The ROG Xbox Ally isn’t really an Xbox

Your TV is an Xbox. Your computer is an Xbox. Your phone, your Android tablet, your car’s infotainment display, they’re all Xbox devices. If Microsoft is right Regarding the future of gaming, your gaming console may 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 your Xbox be running Xbox games? Here’s another question: Will they be any good at all?

on This episode of vertcast, Edge‘s Sean Hollister The show begins by telling us about his experience with two new Xbox consoles: ROG Xbox Ally and Ally In a sea of ​​Windows portable devices, these devices have official Xbox branding and therefore come with some high expectations. They largely do not meet those expectations. This makes us wonder: Is Microsoft’s vision for the future of gaming the right one? Even if so, can Microsoft do it?

after that, Edge‘s Haydenfield Join to discuss two of recently controversial studies This seems to indicate that artificial intelligence is making us dumber. This kind of anxiety always comes up with the advent of new technologies – people thought the newspaper was the end of civilization, and then they thought the same about radio and television and a thousand other things besides. Is the AI ​​backlash just another link in a chain of moral panics, or are we making a cognitive error by offloading our brains to chatbots? The science is still nascent, but it’s really interesting.

Finally, Sean comes back to help us answer a question from the Vergecast hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about whether or not hybrid PCs are A very 2012 ideaIt could be the future of computing. Why have a lot of devices when you can? You have one deviceIn many parts?

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