Looks like top management has completely given up on gaming following the disastrous acquisitions of Activision and Zenimax.
They’ve killed their first party studios, their hardware and now their last remaining thing which was the game pass.
Always remember, Fitgirl is free.
I’m not smart enough to know this, but it seems like consoles would be really useful if they were more self-contained? Like games come in cartridges and sometimes those cartridges have additional hardware so the game runs smoother with better graphics than it would on PC. I suspect this is too costly, which is why consoles have moved away from the cartridge.
One of the advantages of the Super NES, for example, was you just plugged games in and there were zero load times. I know the N64 and various Gameboy games had additional hardware built into some cartridges to do things the console wouldn’t normally be able to do.
I think if a major company (Sega?) put out something like the Playdate it would do very well. The desire for more graphical power was a mistake and limitation breeds creativity.
Unfortunately, cartridges are crazy expensive, especially if you’re adding extra hardware. Baba Is You and Undertale are both great games that would seem like ideal games for a simple modern console, but tbh I would not pay $140 for either game.