LogFAQs > #905713002

The Wave Master posted...

I read an article, that I now can't find, and don't really want to hunt down, about Microsoft looking at releasing a streaming only Xbox

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I kind of like the idea. Mainly because if they do it, I'll never have to worry about choosing between Sony and Microsoft again... because I'd never buy another Xbox again.

Though Microsoft basically wanted to push their way towards an all-digital future THIS gen, until everyone shat all over it, so this is just them assuming the problem was that they were just being ahead of their time, and that people will be more open to the idea in the future. So this really isn't a new direction for them to be pushing towards. And for their sake, maybe next time they'll actually hire a competent marketing team rather than just letting engineers try and explain why everyone should love the idea (which is part of what fucked them last time).

To be fair to them, though, the company as a whole has been against making the Xbox at all for like 10+ years now, so if they're still even thinking about making a next-gen console, that's sort of a win versus the alternative.

Still, personally at least, I've said for years that the moment gaming as a whole becomes a digital-only platform is the point where I cease to be a gamer (or, at least, one who plays games on a modern console versus older games). Not that they give a shit about ME personally, because I'm not in the core "live-service exploitation model" demo anyway, but still.

It also doesn't help that I've basically shunned PC gaming for 20+ years because of all the frustrations and annoyances I hate versus the conveniences of console, but now console makers seem determined to add every single annoyance and frustration I've ever had with PC gaming to consoles as well, while it's becoming easier and easier to hook a PC up to a TV to "couch game" or use controllers for PC games rather than being forced into mouse/keyboard controls. Which WOULD seem to push me more and more towards just saying "fuck it" and becoming a PC gamer... except a lot of the games I want to play aren't on PC, and a fair number of the ones that are seem to have terrible PC ports compared to how they run on console, so in the end I'd probably just give up on the whole mess entirely and just go play Minecraft.


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