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I think that’s plain to see by now, even for the investors. They still hold on to saying they’re going to release 10th gen hardware but that could be a PC by then. There are upsides to this for gamers potentially though as I doubt they’ll leave legacy Xbox games stranded and more people will get access to them.

You sound like your main issue is that I don’t attempt to fit in. You’ll have to deal with that.

You know that I use Linux too and I know being able to run anything is just bs?

My guess is that this device will upsell you on GamePass constantly by making everything else possible but slightly annoying. MS might be the biggest video game publisher these days so there’s still plenty of leverage they have (buying ActiBlizz was huge and EA could be in trouble because FC 25 is not selling as well as FIFA). MS „lost” console war but this allows them to keep foot in the door and still exert some power over the platform.

Saying that Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and support when they are forcing everyone to either pay for win10 support or join the win11 spyware mafia is a ludicrous statement btw.

What are you using as a benchmark? Is there any OS that supports hardware or software this long? Find an original Quake 3 Linux installer and see how that goes. Not sure what spyware has to do with that.

Games with kernel-level anticheat do work on Linux, if the anticheat provider has done the work. Right now, most don't and actively stopped supporting Linux so saying that won't work ever is kind of a stretch.

To an end user this is a Linux problem. Like, „Haiku OS can run all the games except developers don’t support it” won’t cut it as an explanation for why your games don’t work.

"Isn't good enough to replace windows" - here I am playing Modded games, path of exile, ffxiv, other FF games, cyberpunk, all PC monster Hunter games.... Your statement is false.

You’re playing some games. Same can be said about Switch yet everybody here acts like it is some huge failure.

I see nothing wrong with using a compatibility layer, it does the work of retrocompatibility alongside separating game environments, which is good for security.

It is reverse engineered and with the level of complexity of Windows and Windows being a moving target it will never get there 100%. You have to make a conscious choice to lose access to some of your games when moving from Windows, and possibly lose access to some games that worked on Linux previously after you moved.

Microsoft is likely to develop a stripped down version of Windows for those handhelds. Windows isn’t fundamentally incapable of low overhead and Xbox runs something similar.

As to why you’d want to use Windows even if you’re tech savvy there are loads of reasons:

• Native access to other digital storefronts (Valve wants to lock you in with Steam Deck)
• Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and long term support seriously, unlike Valve that has a history of abandoning things when they no longer found them immediately profitable
• There are plenty of games with kernel-level anti-cheat that won’t work with Wine/Proton ever
• Wine/Proton compatibility isn’t good enough to replace Windows
• Valve pushes Proton so heavily that developers stopped creating native Linux ports so the above is unlikely to change anytime soon

But there are also good reasons to go with SD like very very good VRR screen utilisation (Xbox is also good at this so maybe there’s hope for Windows).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer)

They realised that this thing has even less character than Concord. Time to remake the game as roguelite deckbuilder.

Steam Machines ran Linux so you were limited to Steam and couple of odd ports pretty much. It was definitely too early and most just installed Windows I think. Mine’s a home server to this day, I love that little gamer coffin (Asus GR6).

There’s much more variety on Windows so this is pretty cool. I think the biggest unanswered question is whether Microsoft pulls off running Xbox games on those.

I’m both dumber and smarter than anyone realises. Saying things that lead to „told you so” is like going through motions now.

I’ve been hanging around here for over a year, I know the vibe. Also autism and great pattern recognition.

Who picked that live service market, Sony?

I’m not really convincing that guy since I doubt he debates in good faith. He represents American brand of libertarianism - think Elon Musk simps. Old school libertarians like Adam Smith recognised that a free market doesn’t exist without state regulation.

At this point I’m just exposing how childish that American libertarianism is although it seems to be very popular amongst gamers and this community in particular. I don’t mind being inconvenient to people and I know it makes people pause since those mass downvotes say more about them than about me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_anarchism_and_libertarianism

Approach to monopolies is a political thing and that was as free market approach as you can get. Guy self described himself as anarchist in the next comment so I was right to label him that.

What the fuck does economics have with idpol.

N64/GC sure (if you’re okay with letterboxed screen) although not the most efficient use of battery. Switch is debatable since compatibility is not there and won’t improve anytime soon. With DS/3DS you must be joking, it’s a different form factor entirely.

Do yourself a favour and get a DS Lite and a flashcart, they’re dirt cheap and it’s just super convenient device. I’d say the same for 3DS but they are ridiculously expensive these days for some reason, glad I got mine years ago. Some games really utilised that 3D screen for spatial puzzles and such (like Mario 3D Land), not really easy to reproduce so that’s a bummer.

This hasn’t been possible for years now unfortunately. I mean, you can extract all the certs you want with Lockpick but they won’t get you anywhere. It’s been like 7 years since then so I don’t recall the name of the tool that was used for downloading stuff. Could have been this.

Back in Wii U / 3DS days Nintendo didn’t protect their CDNs at all, no authentication. It was quite funny on 3DS because if you bought something on eShop it was stored as a small file on your end so you could just copy those „ticket” files and then go to eShop and have an experience like a paying customer.

When Nintendo finally realised they blocked comms from non-Nintendo devices but you could still extract a cert and use it to authenticate. Most people used shared ones because it was assumed they’d be burned sooner or later. When those shared certs became harder to get I tried using my own assuming they get burned because so many people used them. I was wrong and burned mine too very quickly.

As someone who has a Switch v1 that’s banned to the point where it can no longer receive updates, you really have to try. I extracted a certificate from my Switch to authenticate downloads from Nintendo CDN when it was still possible. I guess that’s fair because unlike with Valve, Sony or Microsoft my account is perfectly usable, online play included, on all other devices other than this console.

Since you’re too lazy to address my complaints against Valve here’s a meme that’s easier to comprehend.

Also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_anarchism_and_libertarianism

Libertarians every time. Lol.