Since console hardware is converging towards PCs (as opposed to specialized hardware stratified by make), as well as the expansion of the PC market (which has a massive range of hardware of varying price points and capabilities) the benefits of making a game against the limits of a specific console is less and less of a good idea versus targeting a wide market. If you aren't stuck to exclusivity for a single console, then it makes sense to target previous generation consoles if possible in order to maximize the size of the potential market.
Since console hardware is converging towards PCs (as opposed to specialized hardware stratified by make), as well as the expansion of the PC market (which has a massive range of hardware of varying price points and capabilities) the benefits of making a game against the limits of a specific console is less and less of a good idea versus targeting a wide market. If you aren't stuck to exclusivity for a single console, then it makes sense to target previous generation consoles if possible in order to maximize the size of the potential market.
Isn't an Xbox just a glorified Windows machine these days?
Xbox has always been a glorified windows machine
Time to install Linux on an Xbox instead of buying a PC
They already run a cut down windows lol
Yeah, so why not fix the bug?
I would be all for it actually
Microsoft would love to sell PCs as locked down as Xboxes. That's the ultimate goal of the TPM.