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@Kaloudz Oh, I think I see where you're coming from! It's that you just don't think a specific example, when it's pervasive and there are millions more out there just like it, is worth reporting on specifically? Am I understanding you right?

@Kaloudz Hey friend! I'm not going to be mean to you here, however, I think a 'tough love' approach is needed for this one.

It's very innocently and hopefully naive to not see the issues with this one: never mind the whole "monitor facing the wrong way" thing, it sets an ugly precedent if the head of graphical design at Xbox decides to use generative AI for a marketing image. Sure, Microsoft forcing their employees to use AI is a possible move, but in this case, it seems highly unlikely that they'll fill this particular vacancy any faster.

Those are my thoughts, tough love over. Hope it makes sense, bud!

@Lup it should be X to open the game hub. Bizarre that that’s now the default action on A.

Wasn’t Construct already remade in Halo Infinite before?

@dskatter that's fair. Theoretically they'll be far more accessible over time than the Xbox expansion cards. Walmart has a 512GB microSD Express for $65, which is the one I'm using, and it's fine.

@Kaloudz storage shouldn't be an issue. The switch 2, for now, can use microSD Express cards that go up to 1TB.

@Dimey could always use the right analog stick!

Halo MCC and Forza Horizon 4/5 would be amazing on Switch 2!

@Nintendo4Sonic Oh really?!

Why are the servers for a Madden game thats less than 5 years old being shut down already?

@Utena-mobile Same, I thought it would've shut down by now.

It's like I'm a pre-teen all over again! Blast from the past!

Why is the new DLC car pack not included with the premium editions?

@Kaloudz I’m doing better! Things are still tough, but I’m managing. Competitive Splatoon is a thing I do now, lol, and it’s going really well.

@Kaloudz Oh interesting.

Also it’s been a long while since I’ve seen you around these parts. You doing good man?

"time is the real scarcity for us, not money"

Remember this if they ever add mtx.

Isn’t this just the same (or similar to) the existing Game Cards that show up as an option when pressing the menu button on a game?

That’s honestly not a terrible deal, given that a typical deck alone can be $60-$80.

Thank you PX for finally listing the prices inline!

Wizard101? That’s a name I haven’t heard since before I was a pre-teen, almost 15 years ago at this point. (Just a few years before I started using NLife, too, heh.)

Time to put me in assisted living with the other “Unc status” folks, I guess. 😂

I remember hearing something about this game being exclusively multiplayer? Am I wrong?

This update definitely reads like the game was not supposed to be shutting down anytime soon, but that it’s rather an unfortunate casualty of Ubi’s mismanagement and financial desperation.

It’s so, so sad that they’re in this position, especially seeing as so many of us grew up with their games and IPs, and losing Ubi to mismanagement would be the end of an era.

@FraserG thank you for being responsive!

I can somewhat understand not stating the name of the executive in question in the title of the article, but not stating it even in the subheading feels designed to get clicks in an uncomfortable way.

@NeutronBomb how does the movie setting affect positioning? I had always thought game modes for audio focused much more on positioning and accuracy than the others?

I would imagine this kind of service is only truly needed for people who take CoD very seriously, such as competitive players.

@GuyinPA75 yes, that’s what my thought was.

Why remove the green accents from the headset just as you add the green accents to the console? Also, insofar as the price being higher, does that come out the same, just with an Atmos license added in?

Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but anything Xbox decides to sunset at this point (hello, Ambassador Program) feels one step closer to the sunsetting of Microsoft creating consoles as a whole.

How about not adding more live-service money funnels games to the market? Go the Atlus route and do a paid expansion?

The omissions aren’t all that surprising, but the list of what’s included doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense.

“It is what it is, and it's the way of things these days”

It really, really should not be. That kind of monetization may be acceptable in Free-to-Play games, but it is absolutely not when you’re already paying between $70 and $150 for a game. These giant publishers are going to keep pushing further and further, because nothing matters to them except extracting as much money from each individual as possible , over as long of a time period as possible, and throwing our hands up by saying “oh well, this is just how it is now” achieves nothing except complicity and an openness to even worse microtransactions.

@NostromoXP the point I was trying to illustrate was that a game like Tears of the Kingdom is running on hardware that is all but comparable to the Xbox 360, whereas trying to run something like Halo Infinite (even downscaled severely) on the Xbox 360 would be nigh impossible.

An article about Starfield and two-thirds of the comments are about Nintendo games. 😅

For the record, I don’t get how anyone can call _Tears of the Kingdom _ ugly. Sure, it’s artistic, and it’s not comparable to something like Assasin’s Creed, as an example, but it’s also not running (solely) on a portable game console that is effectively 7 years old. That’d be like expecting Halo Infinite to run on an Xbox 360!

@Decimateh Yes, any Game Pass plan that includes Day One releases (Console and Ultimate, afaik) has pre-order benefits for the base game, including the option to get Vault Edition (ugh, I hate that name) benefits for a one-time charge of $30.

Since my disability affects mostly my fine motor skills, I use an Xbox Elite controller with the profiles to create my own southpaw modes in games. However, it would be even easier still if gyro usage was an option.

