MSFT in particular has been essentially utterly out manuevered by Valve and their developements.
Its… its actually rumored (by Moore’s Law Is Dead) that the specific weird custom chip the Steam Machine is using…
… was originally going to be used in something like like a planned Surface Super Duper Pro tablet.
But MSFT cancelled it.
After AMD had already made a bunch of the chips.
… And… then Valve comes along, figures out how to build a PC/Console out of MSFT’s abandoned scraps, which also functionally hammers the final nail into the coffin of Xbox as an actual hardware device.
Valve beat MSFT at large segments of literally their own game.
Proton and Vulkan, both largely funded by Valve, flipped the fucking game table into another dimension, but MSFT did not notice untill it was beyond too late.
… They’re like the opposite of doing nothing.
MSFT in particular has been essentially utterly out manuevered by Valve and their developements.
Its… its actually rumored (by Moore’s Law Is Dead) that the specific weird custom chip the Steam Machine is using…
… was originally going to be used in something like like a planned Surface Super Duper Pro tablet.
But MSFT cancelled it.
After AMD had already made a bunch of the chips.
… And… then Valve comes along, figures out how to build a PC/Console out of MSFT’s abandoned scraps, which also functionally hammers the final nail into the coffin of Xbox as an actual hardware device.
Valve beat MSFT at large segments of literally their own game.
Proton and Vulkan, both largely funded by Valve, flipped the fucking game table into another dimension, but MSFT did not notice untill it was beyond too late.
… Thinking with portals, you might say.