I’m pretty sure nobody asks for these kind of weird perks. Just don’t put these in and keep it a pure gaming subscription…

@Fiendish-Beaver 😃 true

I’m sure proper higher management would be able to change the approach to a better one indeed, but get the same results

@Wizzle8899 handheld that can easily play ps4 games? How’s that not next gen?

@Kaloudz that made perfect sense 😁

And yeah, if you phrase it like that, firing only that person does not make sense.

Unless that person wasn’t liked by the management anyway.

@Kaloudz you’re surely confusing me a little with that extra comment 😉

I’m awaiting the head of Arkane Lyon Studios to leave too soon. He was so angry last year when the other Arkane studio was closed down.

@Kaloudz you know every (daily changing) law and right of every child and parent in every country of the world? And are able to create apps that help protect kids against the online world and implement solutions for parents and kids to streamline the experience everywhere?

Of course that role is needed.

Please step down earlier. That whole management team has been a disaster this gen....

I had so much faith at the start of this gen, defended the actiblizz merger a lot on pushsquare even (wouldn't recommend doing that to anybody, lol) but how this management has turned stuff into the ground in the last few years because of not being able to stand up against Satya Nadella and tell the shareholders to calm the F down, resulting in complete loss of direction, is beyond me.

Well, i've apparently bought my last xbox. I can't take this team green management and their loss of direction and sense anymore. I've also stepped away from Playstation this gen because of their CFO stating that he's addicted to growth.

What a ***** show this gen has been.... poor developers, run by the greediest managements and shareholders there are. A lot is not enough, it needs to be MORE!

Thankfully there's Nintendo (at least for now) who seems properly run, and finally with a system that can play current gen games.

Yes, Microsoft Gaming’s messaging has been a mess. That has lost them this generation too, after Xbox Ones mess, while they could have easily dwarfed Sony following the actiblizz merger.

They chose to not do that because of quick money instead of a long haul and now everythings an xbox, everyones confused and everyones just choosing the option that just works out of the box: switch 2 or playstation. No fuzz, a working gaming system with just clear proper messaging.

If there’s a team that needs updating at Microsoft Gaming, it’s both the management and pr teams.

Xbox is a mess with managers just wanting to manage stuff to get higher up the ladder it seems. This is an action of one of those managers.

Since it’ll solely be a game pass system this is too expensive for me. Sadly

@GuyinPA75 not that i remember, no. It’s more that there was no other option.

I’d love a dedicated game pass handheld machine. So let’s see how expensive this one turns out to be. I might bite, if priced correctly.

@ScalenePowers code in a box started with pc like 15-20 years ago though.

Oof, reads like stiff competition all of a sudden for the Switch 2

So, exactly 1 year between releases but no exclusivity deal was signed? Sure.

@Fiendish-Beaver where does the prediction of the analysts then originate from?

@Nintendo4Sonic they just want extra revenue. Releasing it on Playstation creates that extra revenue.

https://screenrant.com/xbox-game-pass-ad-based-subscriptions-2025-op-ed/

From 34 million last year to an expected 50 million this year.

I think game pass will be the healthier option over time, also business wise. It’s still growing unlike the playstation subscription service.

And it’s thé subscription to take if you’re playing games on pc, and in time, on phone as well,

Strategy wise, it is a mess at Microsoft Gaming and it will continue to be so for the next few years. Every year there’s a new strategy being followed by the higher ups.

It doesn’t seem to be a good idea to invest in the xbox ecosystem anymore imho. Just gamepass (sometimes).

It’s so weird that the technical teams at Bethesda didn’t address this issue and leave it up to the community to discover them first….

There’s your Nintendo Switch 2 key card.

For the love of CoD, give it a rest, FTC.

I’m angry that 1.2 million other players get to play this great racer, while simultaneously paying for the development of the next installment that I get to play on my Xbox 😡

@HonestHick we can agree that greedy companies are a massive problem.

The most greedy ones are American though.

And you have a president now who endorses the richest and greediest companies and billionaires. And he has to pay their tax cuts somehow: thus tariffs.

But i think you are not really objective. As someone who sees it happen from a distance, I think I am slightly more objective than you are. It’s just a shame to see what happened to the shining city on a hill idea. (Though america was already way off the last two decades).

