God this guy broke ToS while connected to the internet? Can’t MigSwitchs run offline? I thought it was just a cart dump.

Giving Outer Wilds another go from a new save. I played 5 years ago but got stuck and gave up.

10/10 comment

That all sounds true to me. I’ve been with Sony for PS1, 2, 4 and 5 but had an Xbox OG/360. I’ve got to say I’m surprised that M$ hasn’t with all their trillions been able to create a platform yet that makes them dominate in either the PC or console space. That said, I mustn’t be the only one who thinks that the PS5 generation has been such a bad sign for the future of Sony. In 5 years I’ve played 3 good exclusive games on the system, the console has frankly been a waste of money.

And they’ve had 12 live service games in development. 12 great single player or couch coop exclusives would have been fucking great, but instead they’re chasing the live service dragon.

That could be compelling. I think they would want to design the OS in a way that strongly incentivises you to buy games through the Microsoft store, like SteamOS with the steam store. If they make it too flexible, they’ve just sold hardware at a loss to be someone’s steam machine as well as making the OS potentially too complicated for a normal person to figure out.

If they can make a windows machine that can play all of the old Xbox games, run other storefronts, and do quick resume/hibernate properly, I’m interested. I was kind of waiting out for SteamOS on desktop to get a console like experience on a PC.

Yeah, maybe. The OS will be built around Game Pass like how SteamOS heavily incentivises you to use Steam. I think they’ll have a unified game launcher like Armory Crate on the ROG Ally devices.

That way, it’s a PC that you can use steam on, but the choice architecture and UX will be pushing you to the MS store.

Broadly speaking, what are Xbox looking to do here?

They optimise Windows for gaming and open up the console for other storefronts, then is it just a Steam device? They won’t make money from Steam sales.

Is this a cloud streaming device? Can you cloud stream games from other storefronts? It’s all incredibly vague to me.

Urgh…

The lost crown was extremely refreshing.

Loll, people will never stop getting these confused

Move fast and break things is not good when government is involved.

For me it’s 54,000,000,000 then my brain just glosses over the rest of the zeros. You could literally put other random symbols in the later digits number and I won’t see them.

Doomguy or Gordon, for sure

Absolutely. True creative games are made by smaller dev teams that aren’t forcing ray tracing and lifelike graphics. The new Indianna Jones game isn’t a GPU-selling card, and is the only game that I’ve personally had poor performance on with my 3070ti at 1440p.

Indeed. I think the last 6 months have been great value for PC game pass. Of course it goes against the OP/thread sentiment that Xbox is ripping everyone off.

I buy on steam/key resellers at heavy discount most of the time, but game pass allows me to play new release games that are in the “looks interesting, but I’m not dropping full price to try this out” category of games.

There really is an XKCD for everything.

I think if you’re playing 1 new release game every month or two, you’re getting the value. I’m enjoying Avowed and Doom the Dark ages recently, but I’m very glad I didn’t pay for Doom.

Xbox has kind of been on a roll lately with the games they’ve added.

Epic games browser extension to see your library is 🤌 Must be difficult to implement! /s

Ssshhh…

But it’s okay for Goldman Sachs to demand that their workers augment their tasks with AI? Either it’s a tool that they are happy working with and incorporating into their business, or its not.

https://futurism.com/goldman-sachs-starts-replacing-bankers-ai