Will console/PC hybrids usurp traditional consoles on the gaming hardware market? It's inevitable someone is going to bring up the relative sales figures of the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch, which is a hugely unfair comparison because A) you can't get a deck from third party retailers or without a Steam account, B) Valve has nowhere near the clout with normies as Nintendo, and C) an Xbox or even PlayStation branded equivalent to the Deck would sell like hotcakes off the backs of the console warriors alone, a non-handheld hybrid even moreso.
Wont happen because console fags are paypigs or tech illiterate.
Even though they're barely selling the steam deck any more, I think it's just about to take over gaming !
>>737021448No, it'll establish a niche that will just be Nintendo, Sony, and Valve, who have their own direction, their own first-party exclusives, their own hardware, and their own way of doing things. It will lead to a new era of influence to indie, AA, and AAA studios from Nintendo, Sony, and Valve. In terms of Xbox from Microsoft, it's a locked down Windows console, no desktop mode, no Steam app, paid online through Game Pass, third-party stores are apps within the Microsoft Store, $1000-$1500, will have limited retail presence in regions the Xbox sales well and no presence in regions Xbox was pulled, little marketing, not many will be made, is a reference device for PCs that will use the APU within it. Not a true console/PC hybrid like Steam Hardware. There's no reason to mention Xbox. I don't know what's /v/'s reason to keep jacking it off, it's dead and not a part of the conversation anymore, stop talking about Xbox and focus on Nintendo, PlayStation, and Steam Hardware, please, thank you.
>steam deck is a consolePC vegans are yet again the most tech illiterate demographic of gamers
>>737021448No. There are also a bunch of cost issues unless you are a sony or nintendo. Also, only Intel is interested in the market at this point. The Legion go 2 is $2k for the z2e version.
>>737021694you should really learn to read
>>737021448>console/PC hybridsif you're talking about the xbox helix, i think you're bang on the money
>>737021763AMD is still interested, Medusa Point and Medusa Premium are for handhelds, Valve is using Point for Deck, before you ask why not use Intel's Lake chips or AMD's Medusa Premium, look at the prices of those Lake handhelds and look up how many watts they use and then ask yourself again why Valve isn't using those.
>>737021836There is no other way to interpret OPs post, dumbfuck. My god you are retarded. Let me guess, you're also a PC vegan
>>737021448>an Xbox or even PlayStation branded equivalent to the Deck would sell like hotcakes off the backs of the console warriors alone, a non-handheld hybrid even moresolmaoo everyone forgot about the Xbox ally already, damn
I get the state of /v/ these days but is it really necessary to have meltdown threads about the steam deck when you haven't been able to buy one since like january?You're not saving nintendo from any steam deck sales at this point or whatever you think you're accomplishing.
>>737021448>an Xbox or even PlayStation branded equivalent to the Deck would sell like hotcakes off the backs of the console warriors aloneThe ROG ally Xbox flopped hard xbox/Playstation fags in 2026 dont care about handhelds
Apparently the next xbox wants to be a hybrid, it might be the future for lugary gamers
>>737021596>goes back out of stock in hours if not minutes of being restocked>barely selling
>>737021448>usurpNever happened in consoles.People have different tastes and needs, and if you cater for it and let them know you're catering for it, you win.All failures are the fault of the own company that did the device.
>>737021448>Will console/PC hybrids usurp traditional consoles on the gaming hardware market?Yes just because console is the worst way to play the most popular games in the world. A console/PC hybrid gives you the console experience while also letting you play minecraft, fortnite, roblox on their intended platform. GTA and Nintendo exclusives are the only thing consoles have and they make a fraction of what a game like roblox does
>>737021848A lot of people don't seem to know what the Xbox Helix is. If it's a console, it's a locked down PC >>737021651, don't expect anything else from it. It won't be like the ROG Xbox Ally. The unification is just the store, the APU, Game Pass, Apps, GDK, and Xbox Mode, that's it.
>>737022175It's not what you think it is, it won't be anything like SteamOS, it's locked down Windows 11 PC that does everything an Xbox console does but no desktop. The only difference it'll have with the Xbox Series consoles is that the Microsoft Store will have extras, PC games and third-party store apps (except Steam).
Any device could be used that way but snoy and nintenpedo garbage are locked down, somehow a horde of cuck buyers exist that allow these shitcorps to exist, vax damage will probably kill them off in time
>>737021448>PC didn't usurp>handhelds didn't usurp >Smartphone with all that explosive spread didn't usurpNothing will usurp consoles. No dedicated device is bound to lose its place outside its own mistakes or strong tech limitations which consoles are unaffected by and can adopt newer technologies with ease compared to stuff like personal stereo in the 90s.Similar as PC will never be replaced as the jack of all trades appliance despite smartphones making them obsolete due small size and far more practical use.
>>737022175It's a hybrid in that it can play the PC games on Microsoft Store and will be able to install third-party stores (not Steam) from the Microsoft Store as well and play games purchased from those stores. That's it, other than that, it's basically just a locked down Windows console without the desktop or free online.
>>737021694They spent years shitposting it as the Switch killer. With no avail I must say.>>737022160>The ROG ally Xbox flopped hardAnd sites tried to disguise it with statements like "it's sold out on retail"
>>737021960yes, there issteam big picture mode and controller focus effectively gives it console functionalityunless you're such fucking cattle that you consider the anticonsumer vendor lock in as an immutable characteristic of what makes your toybox what it is, then i'm sorry for you
>>737022403I dont think anyone really knows what it is yet
>>737022403I don't think anyone really knows what it is yet
am i the only one here enjoying the Rog Ally Xbox?i can play games on it, i can run steamlink and moonlight on it for the more intense games...it's pretty good.the rog has access to Steam and can play steam games for windows, meaning it supports more games than the steam deck.
>>737022220>Restock 3 units>They all sell out in minutesWoah
The ps vita was considered a failure with 12 million salesthe steam deck only got 4 million, it's an abysmal failure
>>737022403I don't think anyone knows what it is yet
Man, this site is really broken today, kek.
>>737021448I don’t understand. You asked the question and then gave three valid reasons why they cannot and will not work.
>>737022680>big picture mode and controller focus effectively gives it console functionalityIdiot
>>737023449>The defining characteristics of a console is being a slave to a corporation lmao
