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Speaking of spiking console costs, the chump tarrifs plan, assuming it gets fully implemented, will artificially spike costs of ALL IMPORTS, everything from Apples 🍏 to Xbox components 🎮. #wetoldyou 🌊

M$ never should have abandoned the BWC program. Still the best feature of the modern Xbox platform. ❤️

@ironcrow86 @Elbow The era of regular price cuts is over. It started with the previous generation. Now, waiting 4+ years to get your new console is foolish, cause one won't save anything. Buy early, enjoy the generation while it's current. 😊

Excellent. I've been a believer in this since it's announcement. As with Silent Hill 2 Remake, it pays to be optimistic, not the "boo everything sucks" mentality that so many seem to have.

The few times Ubisoft makes a great new original title, it almost never seems to be deemed successful. If not for Nintendo backing Sparks of Hope, that likely would've not been produced. POP finally returns, and it's deemed a failure. No follow-up to Starlink, or Fenyx. No sequel to Rayman legends... All genuinely good, fairly recent Ubisoft games. Ugh... So sad... 😔

@FraserG That one I've never had a chance to play, but I'm all for more classic Star Wars remasters. 🙏🥹

Sigh...still no Rogue Squadron.

@PhileasFragg Lucky! I've not played one in decades! I'd love to buy that repro version that Arcade1up made a few years ago, but I don't have space for it, lol. 😅

Not just a digital release, but a physical version too!

I've got SH: Downpour, albiet the NA version, but it still averages $50 USD on vgpc.com.
I always welcome these lists with "rare" games, so please make more. 🙂

Simpsons Arcade game needs a physical retail release. Hit and Run would be great as well, or even better, a sequel.

@ironcrow86 I was just thinking Scarface. I played the Wii port and it was absolutely fantastic. A direct sequel with an entirely original story, or even just a straight remaster/remake would be most welcomed either way. 😍

@PhileasFragg Nightfire absolutely deserves to be brought back for a new generation. Easily the best Bond game EA produced. Bloodstone from Activision was also very good and would be a great pick.

I'm still sad about Starcraft Ghost, even all these years later. It looked really fun. 😭

Three hundred, sixty nice games. 😉

$0 These "Pro" consoles are BS and a total waste.

I had an issue with a disc copy of barebones BLOPS III. The disc install failed 3 times, yet I located the game's store page and downloaded a digital copy, and now it loads up just fine. Very strange glitches these are. 😵

Coming to essentially everything now, that's great. 🍭 😃

@Elbow You're welcome, and thank you! 🙏😊

Just remember, Timesplitters, Smash Bros Melee and Metroid Prime all ran at 60FPS... on the GameCube...

Link to store page would help: https://www.xbox.com/en-CA/games/store/fuzzball/9n9z4ggbn0zc

@BAMozzy So take away GamePass, Xbox has pretty much nothing left. 😕 GP is nice, but I personally don't use it that much. I prefer to just buy stuff when it gets cheaper. And anyone who already has a decent PC can use PC GamePass, reducing the appeal of Xbox hardware further. More prices increases again so soon won't help either. These are just my objective observations, from someone who wants the hardware to continue. The Series hardware is barely at half of what Xbone reached nearly 4 years in (around 28M now). Not good.
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@BAMozzy An essay wasn't needed to explain you're upset to see MS giving up on exclusives. I love my XSX but there truly is almost zero reason to own a physical Xbox at this point, aside from BWC and free cloud storage.

@UndyingInsurgent95 @GamingFan4Lyf

I third your excitement! Dark pictures is a great series! 😍

Big, fat no.

Microsoft logic: How to excite people and current players about Xbox? Answer; release games on competitors hardware... 🤦‍♂️

@CenturianShark The saying is "I couldn't care less".

REPLACED replaced it's previous release date. 😋

Christ, I can't believe Pawn Stars is still on. 🤦‍♂️ Fake, phoney staged BS.

Just give Japan up already, Microsoft. Mother of god... 🤦‍♂️

@BAMozzy Conveniently left out "if you didn't buy digitally at the time, and it's been delisted, and there's no physical copy, you're SOL". I can't buy Deadpool, Armed and Dangerous, Forza 1, 2 or 3, 50 Cent BOTDS, nor NBA Jam on fire digitally.
NBAJOF never got a physical copy, and Deadpool and 50 Cent are quite expensive physically.

