I’m fine with the DualSense but I do prefer the feel of the Xbox controller. And that’s coming from someone whose first Xbox was a Series X.

It’s a loss leader, of sorts. The play was to lose out on the PlayStation sales in order to get people locked into their gaming ecosystem, whether it was on an Xbox console or a PC.

Yeah, that was pure, bog standard corporate shittiness. 

Jeez, couldn’t he have just had his father pay a doctor to say he had bone spurs like a normal person?

Definitely. The input lag was the surprising part; I figured that the whole point of the queue was to ensure that the available instances worked properly or even well, but that didn’t seem to happen.

My experience with it had been very good up until I tried to use it around the holidays last year. Queue times were 60-120 minutes and when I did get connected, input lag was insane. And it wasn’t my local internet connection because I used PS Remote Play with zero issues; considering that it was running through my…

Agreed. That’s why my concern is more that it gets bifurcated such that the only option for people in those vast swaths of the US is to buy a PC since that would be the only way to install games locally under that model.

Hmm. I’m genuinely not sure. I have GPU but I very, very rarely play on PC. I can definitely believe it, though.

ETA: There’s a bit of a delta, I looked at the current lineup and there are 477 titles available on Xbox and 444 on PC. I haven’t looked through the list but I wonder if it’s mostly or all BC titles like you…

I’d definitely be interested in that. I use a NUC for PC couch gaming now and it’s fine, but that’s mostly because I only play a very small subset of games on it. Something that’s purpose-built for that use case would be great.

MS doesn’t need games to get people to use Windows.

If Xbox wants to get out of the physical console business and get back into their more natural lane as a software company it’s fine by me if games (at least the big boppers) will be multiplatform as rumored. That means not just on PC, other consoles, something that always seems to get glossed over - “oh, it’s not…

I mean, they’re already screwing console owners compared to PC owners with GamePass.

I’m wondering if Microsoft/Xbox is now considering stopping making hardware consoles at this point and probably going forward with just like a streaming box for their gamepass subscriptions.

Microsoft releasing games simultaneously on PC makes a lot more sense for them given that the overwhelming majority of those PCs run Windows. It’s another incentive to get and keep people in their ecosystem, and that’s not a factor for Sony.

I mentioned the Podcast Cringe videos in another comment and yours reminded me of why I had a generally positive impression of him from them. They were discussing how he defended people with Down Syndrome and was visibly upset and took Andrew Schultz to task on his show for demeaning them. The video, at least that I…

The only reason I know he exists is because of watching Podcast Cringe videos, which generally discuss “comedians” in Rogan’s circle like Bert Kreischer (who I was aware of independently of that), Andrew Schultz, and this guy. This is also the first I’m hearing a) that he was on SNL and b) was fired from it. That…

That’s exactly my point - why stop at preying on the elderly in just one way?

I’m surprised Tom Selleck isn’t doing that for real.

Beetlejuice: Afterlife, and Otho triumphantly joins everyone during the climactic battle.