@oopsiezz
That is some serious usage of your Xbox.

@oopsiezz
I’ve never had a problem with it apart from Starfield a few time ages ok.
Use it currently with FH6, DOOM dark ages, Pragmata.
All start right were I left of in seconds, no loading or title screens etc.

How much were they day one, that’s how much.
However I have a white all digital model now, with white core elite controller.

@Banjo-
Sounds good, I’m staying away from any fable and gears and halo, waiting for the new games. Won’t be long.

@Banjo-
No I won’t have this as the best feature.
It’s quick resume 🤣 by a mile.

Well it’s reviewed well 4.9/5 🤣

@fatpunkslim
I have both but what Xbox exclusives you mean gears e day, I’m not sure it will stay that way. We love a U turn us gamers 🤣

I have game pass ultimate as well, totally agree currently amazing value especially this year and early 2027.
FH6
Halo
Gears
Fable 2027.

As for the graphics differences it’s more fizz and movement blur, like in ACShadows pro PSSR 2.0 removed fizz and noise from pan movement of thatched roofs and thick bamboo and even the NPCs a bit and a shaper look overall.
Let’s be honest console PS5 and XBOX FSR is a crap for 2026.

So for another $100 you can have a PS5 Pro and with 2tb of memory over a series x though with disk drive.
Me thinks pay the extra $100 for the Pro.

Pricing has gone mad, with weak steam machines.

The hot weather is getting me, let’s love:
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
And maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Girl, I'm sorry I was blind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

@Millionski
Because Gears E Day is fresh new and exciting and looks very cutting edge graphics wise.
I think it would hit 5 million on PS5.

@Fiendish-Beaver
I agree consoles need exclusives and after the small success of FH6 and 12% increase of Xbox console sales in the UK, maybe we are getting some momentum.

Just take it all away now Xbox console wise stands zero chance.

Put Gears E Day on PS5 and make some money XBOX. I mean the game must have almost finished PS5 and Pro code.

@Fiendish-Beaver
It’s true what you say, but it seems almost suicidal with the current state of affairs etc.

Oh well they might sell a few I guess. With loads of cross generation games that won’t take full advantage of a nice new £1000 plus console.

@Fiendish-Beaver
This makes keeping Gears E Day off PS5 even more ridiculous, especially as it would probably have done as well as FH5 at 5 million plus sold.

I really hope this doesn’t end up with Cloud gaming being the next generation thing.
I absolutely hate cloud gaming, I want instant gaming at full graphical and sound effects the best they can be and no gaming lag

@Fiendish-Beaver
I don’t think it would be a good time for Sony or XBOX to release anything new.

Just make amazing games for their consoles and tap more power out of them development wise. And just ride the storm and release new consoles when this is over, even if it’s 2030.

What gets me they both moan they make hardly any profit from consoles so why are they always in a rush to make less money on a new console release.

Just as they had good console sales in the UK with FH6 and the lower price to PS5.

Oh well back to square one again.

Totally agree, I posted last week on here.
Calm down push square followers it will Bungies turn next week or so and could end up being more personnel in total.
And here we are.

Wonder how much development time and cost got wasted dumping perfect dark and everwild.
Like with all that time from both studios what could have been made by now all these years later, with all people and time.

Probably a great new ip or maybe a new or full U5 remake of Banjo K. Such a waste.

Played the Onimusha demo and was not that impressed. RE9 great, Pragmata fantastic but Onimusha not that impressive.
Just my demo opinion and won’t be buying at the moment.

@Banjo-
Correct software sales will not affected.
But genuine top next generation experiences maybe.

Look at series x, it’s not until Halo remade and gears e day are we really seeing XBOX studios give us the top potential of the console, 5 years in.
Similar can be said for Sony studios and PS5.
It’s been a weird and hard generation this current one.

@Banjo-
The cross generation 5 year period is Sonys and XBOXs second big issue to price.
With less gains each generation and potential high prices it may only be us keen gamers buying into next generation, which will definitely make for very slow sales.

I find his games niche and sales of DS2 are about 2 million, so not set the world alight when you consider FH5 sold 5 million on PS5 alone.

To me his games nowadays are overrated niche experiences, but with amazing production values.

@Schonks
Totally agree with that Sony are dicks with cloud saves.
On XBOX cloud saves are free to anyone with an account.

Also even if you are a Sony PSN member you only get cloud saves not anyone signed onto your console, that is seriously tight.

It could be XBOX doing PR and branding the name about again, to get it back into the minds.

I waiting to open a pack of Rich Tea biscuits
and XBOX branded on each biscuit as I dunk em. 🤣

Why do PS players need a Microsoft account.
You don’t need an EA, Ubisoft account on PS or XBOX to play their games.

Ducking stupid ideas these companies do and the hoops they make gamers jump through. For the sake of another account on the metrics graph and data analysis.
That they can brag about. Dicks.

@Fiendish-Beaver
Doesn’t the equation have to include loss of GPU money and maybe subscribers if day one games disappeared.

I would probably then leave GP, as cloud saves are free to anyone.
I have GPU for day one FH6, Halo, gears e day and Fable as fantastic examples.

