https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-confirms-first-party-next-generation-xbox-consoles-announces-deal-with-amd-and-promises-full-backwards-compatibility-with-your-existing-xbox-library

Microsoft confirms next gen consoles, announces deal with AMD, full backwards compatibility, integration with Steam, EPIC Store, and GOG; says it will be more like a PC than an Xbox and work closely with Windows to make it the best platform for gaming.
Targeted release 2027.

>>713013656 (OP)
BUT THE ONE YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW HAS JACK SHIT FOR GAMES

Okay but how about the games?

>>713013757
well you can stare at starting menu in 30-45 fps now instead of 30

>>713013850

>>713013656 (OP)
I feel like normies don't want a mini PC, and PC gamers don't want a console with Windows. Despite being a cool concept I don't think it will do well.

>>713014082
I feel like it’s a sunken fallacy for Xbox users (such as myself). I’ve built up my Xbox library so much that it would be frustrating to start over on a PC. The way they’re wording this, if they just built an “Xbox” PC and let me carry over that library, that would be great.

Can it play rance and emulate switch 2?

>>713013757
Uhh not really though? Heck even GOTY E33 is on game pass

Who the fuck is going to buy this tho? Just get a PC?

>>713013656 (OP)
I tend to forget that the Series S/X is almost 5 years old. OG Xbox was only 4 years old when the 360 came out.

>>713013757
If you mean 1st party games, yeah. But that’s not the industry standard anymore except for Nintendo. The industry having as large a library as possible and offering them at competitive prices through sales or subscriptions.

>>713013656 (OP)
And?

HOW ABOUT SOME GAMES? ANYONE?

>>713014573
This.

Only reason I have a series S is because of my best friend since high-school. (Single dad, so doesn't have much time for gaming so he's an Xbox purist)

Also I have sizeable collection of digital 360 games that I don't want to start over on Steam or Playstation.

>>713014573
But your digital library on Xbox is also on PC, that's the whole point of the Xbox desktop PC app.

This has to be one of the most dogshit gens to date. Even the PS6 is being talked about now. Neither PS5 nor Series S/X have had anything notable. Like lmao the PS5's biggest exclusive is a tutorial game L O L

>>713015413
Funny how Nintendo stepped out of the arms race and is the console that came out on top.

A silly little Nintendo tablet beat Xbox and Playstation....how did that happen?

So is this going to be the next traditional system from xbox? Maybe trying to get a jump out of the gate on the ps6? We thinking 2027?

>>713015249
True. But the thing with my situation is that I don’t have a powerful PC. It plays indie games and that’s it. I also had difficulty trying to mod through the Xbox PC app. I don’t know if it’s possible, but it was less intuitive than Steam or DRM free downloads.
I also just feel averse to shelling out for a powerful PC when I know I’ll play maybe a few current gen games a year. Series X at $500 was more reasonable

>>713015413
Nintendo and Valve won, I don't even know what's the point of owning an Xbox or PlayStation anymore.

>>713015593
A lot of factors. Nintendo brand and first party games. Portable console. Pandemic.

>>713015593
Looking a DK Bananza, I fully understand how that happened. Nintendo makes soulful games, Sony and Microsoft stopped doing that and when they do, it's woke slop, sometimes even movies. Valve is stealing their thunder too. Those two ignoring Nintendo and Valve will be their undoing.

>>713015593
>constantly chasing graphics leads to bloated budgets and long development times to the point Sony basically releases one game a year and Xbox only publishes so many games just because of how many fucking developers they own
>Nintendo just doesn't do that so many of their dev teams are able to put out multiple games a generation

I was always a Xbox fan in 6th and 7th gen. Games performed and looked better on Xbox during this time. And these differences could be huge, especially in FPS games. The difference between Timesplitters Future Perfect and Darkwatch vs their PS2 versions really stuck out, and of course that's where Halo was. This applied to most western games, really.

But, always needed a Playstation around for the exlusive. Cant play Devil May Cry and Final Fantasy on my original Xbox.

In 8th gen though, there wasn't this disparity. Games looked basically the same everywhere. And we are at that diminishing return point where a slight resolution difference doesn't matter. I stuck with the Xbone for awhile, but I was full PS4 by the end of the generation, and that continues now.

