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[-] kadu@lemmy.world 103 points 2 years ago

It's totally possible if they subsidize hardware costs and sell a PC with a fancy frontend and small form factor.

It's completely impossible if they're looking for custom hardware.

[-] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

This is what I was thinking. For a first iteration to get out the door immediately it could just be windows with a "game browser" that launches full screen when you turn it on đŸ˜‚

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, that's what all Steam Deck competitors really are. They're Windows 11 with atrocious launchers on top, some of which acceptable and some very buggy, plus a literal standard AMD APU that AMD is selling by the bucket, and half of them share board designs sold by Chinese suppliers pretty much ready made.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

That’s literally what the original Xbox was

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

They at least did the courtesy of deleting the Windows UI, though.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago

It wouldn't be Windows, it'd probably be a variant of Astra Linux.

The year of Linux may finally be among us.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It would have to run steamos or something the complexity of all the always-online launchers that modern triple a games has is something that steam handles well, and likely a huge trip up point on any frontend slapped on a windows pc

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Essentially just Playnite then?

[-] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

So? That's literally an Xbox...

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[-] meathorse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That is literally what the first Xbox was. It's internals was a custom mboard running a Celeron 700 and 3.5" HDD (can't remember what the graphics was based on, maybe a GeForce MX?) with a customised Win2k OS.

All approx. It's early and I can't be bothered confirming those specs are 100% accurate :p

so... repackage a pi?

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

There's a guy on youtube called CNCDan who did exactly that. SFF pc in a very nice 3d printed case with custom PCBs for the controller boards. If you're at all interested in that sort of thing I think he has a 9 part series on how he built it.

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just get one of those all in one 4"x4" PCs, slap a logo and a custom Linux distro on it and you have a console.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

It's totally gonna be a bunch of pirated games and a copy of Launchbox/Playnite lol

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 points 2 years ago

I am also half expecting them to adopt/steal hardware from other companies.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That’s literally what the original Xbox was

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

There was nothing small about the original Xbox.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

All hail The Duke!

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Every time I see an original Xbox I'm always amazed because in my memory it was a lot smaller. I used to carry that thing to and from school I have no idea how I managed that.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Original Xbox had custom OS. It run on something similar to Windows 2000 (NT 5) kernel though.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Was just a skin on win 2k and contained an intel chip.

It was just a PC in a box.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago

And not even a very optimized one.

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