I think the Xbox 360 era really was the peak of games leaking early. It almost became the norm for high profile games to leak up to 3 weeks early.
Then when it became possible for 360's to run unsigned code we had all these arcade games leaking...
Honestly it seems the xbox360 & ps3 era were peak gaming in a lot of ways. Early game leaks, no live-service microtransacton slopfest, Microsoft wasn't piloted by bug people and actually kinda knew what the kentucky-fried fuck they were doing...
I saw the announcement back when it came out and am glad to see what started as rumors make it's way to the real world for once. I bought a secondhand steam controller a while ago and liked it a lot, and will probably get one of these new ones...
Interesting to see. Microsoft's hardware designs may not have always been the best, but you can see their corporate IT background in how seriously they take their console security, and how ruthlessly competent they are at it. Though i wonder how...