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Hooray, at last one i bought and beat before it came here, usually hardcore the other way round 😂

@Fiendish-Beaver Sorry of my life too and they seem to turn up before i get round to playing them 😂

Beat more of my backlog, but sadly i've accidentally discoverd i can play good games from 20 years ago and i barely remember them so can enjoy them all again, runing back through the Fable trilogy again, damn Good Fun!!

It's annoying that they have day one releases as i rely on reviews to know if they are worth playing 🤣

@Markatron84 i'm 51 and still mega fit 🤣👍

Trying to beat a FANTASTIC game i beat on the OG xbox 20 years ago on the OG Xbox, Strangers Wrath should be played by everyone, the HD remaster looks good and still plays solid today!!

Google are famous for bailing on things, xbox has been here for 25 years

@Weebleman Bloody Hope Tom Warren is right and both companies are talikg about delying next gen 👍

@TheGameThrifter They pretty much back peddled and said they used ai very little, also no one knows how much it cost but seems the kept costs down by outsourcing, saw in the credit a team responsible for models and animation, not saying they went to cheaper countries for the teams but it's one way to keep costs down and a lot of talented devs in less wealthy countries

@Weebleman 1000% makes sense, still odd if the PS6 costs less than the PS5 Pro

@Coletrain It will be interesting to see, but i think that model is bust (not enough games make a profit due to rising costs) hope for all our sakes you are right though 👍

@dskatter Well they commited to making them and that's good enough for me

@Fiendish-Beaver Yeah i'm fed up with this kind of crap too

@dskatter Without actually knoiwing the price of either as nothing offical has been announced, interesting 🤣

@Coletrain So you think the PS6 will be less than the PS5 Pro? Only ask as i am Harcore interested in what they will do (lower the price of PS5 Pro before 6 launches, discontinue it before the launch of 6?)

Had to use a currency convertor, so $1,076.48 🤣👍

@TheGameThrifter Yeah but with the increasing cost of making games it doesn't really work for most games anymore, it's be double interesting what happens next as only a few companies will be able to make AAA games costing hundreds of millions of dollars

@OldGamer999 Think it's well known most work on barely any profit but the PS Pro must be well over priced to be able to drop £140, cannot think of another that did this in recent memory, 7th gen was the last time that happened with any regularity (the heyday of moore's law, no sadly dead, hence this is the first gen prices of console have gone up as they no longer get cheaper to make due to ship shrinkage as they used to, so increases in part cost mid gen can no longer be easily absorbed, especially as games often don't make the money back these days)

@Weebleman I've seen nothing but rumours saying the PS5 Pro is the only proffitable one, which makes sense, no way would they be able to drop the price that much if it wasn't over priced to start with 🤣 and as i said before, double intertesting to see what happens with the PS6 price in comparrison 👍

and I hope so much the rumours that next gen will be pushed back to avoid the ram and ssd prices going crazy (for the ai centres being built for the next 3-5 years) as it will mitagate another problem i saw from a 2027-28 next gen release. How many are still on last gen? how many won't you get on next gen because they'll buy a current gen console for GTA but cannot see them buying anext gen console a year later

@Fiendish-Beaver Nah you are not alone, i don't mind fiddling with PCs and the steam deck but Yep, still prefer just turning a console on and playing games, but have a bit of a steam library (those sales are crazy tempting 🤣) so a hybrid system (which must be the point of the Rog Ally X, they knew it wouldn't sell well, so why do it? free testers to get the operating system as good as it can be before the next hybrid xbox? only reason i can see (and make it scalable and traferable to other devices)

@OldGamer999 Think PS5 Pro was sold at a premium becasue they knew there would be a smaller uptake, so yeah they could cut it it's price but it's well known console are made with a thin profit or none at all. The Pro is an odd one too, what will they do with it? At £699.99 keeping it around at that price must mean the PS6 will have to be more otherwise it would look odd, even then if they discontinue it and the ps6 is £650 then all buyers will know they were scalped 🤣

@PressR2 and plenty of reason why you would believe it, like they said muliple times there is a next gen xbox like they have said there will be one multiple times then there is this from xbox wire back in June

'This week, Xbox announced it is actively building its next-generation lineup across console, handheld, PC, cloud, and accessories. As part of this, Xbox unveiled that it has entered into a strategic, multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices, including future first-party consoles and cloud.'

