Marketing will turn it around because normal people are not tracking Intels string of colossal fuckups.
Normal people buy laptops and game systems every 5 years or so. MS is forcing the turn this time, and people will buy what they know.
Never give up your likeness right kids. Once they've got it, they'll use it forever.
Anybody who wants to download Ns IP has already got it.
When business intentionally cripples it's own service there are two avenues for redress. Regulation, and market pressure.
It's not like anybody is forced to buy HP products. Seems like market pressures are the fix here.
"Its afraid!"
You can still spin up a forum on your own hardware in your closet and a free dynDNS service will update DNS to point at your residential IP whenever it gets updated. The very people who know how to do that are the same people who bring any value to reddit.
Go ahead reddit. Lock away your users.
they're talking about locking specific post in specific subreddits behind paywalls. They've already beta tested it and you can talk to mods on certain subreddits about it (they all hate the idea)
Normal people receive data breach notification every couple of weeks, and accept EULAs without even blinking. They're all aware of government mass surveillance the selling of personal info to government agencies as end runs around constitutional protections.
Crying foul about China stealing data means fuckall at this point. Who gives a shit. Uncle Sam already stole it all anyway. China's not the one sending gunmen into private bedrooms and shooting our dogs.
The incoming super business friendly administration has already signaled free reign in return for an "inauguration fund donation"
Expect lots of blatant market leader abuse over the next 4 years.
This is absolutely untrue.
One can have a pretty solid middle of the road mini PC that will run most modern game releases with middle of the road settings and last gen releases at high to ultra for less then the price of a ps5 and disc drive.
A budget mini-PC can be had for half that, and still provide decades of games.
why would I want to play games on a PC?
Because:
You're tired of paying for online access to the games you've already bought.
You're tired of buying the games again every time there's a platform refresh.
You're tired of not being able to play a game because the publishers don't get along.
You're ready for access to a library of literally tens of thousands of games going back decades, many of which are completely free.
You're ready for access to all sorts of different hardware peripherals.
You're interested poking around the software edges that the consoles have locked away.
You're want to look into one of the many scenes available PC users.
You may pick up actual skills in the course of using your computer to play your games.
You want to break free from giant corporations dictating what, when, and how you use the hardware you own.
You've discovered the huge price differences between software costs on PC vs the locked down console stores.
You like a certain controller and wish to keep using it on newer software.
The list is never ending...
MS has been the only real mainstream option for gaming since '95. Valve is about to shake that up big time, and Redmond seems to have no idea it's even coming.
There's a shitload of Windows users who will go Valve over Windows as soon as they have a chance. MS is both pushing people away from their OS software, and telling people they need new hardware. Both of these actions are like a big glowing arrow pointing to SteamOS for a not insignificant portion of the PC market.
Valve as a private company with an actual vision, actual functional and much loved market place, and a dominant position in the PC gaming market. GabeN has no vampire shareholders to please, and no giant AI investment to bag hold. Once the dust settles, I imagine Valve will have peeled of a huge portion marketspace from MS.
Walts Carwash and ZZZ Accounting. Empty stores in stripmalls paying huge rents. Read between the lines.
What's going on right behind the curtain?
It's like a big joke at our expense.
Expect no reward for serving the wicked.
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