Between X-Cloud and Xbox All Access (the monthly subscription to rent an Xbox) MS probably has a several ways they could market a cheaper option get into their next gen content.
I’m mostly looking forward to using the nickname “The X” for both the Xbox One X and the Xbox Series X just to confuse people.
I am getting kind of interested in what Sony has planned for next gen because I feel like there’s been very little out in the public? I have no idea what their next console is going to be all about aside from whatever was in those two Wired articles and that slide from CES this week. MS has been upfront about their vision since they’re trying to gain back mindshare but historically Sony has not been as good as a services company (not for lack of trying admittedly) so I wonder what else they’ll be doing.
this is still half as much people usually pay for gaming pcs and most people usually have TVs already, not to mention the ridiculously inflated gfx card market
the problem is that the GPU market isn’t inflated per se, GPUs are actually extremely sophisticated compute hardware at this point, their margins aren’t any worse than any other silicon
the “inflation” really only comes from most of the enthusiast press reflecting $600 GPUs being used to play console ports that mostly work fine on $150 or aftermarket GPUs, so if you’re comparing the utility of “buying a console” vs “buying a GPU to play games,” most of the media coverage is totally disproportionate
Yeah, but if you’re building a $600 PC in 2020 mostly from scratch, an Xbox sex will smash it, and you get a more robust game pass on console than on pc to help make up for cheaper pc games
I actually like how MS is approaching this, particularly with game pass involved (and you know they’ll have some kind of bundle deal on that if you buy a new system), but a lot of that is because I don’t care about any of Sony’s first party games, which are universally loved by The Gamers, and which Sony leans hard on to make up for all their otherwise dumb decisions.
