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all this but at what cost?
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NightDive could remaster FO3, or at least I hope they're in charge of it since they seem to have a good record at remastering games.
However I'd have like it if they focused on 1 and 2, since both have limited use of sprites for the weapons and armor due to engine limitations (Flamer shares sprites with both Plasma and Laser Rifle).
A needed change would have to be MAKING DOGMEAT STAY SOMEWHERE INSTEAD OF FUCKING FOLLOWING AROUND AND TRIPPING MINES, WALKING UP TO A MINIGUN TOTING MUTIE AND DYING.
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And thank God for that.
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I'd say Musk, solely because if he's willing to burn that much money on buying Twitter, in what I'm still calling the Worlds Most Expensive Shitpost, he's probably retarded enough to throw his hat into console gaming. His orbiter's would make Xbox Fanboys and Sony Shills look tame in comparison, which would be more content to laugh at...
Also on the whole "Microsoft Buying Nintendo" thing - first of, lul. Lmao even, if you think one of the true Goliath's of the Japanese Market would sell to some retarded Gaijin. Second off, wasn't here the old story of how Nintendo has enough money saved up that they could just stop producing anything and probably outlive us all, or was that just one of the old Internet Myths people insist is true?
I've got one guy at work who insists that GamePass is the greatest thing since sliced bread - which I'll admit it's a steal of a service from the consumer side - but the second anyone brings up how it's losing them money he goes full Defence Mode and starts shitting on Playstation - which fair, they deserve it - for not doing similar.
I repeat again, anyone caring about the Console War in Current Year is retarded and deserves to be mocked as such.
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"surely one of these would sell" -- Phil Spencer, probably.
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I think that the Switch and Breath of the Wild made them so much money that they had to come up with new ways to spend it, so it seems likely.
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What's sad is I know I remember hearing about it coming out; but outside of maybe a day of "this game Redfall came out," I couldn't tell you anything about it. I know I heard of it, but that's about it.
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Is their a new xbox type out every goddam week or am I just an old fart thats out of touch....probably the second.
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It's not my platform of choice so I'm out of touch with it, but the problem is Microsoft went to the extreme retardation with marketing that people used to talk shit on Nintendo with. Oh, the Wii U huh, well that's gonna fucking confuse parents.
Meanwhile...
XBOX
XBOX 360
XBOX One, not the Original XBOX, but XBOX One
Now it's XBOX Series S, X, and God knows what else, and I have no fucking clue what either one is.
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The Xbox naming conventions are retarded. The Xbox 360 was called that because calling it Xbox 2 when PlayStation 3 was coming out made it sound like old news. For the Xbox One, Microsoft thought that by calling it Xbox One, that people would just call it “The One,” an implication that PlayStation 4 was not the one and therefore some other backup or tertiary console. Now Microsoft has to call their new Xboxes all kinds of retarded names because in terms of numbering conventions, they’ll always be one behind the PlayStation. Considering how they skipped Windows 9, they should just call it the Xbox 6 and be done with it.
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Yeah Microsoft's naming scheme at it's finest.
The first console was called Xbox because Microsoft basically took a gamble and tried establishing themselves in the console market, and they wanted Xbox to become a brand name. So that name was fine when they were still newcomers.
Xbox 360 was your typical Microsoft naming schtick. Like jumping from Windows Vista to Windows 7 just because. They never knew how to make a cohesive naming scheme, unlike Sony.
Xbox One is where it got interesting. By this point Microsoft has established the name "Xbox" as a brand name like PlayStation, so the first Xbox had to be referred to by people as "OG Xbox" and such because a) the current gen is called "Xbox One" and 2) it's a brand name that encompasses more than just a video game console.
And then came the Xbox One X, which was a mid-gen upgrade. And then the Xbox One S, which was a weaker Xbox One without a BluRay drive.
AND THEN for the next generation they just made Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. No "Xbox Series", the "X" is now the base model and not the mid-gen upgrade.
So now it looks as follows:
First gen: Xbox
Second gen: Xbox 360
Third gen: Xbox One
Third gen mid-gen refresh: Xbox One X
Third gen cloud only: Xbox One S
Fourth gen: Xbox Series X
Fourth gen cloud only: Xbox Series S
It all went downhill with Xbox One and their mid-gen refresh with the naming scheme.
To be honest, it's even more retarded than their Windows naming scheme.
If I tell you the following Windows versions: 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11, how many can you precisely describe, what they were, when they were released and how they were.
Despite the fact that the naming scheme doesn't have a pattern you can still exactly say what each of those were, what it was like and how it looked like. And you won't get confused, at most you won't remember Me or 2000, or forget what exactly changed between 8 and 8.1 or 95 and 98.
But everyone will know that all of those are distinctive and separate products and won't end up confusing them, unlike with the third and fourth gen Xbox consoles, or even the very first one for that matter.
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I had an interview question like this; was a bit of a throw away, but was "How many versions of Windows can you name, in order."
