- Wow, so that's Discord running on an Xbox.
- [Alex] Yeah.
- Wow
The Xbox has had a browser since 2014,
so this isn't exactly new,
but it's never had proper support for mouse and keyboard,
it's never even had full controller support,
and, most importantly, for us,
it's never supported hardware acceleration.
Well, with the latest update,
the Xbox now gets a full Chromium-based
Microsoft Edge browser
that can do everything from watch YouTube videos
to chat in Discord to, I mean, presumably,
you could even stream PlayStation games
on your Xbox using PS Now, isn't it?
Don't they have a browser client?
- [David] Yeah.
- Yeah. - [Alex] No.
- But no.
So it's complicated.
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(relaxed atmospheric music)
(intense electronic music)
This is a really fun type of video for me to shoot
because basically, one of our writers,
in this case, Alex,
experiences some new piece of technology,
or in this case, software,
figures out all the ins and outs,
and then I walk onto set,
and I get to go through this curated experience
as I learn both what's great about it,
and what's not so great.
And I'm super, super excited about this one.
Please don't disappoint me.
What should we do first?
I mean, I wanna go to YouTube, obviously.
Mouse input is perfectly responsive,
everything is exactly as I would have expected
for all I can tell.
I'm moving the cursor, obviously,
looking not very PC-like.
This is basically just like using a computer.
Wow, that load time though?
It runs at 4K just immediately.
To be clear, there is a YouTube app for the Xbox,
but compared to being able to, I mean,
even something as simple as, oh yeah,
this looks like kind of a cool video for later.
Right click, open a new tab, bam.
These are like 30 bucks.
Having this as an accessory to your Xbox
could be probably the best $30
you ever spent on your Xbox,
being able to just scrub through the video like this,
rather than using a controller.
I mean, not that you couldn't use a controller,
moving our stuff around.
Now, one thing that wasn't a great experience
on the track-pad is two-finger scrolling.
Oh wait, it's working now.
Oh man, like the chapter selector over here,
there's no way that's in the regular Xbox app.
Can I play games on Neopets?
- [Alex] One thing that's kinda weird
is that IO games seem to hard crash it.
- [Linus] Okay, I'll play Text Twists.
Oh my God, I'm gonna play some Text Twists.
(relaxed electronic music)
Oh, my big brain figuring out the puzzle
immediately broke it apparently.
Okay, well, it's working.
Is cashes a thing? Certainly not.
Oh really? Oh, okay, "cashes a check," that makes sense.
Let's see if it crashes this time.
No, totally working.
Okay. Frog Fractions?
- [David] Yep.
- [Linus] Oh wow. You have to download it, it's Flash game.
Man, so much of the web died with the death of Adobe Flash.
- [Alex] Ah, do you want another sad one?
- Sure.
- [Alex] Do you think this can run RuneScape?
- [Linus] Well, you told me it's sad.
- [Alex] Yeah.
I kinda spoiled it, but...
- [Linus] So you can't download Java?
- [Alex] No, we've got Java.
- Oh, because it's Chromium-based.
- [Alex] Yeah. - [Linus] And they have
no support for the Java plugin.
Let's fire up some Google Docs here, shall we?
I'm not a big fan of this keyboard that, oh...
Whoa, yeah.
Pops, oh,
ah.
(Alex laughing)
Can I disable this?
Large on-screen keyboard.
Oh, well, it's already disabled.
Okay, so this is...
See, it's not there now.
- [Alex] Yeah, it looks great.
- [Linus] This is crazy.
Imagine being like, "Hey, mom, I need an Xbox,
so I can work on my homework."
"Johnny, get off the Xbox."
"Mom, I'm working on my science project."
What else should we try?
- [Alex] Open up Word, it's good.
- It's funny that I'm looking at this going like,
"Wow, this is so crazy, you can do everything in a browser."
It's basically Chrome OS.
Like that's foundationally, what Chrome OS is,
the idea is that you don't really need the OS to do much
because all of your apps and all of your main functionality
should be through the browser.
