Quote from: Owen on July 22, 2020, 13:49:51
For example, I want to play Fallout 2, can I buy it on the so claimed xbox x?
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if i want to play old games why would I buy a new console?
Your circular argument pretty much answered itself.
Quote from: Owen on July 22, 2020, 13:49:51You basically need to buy all the games again. On the PC side, a new laptop/PC can always play all the games you already owned, plus new games.
No you don't. That's the whole point, Xbox now works like the PC always had: new consoles still play the older generation games without an additional purchase, both in digital or physical purchases. Also, just like the PC, those games can take advantage of the improved hardware without having to paying anything extra (i.e., you are not forced to buy a remaster like in the past). Furthermore, some of the Xbox purchases can also be played on a PC *free* of charge. That is not the Game Pass subscription, but rather the Play Anywhere feature in most of Microsoft first-party games.
Quote from: Owen on July 22, 2020, 13:49:51Also, in the first year of a console release there are hardly any games, you basically pay a huge premium to wait.
For the same reason anyone upgrades their hardware on PCs. It's not like they cannot play today's games (at some mediocre setting), or new games start being released just because they upgraded. Simply put, standards change over time and the hardware just got a lot better. You've actually made that argument in other comments as the big advantage for PCs. The thing you keep missing, or misunderstanding, is that the new consoles are not like the generations of old: if you already own an Xbox, all your game library will still work in the latest and greatest hardware -- just like the PC. If you time your upgrade cycles with the console releases, you'll get far better hardware for the same money by buying a console than with an equivalent PC at the same time of a new console generation release. That's just the fundamentals of the console business, with everything good and bad that arises from that.