I can't see Xbox doing anything to win me back. The days of great Xbox Exclusives like Lost Odyssey and Culdcept Saga or even kusoge kino exclusives like Bulletwitch and Ninety Nine Nights are gone. It's just a smaller library that looks and plays the same. And obviously physical imports are out if the question as well. Just got Dodonpachi DOJ RE:Incarnation and Venus Vacation Prism this month. Cant do that on an Xbox.

Basically, rip.

>>713015920
With Microsoft porting everything to well, everything, and Sony porting everything to PC and now Switch, I'm just going back to Nintendo and getting the Steam Deck successor from Valve. Switch and Steam seems like the way to go at this point.

>>713014976
The PS5 is already 5 years old and you can't still make a $500 PC that can match it and it will be the same with the next Xbox. You will need twice or maybe even triple the money just to match it, not to mention games will be optimized for it too unlike PC that gets shit ports and then PCtards beg modders to fix shit.

>>713013656 (OP)
People still buy xbox???

>>713015857
Nintendo sets itself apart because they sell things no one else does. Valve is really kicking Sony and Microsoft’s ass because while their libraries and products are similar, Steam is by and far a better platform.

>>713015593
More games than the competition combined, everything Nintendo on one console.

>>713014976
Me and I have a gaming PC.

It's one thing to switch to PC yourself, it's another to get your entire friend group to do it.

didn't they release literally one halo game for their last console? jesus christ lol

>>713016995
>More games than the competition combined
Shut the fuck up. You know that is not true. Nintendo has no 3rd party support. It's dry as fuck there with nothing to play other than the 1 Nintendo game they releases per year. Switch is a literal dust collector.

There’s still something to be said about getting a new console every 7 years, everything is done for you and just works for $500.
Compare that to a high end PC which has a minimum buy in of $1000 and some of the parts become outdated in 3-5 years.

>>713013656 (OP)
imagine how poorly it will sell. We're talking wiiu levels of sales here.

Look at these xbots coping lol

>>713017869
But it is true and now they have third party support.

>>713018152
I'm expecting even less given the price.

>>713018152
They don’t care. Microsoft has lost money on every Xbox except the 360. They more than make up for it with game sales and the Game Pass

Series x was good. Shame it had no sxclusives besides bc360 games .

>>713018606
Honestly just being able to play my 360 games at 60fps made it for me.

Xbox games are coming. They have a ton of studios working on first-party games. You can see some from the latest Xbox Showcase, and that left out Gears E-Day, Fable, Halo, and Forza.
>Just one more year
>Next year will be the year

>>713013656 (OP)
Ok /v/, you now are in charge of the xbox division, how will you call the next console? Give me your most ridiculous names

Microsoft really wants that monopoly. I've never seen a company chase so much bad money after good

>>713018980
>also on Playstation and PC

>>713018981
Nothing, I shut down the division and sell off the assets then fire Phil for being a retard and wasting 100 billion dollars

>>713019167
I wonder if the US is ever going to come down hard on big tech and break up all the companies.

>>713019384
It probably won't be in our lifetime unfortunately

>>713014976
me so I can play in bed/couch
i sit at a desk all day

>>713014976
>Just get a PC
Shut up. Some people want a box that turns on that they don’t have to worry about. Respect that

>>713014976
If it has a good price:performance ratio, is fully BC with the current xbox library and can maybe run most/all PC games going forward I can see a strong market for that. At least until PC component prices stop being retard.

>>713015249
Not the entire digital library

>>713015593
Only teddies are buying the console. Also switch 2 has 1 launch game that's not a mainstream mario. Valve literally won by doing nothing.

>>713022520
>Mario Kart is not mainstream Mario
I know it’s not a traditional platforming Mario game, but Mario Kart is certainly popular enough to be mainstream

>>713022087
Most games you can get for free or emulated anyway

>>713013656 (OP)
How do they make money from this? No way they are selling the hardware at a loss.

>muh 500
there is no chance a next gen console is going to cost that
games will be at 100 soon

>>713015857
You guys were saying it was forced soul, now it isn't

>>713026189
>everyone on /v/ is the same
Only Snoys and Xbots said that. Sony and Microsoft are peak soulless.