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Larian drops Series S split-screen as "solution" to bring Baldur's Gate 3 to Xbox this year
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I don't care about split screen but more evidence that the Series S was a mistake. At the very least Microsoft is going to have to ease up on the requirements.
Edit: It has come to my attention that I need to improve my reading comprehension. This only affects the S. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Not everyone is able to afford a gaming PC, let alone a current gen gaming console.
Series S offers them a great opportunity. It is far from a mistake.
At this point you can make a 600 dollar PC that is just as strong as a console.
Still twice a much as a series S. $600 is alot of money for many people
Certainly but it will last longer. Although people are instant gratification machines that won't take anything less.
In what world is "It will last longer" an answer to "I can't afford that"? I doesn't matter how long something will last if people don't have the extra money to spend on something more expensive.
Because they will likely buy another thing in that same time. You don't need an entertainment box immediately. You can wait, save, and buy an entertainment box that can do multiple things.
that's highly debatable if we're talking about a $600 PC. I mean, yes you can argue that with games on PC you can always figure something out to get acceptable performance, but people in the market to buy a $300 console likely lack the experience, knowledge or time to do that
You might not be able to play the latest and greatest but you can still play many games and you don't lose access to them. They are shutting down the Xbox 360 store soon, thus they'll lose access to any games they don't have downloaded. I have games on Steam older than time itself that I can still download, even if the publisher has delisted them and stopped them from being sold. I know people who still use laptops from 2005 to play indie games. Essentially pretty soon Xbox 360s are going to turn into disc-only consoles where a 600-dollar computer would never revert to that and people today play on computers from 20 years ago. It's rare but it certainly happens, especially in the Linux crowd.
Lastly, you can always upgrade a computer part by part. Which doesn't require knowledge of how the hardware connects. Just take it to a shop and tell them you want it to run faster for a game and they usually will do some inspections, charge you 100 dollars in labor and then whatever for parts, and get your machine upgraded.