@HonestHick ah yes, you are wearing clothes that are manufactured in the USA. U sure that’s the case? Not manufactured somewhere in a sweat shop, and sold in the US? And of course: two guns. Well, if that’s the way you count to five, fine. I’m sure you’d be able to count to ten if you include 5 more of your guns.

As I said, and as you’ve pointed out, all of this transfer to the US for semiconductor factories was happening before tariffs. Remember the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Chips and Science Act (CSA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)? Most likely Trump will claim credit for those. Now there are tariffs. Tariffs that are being paid by consumers. For no reason.

Usa had fair trade, because most of the export income was via tech companies, which are not hurt by the tariffs. However, there are alternatives to those as well, and both Europe and Asia are chosing other companies now for, for instance cloud services. And the us had privileges in a lot of countries because of so called ‘soft power’, but all that goodwill is gone now in the whole world. Nobody looks up to the usa anymore. Maybe only mad-max wannabees.

Also, don’t post white house propaganda please. That’s absolutely not trustworthy information. But it cements my idea where yours are coming from. Ah well, as a non-American i will be fine.

@HonestHick wondering where you get your information from.

As if semi conductor factories are build and made operational overnight. If they’re being manufactured now that is absolutely not because of the tariffs but because of Biden’s policy that Trump is now clamoring credit for.

https://www.z2data.com/insights/where-are-all-the-north-american-semiconductor-fabs-being-built-2024

The tariff situation is nothing more than money grabbing to pay for tax cuts for the richest 1%. As is being done.

Also: ‘American products are better’, can you name 5 products that are made solely in the USA?

Why did they not just massively increase the price in the US alone?

The rest of the world did not vote for him.

‘Is this the week we finally hear about Oblivion Remastered?‘

Well, we’ve been hearing about it for ages imho

But is all data included on the disc though?

I don’t see a reason why people would buy into the PS5 closed infrastructure anymore, other than to keep the library they might have built over the years accessible.

Nintendo is more feature rich, xbox is way cheaper and more versatile (via adding xbox play anywhere on pc, mobile), and both will provide more gaming experiences in upcoming years.

Also, i think xbox is making a profit on their services, they don’t have to increase prices on their box.

I literally can’t wait to go on berserk mode in to a T!

Strong opinion which we’re becoming accustomed to from Americans these days.

Apart from splinter cell and maybe rayman, i don’t really see an ip that is worth it for Microsoft.

The franchises will bite each other too much.

Just wait a week or two and the game will receive a large discount

We can assume an exclusivity deal for a year.

Even though they say they haven’t got one.

Mario vs Rabbits.

I don’t see anything else happening

It should be Xbox ‘randomizer word’ X and Xbox ‘randomizer word’ S to keep it aligned with previous names

@RZ-Atom if microsoft was allowed to buy steam we would have had that feature

Not seeing the Starcraft logo at Blizzard’s Ongoing projects makes my Aiur hurt 😢

@IOI I think it’s a decline compared to FY25Q1 only? Apparently Microsoft made 468 million revenue, which is down 7% compared to the quarter before that. That’s amazing revenue, most likely much more than FY24Q1 and FY24Q2, but cant really find exact numbers tbh.

This figure means they ‘only’ need roughly 160 months to recoup actiblizz purchase. (And that’s revenue)

@LX_FENIX well, tbh, there are almost no games on PS only currently that I’m missing on other platforms.

Just FFVII rebirth (which actually just got a Pc release) and Astrobot.

@DennisReynolds they just want more money. And they can via becoming the biggest publisher around.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing, as a consumer we can play xbox’s games however we want, we’re not tethered to a box.

Well, the handheld becomes kind of obsolete if Microsoft puts all games on Switch and Steamdeck? Am I in the wrong?

Curious which unique features they’ll try to sell the handheld with.

Oh my god a new Ice Climbers!

Can’t wait!

@Krzzystuff lol. oh, I messed up, well, can’t wait for the Indy Series to show up! Will take a while though.

@Krzzystuff oh my god indiana jones 2!

Can’t wait!

It’s very new to me that there are so many xbox games in development that we have no idea which 4th studio/game they’ll show in a showcase about 1st party releases this year.

Could be Oblivion, Halo CE, Fable, Everwild, Avowed, the Outer Worlds 2, Clockwork Revolution, Replaced, or even Blade, Contraband, Perfect Dark….

Or 3d party. They promised us Hollow Knight Silksong on gamepass day one years ago.

Microsoft Gaming / Xbox has finally entered wild times so it seems.