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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Start with a normal (as in one ofmy choice) web browser being installable on them, next step is opening to other marketplaces (lol).

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's going to happen in only a few years, with the next Xbox.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is no built-in (usable) browser on ps5 nor switch, and nintendo will burn to the ground before allowing people installing their own software on 'their' hardware.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No one can predict the future, especially not now, but things are clearly changing. Microsoft is getting messaging out there right now to let you know the ways that they're rolling with the punches. The next Xbox, and corresponding handhelds, will in all likelihood just be thinly disguised PCs that absolutely let you just install Steam, Epic, etc. on them if you so choose. So in that world, when you can buy an Xbox that also plays PlayStation games that have released on PC, how does Sony compete with that? That's very up in the air.

And for all the ways that Nintendo has historically handled consoles, they're under new management now that may be open to doing things differently. The way they're trying to press their market advantage at the moment, which was already going to result in fewer units sold, could be even further undone at the worst possible time for them by a stupid trade war. How will they choose to respond to that? Because bleeding money by sticking to their old ways isn't going to be what happens. If they did burn to the ground, the insurance company that owns their intellectual property would dig them out of the ashes and sell them where they can make money again.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The Xbox once did have a version of Internet Explorer on it, I remember.

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