@Sol4ris fully agreed

@ryu_niiyama Yes, indeed. I also applaud Nintendo’s philosophy. They are masters at crafting intense games that still look amazing with just bitesized specced hardware (Zelda, Mario, Mario Kart, Luigi’s Mansion, Metroid Prime, Xenoblade chronicles 3). Switch only has 4 GB Ram total. Can’t wait for a little more beefier Nintendo console though. Especially to get rid of the 3d party discussion all the time: ‘but how does it run.’

But yeah, Iwata predicted the current better hardware / lesser software cycle in 2002, hope his spirit will linger on next console generation: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/iwata-predicted-the-current-state-of-xbox-and-playstation%E2%80%A6.1671003/

@dskatter @Ryu_Niiyama thanks for the explanations, honestly helpful!

Still, I’m blabbered by the fact that these game developers developed a game that is in no way a little scalable in this day and age. More than half of all current Steam users has less than 10 GB vRAM. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam.

I’m no game developer and I therefore should not make this comment.

But how in the world is it possible that 10GB of RAM is too few to optimize your game.

Could it be a new MMO from Rare?

Merry Christmas and thank you for all the hard work of last year! 😊

But do they count phones, tablets and pc’s as xbox-es, since everything’s an xbox?

Xbox becomes too complicated for me as an oldie

Nintendo already owns gaming on the go with the Switch.

Well… playstation has Champions League sponsorship.

Xbox has… darts. Guess who’ll win the ‘console war’.

Is there even a dart game on the consoles?

@Titntin well, you can’t keep on postponing, the developer also needs money.

So I don’t agree with you, I think the game released in this state because of the war and the toll it took, and therefore should be viewed as such when reviewing. (Or as I suggested, don’t give it a number but give that number later on - there’s no way you can compare this development process with other development processes).

But that’s my opinion, of course.

@Titntin even if you’re safe, doesn’t mean all your relatives, friends or others in your direct surroundings are also safe.

Which means there’s ton you will still take with you every day during the war. Not even counting the memories of the war you might have already endured before fleeing to Prague.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner a war is more than ‘an issue’

Those don’t happen very often fortunately, so i think it’s possible to keep integrity up

@pjoreilly Imo: you could have chosen to not rate the game considering the horrible times the developers have gone through, even losing colleagues to the war.

Now the number will go into metacritic and it will affect sales forever. Even if the devs fix every issue you have with the game.

Therefore, this rating just feels too brutal to me.

@DEATH2SONY yes, I agree. This whole show feels Sony-owned.

There’s a reason Nintendo backed down from it.

Final Fantasy XVI and Resident Evil 9?… 🤔

@RiverGenie they released prince of persia though this year which is an absolute gem of a game!

I just want a finished game at launch.

Nintendo is good at that (apart from the pokemon company). Why can’t any of the xbox teams?

@BacklogBrad but Brad, you already have a backlog?

Most games are way cheaper than 20 dollar after a few months anyway. A comparison with 70 dollar day 1 games isn’t a fair one imo.

But sure. You get to pay more for more games on gamepass now that Xbox is a larger publisher. As long as you’re paying for the subscription, though.

@BacklogBrad which in turn becomes more expensive. 2 price hikes within a year.

@BacklogBrad the publishers Xbox gobbled up were already publishing. You gain nothing from Xbox becoming a bigger publisher.

@BacklogBrad @electrolite77 i see, thank you for elaborating. I get my hopes up a little. Would’ve bought a handheld gamepass machine in a heartbeat.

@BacklogBrad it should, i agree. But the twitter message states ‘add-on’. Doesn’t feel like a standalone version of the console to me.

@NEStalgia the quote is ‘add-on’, which means you need the main console too. That’s not a misinterpretation, right?

We’ll see though, it’s all just speculation. I have lost a lot of faith into corporate Microsoft delivering fun games. It all feels way too businessy for my taste.

@BacklogBrad it’s not a two tier approach though. You apparently need the main console in order to play anything on the handheld. Just as is the case with the Sony Portal.

Rubbish if true.

@NEStalgia that can be said though about a lot of franchises. People that play everything Pokémon, everything Fifa or everything Madden for instance? Live service games disguised as yearly releases. With micro transactions.

Not as big as CoD though.

Xbox is dead, long live Microsoft Gaming. Where they don’t care about top-notch exclusives on the box, but ok-ish games on every platform.

Indy getting delayed would be a shame (might be a great 3d metroidvania) but I expect it to happen at this point. It’s a game that doesn’t fit the new Microsoft Gaming mantra, so why should it release?

I’m also awaiting the upcoming Microsoft Marketing Mess where they’ll tell the game runs only at 1080p and does not support feature X on the xbox series S. (Or that they forget to advertise it at all). Or that a report leaks out where it’s said that the game has 3 months of exclusivity and then comes to PS5. Or that you’re able to buy a super suit or 3 additional story levels for more money.

