Tag: Microsoft
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Why are Xbox Series consoles so expensive?
This question comes up often, especially on gaming forums and social media. I’ve received multiple DMs about it on X, and it is often debated within video game communities. If you’re old enough to remember the traditional battles of the so-called “console war,” you might think that Microsoft should have slashed the price of Xbox…
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Efficient Gaming #4 (Open World Edition)
It’s time for the last efficient gaming update of 2017. This series won’t end in 2018. We will be closing this “volume” and starting a new list in in the new year. The current (2017) roster of games will be rolled into one easily accessible link on the Efficient Gaming page. In case you haven’t…
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Dear Microsoft, The Xbox is an x86 PC (stop pretending it’s not)
Microsoft’s Ken Lobb (think Goldeneye) did an interview with Game Informer (linked from Gamespot) and danced around the fact that the Xbox family of consoles are small form x86 computers (thus they are going to upgrade them like a standard PC instead of releasing an entirely new device). Here is what he said: “What’s new is…