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This is not an Xbox (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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What does “Xbox” mean? Some might say it can only refer to a box-shaped Microsoft game machine. Others will argue it’s a collection of Xbox-native titles like Halo, Gears, Forza, and Fable. I think most would probably agree it’s a game console experience, a way to kick back and easily play the latest games without thinking too much. Press the power button, play, press it again to pause.

The 7-inch Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X gaming handhelds, on sale tomorrow, don’t meet that bar. The cheaper one doesn’t even come close.

They run Windows 11, and they never let you forget it — not during their lengthy setup process, not when you’re trying to navigate their menus, and not when you want the latest games to “just work.” They also don’t play Xbox games designed for an Xbox console, only Xbox games ported to PCs; when GTA VI comes out next May without a PC version, you won’t be playing it here. Not unless you’re streaming from the cloud.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 68 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I can’t count the number of times I’ve tapped the tiny button with three vertical lines right next to the tiny button with three horizontal lines, which can be a problem, because one of them pauses your game and and opens in-game menus, while the other kicks you out to your game library to launch a new game without pausing your game at all. If you press the library button a second time, it doesn’t take you back to your game, so you probably have to long-press the Xbox button to get back to your game, but not the Library button or the Control Center button because those will summon AI assistants instead, and if you understood everything I just wrote and found it reasonable then boy do I have the operating system for you.

Lol, Lmao. Peak Microsoft.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

All the UX people are tasked with cramming garbage AI and data collection into everything while everything else is “designed” by a bunch of overpaid engineers checking off boxes on “features” it should have regardless of where they end up or how usable they are

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And despite all of that, they sold out of them immediately.

[–] verdi@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Where? In the EU it's already heavily discounted (20%) from its MSRP. No one with two neurons to rub together would buy this.

[–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

Not just embarrassing, but confirmation that XBox is dead and Microsoft is woefully out of touch with gamers. I doubt the ~~19.99~~ GamePass can save it.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Common Microsoft L

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

MS is shit at naming products? You dont say!

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like April Fools Day came late this year.