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Xbox Series X (coming 10 Nov 2020)

Macalicious2011 said:
In all seriousness who will buy an expensive next xbox?

Casual gamers on series s won't upgrade since live service games will continue to be served on as many platforms as possible.

Series x owners are unlikely to buy it as they feel burnt that all exclusives are coming to ps5.

Ps5 owners won't buy it because they they will be able to play most major Xbox titles on ps5.

Pc gamers are unlikely to be interested if it cost almost as much mid range pc but is not upgradable or mod friendly.
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Possibly me, a current Series S owner with a potato PC - provided it's actually a real first party Xbox device that can play Xbox console and PC games including from Steam/GOG.

Not everything is about exclusives. I'd argue the personal game libary and future release availability are more important factors for most.

The most played games are multiplatform.

Even PlayStation recently altered their strategy to release their big exclusives on PC. It's the only way to grow the userbase, market and sales.

the "new Xbox console PC" is rumored to being capable to play PC games, so also those from PlayStation.

Plenty of gamers want the most capable/best console.

If the PS6 is really behind on the "new Xbox console PC" and since well, their PS games are also starting to be available elsewhere on PC...

There are PC gamers who would be happy to switch or buy a dedicated gaming purposed PC/Console - no longer having to deal with OS and driver issues and sell a bunch of organs just for a GPU upgrade.

We don't know yet, if it's not mod or upgrade friendly. Maybe it's a dual boot console/PC or how the OEM devices will be. Xbox branded parts were rumored already.

diamond.g said:
They will eventually just license out the xbox brand and let others make the hardware, like 3DO...
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the Xbox ROG Ally (X) are the first of those.

Microsoft is planning to change Xbox from just a console to a platform service with a dedicated Halo (pun intended) product, their "new Xbox console PC" and possibly more, while also getting OEM's like Asus ROG involved. It's similiar to what they do with Surface-Line for Laptop/Tablets/2-1s.
 
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diamond.g said:
They will eventually just license out the xbox brand and let others make the hardware, like 3DO...
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I look forward to Sony licencing the Xbox branding :p:cool:

Kidding aside. Today I felt nostalgic about Xbox and put a copy of Forza Horizon 2 in my Series X. It's set in Nice and i bought a physical copy two years ago. You can no longer buy it digitally.
 
Macalicious2011 said:
In all seriousness who will buy an expensive next xbox?

Casual gamers on series s won't upgrade since live service games will continue to be served on as many platforms as possible.

Series x owners are unlikely to buy it as they feel burnt that all exclusives are coming to ps5.

Ps5 owners won't buy it because they they will be able to play most major Xbox titles on ps5.

Pc gamers are unlikely to be interested if it cost almost as much mid range pc but is not upgradable or mod friendly.
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Well their plan is to basically sell ALL their games on EVERY platform, quite a few are even coming to the Switch 2 next year, and they will apparently licence others to manufacture Xbox consoles. Microsoft are moving to a brand that makes a few high end consoles itself, licences others to make them if they like too, and they will be a third party publisher. I have no interest in them personally, I will play the games I want from them on PlayStation or what ever else I have.
 
piccolamela said:
And since those reports are relevant to all the above and prior:

THIS is the reason for many terrible and boneheaded decisions Xbox has made in the last years... it explains a lot.

Here is a summary, non paywalled.
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Yeap, it was obvious Spencer presented a plan promising if they let him spend, what ended up as over 90 billion US I believe, on acquisitions then the Game Pass subscriber base would grow exponentially to XX%, that has obviously NOT happened and so the CFO and board are coming down hard and demanding a fast return on that investment, as you would expect them to. The plan failed so now they are struggling and panicking to pay their investors back before they sell up, or kick the board out.
 
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