Dreamcaster-X

She’s absolutely one of the worst things to happen to the Xbox brand, Mattrick inflicted a mortal wound to the brand & people like Bond have done little to reverse it. She’s another numbers suit, she has no clue about the gaming culture.

How many times has she lied already?

Not bringing WoW to consoles is such a giant missed opportunity, that’s easy money devs are leaving on the table & they wonder why they can’t grow the market for their game. FF XIV can do it with a smaller team, Blizzard has NO EXCUSE!

This thing is already DOA. The ultra elite hardcore which is a tiny minority will get it of course but the mass market which they need to aspire to will pass on it yet again. My Series X is the last Xbox I will ever own, was fun while it lasted!

Good lord that is one ugly controller, nothing about it says Rare to me.

Who in their right mind would actually believe them after the last several years, they have consistently lied about everything they go. Suckers are born every second!

Myself & many others in the industry have been saying this for YEARS!!! It's not sustainable at the current levels. They killed software sales on their machines, thinking people would still buy some games, the numbers show they don't buy much of anything that's not on Gamepass. Sony did it the right way, wait 2 years or more & let the bottom feeders have the games after they've recouped their costs.

The game is about as mid as you can get, not bad, not great. The problem is & this isn’t just a Starfield problem but when a game is in development for so long & gets hyped up so much before release & is just meh, it’s easier for it to bet beaten up, brushed off & people move on. There are side quests in Witcher 3 I still see people talking about years after release, Starfield had none of that, just very boring & generic design.

@EVIL-C Oh 100%!!! They did it as a desperate ploy to catch up to Sony & it backfired in the worst way possible, you got the bottom dwellers who don’t wanna buy games leeching off the system. They you’ll get a small but vocal minority saying well I played this on GamePass & bought it…but that’s just it, it’s a small minority that do that. The numbers show this, numbers don’t lie, people
Lie but numbers don’t.

But, but, but GamePass, GamePass, GamePass, yeah it’s doing WONDERS for them!!!

Typical gaming behavior, a very vocal minority moan about FF & other franchises on Xbox & still never show up to buy them & lets face it, GamePass has killed games sales on Xbox. If you’re not on GamePass you’re pretty much DOA on the platform which will only hurt them more long term.

Crybabies gonna cry & you guys give them headlines, you just feed into their garbage behavior, ohhhhhh but yeah dem clicks right?

PS5 owners can now experience “gameplay” by pushing forward on their controllers for 20 minutes at a time!

75 billion dollars to stream Atari era games, JOY!!

That is absolutely hideous, who designs these atrocities?

I’ll believe it when I see it.

The build quality is atrocious, they still haven’t solved the rubber grips coming off on the newer models, same issue as the first model.

@InheritNegative BINGO!!!

@darylb24 Yes how awful, maybe you can let the AI just play the game for you at that point.

This is just another nightmare scenario for the industry.

Why not Green, ya know the color MOST associated with the XBOX brand??? I just can't anymore with their decisions...

Went through 3 OG 360 models
With the RROD, my friend went through 6. That machine was a disaster!

Whatever happens, 343 needs to be far, far away from the next installment. It’s time to let another studio take a shot at it, they’ve all but ruined the franchise at this point.

How to justify 75 Billion dollars? They're literally killing this industry.

All those clowns who cheered this acquisition on in order to "own" Sony. How's that working out for them?

STOP releasing broken games!!! Players are finally getting wise & just skipping things that are broken. It’s unfortunate but it’s what needs to happen in order for devs to stop this crap.

The game has severe crashing issues on Xbox along with performance issues according to several online reviews. Best to steer clear until it’s patched.

@cragis0001 It won’t make any difference. They’ve tried & tried & tried. People that wanna buy or play Japanese developed games know where to go, Nintendo or Sony. Those fans of that type of game have been categorically treated better throughout the years on those other platforms. This goes all the way back to the OG Xbox days.

343 has completely mishandled Halo after part 4, it’s time to hand it over to a different studio at this point. It’s a shame that what once was considered a bonafide system selling series has just become a footnote. It’s just been one disaster after another, they just don’t know what to do with the series anymore.

It was a hell of a system once the Elite models came out. That first design was a clusterf#ck. I bought one of the small 4GB models last Black Friday for $129 & put in my old 500 GB HDD. I still play it all the time. Out of the three consoles they've released this one will be remembered the most fondly by far.

@KelticDevil Yeah it's a wasteland when you don't mention but two games. Uncharted 4, The Last Guardian, No Man's Sky, Ratchet & Clank, Horizon, Gran Turismo Sport, Gravity Rush 2, MLB:16, Persona 5, Nier Automata...I could go on with more.

A majority of software is still sold physically so even if they did include digital sales the placement on the charts would still largely remain the same.

I'm about 50% through & already it seems Ubisoft has put the franchise back on track. Unity just threw everything on the map right at the start while Syndicate rolls it out over the first few hours and the map never looks cluttered like last years title.
The zipline is also something I didn't think I'd like but with London being so huge it's actually a great asset to have around & if they keep going forward should be a part of future Assassin's arsenals.
Where do they go from here though? My money is on one of the World Wars although I'd love for them to take it back to the past again. There's so many era's left behind.

I think I'll stick with my Xbox 360 when I want to play the old games. I haven't been too impressed with the emulation on the One.

One of the best games last gen!! Definitely giving this a replay!!

Well hopefully it runs better than Mass Effect, it's a fairly demanding game to run at 60fps via emulation, this one will be interesting.

I agree with most of the points in this article. MS REALLY need to drive home 1st party exclusives, as you said no need in clogging it up with COD or Assassin's Creed. Not only first party exclusives but original titles or anything that doesn't involve guns & blowing stuff up, that genre is filled on the platform.

Really looking forward to this. Missed it the first time around.

I was a little worried but now my fears are laid to rest!! Can't wait to play !!

It's a shame this game got so overlooked last year. It was one of the highlights of 2014 for sure. I'm looking forward to this last DLC though.