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It's sad when Nintendo had a functional online feature before Xbox.

Given how good Cyberpunk, Yakuza 0, and Hitman all look and run on Switch 2, this is just unacceptable. This was clearly a rush job with the bare minimum resources devoted to it, and that's a shame; the Switch 2, while obviously significantly weaker than the Series X and PS5, is capable of WAY more than this paltry port offers.

I absolutely love Perfect Dark Zero. Such an underrated and unfairly crapped on game.

FEAR 2 but not FEAR or FEAR 3? Weird.

I am moist. Heck yes, I always want more Haloverse story.

Given that they've been trying to merge the PC and Xbox ecosystems, free online play makes sense. I wonder if the new Xbox will support physical media; that will be what determines if I buy one or if I just stick with my PC as I'm as much a collector as a gamer.

The best part about Halo is and always has been the lore and campaign.

Calling it now - $1200 Xbox console

EA are still d*cks.

Charging over a grand for a console is insanity. Any rumors about whether or it's all-digital?

Crap like this is what makes piracy ethical.

@Kaloudz Maybe let us have like a la carte add-ons. Add on Ubisoft stuff for another $7/month. Add on EA stuff for another $5/month. Something like that.

@Kaloudz This. Give me a tier with the benefits of Ultimate MINUS the Ubisoft, Fortnite, etc. stuff. Make it $20 instead of $30. I'd pay that happily.

First off, I want to state that Game Pass Ultimate, as it is now, is a fantastic value. Game Pass Ultimate, as it's becoming, is not an outright rip-off, but it's definitely not a bargain. It's only worth it if you play a TON of different games all the time.

Give us Perfect Dark, dang it!

I'm not a fan of the Series S personally since I want the most power possible from my console games (don't ask me why I do so little gaming on my absurdly powerful gaming PC; I never claimed to make sense), but I can't deny that the Series S is the most cost effective way to game this gen. I don't care for the multiple SKUs, but really, it's no different than the PS5 and PS5 Pro; Microsoft just had its "pro" console launch alongside the "regular" one.

I miss the crappy indie games from the 360 days. Like, the ones that were crappy but hilarious. Baby Maker Extreme, Super Amazing Wagon Adventure, Zombie Strippers Stole My Heart Then Ate My Brains, etc.

@Banjo- I wanted to snag the PAL release, but dear god, it's rare. I settle for NTSC-J just to have it on my Wii U shelf.

"Pride in what we accomplished together"

Pride in...almost making a game? Like, the studio literally started one game that got cancelled. Not to crap on their hard work - I'm royally pissed about that cancellation - but there's not really anything that got accomplished.

@Banjo- Yeah, I really lucked out. I think I paid $200 for the whole bundle. That was back in 2015, I think.

@Banjo- I never had a PS2 growing up, so my first Fatal Frame was 5. Then I found a good deal on an eBay bundle of all 3 PS2 games, the first one on Xbox, 2 and 4 on Wii, and a Japanese copy of 5 on Wii U plus the 3DS spin off, Spirit Camera. I've since played 1 and 2. I started 3 but got distracted by work and just never picked it back up. I have the translation patch for 4 installed on my CFW Wii, but I haven't actually played it yet (I also have 4 and 5 on Switch, so that's probably how I'll eventually play 4).

tl;dr I'm a huge fan of the series and am ecstatic to see it get more love.

@Th3_Highlander Yeah, most fans of the series - myself included - consider the second game to be the best of the series.

@Banjo- Ah, thanks for the clarification. That makes a lot of sense now.

@Th3_Highlander The first Fatal Frame is great, but the second one is much better imo

This is amazing news. It's also interesting as I was under the impression that Nintendo bought the publishing rights 20 some years ago. That may just have the been for Fatal Frame IV, Fatal Frame V, and the Wii remaster of Fatal Frame II, though. Anyone know the specifics of that?

Live service is garbage and, in my opinion, only appropriate for sports games and MMOs.

I picked up the game on Switch 2 even though I have a Series X and a PS5 (I can't help it; I'm a Nintendo guy at heart), and I'm thoroughly satisfied with the look and performance. It's definitely a big step down from what my two higher power consoles could do, but it's a fantastic Star Wars experience nonetheless. I hate Ubisoft as a business, but this seems to a game with no bad verison, and that's a breath of fresh air.

