If Microsoft will in fact have multiple store fronts on their next console, I would think that it would have to be a very beefy console in order to run the PC version of games. I still believe that they will go with a multiple SKU approach. Low/medium/high end consoles.
Iād love it so much if they go back to the ultra realism of the first one. But theyāll never do that, nobody is gonna buy that.
Finally played Stray and itās totally, fine. Like it didnāt blow my socks off, but what a neat premise and beautifully crafted environments. The experience itself as a game is rudimentary yet thereās an artistry to it that makes up for that. Also, it gave me Portal 2 vibes in an odd way.
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If it just a PC without any of the Xbox games or OS settings, I wouldnāt buy it. As PC gaming for me is an additive I rarely use and have little interest in.
If itās APU, it could allow for dual-boot to Xbox OS. If it also has BD drive, it would have an edge over other compact non-portable gaming PCs.
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Thatās not Microsoft plan though, according to Tom Warren, itās about bring both ecosyatems together. Allowing people that want more PC features to go full PC, while those that donāt still get a console like experience.
While Iām a little worried about the console like experience, thatās mostly because driver updates on PC can be a pain. But if Microsoft handles them, I think thing could work out.
So rather than dual-booting it could run Xbox OS in hypervisor, so it would work effectively as an app. Bringing 2 ecosystems together doesnāt work without BC.
https://x.com/insidergamingig/status/1946290304857862167?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
I should receive context because if it said the way it is writtenā¦
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Who are you as a consumer to know what is fun for you? /s
You joke. But millions of people consider it fun to buy a single Fortnite skin for the price of a monthās GPU.
Supply and demand.
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Oh, it can be fun for sure, and I do own several Fortnite skins. I guess it can be part of the fun depending on the game.
So, Asus is having a lot of issues and I really hope Microsoft is in control of everything going with the Xbox Allyās.
Honestly I havenāt watched his videos, although I thought I had read it was related initially to their warranty being ignored or not honored in some cases but I could be wrong here. Seems like he has posted a lot of Asus videos in the last year, but I just donāt watch the guy.
Iāve always bought Asus in the past and when I had issues, even after warranty expired, I always had good service so I donāt really know what could have changed. I know everyone in my gamer circle was and still is a big Asus fan when it comes to computer parts. On my last build I went with MSI due to paying much less in the end but if my budget had allowed it I definitely would have bought Asus.
Just wanted to give you kudos for the recommendation of Simple Background Music Player on Xbox. It works super great. I inserted a USB drive in the Xbox with a folder named Xbox Music Library, the app immediately found it and now Iām playing Powerwash Simulator with hiphop music on. 
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Itās mostly goes over multiple security issues that have come up with Asus software and hardware in the last couple of months. Steve is pretty critical of a lot of things, but he and his team are considered reliable because they tend to go against the grain that most tech yotubers do.
Like currently they went all in on not reporting the the 5060 like NVidia wanted them to, which was comparing DLSS frame gen vs non frame gen(I donāt remember if it was the 5070 that Nvidia was boasting about it being better than the 4090, but they also covered that regularly) and instead went with what you can expect without it.
Holy shit, if one thing ticks me off in Powerwash Simulator is how some stuff is just absurdly precise. I am cleaning the FF7 bar location and I just canāt seem to fully clean the television. I canāt reach some parts of it either. This shit is sometimes unnecessarily annoying.
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Youtube is seriously weird, while watching the Xbox Era Podcast I had Youtube crash 3 times, but I had another stream in the background and that one never crashed. Itās not like the other stream was taking too much memory from my stream, because I have had this same streamers stream crash in the past as well.
Which browser, adblock?
I use Edge and Youtube is also crashing from time to time only while watching live streams too. Itās weird.
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Edge and yes. But Iām also a youtube premium sub and even without adblock it still crashes.
Also my adblocker is blocking 100s of ads that youtube is still trying to force on me. The second stream had block over 1k ads and never went down.