depends on what you mean with 'AI', like builder.ai

Is the game buggy? Worry not! Microsoft™ Copilot 365™ powered by Azure™ will analyze your gameplay in realtime, detect when a bug occurs, and redirect you to an AI generated troubleshooting page.

xbox one x was the last good console xbox made

Was it good? The Xbox 360 outsold it (by a lot), but even that was mostly luck because Sony notoriously fucked up the PS3 launch (and in the end, PS3 sold more anyways lmao). It also had the red ring of death issue.

The Xbox One was when they started the hardcore ramp up of enshittification which never ended even after continually losing in every way to the competition.

The OG Xbox worked well, and at least managed to outsell the GameCube (though not by a lot).

The sunk cost fallacy is a bitch

When you set an impossible goal (30% yoy profit margin for the gaming division), you know that you are killing off that division, just, slowly.

Satya just really wants an AI girlfriend that is also in everyone's homes simultaneously, that he can use to spy on everyone for the NSA.

Not that it directly matters, but I did literally work for MSFT during the 360 3RR / Windows 8 era.

I kinda know at least a little about the uh, corporate culture.

Xbox S One S Xbox:

Sexbox.

....Did I get it right?

Don't forget how there are like at least 4 simultaneous versions of Teams, at any given point in time.

That's what their actions felt like for decades yet somehow they've always kept chugging along.

Sorry to burst your bubble but the new head of Xbox has literally 0 experience with video games.

The woman that everyone was sure was Phil's second in command, being set up to be his replacement?

Yeah she just got told she was being overtopped, and she then seemingly just retired, she just 'resigned', not even a new position in MSFT or at another high falutin' gaming company or anything.

The new head of.Xbox is mainly a data scientist and project manager, managed instacart and other online etailer type apps.

Her speciality is using data to precisely squeeze as much money as possible out of a given service.

Which is what she will be doing.

Nah, shifting heavily toward being B2B.

Old Xbox actually did have a good number of people who just wanted to make cool video games.

... You gotta get rid of people with some semblance of duty and desire to achieve some kind of good in the world though.

That's how you maximize next quarter investor returns.

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!

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

You forgot about z Copilot version where AI has unrestricted ring 0 access to every single device, including your peacemaker - but in return it spies on you 24h!

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!

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.

Yes. Correct. Because they don't know what they're doing.

Just look at how they've positioned themselves in recent years: One, we always want to have the most powerful console to be the best. Two, we want people to be able to play anywhere with just a controller and no console required.
Talk about a kingdom divided.

I love my AI future.

Fuck.

I hate that Xbox is a joke now and that it's going to die out. I hate that there is going to be less competition in the console space. I hate that Microsoft have no idea what the fuck they're doing.

good

Indeed. Death to consoles. A piece of hardware/software creating a gated community where you're charged twice to use the entrance and then gaslit into thinking that it's a necessary fee.

Playstation is next; Nintendo has the securist market with its portable console.

I would think hand helds like the steam deck would be slowly strangling it but the switch 2 sold like hotcakes.

The Elder Scrolls 6, only available on Xbox® Game Pass© Ultimate Plus™ Cloud Gaming™®©

Playstation is next;

80% of the xbox crowd is probably gonna buy a playstation. Maybe a few will go for a PC and the rest for a switch.

Couch goblins that look into the future when considering the cost of a console might find the steam machine worthy when it releases.

Unironically the AI is trained using episodes of The IT Crowd.

We seriously need to get open source PC console community-made offerings up and running. To share the load of building that up. Community built up competitors and Valve will be enough.

Still I also would like to see some new players come in too.

Are there any companies that would do well in gaming? What if AMD made their own console?

Need more private companies like Valve, and some community open source options built up too

This sounds... plausible actually.
They have this big stake in GPU datacenters for AI, that are (and will be) burning incredible amounts of money and are not turning a profit anytime soon.
That same crazy level of investement on AI is making hardware costs go up, especially gaming hardware.

