The only thing that makes me think it might work this time is that for some reason Microsoft has this magical ability to take a bad idea, make the shittiest possible iteration of it and have it mysteriously become the most widely-adopted standard against all logic.
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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 12 hours agoThis has been tried before and never worked well. What makes you think its going to work any better now?
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Wilson@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Oh man, those stadia controllers. Not the stupidest $99 I’ve ever spent, but still pretty dumb.
Zink@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Attitudes like that are not how we got a trillion dollars in spare data center infrastructure to find a use for!
Those consumers will be happy owning nothing THIS time!!
dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
Why the LLM-driven scarcity in computing parts of course, and a little bit of cartel behavior when Nintendo and Sony inevitably announce the same thing next year.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
It doesn’t need to work well.
It needs to sound like it will make more money for MSFT’s board.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Microsoft Board: But Google lost so much money on Stadia!
Voice on speaker: but Google didnt have me, Bing.AI!
Microsoft Board: DONE. MAKE US RICH!