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With the ever-increasing enshitification of digital stores and streaming services, I've only doubled down harder on physical media in recent years. 💿🧐

Closing out TGA with another arena shooter, a free one at that, was diabolical. 🤦‍♂️ Such a massive disappointment.

@Fiendish-Beaver Pricecharting will give you a decent idea of what individual pieces of your collection are worth. 🙂 https://www.pricecharting.com/

@Kezelpaso Most of us hate Legendary ripoff games. They're a cancer.
If I get HFR, it'll be via one of our indie stores in Canada.

At this point, there's no point in buying a next Xbox. PS6 will have every Microsoft game, plus all of Sony's exclusives. It's a no-brainer. 💡

@TheOfficialJW The best question is what's wrong with playing any old piece of hardware in 2025?
To even ask such a stupid, ignorant question is baffling. I beat a few 360 games in 2025. Sue me. 🧐

@OldGamer999 With the price of GamePass now, Xbox wins the bleed you dry award. 🧐

@BacklogBrad Nintendo would actually remind Xbox that they used to focus on games, and that exclusives still matter.

I couldn't think of a more successful gaming company to run a gaming studio. 🧐

Losing the PD reboot is inexcusable. i've got my Switch 2, I'll probably get a PS6, and I have absolutely zero desire at this point for another Xbox console. I hate what MS has done with Xbox. The brand is at it's lowest, most undesirable point it's ever been at. Truly sad and pathetic.

Beyond embarrassing for Xbox. The brand is dying. The execs destroyed it. Xbox peaked with 360. ❤️

Seriously, a F2P shooter being the final announcement was just embarrassing. TGA this year was a letdown in terms of new reveals.

@FraserG It's only for accounts who've never subbed. I haven't been able to get the $1 offer for several years at this point, and I'm not a regular GP user. 😢

@UndyingInsurgent95 Perfectly summed up. Netflix, much like game pass, is getting way too expensive. I'm also a hardcore gamer and I have absolutely zero interest in the gaming side of Netflix, yet I have to pay for something I don't use. Madness.

@cragis0001 You won't be happy when you see how much the price skyrockets, nor have the option to visit a theatre. Some movies were just meant for the big screen that the home just can't replicate.

We live in hell... 💔😭

@Gabrie Download and give it a try, it's fantastic. 💻 😉

I expected nothing, because Xbox as a brand is both dying and blazing its way at full-speed to irrelevance.

After MS killed off the PD reboot, that sealed the deal for me. That was my #1 most anticipated title. PD is my favourite FPS of all time. We just don't get these spy-themed shooters anymore.
But after what happened, I really have zero desire for any future Xbox hardware, nor much desire to continue with the brand. Xbox used to be my 3rd party game console and even those I find myself picking more up on PS5, out of my sheer disappointment with the terrible decisions MS has made. MS betrayed us, in many ways.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Laptop Gun, one of the best weapons ever in any FPS. 😍

@Balaam_ PS5 version isn't garbage. 🤔

@Gabrie Umm, no. PS5 has crushed Xbox 3 to 1, S2 has sold over 10M units already, and the top selling 1st party titles list of Nintendo is staggering. MS is the only one going to struggle massively next gen. If it's mainly just beefed up and little else, and there's zero exclusives, there's no reason for the masses to buy it. I'm about ready to bail cause I rarely use GP and there's no exclusives anymore.

@Questionable_Duck A console with zero exclusives that essentially is playing PC games. 💡

None of the above. Fk Microsoft with their pricing.

Not worth it at its current price. But no one's buying Xbox hardware, so it's a moot point. Serious cope going on with these staff members. 😬

Xbox will be in for a shock when this overpriced new console goes ignored, as gamers rush to buy PS6 instead, barring some colossal f-up from Sony.
There's no excitement in the XB brand. MS isn't fixing any of their software problems, they're making them worse, and that's why gamers aren't interested. Game consoles still highly benefit from console exclusives, as Nintendo and Sony demonstrate.
Cancelling Perfect Dark was the last straw for me as far as Xbox is concerned. GamePass is now ridiculously overpriced too.

Why does everything have to suck so much now? Thanks neoliberalism... 😢

Also... LACK. OF. EXCLUSIVES, combined with the tarnished brand.

I still have my free glitched copy of Alan Wake remastered, lol 😂

MS sure has fallen from the 360 days. 😢

The Xbox brand is so tarnished now after a decade + of dumb decisions, the end of Xbox hardware seems almost inevitable at this point. It's just a question of how badly will Magnus flop? Gamers won't pay more for this, with zero exclusives, when they know PS6 will get Xbox studios titles as well.
I'd like to be wrong, as I want more than just an arbitrary choice of 2 consoles.

@wildcat_kickz The "ownership" talk is symantics. I still think of buying physical media as "owning" the thing I bought. With the enshitification of streaming apps and things like GamePass, I've only doubled down harder on physical media. 💿🧐

@BAMozzy We physical buyers still own the container 💿 the license is installed on to. 😉 Much of the "ownership" talk is all down to symantics.

Beyond disgusting. Sold out to a bloodthirsty, ruthless regime. EA truly is the worst gaming publisher.

Already have a Switch 2, and Xbox as a brand seems to be dying a slow death.

@abe_hikura Everything really is just getting worse, it seems. MS itself is a horrible company and Big Tech is obsessed with AI, consequences be damned. Cancelling Perfect Dark was the last straw for me. Sigh... 💔

@Pichuka97 They both need to be fired immediately. They're both horrible, empty suits.

@Fiendish-Beaver Ewww, the rebrand to "Loaded" is news to me, and a terrible name choice to boot. 😩

Uncancel Perfect Dark. 🧐

@InterceptorAlpha They can all leave as far as I'm concerned. Xbox needs new management from the ground floor up.

@FraserG "She's not leaving Xbox, don't worry" We weren't. Most of us were hoping Sarah would leave Xbox, and take Phil with her. 🤢

Excellent! 👏 🎉 Power to the workers! ✊

So it's making money, yet a whole bunch more Studios and games get cancelled..? Yeah I call BS.

@Questionable_Duck And like the abuse of AI/all the AI slop popping up is a good thing? Lol. Social media was bad enough before AI. We all know this stuff will see little to no regulation at all, at least in certain places.

We are all so screwed. This problem extends far beyond some monthly gaming subscription. 😩

GamePass is not sustainable.
Cancelling Perfect Dark? No. Just, no. I'm done.

@somnambulance "Second party" is not technically a thing. It's a 1st party game, developed by an outside 3rd party studio. Nintendo does this all the time, for example. Ultimately, HD is 1st party since Sony owns and controls the IP.
If Nintendo contracted Sega to make another F-Zero for them, that new title would still be technically 1st party since Nintendo owns the IP.

@HardRockGamer Pffft, GamePass is part of the reason this was cancelled and all these layoffs are happening in the first place! The service isn't sustainable. That's painfully obvious at this point. I'd have happily paid full price for PD, like any other normal game outside of Xbox.

@Dreamcaster-X This pretty much proves that GamePass, combined with poor console sales, is losing Microsoft a ton of money. In theory it's "good" for gamers, but I've always questioned the financial feasibility of GP.

Perfect Dark.... I am crushed... 💔😭

ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE TO CANCEL PERFECT DARK!!!!!! My favourite FPS of all time, PD, was finally going to get a worthy new entry after that embarrassment that was PDZ. Absolutely unbelievable. I'm in utter disbelief... F*** MICROSOFT!!!! 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡

COD skipping Switch all these years was one of the dumbest things Activision has done.