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[–] 114 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

If I’m paying that much for a device, I damned well better have root access. I’m done buying machines that big corpos control.

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  • [–] 37 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    I’ll bet they do this like a phone plan. Bundle the console with GamePass, and give folks a 3 year contract that is broken into a combined monthly payment for the cloud service and a hardware payment plan.

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  • [–] 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

    they did that with the previous Xbox,called it the all access pass. It was the unit combined with gamepass ult which you had for the duration of the two or three-year payment plan I understand their thought process on it because it does do a good job at forcing the consumer to have a subscription they normally wouldn't have, but in reality, the only thing it did was make it so I didn't purchase any actual games for the unit, so when their overpriced subscription finally ran out, I had no reason to continue using the console, and it's basically collected dust since because all of the games I would have purchased, I had already played via Game Pass Ultimate, and I had no hard copy games to play.

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  • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    To be fair, it would’ve helped if they had compelling games worth playing. There was a brief minute when X / S users were feasting, but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories.

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