Yeah I liked their games on the 360 so it sucked when they fumbled so bad. It looked like they were on the right track when they were investing in studios but I can’t really think of a decent exclusive that came out of that. Although that was around the time I stopped gaming for a while so may have missed something.
It’s interesting what will happen if Xbox leaves hardware. PlayStation probably gets more free reign to raise prices since Nintendo is a pretty different niche of the market and is pretty anti consumer too and a chunk of the market just won’t ever move to PC due to personal preferences.
Seems obvious to me that console gaming is a sinking ship and leaving it is the right move by Microsoft. Nobody wants to pay gaming PC prices for a shitty PC. The only exception to this is devices like the Steam Deck that you can actually use like a PC and do whatever you want, but no major console manufacturer will ever allow that.
I think they might just be moving to being a service and offloading the hardware to some kind of ‘second-party’ arrangement where MS won’t manufacture an ‘xbox’ again, but ASUS or Razer or something will make various tiers of standardised ‘xbox’ devices and handhelds
I reckon they’ll keep the studios and even still have some timed and some full exclusives, which will keep game pass chugging. But maybe the days of the actual xbox console are over?
surely the have to keep making the controller though, it’s the highest quality one with direct PC support (and therefore support for any new device strategy). if they kill off the controller, it’s joever
I bought an 8bitdo controller since it had hall-effect sticks and USB-C cabling, and was like $20; the shape isn’t quite as nice as the Xbox controller but it seems well made. There’s some weirdness in my super-corner-case scenario though. (GoG release Breath of Fire IV through Proton doesn’t map the controls correctly)
It’s surprising that premium controllers have sort of stagnated. Outside of fightsticks, most third party controllers still carry the baggage of MadCatz and $10 throwaways that say “P4” or “Xobx” on the box.
Keyboards and mice have gone from $10 packins to near-Veblen goods with $100+ choices, surely some manufacturers want that for controllers too.
8bitdo’s Ultimate controller line is probably the best I’ve ever used, and it slays me that those have Hall effect sticks when the ones sold by the multibillion dollar console manufacturers at twice the price don’t
Yeah I liked their games on the 360 so it sucked when they fumbled so bad. It looked like they were on the right track when they were investing in studios but I can’t really think of a decent exclusive that came out of that. Although that was around the time I stopped gaming for a while so may have missed something.
It’s interesting what will happen if Xbox leaves hardware. PlayStation probably gets more free reign to raise prices since Nintendo is a pretty different niche of the market and is pretty anti consumer too and a chunk of the market just won’t ever move to PC due to personal preferences.
Microsoft really can’t compete with valve and the PC handheld market either. Idk what that means for Sony tho.
Seems obvious to me that console gaming is a sinking ship and leaving it is the right move by Microsoft. Nobody wants to pay gaming PC prices for a shitty PC. The only exception to this is devices like the Steam Deck that you can actually use like a PC and do whatever you want, but no major console manufacturer will ever allow that.
I think they might just be moving to being a service and offloading the hardware to some kind of ‘second-party’ arrangement where MS won’t manufacture an ‘xbox’ again, but ASUS or Razer or something will make various tiers of standardised ‘xbox’ devices and handhelds
I reckon they’ll keep the studios and even still have some timed and some full exclusives, which will keep game pass chugging. But maybe the days of the actual xbox console are over?
surely the have to keep making the controller though, it’s the highest quality one with direct PC support (and therefore support for any new device strategy). if they kill off the controller, it’s joever
I bought an 8bitdo controller since it had hall-effect sticks and USB-C cabling, and was like $20; the shape isn’t quite as nice as the Xbox controller but it seems well made. There’s some weirdness in my super-corner-case scenario though. (GoG release Breath of Fire IV through Proton doesn’t map the controls correctly)
It’s surprising that premium controllers have sort of stagnated. Outside of fightsticks, most third party controllers still carry the baggage of MadCatz and $10 throwaways that say “P4” or “Xobx” on the box.
Keyboards and mice have gone from $10 packins to near-Veblen goods with $100+ choices, surely some manufacturers want that for controllers too.
8bitdo’s Ultimate controller line is probably the best I’ve ever used, and it slays me that those have Hall effect sticks when the ones sold by the multibillion dollar console manufacturers at twice the price don’t
Yep, compatibility layers can be real pains. Count yourself lucky all that’s broken is controller mapping.