Except you can mod various PC games which you can’t do as easily with Xbox titles

So....a closed gaming system is somehow going to end the gap between console and PC? Somehow I doubt that, unless Steam puts their store up on the console, and 3rd party publishers enable cross buy with PC and console across the board. Since I'm pretty confident that MS will want their share of the licensing costs to publish on the console, it's unlikely you'll see cross buy with Steam and console. Windows Store and console release maybe 3rd party would go for cross buy....but I imagine it might have some pretty heavy caveats to prevent account sharing.

Given how people don't want to buy games from anywhere but Steam given recent examples of other stores making an appearance, and long running PC stores having a mere sliver of the overall PC market, I somehow doubt that MS has ended anything.

Pc gaming is growing yearly and generate billions. It's not going anywhere. For sure Ps5 and Xbox one x series will be similar to pc's

One thing I really want is full mod support for games on next Gen consoles

I miss when console were consoles.

Lol.. umm.. yeah.

After skimming through the hot air, and then at the end, the article goes against the title's premiss, here's my take...

It would be quite interesting if Microsoft created Series X to have a dual boot similar to what Sony did with PS3 running Linux. What if Series X dual boots a console OS and Windows 10X or whatever? Console in a box. PC in a box. They could also, because we know how Microsoft likes numbers, say how many more Windows operating software and hardware was added from each sale of the console.

I have multiple Android tablets. One of them dual boots with Windows and I can run Windows software on it. Which allowed me to play AM2 Remake on the go besides Mugen Marvel vs DC. A dual boot console would run all hardware accessories from PC and accessories for console. Plays PC games but also plays console games. With the right drivers, runs PC VR headsets or Windows MR.

That's what I would do if I was a company trying to eliminate the wall between both. Or maybe the one OS runs both sides. It's an interesting thought. Yeah. Like a Steam console. But with actual Windows and more money behind a console manufacturer. We'll see...

Bwahahaha oh wait, you were serious? Let me laugh even harder BWAHAHAHA

Just Ended the PC-Console War? What? What does that even mean?
Fanboy articles. Gotta love em for their sheer stupidity.

😂😂😂
Here is a rectangle and a no gameplay trailer...

Because we need our media partners writing 100s of fluff pieces to keep us relevant.

Here you go.. where is the outrage for halo mcc not supporting crossplay or play anywhere? Microsoft’s, and their fans, war cry for 3 years this gen.

Where is the 9 years of a stagnant existence of Microsoft in gaming?

Microsoft will have made 6 variants of consoles and zero new AAA 1st party games in the last 8 years.
Why are they even relevant in any way shape or form?
Here is the recent history of Microsoft... subscriptions, fluff pr, cloud gaming(not the pr lie of the power of the cloud from yore).. and their most recent positive news is no microtransactions in a game that flaunted a store front in its launch trailer... 🤔 which means the feedback was negative and irrelevant due to said focus on an in game store and it is being changed to save face.. since gears 5 micro transactions are so horrible.

Outrun 2, Afterburner climax, and Otogi 1&2 on the XSX can't wait 😁

It’s crazy to me that Xbox will have a hardcore fight sim with missions on a console!MS Flight Sim 2020 is the best looking recreation on the world I have seen in a game!

Well yeah as a pcgamer there's barely any reason to get an xbox anymore.

Pro and one x were already more powerful than -most- peoples PCs and more capable of 4k than -most- 4k pc owners. Ps5 and SX is overkill for the guys on here with imaginary PCs even with just the price.

Thank you

I think the title is quite misleading vs the article for the article is more talking about how future console will work in a similar fashion like the smartphone model with an upgrade every X year but keeping a similar structure so your library keeps working.
Now I don't believe that the series X would be the 1st system to be like that but more the Xbox 1X (and probably the Ps4 pro) for I'm sure that I expect upcoming games to be playable on X1X at a lower setting. Just a reminder that the Serie X controller will be retro compatible with Xbox1 so there's no reason to believe the seeds for this wasn't plan with the last mid upgrade.
And remember, I'm sure MS doesn't want to lose the customers that just fork hard cash for the current expensive hardware that was released in November 2017.

Now regarding the title,
Smartphone has yet to kill the tablet and pc market.
The same will apply here, yes all of them can play games but that doesn't mean that its the exact type of owner for each.

