azertydu91
Hard to Kill
Yeah I can understand a system only based on streaming but my main problem with it (beside how the marketed it)is that it seems like an hybrid approach between a console and a streaming dongle.The criticism that is being made by other developers about XSS has a solid and logical basis. But you have to take into account what XSS really is.
XSS is a system designed for streaming service.
MS makes money from services more than anything else. And he is determined to direct his platforms to that point. But at the marketing level, it must attract the attention of the public with "power". It is logical. what MS really cares about for its future is that people forget about the physical format, that people play by streaming, that the game is subscribed to a fixed monthly fee and that all this allows it to sell less powerful hardware at a lower price obtaining the visual quality that their servers allow. Minimum investment, maximum benefit.
Logically with this there are benefits and drawbacks for everyone as always.
Because it doesn't really seems powerful nor has a diskdrive and a really small SSD.So I can't see myself downloading more than 2/3 games on it.But as an entry toward a streaming service 300$ is quite steep.
I find it hard to place it as either a standard console nor as a streaming dongle.
But a simple streaming dongle with wifi6 and bluetooth for a controller would make way more sense.And would be so much easier to market, cheap to produce,cheap price, the whole gamepass catalog as long as your internet speed follows the requirements.