This new gaming rig has obviously got a lot of people excited. The Steam Deck looks awesome, but there are a few areas where Valve could do a little better.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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I believe the reason it doesn't come with windows installed is because they would have to pay Microsoft.
"starting at $499 for a 64GB version"
You mean $399
LCD instead of OLED is disappointing, and would help ever so slightly on the battery life - but those are Gen-1 shortcomings consistent with nearly any portable device trying to be price-conscious.
Windows I see as irrelevant, and would be detrimental to the already-limited battery life. This device will run most efficiently on the OS optimized for it. We'll have to see how well the non-optimal games run.
The dock is the lowest concern - Valve already highlighted its compatibility with third-party USB-C docks.
All this talk about a Linux OS and a lack of Windows and absolutely no mention of Proton, Steam's solution for playing Windows games on SteamOS. It would be nice if it had a dock, but if you have any existing wires for outputting to a TV, you can use those.
Isn't it possible to install Windows on top of a Linux distro, like a normal app? At least an old version like Windows 7? Not sure as I'm not a computer-savvy person, but I think I read about that on the interwebs once. Obviously it would eat some of the system's ressources so I assume you wouldn't be able to run the most demanding Windows PC games, but surely you would then have access to some emulators only found on Windows and run plenty of cool games with that.