I started with 3.1, 95, then 97... or was it 98... then 2000, no Millenial Edition or... which one came first... then XP, Vista, which was absolute trash, 8, 8.1 which added conventional desktop utility to 8, and now 10 (11 wasn't even a thing yet). The guys sitting across from me were laughing and gave me a "pretty good," because yeah, it's that fucking bad.
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They'd have to do it. Wanting to buy another company isn't actionable - since you usually have to go through an antitrust review for that when you do it.
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One S is not cloud only, it was the slim refresh to match the release of the One X, it added HDR and a 4k Blu-ray player and slightly improved performance over the base Xbone. The cloud only bullshit is new with the 'series' series of consoles.
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Well I suffer from terminal autism so I can name almost all versions and rough explanations of what they've brought.
1 and some minor patches, 2 and some minor patches, 3, 3.1 3.11, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.
The 1-3 era was just full of minor patches and it was essentially all a frontend for MS-DOS. First version didn't even have overlapping windows, that was added in 2, and then 3 introduced the icon launcher and started to look more and more like Windows that we know, even though it was still far from it.
Windows 95 introduced the taskbar and the desktop in the form we know it today, and by that point Microsoft has finally attempted to make it a fully fledged standalone OS instead of a MS-DOS overlay, even if under the hood it was still basically running on MS-DOS. It's also when the minimize, maximize and close buttons were added.
Windows 98 was more improvements to Windows 95, rectifying a lot of it's early age issues and adding more features.
Windows Me was a mistake where Microsoft wanted to make a consumer OS on the 9x base that was falling apart at the seams. Technically the newest MS-DOS version is the one on which Windows Me was running on, even though it was never officially released as a standalone product.
Windows 2000 was the first properly named Windows NT version which was a OS line for professional use that was way better than 9x. And no I can't name each individual NT version, and technically 2000 shouldn't be placed in these comparisons since it was a business only OS but people pirated it a shitton due to how garbage Me was so w/e.
Windows XP was when Microsoft realized that this whole "9x for consumers, NT for commercial" thing wasn't going to fly and they've finally consolidated everything under NT. And gave everything the Fisher-Price makeover. It was also a fucking virus magnet because it was running everything as admin in the age of modern web, so one RCE exploit could destroy your entire PC.
Windows Vista was the outcome of MS fumbling around too much with the Longhorn project. It introduced a lot of good improvements over XP such as not running everything as admin by default, but you basically needed a top tier rig to run it back in the day so everyone hated it. It also was the prettiest of them all.
Windows 7 was Microsoft doing minor tweaks to Vista under the hood while at the same time giving it a brand new UI and UX, and when it released it had higher requirements than Vista but by then everyone was able to handle it.
Windows 8 was when Microsoft bumblefucked it and tried to make a tablet OS for desktops. Under the hood improvements be damned, the start menu was a fucking mess. Not only did they make everything in the flat Metro style from Zune, the traditional start menu was gone, you had a fucking tablet start menu for desktop.
Windows 8.1 was a shitty little band-aid to the gaping wound that was Windows 8. Wow, they've added a start button, too bad it still opens the fucking fullscreen tablet menu.
Windows 10 was when Microsoft realized Win8's concept was unrecoverable, and with Ballmer out of the picture they've once again redesigned everything, made a lot of improvements and wanted to just make 10 the last major version with rolling releases that add more features and improvements.
Windows 11 is when Microsoft's management realized that the aforementioned system won't bring them enough money, and they've decided to parrot Apple in one of the laziest retarded ways possible. What should've been the next Win10 update is now a brand new redesigned OS with a new taskbar and context menu tacked on so fucking lazily it's like a parody of Microsoft on it's own. The old Win10 taskbar is still alive and well in that version, albeit hidden away from the regular users who aren't used to Windows hacking.
Fun fact: if you double click on the program icon on the left on Windows, you will close the program. This is one of the few things that have remained in Windows ever since the 1.0 release.
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None, and if any do they will purchase the Xbox brand from MS to continue on with Xbox, the only company dumb enough to try out of that list is Apple. You got to remember that you can't just make a new console, you have to work out what the specs are going to be and most importantly, what software it runs on. The only company that has the latter established well enough is Apple, and they technically have dived into gaming with the Apple TV, but it's pretty basic and nothing compared to the PS or Xbox. Apple is also making their own proton-like compatibility layer for their ARM processors as well, so it does put them in a better position to enter the gaming market. But Apple seems to be focused right now on making the Mac able to run PC games the way you can run them now on Linux. If they do that successfully, it makes their ARM chips a powerhouse that could definitely see the Apple TV benefit (at least with casual/older titles, BYO controller lol).
Cloud gaming is all the rage despite the fact it keeps failing to really take off, Google knows that all too well, so they will have 0 interest to try again after the fuck up that is Stadia. Amazon makes its money off AWS, so they won't see any financial sense for them to waste R&D on a console when they could make their money back from cloud gaming overnight. Disney sucks at video games, and they would have no chance making feasible hardware, plus they're too focused on making sure Disney+ doesn't tank. Musk would butcher it with some web3 shit, and it would only gain fame with a niche audience and nothing of substance too.
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Amazon COULD make some sort of cheapo console that only plays Luna but your right they probably wouldn't go further than that.