Missed opportunity in my opinion.

Making a remake of the 2nd game in the franchise would also increase the sales of the first game again. And if it’s up to today’s standards it would be a game that you could bring back multiple times during sales and sell to subscription services.

As is Capcom doing with Resident Evil.

@RIghteousNixon I understand that the guy is saying he’d be worried, it’s his income too after all.

Maybe Xbox should make 3 different tiers of gamepass. Indie, Core (only first party) and Ultimate (indie, first and 3d party).

I’d at least go for the indie one, love the little and creative games people make often more than a non creative number x in a franchise AAA game.

‘Every decision we make is to make more money’.

Fixed it for you.

@BIG3 because the form factor of the hardware could be one of the reasons that it’s not selling as well as it could.

They try to get more people into game pass. And for that you have to offer various ways of entry

@abe_hikura yeah, same. With a clean ui, cold to the touch and access to gamepass and hopefully xcloud too.

If it does have access to gamepass and doesn’t work like a portal but more like a steamdeck, it’s an instant buy for me. And I’ll probably never buy another game ever again (besides the occasional Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Nintendo games)

@JustinSane i see. Guess Capcom has to work on some patches which is a shame. Usually their games come out in an excellent state.

This game absolutely looks like its well worth the price.

And all people talking just about fps….. why?.

Well, they have to post something positive, so why not this…?

Got to admit, I have not tried the game yet, so I actually should before mocking the game…

@somnambulance teach me, senpai!

@MrMagic so you agree that there’s overlap on the website with xbox on top

@MrMagic nah.

On the website they overlap, with xbox on top.

And this is their advertising image:
https://tinypic.host/image/DBCRKM

But whatever. As if it matters.

On Limited Run Games xbox is the first box.
https://limitedrungames.com/

Can people chill?

Probably not.

@Krydle my experience is that it depends on the game you’re trying.

I mainly play turn based rpg’s on xcloud and those look and play great in my experience.

For all other games I use Remote Play.

Most games of Ubisoft are discounted so deep after a few weeks that Ubisoft+ is definitely not worth the subscription costs.

Prince of Persia is on deep discount in Europe already! 40% off. Within a month.

The game feels rushed?

How in the world is that possible…?

They need one of those slick reveal trailers Nintendo had, the one where they showed off all uses of the Switch.

And then present all ways to play Xbox games.

Great idea, loved it when they first revealed it and cant wait to give the copter a go!

@Dimey i think it’s mainly because rumours spiralled out of control. And they’re not able to talk about it before Nintendo’s rumoured direct on Thursday, which usually happen around 18.00 pm CEST.

It’s not the first two.

There have been other games published by microsoft already been put on other platforms.

Ori, hellblade, banjo-kazooie, minecraft to name a few.

I think it’s great if Microsoft puts all one-offs on other platforms to generate revenue and identifies the big series that it wants to keep exclusive. Halo, gears of war, forza, flight simulator, doom, those kind of ‘big testosteron games’ would probably be the best fit.

And then make another group of exclusive games to make it more appealing to families. Spyro, crash, hi-fi rush, banjo-kazooie, minecraft, tunic, …

It’ll make Microsoft gaming the ‘one platform for all’. Next to the family friendly Nintendo and the masculine playstation systems.

I’d buy a dedicated game pass handheld day 1.

@Balta666 first one is on pc, second one will probably be on pc soon enough as well.

With Activision-Blizzard now under their umbrella they have so many fps-ip’s. They’re probably consolidating a bit while deciding which ip’s and engines should be on the forefront going forward, and which ip’s are going dormant for a while.

@DennisReynolds i see what you mean and i understand. i had the same issue on pushsquare, where sony is Maria Theresa and Microsoft is equivalent to the devil. Maybe we should just not expect anything different on fan sites.

Still, I want Sony to get rid of stupid little stuff like timed exclusive dlc and early access passes. You pay the same price for both versions, why is there more stuff on one system compared to the other?

P.S. Stalker 2 and ark are not even out and in my opinion not on the same level as final fantasy vii, xiv and xvi and silent hill 2. Although I have very high hopes for Stalker 2. And indie wise ps5 has many timed exclusives: stray, solar ash, kena: bridge of spirits, Sifu…. Then there’s genshin impact, honkai star rails, granblue fantasy, valkyrie chronicles, stellar blade…. I think Sony has way more 3d party (timed) console exclusives than xbox. Maybe we can better compare the amount of games listed on xbox and on ps5 next?

