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Well, I find this quite interesting, it could be the gateway to Xbox for many users.

For example, I use Spotify for free with ads. Obviously, the ads are annoying, but since it's free, it allows me to access a music service that I wouldn't otherwise use. I think this could be the equivalent of Xbox for many casual users.

Although I think the 5 hour limit per month is ridiculous, if this model becomes established, it should be much more.

@jolteon23 On October 30, Microsoft will release a new quarterly report. Whether we like it or not, it will surely report large profits, with an increase in revenue from gaming related services.

It's a great idea, but the problem I see with it is that it complicates the choice too much, it's like a car configurator.

Those of us who are really into this hobby would appreciate it, but for most casual users, it's an additional layer of decision-making that puts them off.

If brands like Apple and Tesla have taught us anything, it's that simplifying options and treating the end user like a “*****” (no offense intended) is usually a good idea.

The service is amazing, I have no doubt about that, but no matter how good it is, it has become accessible only to a few.

It's like a Ferrari—no one doubts that they are amazing cars, but only a few can own one.

Gamepass was excellent for day-one games at an affordable price, but now the affordable tiers have lost the feature that made it most worthwhile.

GPU is still the best service, light years ahead of the competition, but now it's only for a select few. They have broken what made it so great.

Yesterday I was testing how the cloud is working after the update, and at 1440p it really seems indistinguishable from playing locally.

For some reason it makes me a little sad, but I think it's becoming increasingly clear that this will end up being the future of the industry.

I am very disappointed, but not because of Gamepass or the price increase specifically, but because of Xbox's management over the last two years or so, which has been an absolute disaster.

Until now, I had Ultimate and rarely bought games.

Now I'll continue with Ultimate, but I don't think I'll buy any more games on Xbox.

I'm still on Xbox because I have no other choice. I'm “held hostage” on Xbox. My entire gaming life is here: my profile, my achievements... But if I had the chance to export all this to Steam or PlayStation, I'd leave and never come back.

I don't know if they expect the number of Xbox Cloud players to skyrocket, but I've never had to wait to play in the cloud. I've always had the feeling that the number of players who have accepted the cloud as their usual way of playing is negligible.

In Europe, we have always had figures that are slightly higher or similar to those in the US. Applying a 1:1 conversion rate from dollars to euros, it was something we had accepted, whether fair or not,, but lately it is the US that is seeing high numbers. The Xbox Ally X, for example, costs “only” €899 here.

The truth is that right now the available game library is impressive, light years ahead of what other subscriptions can offer, I won't argue with that.

But they need to do something about the PC versions. Ubisoft doesn't even add Xbox achievements to the games, and that's unacceptable. Now more than ever, we have the right to complain and demand that they take care of these details.

Let me see if I understand this, it's confusing.

Basically, Ultimate gets Ubisoft+ Classic in exchange for costing $10 more?

I hope she doesn't mean that we should create a Steam profile and play the Steam versions, because we could do that anytime without needing to buy a PC with an Xbox skin.

What we really need is for these games, and many others, to come to the Xbox ecosystem and have Xbox versions, and whether it's through a console, the cloud, or the PC store, Xbox is still alive as a platform, and they shouldn't take us for fools by selling us a device that has games thanks solely to the Steam or Epic versions.

Honestly, it looks like an impressive machine, which is to be expected given the price.

If they can get developers to stop ignoring the Windows Store once and for all, it will be a truly impressive console.

I imagine that there will be a new controller for the next Xbox, and I imagine that the Elite 3 will be the premium version of that controller.

Although in my opinion they achieved perfection with the Xbox One controller, which for me is the best “traditional” controller out there, I think it's already perfect in terms of ergonomics and possibilities, at least for shooters and the most common genres.

The new features being added to modern controllers (back buttons, share button, touch surfaces, LED lights, etc.) detract more than they add, increasing weight and energy consumption, but nothing I consider truly useful.

For me, Expedition 33 is practically Lost Odyssey 2, or the closest thing we're going to get.

I've seen it in an unboxing here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYbbHu8M8N0

It's a classic reaction video, something I don't usually like very much, but you can see the unboxing.

In the end, subsidizing a device means losing money on hardware sales and then recouping it with software sales; it's a long-term investment.

But Microsoft can't do this if 90% of the games sold on the platform are Steam games, because Valve takes the commission on software sales and they don't see a penny.

Microsoft still has too much work to do to position the Windows Store/Xbox ecosystem on PC to sell this type of device. It feels like they're putting the cart before the horse, but I guess the idea is that in the long term, Xbox on PC will be a real alternative to Steam and all games will end up there, although I find it hard to imagine that day coming.

@Runex2121 If games from those other stores don't have Xbox achievements and features, they're not Xbox games.

If we end up playing Steam games with a Steam profile and Steam achievements because the games aren't released on the Windows/Xbox Store, then Xbox will be dead, and they'll sell us a device with a Xbox skin to try to convince us that Xbox is still there in some way.

Until games stop bypassing the Windows/Xbox Store, this gadget makes no sense to me.

