Between Gears of War: Reloaded hitting PlayStation early last week and Microsoft fleshing out the evermore hardware-agnostic future of its gaming platform with October’s promising ROG Ally handheld variant, it sure is a strange time to be an Xbox fan. I understand the inherent benefits of exclusives for brand identity and driving consumers to a bespoke box and storefront, of course, and putting exclusives on competitors’ hardware leeches some of the specialness away. I do tend to get more lag on Xbox’s servers than Nvidia’s GeForce Now service, so your mileage may vary, but the convenience of not having to install anything before playing a game is pretty rad, as is the freedom to play select games on a myriad of devices.
Author: Mitch Wallace, Contributor, Mitch Wallace, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchwallace/
Published at: 2025-08-31 21:21:49
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