Damn, he's been working with Xbox for almost 18 years now. Nasty, but if you don't deliver you basically have to go.
He does seem to have a different take on the term "successful" than most people though:
“Of Mice and Men”, but yes.
I can't wait for that crew to go from "midgen is pointless" to "an early more powerful console that plays the exact same games is in fact amazing".
I should have said "Of Green Rats and Men"
Under what grounds is it the most successful in history?Damn, he's been working with Xbox for almost 18 years now. Nasty, but if you don't deliver you basically have to go.
He does seem to have a different take on the term "successful" than most people though:
It forced MS to go multiplatform appeasing share holders and Nadella
Thats the typical Linkedin hyperbole BS a lot of people do. I dont. Everything I write is legit.
Then break back compat. It clearly hasn’t won them anything, Sony offers nothing for PS2/3 and is eating their lunch.
Did they? I think its pretty easy to tell apart the games that take advantage of the SSD & I/O hw, when done right you get ~2 sec load times, even less at times.
Its going to be really straight forward and memorable. The Dirt Box.
That would actually be smart. Since there are clearly interest in handhelds these days with the Steam Deck and ROG Ally selling really well.
Have you ever heard of this miracle called PC gaming?
LOL, when's the last time you ever saw someone using a Microsoft Surface?
Microsoft's Xbox Series X :Microsoft overpromised on the power, Sony overpromised on the SSD.
How quickly you turn
. Not so long ago you would have defended the same line very strongly .Surface sales peaked at $6.7 Billion in 2022.
There's a video where he overhyped the Series S's capabilities and it was so off the mark they privated it lol.
To be fair to them an extra two years, if it is that much, gives them the chance to pack more powerful HW, but by the time enough devs take good advantage of that power PS6 might be around the corner.
You're right that the jumps are getting ridiculously small. The fact that we have a push for low end stuff like Series S and handheld isn't likely to help either as gens become longer. The thing is, xbox only truly dropped crossgen only late last year. if it releases 2 years from now running the same games as this gen for 3 years it's going to be 'midgen' in all but name. They've kind of killed generations already.
You laugh, but look at Xbox history. Xbox 1 was moderately successful as a new entry. Xbox 360 sold a lot but the RROD problems really made a dent in the overall profitability. Xbox One lost a lot of ground. Xbox series lost a lot of ground. Only the 360 was 'successful' in that it improved over the predecessor and that hardware was a fiasco.The most successful console in Xbox history ?
NVIDIA stock is still through the roof and they love the smell of their own farts right now. You won't be able to compete at the same price point as an AMD PS6 unless you're going to use last gen tablet chips from them like Nintendo does.
APU's are getting plenty powerful. In 2026 we should have mobile APU's with Zen 5 and RDNA 5 in them. To coincide with enthusiast console. One low powered portable console that could play the majority of games of its bigger bretheren. Much like how SD is a companion device to Steam users on PC (desktop). Or a low budget/entry level portable PC for gaming.
How quickly you turn
Giallo Corsa
considered therapy?
There is more than 0% chance the next gen console is called "The Xbox One".
EX-box.
The Surface line of products is pretty awesome albeit somewhat pricey. So I'm not at all concerned about the quality aspect. I just wonder why they'd do this. The hardware itself hasn't been the issue for Xbox lately.
