"Don't buy it"
Exactly what people do.
And then big companies are reminded why if you want to make money you may not want to do things like villainize half your market. If you want to preach one side of an argument you're gonna lose people. At least do the Deus Ex/GTA thing and show the warts on both sides so everyone has something to agree with
@love, I won't debate hearsay. Character aside, other countries are voting in leaders with similar policies. I guess imitation is the highest form of flattery. In the US with a two party system, there's always a picking the lesser of two evils, and socialism is the bigger evil in my book
I agree with the debt level being an issue 100%. That's not a new issue for us.
After this AI bubble pops RAM will bounce back nicely. Can't walk back inflation, but at least the insanity will abate
Well deserved - great game
Americans are doing quite well thank you very much. When you get past empty talking points, our economy is the best in the world and growing against a backdrop of other developed countries struggling. Now we get to watch other countries slowly adopting our "crazy" Trumpian policies around immigration, energy, digital currency, etc. We're doing fine.
I wonder if they'll go way back to where the story started w/ weird animal-like genetic mutations. I don't think the current games even try to tie back to that origin, or at least I don't see any attempt to...
@vits, yeah the percentages are under their control. I imagine part of agreeing to a Play Anywhere license is unifying that percentage regardless of what version of the Xbox store the game was purchased on, but I'm just speculating.
Granted only a small % of their library is Play Anywhere
I'd bet good money it'll be Play Anywhere titles and cloud streaming for the rest. Basically what is available now. I think they lack the business case and commitment to get Xbox console games working on it natively.
Some of us play it every year and don't like to see what's happening from the beevis skins, to not alternating game devs (DLC passing as new game), to a horrible campaign.
From that perspective it's nice to see at least the market agrees.
Man the tension that must be felt in MS Games Division right now. I think the COD teams voted to unionize right before release to protect against potential layoffs. Wonder what will happen next in this slow motion train wreck.
I thought the BF campaign was ok. Fun at least.
After watching some videos and reading about this COD "campaign", I'm not touching it, and I have GP. Looks horrible as a single player campaign.
Agree with loving what Valve is doing - looking at their portfolio of devices now and how they integrate with each other - it's kinda the new Apple in a way. So slick and well thought-out, And the proton stuff to get all this running in Linux is a mix of genius and hard work - I love it.
This first Steam Box isn't for me either, but if they get SteamOS working well with an RTX3800 and can get BF6 anti-cheat to support them, my gaming PC will happily ditch Windows 10 for it.
Regarding the mini-PCs I think it's interesting how you COULD use this as a full fledged PC (just like the Steam Deck). Chrome, LibreOffice, etc. I'm not sure many additional customers they would get by marketing that fact.
I'm sure MS will be tempted to tease something as a defensive move to sabotage the Steam Box as much as possible. Truth is that MS is screwed here - while a lot of people would be very happy with SteamOS user experience and integrated store, the same can NOT be said for the Xbox App being the main experience, like the ROG Ally X. All they could give would be empty promises.
Right... Not for existing PS or Xbox gamers or PC gamers with modern rigs.
BUT- how about PC gamers with outdated rigs that can't be upgraded to Windows 11...
Or maybe kids coming out age that want to start in PC gaming but don't have parents willing to drop $1K?
Definitely getting closer to console, but I'm sure there's a population of people that are not going to be thrilled to find some secondary launcher is needed for a game or you need to install some special version of proton to play a game. Or that they have to tweak a bunch of settings that they don't understand to get the game to run smoothly.
I think the flexibility is great, but that flexibility will not appeal to a large population of technical simpletons that just wa...
RAM and storage are upgradable but not the 8GB GDDR RAM built into the GPU.
I think 16GB should be enough for system RAM given it's Linux and not Windows and SteamOS is pretty lean.
Agree w/ redrum. Steam as a platform is already huge. Like Steam Deck, this expands their reach a bit while maintaining their base. And as a defensive move makes it harder for PS to steal away PC players. If this is successful they'll roll SteamOS out as a replacement for Windows and lock in even more gamers. They don't need PS5 numbers on this to be successful imo
This is gonna be like the Dark Souls of flying games isn't it? I want to play it but worried about the time investment