@DennisReynolds i agree that for most stuff they do the same things.

But one does the annoying dlc exclusivity and early access shenanigans (couple of days) and one doesn’t.

Could you provide me a few big 3d party games that have released on xbox but not on ps for a year? Do you mean stuff like grounded, warhammer or scorn? I can’t recall that many…

@DennisReynolds they both do that. Sony has more 3d party ánd 1st party (timed) exclusives than Microsoft.

But only one is now doing the annoying exclusive dlc and timed early access shenanigans.

Also, minecraft is on ps5. So are deathloop and ghostwire tokyo. Psychonauts 2. The Ori games. And also a lot of other games published by microsoft, such as mass effect. Which sony games are on xbox, other than mlb the show?

@DennisReynolds and that the world has changed. I can’t recall microsoft doing it this gen. I’d say Sony can and should follow suit.

Just focus on exclusive games and different experiences. Not timed exclusive dlc or early access passes.

@DennisReynolds x360 is 12+ years ago.

Console exclusive content is the stupidest thing ever, if the price of the games are the same.

Unless exclusive content is give equally to all versions, such as the extra character in Soul Calibur 2.

Glad they’re bringing it over.

@Lightning720 did someone call me?

@Banjo- indeed. This is microsoft long term. Getting people and keeping people paying.

Usually people will drop off of a console at a specific period in life. Study, baby, marriage, whatever. At least a few of them will stay engaged this way.

@NeoRatt true. I indeed calculated revenue, not profit.

It’s a service on top of all the other services they have to keep up and running: online play, social options, cloud save, even the online shop. Servers are therefore already there. It’s nothing more than an extra option to play games and pay for them. And the subscription has various options. So it’s very difficult to determine if game pass in particular is profitable or not because how do you divide all the costs over all the services Microsoft is offering?

What should be profitable is the gaming section for Microsoft as a whole, and it most likely is (when looking at their investment for ABK).

Nintendo’s revenue over 2023 was $ 12 billion. Microsoft most likely reaches 25% of that with game pass subscriptions alone, not even sales, other services or hardware.

33.3 million game pass subs of which 55% ultimate means 18.315 million subs paying $17 per month, and 14.985 million subs paying $10 per month.

This means a monthly revenue of $461 million, before taxes for the service alone. Not bad.

I absolutely love this format. It gives a little bit of insight into who worked on the game and their thoughts going into the game. And while doing that, it just shows a lot of respect to these people and their hard work.

It feels like a garnished meal in a dining restaurant, compared to a quick sushi break in a sushi bar that is the Nintendo Direct.

@RentedPanda that you see it from the eyes of the enemies getting shot?

Or that you have to place a camera pointing at your face from the side and that you see yourself looking at the screen?

How does 2nd person work….? Hmmmm

Machinegames is known for their first person work, so when we knew they’re working on it, we kinda already knew it would be first person.

Absolutely A for me. 3 out of 5 games I’ll play day 1 (or weekend 1 for that matter). And I really dig the format of giving a spotlight to the people that made the games. This must be so thrilling to them.

This’ll be an awesome year for xbox. Especially if they sprinkle in a little bit of acti-blizz on gamepass.

@eire-shabba metacritic 88 on xbox one though

@BrilliantBill thought the same thing 😁

They didn’t hire anyone from the Metroid Prime 4 team, did they? Please let them finish their game first….

Most nintendo games get 1 year of support max. This is how it should be imo, get the team to work on new stuff, it’ll keep them fresh too!

@Martsmall you’re correct. I got my news from https://mynintendonews.com/2024/01/09/hi-fi-rush-rated-for-nintendo-switch-in-australia/

I shouldn’t trust any newssite other than the ones run by Hookshot media…

@awp69 we don’t know if this is the title that was mentioned. Hi-fi rush has been rated for the Switch in Australia so that’s probably another exclusive going elsewhere.

@Divide_and_Wander same!

Redfall 2.0 i’m afraid. Development team split on what they want to achieve. Good at single player games, but forced to make a live service game…

Hopefully it turns out to be great, but we’ll see…

@Divide_and_Wander don’t expect Fable for a few years, if I were you. I think that will be a massive system seller but a few more years down the road .

Thanks for the list!

We also know thanks to the add of Sony that Metal Gear Solid Delta is slated for 2024.

@InterceptorAlpha oh. I’m getting slow apparently