I'd play it. I was always interested in NW

Let's hope so! I've been holding off on a lot of actibliz purchases for this reason

I have been close to pull the Yooka Laylee trigger for a minute now. I'm glad I didn't! Hopefully, this remaster will add some meat and cut some fat

As much as I would LOVE to see some real games, my dream reveal is for Xbox to have their smaller studios leverage their IPs to create smaller games that, wouldn't you know it, release ON TIME

It's gotta be a reboot of our beloved Tak and the Power of Juju series.

That's the only thing that makes sense.

Anyone play Immortals on Series S? I heard it was horrendous at launch but that was over a year ago. I hope they've patched it up

@GuyinPA75 I hear ya, but that's what has gotten me into xbox! I can't afford modern gaming (skrimping n' saving to pay off a mortgage), but I got a refurbished Series S on sale for $190 usd and subcribe to Game Pass off and on when I want to play a game. It's great!

Ok here's my question:

Is the Sekiro IP now owned by Microsoft? I'd love to buy it next time it's on sale, but if it's coming to game pass later this year I'll wait.

I just don't know if from software owns the IP or not.

@JonBoyJ Here's my scoring bet:

Largely 8s and 9s across the board. Maybe the occasional 6-7 or, on the other end of the spectrum, perfect 10.

It won't have a metacritic score below 80, but it won't get above a 90. Let's hover around an 87 to be safe.

The games? Solid. The commentary? Flat.

@OnlyGaming I was thinking the same thing. Starfield is less cheeky than Fallout, but they could still make it entertaining

Kind of niche, but I want to be able to upload my old games and original save files to digital.

I would totally jump back into fable 1 if I could pick up from my original save file.

@Cherip-the-Ripper To each his own, but I thought March was one of the strongest months for Game Pass in a long time.

@Sol4ris shoot, I hope so! I assumed it was because news outlets plastered Sekiro on a bunch of their "Microsoft x Activision Blizzard" announcement graphics... but they may have been unofficial come to think of it

@Sol4ris The only reason why I didn't buy it this weekend is because I know it will inevitably come to game pass. Awesome game.

I have a Series S and Switch. I'm honestly SO excited for this game! I loved the first one, and am excited to see this story continue.

I don't need cutting edge graphics, just give me consistency. I don't need 4k resolutions or 60 fps, but please provide 1080p and 30 fps

I remember seeing this game during xbox's 2022 showcase and thinking:

"Wow! I can't wait to play this and STALKER 2 soon!!" Funny how that works. Still looking forward to this

After seeing Exoprimal, the RE games, and Monster Hunter all coming to game pass in the past year or so - It wouldn't surprise if this makes its way to the service in 2025. I can wait until then

Palworld be palling

@PsBoxSwitchOwner You and everyone else seem to be thinking of the studio and not the IP.

Say MS buys the dev studio + the rights to Palworld - If Palworld can really rock their 1.0 release and have Microsoft handle merch, they could recoup a multi-million dollar investment within a year or two.

That is some insane earning potential!

Can't wait to play this a year and a half after it launches!

(you know, when it's a functional product)

Oh Phil, you forgot the last part of your tweet:

"Coming to Game Pass October 2024" 😉

@NarutosBiggestFan Depends on the game. Fight Night Champion? Ready 2 Rumble? Punchout? Classics.

Super hero games need to be seen as RPGs. People buy spider man games to be spider man for a day. People buy arkham games to be batman for a day.

In this game, you could swap out any suicide squad member with anyone else - Harley Quinn w/Cat Woman, Deadshot w/Redhood, King Shark w/Lobo, and Boomerang w/Peacemaker - it wouldn't change anything outside of a few soundbites.

As cringey as it is to say, this game doesn't make you "feel" like any member from the suicide squad.

I'm pretty confident that they will reiterate their commitment to xbox, announce that some of their games will be coming to other platforms, and shadow drop Hi-Fi Rush on switch/ps5.

I'd also bet that they announce the departure of Phil Spencer from xbox and announce their all-digital xbox series pro console... but those are more conspiratorial than anything

@Dimey I hear you, I do. That said, we’re all on an Xbox focused gaming site. It’s meant to be niche and fun! What’s pointed and valuable to you might not fit the Pure Xbox branding.

BUT - to ensure you don’t find this comment pointless, may I please direct you to some sites that have objectively valuable and worthwhile content? 🙂

Science Daily compiles a variety of worldwide scientific developments. It’s valuable for anyone hoping to keep in touch with the cutting edge advances of mankind.

C-Span offers a relatively unfiltered view into US politics! It’s valuable to anyone living in the US, but in case you find yourself outside of said country, I highly recommend doing some research into finding your nation’s C-Span equivalent.

