The only thing that makes me think it might work this time is that for some reason Microsoft has this magical ability to take a bad idea, make the shittiest possible iteration of it and have it mysteriously become the most widely-adopted standard against all logic.
This has been tried before and never worked well. What makes you think its going to work any better now?
It doesn’t need to work well.
It needs to sound like it will make more money for MSFT’s board.
Oh man, those stadia controllers. Not the stupidest $99 I’ve ever spent, but still pretty dumb.
The only thing that makes me think it might work this time is that for some reason Microsoft has this magical ability to take a bad idea, make the shittiest possible iteration of it and have it mysteriously become the most widely-adopted standard against all logic.
Attitudes like that are not how we got a trillion dollars in spare data center infrastructure to find a use for!
Those consumers will be happy owning nothing THIS time!!