Does the Xbox actually sell at all? I don’t see why it would. You can play the Xbox library on PC and it will be a better experience. You only need a console for the half dozen or so Playstation exclusives that are actually worth playing, and that’s assuming you’re cool with having to choose between 4K and 60fps…

Articles like this just don’t make sense to me. It’s like they aren’t aware of where the gaming landscape is shifting to.

Not what you’re looking for, but I remember watching a documentary (decades ago) where they wired people up to EEG machines and then showed them images for increasingly slight instants. After a certain point, like 1/1000th of a second or something, the individual would stop reporting seeing anything, but their brain would still register it. And furthermore it would register it quicker than in the cases where the person was still able to consciously notice it.

I always felt the PS5’s look seemed to be the result of a bet on who could design the least dust-able piece of hardware.

I’ma guess there’s a bit of disconcerting latency with these things.

I’m thinking if the PS6 isn’t a Steamdeck knockoff, coupled with a Windows-compatible Gamepass knockoff, then the PS7 definitely will be. How long can the console market truly survive being outclassed at launch?

Xbox?

Everyone who might conceivably desire to play games on Xbox can just do it on Gamepass. There’s far too much crosstalk between those two metrics, they’re effectively the same audience, and one specifically eats into the other and vice-versa.

Microsoft’s biggest strength, by a metric f-ton, is that a person doesn’t have to settle for the third most powerful platform to play their library. That’s the biggest reason why Gamepass is a success. You can toss midrange hardware at the library and get a better experience than any console can offer.

I’ve always been keen to see a chart showcasing console sales vs. contemporaneous market size. I’m thinking on a chart like that, the old Atari 2600 would be sitting pretty at 90%+ straight from 1977 to 1983, with nobody else ever coming close since. There can only ever be one console that kickstarts the entire industry, after all.