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DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball 1 & 2, Magna Carta 2, Ninety-Nine Nights 1 & 2, BulletWitch, Project Sylpheed, Culdcept Saga

IMO describing it as premium already disqualifies it from being mass-market.

@Banjo- Ah, so all devs will make builds specifically for this device. But then what’s to stop people getting the cheaper general PC versions from Steam or stolen-key sites?

@Banjo- Doesn’t that just mean the Helix will play the unoptimized PC version of everything?

@datamonkey Seriously! It’s been nearly two years of hearing that exclusives are antiquated and anti-consumer and all companies will eventually follow Xbox’s lead going multiplatform

Canceling the PS5 version makes the entire game kind of redundant, no?

Did ASUS ever fix the issue that causes the Ally to cook the SD card?

I strongly prefer parallel sticks so this looks like a good option!

Maybe XboxPC could just be an OS. That way they don’t even have to bother with RAM or hardware at all

I’d absolutely go all digital if it weren’t for F.E.A.R. 1, The Orange Box, and the old Forza Horizon/Motorsport games being disc only. None of the game boxes from any Xbox gen look good on my shelf, especially Xbox One…

F.E.A.R. 1, F.E.A.R. Files, and The Orange Box are basically the only reason I have a Series X

I hate other gamers so, so much. I feel like I need to make disclaimers when telling people about my hobby 😬

Quantum Break 2

@Balaam_ Buying physical didn’t help anyone who had the first The Crew

@M20B25 I did, too! Thought the characters, acting, and cinematics were fantastic. I 100%-ed it and had a great time.

I wish I was important enough to have my own personal video game awards show

They could always just buy Xenia and then open up the entire 360 library!

Is there such a thing as too many boomer shooters?

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No, absolutely not!

I thought this might be a good excuse to get all existential, but apparently that counts as suspicious? 😅

In theory, more competition would be great, but they're going to run into the exact same situations with component prices, logistics, R&D, etc. Assuming they can grab a meaningful chunk of the market to begin with...

Reminds me of the “It’s good to be home” video Ninja Theory put out when Hellblade 2 was announced for PS5

@Fiendish-Beaver Does GOG work on SteamOS? I thought I read that people had to sideload things on the Deck and it was still glitchy

Low-end prebuilts start at $1200-1300 these days. With enough cutbacks and/or proprietary parts they might be able to shave it down to the $800s or $900s.

@themightyant That’s a good point. Proprietary memory doesn’t quite go with the PC style NextBox might have. Maybe they’ll sell adapters!

The Crew Motorfest does seem to be significantly less cringe than Forza Horizon 5

4K 120 with HDR? Looking for something that can push my Series X

I noticed this hasn’t been on sale in forever. I got it a few years back and it was the first Xbox game I ever beat

This would be fine if Series S were still $299.99, but not now that it costs as much as a PS5

So what Xbox really needs is a vertical video/social media platform to compete with their actual biggest competitor?

@Weebleman I think we're up to 3. Almost need a spreadsheet to keep track!

@TheGameThrifter All the 6th and 7th gen games it has that are stabilized and enhanced? Plus FPS Boost.

@OldGamer999 I thought you sold your Series X again. It's getting to keep track of what systems you have!

But the lower reviews on PS5 are just biased

@Fiendish-Beaver Why should they be in line with any other reviewers? Reviews are just opinions. Metacritic is just an aggregator of opinions; I fail to see how it’s so critically important that a professional site would want to try to manipulate the review score.

If the PS is purposefully rating these games lower and PX is purposefully rating them higher, then it cancels out.

@Fiendish-Beaver Wouldn’t significant performance issues on the PS5 version warrant a lower score in this case?

@Fiendish-Beaver But a 7 is "Good" on Push Square's scale. Why should they care about Metacritic's scale?

@Fiendish-Beaver They seem to rate most things lower than aggregates. But they’re allowed to. Should they be consulting Metacritic/Opencritic and adjusting their scores to better fit with those sites before posting?

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I’ve read the PS5 version suffers from more performance issues. Probably because this was originally supposed to be exclusive and the PS5 port was announced years later

VGC rated this the lowest yet no one has complained about them 🤣

@Llamageddon No time for games when there are corporations to defend and aggregated review scores to protect

@BacklogBrad Boxes are technically three-dimensional

7 doesn’t mean bad. 😉 People need to stop being so paranoid about review scores and think for themselves.

@Banjo- No thanks!

So basically an Xbox-branded prebuilt. No thanks! Zero desire to deal with any PC quirks whatsoever.

I’m glad it comes with Teams and Office pre-installed so I can do my work on the go…?

@Questionable_Duck Probably easier to justify considering how large and profitable the PS5 install-base is. Less so with Xbox, unfortunately, and that’s what I think people are upset about.

Can’t wait for this generation-defining experience!

@HeavyHoggJP I agree, but my scrolling finger is starting to hurt

@Gabrie I haven’t seen any keys that are significantly cheaper than the lowest console store price.

ASUS’ mobile/laptop parts are notoriously unreliable. A buddy of mine runs a repair shop and gets ASUS laptops and ROG Allies in almost daily. I’m not in the market because I don’t like handhelds and hate PC/Windows, but if I were I’d wait several months to make sure that mosfets and/or VRMs aren’t randomly blowing. Not to mention the melting SD card issue from the original Ally…