Hey, hey next you can make people buy individual games, maybe at full price. You could kill this round of the mainframe fantasy in record time.

Remote computing almost never works because whatever you’re connecting from is probably capable all on its own. Obviously it’s networked at modern speeds. Even dumb video streaming demands some fairly new chips for efficient codecs. The Xbox Whatever This One’s Called had that little shoebox version that was priced like a Wii and it worked fine for all the games that can push a 5090. Everything scales down pretty well. Shooters get phone ports that are just the normal game, with worse controls. RE Requiem on Switch 2 still puts shit in your pants.

Even the damn PS3 ran MGS V. You could count the polygons and the frames, but it ran, and if you wanted it on PS Now you had to buy a PS4. That failure is our constant relief from this stupid future. Executives lean in and go ‘but what if… more money?,’ and you can’t use the gizmo you already fucking have. The money you’d pay them every month is not real if they can imagine a larger number.

You gotta be a fucking idiot to pay for this shit, it was a bad deal before but this is just ridiculous.

I thought Asha Sharma may be a good reset to get Xbox back on track. It’s clear with the layoffs, studio closure and these moves, she unfortunately just had a more efficient euthanasia plan.

Goddammit and I was trying to get my son to switch from Playstation Plus to Xbox because of the whole disc thing. Well that not happening now.

It already had a limit - the number of hours in a month.

we still have all your fucking moneeeey

Consolitis used to be something like the common cold. These days it’s more like a cancer.