No I’m not salty at all 😅

Yes, still the worst. There’s no way to explain the name to parents or little kids. And you should be able to do both easily if you want to sell an entertainment product. What does ‘xbox’ mean? What does ‘series’ mean and what does the X and S stand for? Still no idea. We also saw it with the Wii U. (What does the U even mean and is it an upgrade or an addon?!)

Playstation is easy. And 5 > 4. Marketing done. Also, Nintendo Switch is perfect. Brand + feature as one name.

Why didn’t they name it Xbox Two X and Xbox Two S? Would’ve been way easier.

Well, to be honest, the marketing of Microsoft is bad in general. I’m missing their ‘story’. Playstation is sports, super heroes and adult arpg’s, Nintendo is family friendly and a boat load of nostalgia. What is Microsoft selling? Just feels to me they’re making ‘corporate games’ without that bit of a soul currently. Just feels they want to get the games out the door without any shbam or hearth.

Also: What would make me buy a console when there’s an add for the firestick ‘play without a console’? And what would make me want to buy a game when it’s in development for years, being shown for years, but the final product is not marketed in the last months and does not hold any secrets anymore?

Microsoft is horrible at marketing, and i don’t see that as a budget issue only.

The holy trinity:

• super metroid
• the legend of zelda: a link to the past
• super mario world

Oh wait, wrong forum!
Although: You can emulate still on an xbox series S, right?

In that case: Lufia II: Rise of the Sinestrals. i’ll hide it somewhere in the roms folder and nobody will notice I’ll bring a 4th game.

Microsofts Marketing Mess continues

Another day, another Microsoft Marketing Mess.

God, how annoying.

Welp. Back to just buying my game then, I guess. At least you know when you’re able to play something.

The most annoying part to me is that I’ll be missing out on playing games via xcloud.

Did they ever start promoting the xbox in Europe? I’ve never seen a tv-add, billboard or any of the sort over here.

Can Microsoft start already with releasing their first party games to the service…? So many games that have been promised for years, which kept a lot of people subscribed, but now that they finally seem to release some of them (lets wait and see) they’re increasing their prices? Again?

What a way to alienate yourself from your audience.

What a mess.

Microsoft is absolutely trying to lose me as a subscription here.

I used to play WoW, but have a wife now, kids, job (both me and my wife), so way, way less. Max 4-5 hours a week.

@sonicbooming yes, I agree, that’s also another reason for me why I game less. I also have a job staring at a lot of screens the whole day. I also prefer not staring at screens for most of my evenings.

I am completely in shock and awe!

@Scrubchub highly recommend the series. Predecessor of Persona and Pokémon, with a very dark tone.

The Anno series is great, might play this one at some point!

The thing I liked the most about this showcase: there were four live service games: wow, fallout 76, elder scrolls online, sea of thieves. But none of those are new.

And there was one hero shooter but that one looked different from all the others, and with big head mode, i mean come ON. And one mmo mech shooter, also looked very cool.

The rest is, as far as I can tell, single player games with some multiplayer stuff if you want? So different from the direction Sony is going. Way way better. Hopefully xbox wont leave its ID@xbox program behind, though. AAA and indies complement each other.

@ZYDIO but you were back just in time for the gears e-day reveal 😉

Xbox giving crumbs.

It was a great showcase for Xbox fans. And xbox has an identity again: Shooters, Demon stuff, western RPG’s and space stuff. All that belongs on xbox.

Got to admit, too much gore for me. Especially that diablo iv trailer, that one made me shiver. And they’ve clearly stepped away from the smaller productions like hi-fi rush or pentiment. We’ll never see that again from xbox.

I’m mainly looking forward to the more light-hearted Indian Jones, Fable, Flight Simulator, Perfect Dark and Metal Gear Solid D. And Stalker 2 because the first one was so, so good.

Edit: almost forgot Expedition 33. Thát looked like my cup of tea.

@DarkCvrle66 no, logos at the end, also ps5

@Gamer_X Doom is the size of Call of Duty in popularity?

We just finally got a great xbox exclusive…. And immediately the predictions for a showcase that doesn’t show up for three more weeks.

Yeah, the brand is dead. Just turn it into a soulless ‘Microsoft Gaming’ already and chug it in the corner next to Facebook Gaming, Prime Gaming and Google Stadia already.

Welp.

Ok, i take back all the good words I had about Xbox in recent years. The management simply sucks if they buy studios and close them after they’ve released their first game under higher management. Especially because they say they’re going to focus on their bigger games in their portfolio (Call of Duty…..).

Well, back to my Nintendo consoles then, they’re the only normally run company still standing in the gaming business.

Handheld game pass machine? Yes plz

@ganonms skyrim got updated for years and nobody complained about that