For $900, it had better have incredible results.

Hopefully 120 fps and VRR will come to the PS5 version, as well. Thrilled to have it come to Xbox. Having played the game on Xbox 360 and Xbox One, I opted for PS5 just for the novelty of it. Still, even if it doesn't, I never had a gripe with frame consistency, and 60 fps was still a buttery smooth experience.

Lord, we about to have Nikki Minaj in Halo.

If the game is as bad as people say, it's worth that price just to laugh at how bad it is. People sleep on how much entertainment they can get from Ride to Hell: Retribution by drinking with friends and laughing about how god awful it is.

I'd put it above Doom Eternal but below Doom 2016. 2016 was a downright masterpiece.

What's also important to note, which a lot of people forget about when we do these kinds of comparisons, is that the Switch 2 is a handheld while the Series S is a home console. When you take that inherent difference in design philosophy, the Switch 2 vs Series S comparison becomes a little apples to oranges, in my opinion. And at the end of the day, these are game consoles; what's most important is not the raw power of the specs but the gameplay experiences that each can offer. Xbox can offer me smoother and prettier gameplay on my couch; Switch 2 can offer me console experiences on a bus or plane or doctor's office waiting room. I will proudly have both in my gaming lineup.

Love seeing Duke Nukem Forever on here. Idc what people say about it; that game is a 90s attitude nostalgia trip.

Hopefully this means the Switch release will get a Switch 2 upgrade, too.

This won't make a big difference, but I'm for it.

Screw that, remake San Andreas. I'm not talking that meh quality remaster they released a while back; I'm talking a full ground up 2160p 60 fps remake.

Looks like it runs great on all consoles across the board which is exciting to see. I hope to see a Switch 2 port at some point; with how decently Doom Eternal ran on the original Switch, I have no doubt they could get this running decently even if not at 60 fps.

I want backwards compatibility with Sneak King and Big Bumpin!

By this point, PS5 and Series X should really have 1440p30 and 2160p30 at the bare minimum. At no point in 2025 on hardware that power should 1080p and 30 fps be acceptable.

@Ricky-Spanish No, they're being some gardening tools about it.

@BAMozzy If there were some inherent difference in how physical and digital games have to handle this type of upgrade, I wouldn't be able to play the Series X versions of Cyberpunk, Doom Eternal, or The Witcher 3 with my Xbox One discs. It's a conscious decision by Microsoft despite precedent to the contrary, not some inherent disadvantage of physical media. All they'd need to do is have the Xbox store detect the Gears Ultimate disc and apply a 100% discount to the download of the remaster's remaster and continue having the disc required for play. Literally just do what Nintendo is doing with the Switch 2 game-key cards.

"Even if owners get a free do get a free upgrade"

Inaccurate. Digital owners get a free upgrade. Physical owners get shafted.

@FraserG Man, that's such BS. They could totally make it work like the other SmartDelivery titles.

So if we own Gears of War Ultimate Edition physically, we're SOL?

@JetmanUK Heck yes, fellow member of the Atari master race.

@carlos82 This. Nintendo wasn't being greedy with the Switch 2, Sony wasn't being greedy with the PS5 price increase, and Microsoft isn't being greedy with this price increase. It's just the economic reality of the world right now, especially in the United States. We don't have to like it - I certainly don't - but we ought not delude ourselves into thinking this isn't a reasonable and rational thing for these companies to do in the face of inflation and rising production and import costs.

Does this suck? Yes, egregiously. Is it shocking? Not really when you consider that inflation in most of the world - especially in the West - has been pretty high for most of the past few years. I'm quite surprised they're going for $80, not $70, but I wouldn't shocked. Remember that Virtua Racing released for $100 on Genesis in 1994, and that's over $200 in today's money.

Thanks for all your hard work, guys. PureXbox has been great, and I'll be sad that my daily news check will drop to just NintendoLife and PushSquare; having all three made it feel complete. Good luck in your future endeavors!

@tylertreese
Seriously. They should have said "System error. You don't get the game; try paying for it, freeloader." End of story. No $10.