A new division called Xbox XP will take the lead on “film and television, consumer products, strategic partnerships, and live experiences,” with a focus “on how people experience our franchises beyond the games themselves.”

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    17 hours ago

    As someone who has been around since the third console generation (NES, SMS), honestly I feel like we are living in one of the worst eras in gaming history, second only to the crash of '83 (but I wasn’t there for that so I can’t confirm).

    It really sucks that Nintendo is winning the console wars. Between suing their fans for making their games better, and them being seemingly unable to release a console that can keep up with modern performance standards (The Switch 2 only has 1500 shader cores FFS; modern midrange GPUs have 10,000+!), I wish literally anyone else was on top.

    I mean I’m not in this fight—my last console was the 360—and I’ve been PC exclusive since, but still, we need healthy competition or things are only going to get worse for gamers.

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      17 hours ago

      The Switch 2 is a handheld. I don’t get why people expect it to be on par with home platforms, it’s competition is the Steam Deck.

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        17 hours ago

        Yes that’s the problem! Nintendo only has a handheld option available at the moment; where’s their home console?

        Also, why did they downgrade their handhelds by replacing the 3D display with a boring 2D panel? That was the 3DS’ best feature! No one else does glasses-free 3D; why get rid of your best gimmick? (God I miss 3D gaming so much, especially on PC. VR is nice but headsets are more cumbersome than glasses.)