Topic: General Xbox Series X|S Thread

@ralphdibny Let us know if the new N64 controllers work outside Switch. To force users to be subscribed to Nintendo Online and then small stocks being sold out when you think you're about to get a unit is a new marketing strategy I would have never imagined but it suits modern Nintendo's priorities: money over anything else LOL. I regret soooo much not getting the Mega Drive Mini, the European version is sold out everywhere. It's so cool and it has two controllers. I know it doesn't have the six-button controllers but I like the European Mega Drive design the most.

EDIT: If the N64 controllers work on Series X/S it would be awesome because Retroarch works con Series X/S.

@Banjo- ah it's a shame the MD mini is gone. It was in stock for so much longer than the NES and SNES minis. Can always pick up the retro bit 6 button controllers for it too. I like the 3 button pad as well, it's much more comfortable to hold and there are plenty of other consoles to play mortal Kombat and street fighter on to be honest.

I will let you know if they work on PC or Raspberry Pi...if I ever get them! lol. I suspect they will not work on Xbox though because nothing seems to work on Xbox. MS have their usb/Bluetooth controller "handshake" locked down. There are a couple of adapters, the CronusMAX and the Titan One I think, that allow other controllers to connect but they are pretty expensive, especially compared to the Mayflash and 8bitdo options available for PlayStation and Switch.

Im not sure if a third party wireless controller even exists, officially licensed or not. I ended up getting one of those officially licensed 8bitdo pro wired Xbox pads in the end for any D-Pad heavy games I play. Even my wired arcade stick requires an official Xbox pad to be connected to it via USB so you can use it as a passthrough for the "handshake".

I'm interested to know if the adaptive controller opens up any possibilities for extra controllers. I think it has a usb port that I wonder if it can be used as a pass through for other remotes. I might get one if I can save up enough reward points. They seem to be quite well stocked. I think all the extra buttons/sticks etc are much harder to find and more expensive to buy unfortunately.

A little while back I wanted to make a piano controller to play a piano rhythm game on Switch called Pianista. I didn't get very far with it to be honest. I bought a cheap-o usb controller to butcher but never ended up getting a mini keyboard to butcher. I don't even know how I'd combine the two anyway lol

Redfall and Starfield are delayed to 1st half of 2023:

I'll drop it here just so I can check after show how close I was.

Here are my predictions for this June's e3.

1. Starfield UNCUT gameplay
2. Redfall gameplay trailer
3. Gears 6 story trailer
4. Indiana Jones gameplay trailer
5. Doom 3 teaser
6. State of Decay 3 uncut gameplay
7. Everwild gameplay trailer
8. Forza motorsport release date with gameplay
9. Fable story trailer
10. Avowed gameplay trailer
11. Perfect dark story trailer
12. Hellblade 2 combat gameplay
13. Compulsion's next game gameplay trailer

Mic Drop: Minecraft 2.

Along with some updates to minecraft dungeons, grounded, sea of thieves, fh5 etc.

With the delays to Starfield and Redfall I wonder if they'll perhaps use big day 1 Game Pass 3rd party releasing this year to open and/or close the show, like starting with Gotham Knights for example. The purpose of the showcase is to convince the person watching to subscribe to Game Pass this year after all.

@Grumblevolcano I have no doubt that MS will fill those Gaps on Game Pass - maybe not with3rd party 'Xbox Exclusives' but some Big AAA games. I am sure as soon as they decided to Delay, that Phil was looking at ALL the releases coming to Xbox and making some calls to other Publishers.

Game Pass isn't 'just' Exclusives - as some seem to think. Its not '2-3 Xbox Games' needed to make it 'worth' subscribing, its ALL the new games added weekly, big or small, exclusive or multi-platform, and not always Day 1 games too (Guardians of the Galaxy for example). We know games like Plague Tale, Atomic Heart, Scorn, Warhammer: Darktide, Stalker 2 (still listed for Dec 22 right now but would be very understandable if that is delayed again), Slime Rancher 2 etc are all coming to Game Pass this year - on top of the games we already have seen - R6: Extraction, MLB22, Tunic, Shredders etc.

So I won't be playing Redfall or Starfield this side of Christmas, however there are still a LOT of games coming I can play and its not as if I have unlimited Gaming Time to play 'everything'. Instead of trying to decide between whether I play Starfield or Hogwarts for example, the decision is less complicated now - but the point is, they'll still be games coming, still be games on Game Pass every month and its still the 'best' value in Gaming.

The fact that MS has delayed these also goes to disprove the Game Pass leads to lower quality. Psychonauts 2 and Deathloop were 'delayed' for more work and polishing time and the results were very positive. FH5 were given extra time for FH5 - an Extra year and Forza Motorsport - a 2yr cycle game is now in its 5th year - Both were developed knowing full well they would be released straight into Game Pass Day 1 from the very start!

@Grumblevolcano I doubt it will be a day one major AAA title like Gotham Knight. Even though coop and MP seem to be huge successes on Gamepass, i doubt it will come to gamepass day one unless Microsoft gets the wallet out and pay a huge sum of money to get it day 1. CoD and Hogwarts are the only other AAA multiplat game releases which are confirmed to come out around the same period and those have marketing deals with PS so i doubt those will come to gamepass day 1.
Maybe they will lock in an older multiplat like Dying Light 2 or Lego Skywalker or try for Elden Ring (althought the chance for that coming to gamepass i see as next to nothing)

@Lavalera That's what I think they'll do. They were desperate enough to guarantee Game Pass success that they acquired the main major 3rd party studio that refused to put games on Game Pass so spending lots of money to get some big 3rd party day 1 Game Pass releases to make up for a weaker 1st party lineup is really tame in comparison.

