Console wars are over. Microsoft ramping up 3rd party development. |UP| Chris Dring: Xbox flatlining in EU, Xbox games coming to PS & less focus on GP

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I remember. Then the mod team got co-opted by the radical set and turned the forum into new, far worse flavour of cesspit, then the user base heist happened, and now it is Tyler's private sandbox and as much of a cesspit as ever, just now overrun with Xbox shills and with impotent moderators, and no insiders except for Elder Legend.
I mean, back in the days they even had a Japanese culture expert on hand!
 

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Hybrids pretty much are consoles, so Valve and various PC manufacturers are there already. Smart tv apps too.
PC disguised as portables are not consoles.
Just look at their sales.
They are a PC device.

Consoles continue being consoles… and the only “hybrid” is Switch.

I mean consoles sells over 100 millions.
PC devices will be amazed happy if reach 5 million.

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Nobody new is entering the console space. It will be a losing battle. Nobody would buy it. Apple is content with mobile gaming and mobile is the biggest money maker in gaming.
Apple could ship an Apple TV with a decent M3 chip inside made for gaming... with a controller, if they bother to get some exclusives it would be better than xbox, pretty easily.

They have the tech.
Consoles are already closed, just like the phones, so clients could not "revolt"

Another option would be Steam OS based "consoles" like the steam deck, two main options:
1 - Build your box and install the OS
2 - Pre-built boxes (like the steam deck, but console performance ballpark)
Having semi open consoles would be great actually!
 
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Hybrids pretty much are consoles, so Valve and various PC manufacturers are there already. Smart tv apps too.
Yes, the competition won't be quite as direct as a home console.

It will be small form factor pcs , hybrid handhelds, mobile phones with better and better chips.

Sony's best bet is doubling down on console refreshes and more exclusive games that push graphics.
Building out the model so others find it hard to replicate the funding to make such high level games.
 
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That Nick guy is a jackass. He’s acting he’s never been wrong with his so called inside information.

With the way Xbox performs it’s not hard to believe MS will eventually go 3rd party.
 

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Where it’s at.
Apple could ship an Apple TV with a decent M3 chip inside made for gaming... with a controller, if they bother to get some exclusives it would be better than xbox, pretty easily.

They have the tech.
Consoles are already closed, just like the phones, so clients could not "revolt"

Another option would be Steam OS based "consoles" like the steam deck, two main options:
1 - Build your box and install the OS
2 - Pre-built boxes (like the steam deck, but console performance ballpark)
Having semi open consoles would be great actually!
Your Steam console idea is basically a PC. Fuck that.
 
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PC disguised as portables are not consoles.
Just look at their sales.
They are a PC device.
The only form factor difference between a Switch and a Steam Deck is that the deck doesm't have detachable joycons or a physical media port. Now, you can argue that the Deck isn't "successful" because its main comparison has outsold it 75 to 1 but as far as function goes the two are nearly identical.
 
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The only form factor difference between a Switch and a Steam Deck is that the deck doesm't have detachable joycons or a physical media port. Now, you can argue that the Deck isn't "successful" because its main comparison has outsold it 75 to 1 but as far as function goes the two are nearly identical.
Sure lol

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Not talking about the system is not optimal for a portable.