Never bought into game pass. It’s also a subscription and prices are subject to change at any time, and be tiered differently, and all that. It might even just end up streaming everything. I’m not a fan of other of those. I’m out.
Perhaps I’m making a wrong assumption that Microsoft is trying to build some sort of PC compatible gaming store around the device that I see as an inevitable failure. Maybe it will be something completely different and open.
And of course, just because I fail to understand the goal of this device doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have one with merit. It still got half the year to build up hype targeting a 2025 holiday season release.
We already have Windows handhelds. There’s some comparisons here with Windows phone and the smart phone OS industry. If it is to be successful that’s quite the uphill battle being late to the game.
The goal is to have a Windows OS that is actually usable on handhelds with native controller navigation an UI for controllers. You will still be able to use Steam, Battlenet, Epic, etc…
Presumably you mean SteamOS. That could be answered simply with “it plays more games” and “Game Pass”.
Never bought into game pass. It’s also a subscription and prices are subject to change at any time, and be tiered differently, and all that. It might even just end up streaming everything. I’m not a fan of other of those. I’m out.
That’s cool. I didn’t either. But 35 million other people did.
You can also cancel it at any time.
Perhaps I’m making a wrong assumption that Microsoft is trying to build some sort of PC compatible gaming store around the device that I see as an inevitable failure. Maybe it will be something completely different and open.
And of course, just because I fail to understand the goal of this device doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have one with merit. It still got half the year to build up hype targeting a 2025 holiday season release.
We already have Windows handhelds. There’s some comparisons here with Windows phone and the smart phone OS industry. If it is to be successful that’s quite the uphill battle being late to the game.
The goal is to have a Windows OS that is actually usable on handhelds with native controller navigation an UI for controllers. You will still be able to use Steam, Battlenet, Epic, etc…
They already have one. It’s called XBOX.
And they’re atrocious.