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[Ar¢tos]

News - Microsoft plans to invent the PC for release next year.

Why not?
Nintendo recently invented the mouse.

 

[Fahdis]

Yea, Im becoming a Green Rat when this comes out. Fuck the Blue Pidgeons. And the Red Tapeworms.

 

[mayham2199]

Yea, Im becoming a Green Rat when this comes out. Fuck the Blue Pidgeons. And the Red Tapeworms.

That's not a green rat. Your joining the PC master race. Using an APP doesn't make you a green rat anymore than using Steam makes you a blue walrus.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Yea, Im becoming a Green Rat when this comes out. Fuck the Blue Pidgeons. And the Red Tapeworms.

You're going PC. Your new color is gold. Congratulations in advance.

 

[awwr999999]

I like the sound of that. Still not paying $1,200 for it, though.

That's the whole point.
You can make your own Windows PC for much less and do all of those same things.
The point is to make Windows PC the best value option.

 

[dgrdsv]

This is another point that some could be missing. How many people will buy an Xbox Magnus and then use it for "PC" purposes?

I'm about 99% sure that it won't be easy to use the thing for "PC purposes".
People expecting this h/w to just run your regular Windows don't really understand the model MS is pursuing.
This will likely still be a console with its own OS and own UI.
It just doesn't make any sense for MS to try and make a PC prebuilt - this market has close to negative margins as is, they won't be able to compete with huge OEMs on either price or margins.
So the h/w being closer to PC parts is fine - cuts down on R&D, allows for less platform specific optimizations needed, could potentially run a full Windows to allow running competitor's titles on the machine (for those who will care enough).
But the main s/w I'd still expect to be a console specific OS/SDKs.

 

[bitbydeath]

If you had to pick a number for lifetime sales for the first party Magnus device at each potential price point, what would it be?

$799 - ? million
$999 - ? million
$1199 - ? million
$1499 - ? million
$1999 - ? million
> $1999 - ? million

Xbox Series sold 2M last year.
Likely around 1M (or less) this year given numerous stores around the world have either dropped them completely or severely reduced their stock in that time.

Who knows if there will even be a store presence for them by 2027, two years is a long time for Xbox with the current burning state it is in, and it's only going to continue getting worse, January is looming.

Shareholders will see it getting worse and continue to tear more shreds, who knows if Magnus will even be allowed to release once they're done, again, two years is a very long time.

 

[bender]

You're going PC. Your new color is gold. Congratulations in advance.