And then I can get notifications while I'm working on them
about my daily quests and monthly quests.
Let's go back to Discord.
- [Alex] Because the thing
that you want to do in Discord
is be able to talk with voice chat while you game.
- Yes.
- [Alex] Wow, it's working.
- Well, the headset is not working.
Checkity, check, check, check, check, check.
Oh, hey, hey, hey, it's working.
- [Alex] What did you do?
- I have no idea, but it's working.
Here we go, are we ready? We ready?
Oh man, I'm gaming like a professional now.
Hello?
- [Alex] Hey?
- I feel like how, whatever his face is,
Bell, the guy who's falsely credited
with inventing the telephone.
- [David] Alexander Graham Bell?
- Yeah, being on like the first telephone call.
Now obviously, the first thing we're gonna wanna do,
now that we're in Discord, is play some Halo?
Well, it's updating.
We're gonna play a different game, Alex.
- [Alex] God damn it.
- [Linus] And that's a problem.
As soon as I've changed tasks,
Edge went to sleep in the background
and the Discord call dropped, super unfortunate.
Also, the mic input is now dead again.
Whatever the reason was for the mic
to start or stop working...
Maybe super Xbox ecosystem immersed people
are gonna be like,
"Oh yeah, it's this, you just gotta change that."
Either way, this is not what I was hoping for.
- [Alex] There is an app called Quarrel
that I have on here.
- Quarrel,
and is this like a third-party Discord client?
- [Alex] Yes.
- [Linus] Hello?
- [Alex] Now, this is as far as I've gotten it.
(Alex laughing)
- I see so much potential here though.
I mean, we've been saying for so long,
ever since Microsoft
officially added keyboard mouse support, we're like,
"Well, the Xbox is officially a PC now."
Obviously, as you can see, that wasn't the case.
But between UWP apps and being able
to run anything a Chromium browser could run,
hopefully in the background at some point,
again, Microsoft.
- [Alex] Yeah. - There is endless
potential here.
Just like this endless, spinning bird.
Now did I see you had addictinggames.com open?
(Linus laughing)
Oh, come on.
N-64 Emulator in JavaScript.
Your organization turned off access
to local files in the computer.
Oh, interesting.
So Microsoft is running the Edge browser
within a controlled sandbox.
- [Alex] You can't go to websites
that host their own BIOS and ROM,
which is 100% illegal.
- Yeah. - [Alex] There's no way
to spin that as legal.
- So the way to legally, or like at least,
morally emulate, cannot be done here.
I'll settle for it, I want to experience it.
Can I use a controller?
Wow, that audio though.
Game pad is connected. Yeah.
Oh damn.
Okay.
Game pad is connected.
Every time you press a button,
game pad is connected comes up twice.
No way, playing Super Mario World
on an Xbox, super illegally, please not do,
please not do it.
Now, tell me something...
Ooh.
The Chuck is real, boys.
There's different definitions of intolerable,
this is definitely in the neighborhood
of like 40 to 50 milliseconds, like it's a lot,
but, it's playable.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, oh boy.
No.
Play now, here we go.
Oh, does this one not work?
Was this just a...
- [Alex] No, it works,
you just have to play a lot of Whac-A-Mole.
- [Linus] How much you wanna bet this is not Flash Player?
Okay. Let's try this again.
Oh my God, the keyboard is back.
Go away, keyboard.
Oh no, I clicked a pop-up.
- [Alex] It might just be broken.
- I mean, maybe it's 'cause you have
so many browser windows open, Alex.
PSX Emulator Online.
Okay, what's Bing got for me here?
Emulator Games, dock online.
Wait, is this it? Or is this a different one?
- [Alex] It's a different one.
Oh.
- [Linus] Ah.
Alex, why did you have so many tabs open on here?
- [Alex] It's a browser. What am I supposed to do?
- I know, but it has a finite amount of memory, Alex.
Okay, I wanna try playing Emulator.Online again
without all this crap open in the background.
One more shot to impress me here.
yourhotfeed.com, oh yeah, I definitely want that.
