Subj : Latest Valve's announcement
To   : niter3
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Nov 28 2025 09:54:18

  Re: Latest Valve's announcement
  By: niter3 to Arelor on Fri Nov 28 2025 06:20 am

 > Our they trying to take the same approach to Windows? Allow companies to
 > build the hardware then use their software?
 >

They recently gave a license to a hardware manufacturer to produce a "Xbox" handheld. Think of a Nintendo Switch, but in Xbox version.

You look under its hood and it is a Steam Deck-like computer running Windows and with Xbox software on it. I think that is what Microsoft is trying to pull out: Third party hardware manufacturers producing Xbox licensed hardware which runs the Xbox store, so they can sell games on them.

I could work if lots of people had massive Xbox libraries, which made them locked into the MS ecosystem, but as far as I am aware Xbox missed the train on the previous generation so the big mass of Xbox users necessary to move the idea forward is not there. Last time somebody tried something similar was with the 3DO and it crashed very badly.


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