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Simple solution don’t buy new consoles and just play older games, there’s not much that comes out nowadays that I’m interested in and I’ll just stream anything new that I wanna play.

Also it’ll mean that lots of devs will put more time into series s versions as opposed to some of the awful ports we’ve had as they be releasing a switch 2 version as well.

Just take a look at what the most played games are on playstation and xbox and you’ll see that its not current releases so gamepass isn’t effecting new sales that much. The average gamers probably only buys a handful of games per year so getting them to subscribe to gamepass might actually create more sales.

If this game only sold about 220,000 on steam, which has a much bigger user base. 22k on xbox isn’t probably a result of xbox fans not buying games and more likely that the game isn’t in high demand.

Making what should be a jrpg game into a full on action rpg is obviously gonna affect sales.

The switch 2 being out is great for series s owners. Many games will also go on it so devs will put more into optimising it, and this in turn will mean that the series s will get better optimised games as well.

@Dalamar73 simple, just start a new character or spend a bit of time in the character creator. Not a big deal at all.

I honestly think it’ll be mediocre at best. Bioware seem to have forgotten its the story and writing that are the most important things for RPG’s. Nowadays if it comes from a western studio I wait for reviews / feedback to come out as opposed to buying at launch.

@themightyant it’ll probably be something like just stick in the disc and it’ll play the game akin to ai developed emulation, which would be cool. Not sure how it’d work for digital games though.

@GoldenPants yep me too, i rarely buy full priced games these days, although i’m very tempted to buy Monster hunter wilds. I usually just wait until its at least half price

The real problem is RGP’s exist on their writing, its not rocket science. From what i’ve seen the writing looks terrible, even if the gameplay and graphics are good if the story sucks then fans won’t buy it.

I very well might have bought it but the scenes i’ve seen just look cringe and thats enough to put me off. I’m predominantly an rpg player so writing and story is very important to me.

If its a free game and you don’t need to spend money on it, then I see no problem with shutting down servers at any time. If the base game is full price it should be protected at least for a certain amount of time and if the servers shut down early you should get a refund.

@Kaloudz as long as core MS franchises (gears, Halo etc) get a nice console exclusivity period ( 1 or 2 years) I couldn’t care less.

Releasing day and date on ps5 would finish their hardware business but with an exclusivity period I don’t think it’ll effect hardware sales that much.

It looks good enough for me to resub to gamepass for a month to test it out. Gone are the days were I buy games at launch as nowadays they tend to be buggy messes (cyberpunk) or shallow reincarnations of great franchises (veilguard). Either way I won’t pay full price unless I know they are actually great.

They should stick their games on the switch2 as Nintendo aren’t direct competitors, but not on ps5 as that could hurt future console sales

That would make good sense, they could skip ps5 launches and just do switch 2 as that will most likely dominate again. PlayStation is viewed as xbox’s main competitor whereas Nintendo is kinda separated from that.

@GuyinPA75 most games nowadays don’t release at 60fps in quality mode and thats nothing to do with the series s. Third party games are optimised for devices like the steam deck fine and that’s not a powerful as the S.

Its not the series S’s fault is just a cheap copout for devs who didn’t put enough time into optimising their games for the devices they release on. Most games nowadays require a ton of patches just to get into a state they should’ve been at launch. The industry (most likely the suits in charge) have gotten sloppy and don’t mind releasing semi-broken games.

I bought it on sale well before the next gen patch was released with the intention to not play it until it was released. Am glad I waited as I thoroughly enjoyed it. I played the witcher 3 on ps4 , really enjoyed it, but for some reason haven’t been able to muster the enthusiasm to replay it after the next gen patch was released.

I very much enjoyed my series S until I got a Rog Ally. Now my xbox, switch and ps4pro are just dust magnets.

From the clips i’ve seen online, the writing looks subpar at best. My gaming time is very limited so I’ll give it a pass.

@themightyant maybe, but a lot of companies are making their remasters their main focus, for example sony have announced several remasters recently (days gone, horizon zero dawn) but zero new ips/games.

@somnambulance yeah I agree that the capcom res remasters/ remakes are good and I really enjoyed 4’s remake. But its still a sad sign of the times when companies aren’t making bangers like they used too. As the industry gotten bigger so has the influences of the suits in charge.

I don’t know what everyone else thinks but I think this reliance on remasters is going to slowly kill of the gaming industries creativity. The suits who decide what gets made won’t fund the making of new ips and we’ll just be getting games with a new lick of paint on them.

@IOI most exclusives are heading to other platforms? Really? Either you’ve got a crystal ball and can see into the future or you’re completely over reacting.