Also they could lose people to PlayStation as well, with no GPU day one games.
Especially as currently gears e day is the only major exclusive.

I only play COD if it has a good campaign, so I can wait a year and have cheaper GPU.
I mean recently, I can’t complain.
FH6, Halo, gears e day and Fable soon.
And others.

Seems a bit the other way round this generation, especially with gears e day as well.
It looks like the game engine Unreal 5 has finally at long last caught up with the consoles, tailoring to them.

Really my eyes are hurt now.

Looking forward to this one on another note.

But then again I’ve had ago about XBOX, but I’m here with a series x as well and GPU until into 2027 and I can’t fault it at the moment.
I’m playing FH6
Next up Halo remake, then Gears e day and then Fable.
And just downloading COD vanguard which is now free, never played it.
Then that’s not including all little game like Minecraft dungeons 2 etc.
and the dam it all looks so good on my Sony Bravia 9 65” TV.

@Banjo-
No argument, just what I think the attack strategy should be.

Let have fun and go off topic.
Metacritic journalist reviews.
Gears e day 91
Wolverine 88
Your turn

@Banjo-
I just think you have to go in all guns a blazing and putting especially Fable across to PS is a daft idea in the exclusive strategy and Halo.

You have to fight fire with fire and XBOX isn’t getting any single player PS studio games and also probably PC as well now.

Microsoft are bring a tiny little knife to a gun fight by putting major single player games like Halo remake and Fable and even FH6 on PS.

@Banjo-
I’m all for the Xbox360 days as much as anybody and if not more, as I lived the glory days, showing off Gears of war, Halo and Forza to friends, that then went a bought an xbox360.

But to me sod em, make them all exclusive, FH6, Halo and Fable and stop arsing around doing a 20 % job.

They won’t gain much ground at roughly a 20% rate especially as COD is still on PS.

Well I think you have got to be exclusive if you want to sell console hardware and/or some game pass as well and get people into your whole eco system.

I do find it a little grinding that gears e day went exclusive and not FH6, Halo and especially Fable, as Fable is released 5 months after gears e day.

They are just going to get caught in the middle with most probably going to PS and missing the odd game like gears e day but still getting FH6, Halo and Fable, and adding the PS exclusives and then third party games to their PS libraries.

The top end perfectionists will go PS5 Pro console wise so that ends that.

No rush it will still be there digitally when I want it 🤣

Gonna look fantastic on my 65” QD-OLED.

@Skinny-Pete
Says so in the post.
Confirmed series x 60FPS.
The series x always had the right power architecture, it just need the right studio, game engine and developer time.

It’s happening to all in some places in the UK
BBC announces 550 job cuts as first part of £500m savings plan

I don’t mean it bitterly but I’m glad XBOX are not sharing this one and hopefully lots more no sharing. They don’t share with us so, sod em.

Amazing can’t wait for October.

This is how series x should have started all those years ago on release day and continued through out with exclusive games of this quality probably 2 each year, from XBOX studios.

I suppose better late than never.
Forza Horizon 6
Halo remake
Gears e day
Fable February 2026.

Just imagine this momentum and quality from day one and continued through, how things would have looked different.

@themightyant
Sony seem in a lot better position in the gaming division, which might even be holding up the rest of Sony, remembering the TCL TV etc 51% buyout.

It’s Bungie that will lose some employees soon, they are massive with about 850 employees and what have they done for Sony.

@McKeownPlayz
That’s cool, next month it will be Sonys turn, they already done bluepoint and others will follow. I’m waiting for something to happen at Bungie next.

@McKeownPlayz
Don’t need to hate, it’s just business realignment.

Being brutally honest I don’t have a series x for those studios games.
I have my FH6 and soon Halo and then gears e day then Fable.

I don’t think some realise how many employees and studios XBOX have.

And just like Sony, Ubisoft and XBOX it’s a business and if money isn’t being returned on investment the inevitable is going to happen.

This won’t be last in the industry this year and it won’t all be XBOX.

It’s simple, I will be playing Gears e day and clockwork on series x, via GPU.

If you want to play the games get an Xbox or PC or go cloud gaming.

It’s no different to wanting to play Wolverine or Splatoon Raiders.

No, actually it’s better as you have more options than just a console.

@DennisReynolds
I just miffed by it all.
Just remember like when Nintendo put Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, with a 3 year gap, that is outstanding.
And Naughty Dog in the PS4 days last of us and Uncharted times and a small multiplayer game as well.

It’s all got a bit slow, even Forza Horizon that’s was a 2 year cycle with Forza Motorsport was 4.5 years with FH5 to FH6.

They are all taking longer and I know games are more complex, but the tools to make the games are better now as well.
It’s all since COVID it’s gone all slow ish.

I believe it is about 100 employees.
Good luck to them all.

Got to feel for the employees it’s not very nice, hope they find jobs very soon.

@NeutronBomb
Switch 2 is ok don’t get me wrong, but I tried it and you end missing the third party games especially running at 60fps with all the bells and whistles.
I soon came running back.
Maybe keep the PS5 or Series x as well or one of them.