Can't call it fake unless you can disprove it. Otherwise, you're the one having the meltdown.
A new direction would classify as "going somewhere"...
Lightning gonna need some serious copium after this one... lol. If you have proof it was debunked, provide it, otherwise it's just you having a knee jerk reaction and not wanting to accept the reality in front of you.
Streaming isn't going to replace consoles any time in the next decade. Latency is just too high, and it's highly unlikely to drop to acceptable levels (consistently below 16ms all the time, the bare minimum required to maintain 60fps with no lag) anytime soon.
Some guy on a podcast.
Neither of those sources backtracked on anything, Obscure, in fact your first link only reinforces that they are going third party. "very few people within Xbox actually know what Microsoft will discuss next week"
So, if we take "very few people within Xbox actually know what Microsoft will discuss next week", and combine it with the one person who should know not shooting down the rumors when he had the chance, and instead saying "we'll talk a...
This is why, even if MS doesn't get out of hardware next week, chances are that won't be far behind. So many people are going to fail to see a reason why they should keep buying Xbox consoles after them announcing going third party, that Xbox becoming ExBox will be pretty much guaranteed within a few months of the announcement. This is why they were so hesitant to sign deals for chips for a new console.
Which, Xbox as a hardware division has never made money. If you remove software and services from the equation, Xbox has only lost billions since its inception. This makes the most sense for them, cut out the hardware entirely, only sell software and subscriptions, and laugh all the way to the bank. No more having to dump billions into R&D for new hardware that is not going to sell well anyway.
And it makes sense for them to go multilpat everywhere... they have never made money on hardware, only lost it, meanwhile their software and services are profitable.
If that were true, Microsoft would have shot them down right at the start, as they are harmful to the Xbox brand (hence this article, they are bleeding support like crazy right now). Instead, they respond not denying the rumors, but saying "we have scheduled an event to update you on the future of our plans for the Xbox business" (to paraphrase)... that isn't just failing to deny, it's saying "yes, there's something here to talk about, and we're going to do just...
Don't forget, the subscription models are failing in the movie industry as well. Nobody is making money off of them, the entire model is unsustainable. This is why they're starting to cram ads into all the streaming services... they cannot make enough money on the subs alone.
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Kinect started it, but Gamepass was never sustainable. Its entire sales pitch was "day one releases, don't pay $70 when you can pay a few bucks a month", and that was never sustainable from the start. We're now seeing that manifest.
Ex-Box
I could see maybe Valve trying to make SteamDeck into a console form factor to bring PC gaming into the living room more easily...
@darth
Them going with ARM would be a huge mistake, as it would put them at a big disadvantage for third party games... They would be running on a completely different architecture from the PCs many of these games are developed on, and from PlayStation... So developers would have to port every single game to a completely different architecture, which would take time and money to do, and it would cost them games as a result, in addition to performance issues due to developer...
Why wait a week?
1. It's easy... have a bunch of people leak the news via "rumors".
2. Announce you're going to talk about it in a week, without denying it... sending the community into full on meltdown.
3. After everyone has had some time to digest the shock from it all, and people start to calm down, then deliver the news.
"How to play Xbox games on PS5"
https://ibb.co/vYNsX4L
Pay close attention to what they are calling it... "Business Update Event", this isn't a pre-scheduled event, it isn't aimed at revealing new games, it isn't even aimed at gamers... it's an update on the business end of Xbox, aimed at their shareholders, who likely are not happy about how slowly Xbox is expected to recover the nearly 100 billion they spent acquiring these publishers. So, they are updating these shareholders on the future business plans of Xbox, so th...
Keep in mind Phil referred to this as a "Business Update Event", not a "new game showcase" or a "future of Xbox" event... They are updating their entire business model, this event is for their shareholders (who are likely pissed that they are not making money off of this 100 billion dollar investment as they expected), not us gamers.
They have no reason to keep the Xbox brand. It has done nothing but lose them money. They make their money selling games and subscriptions, not Xboxes.