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Re: Mentally ill Microsoft fans suffer Linux envy, again

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On 2025-04-07 10:47 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Seems like Microsoft has given up trying with its Windows “handheld mode”
> idea to compete with the Linux-based Steam Deck. Instead, rumours are now
> spreading that it is going to come up with some kind of combination
> Windows+XBox product, maybe later this year.

The other rumours are that the Xbox will allow for people to sync their 
Steam libraries onto the Xbox. For me, that would be awesome. It would 
kill the requirement to use Windows to play the games.

> This sounds to me like such a pointless product. The whole raison d’être
> why XBox was created in the first place was as a tightly-controlled
> platform that would only run software (mainly games) that Microsoft
> permitted it to run. Whereas Windows was a more laissez-faire playground,
> where users could run pretty much what they wanted, whether it was game or
> not.
> 
> But XBox is not holding its own against the competition (from Sony,
> Nintendo etc) as well as it once was. And the deficiencies of Windows as a
> gaming platform are starkly highlighted by the Steam Deck, which is
> popularizing a new way of gaming that Windows is simply unsuited for.
> 
> So what’s Microsoft’s answer? Combine the two losers into one
> Frankenproduct, in the hope that their individual weaknesses will somehow
> shore each other up, instead of bringing each other down. It’s an act of
> desperation, with no clear strategy behind it. A swan song for XBox? Does
> seem like it.

The Xbox 360 was Microsoft's best chance to take over the gaming market, 
but the unit's unreliability killed the momentum. The Xbox One not being 
more powerful than the PS4 destroyed whatever hope holdouts had that the 
Xbox would become #1. I'm an Xbox guy myself, if only because I 
recognize that Microsoft was the innovator in what I most appreciate in 
gaming: achievements. The Xbox One never died on me and the Xbox Series 
S is still going strong. The fact that it is in a distant third place 
doesn't bother me one bit. However, giving us access to Steam within the 
Xbox will make things a lot more competitive.


-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
John 14:6

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OT: Mentally ill progressives call for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-07 21:43 -0400
  Re: OT: Mentally ill progressives call for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-07 19:09 -0700
  Re: Mentally ill Microsoft fans suffer Linux envy, again Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-08 02:47 +0000
    Re: Mentally ill Microsoft fans suffer Linux envy, again CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-08 08:38 -0400
      Re: Mentally ill Microsoft fans suffer Linux envy, again Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-08 21:10 +0000

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