Talks of a new 360 SKU with a 60 GB HD, or even a future revision with an internal Blu-ray drive, have me wondering -
Is anyone else tired of all the SKU crap in this console war? It's one thing for a console to undergo significate hardware revisions once or twice in its lifetime in order to lower the manufacturing costs (see: PS2, PSP, DS, PS1, etc.), but this is getting ridiculous.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I don't want 3 or 4 versions of the same damn console. I enjoy console gaming because of its simplicity compared to PC gaming.
I tried to explain the backwards compatability thing for the PS3 to someone and it's just insane:
"Well there's the 60 GB and the 20 GB that came out first and have full backwards compatability and then the 80 GB one came out but it uses software emulation so it only has SOME backwards compatability and then the 40 GB one came out and it has NO backwards compatability."
And that's after a year of the PS3 being on the market. And what if Microsoft releases a 360 with an internal Blu-ray drive as rumored? Do we really need to add that confusion to the pile too?
The strength of console gaming is the simplicity. You buy the system, throw in the game, and you know it works just as well on your console as it does on the millions of others.
Just look at the recent Bully issues on the 360. Apparently it might happen on older 360's but not on newer ones? Is that really what we've come to in console gaming? This is the crap I tried to get away from when I went back to console gaming.
We seem to be losing that this generation - and I don't like it one bit.
When Wolf Games unveiled its debut title Public Eye, the announcement felt less like a routine game launch and more like a signal flare for the future of
I will never purchase an AI generated game, I will not contribute to something that takes away artistic human expression and creation in gaming. I'm not one of those people who says, "I hope this fails" like so many often do about everything gaming these days but on this one I have to. AI has it's place, just not here.
If you read Kotaku even semi-regularly, you already know that Xbox has been in a weird spot for some time now. And with today’s news that both Xbox boss Phil Spencer and President Sarah Bond are leaving and the new head of the brand will be a former Meta exec who previously lead Microsoft’s AI division, I think it’s time to call it. Xbox is dead. Time of death: February 20, 2026
While I normally agree... The future of xbox is on shaky ground. Well, xbox as we know it. Im not sure what they are shooting for but who they put in charge mixed with Phil retiring and bond just flat out leaving. It's not looking good.
Im with you but in western countries I have noticed a trend to put women in control to prevent any kind of critics.
Oh come on, Xbox has been dead for at least 10 years now. I think what’s more important right now is Playstation’s death that is very slowly but surely happening through mismanagement and greed.
He's being clowned on by the entire internet but i have been clowning on him way before he became CEO. I hate modern PS so much man. To this day i have no idea how Astro Bot happend in this terrible PS era but that was clearly a miracle.
Respectfully, This is probably one of my least favorite tactics in making an argument.
I'll give you an example: If I like the color red, it doesn't mean I hate the color blue.
People lamenting the (potential) demise of the xbox brand has nothing to do with sony or playstation. It has everything to do with xbox. Now, for the sake of argument, you could say that Sony and Microsoft are two peas in a pod, and that they've both made absolutely baffling and worryingly stupid decisions in the recent past. But I truly believe that Xbox would be shooting itself in the foot regardless of Sony's presence (I look at you, Xbox One reveal with always online DRM and the inability to share games).
Sony, on the other hand, is making stupid decisions to stay competitive with the market, and like Microsoft, is seemingly forcing by proverbial gunpoint talented developers to try to make the next GAAS experience and never learning their lesson. I believe that Microsoft squandering RARE is the equivalent of Sony squandering Naughty Dog. Neither platform really knows what they want to be, BUT Sony is alot further along in figuring it out before Microsoft pulls out another revolver and takes aim at another of it's own toes.
This is why the views and comments are low, with lame articles that use divide-and-conquer pretensions.
The Nintendo Switch 2 was the best-selling console in Japan with 315,816 units sold for January 2026.
Japan hardware estimates for January 2026 (Followed by lifetime sales):
Switch 2 - 315,816 (4,418,136)
Switch 1 - 75,012 (36,575,495)
PlayStation 5 - 42,929 (7,374,810)
Xbox Series X|S - 1,711 (692,020)
I agree with you that console gaming is becoming a lot like PC gaming. Thank god we have Nintendo, or this generation would have just been a hardware war between Micorsoft and Sony...
I second that.