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   Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 05:35:11 JST Seasons of Jason

   Kinda wild seeing this.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 05:50:30 JST Seasons of Jason

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     The Xbox brand is now entering its Dreamcast phase.

     Once the majority of its prior exclusives land on Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and PC, is there any remaining reason to buy Xbox hardware? Is there a compelling reason to develop a next-gen Xbox console?

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     Zac (sloenthusiast@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 05:59:18 JST Zac

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     @killyourfm interestingly they’ve been pushing their cloud gaming offering harder than usual, it’s showing up as the first ad you see on Amazon Fire TV devices - “This is an Xbox”.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 05:59:18 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Zac

     @sloenthusiast *Nods* It does feel like within a few years "Xbox" will be more associated with a gaming label/publisher than hardware.

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     Nowhere!Fast! (nowherefast@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 06:23:43 JST Nowhere!Fast!

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     @killyourfm did they ever turn a profit on their hardware? Considering the immense R&D costs. It’s probably a lot cheaper to run some beefy standard hardware in the data centers they maintain anyways and virtualize the hell out of it.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 06:23:43 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Nowhere!Fast!

     @nowherefast I don't have insight into that, but historically, game consoles are ALWAYS loss leaders (with the exception of certain Nintendo consoles). The idea is you take a slight loss on the hardware and vastly make up for that in game sales (or subscriptions like Xbox Live, PS+, Game Pass, etc)