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This is the last thing they need. They still haven’t reached a consistent output from the studios they have now.

Swear if they are going to do a music and art box set and not a physical release for the game I’m gonna lose it.

Only thing is that they should have shown this off closer to Gamescom or Summer games fest. The early marketing for the game did a very poor job of explaining what this is. But in the here and now, looks great. Hope Xbox gives this game a proper marketing push as we get closer. Would be nice to see Xbox maybe get a 90+ game.

Forza Horizon 5. Xbox’s best game they made this gen and their biggest overhaul success. Critical acclaim and huge sales success. Then Xbox had to go and ruin it by releasing Halo Infinite way too early when they needed more time to make more content for it. But Xbox is gonna do Xbox things and ruin their image by doing dumb things like releasing games that clearly needed more time in the oven.

@Millionski I’m not even talking about at the cross gen games, I’m talking about the lack of new games in general. I realize that they everything is more pc like but only having a console release of a game already on pc as your only new game is ***** pathetic on Xbox’s part.

I’ll give you 2021 yes, but idk why people are playing revisionist history with 2020. The series X and s had an absolute garbage launch lineup. The only new game we got was Gears Tactics. Yes a lot of titles had next gen upgrades but it’s not the same thing as a new game. First year for the Xbox series x and s was dogshit until Summer 2021.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Xbox needs to be more consistent with quality single player exclusives. I do hope this game is a 9/10 masterpiece and hopefully helps to drive some more sales of Xbox’s and game pass subs. Would be a nice addition to BO6 being great.

Makes sense, know a lot of people liked Hellblade 2 but it’s clear as day they put too much focus on cinematics instead of gameplay. There are also many other games that aren’t on this list that could be on this list instead of Hellblade 2. Also low key glad to see Black Ops 6 getting the credit it deserves. Know mp has some problems but the core is super good and the campaign is great, glad to see Xbox get a W.

lol remember Phil Spencer saying studios would have creative freedom 😂😂😂😂

Always am happy to see a great game sell well and perform very good. This is a nice needed W for Xbox. Now the biggest thing for Xbox is that it needs too continue to deliver consistently and not have huge dead periods of time or release bad games like Redfall. Things are lining up good for the next couple of months, Xbox just needs to deliver on the promise of a big game every quarter which they have failed to achieve consistently.

They have proven themselves numerous times, most recently with Outer world. Biggest red flag for this game is if it’s not 60 fps.

The main thing that matters for Xbox at the end of the day is releasing good games. I’m very glad too see Black Ops 6’s campaign is a good game. It’s a W.

@Elbow yes you are right

@BacklogBrad except that Sony isn’t desperate to make more money from Helldivers considering it’s already insanely profitable on just PC and PS5…

lol it won’t happen and Helldivers doesn’t need Xbox. Already at 12 million copies sold and the 2nd best selling game of the year in the US. Why would Sony bring it too Xbox when it already most likely broke even.

@Major_Player hope you are joking lol. It isn’t about integrity, this is all a business and about making $$$$$$

@LogicStrikesAgain yup and with games getting more expensive to make most devs are better off going fully multiplatform. 2nd party is different and also like I said can see a deal for the likes of Silent Hill 2 and Bloober team making sense considering Konami is getting back into mainstream gaming and also considering Bloober Team’s spotty track record.

@LogicStrikesAgain yes, guess should have stated it, it makes complete sense for Sony to try to get timed 3rd party exclusives. Was more so coming from the developer side where timed exclusive deals don’t make a lot of sense, especially for PS5 only for a while with no PC release.

For the best. The final fantasy games this gen have shown that timed 3rd party exclusives are not the way to go with how expensive games are to make. Certain cases like newer studios and new ip like Stellar Blade and questionable ip and teams like Bloober team and Silent Hill 2 are one thing but overall it’s not worth it. Especially when Pearl Abyss is an established team with Black Desert and owning Eve online.

@UndyingInsurgent95 I can agree with disliking those type of gamers, they have a lot of ***** that comes out of their mouth. Just more so trying to get to the point that just cause a bad group of people rally behind a product it doesn’t make the product at fault for their ***** options. Yes there are the allegations of sexism, but they are just allegations and of course it’s probably a few bad apples and not the entire studio. Just saying that if you don’t support a game from allegations then you can’t buy any Activison, Ubisoft, PlayStation, and most other AAA games cause they all have allegations.

@Nighto4 low key for real. It’s one thing to see a console fanboy be stupid, but it’s fair to say that taking the bait and being triggered by a game is arguably way worse.

It’s always a good thing to see good games come to Xbox. While the people clambering that this game is GOTY are talking out of their ass, it’s clear it’s a quality game. Just hope hope Xbox is more proactive with making sure games with a lot of potential launch day one on Xbox, which they seem to maybe doing getting some he likes of Wuchang day one on game pass.

