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Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds (kotaku.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

They are always late to the party and they have an image problem

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

And they haven't managed to come up with a decent product in decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

I like some of their developer products that said... Wtf is with their marketing department? I'm a techy and play some games but if someone asked me to buy them a Xbox I honestly don't know which one is best... Xbox one series S? I think??

Now atleast on Playstation I know it's ps5 as it's the biggest number.

You want Nintendo... Switch as it's a different enough name to make it stick.

Imagine going to but a truck... Do you want a Ford f150, a Ford f150 series x or a ford f150 series s? Now keep in mind a Ford f150 can't go on any roads built in last 5 years and if you pick the wrong series letter your speed is capped at 30mph....

Don't get me started on visual studio vs visual studio code....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I mean this is basically ford. What is XL XLT and LARIAT even mean for example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, cars do kind of have that problem. Nissan has cars like the Altima S, SL, SV, SR. We can assume the S is the base model, but what the hell do the rest mean.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

but if someone asked me to buy them a Xbox I honestly don’t know which one is best… Xbox one series S? I think??

Aaaand they've already failed. Series S is barely better than the previous gen, it's Series X that you want.

The only real benefit of having an xbox is that you cross-own the games with PC. BUT you're restricted to the Windows Store versions, so you can't play on Linux, so for me at least the benefit immediately washes away, as I no longer use Windows. Oh well, I'll just buy my games on Steam and sure, SOME of them will be Microsoft games, but only titles in the like 2 or 3 franchises I care about, Forza and... Oh wait, it's not like the next TES game is ever going to come out. So it's just Forza.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Ps5 has the same problem. Is it the latest more powerful version? Can it take discs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Car companies like Ford do that sometimes; what the fuck does the LS badge on my S10 mean? I think it means it has carpet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Hey! I use bing sometimes, just to keep things a bit spicy.

Edit: oh, nevermind. Bing is 15 years old. I should probably look into retirement homes..