Pretty sure he has you blocked because of your past behaviour.
lol I woke up to reactions on a 6 month old post of mine wondering just what the hell is going on and just realized it was because you quoted me.
But yeah, that particular post was in reply to threadsthatbindsus wondering just the hell he wrote that deserved a LOL reaction. I really dont see how that contributes to a discussion and both darkmage and riky are guilty of it. It fills up my reaction feed with nonsense reactions, but i dont mind engaging with ignored users every now and then as long as they put in some effort to articulate their thoughts instead of communicating solely through LOL emojis.
The XSS is considerably more powerful than the newly announced Steam Deck which only has 1.6 TF of compute performance. It's creation was not high performance or high resolution graphics. It is cheaper than said Steam Deck and is a fantastic entry point into Game pass. If offers more features than the X1X does (no SFS, VA, RT, or SSD on X1X) and by the way offers more 120fps games than the X1X AND a current generation console as well. For the cost, performance, and features it offers the best value for current generation games so far. Pretty hard to see it as a mistake. It fits nicely as an option for gamers on a budget.
Steam deck is a handheld. You can only compare it to other handhelds because its power envelope is severely limited by its size and battery life. And right now its biggest competition is selling an OLED model for $350 with just 0.19 tflops.
Actually on many a occassions, I have said that the XSS wouldve been a great handheld. MS was actually testing a 2.0 tflops vega APU for 20W back in 2019. They shouldve just gone with that except with RDNA 2.0 CUs.
The person I was replying to brought up the x1x,a remarkable console that ran several games at native 4k including THE best looking game of last gen RDR2, and that shouldve been the BASE performance of the xss model. But the XSX relied heavily on the ram bandwidth AND the 12 GB of VRAM to get that kind of performance. Cutting those two things along with leaving out a full tflops of power is indeed a big mistake. The console itself is not. The idea is fine. It just came at the expense of too many cut corners. A $399 8 tflops version wouldve been a better sell.