Rumour: Xbox Tells Developers They Can't Charge For Next-Gen Game Upgrades As DLC

Microsoft being customer friendly......once again.

Good guy MS! Thanks

This is called pro-consumer move. 💚

Let’s hope a lot of companies buy in.

@Medic_Alert
Totally agree, for the last year Xbox have been so consumer friendly and moved in the right direction. The last and probably most important piece of the puzzle is the games.
Without the game’s it is almost a waste of the other great stuff they have been doing.

Ok, can we keep the thread on topic please & not go off on.....yet another.....Xbox “has no games” tangent (which isn’t even true).

I hate xbox. They've added nothing to gaming. Go Nintendo.

@Medic_Alert Go play your 30fps DLCs cuz most jrpgs are coming to xbox this gen.

@sixrings Atleast Xbox is announcing new games. They would have owned E3 this year. Now go play your animal crossing lol.

@Medic_Alert Hi there friend. This is why I´m pretty excited for next july 23rd. As a gamer who loves videogames, in spite of the system their in, I was gonna be watching the event. But as a gamer who fortunately as a powerful high end PC, i´m even more excited for what these first party studios will bring to the table. All I want is more great games to play and experience. Here´s hoping they will show us some really good surprises. Cheers, stay safe and happy gaming to us all

@Medic_Alert
Do agree Xbox really need to try so hard.
It’s almost like they have to make up for lost time at the start of a new generation, which even the mighty Sony would have trouble doing if the tables were turned the other way. Only time will tell but I think Sony do need to mix up there AAA formula.
I have played all the Uncharted both the last of us and all the god of wars and all the ratchet and clanks, etc.
And it was only when playing and finishing the last of us 2 I thought we need something different next gen from Sony during mid life cycle. Horizon zero dawn two, is fair enough as it’s only the second game in that series.
But something new from Naughty Dog and the others. I guess it must so hard to think up new things to do in a video, creative imagination must have some limits.

@Medic_Alert

I don’t. But I am tired of people like you coming in here complaining about the tired Xbox “has no games” narrative.

Almost all of Sony’s exclusives are one and done 3rd person action/adventure games that play like a movie more than a game. If you like that....great. Then go play them.

Xbox likes to throw a crazy thing called multiplayer into the mix. I know, nuts right? 🙄

If you don’t like Microsoft exclusive games, fine. Nobody cares. But you go off topic all the time complaining about the same thing over & over. And that can start that console war garbage, like in other threads.

@Medic_Alert

I am calm.....”mate”. 🙄

And you just rambled on for 4-5 paragraphs of exactly what I am talking about.

If you don’t like Microsoft exclusives, fine. That is your opinion. But it is not fact. I, and many others, do actually like their games. And we enjoy our Xboxes.

Maybe you should spend more time playing those “great exclusives” that Sony has & less time on an Xbox website complaining about their lack of games? Or did you run out because they are one and dones & you have nothing else to play now?

And you can make excuses for Sony’s lack of multiplayer in their games all you want. But it doesn’t make it a valid excuse. At least Microsoft tries to do more.

@Medic_Alert

You are on an Xbox website. Your whining about their lack of games for 4-5 paragraphs is rambling. My defending it wouldn’t happen if you weren’t here.

Once again, your whole rambling point is based on opinion. If you don’t think their games are “must play”, then move on. Nobody will care.

Just like Nintendo fans don’t care that I haven’t bought a Switch. Or the Ponies don’t care that I don’t play their overrated exclusives. It’s a matter of opinion. If you don’t like it or agree, I don’t care.

But stop going off topic in a comment thread about Xbox being consumer friendly (and a positive article) complaining about (what you think is) a lack of exclusives or games.

This is really pro gamer, something tells me parasites like EA will be going purple over this. You can't knock Microsoft for this, Phil Spencer has worked wonders. Definitely the coolest guy in gaming.

@Medic_Alert I don't want another last of us. I think that's it, Ellies story is done. They made the game of the generation, they made it work somehow (I never wanted a sequel), but I don't know how they'll top this. Can't do a sequel, it wouldn't really work (I said something I shouldn't have if you haven't finished it and saw that then sorry I didn't think).

Also KelticDevil is a raging Xbox fanboy, so don't waste your breath.

@SuperNintendoMii

So I am Xbox “fanboy” on an XBOX WEBSITE?! Lol. Really?!! 😂

You do realize this is an Xbox website, right?

