Is The Next Xbox Basically A PC?

“The next 'Xbox consoles' are just PCs" - not my words, but the words of former president of Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Ybarra.

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00:00The next Xbox consoles are just PCs. Not my words, but the words of former President of

00:06Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Ybarra. But I'm inclined to say I agree with Mike on this one,

00:12and I'm not the only one. Larian Studios Publishing Director Michael Cromwell-Dowse

00:17responded to a post on X revealing the details on Microsoft's next-gen Xbox console with

00:23the hilariously misspelled comment, that's an computer. I mean, it has got the Xbox

00:28full-screen experience to Valve's own SteamOS interface and Big Picture mode, one that

00:34users may be able to exit out of to access Windows as they would on a laptop or desktop.

00:39It will be able to run Battle.net and World of Warcraft seamlessly, much like a computer

00:44can, and notably, consoles cannot. But perhaps another way to look at the next-gen Xbox is

00:51that it's much more than a PC. It's a PC that can play your console library, which sounds

00:56pretty enticing to me.