Shut up Ars

I’m sure MS will shoot themselves in the foot.

• A bespoke user interface
• A gaming-focused OS
• [Play] More than just Xbox
• Bring old Xbox games to PC
• Multiple hardware tiers
• “Made for Xbox”

Steam Deck already does 1, 2 and 3.
Now pair it with constant nags (Enhance your experience by signing into a Microsoft account, Subscribe to Gamepass! Have you tried Copilot???), and Microsoft’s inability to ever add anything new to their controllers (bye bye Gyro and Touchpads) and you’ve lost me.

Beware when sensationalized journalists use the word “killer” cause it usually means they’re full of shit

Remember how HAZE was going to be the “halo killer?”

Remember xDefiant was the “call of duty killer?”

Ars lost a fuck ton of points from me for this dog shit sensationalized title

lol fat chance Microsoft is capable of launching a new hardware line and having the competency and staying power to be sucessful in 2025, maybe 5 years ago, but not today.

it will most likely run steam, so it will not be any kind of steam deck “killer”. more like “sibling”.

That title alone is all the proof i need.

Clickbait so it’ll never live up to the claim.

LOL. Remember the Zune? Or Windows Phone?

What I am saying is it may be brilliant but Microsoft has a long history of being too late to the party for it to matter.

Just a bunch of what ifs… that all hinge on Microsoft not doing bare minimum to get a product out.

Good luck guys, do let us know how it turned out.

It probably won’t look exactly like this, but could you imagine if it did?

yeah. its looks awful.