As an example, I remember being unable to actually play COD4 at one of my friends houses as a pre-teen, because even though the game had a southpaw control stick option, the buttons would still be in the same places. Just a few years later, however, with the introduction of Splatoon, Nintendo created a shooter with gyro controls as the primary input. Especially on the Wii U where controller layout changes were rarely a thing, those gyro controls were the only reason it was possible for me to play the game enjoyably. Still to this day, the fact that the right thumb stick only controls horizontal movement is a benefit to me, and is the reason that even gyro in Fortnite (on PlayStation) doesn’t work the same for me.

Also, the Adative Joystick does look like a nunchuk, to the point where I was describing it to someone as “it looks like a Wii nunchuk”.

They raised prices without technically raising prices, in a way that’s not dissimilar to Apple effectively raising the price of their highest end phone by getting rid of the lowest storage tier.

@Spider-Kev iirc, it was in the fine print of advertisements about the Nintendo Switch Online service.

@NEStalgia don’t forget Game Pass Starter, Game Pass Home Basic, Game Pass Home Premium, Game Pass Business, or Game Pass Enterprise. Also, please remember that in a year or two, Game Pass 7 will be replaced by Game Pass 8 and 8.1, and none of your old Game Pass devices will be compatible. If that’s not confusing enough, Game Pass 10 will soon be introduced, and then be shut down because developers chose the more popular platforms.

Ugh. Microsoft be Microsofting. https://youtu.be/hqSm7lWn-84?si=cqXEXqHa6M2dx3VP

@Jenkinss https://youtu.be/UAw6vV3HdMQ?si=SjKqkRm14u5cBz5X

Here's that video for anyone who is interested.

I can remember how back in 2011 or so, I was at a friend’s house after school one day, and they were playing one of the Forza Motorsport games on the Xbox 360, and listening to music on the Xbox at the same time. As I had only had a Wii and Nintendo DS/3DS, this blew my 12-year-old mind.

Fear forward a few years to around 2015 or 2016, and I was at GameStop for I don’t even know what. I specifically recall, however, that there was an Xbox demo station with some Forza game (that I now know was one of the Horizon games), which I played a bit of and was once again blown away by.

Around half-a-decade later, in 2021, I decide to finally ask my dad for an Xbox for, I think, my birthday or something. My justification? That racing game from the GameStop demo in 2015 or so. So, in the end, Forza Horizon is what brought me to the Xbox*, and a few weeks later, I finally tried Halo for the first time in my life, and of course I was blown away.

*I also remember a demo for Super Lucky’s Tale, which is a game my mom and I have both enjoyed many times over in the time since.

@Kilamanjaro Since you mentioned the Switch, remember the backlash when they added the NSO icon to the HOME Menu? For all Nintendo’s faults, their restraint in embracing modern technology has proven beneficial in more ways than one.

@Kilamanjaro The recent Talking Point article about the Series X/S dynamic backgrounds got me thinking about how it would be so much better to just remove the row of advertisements at the bottom of the screen, leaving just recently played games.

Yes, it’s very similar to the PS5 at that point, but I’m of the opinion that the PS5 Home Screen is not that bad at all, especially with the full-screen key art and the music that certain games have when in their tile creating a splash screen of sorts, in a way that’s only really ever been seen with Nintendo’s software on the Wii and Wii U.

I understand there’s most likely very lucrative advertising deals for Xbox in those spots along the bottom of the dashboard, but as a concession, and with all the talk about an ad-supported Game Pass tier, why not make it a benefit of Ultimate that there will be no ads on the dashboard. It’s an extremely small move, but seeing as Ultimate is the same price as ad-free Max (formerly HBO Max), it’s not an unreasonable expectation.

Personally, I want less stuff rather than more. I really hate that huge store tile that replaced the games and apps tile. Sure, the Microsoft Store is an essential system function on Xbox, but in the context of the tile’s location on the dashboard, we’re basically forced to have a full-width row of ads visible at all times.

@IOI It’s so weird how Geoff Keighley basically runs the whole circuit now. At least with E3 the presentations were done by the publishers themselves. Now it’s just ego feeding for someone who seems like kind of a prune.

I forgot this game existed 😅 it wouldn’t have surprised me if it didn’t work anymore…

Weren’t the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 advertised as being able to output 4K60 and 1440p at 120Hz?

What happened? Where did things go so wrong?

@IOI The scariest poser of your comment is realizing that the rumors were just in January… it feels like ages ago.

@PushButtons The quick scoping makes those clips hard to watch for me, personally.

I don’t know how accurate this theory actually is, but what if Activision combined the games into one launcher because the ‘good’ aspects of Call of Duty as a franchise are split across three games: MW2 (campaign), MW3 (multiplayer), and BO6 (Zombies). 😔, I wouldn’t put it past them…

@somnambulance Such a true statement. It’s remarkable to me (in a very bad way) how quickly the Overton Window in gaming has shifted from “microtransactions are unacceptable” to “you give us $20 a month for games and we’ll give you a discount on even more things you’ll never actually own” and the consensus of consumers being closer to “🤷🏻‍♀️” than “😡”.