Yeah but half the internet, including some things posted to Hexbear, seems to think it’s a real competitor. People are saying that this is good and will harken real competition back into the console market. That’s not what this is at all.
The entire gaming industry right now is just Microsoft, gambling you can’t win targetted at children, and Sony/Nintendo + developers joined at the hip.
Like how the steamdeck inspired copycats it might breath some life into PC hardware, and reduce microsoft’s stranglehold a bit/lifeboat some people fleeing windows but it’s not like this will magically let you run sony/nintendo exclusives + your back catalogue, provide the game gamepass integration as xbox/windows, or move your friends and gamerbro expensive pixels.
If anyone thinks that they probably don’t grok how entrenched the big 3 are, they’re part of people’s identities and have like geopolitical influence lol.
Yeah but half the internet, including some things posted to Hexbear, seems to think it’s a real competitor. People are saying that this is good and will harken real competition back into the console market. That’s not what this is at all.
The entire gaming industry right now is just Microsoft, gambling you can’t win targetted at children, and Sony/Nintendo + developers joined at the hip.
Like how the steamdeck inspired copycats it might breath some life into PC hardware, and reduce microsoft’s stranglehold a bit/lifeboat some people fleeing windows but it’s not like this will magically let you run sony/nintendo exclusives + your back catalogue, provide the game gamepass integration as xbox/windows, or move your friends and gamerbro expensive pixels.
If anyone thinks that they probably don’t grok how entrenched the big 3 are, they’re part of people’s identities and have like geopolitical influence lol.