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“The only thing missing is the Xbox,” he said, per machine learning translation, “which somehow feels a bit wrong, but that 10GB of shared memory — without years of optimisation experience — is really hard to make work.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is it too late for that?

Why would it be?

those that do would probably prefer SetamOS...or something else that isn't affiliated with Microsoft.

For whatever reason, millions of people obviously still prefer XBOX, in addition to or in place of, PC, Sony, Nintendo, etc. All this does is give those people more options.

or PopOS

PopOS does not deliver the console experience that I'm referring to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not having lots of SKUs and a user-managed OS is kinda what the console experience is about. Steam OS does not deliver a console experience. Steam Deck kinda does (except not really), but Steam OS is just a part of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not having lots of SKUs and a user-managed OS is kinda what the console experience is about.

I dunno what a "user managed OS" means. There's no reason MS couldn't port the exact same experience, considering current and past XBOXes are both built on x86.

As far as SKUs, I agree, but that's only part of the console experience. The rest of it is a controller-first interface and streamlined processing. The various SKUs is also what attracts so many people to PC gaming, and in case you haven't noticed, it is an incredibly quickly-growing segment.

[–] paultimate14 -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess I'm confused about what you're proposing then. Why would anyone - consumers, Microsoft, or Nintendo/Sony - want an Xbox operating system on a non-Xbox console?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm gonna refer you back to the original post.