• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    11日前

    I don’t think Microsoft makes great decisions. They’re not as bad as Google, but it doesn’t seem like they deliver what users want.

    They’ll probably spend billions on AI when users would rather just have a cheaper longer lasting device. But they gotta make maximum money, I guess.

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        3日前

        That peripheral was ahead of its time. Release it via Nintendo today with some Fortnite skins and a stupid name and it would sell like hotcakes.

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          2日前

          The tech was great, but they alienated everyone by making it compulsory at the start and trying to shoe horn its adoption.

          Agree that Nintendo could get away with it.

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            2日前

            They should have marketed it as a peripheral and not a gaming controller. That (gaming) should have been a bonus for people to discover.

            The failure of this device was in the marketing. The Internet decided it wasn’t “cool” and they couldn’t recover. That device is still used by multiple industries to this day.

            I think the online backlash against this device was my realization that I despise the unnecessarily negative internet.