People need to realize that, barring death of one of the candidates, one of two people will be president in 2025 and there is no third choice. Not actively choosing the lesser of two evils, no matter how unpalatable that may be, makes it more likely that the greater of two evils happens.

Nah, they lost the console war when they announced that the XBO would cost $100 more because it included the Kinect, had mandatory DRM for both digital and physical games that would disable them if you didn’t authenticate online at least once a day and was marketed primarily as a means of watching television.

I think you’re underestimating how hard it is to make a low-cost gaming PC that has a form factor that’s convenient for living room use. PC GPUs are bigger and more expensive than ever, which is why consoles use proprietary hardware.

Xbox Twitter is making it seem like the world is ending. I’m withholding judgment until they clear the air this Thursday.

I’d be surprised too, though it would be a pleasant surprise. Simultaneous launches are better for consumers and better for the success of each game on each platform (see Helldivers 2 outperforming every other Sony PC port despite belonging to a much smaller IP). If you want to maximize revenue and consumer happiness,…

Seems like a win-win for consumers. MS continues making Xboxes for those that prefer it while its first-party games become more accessible to a broader audience.

Plus, Danny DeVito.  You can never have enough of Danny DeVito.

The Kennedy one was bizarre. So, you’re saying the only reason to vote for you is that JFK was your uncle?

The Superbowl being on is a great reason to go see a movie in a theater, as it assures a Wednesday matinee crowd on a weekend schedule.

not to mention crossplay. Sony was staunchly against it

I eagerly await being absolutely disgusted by the Vince McMahon projects that are surely in the works. Another horrendous shitstain that defers to be exposed as much as possible.

If you’re not interested in PC gaming, then Xbox is more appealing. Honestly, if you’re a PC gamer, there’s not much reason to buy a PS5 either now that Sony is porting its exclusives to PC. For example, I own both a PS5 and PC but I’d rather wait 2-3 years for Sony’s first-party games to be ported to PC simply…

MS absolutely did fumble the ball. They charged an extra $100 so they could include the Kinect which nobody wanted. They declared that both digital and physical games would have DRM that required online connections, limited resale and would prevent games from launching if you were offline for more than a day. They…

Basically we already have consoles with a ton of features and improvements that were once “kinda cool and nice to have”, but later became almost universal requirements.

Take you pick of multiplayer on consoles, streaming service applications, digital distribution, or backwards compatibility (and a ton I am forgetting,…

At least they pulled it off better than Microsoft. I keep my Xbox 360 hooked up because most of the games I prefer to replay weren’t backwards compatible with Xbox One.

I fully believe your fear is gonna come true. It just feels like all the winds are pointing in that direction.

Sega: "First time?"

When you lose control of the narrative so that your competitor can swoop in and get the upper hand over something that doesn’t matter that is what fumbling the ball is. 

I also own both and I completely disagree. I have had PS consoles in past generations, so maybe it’s familiarity to a large extent, but I vastly prefer everything about the PS5 over the SeriesX. I hate that the home screen is constantly advertising to me (mostly trying to sell me game pass) and I feel like the…

As someone who also owns both, theres nothing to me that indicates the ‘Xbox Experience’ is better. Maybe I’m missing something?

But also Xbox fumbled the ball a decade ago so people bought the PS4, and they get to keep all those games on PS5, so we’re kinda locked in.