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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…

Ereban: Shadow Legacy?

Did ASUS ever fix the hardware issues that kept melting SD cards on the previous Ally?

Rumors aren’t just an “other side” issue. That perspective is ironically maladaptive considering that person was posting about mental health. Decrying every issue or bad situation as fake news isn’t healthy either, and there’s plenty of that on this site as well.

The best thing to do is tune out the doomer Ponies, paranoid Xbots, and OCD Nintendrones and just play games.

@Kieduss Absolutely! Backlogs aren't real.

I like beating games on multiple platforms, like F.E.A.R. 1 & 2 on Series X and PS3, Inside and Limbo on Switch and PS4, and Control on PS4 and PS5

Perfect candidate for an expanded multiplatform rerelease!

I remember being excited about this after I got my first ever Xbox (the Series X). I thought it was going to be like Journey or Abzû

Even the Reddit posts said they were from “alleged staff,” which made me chuckle. Crazy how these things can blow up, but also kind of damning how they can seem plausible.

The “base” controller feels like crap with that awful textured plastic and grindy analog sticks. Elite is almost perfect except for the fragile bumpers and rubber grips that really irritate my palms. The sticks at maximum tension feel great and the domed cap is perfect for aiming!

That was the most corporate non-answer possible. But anyway, if they could make the bumpers more durable and only have rubber on the underside of the controller handles so my hands don’t sweat and burn, that would be appreciated!

@PsBoxSwitchOwner IIRC, the entire handheld PC market is 4 million or so, so a couple of million Xbox Allies would be massive

@johndoe89 I’ve had a fraction of the issues with PS5 compared to Xbox. Download speeds are consistent on every other console, so it’s on Microsoft’s server side.

Noticed this yesterday setting up my latest Series X. The games all started up fine, when they weren't missing that is. Download speeds have been awful for the longest time, though.

@FraserG Ah, thanks for clarifying! I just saw a random Reddit post.

Semi-related, but Costco announced that they will no longer be selling Xbox consoles. I was curious to see if that included these new handhelds, as well.

What even is an Everwild vibe?

@Balaam_ We already had that in Hi-Fi Rush, didn’t change a thing.