@kelomaniack exactly do you remember the video about mesh shaders where John Linnamen face looked ever so sad when ge said PS5 can’t them and its gonna be a disadvantage going forward as more and more games will use them. I guess they no longer matter

Much less, not because I don’t wanna play but life’s responsibilities get in the way. I game maybe an hour a day after the kids are asleep.

I thought DF said a while back that the PS5 can’t do mesh shaders (most new games use them for better performance e.g Alan Wake 2) and this was a major disadvantage, I even remember J Linnaman’s face looking so sad when he said this, I guess they forgot about them or they no longer matter.

Open world? doesn’t sound interesting to me but i’ll wait and see.

GTA5 being no.2 best seller on PS5 in Europe is worrying. How old is that game?

Its a worrying trend for the industry that an old game outsell anything modern. Where’s all the new stuff pushing next gen gaming at?

@bowzoid me too, I had it for a while but I just prefer to own my games. But I suppose I don’t actually own digital games.

I actually think GP is good for getting casuals onboard but for long term gamers its not so good.

@Widey85 you’re exactly right Xbox can say goodbye to their dreams of increasing market share in Japan. The Japanese will always buy a Japanese product instead of a western one and closing studio their only Japanese studio is a stupid move.

I thought one of xbox’s goals was to break into the Japanese market? They aren’t gonna do it by closing Japanese studios.

While xbox is planning to stay in the console race they’ll never release mainline xbox franchises on PlayStation. They will always keep current gen games exclusive, but they could release last gen games on to playstation to boost sales of current gen games.

As an xbox fan I would be bothered if older mainline games went multi platform.

@eire-shabba I thought it played good but the pop-in is very aggressive. On internal levels its plays fine and isn’t noticeable but outside the draw distance is almost immersion breaking as the draw distance is very close for stuff like vegetation. It made me stop playing it, I would’ve preferred at 30fps option with better draw distance.

Microsoft wanna grow gamepass subs they ain’t gonna do that by going multiplat, worse case scenario is xbox games go to other systems a year or so after xbox or you can stream xbox content on other consoles.

Major gamepass sellers ain’t never gonna go on other consoles though, that would be a complete turnaround to their stated long term business goals.

@shushibda xbox is no longer just a console experience all xbox games release on pc as well as console. Also once new graphics tech gets into pc builds it’ll filter down into the console build and that means better performance for all players.

Xbox just bought Activision and all this drama is probably because xbox are considering which IP’s to put on other systems nothing more nothing less. If anybody believes that xbox will put its mainline xbox ip’s on other systems then they’re just gullible, never gonna happen.

@Fenbops yeah I agree totally, I never even finished Gears 5 I got kinda bored half way through. The open world elements weren’t particularly interesting and didn’t suit the scripted gameplay of earlier Gears games,

@GamingFan4Lyf he probably meant passed games not future ones

I just bought an asus rog ally and it comes with 3 months gamepass, so Like a Dragon Ishin and on handheld, yes please.

@Spider-Kev, I agree 100% as long as the frame rate is consistent. Bad frame pacing at 30fps is extremely noticeable. Played through cyberpunk at 30fps with no problems, and so far StarField is good. I’ll choose graphics over fps every time for rpg’s or open world games.

@Cashews the first half life game on pc would make me feel sick after about 5 to 10 mins and morrowind after about 30mins but I haven’t had a recent game make me sick.

@Nickhyazaki no they said at court that they won’t go exclusive but maybe in a few years after this dies down they’ll stop CoD on PS.

@Grumblevolcano sony’s business practices started this its just that Microsoft came along with a bigger chequebook thats all

@Kaloudz me too, I much prefer the Yakuza games

@YonkoBuggyTheClown you’re exactly right, console are in-effect pc’s just with one (or two in the cade of xbox) specs unlike Other Pc’s. To suggest the series s is holding back game development is just bs. Devs put the optimisation time into where they think sales are and this case the S comes last.

@Hutchilawd its bs if it can run on minimum spec pc no problem it can run on an S.

Its easier to code for a console as opposed to a pc. The real problem is they aren’t putting as much hours into xbox dev time as the think the sales will be on ps5/pc.

Also who wants to play an RPG in split screen mode, i sure as hell don’t.

What have the cma been smoking, free and open marketplace? When was the last time you could play a sony game on xbox, or visa versa.

Never is the answer, to suggest that microsoft or any publisher should not have the right to say where their content can be played is plain stupid. Somebody should sue the cma stating they can’t play god of war on their xbox, or halo on play station.

@lumothesinner exactly. Given the choice for this type of game I’ll go with better graphics and 30fps. Played through cyberpunk at 30fps and enjoyed it throughly. People pay way too much attention to sites like digital foundry nowadays.

@Fenbops plus lots of recent games don’t launch fully optimised and need several months of patches to get it right

@TheArCadeBot also sony are backing out of Japanese game’s development too.