If only there were a solution to the Windows handheld problem
If only there were a solution to the Windows handheld problem
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I'm kind of surprised that they aren't doing Steam Deck-style trackpads. I mean, it probably saves some money, but it seems like a major drawback if the point is "run Windows games on the platform".
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I don't care to look it up, but I would suspect that Valve has a patent on their trackpads in the context of a handheld console. It might be difficult or impossible for anyone else to try to utilize the same concept.
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They don't, both the Lenovo Legion Go and the AYANEO Kun have a touchpad.
Microsoft must be woefully afraid of alternative input methods. I fully believe this thing wouldn't even have a Gyro if it wasn't building off the previous ROG Ally. -
If that were true then 1 trackpad would've been enough, no? Like legion go. Also ayaneo kun exists and it has 2 trackpads which most likely isn't true that valve has a patent on trackpads.
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they ship it because people are oblivious, buy things without knowing how garbage they actually are then get upset when they find out it's garbage then lie to themselves to justify their overpriced purchase while it collects dust.
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Me ahead of time: Slapping Xbox branding on a small hardware upgrade to a handheld that already isn't selling well will probably fail.
Me now: It doesn't help your case when it's also a buggy piece of shit at release.
Congrats, Microsoft, you are this close to making the Xbox brand radioactive.
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Not to mention the Gamepass price increase just before the launch lul
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I couldn't have imagined this playing out any other way. You'd need major changes to Windows to make it feel sensible here. And those are expensive as hell. If this were genuinely the horse that Microsoft's investors are betting on, then I could have seen that kind of money being invested. But yeah, no, the horse
shitthey're betting on is AI. -
Considering how successful and profitable the steam deck was considering they have also contributed so much to linux gaming opensource software.
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I quite like CyberDopamine on YouTube, and it took it literally one day from making his video on the Xbox Ally X to put Bazzite on it lol
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Well at least people can use gamepass as an affordable way to play games, the xbox ally has that... Oh wait :3
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Just install Bazzite with Steam big picture mode enabled.
Window's kernel has been a monstrosity for decades now, but they're so invested in it they can't change. I've worked directly with guys who worked on the NT kernel and they all agree it's absolute shit, but they can't break away from it either. A handheld has to be one of the worst places for it to run
So for us this is hilarious
I've also worked with people that worked on the NT kernel. I couldn't agree more. Im just waiting for the day someone exploits these anticheat kernal hooks to create the ultimate rootkit. It'll make crowdstrike look like nothing.
Knowing the level of quality with which proprietary software is written, especially extremely security sensitive software from the chinese region, you're out of luck.
There are probably dozens of RCEs and backdoors already in place, but as the target of those exploits are idiots who actually know nothing about computers, nobody noticed.
Hell, IT'S POSSIBLE TO REMOTELY TAKE OVER A RECENT ANDROID WITH ZERO USER CLICKS. Someone definitely has exploits against "anti"cheats. We know how easy it actually is.
The funny thing is even though it has been done, there's not even that much of an incentive to do it because Windows on consumer side has so little defense that most attackers opt for lazy premade viruses sold on the darkweb, and Windows on enterprise side is so insanely insecure that the only groups that make high end rootkit level software are usually government backed APTs.
Microsoft also very conveniently avoided making a new filesystem from old ass NTFS because SSDs started popping up around the time Window's IO operations were clogging every old machine with HDDs.
I remember upgrading from 7 to 8 and the disk IO just sat at a solid 100% at idle lol.
Every piece of software is vulnerable (or likely vulnerable I guess), but kernel level anti cheat has been around for a while right? Why hasn't it been exploited yet?
You mean when EA's new owners do that exact thing?
Don't even try to argue that they won't. They have never had any external repercussions for anything they've ever done.
I was a mobile developer and worked on Windows Mobile and Windows CE (un-ironically called "WinCE" by Microsoft themselves) applications some twenty years ago. It was basically just Windows with a lot of unnecessary cruft stripped out. The basic UI was indeed absurd, with the standard Start menu and utterly dependent on the fucking stylus to work. But for applications it wasn't actually necessary to even use that shit. You could actually write applications that ran in kiosk mode and had nice big buttons so that users never had to deal with the Start menu or use the stylus at all. And in that mode it was actually extremely powerful -- you could do anything that you needed to do programmatically. I never once encountered a situation where something that I needed to do programmatically wasn't still available in the stripped-down WinCE API.
I remember CE! Weirdest kiosk is I ever used. I just remember it came out around the same time as Halo, so I always thought it was Windows: Combat Evolved