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@KaijuKaiser game sales say absolutely nothing when the game releases day one on a subscription service.

@Nintendo4Sonic yeh, but i see the same games mentioned multiple times in a lot of articles.

I’d say these articles are a bit too often. I think this is the third or maybe fourth time I see that FFXIII is leaving.

Feels as if a ton is leaving Game Pass every day while there’s only a handful being cycled through every month.

@Titntin I’d say just try out Soul Hackers 2 for yourself for an hour and see what you think yourself

That’s the beauty of Game Pass!

Cammy is so cool, love the redesign.

All fighting games seem to get a sequel this year, MK 12, Tekken 8, Street Fighter 6 (btw you didn’t report on what was shown by Capcom yesterday, Pure Xbox, that Cammy trailer was great. ), am I missing one?

@Savage_Joe i didn’t know… pity. Edit: just read the article, apparently the co-founders of Moon started bullying other Xbox teams? Uncool…

And yeah… acti-blizz should be purged. I actually stopped playing their games after I read the news a couple of years back, with the workers even striking in front of the office. I’m hoping for the better after that deal…

I really thought Moon Studios was a Microsoft owned studio?

They should be to be honest! Such a talented group of developers, artists, managers etc. over there. Loved the ori games!

With gyro please! Make it possible that having the option will be the industry wide standard in fps games from now on.

Well, guess the deal will go through.

Can’t wait to play Candy Crush on my Xbox Series X with glorious 4k graphics and 120 efpus.

Lies of P is on Game Pass?

Wow, I didn’t know.

Such an awesome service

Why is it a problem that Starfield is exclusive?

Afaik Spiderman is Exclusive, right? And so is Wolverine? And other games made by studios gobbled up by Sony?…

When looking at the impact game trials have on switch sales, I think that impact is pretty big.

Uno for instance was on the top of the sellers list for over a week right after the game trial ran out. And that happens more often. The game trial was combined with a discount though.

I do not often make use of the free trials Xbox provides though… probably because it is on a weekly schedule. I just forget it exists due to that.

@Tharsman ah, learning something new every day. Thanks!

And Astral Chain IS owned by Nintendo, am I right?

@Neverwild From what I know the IP Cuphead is owned by Microsoft, just as Bayonetta is owned by Nintendo.

Also, weird line to draw. Following your reasoning Sony didn’t make Ratchet n Clank or Spiderman.

Also, Ori is a game series made and released on other platforms afterwards.

@Arkantos2990 Atomic heart is a new game.

And so will S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 be. Oh, and MLB the show is.

Day one on any platform, 3d party.

@UltimateOtaku91 @pip_muzz atomic heart releases on day one on game pass. And so did the monster hunter rise and persona ports.

@StonyKL I’m sure Microsoft has a quality check before putting a game on game pass.

There’s as good as zero shovelware on the service.

@StonyKL you’re missing one bit here I think, that Microsoft releases multiplatform games (minecraft, cuphead, …) and you can also still buy a game for pc, cloud, console instead of playing it on game pass.

So Game Pass is just an extra option in the whole lineup of ways to play. Unlike netflix movies.

@Lavalera it is a shame, indeed. Especially because I discovered playing turn-based jrpg’s with xcloud gaming is absolutely great on my iphone. I replayed Octopath Traveler on the daily train to work that way.

@Lavalera yeah, I don’t think there are many games made by Japanese developers left on game pass tbh. No Konami, Square Enix, Capcom or Bandai Namco afaik. Mainly Sega/Atlus left.

It’s about time they get the Actiblizz deal sorted out so Xbox is able to give Game Pass more appeal again (instead of keeping it relatively small) with renewed contracts with developers / publishers. Or just flood it with indie releases.

Well, if CoD is dying might as well hand it over to Xbox, right ps-ers?

@stvevan please read my comment again and then try again.

In their mind Microsoft is a bigger company because they mail with outlook and they write reports in windows.

In entertainment it’s absolutely the contrary though. And it would be wise to let a company like microsoft be able to compete with sony…

Prettier than the Metroid Prime 4 reveal. 💜

Much, much better than I anticipated. Good job, XBOX! A big game day one release every month from april and onwards. And a shadow drop, which might be a first afaik and which looks great!

@Would_you_kindly seriously wondering why you are commenting on this forum and not on pushsquare.

@Mince Ghostwire Tokyo has a 77% grade on metacritic. It’s much better than a Meh….

I’d say a bigger problem for Xbox is that Sony is buying small bonusses for games, such as timed exclusives, exclusive promotions or advertising options, exclusive features, weapons or characters in the game.

