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Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot (games.slashdot.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Instead, I think they're just about to ~~change~~ end the console market as we know it.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also accurate. But it's looking like we'll still have $500 machines called Xboxes and PlayStations, except they'll just be fancy PCs. That's my guess anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Possibly. I can see Xbox backing out personally, and just putting their games on PC and the other consoles.

Sony will probably carry on.. and Nintendo likely has a detailed business plan for the next 100 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sony's already not carrying on. They've started putting their games on PC, which is a market that is, for the first time, larger than their console for the same game releases. Nintendo's got another generation of hardware before they'll need to change anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They started putting games on PC, but their plan is to make sequels console-exclusive.

Sony hopes PC gamers, who'll wait years for Epic exclusives to come to Steam out of spite, will buy PS5s for exclusive sequels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's what they say publicly, yes. Because if they tell their customers right now that they plan to dramatically shorten that window, they're shooting themselves in the foot early.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fair - I'd be surprised if they haven't already been working on a ps6 for years though.

In my mind Nintendo is going to be more or less immune to the death of the console market. They did have done a really, really good job at making fun games since the 80s, and have also traditionally had the cheapest hardware (not that that will matter if the competition goes away). I might impulsively buy whatever Nintendo's next console is just for Zelda or Metroid, even though Nintendo as a company pisses me off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I'll bet PS6 is business as usual but with an eye toward the future. Microsoft is already hinting that their next Xbox(es) are just going to be PCs, with talk of handhelds and additional storefronts.

I might impulsively buy whatever Nintendo’s next console is just for Zelda or Metroid, even though Nintendo as a company pisses me off.

Stay strong, brother. They only get to keep pissing you off because you keep handing them your money. There's no shortage of metroidvania games right now, and even Zelda has a decent number of competitors now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They already are just PCs and have been since the PS4/XBone. It's all just slightly customized PC hardware inside.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Even as far back as the first xbox, I remember some people installing Linux on it. It's also why Halo later came out for the PC, because porting it wasn't that difficult. Iirc, the first xbox didn't run any Windows kernel but it did use direct x.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They don't run the same executables that Steam does though, and I think that's what's about to change.