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Windows Central says they might be actually opening up a bit:

We’ve heard from sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans that this may be related to Microsoft expanding its program for approved third-party wireless Xbox controllers. Most Xbox third-party controllers right now are wired.

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Brook adapter on it’s own costs more than an Xbox Series controller. For now I’ll stay optimistic and hope that in the new scheme licensing fees won’t outwieght what it costs currently to cobble together an adapter like that.

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This is progress given that currently every third party controller has to be wired and everything else is rather clunky. I own a Brook adapter for fight sticks and let’s be real, it’s not a great solution.

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The major strength of Apple Arcade is that even if those games are available on other platforms they’re free of predatory monetization. You also get good amount of older and modern classics, from things like Cut the Rope to Slay the Spire.

I wouldn’t pay for it on its own though.

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Individually they’re not that great but where I live family Apple One is priced barely above the price of 2 individual Apple Music subscriptions. You get some iCloud storage so that it is actually usable, then Apple TV+ which is pretty ok. Apple Arcade is the most underrated service ever - it unfucked mobile gaming by enforcing no IAPs.

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Didn’t subOP argue for locking yourself to Steam storefront though? Yeah, you’ll get bigger choice of hardware (which comes with cool stuff like shader stutter) but you’re still at mercy of commercial entities in many ways.

I play on many different platforms (or should I say - lock myself into multiple ecosystems?), Linux included, so it’s supper funny when people go full Linux jihad on me. It’s annoying that it happens so often here and I know it’s a bubble but in an ideal world that should lead to honest discussions and not doing sales pitches for increasingly niche solutions nobody asked for.

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You’re right, playing on Xbox is just reprehensible and should be punished by 20 years in the electric chair.

What you’re telling me is that you play proprietary games on proprietary hardware. You should be ashamed. Normal people play Battle of Wesnoth and Neverball and do so on RISC-V and GPUs with open source firmware.

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I thought there wouldn’t be any doubt it was satire.

Arguing virtues of open source as a better way of running proprietary software is weird. Calling people playing on consoles not normal is really deranged and is likely a product of a 13 year old or someone with 13 year old mentality.

It’s rather debatable if buying Steam Deck is easier than going to a regular store and buying Xbox either outright or in installments with Game Pass too.

misk,
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Original comment is such an off topic, disconnected and edgy tirade that I don’t really think I should be doing any more explaining given extremely heavy handed delivery in my response.

You seem to understand subOP better though. What was his point? He recommended Linux handheld running proprietary storefront and proprietary games, with 3 hour battery life, in place of a high end TV console. Also said normal people play on PC which means what for console gamers? Maybe I’m missing something.

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Long history would imply continuity, not “so long ago that nobody in the comment section is old enough to have lived through it”.

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