(02-06-2024, 10:26 PM)Potato wrote: My gut feeling after reading basically none of the rumours is that they are transitioning towards Xbox being a Game Pass subscription service that is platform agnostic and the Xbox brand will be licenced out so that hardware like Steam Deck etc can be Xbox Game Pass certified.
This idea might be obvious or already out there in some form, but I just don't read gaming news enough to know.
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some of that has been "leaked", the licensed hardware part specifically. but who knows if that's a leak or random speculation. imo it makes sense to have "xbox certified" hardware that can run their OS and games, especially in the handheld area. or maybe even streaming stuff like firestick. you can already run steamlink and game pass streaming on google tv and they work pretty well too.
i can see a set top box of some sort existing though, don't think the console is completely dead yet. but imo they'll definitely be moving it to a digital only platform, like how pc is now. i also don't think every game will be multi-platform but bigger stuff like cod and starfield make sense, they were already doing multi-platform with minecraft and its worked out quite well for them.