Napkin math suggests that if they reached the goal of 40 million users, they'll net 7.2 buh-buh-billion buckaroos from game pass alone!

Definitely throw one of those billions back into the machine! Heck, throw a couple.

I really thought BG3 was going to be a game pass launch this month. Sad 😞

@CHAOSbutler117 They’ll shadow drop Baulders gate 3 mid month. Mark my words.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I get that it's a cash cow, but idk man they've entered into a 10+ year continuity agreement with Sony.

It could be a great move for MS to move some Call of Duty resources/studios away from CoD and into content that can be exclusive to Game Pass (Crash, Tony Hawk, etc). Turn CoD into a 3 year release cycle, have those games be more impactful, give Sony less of that comission money, and put more content exclusively onto MS's platform.

The question is: Does Call of Duty make TOO much money as a yearly release to mess with its release cycle?

@awp69 Totally agree. Philly boy specifically said -

"We have no goal of somehow trying to use Call of Duty to get you to buy an Xbox console"

Not

"We have no goal of somehow trying to use Call of Duty to get you to buy a Game Pass subscription"

The latter would be a complete lie and at the moment, GP drives Xbox console sales and vice-versa.

Alright. Still holding out hope for a secret 60 fps performance update on series x. I know this is Bethesda we're talking about, but a man can dream

If Sony caves and streams game pass on their platform one day (Something I'm sure Microsoft has in the platform's roadmap) then they will remove console exclusivity. If, a few years later, Game Pass runs natively on Playstation through a PS service-tier, then that further removes console exclusivity.

Solar Ash is a nice W for gamepass! I love everything Heart Machine puts out.

Love me some short hike

Man September can't come fast enough. It is shaping up to be one of, if not the best month for Game Pass ever.

Starfield, Lies of P, PayDay 3, and Cocoon are all must plays, and we don't even know what the other 6-8 games are going to be for the rest of the month!

I was expecting an F, so exceeding my expectations and handing a solid C transformed this show into a respectable B

@armondo36 Dude I've been feeling that kind of way for years. The Peter Moore and Don Mattrick eras of Xbox heavily relied on exclusive content partnerships to drive value to their products. Their top tier IPs (besided Halo) were developed via partnership. (Forza, Gears, etc.)

Their in-house studios? Horribly mismanaged.

Bungie was Microsoft's lone bright spot of consistency, but MS would buy and fumble so many studios (Lionhead, Rare, and Ensemble to name a few).

Point is, I don't think they've ever been good at team building or management within Xbox. My biggest hope from their Activision Blizzard deal is that MS will finally gather some decent studio heads to help make their other teams more efficient.

Who would they sell it to? Amazon? Apple?

@Kaloudz Totally agree. I'm sure they'd take exclusivity if they could, but MS knows that getting every person alive onto gamepass is the real endgame. They don't need exclusivity for that to happen.

@stvevan but what if it doesn’t? That’s what these comment sections are for, right?

“What if Nintendo bought Ubisoft?” That’d be crazy, let’s talk about it instead of disparaging each other for commenting on a comment section

Wow. That is a LOT more confidence in Starfield than I expected

I’m excited for Redfall, but holy ravioli - Xbox has announced a lot of exclusives.

Hopefully 2023 gets at least one more beyond the trifecta of forza, starfield, and redfall.

My boy Phil is playing chess while the world plays checke- I mean, Call of Duty

@J_Mo_Money Same. I just finished replaying dead space 1 to get in the right headspace for the remake

The fact that this is launching after Callisto Protocol is a blessing in disguise for the devs. There were a lot of complaints there. Motive can just implement the easy critiques of that game before DS's launch.

Make cut scenes skippable, tune the run speed, and dedicate a few more slots to item storage. Boom. You're golden.

@fraserG Could you create a complete timeline article that goes through all of the highs and lows of the Activision Blizzard deal? Update it whenever news like this drops.

I'm always first in line to read these articles, but there have been so many bumps in the road that its hard to keep track of it all

Is there a way Microsoft can pull out of this deal? They're buying Activision Blizzard above its pre-recession value, and Sony and various commissions are forcing them to make the deal less and less lucrative.

With the budget from an Activision Blizzard fallout, they could buy a dozen smaller studios (focus entertainment, remedy, crystal dynamics, CDPR to name a few) and still have billions of dollars to weather this recession without laying off their current workforce.

That's me. I'm a Nintendo fanboy through and through but got a series S when Nintendo announced their OLED model wouldn't have advanced specs.

There was a sale where I could get a Series S and 4 months of game pass for $245, and I'm loving it! The Xbox ecosystem is amazing

@Dr_Luigi Knowing the popular eventual profit/hyper growth model of tech companies and the talk Phil Spencer has had regarding the wider gaming audience of mobile phones, my guess is that GamePass isn't profitable and won't be for several more years