The open world parts of Gear 5 were my least favourite parts so no not really.

@Moonglow I mean Sea of Thieves is a live service game designed to be played for the long run while the other games you listed are one and done, also there's a good chance many played them on PS meaning they never bothered to play them on Steam. I'm willing to bet though Sea of Thieves doesn't come anywhere close to Spider-Man's sales.

As for day 1 games well here's the thing many people myself included like owning games and its why i paid £100 for Starfield despite being a GP member. Of course PS fanboys downplay the day 1 releases but i'm sure many just don't have interest in "renting" games.

@ApostateMage To be fair you're also getting the upcoming expansion as part of that as well.

@Sol4ris The game has been out for years and already made its money, this is just so the Xbox has the same version as PS5 finally.

@Dusk_Actual PQ are obsessed with 7's at the moment.

My first AC game and i've been loving it. The scale of the missions can be insane and the bosses are easily up there with From's best.

Pretty scummy move to be honest.

@Moonglow Well the maps in Starfields are most likely not big enough to warrant vehicles, a reason Fallout lacked any sort of vehicle or mount was due to how small the maps actually were. NMS has them because you explore the entire planet something you can't do in Starfield.

I expect there's a lot of contracts already in place and deals made causing this. That said i expect Diablo 4 and a premium version of OW2 will be on it within a year.

MS lucked out by having Starfield next month because it would have been a huge blow losing Baldur's Gate 3. I shell be getting it on PS5 but i hope Xbox gets it sooner rather then later and the issues are resolved.

With games like Starfield, BG3, Avatar and Spider-Man 2 it also feels like we really starting to leave last gen behind as well.

Can't wait to try it later.

@JaffeGaffe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Really hate when other Devs attack and put dowm other Devs, its rude, not really helpful and not being supportive. As Pete says this style has been the style in all their games from Oblivion to Fallout 3 to Skyrim and even Fallout 76.

PS5 for me and i'm very excited as its my first AC game.

@Fenbops Its damn if you do damn if you don't with GTA 6 although GTA 6 will be the best selling game ever so does it even matter for R* if they cause another uproar.

@darkswabber I forget that even exists haha

Red Dead 2 is R*'s best game but i prefer GTA overall.

@BAMozzy I criticise Phil talking bull as usual. It was only weeks ago he proudly said MS believes in preservation yet again. Maybe if he kept his mouth shut and stopped with the PR bull he always does i wouldn't be so harsh. As i said i'm pretty sure he made a dig at Sony doing this exact thing a couple of years back.

@Cashews No Sony planned on doing what MS are doing, you can still download past purchases and get patches you just can't buy stuff.

@BAMozzy I agree its not up to MS but then why has Phil been going on about it for years then? Didn't Phil make a dig on Twitter when Sony were planning on shutting the PS3 store? Wanna know what really annoyed me the other night? I really fancied playing the 360 game Fuel as lately i've been playing a lot of The Crew 2 and Forza 5 and i fancied playing an old fav of mine that's kinda like that, went to buy it on the store and found that while it can be played on Series consoles its delisted on the store and well i own a SS. Doing some digging and its amazing how many Xbox/360 games are delisted and are going to be dislisted, BC on a SS one day for a brand new owner will be something they can barely use because only a handful of games will be on the store to buy. MS need to start actually doing what they say, i get licencing gets in the way but that doesn't why a couple month backs a bunch of Splinter Cell games were removed (thankfully i bought every entry early this year when they were on sale) or The Orange Box. I refuse to believe MS can't find a way to keep at least some of these games from being removed forever.

I guess MS doesn't believe in video game preservation after all 😕

@Markatron84 I would rather go against MW3 then the combined might of Spidey, Mario and Assassin's Creed.

@NEStalgia Can buy FF13 and its two sequels on Series consoles as i recently bought them on my SS.

Should delay until November as Spider-Man, Mario and Assassin's Creed are going to greatly overshadow it

Got it downloading right now. Moving my X1 and 360 games to a External HDD earlier this month was a wise move.

@Fiendish-Beaver I mean BG3 just released and Starfield has yet to come out, hard to talk about something when nearly everything about it has yet to be seen and played.

@AlwaysPlaying Redfall was no where near as bad as Cyberpunk's launch and Gollum is at best a AA game no one was hyped for and everyone knew would suck from the off and especially leading up to it.

@101Force Why does everyone think a Cyberpunk level disaster will happen with every game? That was a massive exception to the norm and the last release that bad was well Cyberpunk.

Nice 2 weeks is more enough for me. God i wish the next 2 weeks would pass quickly.

Its pretty awful, it just feels like endless adds and plugs for Gamepass. The PS5 dashboard isn't perfect but its far better then this mess.

@JaffeGaffe Are you ok? I was happy to be civil but clearly you have anger issues over gaming boxes so i won't bother going anything further with this.

@JaffeGaffe I expect the issue is on MS side. Unless it releases at the same time for everyone pretty much every game drops at midnight in your timezone on PS, its not favoritism its just Sony being better with how they releases games compared to MS.

@UnusedBabyWipes I can imagine Sony have made sure its never coming to Xbox.

Pre-load will properly be a few days before release right? That's how it usually is.

I love how this remaster laughs in the face of the Red Dead port. Bethesde done a fantastic job with this release.

@HonestHick I have a feeling MS are planning an upgrade despite what they say. If a PS5 Pro can do 4K60fps with maybe even more RT 60fps modes as well then MS will have to counter it. I mean it wouldn't look good if GTA6 is 4K60fps on PS5 Pro while SX is stuck at 1440p60fps or 4K30fps. Either way no matter what my wallet will be crying 😅

I love my Series S but there's a reason i'm upgrading in the coming months to a SX.

Bought one of the old COD games and Split Second. Great sale but i already owned most of what it offered.

@Ep_13 Honesty both are around equal and both have their pluses and minuses.

If you're a Terminator fan this is the dream game, very underrated and a love letter to the series.

Sounds and looks lovely.

@GarbonZoni That got criticism because that had on disc DLC. The first character Homelander isn't due till next year so clearly he's not even finished or started being made yet.

@Tasuki They don't own any rights to Spidey in VG they just have rights to the Marvel's Spider-Man IP series. Its why Ultimate Alliance 3, Midnight Suns and endless mobile games all have Spidey in them because Sony have zero say outside of the series they created. As for the original PS1 Spidey games well i think its way more then just having everyone agree, remember Deadpool, Amazing SM and MAU1/2 were all pulled due to licencing so i think more or less impossible to ever see a re-release of past Activision Marvel games not to mention none of the parties would have interest in re-releasing them anyway.

Its good fun but i can't myself playing it for the long run, very glad its on GP as its not worth the 50 its costs.

Yeah its about time Gears 6 happened especially after how Gears 5 ended.

I'm buying the full thing and going all in at the £100 it costs, i ain't GP this one i'm buying it.

@Moonglow Hopefully Gears 6 is due next year, the lack of anything Gears was the only fault i had with it.

So it should it was excellent and painted a bright future for Xbox over the next 2 years or so. That Starfield showcase after was just the beautiful cherry on an already delicious cake.

@ZuneTattooGuy Not the point though, we have lose something but gain nothing back.