Well yeah… I mean I still use bo3 on steam and love it because of all the custom shit built in. I never even touch cold war because there is no custom shit and id rather have the 50+gb of space than the 4 zombies maps and “outbreak” it provides. Meanwhile battlenet never updates itself, nor diablo properly either.
I can’t say I understand the appeal of Google Play games on PC. I barely want to play mobile games on my phone - why would I want to play them on my PC?
It’s just another move towards making our operating systems as locked down as phones. The ultimate goal for google is everyone on android and chromeOS so they can harvest more data.
Yeah… plus games typically sell best after their initial release. This is a 2 year old game coming out so theres way less coverage if any from major outlets, etc.
Yeah I’m guessing that the people who loved it the most probably already had a PS and played it there.
I do like seeing former PS exclusives combing to PC. I played through the FFVII remake on PC and will happily order ep2 when it comes. I’m looking at picking up TLOU when I’m done my current game (and if it comes on sale), plus maybe Uncharted if the price is right, but price is a consideration and the type of person likely to throw $80 on a new game probably already got it elsewhere.
Using Windows 11 for this just seems like an awful idea. They’re using an already shaky OS that Microsoft has a tendency to force updates to that cause problems on desktop PCs - who knows what it’ll do on something like this? Windows is also a resource hog, not what I’d choose for a presumably light-weight machine.
Windows is also not particularly great about sleeping / hibernating and resuming while games are running… that’s really the greatest feature of the Steam Deck, in my opinion - just like a handheld console, you can turn it off at any point and resume your game flawlessly, in almost all cases.
Hopefully they’re at least building a custom front-end for it. If they’re expecting users to navigate using the normal Windows interface (or Windows’ tablet interface, maybe), that’s another huge problem.
I bought an ROG ally and returned it the next day because windows in a handheld like this is straight trash. With all these announcements of new windows handhelds it makes me wonder if Microsoft is working on a handheld focused version of windows 11.
I wonder if they’re also quietly making deals with other companies making handhelds to keep them on Windows, maybe to kind of promote that as the ‘standard’ mobile gaming OS instead of Linux?
Or maybe these other companies just don’t know Linux/aren’t comfortable enough with it to create their own system with it perhaps?
As far as updates go, a machine like this might have less problems than a PC. Because it’s a fixed set of devices, MS and Lenovo can test any updates before they’re released, and iron out any bugs.
Whether they actually test them is another question though…
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One of the Steam Deck’s great benefits is that it offers an easy way to be free of Windows. Unless this thing does that as well as the Deck, I’m not interested.
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