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[Unknown Soldier]

Did Nintendo leave the hardware business?

GAF pretends Nintendo doesn't exist except when complaining about how much their hardware and games cost

 

[TheRaidenPT]

Pretty much, it was supposed to tape-out in Q4.

Because AMD needs the commitment to justify their R&D

AFAIK the handheld was cancelled because AMD wanted a commitment of 10m+ units to justify making a dedicated SoC, but with Steam Deck only selling ~5 million units and ASUS ROG/Lenovo Legion only selling 1-2 million MS didn't want to take the risk.

10m is a big ask in their current situation, I would also opt out tbh

 

[bad guy]

First and current XBox were excellent hardware. 360 seemed cheap, XBone should have been a higher-end SSD gaming thoroughbred, that's where MS fukd up, which dragged to this gen.

 

[Ellis]

Bro the clowns running Microsoft Gaming are nowhere near Nintendo's level.

This is almost insulting to Miyamoto and Iwata tbh.

Exactly. N64, GC, and WiiU weren't really massive hits for Nintendo sales wise, but no one got the feeling back then that they were in trouble like MS is with Xbox.

Nintendo are masters of getting themselves out of a pickle and adapting.
Microsoft aren't. As we've seen the last 10-15 years.

 

[Skifi28]

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Thread 'Walmart has started to convert its Xbox sections to Nintendo/PS'

Today at 1:04 AM

Not sure how widespread this is, but it looks like Walmart has started to convert its Xbox sections to other things? Is this another sign of the impending discontinuation of the Xbox console line?

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[calico]

There might be some type of device with Xbox branding on, but it's hard to see any upside in developing a proper next gen console unless they return to exclusives.

 

[balls of snow]

What happened to we dont comment on rumors and speculations. Xbox getting whipped 3 times before sundown everyday it seems.

 

[Danwan224]

Just to be obtuse how about releasing consoles because all that says is we are doing r&d

 

[Ar¢tos]

10m is a big ask in their current situation, I would also opt out tbh

They expect their next-gen console to sell at least 10m then?
That is also a big ask looking at state of things now.

 

[Kumomeme]

obviously not first time they claimed something like this.


dont be suprise if it end up differently,

 

[Loope]

 

[TheMule1983]

ok, this is the redemption arc i wanted form these shills.

Let see if Jez has the balls to do it.

He's not redeeming himself. Just trying to pivot to a more general video game channel to stay relevant. Dude knows when Xbox goes, all these Xbox influencers and shills go with it.

 

[Proelite]

The whole point of the "custom" design is to include the backwards compatibility IP for older Xboxes so they don't need to relicense everything as a PC game (not going to happen). So if they drop the custom part in favour of a general purpose APU, they give up on the backwards compatibility (that's my take).

I mean given what has been happening I can't say they won't have another brain fart and decide to ditch bwc for the next-gen machine - but then it really isn't a console *at all*

RDNA 5 and beyond GPUs should have BC baked in.

 

[RAIDEN1]

Exactly. N64, GC, and WiiU weren't really massive hits for Nintendo sales wise, but no one got the feeling back then that they were in trouble like MS is with Xbox.

Nintendo are masters of getting themselves out of a pickle and adapting.
Microsoft aren't. As we've seen the last 10-15 years.

Let's not forget the GC was no slouch when compared to the competition at the time, and was 2nd only to Xbox in terms of power, that was the last time Nintendo were actively staying in the horsepower game....fortunately for them the Wii was a massive hit and they bounced back from the Wii U... but for it's time N64 and GC were more than capable in handling the competition from Sony...

 

[BlackTron]

Imagine if BOTW and Mario Kart 8 came out on Wii U, PS4, PC and finally Switch instead of Wii U and Switch. Yeah, maybe Xbox can pull off a Nintendo move

 

[KungFucius]

Yeah this is obvious to everyone except the big brains at GAF. The second largest market cap company just made a muti-year partnership with AMD and launched their cloud platform out of beta, following a historic acquisition. They are only just getting started.

The second largest market cap company can afford to drop something they invested in and move on when it is clear it is not going to be profitable enough to warrant further investment. They can also lay off the HW division. They love that.

 

[BlackTron]

The second largest market cap company can afford to drop something they invested in and move on when it is clear it is not going to be profitable enough to warrant further investment. They can also lay off the HW division. They love that.

The big brain memes will be glorious in a few months