Literally never heard this opinion before. Why are they bad?

Don’t worry, they’ll kill off and abandon the pixel line soon enough. Remember Nexus? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

I’ll play out my remaining games that I purchased for my Series X and then bail for the PlayStation (or maybe steam box) ecosystem. I’ve never owned a PlayStation or steam computer, I went straight from Dreamcast to Xbox and have been buying each generation. They got online gaming right, but now they’re so rudderless it’s astonishing. What a shame, after the 360 they had all the momentum and squandered it.

A couple months ago when the Game Pass price hike was announced, I checked my profile to see what tier I was in: how much I was paying. Turns out my account had expired, was tied to a credit card I haven't had for a while. I really only play single- player games and apparently nothing on Game Pass interested me.

Xbox One X Series X CoPilot X

My pixel 1 phone was fine. Went back to Samsung after that though.

.... But not on a snowy bench or laying on some exterior steps

Nexus line had some real quality mid range phones at great prices.

We’ve seen the buyout/burn down methodology against a lot of smaller companies; it sounds a bit like Microsoft is doing that internally to Xbox division. It’s all I can think of to explain so much of the intentional damage. So, the console war is now basically Nintendo, Sony, and Valve.

Fucking shameful. All these men in tech, and not one can bring the greatest masculine virtue; finding cool dramatic spots to die.

One of the main retail store in my country always had a big fucking toys catalog for Christmas. 100s of pages. It has like 15 for gaming this year. One reference to Xbox. Only one. It's not the console. It's not an accessory. It's not a game. It's the ROG handheld. It's wild how low it is. Even when people mocked PS3, it was still fine.

Yeah, as someone who has never owned an Xbox I have little to say about the Original, I remember the 360 as an unreliable red ring of death piece of junk, the One had that galaxy brained name. That's the kind of decision you can't make snorting normal people cocaine, you've got to have that Fortune 500 executive cocaine to name the third product in a series the "One." The "One" was announced as being a privacy invasion machine that might someday have video games patched onto it; always on internet connection and a required Kinect. That got backpedaled, and everything else I know about that console was Yahtzee saying there weren't any games for it then he stopped mentioning it. After the "Please stop calling it the XBone", was there a One S that isn't the Series S? And the Series S and Series X are almost as bad as Linux software names. Best Buy employees across the English speaking world have to stop to enunciate "The Series ESS, or the Series ECKSS?" It's like they watched Nintendo kick themselves in the dick naming a console the Wii U, and took it as a challenge. Microsoft has done an amazing job generating apathy for their gaming division.

In a lot of countries they are deeper embedded in many corporate/government cultures than ever before with the office365+teams combo tho...

Does it cum with AI?

Well, putting together a trailer with Aerosmith or Beatles music playing over it isn't helping the ballooning "development costs" either. Neither is studios overhiring and then figuring out you can't just hire 500 people and then not let them go. Game studios have become bloated. Overstaffed. And so have their games. They just can't understand not every game needs to be a 150GB+ open world game, or have the latest realistic graphics. Small games are okay, good even. Imagine how much more detailed a game could be from a AAA studios if it launched with highly stylized retro inspired graphics. They will never do this of course, but just imagine it. Imagine how much more there could be, with way less time and money being required to do it. A single barrel that might take an artist a whole day to make could easily mean multiple variants of barrel in the same time. They could drop a 20GB game that feels like a 200GB game, and do it in like 6-12 months. It would be so easy to split their already massive studios into like 20 smaller teams of 50 or less people to work on these kinds of smaller games and they could pump them out quickly. Just flood the market with these highly concentrated titles. But they won't, because its easier to convince a shareholder to make billions from a single game that looks really good visually but plays like trash with MTX for short term profit than it is to convince them to play the long game and make trillions with the volume of smaller games sales and the massively reduced development costs. Its all about short term profit these days, and its why all the businesses in the world seem to be racing each other to the bottom. Because why play the long game.when you might be dead before you hit the jackpot? Nevermind that you can't take any of it with you to the grave.

They couldn't go full steaming at that point, X Cloud wasn't fully ready, and gamer sentiment was against it on the whole. The Series S was intended for this use, but the timing was off. So they set about building up infrastructure using massive AI investment money, which also increased the price of hardware, eventually releasing a console costing over $1000 pricing most gamers out of owning the top end hardware, making the Series S type devices much more appealing, and getting them onto the streaming service, raking in fixed income off everyone, and raising prices when the investors want another payout.

They are basically the exclusive target for GrapheneOS for their feature set: ``` Non-exhaustive list of requirements for future devices, which are standards met or exceeded by current Pixel devices: Support for using alternate operating systems including full hardware security functionality Complete monthly Android Security Bulletin patches without any regular delays longer than a week for device support code (firmware, drivers and HALs) At least 5 years of updates from launch for device support code with phones (Pixels now have 7) and 7 years with tablets Device support code updated to new monthly, quarterly and yearly releases of AOSP within several months to provide new security improvements (Pixels receive these in the month they're released) Linux 6.1, 6.6 or 6.12 Generic Kernel Image (GKI) support Hardware accelerated virtualization usable by GrapheneOS (ideally pKVM to match Pixels but another usable implementation may be acceptable) Hardware memory tagging (ARM MTE or equivalent) Hardware-based coarse grained Control Flow Integrity (CFI) for baseline coverage where type-based CFI isn't used or can't be deployed (BTI/PAC, CET IBT or equivalent) PXN, SMEP or equivalent PAN, SMAP or equivalent Isolated radios (cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, etc.), GPU, SSD, media encode / decode, image processor and other components Support for A/B updates of both the firmware and OS images with automatic rollback if the initial boot fails one or more times Verified boot with rollback protection for firmware Verified boot with rollback protection for the OS (Android Verified Boot) Verified boot key fingerprint for yellow boot state displayed with a secure hash (non-truncated SHA-256 or better) StrongBox keystore provided by secure element Hardware key attestation support for the StrongBox keystore Attest key support for hardware key attestation to provide pinning support Weaver disk encryption key derivation throttling provided by secure element Insider attack resistance for updates to the secure element (Owner user authentication required before updates are accepted) Inline disk encryption acceleration with wrapped key support 64-bit-only device support code Wi-Fi anonymity support including MAC address randomization, probe sequence number randomization and no other leaked identifiers Support for disabling USB data and also USB as a whole at a hardware level in the USB controller Reset attack mitigation for firmware-based boot modes such as fastboot mode zeroing memory left over from the OS and delaying opening up attack surface such as USB functionality until that's completed Debugging features such as JTAG or serial debugging must be inaccessible while the device is locked ``` From https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support

Why Playstation?

Because that’s the only other major console, outside of Switch 2 which I don’t have much interest in.

Are you using it for streaming various video services? If not, get a Steam Machine. Playstation pricing is severely expensive, and their selection is limited. There are so many cool things I see on Steam that I wish were on PS5 for ease of use.