Xbox announces partnership with AMD for "next generation Xbox consoles"

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zero129 said:

RolStoppable said:

You've been smoking weed again, haven't you?

Yes i have but thats not the point. Why is it only some Nintendo fans thats missing the whole point of this deal the whole OS thing?. No one is going to beat Nintendo when it comes to handhelds but thats changing the facts if whats really going on here its not about Nintendo at all.

But it is the point, zero. Just look at what you said not too long afterwards:

zero129 said:

Pemalite said:

Steam has absolutely been bizarre.

It's basically taking over... By simply doing nothing.
No big giant advertising campaigns, no big social media pushes, no big giant gaming convention presence, no "directs" and no undercutting the competition like Epic... They just win by releasing solid products/services and literally doing nothing.

...And by doing nothing they haven't had any drama or politics surrounding Valve to the same extent as the console manufacturers.

This. In the end Steam and VAlve is going to be the winner.

You say that Steam is going to be the winner which is what I've said as well. In the first post above you also said that nobody is going to beat Nintendo, so that's already two of Microsoft's competitors we agree on. You probably don't think that Sony will go down either, so you'll inevitably arrive at the same conclusion as these Nintendo fans you complained about have arrived at.

This irrationality is the result of what weed does to you.

HoloDust said:

Not going to say that I know if they'll accomplish that goal, although I think they've learned a few lessons along the way from the other areas they've botched and they're trying not to repeat them. But I think what they've been doing is geared toward that goal, and they are in quite unique position to achieve it before anyone else - they have experience in gaming industry with lot of AAA dev studios, Gamepass is first truly successful large scale "all you can eat" gaming subscription service that resembles video on demand subscription services, and their computing infrastructure has largest worldwide coverage (quite a bit above both Google and Amazon).

So yeah, I can see them succeeding in becoming Netflix for games in the future...how far away that future is, and will they manage to cross successfully this transitional period is anyone's guess.

Is there proof that Game Pass is successful? Between Microsoft selling subscriptions at a very low price early on and the current situation where Microsoft has to pay off publisher to put games on the service, it's hard to imagine that this is a self-sustaining business already. There's also an industry-wide reluctance to launch games day and date on Game Pass and as long as it remains it that way, most of the latest and greatest games will arrive on Game Pass late, if at all.

Netflix produces exclusive shows and movies for their service, but Microsoft has no intention to do the same for theirs. If we looked at a to-do-list that Microsoft has to fulfill, we could likely check a few of the supplemental points like you've done already in your post. But the essential points - and they all revolve around the content that is available on the service - aren't in good shape.