Yep, they're practically the new Sega as far as a gaming console company goes, it's shocking they survived this long.
Doesn't really matter, they weren't that far from Playstation in terms of power, they were roughly both in the same ball park for most generations.
At least we can thank them for moving online services forward and standardising them for consoles, otherwise it may have taken us longer to get to this point. Unfortunately they haven't brought much else to the table, especially in recent generations.
I'll always remember them for the early Halo era where we piled into each other's houses for LAN parties with copies of Halo. I can't say I'll have found memories of anything after the 360, everything was downhill from there, and they never recovered from it.
I've had more or less the same experience with Bluestacks, so having a Steam equivalent, which may work similar or better (or even if it plays some stuff better than Bluestacks) would be wonderful.
Ugh, just let them go, at least they're not as bad as the Sonic fans, that stuff will make you want to bleach your eyes. I can understand them wanted to protect their IP and prevent modding Nintendo characters into Palword, or even shutting down fan games (not that I agree with them shutting it down), but let people have their fan art.
The Switch gen is insane, and the games' library for that thing is massive, the only reason it feels long in the tooth is that the hardware is so under powered.
Sony really messed up with the PS3, especially early on in the generation, things were very different towards the end (although Xbox probably had inflated sales numbers from RROD too).
And yet we had better competition when it was just Sony vs Nintendo, Xbox has almost 0 effect on Playstation, they haven't even been competition for Playstation for 2 generations. So we're not "lucky" they're around, they're irrelevant as far as competiion goes, although I feel like Playstation has followed Xbox's lead this generation for some strange reason.
Unfortunately, there are a few games still stuck on that thing, I've been hoping they'd port Xenobalde Chronicles X and Twilight Princess over to the Switch since I didn't buy a WiiU.
I really loved those games, I have them on my Steam account, but I wish they made more games like that.
I'm pretty sure Vtubers and streamers are to blame for this, I know I've bought more than one or two games because I saw a vtuber/streaming having fun with it.
I have almost never been able to get my friends to agree to play the same game together, they always want to play the same games all the time. Then again, I'm probably the more adventurous one amongst my friends, I just accept that I'll be playing more of these games on my own.
Think of the millionaire execs though!
I've noticed when companies get this greedy, the company itself rots from the inside out.
It's a good thing they haven't bought more.
@anast,
I think Gabe has done a lot of PC gaming as well (Linux gaming/Steam Deck, Steam Client, Steam Sales, etc...), all things considered, Steam is a pretty good deal for the most part, with not too many downsides thankfully.
It would be interesting to know Playstation's figures, it may have been in line with Nintendo's at one point, but now that they're not really a Japanese company anymore, I wonder if it's closer to Xbox's figure?
That is so much money, especially with the stock options, I know he makes the big decisions at Xbox, but I don't believe anyone is worth that much money, a few million? Sure, but that much when they're laying off such much staff and closing studios when Xbox needs games to incentivise more sales? Almost looks like a grift in when you're on the outside looking in.
I could have sworn it was Intel hardware and not Nvidia, as far as I'm aware, Nvidia doesn't really make much in the way of APUs. And I'm not surprised Intel screwed it up with the Claw, as they've had a hard time competing since AMD pushed out Ryzen, especially in the last few years. Plus, AMD has some amazing APUs that will be hard to compete with, there's a reason almost every handheld PC uses a Ryzen APU instead of Intel.
I've known people who bought multiple 360's, those numbers were definitely boosted by RROD, which wasn't resolved for a long time, it was a prolonged and constant issue for most of the gen. Worst thing is, we don't even know the failure rates, it's anywhere from 30% to 60% because we only have rough estimates or best guesses, we can only be sure that it was an unacceptably high failure rate.