We’re lucky to have valve. They actually managed to make a console without the downsides of a console.
My OLED deck has arrived today, can’t wait to use it.
You mean their Linux PC with a built in controller?
A linux PC would involve some amount of tinkering.
The steam deck is foolproof, a 6 year old can play games on it with no issues, so it’s a console. The PC mode is just a nice extra.
You’re both right. Hail Lord Gaben
Linux can be configured to be idiot friendly y’know, and it doesn’t make it suddenly not Linux. The SteamDeck has the capabilities of a full fledged Linux PC with the PC mode, it very much isn’t just a console.
The Steam Deck definitely requires a certain amount of tinkering, depending on when you got it and what games you’re trying to play!
Hmm, my Mazda infotainment is Linux PC
False. When bricks stop working they cannot be used as bricks.
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Can it kill someone?
Xbox: only virtually
Brick: easily
It seems you’ve never thrown an Xbox One at someone
Yea but then the Xbox is broken. The brick? Good as ever, with a new red hue
Brick wins again.
Fun to play with? Xbox: no Brick: yes
72 cents a brick? You gotta get a new brick guy, my man
well it might be a refractory brick
Add “supports a hobby” to the list for both, then.
If a brick stops working, can it really be used as a brick?
If an xbox stops working, can it really be used as an xbox?
But my brick won’t brick no more after it broke :(
What you have now, it’s two portable half-bricks. :)
So you’re saying you bricked your brick?
I had to put my xbox one on a smart plug so it doesn’t have power when not in use.
Otherwise it turns itself on constantly. Every time I came home it was on, and sitting in the livingroom with it off, it would randomly turn on. It does this both with and without network access.
HDMI CEC
TVs off too. Xbox is connected via a stereo system that doesn’t support CEC.
If you mean that it spins up connected USB drives when “off”, I’ve seen that as it tries to keep games updated in the background. But I’ve never had any fully turn on (power button lit up, on the main menu if you switch to the input) on their own. That’s weird.
No, I mean fully starting up as if I’d pressed the power on button.
Plays the three beep startup sound, power light comes on, I then turn on the tv and it’s sitting in it’s dashboard doing nothing waiting for input.
Manually press the power button and it shuts down, then starts again a random amount of time later. Sometimes only a few minutes, usually within an hour or two.
This is a deeply unfair comparison. There are bricks of different (somewhat incompatible) sizes between regions, and sometimes in the same region. While a brick is not “region locked” per se, they are only really a suitable material when replacements of the same size and general color are easily available.
Secondly, if your brick stops working, it is no longer useful as a brick, and has to be used as fill material, or disposed of. Indeed, broken bricks are pretty common, sometimes appearing in large piles.
Thirdly, the games you can play with a brick provide many hours of enjoyment, which is a major selling point of bricks that you’ve left out of the discussion.
This post is 5 hours old and no-one has made a Father Jack reference yet?
I still have all my xboxes and they all still work flawlessly. The OG, the base model xbone, and even the original white 360. I’m also not an achievement hunter at all but still have over 130k gamerscore, which just goes to show how much use each of these consoles got over the years. I had the 360 through college with four roommates! Hell up until they recently made Lucasarts’ Gladius backwards compatible on my series x I was getting out the OG Box once a year just to play that masterpiece again.
I used to mod XB1’s. They’re basically a computer inside. Had XBMC (the precursor to KODI) installed as my dashboard. My games were all copied to the 250GB hard disk I had put into it so they loaded and ran extremely efficiently. I had emulators for PS1 games and Nintendo.
At one point, I even paid a very talented chap for an Xbox board with double RAM and a 2x faster processor soldered onto it.
You had to get a tool from online to patch your executables to be able to handle the extra processing power, otherwise many of them would run at 2x speed because they were pegged to the clock speed.
Love those things. Lots of nostalgia.
Xbox one was a terrible game console but it was a great media center, that’s for sure. I loved the HDMI passthrough, and I loved being able to control all of my stuff through the Xbox from the cable box to all of the streaming options installed on the console. I liked it better than the Fire Stick I eventually picked up when the Xbox just decided it would no longer start up.
What made it terrible though?
I didn’t care for their first party games; I bought the console bundled with the MCC and Halo 5; Halo 5 was a huge disappointment, and MCC just ran better on my PC. I feel like 343 doesn’t get the universe they inherited.
There was just nothing worth playing that was console exclusive that I couldn’t get on my desktop. With Playstation, they had banging first party titles all the way through the back half of the PS3 through to now with the PS5, and they are trickling them onto PC.
Ah, yeah that’s all true. I thought you had issue with the console hardware itself, which seemed capable enough for that generation
Well, it did just eventually die on me. I had a power surge and that was that, it never started back up again. My 360 still works just fine though.
As far as power goes, it was perfectly capable on a hardware level, for sure. The games played just fine, it was just better for me as a set top box than a video game console as a PC gamer. I had bought an Xbox One X which was capable of 4k output, hoping I would have upgraded the TV. Now I have a FireStick 4k, and I hate it in comparison to the Xbox, it’s such a piece of unmitigated garbage.
“Extra fee if used” should be conditionally true for bricks… it depends on how you use them.
The xbox one. Was it worth it. Hell yeah
Do pavers, CMUs, and other concrete blocks count?
