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[Schmick]

Xbox as an app on your TV? It could be appearing in 2021

Could the Xbox Console also be an app on a TV?

stealthoptional.com

Microsoft hints at turning Xbox into an app for your TV

An Xbox app for your TV in 2021.

www.theverge.com

This has potential!

I like streaming. I've been using it as a way to game for a while now. I've been using PS Now for PC which i recently completed TLoU and enjoy xCloud on my phone for some last minute gaming of the day in bed. At home streaming can be almost perfect and it can only improve with time.

 

[Agent X]

This is smart.

I've been clamoring for Sony to do something like this for PlayStation Now, also.

 

[Night.Ninja]

Could be

 

[Schmick]

This is smart.

I've been clamoring for Sony to do something like this for PlayStation Now, also.

The potential exposure could be huge.

I guess though to connect a controller you'll need a dongle.

 

[ReBurn]

This is smart.

I've been clamoring for Sony to do something like this for PlayStation Now, also.

They used to have it on Bravia TVs but they killed it.

 

[Agent X]

They used to have it on Bravia TVs but they killed it.

One of my friends also had a PS Now app on his Samsung smart TV, before support for the app was discontinued.

 

[captainraincoat]

The potential exposure could be huge.

I guess though to connect a controller you'll need a dongle.

Most tvs can connect the Xbox control via Bluetooth...I use steam app on my tv with an xbox control

 

[Mister Wolf]

It begins.

 

[Nikana]

Think we all saw this coming. Adoption rate will be the key factor.

 

[MrS]

I'd buy gamepass on my TV. Hope they do it.

 

[Hairsplash]

so why do i need the xbox console LOL LOL

 

[acm2000]

If you have an android tv you can already side load game pass.

 

[acm2000]

so why do i need the xbox console LOL LOL

You realise it's the games that make the big money not the consoles?

 

[ReBurn]

so why do i need the xbox console LOL LOL

You don't. That's the point. They want you to pay for Game Pass whether you have a console or not.

 

[Aguero9320]

so why do i need the xbox console LOL LOL

Whoosh.

 

[nowhat]

So, we just have to wait.

Remind me again, which was the Waitstation?

 

[CAB_Life]

They are literally following the Netflix playbook: massive aquisitions (with eventual and constant high quality content), continued and steady spread to devices, partnerships galore. All of you looking at this through a myopic and purely console war mindset have lost sight of the bigger picture and of how huge this is considering the current dearth of streaming competition.

 

[Danteyke223]

so why do i need the xbox console LOL LOL

Here's the thing though with this reply. If there was no Stadia, Amazon's service, and a couple of other niche things like Geforce Now, I would agree with ya and say: Why isn't MS focusing on consoles lolol.

However Stadia still hasn't been killed off. I don't think it will be. Not after Amazon trying to enter the field. Apple is also trying to do something similar.
Geforce Now is absolutely awesome in non USA countries where there is no data cap to worry about.
MS is playing the long game here. Sure you can have a gaming PC, and use Gamepass there, or an xbox, or a tablet, or a TV. That revenue stream if they can tap into it (and also replace the server blades in 2021 with the Series X consoles as they want to), they'll make a killing. Sure Sony will sell most of the boxes, but every time I see a revenue breakdown between Xbox and Sony aren't they kinda the same or almost the same at this point ?

4.451bn for Sony and 3.3bn for Microsoft as per this website. https://www.thegamingeconomy.com/20...-sony-microsoft-nintendo-zynga-dena-and-more/

This is with MS not having any relevant or high IP exclusives for a long time.

MS is giving options to people at the end of the day. Also the weird thing I noticed about: How is the Series S going to hold back Next Gen blabla, and then you see Miles Morales coming out with Performance mode and Resolution mode, same goes for Demon's Souls. This generation is all about choice, and the level of stability you as a customer want.

 

[Tefl0n]

so why do i need the xbox console LOL LOL

Latency

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

so why do i need the xbox console LOL LOL

Xbox loss the console war, they will never caught up to sony in console sells.

That's why they are pushing game pass which is smart.

 

[cyberheater]

Xbox everywhere...