Exerion76

These indie studios, needs to say NO to joining, both Xbox and Sony.

I wish someone would just push the reset button, on the entire tech and gaming industry.
Everything is just pure chaos now...

Looks cool, and would go well together with my OG Xbox.
But at this point of the generation, I would just save the money for Helix, which seems to be just around the corner (2027?).

It's only 2 days...

If they want their games to sell, they better keep those Day 1 releases, off the service. Add them 6 months later instead.
More money on actual sales of games, so they don't need to keep raising the price of Game Pass.
And keep the games exclusive. Sony and Nintendo, don't share their biggest AAA games, with Xbox.
Just my two cents.

@themightyant
Yeah, we have that orange idiot to "thank", for the rest of the economic chaos.

This is where the casual audience will be left stranded.
The next gen, especially in this economy, definitely wont be affordable for them.

AI is f***king up the tech world, by eating up most of the RAM.
And I doubt it will stop anytime soon. It will only get worse...

At last!
Loved the VR games.

No thanks. I can get multiple standard controllers, for the same price.
I've had so many issues with these, with drift and bumpers falling off, after regular, none abusive use.
Seems to be the same thing for that "Elite" Dualsense controller for PS5.
Though I loved the Elite controller, before it fell apart, after about a year...
Controllers just aren't made to last anymore...
Even the analogue stick on my Vectrex, still work perfectly, after almost 45 years.🤣

@Gabrielmpf
Yeah, I'll give it try. Maybe I'll still enjoy this one.
Damn, five years? Time flies 😱

I loved FH2, finished everything you could do on the map.
Got FH3, fun for a while, but didn't finish it. Too similar to FH2.
Tried both FH4 and 5, played a few hours, before getting bored.

Problem is, that every sequel, almost feels like DLC maps.

I wish the series would evolve. Add some Burnout styled destruction, both with cars and buildings.
Current FH games, going full speed, plowing through trees etc. No problems. Smash into a house, zero damage, to the building.

Maybe it's time to give Horizon a break, and make a new spin-off, with a bit of an edge too it.
And could the characters in these games, be any less generic?

I hope we don't have to wait TOO long for the DLC.

After this, I want a Quake reboot, in the same style as the first game.

I like the logo itself, but modern start-up animations, are so boring.
I want something epic, like on PS1 or OG Xbox, which will shake your house. I miss the edge of the 90:s-00:s era.

Hope the PC port is as optimized as FH5, which I ran maxed out (Extreme settings), native 4K, at 120-190 fps, with my 4090.
They really should try to add a 1080p 120fps mode on Series X. The responsiveness is incredible, when you go above 90-120fps.

How are people not burned out yet, of this franchise?

@evirdtset
It's thanks to excuses like this, that these developers keeps getting away with releasing games in this state.
Defending the studios, doesn't help.

Just let it rest.
Should have ended with Halo 3.

"early access"
Expect major gameplay changes, that players will hate, which developers will ignore. And expect an unfinished product, to be released, after being delayed for 3 years, with bugs that will never be fixed, and gameplay that never delivered on the promise, when the devs finally abandons it. etc etc.
Did I miss something, to add to the list?

The OG.
Love the entire boot sequence.

In the top image, it looks more like they're at gunpoint.
"Smile for the camera, or else..."

Not sure I wanna know what's in the box now.

In a sane world and economy, the Series X, should have been a $249-299 console by now. Especially this close, to the next generation.
Every console generation, from the Atari 2600, up until the Xbox360, had heavily reduced the price, near the end of the generation.

All these plans and bla bla bla.
Just make a powerful CONSOLE, have EXCLUSIVE games on that console, no more day 1 titles on game pass (to make money back on SELLING the games first), no more PC (and I'm saying that as a PC gamer), and then release that device.
Why does everything have to be so damn complicated??
Want to play Xbox games, buy a damn console.
Xbox shouldn't need to be everything and everywhere, as it seems to work great for Playstation and Nintendo.
Go back to what worked for the OG and 360, before everything fell apart with Kinect and "TV TV TV".

I'm so damn tired of all the subscription services today. When buying a game, I actually put some effort in finishing the game.
With the amount of content on these services, I download a couple of games, that looks promising, but end up playing them for 20-60 minutes, and then just forget about them.
Same with Netflix etc. So many movies and shows, that I end up giving up the search and watch nothing.
Can't be the only one burned out on this?

Or I guess I'm just an old man, yelling at clouds 🤣

The OG Xbox, is the only one I keep going back to.
Playing Darkwatch at the moment, and it's still more fun, than most of the modern games I've played lately.
It's at the sweetspot, when games still had unique artstyles and ideas. Panzer Dragoon Orta is also still amazing looking.

Well, seems like the era of consoles, will soon come to an end.
I miss when we could buy a mid generation refresh, for $199-249.

Guess the only choice for parents, will be a Switch 2.
But even then, their games are stupid expensive now...

Sadly nothing that excited me...

How about reducing the price, for everyone?
I miss the days, when consoles always dropped in price, later in the generations.

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