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As with every survey, it depends on the methodology. I look at games on PC that I’ve thought about getting such as Sultan’s Game or Dread Delusion, and these don’t have any console equivalent. That doesn’t necessarily dampen my enthusiasm for consoles though.

@fatpunkslim
I need a PC for home office schoolwork, etc. I don’t need it to have an Xbox logo on it. That’s like buying an IBM PC in 1988 after all the clones came out.
When it’s time to play, I want the best experience with great games and right now PlayStation seems to have the edge.
I also got into Xbox with the Series S, as did the majority of current generation customers. To go from the lower cost option to a very high cost replacement is asking this market to go opposite of what they did before.

They finally did something with the Kid Icarus franchise. Oh wait, never mind.

Sadly, I don’t think it will matter in my case because my son will be off to college and our subscription will expire. We will keep the Series S as a legacy device.

@Jenkinss
It is a good list, I am not familiar with Kingdom Under Fire The Crusaders.

@Master_Cthulhu70
You seem to have more confidence in the platform then Microsoft does themselves.

@OldGamer999
Sad but true. My predictions is Xbox will dissolve into the cloud. Sony will hold out, but if you look at their trajectory since the 1990s, it is not hard to imagine them shuttering their gaming division after PS7 or PS8. This is coming from someone who bough a Sony Vaio laptop in 2009. Nintendo will likely retreat back into the pure handheld space, and have to skew toward a younger audience in terms of hardware. In terms of software, they will eventually license out their IP to the streaming kings of the day. There will always be a place for PC gaming I suppose since PC's run the business world, and it is easy enough to do gaming on the side.

@Weebleman
Yeah, or maybe like Atari 7800

There’s a couple of problems with this strategy and the first is that I need a PC for home office and student use, but I don’t need a second similarly priced fully featured PC for the media room in the basement. If I had to choose, it would be the one in the study.

Secondly, once you go into the PC space you are swimming with sharks, and it will be a race to the bottom for price versus performance. PC enthusiast are very much focused on that ratio, and they will ridicule the console half of the Xbox hybrid as it goes into obsolescence.

I got John Wick Hex before it was delisted

If you look at upcoming 2026 titles, Xbox is flying under the radar. That could be a good thing, or a bad thing depending on how you feel if these awards are mostly riding a hype train, versus a recognition of quality. I'm hoping for Fable to be what gets me back into the ecosystem, because as things stand I'm drifting away from Xbox once my Game Pass subscription expires in 2027. I might pick up an odd title or two on sale, but that's about it.

I would rather they spend their resources on the next Elder Scrolls

I’m glad Nintendo moved theirs to January because December becomes a blind spot on these end of the year totals
I’m hoping we get one in January for Xbox

@Chip-Douglas
It could be the next Baldur’s Gate 3, or like the last Dragon Age….

@Chip-Douglas
I kind of wonder how much of a fan base still exists for Fable? Will it sell 1 million copies?

Well, I’ve got nothing against some nostalgia and putting out a greatest hits album, they need more than that to stay relevant

I never played it but scrolling through the comments it seems a very mixed reaction.

I’ll be disappointed if Xbox stops making hardware. I guess it won’t make much difference in 10 or 20 years instead of having three console makers we will just have three cloud services companies dominating the game streaming market. Meet the new boss same as the old boss..

When I was young you could obviously tell apart Donkey Kong on Atari 2600 vs Colecovision. Now you have to squint, magnify, or run in slow mo for comparison.

Always with the foliage

I was going to sell my Switch physical copy of Hollow Knight, thinking that I could always pick it up again on Game Pass. I could never get into it. Then my son asked if he should start playing it, and now that I know it's leaving Game Pass, I think I'll keep it.

Part of the Xbox Everywear initiative.

@BAMozzy
Hi, you see to have insight into the future directions. Since cross gen titles are still a thing (reference- SW Jedi: Survivor Xbox One physical edition was released in September 2024), when do you predict will be the last physical Xbox Series X release for those of us who aren't ready to buy the NextBox?

@h3s
I played BG3 on PS5, and the controller interface was one of the sticking points. I am waiting to get a cheap copy on PC for an eventual double dip and replay. I would even consider a Switch 2 port with mouse control if that every came to pass. However, I imagine the PC version would have more longevity, and I see myself wanting to play this game again on and off for many years.

I specifically got the Series S because it was cheap roughly $200 after a Target gift card bonus, so paying half that much again for extra storage versus just offloading games I’m not actively playing seems to kill the deal.

Will add it to the Christmas wish list

I wonder if they discord nitro is available if you already used a free code in the past

I'm interested in Fable. I'm not sure how much of the fanbase still exists from the 2000's though. It may sell less than 1 million copies especially as it will be on Game Pass.