Also, with 80+ Million 360s sold, chances are one can still find a working unit. Plus all the games I mentioned (sans NBA) are BWC from disc on an Xbone/XSX. The PS1 is 30 years old, and there are plenty that are functional today, so the idea of a broken console stopping someone isn't very convincing. This isn't the Jaguar CD we're talking about.

It's wild Bounty Hunter never released on Xbox. Although maybe not as wild as ROTS not releasing on GameCube.
Glad to finally see this one on Xbox at long last.

@CallMeDuraSouka 🙏🥹❤️ Wow, see I love hearing stories like that. Were I ever to find myself being a parent someday, I'd make sure to expose them to as many of the timeless classics as possible. 😃

I too re-bought Rare Replay digitally just so I could own GoldenEye. 😍

@BAMozzy On the contrary, I still return to Perfect Dark every now and then. GoldenEye being released last year with Rare Replay was wonderful, and it's just as fun to me now as it was in 1997. I wish the FPS genre could replicate the magic of those 2 titles today; the spy genre is virtually dead.
The loss of Vigilante 8 Arcade is another huge loss, which again the modern market offers nothing like it.
And I love BWC. This past May I finished Far Cry for the first time, with several others from XB/360 eras waiting to be started. I also chipped away again at Timesplitters 2 a few weeks ago on XSX, and I have zero complaints. 😁

Rest in peace, Vigilante 8 Arcade. 😭 😭 😭

Seeing Vigilante 8 Arcade being permanently delisted, as it was never released on disc or ported to another system, absolutely crushes my soul. I love Vigilante 8. 😭💔

@Dimey A similar thing happened to me trying to install BLOPS 3 from a disc! I couldn't for the life of me understand why my download kept failing, so I had to download a digital copy using the disc as a confirmation key, like a BWC game does.

WT F-ING F! 🤦‍♂️

@NEStalgia 🤣🤣🤣 I think we have a winning name! Too perfect! 👏😂

@NoCode23 "S6XBOX" is all one needs in their life, lolol. 😉🤣

@NEStalgia @__jamiie Let's just go with a naming scheme that appeals to all our basic instincts, while still able to stand on par with Sony, and crown the next console the S6XBOX. 😎 😉

@__jamiie Right, and then they couldn't call the next system Xbox 4 alongside PS4, cause Xbone was the third iteration.

... Actually maybe they could have, just look at Windows jumping from 8 > 10. 🤔 🤣

Okay, MS should just call the next one "Xbox 6". Problem solved. 😂

People laugh, but bad naming conventions are a real thing, and companies need to be aware of this problem.

Personally, "Xbox One", and "Series X|S" were horrible choices, and someone deserved to get fired over that.

They should have just picked a completely different name like "Xbox Alpha" or "Xbox Cypher", etc.. You get my point; something completely different and unique to any Xbox naming scheme beforehand.

@Ricky-Spanish Yeah I appreciate the return to the setting and atmosphere of the earlier games, as they were the best. 5 is the worst Gears title. So bland and... meh.

They didn't add a single new game for the "part 3" of this sale!!!! Absolutely f-ing unbelieveable...

@Ricky-Spanish

If Sony owned Gears, it would have gone the way of SOCOM, Resistence, MAG and Killzone; into the dumpster, along with many other great, forgotten Sony I.P.s. 😢

So what exactly was added? Should've provided a seperate list. Ugh.. 🤦‍♂️

Wasn't today supposed to be the start of a Forza Horizon 4 digital sale, as well as the final 360 marketplace sale?

I really enjoyed the first one, and I'd say HB2 is as good, if not better. It's easily one of the best looking games this generation.

Despite owning many titles, I can't think of a single XB-specific game I've ever preordered prior to now, with the one exception being the Snake Eater Delta CE . 🤔 Might cancel it though, since I got the PS5 CE reserved as well. 🤔

I will gladly preorder 1st party Nintendo stuff, games with price errors, or stuff I genuinely want to play at launch.

@AdolBannings-Laylee It's a non-BWC sale, so yes, however I know of 2 exceptions; Black and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory can be bought from the 360 marketplace for the discounted price, and they'll work on XSX.

A few of the discounts STILL aren't even working, like Burnout 3 is still displaying as $10. 🤦‍♂️

Talk about totally random announcement.

Those discounts are pathetic! Let this be a foreshadowing of how much the price of GamePass will increase now that Activision is a 1st party studio. 🤦‍♂️

@Enigk They'll be "shopping like a billionaire 🎶" in no time! 🙄🤦‍♂️