Great year for Microsoft in Japan

This is interesting. I noticed all day I couldn't run cloud games. But Xbox status page shows all ok. Then tried switch and found out that Nintendo is doing emergency maintenance and everything is down. Then went back to cloud and it now shows it has long wait times.

I don't think xcloud is down. I think all the switch players ran to game pass while switch is down and overloaded it 😆

Guess I'll be streaming from series s then ..... Yakuza needed finishing anyway!

@NEStalgia The Initiative failed to develop their first game for Xbox as an Xbox Game Studio created for developing Xbox games, but they have created the most realistic depiction of Samus Aran yet 😂.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/06/random-character-ar...

@Banjo- LOL, I'm not sure what's more terrifying, the almost creepy wax museum-esque pictures, or the fact that that's what The Initiative has spent the last 4 years on

I guess it's still better than the God of War artist that keeps drawing horrifying realistic Pokemon art for some nightmare-fuel related reason.....go Xbox?

@NEStalgia I guess that the last four years were spent on arguing with each other about how a game should be, instead of developing it, and on obsessively recreating Nintendo characters that they were not paid for while being funded by Microsoft.

@Banjo- With these images, Nintendo should sue them for IP damages.

@NEStalgia I'm absolutely sure that they're considering it, they're kind of obsessed with fan art.

@Banjo- The Initiative is what happens when you throw 100 million dollars at a DeviantArt account

@NEStalgia And that's sad because I thought that The Initiative could be a AAA dream team. I always say that big groups of people need hierarchy to avoid chaos and inefficiency. In this case, they also need... programmers?

I'm planning on buying a Series X next week. It's apparently available in my local store for normal retail pricing and I've just been wanting to buy a new system for quite some time now. For people who have read my posts over at Push Square, I've also expressed interest in buying a PS5. But there are just less reasons for me to buy a PS5 compared to Series X. For starters, PS5 costs €800 where I live, while Series X is €570, which is a significant difference. Second, a lot of PS exclusives are still coming out on PS4 and games like Horizon Forbidden West apparently run really well on base PS4.

The primary mistake I did last generation was buying both a base PS4 and Xbox One at the same time. This meant that I had no reason to upgrade to one of the revised consoles because I already had both. This time I'm thinking about buying a Series X now and then wait for the inevitable PS5 Pro. That way when Series X becomes "outdated", I can start buying my games on PS5 Pro. Not to mention that more PS exclusives will be PS5 only from next year on. So for me it makes more sense to buy Xbox now and wait with PS5 instead of having two "outdated" consoles in the future.

I've also not been playing on Xbox as much in recent months (which you can probably tell since I haven't been as active on the Pure Xbox forums as I've been on the Push Square forums). So I need a reason to play more on Xbox and a new console, which would be my primary console, would definitely change that. That way I can use my PS4 and Switch for exclusives while I can use Series X for everything else. For example, I can finally play Cyberpunk 2077 properly if I have a current-gen system. Not to mention that I'll have access to current-gen exclusives like the upcoming Callisto Protocol and Resident Evil 4 Remake. Xbox has also been getting more Japanese games, like Soul Hackers 2, which is very beneficial for me as I love Japanese games. And of course, there's Game Pass, which I would be more incentivised to use if I had a new Xbox.

Then there are also features on Series X that would motivate me to play more on Xbox. For starters, there's Quick Resume. Being able to switch between multiple titles would motivate me to play more games at the same time. Second, having a functional rest mode on Series X as opposed to the one on my base Xbox One, which makes the system noisy and breaks achievements in certain games, would also motivate me to play more on Xbox. I play a lot of games on PS4 because I love rest mode. If I can utilise a proper rest mode on Xbox then I could be playing so many more games on there as well. Then there's also the extensive backwards compatibility and I have bought tons of digital original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles that I haven't played yet. Being able to play them on Series X with rest mode and quick resume, and maybe even some technical improvements, would be great.

My new Xbox One controller is also slightly broken. I dropped it literally once on the floor and now the right bumper doesn't work all the time. My previous Xbox One controller didn't work either after a while. So if I buy a Series X, I can at least get a new controller with the system as well (and hopefully I don't break it).

So yeah, I just wanted to write down my thoughts for why I'm getting a Series X. I just want a new console to play on and a Series X makes more sense now than PS5. While I don't have a 4K TV, I can at least experience shorter load times and better frame rate with games on Series X. And that's good enough for me. I'm just sick of having to do research in order to find out if games run well on my outdated systems. With a current-gen system, I can leave all that behind for the time being.

And of course, having a Series X would incentivise me to be more active here lol.

I think you're going to really like the Series X... I was a big 360 fan a long time ago (but I skipped the One and PS4... just went strictly Nintendo)... then came back to Xbox in May this year when I came across a Series X in a store... and am I ever glad I did... I've been playing games that have looked the same for decades now (I don't PC game)... and I went 360 > Wii U > Switch... and I've had a good time gaming... but, I haven't seen any advancement since 2005... and now I'm at 4K on the X and the games are just great! You will be very happy with your purchase.