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Well, it was okay if you live on what we call The West Side. On The East Side, something like a half a million homes had no power. It essentially turns your home into a freezing, freestanding Cave and it instituted a kind of extemporaneous "Return To Office" mandate but it was mostly just to charge people's phones. It made relatively normal things difficult, and it made <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/11/22/">difficult things impossible</a>.</p> <p>I was thinking about the Xbox, what is an Xbox, <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/11/20/exbox">This Is An Xbox</a> thing a bit more and I understand why it is happening, and why it has to happen, and ultimately it's probably for the best from a consumer perspective but anytime an epoch shifts it's worth taking a second to look at it with both eyes.</p> <p>It's like when an iceberg flips. The profound investments they've made in publishers mean that reserving any content strictly for their own platform is, uh, contraindicated. Try to imagine what these meetings must look like internally! They built a whole console business, even won a round of the console war, more or less invented what people expect from an ecosystem, and now we're here - where it doesn't make sense and is in fact <em>nuts</em> to maintain the original course. It would be like Netflix saying you could only watch Netflix on your Netflix television. It's incoherent. But there's an angle I think sorta makes sense.</p> <p>Ultimately, I think the Xbox as a hardware platform becomes a portable in the vein of a Steam Deck. This isn't magical or mysterious thinking; they've been considering this play for way over a decade. 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