Microsoft has zero capacity, competency or even desire to stand behind this over things like game streaming.
Said like someone who doesn’t understand why Microsoft are in gaming to begin with.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I think the idea is hilarious that in 2025 people would still trust Microsoft to competently launch a product and then not enshittify it until it is nearly unrecognizable.
Microsoft has zero capacity, competency or even desire to stand behind this over things like game streaming.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
To rip people off, apply surveillance capitalism to kids and strangle associated competition from gaining a foothold?
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s not a Microsoft product. It’s an Asus product with a bit of Xbox sponsorship.
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That doesn’t make it any better
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Whether or not it’s better wasn’t the question. The claim was that Microsoft was launching the product and being in charge of defining the price. They aren’t because it’s an Asus product with Xbox branding, just like www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-3-mode-controller-xbox/ is a regular 8bitdo controller with Xbox branding and not a Microsoft product.
That’s all.
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That wasn’t the claim from the comment you replied to. It was about Microsoft botching a launch and making the product worse over time which Asus is just as guilty of doing.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
That’s almost worse, Asus also makes a lot of garbage.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s not the point. The point is asking Microsoft about the price of a branded 3rd party product.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Asus … Well that’s half the problem right there. The other half being Microsoft
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It’s both. It was co-developed by the companies.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, the actual hardware wasn’t. That’s the point of the entire exercise to not develop the product in-house. Microsoft only develops Windows game mode.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Well I hope Microsoft has next to no input on it, for all our sakes not just the people at Asus.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Microsoft develops Windows game mode, so the user-facing bit of the system and of course such a major sponsor surely has general “don’t do anything that hurts our brand” clauses in the contract with Asus but other than that there has been not a single piece of evidence that the handheld will be anything but a more high-profile version of www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-3-mode-controller-xbox/ which is also just branded 3rd party hardware. IMO there is a decent chance the identical hardware will also launch as a SteamOS version with the buttons then carrying Steam branding.