But Microsoft, being the benefactors who have inherited the company from philantropist and kids-lover Bill Gates, have thought of us! They will share a bit of their shiny GPU datacenters' plwer for gaming and all they will be asking for is a lot of your money.
I can see that.

The only reason I got a Switch 2 is because a company selling them here in Denmark made a HUGE pricing error. So I got a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World together for just 99 DKK, or 15 USD.

And how well do you think that's going to work? Sounds like a shitty service maybe five people will subscribe to, and then it dies a year later.

We've had subscription services like this already. I don't hear much of them anymore... Or at all... So I presume they're all dead.

It's not good for the consumer to have less competition on the market. But is there any legit reason to own an Xbox?

Haha, there's not much I wouldn't buy at a 95% discount.

I saw a thread the other day, something like "What low-level conspiracies do you genuinely believe"; to which someone replied that they believe that OpenAI is being speedrun to bankruptcy in order for Microsoft to buy their data centres for pennies on the dollar.

And yeah, it all kinda seems that could be a credible outcome, at which point MS will have a huge amount of equipment all ready to serve game streaming to people who can no longer afford to buy a home computer to do the same.

Is it going to happen? shrug

Could it? Absolutely.

I said GTA 6 will be the introduction. Not the closer.

As any drug dealer can tell you, you have to give them a taste in order to get them addicted then you can start to really charge them for the good stuff.

Stadia was still a system you buy. What I'm talking about here is having a browser based gaming system where any computer could be used to play games, for subscription price of course.

There are in fact currently places on the web that offer such services for Minecraft.

And I'll bet you anything they'll make the subscription price really low at first. Borrowing from the Netflix model... Then, once consoles and PCs have been outmoded and no one owns anything, they jack the price up.

Nearly all my music gear was bought used, at about that level of discount. People buy interesting gear, and never get around to tackling the learning curve, and eventually sell it off super cheap.

If you can be patient, and watch for the exact right gear at the exact right price, and you are focused on performance more than gourmet brand names, you can build a nice home recording studio for super cheap. It took me about two years, but all my gear, and all my instruments, probably didn't cost more than about $1500-2000 total, and most of it is brand new, or nearly so.

I explained the different xbox versions to my coworker and he almost had an aneurysm.

Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Slim, Xbox 360 Slim E, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X.

Dumbest names ever and 70% of the listings for these consoles, the owners don't even know what they are selling. They call a series X a xbox One, and vise versa. Just too damn confusing for people.

Yeah, it's the first 4k console that xbox produced and has a slim profile, looks good, has a great selection of games and backwards compatible games. I own 5 xbox 360's, it's my favorite xbox console, but not the LAST good console they made. It was their best console in my opinion. The original xbox had its own hard drive problems and the original controller that came with it is absolutely terrible, so they had to remake the S version that we actually could fit in our hands.

You have a point with that, but as long as consoles are easy to use they have their audience. I have both pc and ps5. I do mostly prefer my pc, but i honestly cant deny that ps has its merits. The time i have owned the one console i have needed to upgrade my pc twice.

As long as there is no convinient way for less computer savy people to play casually, consoles will be a thing.

And before you start to crusifix me, remember most people playing games do it casually and like it or not, those people are the majority and the audience that bring biggest part of the money in to the industry.

Just waiting for them to bring back Clippy as an AI agent...

What online sites are good for this?

Didnt stop them from killing windows phone

Only if you want to have the black and green version of Toy instead of the white and blue version, at this rate. Barring a handful of exclusives everything gets released on PS5 and Xbox now and maybe also a watered down port on the Switch/2. The current Xbox and Playstation are so architecturally similar to each other that they may as well be the same machine with the only difference being which asshole is at the helm, and for either of them you may as well have a PC.

When computers were just a teletype attached to a mainframe?

Some backward compatible games run better than emulators

Quietly?

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.

Which is funny, because they keep shooting it in the foot.

I once got a 2k camera + gear + extra (Sigma!) lenses for three fiddy. No Loch Ness monsters involved tho.

Doesn't remote gaming require everyone to have an unmetered and fast internet connection? There's still a lot of places where not everyone is that lucky.