They just made an update to the Xbox app on pc where they’re pushing everything via a cloud subscription. Play all your Xbox console games that you own on Xbox on your pc VIA CLOUD SUBSCRIPTION!
As mentioned my belief is that they're going to partner with hardware manufacturers (like with the Asus ROG Ally) and eventually that means one will essentially design a PC that just has an XBOX official "shell" on it and skin for Windows 11 that makes it feel like a dedicated gaming platform. Essentially this is the endgame and the PCMR has won.
There's nothing new about that at all. Cloud Gaming has been around for years and has always streamed the Xbox version of the games.
You don't have this?
Been tellin ya'll, Xbox is now where Dreamcast was at during it's final days.
Yeah I trust the workers over PR speak. I know it's only anecdotal but I don't even know anyone in RL with an Xbox...
I have seen enough big stores and brands fall to be able to recognize the patterns by now. First the stock supply stops being replenished, then people start to take notice, then corporate tries to run a bunch of ass covering statements like "we're changing distributors" or talking about how they still have partnerships or something, then the shelves go empty as they keep doubling down on the statements pretending like they're going to restock everything one day. They keep refusing to allow anybody know what is really happening, only for the inevitable bankruptcy or shutting down headlines to release one day eventually.
My only concern with this is that I have a large amount of Xb360 and Xb One digital games I want to be able to download and play down the road. Do you think theyd discontinue the ability to download and play your digital copy of Black Ops 1 on my XSX, for example?
Yeah that's probably only my real concern as well. I did the best I could to future proof, keeping my old Xbox One consoles and loading them up with all the best digital games I could from my library and taking them offline, but who knows how long they will hold up. I think getting a big external SSD and filling it with OG, 360, and One games to be played on my Series X might be the best I could do to extend that, but there is definitely some eventual uncertainty on how well Microsoft will keep services going. Even Sony and Nintendo are pretty bad about that, like try downloading old games you bought on a PS3, 3DS, Wii, or Vita for example. It's definitely the downside to digital gaming for the long run, and sadly my library has been almost entirely digital since the beginning of the PS4/One gen with the exception of the Switch 1 because game discs became little more than a physical alternative to DRM.
