Steam Machine, Steam Deck, Steam Frame. Pick your level of console.

Is anything in the tech world interesting or good any more? I remember being excited 20 years ago for new inventions. Now its slop, slop, slop, authoritarian surveillance fascism, slop slop slop

Foss projects and indie games are about the only interesting thing now.

I'll go back to 2005 soon as someone invents a Foss time machine !

I actually think it's a great idea. The problem is that Microslop is behind it.

It just sounds like a Steam Box that also steals your data.

I'm confused by the pessimistic reactions, though.

Companies converging towards the semi-open platform is a good thing. The locked down hardware and exclusives are not something we as customers asked for. It was something the cartel just shoved down our throats.

What bothers me is the backwards compatibility that microsoft has always just hand-waved in regards to the sunsetting of the xbox HW. A clear yes or no would be nice.

You know, I'm okay with this. If it makes PC gaming more accessible, and if it offers meaningful competition for the Steam Machine, it's good to have options. Sure it's Windows, but if it's just a PC running an Xbox UX, I'm sure you could change the OS to whatever else if you want.

If anything, it does make the PS6 a less appealing choice, because why pick a dedicated console when you can get an (assuming) comparably strong, comparably priced gaming PC?

I think Xbox is shutting its console side to compete directly with the PC market. Head-to-head with valve. Good luck. And by that I mean eat shit Microslop

If I'm going to buy a PC type console, it'll be the steam machine. No idea why anyone would go for something that has windows on it at this point. I guess some will buy it because it has the Xbox name but the value of that is waning.

With Steam Machine being announced and price about to be released, new xbox is dead even before arrival. I will be totally bemused if gamers will chose new xbox/pc over Steam Machines.

Good, I'm sick of playing lowest common denominator console ports. Develop for PC and let the consoles have the degraded experience, not the other way around!

Consoles were just weird very restricted PCs for decades now, it's nothing new really. If anything, making it more open will be better, there is no other need to keep it restricted other than making it unupgradable so you have to pay for a new one every generation.
In other ways, good, now do the same with PS.

EDIT: As @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world has pointed out, that Windows 12 article has been debunked, not just by outside sources, but by PCWorld itself at this point. The article itself has a large disclaimer on it now, and they have a breakdown on how the story got published in the first place:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079754/we-messed-up-with-the-windows-12-article-what-we-got-wrong-and-how-it-happened.html

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This actually tracks completely with the news about an incoming Windows 12 announcement and in particular the claim about Windows 12 being modular. The description has claimed that it will make certain aspects of Windows able to be added or removed at will. Meaning options like a "minimal" desktop installation that has very few options, no PowerShell, no Terminal, no access to a majority of common Windows features, and very little control of the OS other than changing the desktop background.

In other words, this new "Project Helix" or whatever will be a stripped-down version of Windows 12 with everything non-gaming-related removed, including access to half the system settings I'm sure.

I do not trust that Microsoft will be doing anything other than pushing subscription-based streaming. Call me when they have a robust storefront selling games on par with Steam and hardware that allows you to play these games on or offline. Until then, imma press X to doubt.

This is just the needle pushing more towards subscription models for all the things.

In a few years you won't own games or game systems, you will have a controller to the side of your monitor and all your PC functions will be outsourced to a microsoft server and your games will be streamed to you according to whatever subscription tier you're on.

If you all want to stop this, STOP BUYING NEW GAMES. Just put the stupid fucking companies out of business, we can "acquire" plenty of PC games for our PC's and there are vast numbers of used games out there, alongside whatever is kicking around in our steam libraries that we didn't have the attention span to even try. Let's go on a spending diet and enjoy the lives we have for a little while until the oligarchs all starve.

that's stupid. If I wanted a PC I'd have bought a PC.

How much you wanna bet it'll just be a pc you can't uninstall windows from?

Saying this is the death of the platform is stupid. Worst case, it's at least better than current Xbox, which doesn't have the option to play PC games. Yeah, it's going to have all of M$'s spywhere and AI slop, but so would any MS device. I'm not buying this crap, but if you already wanted an Xbox then this is an improvement. Yeah, you're better off with a PC, especially one running Linux. This has been the case for decades, yet the consoles still sell.