Great there are so many games worth playing (8/10 or better)

@DeadSpace Nah, the console isn’t popular enough to get hacked like the PS5 has, 360 is the newest hacked Xbox console, in time though, who knows. All the PS ones have been though 😂 Dev mode is a reasonable half way house

@LordDieALot LOVED System Shock, love how it didn't hold my hand and i got to explore the place and work it out myself, heard 2 was better so might get that (although i'm perma skint so reward points are my only saviour 😂)

@DeadSpace Yeah that's why i have all the modded consoles i can, you just cannot trust them not to remove games

@thefly0810 The original ended becuase either they couldn't get the games to run or the license was just too expensive, but yeah hope they are saving the Activision stuff for the 25th anniversary next year, if not then yeah, no idea what they are playing at (might be why all the COD games are on sale now, one last Hoorah) or maybe they keep them to milk forever 😂

@Gryzor Double odd as i had no such issues i could see, but i am one of those 'magic' people who really doesn't notice 60FPS vs 30, i honestly didn't mind when 360 Dark Souls tanked to almost single figures when all hell broke lose in the bottom of Blight Town, fond memories of it actually

@themightyant Yeah i can see that and blame MS wholeheartedly

@Shinato2024 Yeah they said years ago they aimed to get a game out a quarter, now seems they are doing that or better, shame it took so long but they need activsion to do it and Hell what a lot of fuss there was about that purchse, wonder if Netflix buying Warner will be anywhere near as bad 😂

Let my Xmas Digital shopping for the Offsprings begin 😂👍

@themightyant yeah but 7 years and no real progress when ms came knocking for ai money they had to close anything not close to finishing, and i could tell they didn't want to

Thank Goodness You're Here! 89% on Metacritic!!

Are these all just licensed games aimed at kids? and maybe it's cheap licensing when only bought for a short amount of time?

This is why all consoles need to be hacked, the PS is popluar enough to get attention but seems almost no one is working on xbox

@jesse_dylan 🤣 You read my mind, maybe i'll download a couple and actuslly try to play them this time 🤣

@jesse_dylan 🤣 My memory is awful but i'm so used to getting back to a game with the "where am i and what am i doing" sense, i don't mind it

@thefly0810 Agreed but i belive them, they hit the end of either techincal problems thta could not be solved (maybe next gen?) and licenses they could not get agreed (Outrun 2 i'm glad i still have my OG Xbox set up ❤️)

and it's not just the backwards compatability, it's the ones that have frameboosts and 4k upscale, the OG Psychnauts looks GREAT

Yep, it's been Great, playstaion may have Gears one, but i played though all 6 a month ago and they are all Great, likewise Halo 1 is coming to PS but we've had the Master Chief collection for forever (okay wasn't good for a while 🤣) but the vast number of games i have that are backwards compatible from the OG xbox forward is GREAT. Fingers crossed next gen can find a way to play licensed games

Yep, Loved the story and Gameplay 👍

@jesse_dylan I just play till i've had enough, then role onto something else, but come back and finish it later, works for me 😁

@jesse_dylan We are all different, i Love beating games 👍

I still have 1+2 to play 🤣

Friday morning for me, the days of past midnight E3 watching are long gone for me, Good Times though 👍

@FraserG Well that's that then 🤣👍

Having a quick check i don't think they have so betting on the 19th

@FraserG Have they started it as early as the 12th before?

🤣 Just resisted the Black Friday event now the christmas one is impending 🤣