@dreadful
Morally justified for delisted games or in general?
Do pirates have honor?

@Echtzeit
You might be within some kind of refund window if this is true

@Questionable_Duck
I guess context matters
Does this mean now that Microsoft promotes gamers to play anything they want everywhere they want all the time that they will abrogate the 10 year exclusivity clause from CoD and make it multi-platform in perpetuity

@Medic_alert
Yes, not too long ago the memo was to "spend Sony out of business." It did not work.

With all of this tinkering, they really are merging console into the PC world. This is like when I had to modify my swkotor.ini file to run the CDROM in Windows Vista. Good times.

I’m sorry I just don’t believe these executives when they say that they like it when they cannot have a monopoly and when consumers choose their competitors over themselves. You don’t get to be an executive with this type of mindset.

I would blame inflation, but then I look at how much an Apple product cost in 2019 compared to now and they’ve managed to keep a lid on it. My work MacBook Pro retailed at $2400, and you can get a 2025 version today for roughly the same, or the 15” Air for significantly less. The series S and X are not any faster or better than they were at launch, but they are not depreciating at the retail price level.

@fatpunkslim
I don't have a Steam Deck but I find it interesting the other launchers "don't play well." Of all the things it takes to make a great game, from creativity, coding, play testing, hardware compatibility and performance, support and updates, you would think the launcher would be relatively easy to get right.
It's like having a BMW everything is great, but the ignition switch is off.

This is one way that consoles are interesting piece of tech is that they seem to last longer than smartphones or PCs before getting "laggy."

It’s just putting in perspective the hype levels between the two things stated in the original article.
But I hear what your comment was that you’re so tired of hearing about GTA 6, so I guess I’ll just leave things at that and not tire you any further.
I’m not a particular fan of GTA either

@swedetrap
The GTA 6 trailer has 286 million views on YouTube. The previous Xbox 20th anniversary has 1.8 million views.
Take that information as you will.

Microsoft is a huge company, but they did not get this way by being satisfied with 1% growth. They have a duty to shareholders to invest their capital (which is a finite resource) in those areas which offer the best return, and either jettison or heavily modify the areas that do not. They are not a charity, and will not use the high margins from other divisions to subsidize Xbox just to keep us gamers happy, and I would caution anyone who somehow has this notion. Also, insofar as to the sunk costs of the ABK acquisition, they will make that "money back" more by AI, cloud, etc, and not chasing good money after bad with Xbox. Next generation is truly make or break. Perhaps by then cloud and high speed internet will be ubiquitous enough for the Netflix model to work, but I'm not so sure of that, and it would leave many people behind.

@ILuvGames
It would probably cause a net loss and accelerate the end of Xbox as we know it if they were not able to capture 3rd party sales of these 1st party titles.

@SuntannedDuck2
You just summed up the 21st century.

@BacklogBrad
I guess if you want to go true pirate, you can jailbreak any computer and install any software. It just depends how far you are willing to go into the uncharted seas. There are Youtube videos of people getting Xbox games to play on Switch.

@jesse_dylan
I'm not sure it is inevitable that Switch 2 will fall behind. The last time Nintendo tried a mid cycle refresh was with the "New" 3DS in 2015, but the software support wasn't there by that point in the lifecycle. Since they merged handheld and console lines, and are now trying to achieve a semblence of parity with current gen (Series S mostly), who's to say that they won't decide to make a "Switch 2 Pro" in 2029? If Sony can and PSSR, Nintendo can add SSSR.

@Banjo-
I’ve had a PC of some sort since the 1980s though I mostly moved over to Mac at home.
Every windows PC I’ve ever owned tended to slow down over time, so I wonder if this Xbox hybrid is going to suffer the same fate.

I used to also plug in my Commodore 64 to my living room television so I guess you could say I’m old school.

@fatpunkslim
Maybe so. I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around the concept, for whatever reason.
I can already attach my desktop PC to my TV, so I’m not sure what this new Xbox offers. Is it just that it auto boots to a controller based UI with a legacy color scheme rather than mouse and keyboard, for me to then Exit to Windows and play my Steam games? Is that enough of a selling point?
Also if I have an Xbox physical library, what happens to those discs?

@Questionable_Duck
They would eventually have to phase it out though like they did with Xbox Gold.

@OldGamer999
Yeah I’m not sure with this device where does Play Anywhere fit it? Which version of the game will this PC hybrid run?

This is an interesting prospect, but since the Xbox experience is being rolled out to all handheld PCs, would it eventually get to where I can just relocate my existing desktop PC from the home office to the den, and boot to Xbox UI with controller input?

I wonder if you’re a game developer if you will let out a deep sigh when the director assigns you to the foliage department.
Always with the foliage.