And this isn’t a thread about Last Of Us spoilers. Go over to Push Square to talk about that. This is an Xbox thread about them being consumer friendly.

@KelticDevil big difference between being a massive Xbox fanboy and balancing the pros and cons of Xbox. It's not the first time you've made a fuss when someone's commented that Microsofts games have been lacking next to Sony's, and they have. That's something Phil Spencer saw and has attempted to fix by snapping up developers and getting them to pump out no doubt great games next gen. Because they have relied on Halo/Forza/Gears for far too long.

Also I made a reply to someone who mentioned The Last of Us Part 2. I never originally compared Sony to Microsoft. I'm here because I like Xbox and have an X. I still remember you and Blue Ocean turned a Tomb Raider poll into an Uncharted bashing thread and Frazer had to wind you both in. Hypocrite much?

I'll stay where I am thanks

@SuperNintendoMii

Once again....your opinion about the exclusives. You bring this up in every thread. Over and over. And over and over. Other people on here have had issues with you stating your opinion as fact. But, of course, you don’t listen.

Like I said, lots of us like the games Microsoft puts out. If you don’t like them, that’s your opinion.

And I never said you compared Sony to Microsoft. I said the other guy went off topic complaining (once again) about Xbox exclusives & lack of games (just like you always do, actually).

And now you are adding to it. This was a topic about Microsoft being customer friendly & you & the other $&?!/ turned it into yet (once again) another comment thread about Xbox’s “lack of games”. 🙄

As I said to him.....don’t you have anything better to do? And you do know this is an Xbox website, correct?

@KelticDevil and where did I say I don't like them? I never said that. I do like them. In fact I own them. Apart from Forza, but that's because I don't play racing games.

I have also seen people comment that Microsoft have relied on those three series too much. Yet the X symbol goes into the sky and fanboys like you are quick to assemble and jump down the throat of whomever dares to say something that isn't positive about Microsoft (in this case, the bleeding obvious). In your eyes, Microsoft have just as many exclusives as Sony, in as wide a variety of genres as Sony, with games releases as frequently as Sony, and it is mere heresy to suggest otherwise.

The fact even Phil Spencer has tried to address it is just brushed aside.

Also neither of us said Xbox has a 'lack of games'. Just that Microsoft have relied on those three series too much. There's a big difference in what's being said and what you are interpreting.

@SuperNintendoMii

Blah, blah, blah. Same old thing you always say & have to other people on this Xbox website.

My overall point is I am tired of people like you taking every positive Xbox topic off the rails into some “Xbox has no games.....” topic.

Stay on topic.

Good news for us 👍🏻

@KelticDevil

Dude - you make the rest of us Xbox fans embarrassed by your unwillingness to acknowledge any of the shortcomings of the “One” generation. Those shortcomings are obvious to anyone willing to take an objective retrospective view of this past gen. Your peacocking to anyone who dares mention those past failings has become tiresome and embarrassing. It helps foster that preconception of Xbox fans as rabid and overly defensive. Please - don’t be so easily snow flaked by any mildly negative (and FWIW - in this thread - accurate assessments) of past failures. Your hurting all of us who like ALL the machines - it’s sad.

This is awesome!

I get what KelticDevil is saying in that...

Everyone knows Microsoft needs to step up. Phil even said it himself. July 23rd is their date to do that. Some people like Microsoft’s exclusives and some don’t; but he is right that not every thread needs to be about it.

It is actually pretty boring reading the same conversation over and over. Like I think it was a good idea to make enough noise that microsoft hears it, but they have heard it now. So let’s just see what they do.

Not gonna lie, speaking as someone relatively new to xbox, I was more for Playstation (still prefer Nintendo over both) but honestly between Game Pass, Gold, this announcement, the games being released, number of discounts, xbox specs generally being incredible etc I must admit that Microsoft really know what they're doing.

Playstation so far has just been disappointing, which sucks because I was so excited to get a PS5. Nintendo is just....Nintendo. Not fantastic, not crap just balanced I guess.

@Medic_Alert Yeah, July's event is gonna be interesting. I hope they have some cool stuff to reveal.

@KelticDevil it's unreasonable to expect people to like things based on the sites they visit. Who wastes their time by visiting an Xbox fan site if they actually like Xbox?! If you hate (or don't own) a console, then you go to their fan sites and troll people. Those are the rules, I don't make them. Besides, it's a great way to spend your time.

Note that this is heavy sarcasm.