Random Gaming Talk

[Besticus Maximus]

So Xbox handhelds are just Windows 11 portable PCs with Gamepass access? 

I guess that's the direction they've been heading in for a while now and I expect any future hardware to be licenced to any manufacturers who want to make it with Microsoft just setting the spec standards and stepping back to concentrate on software and OS.

It looks a lot like MS are going back to their good old Embrace, Extend, Extinguish playbook, but their goodwill with the PC gaming space is so far into the negative at this point I don't know what realistically they think they can do to get PC gamers giving a shit about whatever efforts they come up with.

Its almost unbelievable just how much good will they have squandered over the years to prop up what we can now all acknowledge was a huge fucking failed experiment in the Xbox, right?

They're targeting the weirdos who are xbox console first, the sort of people who hate JRPGs and have 20+ hours in grounded