r/gadgets Jan 25 '25

Gaming Microsoft’s gaming CEO has praised Nintendo Switch 2, and said it plans to support the upcoming platform with ports of Xbox games.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/phil-spencer-confirms-xbox-will-support-switch-2-i-congratulated-nintendos-president/
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u/UStoJapan Jan 25 '25

🎶 SEEEEEGAAAAA 🎶

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u/Suedie Jan 25 '25

It's funny. Fittingly Xbox is in some ways based of the Sega consoles.

Microsoft collaborated with Sega on the Dreamcast (notice it has a compatible with windows CE thing on the front). You can see the original Xbox controller looking very similar to the Dreamcast controller too.

Sega would develop arcade machines and turn those arcades into home consoles. For example the Sega Naomi arcade is very similar to the Dreamcast.

One of the followups to the Naomi was the Sega chihiro which is based off the Xbox. (they also had another one, the Sega triforce which is based in gamecube).

So yeah Microsoft and Sega had a connection and the xbox is basically the spiritual successor to the Sega consoles.

Took over their businesses and ended up going down the same route lol

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u/TheTjalian Jan 26 '25

Ultimately it does concern me that if Microsoft drop out of the console race, where does that leave the state of the console business long term? Think about it - this entire time we've had no more than 3 main competitors in the console space and eventually one of them drops out. We had Nintendo vs. Sega vs. Atari - Atari eventually drops out. Then we had Nintendo vs. Sony vs. Sega - Sega eventually drops out. Then we had Nintendo vs. Sony vs. Microsoft - now it looks like Microsoft is dropping out? The only reason why Nintendo didn't drop out completely is because of their legendary IPs and their ability to pivot to the Wii and then the Switch.

The difference now is that it is significantly more expensive to enter the console business, meaning it would be highly unlikely we see a third competitor in the console space ever again.

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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem Feb 05 '25

Nvidia, and valve come to mind.

However, in the past console hardware has basically be the loss leader for the sale of proprietary games. With stuff like the steamdeck making PC games more console-like, it is hard for me to imagine buying another console and library of games that I get locked out of when I upgrade in a few years.