Xbox is launching a handheld with ASUS
Xbox is launching a handheld with ASUS
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Just a moment...
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/13854147
And so it begins
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It's good to have competition and I welcome Microsoft trying to improve their hand held device experience.
But I highly doubt this would ever convince me to switch off the Steam Deck or Steam OS devices.
We'll see how this goes I guess.
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Interesting, although I wonder if they’re going to fall into the trap that everyone else has. It’s not good enough to just make a handheld. You need to have a great ecosystem surrounding it, and Steam is one of the very best for gaming that actually seems to respect its users.
How do you plan to be better than Steam? This is the question that this product fails to answer. If it doesn’t come up with a truly impressive answer soon, it’s dead on arrival.
My money is on no one remembering this device after six months.
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How do you plan to be better than Steam?
Presumably you mean SteamOS. That could be answered simply with "it plays more games" and "Game Pass".
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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.
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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.
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A steam deck already plays gamepass, and if you install windows on the deck, it will the few windows-only PC games that SteamOS cant.
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This looks like Microsoft committed exactly one toe to testing the water.
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...but will it have AI? I mean truly random AI gimmick like Pilot/Cortana whatever. People expected their HMPC for gaming insanely performing and slick, with no bloatware at all... but only Microsoft knows what you all need is some company AI thing that drain processing power to interact with Microsoft servers and spy on you. Nobody knows better than Microsoft how to Zune their way in a new entertainment industry
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