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Also just dance with joycons or a cell phone feels wrong. I wish they continued support for these games.

Still to this day, we have fun with a bowling night. Or a fruit ninja night. Great for playing with younger kids. On my own I play Kung fu. So awesome. I love the kinect, I have all the games. Except air guitar kinect. Just waiting for a sale on that one.

My phone + razor kishi + series s = 4k home console + 1080p portable console. I am set. Thank you xbox.

I have the original Xbox (green blob) background. Mainly for nostalgia. But it does have extra worth in times like this. Reminds me of when xbox was about playing games and not ethnicity.

Repost of my comment on Nintendo life:

Unless they have two copies of the exact same game with only one tiny variation. But sell both at full price and call one copy brown edition and the other magenta. They haven't truely copied Pokemon.

Apple finally catching up with android again.

I will just state the obvious. If indie titles on game pass do better. Then put your indie games on game pass. Problem solved right?

Probably fair. I should have edited it. Or at least apologised. Honestly I didn't expect you, or anyone to take that comment seriously. But here we are. Oh well, I am not PC enough to internet these days. I will edit it out.

Oh I see, I have looked into further and seen there is another monthly quest for 500 points. So we are in fact not getting any less points.

Well it's already all over my home screen. Even though I'd prefer it wasn't ha.

The perfect controller for that tea bag after a melee kill

Yay I am so glad I read the comments and saw I am not the only one who think this is ugly AF. Also the controller is nice but if you didn't know it came with this set, it looks like you got it separately. I mean it's like getting a hot pink controller with a standard series s/x ????

@FMT Fair enough. It might be a local law thing as well. My experience is slightly different albeit with MUCH smaller companies and outside the US. I guess it is just as you said. Some CFO singing their own praises and I guess I am equally just singing criticism back at them. As I said the very first comment says it all. When we get the games, we will agree.

First comment says it all.

I mean this is not impressive right?! You knew this was happening in some capacity for the better part of 2 years. This seems like it moving at a regular pace considering. Not at an impressive pace. Just saying.

Games with Gold is making a comeback 😄

@J_Mo_Money But apparently it's worth your time to come here and say it's not a big deal. Hmmm. Sounding a little disingenuous there???

Just out of curiosity, could this in fact be illegal? I mean I don't know, and local laws change from place to place. But Google has(?) to tell if a game contains add before you purchase it. Did the Xbox/PlayStation stores do the same?

@Richwalker13 still having good times. But not for long I suppose.

This just makes my decision to move away from paying to play online. When my Core sub runs out, I will not be renewing I think. Maybe they should batch system link into games before the take servers down. Now I can't have as many games to choose from when me and my mates have a classics game night

@theduckofdeath
Hahaha did you seriously just try and justify Xbox making ad revenue at our expense with no compensation? Also your comment makes no sense, only to prove my point. Ads on TV gives me free TV. Netflix (no ads), Disney (no ads). Internet free information. No ads on my computer. No ads in the games I pay for. So if Xbox wants to give me ads, the I need compensation. I like said. Fair!

Nah fair enough. This shouldn't be happening. I bought the console. I am not renting it. I don't have an ad based subscription. I am in my tabs an ad for McDonald's. I mean wtf. If it was a collaboration and I was getting a free burger or something yeah. But a straight up ad. No no and no. If you want to show me ads Xbox, give me online play for free. It's only fair.

Yes I do have it. Unlocked 20/11/13. So got it a day early. I guess everyone should have moved to NZ for that one ha.

@themightyant Thank you so much for that. Unfortunately I could only pin it to my feed and not my profile. Still a win though.

Edit: Also my Day One background looks awesome on my Day One Xbox.

How do you find it? I am not sure if I have it. I definitely got my Xbox day one. But can't remember if I scanned something.

Looks great. Can't wait to play this on day 6.

Anyone know a loop hole to get the free movie??? Move to the US? Everyone moves to NZ (Where I am), it's only fair for me to move to the US and get a movie.

I would be excited for this. But they took meta off my Samsung VR. Making it a paper weight.

Someone should call Xbox out for false advertising. If you can pay for something to get it early. Then it is not a day one release on game pass.

Edit: Which is fine. If people want to pay to have it early, then good for them. But Xbox has to stop saying day one on games that have early access.

