• smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I always heard that consoles were sold at a loss and made up for with services. Sounds like the logical continuation of this saga is for MS to give up the hardware game so long as Gamepass generates more income due to being on virtually every platform.

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        1 year ago

        They won’t even need to sell an expensive console, they want to sell a “streaming stick” and stream games to it.

          • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            It’s what Google wanted to do with Stadia.

            Fire Sticks can already Bluetooth connect to controllers and I have Moonlight installed on mine so I can stream games from my desktop to my TV downstairs. It’s not even that intensive on hardware.