Exerion76

The guy that hurt Xbox, so badly, it never recovered...
How anyone would wanna hire this guy now, is a mystery.

And it still can't hit 60...

Dear Microsoft,
Here's how you make it simple for people:
Release a console, that plays Xbox games, and make it the only way to play them. Don't confuse people with "Everything is an Xbox" crap. Then stay on that track, and don't change your plans every single week.
Copy what worked for the OG and the 360, and what Sony and Nintendo are doing.

Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft is just run by a bunch of monkeys on c*caine, throwing sh*t on the wall...

Hope it's better than the current Xbox app on PC. Might give it a try, but I'll probably just keep using Steam big picture mode, which really feels like using a console.

I hate that UI.
It felt like every 360 UI makeover, just made it worse and worse.
Leave this one buried.

Imagine the confusion, when the casuals discover the multiple store fronts, and having to create multiple accounts, and having their new games spread out among different stores.
I hope all the stores and library is fused into one, so they don't need to open different apps to get to them.

Things that comes natural to a PC gamer, might become a bit messy for newcomers.

Gonna be interesting seeing those first impressions.

I think it's time to stop calling it a console.
It's a Xbox PC.

So it's just a windows PC, in a console shell, with an Xbox UI.
Already got a high end PC, but it's still gonna be interesting to see how powerful this thing will be. I hope they don't go totally insane with the price, and sell it above $1000-1200.
Not if they wanna bring in the casuals as well.

It's so damn depressing, what has happened to the gaming industry...
I'm glad though, that there is a massive catalogue of games, from earlier console generations, that I haven't played yet.
And my back catalog on Steam is huge.
So if the entire industry crashed and burned today, I guess I'll survive 😁

"This is the right time for me to take my next step, and jump off this sinking ship"

Fixed that for her.

I don't believe her.

Wouldn't surprise me, if she turns out being a cyborg.
"Xbox: Skynet Edition

Microsoft would end up doing the same...
Better for them to form a new studio, and stay independent.

RIP Xbox.
The company I used to be a fan of, just doesn't exist anymore.
Oh well, I still have my OG Xbox and 360 consoles to go back to, when I feel nostalgic...

I'll bet they'll name their next console "Xbox AI".

The cow is dead, Todd.

I wish people would stop buying RAM, consoles, pc handhelds etc, while this mess is going on.
Otherwise the manufacturers will think "Why lower the prices again, people still buy the stuff at insane prices". It happened to GPU's, and it might happen to the rest as well.
If everyone stops buying the tech, then they are forced to lower the prices.
Vote with your wallets.

So my comment was deleted, because I criticize the childish fanboy consol bickering?
Incredible. Enjoy the kindergarden debate.

@Gabrie
Switch 2 uses a customised version, DLSS 3.1.
I'm not sure it can be updated for 4.0 and later., but maybe Nvidia can figure something out.
Though the 3.1 version works great.

@Deformedpye
Well I started playing videogames, back in 1979. Even Atari 2600 games ran at 60fps.
30fps isn't unplayable (unless it's a fast FPS or shoot em up), but being used to 60-240 fps now, it's quite jarring to go back to 30fps, especially when moving the camera around.
Also, gamers were impressed by graphics, ever since we moved on from 2600 to Intellivision and Colecovision. It's always been about evolving graphics, together with gameplay.

Enjoy that expanded increase in price.

@Deformedpye
24 inches? For competitive gaming, sure.
But most PC gamers, play on 32-45 inches today, when it comes to single player games.
It's impossible to NOT see the differences, especially when you also connect the PC, to the big screen TV or projector.
And if you can't tell the difference, even on a 24 inch, then it might be time for some new glasses

The blurry textures, heavy amount of shimmering and FSR artifacts, definitely makes the S the worst version.
It looks last gen, and VERY low res.

When this is "over", I bet we're gonna be stuck in the same situation, as with GPU:s, that they will continue to be sold at stupid prices...
F**k this AI crap!
Glad I built my new gaming PC, before this sh*t hit the fan...

Brutally generic. After 12 hours, I quit, and never went back.
Moved on to better games, like Tainted Grail.

I think I've tried to get into this game, about 3-4 times now, on different systems and PC. But every time, I get bored after 6-7 hours and drop it. Many may say that it gets better around chapter four or so. But if a game takes that long, to get to the good stuff, then it's not worth it...

So, we should expect this around 2034 then?

To hell with LRG.
I hope that (like with a LOT of the titles LGR releases in the US) it gets a proper standard edition, here in Europe.

I'll just stick with PC from now on.

When will Banjo-Kazooie fans learn, that the Rare that made those games, doesn't exist anymore.

IF they bring back the original developers, sure.
If NOT, don't bother making a new one, as they would just mess it up.

@Balaam_
Yeah the PC version is janky as well.
This remake might need a "Remaster" in the future 😂

Doubt I'll return to it.
Played it for about 15-20 hours, but it was so generic and dated in design, that it felt like a waste of time.

Or maybe I'm just done with RPG:s overall.
Maybe it's my age (50), but I'm having a hard time getting hooked on games, like I used to. Feels like everything is just a rehash of games I played before. Same with movies now.

Can't be alone feeling this way...or am I?

"We focus on the player; we don’t focus on the device."

You don't know what focus is, Phil...

I miss the "Blades".
It was so damn quick and easy to find what you wanted.
Same with the XMB on PS3.

It's insane, that it's been 20 years, since I first connected a 360, to the Sony Bravia projection TV I had back then, and experienced HD gaming for the first time, on a console.
Remember downloading those HD trailers, which was jawdropping. And the indie/arcade games, felt so new and fresh back then.

I miss those days, when buying a next gen console, was an EPIC upgrade. And we got a complete trilogy of games, like Gears of War, during the same generation.

I expect nothing.

@Gabrie
Obsolete? And yet they sell like hotcakes and dominates the market? 😂

Not being a Windows PC, is already a huge win.
Steam OS is still the best way to bring PC gaming to the living room or handhelds.

The specs though...
I expected more.

How about just making something brand new?
So tired of these developers keep dragging along the corpses of their dead IP:s, trying to reboot with a new team, lacking the talent and quality of the original.
Just move on.

@mikeangry
What a horrible commercial...
At least SEGA knew when to quit.

Talk about first world "problems"....

And then it will be delayed until 2027, as a release title for the next gen 🤣

And then 15 years of remasters and re-releases.

I will probably have died of old age, until it's time for GTA VII 😱

I expect another delay, to summer 2028...

AI should be focused on helping research, for cure and medicines, and other similar issues. Not taking over jobs, art, music, movies and video games (well except for stuff like searching for bugs to fix and enemy AI of course).

I hope the new Gear of War game, delivers the testosterone filled old school action, of the original trilogy, instead of what we got in part 4 and 5.

If Xbox would have focused on ONE console, kept everything exclusive (no PC ports), and didn't release their games on Game Pass, day one, I bet Xbox would have been in a much better place now.
Xbox Play everywhere, was shooting themselves in the foot, again...

Oh, how I miss the OG and 360 era, when Xbox was focused, and kept delivering the goods.

Nothing for me this time.

The original artstyle is gone.
It looks so generic now, that it reminds me of those fanprojects on youtube, where they take a classic 3D game, and remake it in Unreal Engine.

And get prepared for the UE5 stutters...

Xbox are "shifting focus" every damn day...

Looking forward to Elder Scrolls 6, in 2049...