Okay, I was being sarcastic before but now I’m genuinely curious. I keep seeing “Windows sucks for gaming” “Windows is terrible/unplayable/etc.”
Is the claim actually that 95% of current Steam users are having a terrible experience? Is this just the 2% of Linux users being hyper-vocal?
Not a habitual PC gamer but I feel a bit through the looking glass here. I’m just not sure how to make sense of that claim in the context of PC gaming.
I’ll be honest with you, I don’t know. I’m not saying they’re wrong or haters, but I don’t get the wrong side of the OS as often as they do. Then again, maybe I’m lucky or I’m knowledgeable enough to avoid or didn’t dive deep. It’s like me back in Xbox original days where some games can’t play well due to lag, yet when I host I did it with ease and everyone is like “My God, this connection is amazing.” Hell, I played a game with little glitch and then my brother plays only to encounter bugs and such. It’s like what am I doing right or maybe wrong.
Basically, I can’t speak for them. This is one you’ll have to see for yourself.
XPA title.
Think there’s a heavy anti-Microsoft lean in much of the PC world where it’s “cool” to hate them.
To be fair to everyone though, they’re the default so it’s going to happen - for example Google almost everyone uses, you don’t remember the 500 searches that returned relevant results, you remember the one that gave you strange or irrelevant results when you needed it quickly.
In the same way, you don’t notice when Windows is behaving, and lose your mind on the odd occasion it does something weird or a game is misbehaving - even though that can happen on consoles too.
In particular hardcore PC gamers (and I say this as one in the past, back when it was a real pain!) can often make life hard for themselves as they want to tweak every setting, overclock hardware and enable stuff that isn’t officially in the game yet (for example DLSS back when it didn’t support almost every new release) - if you’re playing on the edge you’re going to get issues, but if you’re playing with the default settings chosen for you you’ll often be fine
these 2% ‘Linux’ users are only having a good time because all their games think they are still on Windows 
This is the extremely early first step in combining console/pc in a way that ‘just works’. Tons of work to do, and it’s on them to make it happen.
iD is leading the charge for Xbox optimization on handhelds it seems, I wonder who is going to do a handheld update next?
Who has the time and a team on it really?
Windows got a lot of hate during windows 11 because it reduced customisation, had hardware restrictions and lots of other things that annoyed the hardcore user. So, this sentiment carries over to gaming and once Valve came with SteamOS, they saw some games perform worse on windows for whatever reason. So, because of these few games that perform worse, people ran with the Windows is unoptimsed/bloated narrative. Whilst some of it is true, the problems are way overstated. If you try to play a 100 different game on windows vs Linux or Mac, windows will always come out on top, on performance, compatibility and you’ll have way fewer issue that break games.
Yep what I also find amusing is that many of the same gamers who bitch about Windows 11 also bitch about cheating in online games.
One of the main things for Windows 11 is TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, which is also used by anti-cheat systems can use to ensure cheat hacks aren’t running for multiplayer games.
But that’s needed even on Windows 10 - Steam checks for it for BF6 for example even on 10, I had to help my brother to enable it so he could play.
They want multiplayer games, they don’t want cheaters but also don’t want any technology that stops the cheaters…
(Also to note, those two technologies bring Windows PCs much closer in anti-hacking / pirating technology to the Xbox consoles, potentially being what will allow Windows 11 to eventually natively play Xbox games with the agreement of publishers)
now port it to Switch 2
Just a small remark but that’s the saddest Jon has ever looked on a video thumbnail. He appears so disappointed!
You made me scroll back to the top of the thread (I’m on phone.)
I just grabbed a still from the video, I wasn’t trying to look sad, promise!
Blink twice if the Xbox Ally X grew arms and legs, pulled out a gun, and is holding your family hostage.
Just poking fun. It was a great review as you gave your honest thoughts about it and showing who it is for and what are its limitations.
Also, I didn’t even know what these X real glasses were and had to look up online. I had a Sony HMZ a long time ago which is the ancestor of this device. Really cool!
Man the haters are out in full force today for the ally
Weird because it actually got incredible scores overall.
Dexerto - 10/10
Gaming Bibel - 10/10
IGN - 9/10
Gliched - 9/10
Windows Central - 9/10
Engadget - 9/10
Pure Xbox - 9/10
Gamesradar - 9/10
TheShortcut - 9/10
VGC - 8/10
CGMagazine - 8/10
Tom’s Guide - 8/10
Club386 - 8/10
PCMag - 8/10
T3 - 8/10
Gizmodo - 8/10
PCGamesN - 8/10
Wccftech - 7.5/10
XboxEra - 7/10
Wired - 7/10
The Verge - 6/10
Can’t wait to get mines tomorrow.
From reviews and impressions online, this looks like an insanely good device. If it weren’t for the fact that we are most likely getting a backwards compatible device within 2 years (hopefully), I’d be all over this. I think the price is acceptable if buying this and holding on to it for like 5-6 years, which is why I’m waiting for the right time to get the device that ticks all the boxes for me.
Really wanna see what that NPU will be able to pull in terms of upscaling as well!