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[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The reasons you'd ever want an Xbox used to be Halo and Fable. Now it's, uh, I dunno, does anyone care about Starfield?

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gamepass is great. It's nice to sit down on the couch and boot up a random game via streaming. Reminds me of Blockbuster in a sense.

You can do the same thing on PC, but Xbox is idiot-proof and at the end of the day I just don't have the energy to deal with anything more difficult than that.

[–] vanderbilt@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m agree, but game pass has been offering meh value in the long run for me. Sure there are a few new titles, but once your run through your backlog it’s just ok. Problem is that Xbox lacks the blockbusters that appeal to the masses this generation, coupled with an utterly confusing naming scheme that I still don’t understand. What Xbox should I buy? No idea, because the names mean nothing.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Casual gamers see it differently, and I imagine that's a huge chunk of their player base. My boyfriend rarely games but gets so stoked to boot up a random no-name game and play it for a few hours at night on cloud streaming.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Now the reason is that you're too broke for a PC but still wanna play new games that are on PC, but not dirty Nintendo or Playstation games.

[–] agegamon@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Too broke to play PC" is a vanishing argument IMO. People have been saying that forever, to be fair, but given how bad Xbox and Playstation have gotten I don't anyone who's actually into gaming purchasing a new one today. Maybe used, that might make sense if it was really cheap.

A budget gaming PC can check out at slightly over 600 now. PcPartPicker has two recommended builds priced right at 600, though honestly there might be even cheaper ways to arrive at that level of perfromance. Compared to 300-400 for the less garbage Xbox, and there's not much argument to lock someone into the xbox's ecosystem vs something you can upgrade for much less.

Now I think it's a different matter if it's a hand-me-down or given for free. There's no reason not to do that.

I gave my last console away and got a friend of mine into gaming, then helped them build a decent PC when they actually wanted something new.

[–] Cricoo@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I absolutely love Starfield. I have something like 300 hours in it and keep finding new things to do and explore all the time.