(Alex laughing)
Fine, Sea-Doo PSX.
Flash Player,
is it working?
No, I will not press allow.
(Linus gasping)
I think it's working. - [Alex] Oh yeah.
- [Linus] If I go full-screen,
every time I need to press this,
it'll just go back from full-screen.
Bombardinski, here we go.
I have no idea what the buttons are.
Hopefully my browser back button is not one of them.
It is, but if I hold it, it should be fine.
The analog stick is... - [Alex] All gas, no brakes.
- [Linus] Oh no, the analog stick also does this, so...
- [David] Oh yeah, let's go.
- [Linus] Whoo.
I am like a Sea-Doo PSX pro now.
Going for the big win here,
here we go, big jump, oh what?
The control's getting super like twitchy
right around there.
Hey, not a perfect experience, but it works.
- [Alex] Let's do something a bit more reasonable.
So the Internet Archive MS-DOS games.
- [Linus] I mean obviously, we're gonna have...
- [Alex] Why?
- [Linus] Late Night Sexy TV Show.
I have no idea what kind of thing I'm filling out here.
What is this button? That guy has the most jacked six pack.
- [David] Wait, is here nipple out?
- [Linus] Oh wow.
(audio beeping)
All right, fine. I'm playing as Homer then.
Enter, space, control, shift.
- [Alex] Maybe it's on the controller.
- I doubt it. No.
The delete key is used to jump, insert, used to attack.
Those are keys I wouldn't have thought to press.
All right, here we go, boys.
Oh my God. I can't hear a thing.
Oh, come on.
Okay, hold on, can I jump and attack? I can.
Hey, now we're going.
Why am I beating up the small child? Wait, she has a burger.
Get back here. What's her name again?
Time to play something a little bit newer.
Let's head over to Stadia.
Controller linked, that worked immediately.
Sound works, that was really easy.
Press any button.
Uh-oh.
Oh wait, oh, there it goes.
Oh boy.
Okay, braking,
okay, there we go.
Oh my God.
(Alex laughing)
- [Alex] This is stressful to watch.
- [Linus] Oh, there it is.
(Alex laughing)
Oh God. Yeah, all right.
That's quite enough of that.
Yeah, I'd say it was fairly excellent.
I mean, on a good internet connection,
the latency is very usable.
- [Alex] Let's go to GeForce Now.
- [Linus] Now the drawback of GeForce Now
is that they have actually...
- [Alex] That's the biggest drawback right there.
- [Linus] Oh, bummer.
Chrome Beta and Safari on iPhone and iPad, that's it.
Now something to note is that even though apparently,
there's a built-in coupon code functionality
in Microsoft Edge, if you wanted to install, say Honey,
or you wanted LastPass
to manage your credentials or whatever else,
there's no support for browser extensions
in the Xbox version of Edge.
So that limits your functionality
probably more than you would think.
Like, obviously it's not perfect today,
but I can see what they're trying to do, I see the vision,
and I think it's gonna be...
it will be good.
- [Alex] But if you had file access,
you could like edit photos.
- Give them time.
I mean, even Apple exposes the file system on iOS now.
So Microsoft, I think will come around,
and there'll be a little walled garden
where the browser will be able to download files
or install extensions and stuff like that.
I say, give them time. I'm willing to be patient with this.
But a big part of that is that I don't actually rely
on my Xbox as my primary gaming device.
If I did, I might have a lot less patience,
and I might wish
that it was in a much more complete state today.
But it isn't, and I don't think
it was ever really advertised as such
that you'd be able to run GeForce Now on your Xbox,
so it's bonus, so we gotta treat it as such.
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If you guys enjoyed this video,
maybe go check out our previous look at when Microsoft
first enabled keyboard mouse support on the Xbox,
'cause it really was a giant shift,
or the one where we put it in Dev Mode
and ran an emulator on it.
- [Alex] That was really cool, yeah.
- That was really cool.
Man, the Xbox, it's a computer,
it's a computer.