Really wish Xbox would be more aggressive with positioning their logo with the Black Ops 6 marketing. Idk if it’s a contract thing or not but they are really dropping the ball. Mainly care cause I don’t want to see “black ops 6 hasn’t caused the amount of new game pass subscribers that we thought we would get so Xbox is getting more job cuts” cause thats totally some ***** Microsoft and Xbox would do.

Cool. Very Based.

It was good to cancel it for MW3. I know sledgehammer did a good job with adding content but for the vast majority of players it was tainted right from the beginning with how dogshit the campaign and zombies where and how poorly it reviewed. Save it for black ops 6, where Xbox is more so at least an equivalent marketing lead for it. Also having it launch day one in game pass will allow it to synergize better with Xbox’s lead ip. Also the fact that Black Ops 6 is shaping up to be on one of the best cod games in a while is another bonus to add more cooler content like this.

@richyroo yes sea of thieves is one Xbox’s biggest W’s. But you also have to consider Rare’s mismanagement of the everwild team…

@AverageGamer very fair point about Playground. Would say you are very much under selling Obsidian. While Rare has gotten into an awesome cycle with content, under his watch Rare also has had Everwild which has been in development hell. Just saying I would rather see a leader from a team like Obsidian which clearly knows how to run their teams efficiently and effectively and release games consistently vs a team like Rare which took a while to figure out what to do with Sea of thieves and also has everwild on their track record.

He presents well and Rare certainly has become a very good studio overall. But, him being the studio head and then having Everwild in dev hell under his watch and now having him being head of Xbox game studios worries me a litttle pit. Would have much rather seen Obsidian or Playground leadership become the head of Xbox game studios.

@Markatron84 careful your fanboy is showing

Seems like a good get by Sony. Just happy to see Bloober Team graduate to making a very well reviewed game.

@Kieduss yes cause a well reviewed and well made game is a waste of money 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@Balaam_ was more so throwing that bout as a fun one. Fromsoftware owns the ip, not Xbox/ activison. Was more so coming from the angle that Xbox could work a deal out with Fromsoftware

@Banjo- pretty sure it’s all rights not just UK. More so was trying to say that while cloud is growing it’s still a fraction of a fraction of gamers that actually do it and it probably won’t really help grow game pass. Game pass needs high quality games that launch on it day one.

@Banjo- an important thing to remember with Cloud and activison games is that Ubisoft owns the cloud rights now

@abe_hikura Spyro or they still have yet too add sekiro which is an activison game.

@TheEstablishment idk about a big activison drop. They probably don’t want to drop other COD games cause they want more people playing the new one.

I’m honestly ok with this. Prioritize your own games and more importantly your biggest game ever to launch on game pass

@Banjo- oh don’t get it twisted we aren’t going to get new AA ip. My point was that we are still gonna get new ip, but it’s gonna be bigger games. We have seen Xbox say ***** you to what was considered a successful new AA ip.

@Kezelpaso probably will be less yes. Still will say they will invest in ip when the opportunity presents itself.

But xbox is investing in new ip and the need to, in particular they need new single player ip. Clockwork, South of Midnight, OD, activison has elsewhere. Not even including rumored publishing deals with panache and hundred stars. Xbox needs new blood and the main thing is more so single player games. Xbox and PlayStation this gen tried to become more like the other. Xbox needed more single player games like PlayStation and PlayStation needed more mp live service games like Xbox. So far neither have truly beaten the other at their game.

@OldGamer999 also I mean they have Coalition in their corner, literally the best Unreal team outside of Epic. Also think it was stupid for Obsidian to have had the Art director to comment on the fps and not a more technical lead

@OldGamer999 it’s truly amazing how they get in their own way. Xbox has an internal mandate that must always follow good news with bad news to take themselves out at the new cap. This year alone, great developer direct then the business update that was very poorly messaged. In May they have 2 fantastic updates for Starfield and Diablo 4, then they announced they shut down Tango. Had a phenomenal showcase in June then they raised game pass prices and ***** over console game pass subscribers. And now at gamescom it’s been up and down the entire time. Will also say it’s amazing an open world next gen Xbox exclusive in Stalker 2 is 60 fps but Avowed a first party hub based game isn’t.

@OldGamer999 I didn’t mind Starfield cause it still played well and could at least understand the scale and size being factors in the 30 fps decision. Loved the 60 fps update but it became clear Bethesda, Xbox and Todd lied out of their asses with saying it was a “creative decision”

@OldGamer999 the have had W’s and great games since then, just nothing reached that high. I love Starfield and consider it a great game but it certainly wasn’t on that next level. As for avowed I refuse to believe it won’t be 60 when it launches and that Obsidian is being coy with previews. Like Klorbrile pointed out after redfall all the trailers have been in 60, this is hub based and not open world so it should be less intensive, and they have Coalition as support to help them optimize. If it truly is only 30 Xbox needs to start firing a lot of people