@BacklogBrad
This is indeed true. Perhaps I have a little too much wishful thinking. I see a world where AI infused quantum computers, create my perfect game with limitless potential. But you bring up a good point of the economics of this world. The future will be decided by the mindless consumer robots of the world. Not by me. So yes in my AI, quantum cloud, it could all just be free to play, politics and mediocre garbage. Then I'll be buying a portable PC to play good old games locally. Ha.

@BacklogBrad
A phone/TV/portable PC, will never have the power of a server bank. Cloud gaming is in its infancy. It has just been born. Imagine games designed with cloud in mind. Creating mods in real time and sharing them with your friends. Procedurally generated world's in real time with real world graphics. Portable. A little over 20 years ago a phone had two lines of text. You could send a message, but it had to be less than 200 characters. Cloud gaming is that phone. In 20 years it can do so much more than we can even imagine. That is what Microsoft sees. That is what Ubisoft sees. That is what I see.

Cloud gaming has unlimited potential. I mean unlimited. Imagine playing the latest game on any device. Have a TV a keyboard and mouse, you have the latest PC. Have a controller and a phone, you have the latest console. Have a headset, you have a portable PSVR. I mean take away hardware requirements and just think of what can be achieved. Kinect/motion play could return using your phones camera. Party games that use your touch screen that you currently need a console to play. Bam unlimited potential of cloud gaming in your pocket. I am a true believer that this is the future.

wtf going on here?

Just to check

@RadioHedgeFund I also would be interested in a cloud only service as well. Depending on price of course.

I have friends and family. Is this seeing a price increase? Have seen no word of it. Maybe people from same countries could sign up. I pay $8nzd (4usd) month for 1 account split between 5 of us.

Necro bump. This absolutely needs a re discussion. I remote play seemlessly at work (on my lunch break of course) just using my mobile data. Not to mention all the games that are not on the cloud I can play as if they were. Gamepass console only games. As well as my collection of Xbox games. Also we need to put pressure on Microsoft to give us 360 games via remote play.

@NEStalgia New Zealand will welcome any UK immigrants who seek a better life.

So time to put it on sale 85% off

Not to mention mobile games included in game pass I can download from the store front.

I think this is a good move in terms of cloud gaming. Once you can play games you own on the cloud, this is the natural progression. I can have the xbox store on my phone. See a sale, buy a game, then play from my phone. Perfect. Why would I buy an android game when I can get a series x game to play. Phil is a smart man.

So I woke up to find Friends and Family available to purchase in New Zealand as well. But don't see any mention on purexbox.com.

@NEStalgia absolutely all true. I have a similar setup. But I did upgrade the phone to something that handles wifi 6. The difference is noticeable when playing fps or racing games.

@Would_you_kindly hah? Does this make the price of fish go up or down?

A Nintendo fan here. Sony is already anti-consumer. This is pathetic now. Xbox should be able to just buy any games company they like. Why are we treating this as special. Disney acquired 20th Century Fox to own 60% of all TV and movie ip. The courts allowed it. He'll Microsoft can buy Nintendo if the want to spend the cash. Who cares. So long as they keep making Zelda and don't mess with the formula. I mean what is wrong with this deal? I have a Nintendo I play most of my games on Nintendo. But I have recently subscribed to Game Pass. So I will play cod on that. If I wanted do. Haven't played cod since the 90's. But the point is play your favorite games on PS and play cod on game pass if it was exclusive. This childish attitude that you are entitled to play a game on your system is losing ground now. Back in the day if I wanted to play Crash I had to get a ps1. I had an n64 so I only played crash at a friend's place. Can the people trying to put forward an argument for sony please stop. If you are on this site then either you have an Xbox to play on if it becomes exclusive (so you have no argument) or you just came to argue. Netflix did not cry like a little girl when Disney acquired Fox to make a streaming service, so why is Sony doing it. Grow up.

Ok so I have a patch of land. I grow strawberries on it. I sell strawberries to Barry and Joe.
Joe buys lots of strawberries so he negotiated for some extra apples from me that he sells in a pack.
Barry buys a few strawberries to sell on there own. But Barry wants to start delivering a new pack of fruit straight to people's doors. He thinks if he packs it with a lot of strawberries people will sign up.
Barry wants to buy the land and all the strawberries for this purpose.
He offers me a good price and I accept.

Then Joe comes along and calls the cops saying I can't sell my land to Barry because he still wants not only the strawberries but also the apples.

How is this fair I say. Joe you can offer me more than Barry and the strawberry farm is yours. But Joe just wants his deal.

It is my farm and I now am already thinking about what I will do with the money. But I won't so it for a year or maybe at all because Joe is a *****.