"Your TV is an Xbox. Your computer is an Xbox. Your phone, your crummy Android tablet, your car's infotainment display, oops all Xboxes. If Microsoft is right about the future of gaming, your game console might soon be an Xbox even if it's not an Xbox. It's an interesting idea, and raises some fascinating questions about the gaming industry. Here's one of those questions: shouldn't an Xbox play Xbox games? Here's another: are they ever going to be any good?"
"On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge's Sean Hollister begins the show by telling us about his experience with two new Xboxes: the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X. In a sea of Windows-powered handhelds, these have the official Xbox brand, and thus come with some high expectations. They largely do not meet those expectations. That makes us wonder: is Microsoft's vision for the future of gaming the correct one? And even if so, can Microsoft pull it off?"
"After that, The Verge's Hayden Field joins to discuss a couple of recent controversial studies that seem to be indicating that AI is making us dumber. This sort of concern always appears at the advent of new technologies - people thought the newspaper was the end of civilization, then thought the same about radio and television and a thousand other things besides. Is the AI backlash just another in a series of moral panics, or are we making a cognitive mistake by offloading our brains to chatbots? The science is still nascent, but it's already interesting."
Microsoft envisions Xbox functionality embedded across TVs, computers, phones, tablets, and car infotainment systems, turning many devices into Xboxes. Two Xbox-branded handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, appear amid a crowded field of Windows-powered devices yet largely fail to meet high expectations. That performance prompts questions about platform fidelity, hardware quality, and whether the Xbox brand can deliver on a ubiquitous gaming future. Recent controversial studies suggest AI may reduce cognitive effort, reviving debates about moral panics versus genuine cognitive offloading risks. The idea of hybrid computers resurfaces as a possible path to device consolidation.
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