retro Game Corps, Dave2D, and ETA Prime. Dave2D in particular had just recently shredded the new Lenovo Legion handheld that came with Windows versus the edition that comes with SteamOS. And deservedly so. The Windows edition cost more, OS being not suitable for handheld, and games ran worse.

With this new version of Windows, they're talking about how performance has been incredibly good up to this point, and even the UI is shockingly smooth that Dave2D has a hard time believing it lol.

Kinda funny that Xbox is finally becoming what Bill Gates originally wanted when he was sold on the Xbox concept......Windows on a game console.

MS should have done this a loooong time ago but they always wanted to put full fat Windows on everything.  Nothing like good competition to align a behemoth like MS into shape because many have stated MS should create a much lighter OS for games and just allow booting into that interface or some type of hotswap but MS management was so hard on trying to push fat windows on everything they couldn't fully understand what they were missing.