Something like the street fighter 2 inclusion in street fighter 6 if you have street fighter 5 on your playstation. It is very small, but it makes the game on playstation feel like the superior version. Xbox needs a couple of long term series to feel superior on Xbox without the need to actually make them.

They could do something with the Dragon Quest series, with GTA, with all EA sports, Mass effect, Star Wars series, Soul Calibur, etc. So those games also say ‘this is what you need an Xbox for’.

@UltimateOtaku91 it’s the revenue for last year for the companies, as pointed out in each of the respective company’s last year results. Those reports are all online to see for everybody.

@UltimateOtaku91 sony has incredibly deep pockets too. ~90.000 billion (total, complete company) vs microsofts ~160.000 billion. Compare that to Nintendo’s ~15.000 billion and by FTC’s logic both Sony and Microsoft shouldn’t be allowed to even buy a hotdog-stand in front of their main headquarters anymore.

@UltimateOtaku91 it’s game publishing revenue, indeed.

I also didn’t take Sony’s hardware sales other than the PS5 into account.

@Trmn8r they probably all have a playstation at home, or received one recently.

What if the deal doesn’t go through?

Xbox might buy EA and pull all sports games from Sony’s platform out of spite. Or even Take Two for GTA, Capcom for RE or Street Fighter, or Square Enix for Final Fantasy…

And Activision Blizzard might not close any deal with Sony afterwards out of spite since they will probably lose a lot of value on the stock market.

Btw… microsoft and AB game publishing revenue combined doesn’t even reach Sony’s revenue. Seriously… what is Sony smoking….? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_publisher

@BAMozzy you seem correct. Thank you for the write-up. Great comment

Sony has exclusivity deals and purchases left and right, even buying EVO solidating the entire fighting genre after solidating the jrpg and action adventure genres, but when Xbox plays by the same rules they get whistled back by the ftc.

The persons at the ftc were probably able to grab a ps5 early and are now afraid they will have nothing to play.

Is this maybe also a reference to the ton of artwork about Animal Crossing x Doom which both came out on the same day?

‘Please do not let us do our job, please do our job for us.’

@Aggirivator yes. It’s an extra option they’re giving you.

So they gave us the release date for the gamepass version of the game!

I can wait

Don’t you dare take m away from the Metroid Prime team.

@NEStalgia it’s true that Nintendo went more mainstream instead of being that weird kid in the corner playing with all bunch of smaller games.

One may like it and some maybe not so much. That’s true.

But after astral chain nintendo first published link’s awakening, luigi’s mansion, ring fit adventure, dragon quest xi s and pokemon sword and shield, before going into hiatus during the pandemic. It was a very strong ending in 2019. And I’m 100% not blaming them for anything not being released in 2020. Was a horrible year for everyone, and 2021 is still horrible in lots of places, even so in Japan.

So it all comes down to expectations.

Nintendo still has a lot of whacky releases though. I mean, Miitopia just released. And game garage builder will release in a week or so. Then there’s stuff such as good job, snipper clips and the stretchers which I all adore. Famicom detective club is also a weird one in a way considering it comes from a major publisher.

Nintendo is holding back a little bit on new big massive releases but there’s loads of experiences for 99% of the people having a switch.

@BlueOcean Next Level Games was considered a 2nd party developer.

Nintendo has not many development studios themselves, they always outsource a lot. Even Mario Party, the Mario Sports games and stuff such as Fire Emblem and Pokemon are 2nd party.

Funny to see a big rant / discussion on Nintendo on an xbox forum.

@NEStalgia Are you saying the switch has no switch exclusive first party games? Also, how many exclusives have xbox and sony released thenselves last year?

Also, sony earns way more from 3d party stuff than Nintendo. Look at what their fifa and cod revenue is. Especially from micro transactions.

Aaw, I was really hoping to get some news on Gotham Knights.

Good to get a notification news about this game wont be there.

@Thwomp_Stomper that might actually be it.

Or overprotectiveness. We’ll probably never know unless they reveal Samus in the upcoming weeks.

Where’s samus?

God, Nintendo. Such a missed opportunity if you’re not allowing Samus being put in Fortnite...

Ea on next gen?

“Yeah, basically we’ll be doing the same thing, just a bit more expensive and a tad more lootboxes.”

Greasy deal right there!

@masofdas massive list. However, there’s no Zelda Breath of the Wild in either list, so Nintendo has still won the recent console launch competition even though they had, what, six games?

I’ll get the Xbox series X when Flight Simulator launches! Will be my first Xbox, but with the backwards compatibility I won’t have to miss a thing! I’m especially excited to play the Fable series for the first time.

I also can’t wait to finally see the other side of the argument between Metroid Prime and Halo. I was 100% sure MP was the better game. Without ever playing Halo... Oh, stupid me...