Asus ROG Ally Specs Reveal A Powerful New Steam Deck Competitor

@johnny0779:It's the only Xbox news... they have absolutely nothing to share about so any news is a good news for xb... it's so lame not even a single 1st party game in the entire 2022 and for 2023 it's still to get better... like for the xbone years and years of promesses and years and years of under delivering I'm verry disappointed by Xbox. I let them make me believing that this gen will be the good one and that we will get many games like in the 360 era and they let me down once again. Lately they admit that Microsoft is angry by the state of xbox and that this gen will probably be the latest console from the brand.. they will continue on PC with gamepass and no more console... they let us think that many game will come... bethesda admitted that they haven't started the dev on Elder Scroll 6 yet and that will probably be a 10 years dev game so if they didn't started yet and it will take at least 10 years from now it's mean that this game, and many others, won't be for this gen console at all, so what the heck you think that will happen...

Perfect dark project... dev stuck in limbo

Fable dev... no news at all since the CGI intention on XBSX lunch

Hellblade 2... no news since CGI intention on XBSX lunch

and that goes on and on and on with all game shown with one exception... the disastrous Halo half backed game with less and less contents with broken promesses and dead online's community already.

XB need to sell game on their hardware to make benefits and with gamepass no one, NO ONE is buying anything, we all wait that came to gamepass...

they need to sell a lot a membership to make their 1st party games to be profitables but they came on day one on gamepass who the hell will buy those?

Now the 3rd party game problems now... what is true for the 1st party is critical for 3rd party one. CAPCOM, KONAMI, SEGA and all others need to sell games to be able to funds their investments on dev those games and today developing game is really expensive, we talking about many millions dollars for 3rd party and multi,mega million for AAA games like Final Fantasy likes and others. Do you really think that those compagnies are really happy to get their game on gamepass... they will not even get back their money to pay devs... it take a lots of downloads and a lots of time to recoup the cost of their dev with this kind of platforms so now think about a AAA games and why 3rd party will take risk to play the XBOX system style of marketing? So that is the main reason why you do not see many 3rd party dev shipping games for Xbox cause it's to risky and they are there to make profits not to please gamers with games but to make profits.... why you think we see a lot of remakes and remasters instead of new IPs? cause a lots of the developments is already done they just need to update here and there controls, sounds and visuals and they know that they will sell tons of those cause they already had made the proof years before so their is really less risks to that kind of games... it's basically easy money for the less risks...

ever wonder why capcom do every remakes of every Resident Evil games while making a genuine new game with new concept and higher risks every 6 years or so? Why we do not get a new Dragon Dogma games in 15 maybe 20 years, cause the risk is really higher to make those kinds of new stuff over playing the security with many, more than we needs, Monsters Hunters and Likes... Security over risks, secure profits overs risks investments.

Now why we hear, here and there, that Konami, a 3rd party dev, is remaking Metal Solid 3 over making a new one or remaking Silent Hills 2 over making a decent developed new entry in the series? That goes on and on...

The Hideo Kojima studio's himself is playing safely by announcing Death Stranding 2 over anything else. We know he is currently playing with new things and ideas but he play safe by announcing a sequel to a decent game that Sony's help funding dev cost...

You see everyone is playing safe.. there is less and less risks taken cause we are talking million in investments that need to be profitable and with Gamepass (That is a cool thing for gamers cause we have access to supposedly futurs AAA and AA and many others games at day one, who is not happy with this kind of model) Xbox just shoot themself in the foot cause no copy of games are sold and no profits are made from this kind of model for development compagnies and with higher risks of lunching games today compare to the early 2000. That Gamepass model could only succeed if there are a really big amount of subscribers of the higher tiers and by selling a lots, but a mean a LOTS, of Xbox hardwares to recoup cost of development.

What I think they will do is that they will keep the xbox brand and absorb it into Microsoft itself to make GamePass a subscription services for gaming on windows platforms, whatever that mean(Windows integrated devices or Tv integrated with GamePass), and that they will stop making consoles cause the needs will not be there to access in multiple ways the next step of logical way to GamePass model.

@andyng211: agreed. Half of what makes the steam deck so good is the OS