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What is the point of Xbox? (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 6 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft’s not teasing Halo on Playstation out of desperation. They’ve nearly ended consoles.

Which is kind of a good thing. The console wars have been large irrelevant for the past 20 years, because PC already won.

Really, Steam won. And if Microsoft isn't careful, all of that planning to shift gamers towards PCs will have them land squarely into the Steam/Linux ecosystem. It really depends on how hard Microsoft wants to abuse their near-monopoly with Windows 11.

[–] FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Which is kind of a good thing. The console wars have been large irrelevant for the past 20 years, because PC already won.

Nope, Mobile won. PC and Consoles combined are not even reaching the revenue, number of releases or players of mobile gaming.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but mobile gaming is largely a very different animal. I don't feel that comparing them is helpful at all. They're very different audiences, and very different games. While I'm sure there's some overlap they're very much not interchangeable.

Any major studio releasing a AAA game with the level of microtransactions and blatant money-bait that mobile games regularly get away with would be absolutely annihilated by public outrage.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Comparing apples and turds.