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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I love how nobody here is getting me actual picture. They're not going to sell Xbox to people anymore. What's going to happen is they're going to turn to a subscriber model where you have to log into a data center that they control and use your browser to play video games. Paying a monthly subscription for the privilege of playing their exclusive games. In fact I will bet money that the first product that will be introduced with this feature is going to be the highly anticipated upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6.

Mark my words. Either at the time of release or shortly thereafter they're going to introduce the ability to subscribe to play GTA 6 in your browser on a remote gaming system. And then they're going to phase out physical Xbox systems over the next couple of years.

[-] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

To play games coded by a shitty AI, full of bugs and as many microtransactions as possible ...

[-] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I love my AI future.

Fuck.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This has been tried before and never worked well. What makes you think its going to work any better now?

I even have a free controller google gave me when they tried it.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The only thing that makes me think it might work this time is that for some reason Microsoft has this magical ability to take a bad idea, make the shittiest possible iteration of it and have it mysteriously become the most widely-adopted standard against all logic.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It doesn't need to work well.

It needs to sound like it will make more money for MSFT's board.

You're approaching this from the angle of 'is this a sensible and sustsinable long term business strategy.'

Nobody cares!

They care about LINE GO UP BIG FAST NOW!

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Microsoft Board: But Google lost so much money on Stadia!

Voice on speaker: but Google didnt have me, Bing.AI!

Microsoft Board: DONE. MAKE US RICH!

[-] Wilson@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Oh man, those stadia controllers. Not the stupidest $99 I've ever spent, but still pretty dumb.

[-] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The PS5 version of GTA6 is going to sell pretty well then

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

The old "we don't want to put any effort into creating anything good, we just want to milk this for cash until we can't anymore."

[-] KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It won’t be GTA6. It will be an exclusive title like a rebooted Halo or Gears of War. They can’t risk losing the money on GTA when people just go to PS5 and buy the game outright there.

[-] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 0 points 1 month ago

My cloud computing teacher says the future of personal computing is just monitors connected to the cloud. Why couldn't I have been born in the 70s?

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

When computers were just a teletype attached to a mainframe?

[-] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Well, I would've been a baby at that point, I'd grow up just in time for the exciting home computing scene.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sure, but realize that the current level of personal computing is a smartphone, we're not that far off from your home "PC" just being a display, KB, mouse, and maybe an interface for some external storage and peripherals. I wouldn't be shocked if that happenes some time in the next 10 years.

That being said, I think there will still be a significant group of people who will own their own hardware.

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