There’s no “solidifying” anything with this guy. His reign is based on his whims and emotions.

Assuming he has one before he died.

They could. Or Trump could fold tomorrow. No one knows. I don’t even think Trump knows.

Not this again…

That’s true, but it’s also worth noting that as the industry as a whole has grown, even physical media only costs a few bucks. And as we’ve moved away from physical media, that number is effectively zero. So there’s no increased costs as they’ve scaled, only increased profits.

Q-OLED and kind of fell in love. Was ready to purchase one until, I was not. I found out it’s not a good match for productivity usage due to burn-in issue

This is an old view carrying over from old monitors. It wasn’t much of an issue before and definitely isn’t now. People have been trying to intentionally burn in OLED monitors to show how difficult it is. Like, leaving it on the same bright image on full brightness 24/7 and it takes months to generate any sort of noticeable burn-in.

This is just the way it works. Things stay the way they are until someone has the balls to make a change. Once one party does, all the other parties see it as a signal that they can also raise the price.

Remember when Android phones used to be like $400-500? Apple saw the end of that, others followed their lead. To this day you can still buy very good phones for that price, but the majority of phones have moved into the $1k+ market.

Honestly I’m okay with games being priced at whatever they’re worth instead of some arbitrary fixed price based on industry norms.

Valve didn’t expand Steam into Linux to gain market share in a new market

…I didn’t say anything about Linux?

there isn’t a successful second app store that isn’t tied to hardware

That doesn’t mean there couldn’t be.

even Amazon quit Android

Well everything I’ve read about Amazon indicates that it was atrocious for everyone so that’s unsurprising.

Pixel 4, for one

Not necessarily, some of them do. Probably not enough to warrant developing an app for it though.

the S is not some kind of potato. It’s perfectly capable

It’s not. That’s what the OP and the comment you replied to were trying to tell you.

They explained why in the comment you replied to.

Not having lots of SKUs and a user-managed OS is kinda what the console experience is about.

I dunno what a “user managed OS” means. There’s no reason MS couldn’t port the exact same experience, considering current and past XBOXes are both built on x86.

As far as SKUs, I agree, but that’s only part of the console experience. The rest of it is a controller-first interface and streamlined processing. The various SKUs is also what attracts so many people to PC gaming, and in case you haven’t noticed, it is an incredibly quickly-growing segment.

I’m gonna refer you back to the original post.

Is it too late for that?

Why would it be?

those that do would probably prefer SetamOS…or something else that isn’t affiliated with Microsoft.

For whatever reason, millions of people obviously still prefer XBOX, in addition to or in place of, PC, Sony, Nintendo, etc. All this does is give those people more options.

or PopOS

PopOS does not deliver the console experience that I’m referring to.

You can’t buy your way past low-end hardware.

MS just needs to release a gaming OS. Just stop making XBOX hardware and make XBOX an operating system that can be installed on any PC. Like SteamOS.

We have Windows Pro, Windows Home, LTSC, etc. Why not Windows Gaming (XBOX)?

You’re wrong because of the specific words you’re choosing to use. Even if they aren’t, it doesn’t mean they can’t.

“design by committee” approach that large studios are using

They don’t have to use that.

This kind of game can only exist as a solo or very small team project.

That’s just very clearly wrong.

You can not generate the kind of money that large publishers and studios need to survive with little Indie games.

Wrong again. If anything, only large publishers can lose the kinds of money that they sometimes do.

Balatro is…not something big studios could even possibly replicate

…and why not?

What would be the point of a big studio trying to make a game that one developer can pull off?

…money?