Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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Xbox really is just Gamepass now. Must be making them good money I guess if they’re getting out of hardware almost completely? Then again they just killed off almost all of their upcoming games except for like, Fable.
All that to say it’s Sega’s opening to get back into the hardware market. Dreamcast 2 baybeeeee
Now that Sega's making great games again, 
The console wars ended with the signing of the Treaty of Costco
This is completely anecdotal, of course, but I recently noticed a couple of Finnish big box retailers not carrying Xbox controllers on their shelves at all. Didn't check if they sold consoles since I was just looking at controllers but I was surprised to see it was just PlayStation, Nintendo and cheap 3rd party PS4 controllers. Very healthy brand
Weird decision since it's the de facto standard for PC gaming.
The standard for pc gaming is m+kb. If you must have a controller, an 8bitdo is better and cheaper than a first party xbox one.
You know I meant the standard for controllers. 8bitdo controllers are cheaper and better, but also far less likely to be stocked by regular big box retailers.
In my experience, physical retailers are most likely to either have nothing for PC gaming or just 
Yeah, I can think of like one or two PC games out of my whole collection that it makes sense to use a controller with, and they're both fine with mouse and keyboard, enough that I don't feel the need to get a controller just for that. Now, if I were to end up with one someone was getting rid of, or pick one up dirt cheap gently used, I'd use it, but I don't feel the need to go looking for one.
When it comes to the overall experience, I massively prefer PC gaming, it's just a much better experience for 95% of what I like to play, but as far as the sensory experience, I do really like certain console controllers for their shape in my hands and the button presses. And if you're going to play a shooter game, or really anything with decent combat and good ranged options, something more like an actual trigger than a mouse button to fire does feel really good. (And force sensitive buttons and sticks from older systems are just the best. Mashing the crap out of a button that feels crazy good to press is just peak sensory experience.)
i mostly play games that use controllers and have my pc hooked up to my tv.
Ah, yeah, that's a neat way to do it if that's the type of thing you like. I tend to enjoy things that are more "menus and spreadsheets, the game", and so a controller makes for a simply horrible experience. Like, they're unwieldy enough with the precise pointing you get with a mouse, and keyboard shortcuts, controllers and complex menuing don't mix.
Though I grew up in the Halo era I never had a console so I never picked up the thumbstick aiming skill, and I also favor menu and spreadsheet type games. So the only thing I use a controller for is half assed console ports they didn't bother to make a sensible m+kb setup for like FF7R.
Microsoft has been transitioning Xbox into a "gaming" brand that includes all their offerings pc, console and other. It's all "xbox" not just the console. They do not intend to stay in the console market and have been intentionally expanding the brand's meaning for a long long time now. What they've wanted to do for a while is to drop hardware entirely and migrate to a fully subscription based streamed gaming approach where you own no hardware at all. This remains their intended goal and they hope to deliver it through expansion of the mobile gaming market.
What other kind of decision would it be?
A 
decision.
Microsoft has given up on Xbox anyways.
is costco in deep with Israel? interesting this comes on the heels if microsoft apparently suspending some services for israel?
i just wonder if it's tit for tat
i think its more likely nobody is buying Xbox. It sells less than Switch 1.
No I think it's just xbox sales being down
microsoft apparently suspending some services for israel?
Microshit being kind of based? is something I never thought I’d say.
It's because their employees keep protesting and doing sit-ins in executive offices and accosting executives and there's so many employees that for every one they fire for it there's two more in line.
It's definitely a win for those campaigners/unions/worker groups, and a blow to Israel, but it's also worth mentioning that it's a bit of a fudge from Microsoft so let's not give them too much credit.
They're pulling data hosting from Unit8200, which is the secretive military data unit that was storing and surveilling every phone call in Gaza. But it's also a massive tech incubator so a lot of Israeli spy/digital genocide tech is privatised through Unit8200 linked companies, which Microsoft will undoubtedly still support.
critical support for tech employees
Wondered that too
dont worry. Silksong will be avaliable Day 1 on the Xbox Rog Ally
Thanks goodness I have my 1200 dollars here ready and waiting to buy a slightly worse version of the steam deck (software wise, it's probably more powerful hardware, but that doesn't matter when the software is completely shitty Microsoft crap).
Xbox always been trash.
I will forever hate how they made X Y A B the controller standard for PC games, when we all know the SNES button format is the one true format. Or at least be minutely clever like Sony and make some symbols.
They didn't invent that layout, they just copied it from the Dreamcast controller. If you want to go even further, the Dreamcast layout is basically the Saturn layout with the last two face buttons removed.
The MegaDrive six button, which I guess you need for Street Fighter, also had that layout even before the Saturn.
I think it's better to have shoulder buttons in a fighter so you aren't stuck with your right thumb doing everything. It's not the default, but I usually use both bumpers and triggers for those inputs so the thumb it only responsible for two buttons.
On a 3 button controller in Street Fighter, pressing start would switch your controls between punches and kicks.
I honestly forgot that the six button Mega Drive controller existed, but you're right.
for. real. this still fucks me up with xbux controllers. if they would have used completely different letters or symbols, it would be fine. fucking microsoft.
At least Microsoft stuck to one layout. If you had a 2D Mario style game for each Nintendo console, the run and jump buttons would be:
xbox series x model s deluxe
if microsoft kills the xbox i hope they at least keep making the controllers
Come to think of it, I genuinely can't remember the last time someone brought up Xbox in the present tense.
Wow smh my head, why would woke do this
