@Senua Oh dear. Not sure what your point is with this - suspect its along the lines of "Xbox good, PS bad" like the majority of your posts, but it's not really comparing like for like is it?
A new IP in a that's only been out for 6 months or so on a console that still isn't widely available compared to much cheaper DLC for one of the most popular series on Xbox that's been out for nearly 3 years.
Also, I feel like I need to point out that your back-of-an-envelope maths are a fair bit off:
Not sure what that 16% represents - I see how it's calculated (12k/76k shown in the window) but don't know what those numbers are as they don't have any connection to the 24m suggested in the other screenshot - suspect they are the True Achievements user stats that you've lifted the screenshots from - so that means 16% of True Achievements users have it - NOT 16% of the 24m players.
The Xbox app on my phone suggest around 10% of gamers have completed the Fortune Island Achievement (still a decent number), but that doesn't account for multiple players on the same console/game sharing. Could have multiple players earning the achievement on a single copy of the DLC if all users are playing the game separately - My daughter and I both play FH4 but we've only bought one copy of the DLC, so already that's the figures skewed.
I'm a bit suspicious of those player numbers too - apparently around 77% have earned the Welcome to Britain achievement which I'm sure you get for completing the short intro race. That means over 20% of players (around 5m if the 24m figure is correct) didn't even get past that short intro race. Could be folk starting the game with the wrong user logged in, or starting it via cloud to get their daily GP Quest or something, but that's a lot of players abandoning the game within the first few minutes.
Your simple maths also assumes everyone has paid full price for the DLC which is extremely unlikely as it's regularly on sale. Also doesn't account for the Ultimate edition that has the DLC bundled.
Earning the achievement ≠ copies sold, so unless you've got actual sales figures for the DLC your numbers are meaningless and just another misguided "Us vs Them" propaganda post.
@Lucaster009 Personally, I’m worried about a studios known for Third person action games helping make a first person stealth game. Not sure sure how well that’s going to go m. It didn’t for Cyberpunk. But I guess we shall see.
@Senua With all due respect for your effort in this thread, posting things trying to make Sony and the PS5 look bad is just making you come off as a fanboy. This is a Series X thread, not a "haha, I think Sony lied and got caught even though they didn't since the game still needs an NVMe SSD to do the rifts with virtually 0 stuttering!"
Not really looking to argue, and I own and am a fan of both new gen systems, but I felt I had to say something after seeing another anti-Sony post from you in a thread it doesn't belong in at all. This should be just for Series X stuff, not for fanboy BS.
Has anybody been getting a lot of “Treat yourself to a $5 Xbox gift card” messages from Microsoft Rewards? I’ve been receiving them for the last few days now and they sometimes come in burst. When I do click on the messages it just says “Reward not found”. It’s really strange and I don’t know why I’m even getting the $5 reward messages when I’m in the UK as we use £5.
Has anybody been getting a lot of “Treat yourself to a $5 Xbox gift card” messages from Microsoft Rewards? I’ve been receiving them for the last few days now and they sometimes come in burst. When I do click on the messages it just says “Reward not found”. It’s really strange and I don’t know why I’m even getting the $5 reward messages when I’m in the UK as we use £5.
@BlueOcean I saw that on Twitter too. I also did not have a 360 and have not experienced blades UI but everyone I know it is a big fan of it and was sad to see it go
With the final Gears 5 season over, the game icon has returned back to its launch state (the big image of Kait in her winter outfit from the campaign) which is a nice touch. I don't know whether the splash screen is also from launch as I didn't buy Gears 5 at launch but it isn't a season splash screen.
@Grumblevolcano I saw that when an update popped up for it yesterday. It's not a major thing, but I was still happy to see that as I think the ever changing game icons for games that have multiplayer seasons like that is pretty stupid.
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@BlueOcean "Despite this, Xbox has still failed to reach the affordability of Nintendo and its most popular franchises. Critically acclaimed games such as Metroid Dread and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl both released at the £50 mark. However, it could be argued that this is because Xbox is working with more advanced hardware."
Wow, talk about looking at things from an outside perspective. Nintendo games are affordable? They never go down in price! At least the prices of both Xbox and PlayStation games get drastically reduced over time.
But yeah, if there's one console that has affordable games, it's Xbox. Not only are the games cheaper to buy than PS5 games, you can also play them through Game Pass. This is on top of Microsoft offering Series S as a cheaper system than Series X. Their focus on affordability will definitely help them gain more traction in the long run.
@LtSarge The part about Nintendo is jarring. Nintendo is the most expensive long-term: first-party games are priced AAA even when they're not AAA and pay low salaries to a small team (Metroid Dread), prices stay high four years later (Breath of the Wild), ports are overpriced and there is no cross-buy option nor backwards compatibility since Switch, previous accessories are not compatible since Switch...
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