You can brag about how powerful PCs are (I' not doubting the power of PCs) but if you don't have the exclusives to show off that power, I don't wanna hear it. Show me exclusive games that can match the likes of God of War, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Spider-Man, Days Gone, Super Mario Odyssey, etc, then you can brag. Don't just show me a super duper modded version of GTA5.

Huh? Good luck telling that to those who are firmly in the PC camp.

NVIDIA has entered the chat.

Will there ever be a time when people stop to think about what they're spewing instead of rushing to type up articles?

How do all these unintelligent articles get approved? we wont know nothing till february ps5 and E3, till then everything is speculation.

If you really think that these fanboy wars will ever end, you are in for a nasty surprise.

There will come a time when the only differences between consoles and PC-s, are mostly games and game-services they offer, but i highly doubt that time will come next generation, it might come close but PC will still come on top.

Indeed, i have to agree, consoles are improving in a more faster rate with its new iterations and tech innovations, but the power gap is still visibly there between PC-s and consoles,especially when you consider one of the consoles main weaknesses (LACK OF UPGRADEABILITY). (And no, the PRO/SCORPIO versions are not it... a proper upgrade would be like we see on a PC. I build a 1000$ PC, and then 2-3 years later i cash out 200-300$ for a new graphics card, that way my previous 1000$ does not fall down the drain. You could say ''but i can sell my previous PS4/XboxOne console for the upgraded version'' and you would be right to do so...but buying a new set of HW and upgrading an existing one...is NOT the same)

It may not be apparent when you look at most first party games, that blow most of the other PC available games visuals out of the water...but when we compare multiplats, the difference come in more clearer, all of that cuz of lack of upgradeability. While overall graphicall fidelity has very few noticable differences (and that is if you stick your head to the screen, or do a 400% zoom ins), the biggest players in that game are;

1)Drawing distance
2)FPS
3)Resolution
4)Modding

The first 3, to me personally and to most people, are not that big of deal in most games, however that still doesn't OBJECTIVELY negate the PC-s indeed have the upper hand with power,

Modding also applies,and even tho consoles did make some strides toward implementing mods on them...tho a certain party simply doesn't like to take risks like they used to (looking at you SONY)...they are still significantly falling behind their PC counterpart.

So these are the 4 factors, that are mostly influanced by one major feature ''HW upgradeability''. Until that thing gets properly implemented, it will be a looong while until we can say ''games are the only difference''...

It looks like a low end PC. Not sure if that will end it.

wat? no it didnt lol.

As a PC gamer I have to ask: what war?

OH NO!!!! The PC master race is over 😂😂

Unless your a dedicated PC gamer, most average people don't need a PC that is super powerful, for email and daily tasks. I have a gaming PC and a laptop. I am done upgrading my PC just for games. It really isn't worth it once next gen comes out. 4K 60FPS is good enough for me.

Is anyone else getting tired of the term "console war(s)"?

These click bait titles really work cause look at us. This article is sitting at the top of the site and everyone is commenting, myself included. This new Xbox that we still have lots to learn about didn't end a damn thing. If this new console comes with Windows built in and every game released can be modded out the box then yes the new Xbox has ended the war by becoming a PC itself. Which means PC WINS!

The main advantage of PCs is easy upgradability without waiting for a new console gen. That hasn't changed. Saying this "ends" that war simply by way of cross-gen games is pretty naive. BC is not the main reason people play PC games. Hardware power/flexibility is.

Article is a bit click bait but if you read it he makes sense. Pretty much he is just saying pc has always had one feature that they could hold over consoles which is full backwards compatibility and now xbox has finnaly gotten on board that train.

You all dumb if you think xbox won. Sony won all the past consoles wars. So what they show they bluetooth box that dont mean shit. And comeing this E3 2020 Sony will show who the kings of kings. As far it can play old xbox games who care I dont care about old games from 2005. Give up aready sony not out of it yet.

Believe it or not all consoles are actually computers running custom firmware!

They make the same claim every gen cycle.

The title for the article is silly, there is no way that author was lucid when writing this lol.

There was a war!!?? When did it start?? Who started it? Where do we sign up?

Not even close

Nah it hasn't

no it didn't

lol just lol. "Journalism" at its finest.

:/

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau