Episode 1 of the new video series, The Game Capsule TV. The argument stops here as we learn what the word "generation" means, and why it makes the Wii U a "next gen" console
New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma, who took over as the head of the Xbox business last week as longtime Xbox boss Phil Spencer retired, has confirmed the codename for Xbox's next-generation console – Project Helix – and also confirmed long-swirling rumors that the device will play Xbox and PC games.
Hm.
Selling to customers the benefits of Xbox Helix compared to a PC and Steam Machine will be the biggest task for Xbox' marketing, I suppose.
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I said when Xbox destroyed their future with with all their arrogance at the start of XBone”if they keep loosing money they only have 2 more generations before they exit the console market like sega.
This is their final chance to validate the existence of a console to the INVESTORS if this console fail as we all know without exclusives from the activision acquisition or their old exclusives for more than a year it’s game over for Xbox consoles.
Everyone know games will wait for a timed exclusive to go to their console of choice, Microsoft signed the Xbox console death certificate the moment they started PORTING ALL THEIR GAMES to other consoles.
Now my hope is that Valve gives Sony a run for their money and we get a good generation where they take risks and bring new experiences to the market.
They will make xbox “consoles”, but they actively downplay consoles because their business strategy is walled garden services
This is basically a PC w xbox logo
Xbox has put itself in a tough position... With current RAM prices, the system is going to cost a fortune (it's APU alone is $500-600, before you even get to the RAM, SSD, power supply, etc). So, we're looking at a 4 digit price tag, and it has the Gabecube to compete against now directly in that console space. It has no exclusive games at all. PS6 is coming in close in performance but expected to cost hundreds less, and PS6 Pro will likely again take the "most powerful crown" once it drops, but it will actually have exclusive games.
Not an easy sell to the general public, and not even an easy sell to the PC enthusiasts as it isn't powerful enough to justify paying that much for when you could just build a far more powerful PC for not much more $. If I'm dropping north of $1k on a game system, I'm going to want to go all out, not have mid-range performance. It'll be interesting how they plan on marketing this thing, and who they expect to buy it.
What changed?
Hey obscured 🤖🤖
I’ll explain it like to a IQ 9
Nothing has changed they kept loosing money and to please their INVESTORS Microsoft purchased activision and other developers spending more money they could make in WAAAAAY too long for the company CEO that love monetizing everything so they started porting to EVERYTHING they could (even fire stick🤣🤣).
Do you know why it’s called the big 3?
In the lat 70’s to early 80’ there was multiple companies with their own consoles each the market collapsed and only 2 survived, enter PlayStation, exit sega, exit google, Microsoft is destabilized and desperately start to port all their games EVERYWHERE, enter valve.
Now
W h a t do Y O U think w i l l h a p p e n t o
t h e 3rd leg of that triangle when one is warbling and a replacement is on the way.
I might be saying the obvious but any piece of hardware for as powerful as it could be, without an healthy portfolio of fun to play and engaging games is worth less tehn zero. So as long as the new XBOX will be marketed as the most powerful console on the planet and NOT as the ONLY place where true long lastying XBOX fans can impersonate their beloved characters/heroes this thing is going to fail big. I would love to think that Playstaiton is moving away from the PC ports also to keep its identity, the truth is that a console value is higher if that console is the only mean to access certain IPs. XBOX with gamepass and PC ports has depersonalized his player and fan base.
Just my two cents ... but I am sure there is some thurth in here.
Peace on !
Xbox has a huge library of great games. This new console will be able to play them all. Thats what gamers care about the most.
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The question will be if you have a PC, why buy a Xbox that plays PC and Xbox games… Unless they plan to have you buy a Xbox PC instead of a dedicated PC. Thats got to be the plan. Take some of the PC players and turn them into console PC players. They couldn’t give you full access to the PC/console like you can with a dedicated PC because you would think the piracy for the “dedicated” Xbox games would be crazy. Yeah, they are really going to have to explain who this is for. If you can install whatever you want then you would have Steam access. This directly copies the Steam box idea so I’m sure Steam isn’t happy about it. I guess time will tell.
Maybe it will be heavily subsidized so software sales will make up the loss to get it into peoples hands early and the system allows for a steam like environment. I think Sony knows since rumor has it that they will do less Pc ports.
I dont think that's in the cards not with the 80 plus billion spent on gaming this gen. Microsoft aint subsidizing hardware anymore look how they've priced the series consoles and offered no deals this past holidays. Sony pulling away from pc ports is because there is no good rational for continuing to do so.
Basically a PC with an Xbox logo slapped on, just like the so called Xbox handheld.
My guess is it won't play my Xbox games I have on disc 🤔
Nah, the handheld IS a PC. It can stream Xbox games or play the PC version of those games with "play anywhere".
This sounds like it will play Xbox games natively, which is amazing if true.
I want to see more. I already have a powerful PC so I need to be sold on this before just diving in. Tech whore that I am. Seems very interesting so far, regardless.
With the ninth mainline installment looming, it feels like the right moment to rank every mainline Resident Evil game from worst to best.
At first I was like, No Code Veronica on the list!? But then I seen Mainline. The list checks out, but I would personally put 2 over 4.
I'll take 2 over 4 also. And even without a number, I don't see how Code Veronica, my other favorite in the franchise, isn't mainline when it's the actual sequel to RE2.
The original RE was the best. Its not on the list which makes no sense.
The remake of it was alright but should be higher on this list.
Bloomberg reports Sony is weighing a next PlayStation delay to 2028 or 2029, while Nintendo considers a Switch 2 price increase in 2026.
Sony's Chief Financial Officer, Lin Tao, has officially stated that the PlayStation 5 is currently "only in the middle of its journey." During a recent earnings call on November 11, 2025, Tao emphasized the company's intention to extend the PS5's lifecycle, suggesting that they plan to support the console for several more years, potentially until 2030.
To even pretend that PS6 is "delayed" is disengenuous.
I'm not saying the console is or isn't delayed, but people are taking broad statements and just running with what they want to hear or what gets the most clicks which is always "Sony is doomed".
PlayStation 4 is still being supported by Sony, and will probably still be supported when PS6 releases. Even if PS6 released at the end of this year PS5 would still only be halfway through its life cycle.
The claim of "delayed" refers to a set time being pushed back. Sony hasn't set a time for release. "Delay" is on the headline.
Leadership stated that it most likely won't be until '29 or '30.
And we already had this rumor awhile ago.
https://n4g.com/news/268427...
They always say this kind of thing every generation with the idea that the current consoles "life cycle" extends into the life cycle of the next one.
Nothing is true, everything can be spun for press.
The PS4 is still here 5 years after the PS5 launched, now with a lifespan of 12/13 years.
We just got the PRO. And Sony had already mentioned we are only halfway through the generation. So yeah this makes sense.
Good
Ps5 feels barely started and we barely got out of the part where games are on ps4 as well
I agree. I got my PS5 at launch and the years have whizzed by. The PS4 is still out there and that's 12/13 years old.
agreed. I'm still using my launch PS4. that thing was built like a tank and still going strong to this day. sure I have my PS5 too and the launch PS4 feel a little redundant as all its games are playable on PS5 but sometime my kids are using my PS5, lucky me I also have the PS4 Pro. so I can still play my PS4 games on that too. I think maybe sometime down the line, I might get myself the PS5 Pro but unlike the PS4 Pro, which offers 4K gaming over 1080p of the original PS4, I still can't find any reason to upgrade to the PS5 Pro. having an OLED TV, games on the original PS5 still look gorgeous!
another thing I'm doing right now is buying PS3 games for dirt cheap and play those games I missed out on the PS3. Recently bought Space Marine, Red Faction Armageddon, Bulletstorm and others. gotta play those too but the fact that the PS3 doesn't have suspend features, now feeling like a true pain in the a$$. If only Sony would allow us to play PS3 games on the PS5 through BC, I would be so happy and I will be able to play these old games on my Portal without having to subscribe to PS+ Premium.
A release date for the PS6 was never established... it actually has not even been announced. Therefore how is it delayed?
This really doesn't bother me at all. The PS5 has so much life left in it. Especially given the incremental increases we've seen in graphics fidelity over the last generation or so.
With previous releases I think there was often a case for people wanting better graphics but these days, is anyone really playing games and thinking "if only it had better graphics"? My impression is people care way more about gameplay and story in comparison.
The current consoles are sufficient, the PS4 is still about 5 years after the PS5 launched, last gen consoles were replaced too early, knock out the next consoles in 2030. On another note, the cost of gaming now, next gen is going to buckle most gamers.
Every sane person knows the Wii U is a next generation console. The people that say otherwise are just fanboys trying to hate, simple as.
It's part of the eighth generation of video game consoles while its predecessor was in the seventh. That's really all that needs to be said on the matter.
of corse this is next gen! just the weakest of the next gen and slightly stronger than the current.....I dont remember this convo with the wii and it was basically the same difference in power.
I see it like this if apple calls iphone 5 the next gen phone after iphone 4 the wiiu is definitely next gen...
last point look up at both the comments above these guys have it right 100%
Not Next Gen..anymore. It is current gen, as Wii/PS3/360 are last gen. And PS4/Infinity will be current gen once released.
It's a shame when you have to break-out the dictionary-
especially for such a common word a "generation".