Imaginedvl said:
smroadkill15 said:
I'm already seeing some damage control with this Xbox handheld rumor. Who would have thought a "dead" hardware brand would ruffle so many feathers. |
To be honnest; I do not understand at all the console war people. Even from the start (and hardcore Xbox fans may disagree with me); having Xbox games releasing on Play Station is a good thing for them lol... But instead of being happy about it; those idiots (the console wars freaks) are making this about how bad it is etc.. They do not understand that without Xbox and Nintendo, those idiots would be paying even more that what Sony is screwing them with right now... So instead of being happy about what Xbox is doing (granted, they would not do that if they would not be in that position since the Xbox One); they keep going at trying to downplay everything even if it is in their favor... Internet is just weird |
The thing is, these people have yet to fully and actually realise that the console wars are dead and gone, a relic of the past.
Today it really and truly is about the company ecosystem, about what each company can offer within each given ecosystem they operate/own. This is why we're seeing more pushing for account creation/profile migration, instead of "buy my piece of plastic and stay locked down to that single piece of plastic", now it's "buy any piece of plastic and sign into my ecosystem account anywhere in the world on nearly any device".
But the console warriors cannot accept this kind of change, because it really fucks with the original style in which the console wars were constructed. No longer is it about a piece of plastic, a closed box and said closed box's lifetime sales, but now it's all about how many people they can reach and how many games they can deliver, and what extra functionalities said company can provide it's customers (which in turn end up forming multiple layers of competition between other companies providing similar aspects to their ecosystems).
What I really do not get, is why some people are strictly comparing any handheld device to the Switch and claiming some made up rules that "it has to be compared this way or the device isn't a device and it'll fail". No, what matters is what the device can offer, what level and degree of functionality it can provide that matters. No one buys a ROG Ally, fully expecting Nintendo-level 1st party games, because that logic is dumb and fanboyish of an expectation.
The reason I want to buy a Steam Deck is because I know I'll be able to use it on the go, use it as a mini desktop, as well as gain access to the games I already own on Steam, thus saving me money in the long-run.