Branding surely played a role too, microsoft is constantly upping the ante on naming things as terribly as possible. I'm an avid gamer who follows gaming news and I couldnt tell you the difference between an xbox series s vs xbox one vs. xbox series aeiou and sometimes y. It's almost as bad as .net framework -> .net core -> uh.. lets just call it .NET actually that won't be confusing for anybody
100% this (for me at least). I’ve owned all the Xboxes since the first one up through the… Xbox One, I think? Was that one? I think I actually had an Xbox One X as a mid-lifecycle refresh, and when the next one came out and had a terrible name, pricing and storage situation, I threw up my hands and stopped trying to keep up.
The "one xbox one x box" meme is well over a decade old at this point lol. Definitely a "hold my beer" moment from MS after nintendo's uncharacteristic marketing misstep of wii -> wiiu.
Exclusives aren't consumer-friendly but they shift boxes. Everyone knows if you want to play a Mario game you need a Nintendo.
The exclusives ship has sailed for the Xbox now so the best they can do is try to compete with the new Steam Machine with what will essentially be a PC and allow all storefronts.
It seems Valve has gone for an entry-level machine while Xbox is going for a premium one so it'll be interesting to see how it all pans out.
Entry-level gaming PC is still quite high up there on the performance scale compared to consoles. They haven't announced a price yet but it'll hopefully be similar to current consoles on the lower storage model. Anything higher will put it in range with existing prebuilt gaming PCs.
It will be interesting to see how the market will determine whether subjective “fun” is the same in an entry-level versus a premium experience. Short of some ego boosting element, the experience is likely the same.
Just another data point to the unbelievable strategic failure of MS in ceding the mobile market so early on. Imagine a world where we had portable devices capable of natively playing Direct3D games from the beginning.
Branding surely played a role too, microsoft is constantly upping the ante on naming things as terribly as possible. I'm an avid gamer who follows gaming news and I couldnt tell you the difference between an xbox series s vs xbox one vs. xbox series aeiou and sometimes y. It's almost as bad as .net framework -> .net core -> uh.. lets just call it .NET actually that won't be confusing for anybody
100% this (for me at least). I’ve owned all the Xboxes since the first one up through the… Xbox One, I think? Was that one? I think I actually had an Xbox One X as a mid-lifecycle refresh, and when the next one came out and had a terrible name, pricing and storage situation, I threw up my hands and stopped trying to keep up.
The "one xbox one x box" meme is well over a decade old at this point lol. Definitely a "hold my beer" moment from MS after nintendo's uncharacteristic marketing misstep of wii -> wiiu.
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Exclusives aren't consumer-friendly but they shift boxes. Everyone knows if you want to play a Mario game you need a Nintendo.
The exclusives ship has sailed for the Xbox now so the best they can do is try to compete with the new Steam Machine with what will essentially be a PC and allow all storefronts.
It seems Valve has gone for an entry-level machine while Xbox is going for a premium one so it'll be interesting to see how it all pans out.
Entry-level gaming PC is still quite high up there on the performance scale compared to consoles. They haven't announced a price yet but it'll hopefully be similar to current consoles on the lower storage model. Anything higher will put it in range with existing prebuilt gaming PCs.
It will be interesting to see how the market will determine whether subjective “fun” is the same in an entry-level versus a premium experience. Short of some ego boosting element, the experience is likely the same.
Indeed. Building a home PC is very different from building a game console. Microsoft is still very much this stupid. AI isn't a panacea for sales.
The xbox series x has sold almost 30 M units. It seems alive and well to me.
Yes, the ps5 has sold like 85 M units, so it has the larger market share, but the xbox is "killed"? Please.
> It could generate real-time graphics far beyond anything ever seen before.
No. The ps2 was on par with a budget pc.
Sure that's lifetime sales number. But if you look at numbers from recent quarters, that's absolutely abysmal.
It looks pretty linear to me: https://www.vgchartz.com/article/465601/ps5-vs-xbox-series-x...
Also, it’s a 5 year old console. I’m surprised they are both going this strong.
Just another data point to the unbelievable strategic failure of MS in ceding the mobile market so early on. Imagine a world where we had portable devices capable of natively playing Direct3D games from the beginning.