The consumer will gobble this up like hot bread and then ask "but why things bad? Must be immigrants"
Shitty behaviour by a shitty species
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026
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Man, I feel like peak gaming was the xbox 360.
I think steam deck 2 as and when it comes out will be a golden age. I think it stands a chance to completely consolidate the market.
Depends on the price, most people don't want a 1k euros console.
I'd argue early PC and 3rd-4th gen (NES to SNES era)
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/23/game-streaming-ad-supported-xbox-insiders/
Today, we’re starting to test an ad-supported way to stream select games from your library for a limited time, available to XBOX Insiders.
During this test period, XBOX Insiders with an XBOX account will be able to stream games they own for free with ads. Players will have one hour session limits across supported devices and regions.
Here’s what you can expect:
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Ads will play before sessions begin.
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The core game experience is unchanged.
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This is optional. Players can choose other ways to play at any time.
I bought the Xbox x for starfield. Mistakes were made.
>laughs in piracy
Fuck Microsoft
Only 50 center per hour, you say? I mean it's only 75 cents, that won't even buy a soda anymore. Who wouldn't pay a dollar an hour to play the games they love?
the idea is to first make people accept the idea, then over time they will increase the price slowly so people dont react too fast.
Fuck everything about that. Fuck that to hell and back again not a hobbits tale.
Important point of clarification- this is about streaming from the cloud, using an Xbox or GPU in the cloud to play the game. This makes sense as buying the game or not, you are still using cloud resources.
Xbox Remote Play, which runs the game on your home Xbox and streams from your house to wherever you are, is free.
this makes sense
No it doesn't
Well, what you say does, but running games in the cloud doesn't make sense in any logical way except for that that the owner of said cloud will be walking to the bank laughing his ass off
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I wonder if XBox realizes that their player base isn't locked into their ecosystem...
And they are certainly far from the only option.
sad to said that, but most players, are locked into their ecosystem. Most people know shit about piracy, linux, or even tinkering with their computer. It's sad, yes.
I would say that's true about Sony and its ecosystem.
Xbox, on the other hand, isn't doing so hot. I'd argue that Microsoft could potentially be heading toward a serious decline in the console market. When a consumer base is pushed hard enough, eventually people start pushing back.
That's why we're seeing PlayStation and Nintendo Switch consoles being jailbroken. It may be a sign that some consumers are tired of being restricted and exploited by the platforms they use.
Xbox has a particularly serious problem: if Microsoft fails to deliver games and experiences that make its ecosystem worthwhile, people will simply move to PlayStation or Nintendo to play video games. They aren't necessarily going to care about Xbox as an entertainment ecosystem if the gaming experience itself isn't compelling.
Microsoft needs to remember that people buy gaming consoles to play games, not to buy into an ecosystem.
Stadia didn't charge to stream, though I suppose if it still existed it probably would by now.
the most shocking thing about stadia is that they released the means to de-fuck the stadia controller so it could be used as a normal pc controller
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It's funny. Because pretty soon individual "Game Designers" will for the first time be able to create highly complex games using generative AI in very little time. Any game. Even games with a scole like GTA 6 could be generated. And as long as the game describes and edits enough, they will also be an individual creation. Triple AAA video games with a side of slop will become incredibly cheap to make. Much will be total garbage, but we'll see some really cool new ideas that would never have been made before.
This enshittification we're seeing now will only drive this process faster. Even games piracy is going to die lol.
You see a game but don't like some aspect of it? Download someone else's game design document for it and tweak it a bit and generate your own version of that game.
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Xbox Developers: Hell yeah! Playstation is shooting themselves in the foot. All we have to do is sit back and we'll kill it.
Xbox Business : or.... hold my beer.
Awful idea, but unfortunately completely in character for Microsoft. Windows is basically spyware at this point.
I wonder which high-ranking Microsoft employee made this dumbass decision, knowing it would net them more money
Windows is basically spyware at this point.
Always has been.
And it's this kind of shit that has ruined my love for tech. It's all soulless dystopian slop they want you paying for monthly for the rest of your life. Fuck all these techno dweebs. It's a shame all the normies will go along with this...
Tech is still great but you have to know where to look and invest. Sony/MS have lost the plot that's for sure, but the pc gaming ecosystem is vibrant, and there are amazing foss solutions to just about everything, including streaming.
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