Technology

they definitely want to put XBOX to the grave in favor of continuing the AI grift.

What a deal! Especially since the next gen Helix thingy is probably going to cost around US$1800, XBox is definitely the future of gaming. All hail Asha Sharma, the savior of XBox! (/s for those at the back who can't hear me clearly.)

Welcome to the future, my friends, where soon enough you will not be able to own your own at-home compute because it's too expensive, and instead you'll just have to pay hourly to use someone else's compute.

Only 50 center per hour, you say? I mean it's only 75 cents, that won't even buy a soda anymore. Who wouldn't pay a dollar an hour to play the games they love?

If I bought the game, why would I be streaming it anyway?

Yeah.... no.

There's no way in Hell.

I will play Archon on my Commodore 64, fuck this noise.

How about no?

Stadia didn't charge to stream, though I suppose if it still existed it probably would by now.

The consumer will gobble this up like hot bread and then ask "but why things bad? Must be immigrants"

Shitty behaviour by a shitty species

I wonder if XBox realizes that their player base isn't locked into their ecosystem...

And they are certainly far from the only option.

Gamers gotta buy compute tokens, too. Welcome to devops billing, gamers. The tech companies decided they're done just taxing each other, time to tax you, too.

And sunlight/moonlight will only cost you your own electricity to run your computer as you stream.

F that MB BS crap.

Like, I don't hate the pricing if it were not IN ADDITION to already paying for Gamepass, where I feel this all goes wrong is the fact you'd now effectively be paying to pause the game for a bathroom break or whatever and that just feels wrong.

They can have my longest finger while I game on Cachy

What games will be billed at an hourly rate that are worth playing that won’t be on Steam or the high seas? Console exclusives that will be available to emulate at some point?

The GamePass thing, where you lose the games you had to buy again, once they sunk it?

This has been a successful business model for mmos for decades. This is not new.

Iirc One of the previous heads of xbox said that they're intentionally trying to kill the xbox brand over time by enshittyfying it (or words to that effect).

This might very wel be that. They know damn well this will piss people off.

So they are trying to do an internet cafe?

Man, I feel like peak gaming was the xbox 360.

Whatever happened to cloud streaming using your own goddamn console?!

Isn't this just free on both pc and playstation?

Whatever. I would never allow an Xbox in my house. When they came out it was obviously just another shit product from a shit company. Hard pass.

The upside is hopefully it will just continue to alienate their market.

If I saw what emulation and decomp/recomps are doing I would grab at any penny I saw.

Awful idea, but unfortunately completely in character for Microsoft. Windows is basically spyware at this point.

I wonder which high-ranking Microsoft employee made this dumbass decision, knowing it would net them more money

Where is the line for gamers? They think you’re marks.

game streaming. Can no one read?