I would argue that this actually makes his opinion more relevant, as executive management is more likely to think like Ybarra, as opposed to someone that regrets the decline of Blizzard.

They kind of been for a while. At least architecture wise but with the new Xbox ROG handheld you can access your steam library or install a different OS like Bazzite altogether. You can‘t play your Xbox games on it though, which probably means the days of Xbox as a console are over. But Xbox players must‘ve known they won‘t be able to transfer their game library to new device anyway.

Have been since the 8th generation, unless you count Nintendo, whose 8th gen (Wii U) was a PowerPC Architecture (Mac), and 9th gen onward is a glorified Android phone with a dedicated GPU.

The PS Triple/360 generation was the last time that wasn't the case

They kinda always were, tbh. Just with some kind of unique limitation specific to each console that prevented them from being used for any purpose other than playing a specific brand of video game.

More accurately, PCs are becoming consoles, but yes, they want to converge it all into a locked down hardware as a service industry.

I believe if a new generation of consoles are released they're just going to be glorified streaming boxes. Sony has pretty much hit a plateau as far as graphics go, there's not much you can improve upon now. And sure people are cancelling and complaining about gamepass but Microsoft might just go the route of "we'll tell you what you want, and if you want this exclusive you'll have no choice but to subscribe".

So you'll pay for this streaming box, you'll get maybe a couple months of the subscription for free, then you'll pay $30 to $50 a month to get access to their catalog. Sony and Nintendo will follow suite. If you want to actually "own" anything you'll play on PC and even then that's truly up for debate. Like do you actually own the content you buy on Steam?

No, just the Xbox.

I kind hated whenever i was looking at solutions to running pc game pass games on my steam deck, everyone was like: "install edge it works on Linux, that will let you stream the game."

Like, that was not what I was looking for. It also required you to go to a higher tier of sub.

Both happy and sad that I already canceled it.

Emulation General Wiki Check the Xbox category section.

If you have physical media there are ways to rip them using a commodity DVD/Bluray drive so you can back them up, load them in the emulator, and prevent data rot on the actual disks.

If you're asking for a direct way to play straight from an XBOX handheld (native play) that's unlikely to happen for the 360 because of it's unique architecture, and the Xbox One and beyond I believe have some significant departures from the standard x86 architecture that would make it impractical (it would be more logical to give you steam codes instead lol).

Doesn't it fully support GamePass? Doesn't GamePass have all the XBox games?

"We have steam deck verification at home"

• Microsoft (in a year)

Buying the successful studios to obtain their IP and then sacking all the employees to cut costs.

Copilot on PS5, somehow

Slapping that ™®© on it and raising the price.

You didn't miss anything significant in since like Halo Reach.

Yay! Make sure to check out some of the cool couch gaming indies - Enter the Gungeon and Duck Game are some of my favorites.

Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it's meta.

I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

Isn't buying a quest giving money to Zuckerberg directly? I don't think I could sleep at night