As long as games continue to bypass the Windows Store, I cannot consider this device an Xbox, and it is not for me.

I'm sorry to be so blunt, but the situation with the Xbox platform is becoming critical. Either PlayStation games start coming to Xbox, or Xbox will be dead. It just doesn't make sense. Maybe Gamepass is still a draw for some, but given the disastrous Xbox Series sales, it's clear that it's only for a few.

I'm starting to think that the best thing they can do for fans is to reach an agreement with PlayStation or Steam to export our Xbox achievements and progress to these platforms and shut down Xbox once and for all.

I think that the model we are all interested in is the Ally X.

Until SH2 is released, I'm not going to buy anything from the series. I'm really tired of Xbox players being treated like second-class users.

It's the worst generation of consoles ever. I'm increasingly convinced that we'll probably never see an Xbox after the next Xbox, or a PS7.

@GamingFan4Lyf I think we'll have it soon, next year if not sooner. After all, these consoles use the same Windows 11 as other PCs.

I think Series S is a great idea that has been very poorly managed.

It's not just that there's absolutely no marketing, and many people don't even know it exists, but there's no stock either. In my country, it's been out of stock for months and you can't find it in any store.

If it's optional, I think it's fine. Other games like Control, Celeste, or Alan Wake 2 have similar options, and I don't think that has prevented anyone from enjoying them.

@themightyant Short-pressing: game bar.
Long-pressing: task view.
Pressing and holding: controller off.

I can't blame them; it seems that the younger generations aren't attracted to single-player campaigns. For whatever reason, they can't tear themselves away from Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, GTA Online, COD...

If Xdefiant hasn't managed to break into that list, they'll try with FarCry. It saddens me, but it seems to be essential for survival in this industry.

@MaccaMUFC Yes, just like any other PC, even with resolutions up to 4K, as long as the GPU can handle the game.

I'm enjoying it. After all the bad reviews, I imagined it would be much worse.

It's true that there are some strange scenes, they're a bit forced and even a little unintentionally funny. But they only make up 1% of the game and don't prevent you from enjoying the remaining 99%

For me, it's a 7/10, and I hope the poor reception doesn't scare EA away from making more games.

I find 1080pHQ more interesting than 1440p.

I can play well at 1080p, I think it's the ideal resolution for most devices running Xbox Cloud. The current problem is the bitrate, which is too low. If HQ means they improve this, the service will start to be a really good option.

I've had a lot of problems with Borderlands 3. The game needed a lot of patches before it became stable, and even today it still has bugs that haven't been fixed.

If I play Borderlands 4, it will be a long time from now, when they've released a lot of patches and it's on sale.

@Lrapsody I've read that on Switch 1 it will run at 720p/30fps, so either it's more technically complex than it appears, or the Nintendo port is pretty weak.

Yesterday I loaded my game hoping they had fixed the bug that blocked my progress, but it's still there. If I can't complete the base game, I'm obviously not going to buy any DLC

I'm really liking it, although I think that it was a game created for a very limited hardware, it's sad that they were forced to make a jungle based on small “rooms”. I'm sure that if this game had been designed for GameCube or the Xbox OG, with much more memory, it would have been amazing.

By the way, the remake runs very smoothly on Xbox Series X, not perfect, but I think this version is more solid than the others.

It makes sense that if you run another game without closing the previous one, both will share resources and perform worse.

The advantage of a PC is that, if you are an administrator, you can do whatever you want and run as many applications as you like in the background, such as modding games, streaming with third-party tools, or chatting with Discord or any other application you like.

I think the key is not to sell this as something it's not: an Xbox console. It's a PC, and as such it will have many advantages, but it will also require a minimum of knowledge so you don't end up with two games open because you didn't close the previous one.

@Banjo- I liked it that way, I enjoyed it in first person.

But I can understand that for someone more casual, who is not informed of the type of game it is and who downloads it to try it, the first person is not what they expect in an Indiana Jones game and can generate a bad first impression.

I think that many people will have abandoned this game in the first 5 minutes after seeing that it is in first person.

And I don't blame them, I think Indiana Jones fits better in a third person game.

If it needed another 80/90 million, there was no way to get something that had a chance of recouping the investment.

It's a legendary IP, I hope one day it returns in the hands of another studio.

@Trmn8r I started my game about a month and a half ago and this happened to me:

https://www.trueachievements.com/forum/viewthread.aspx?tid=1605214

My game is broken, it's been a few weeks since I haven't tried it again, but if they haven't released any patches recently it will still be broken.

I'm still waiting for them to fix the bugs in the base game, as long as that's not fixed I don't see the point of getting more content.

Any PlayAnywhere title is welcome, but honestly, they are almost all minor games, while major titles generally skip this feature: Metal Gear Solid 3, Mafia The Old Country, Helldivers 2, Wukong....

I think Microsoft has a serious problem there, for some reason this feature is not attractive to major developers, and therefore, it doesn't end up being a particularly exciting feature for users.

I think the need to release new hardware, in reference to consoles, is going to be less and less as time goes by. A few years from now I think most people will be playing the latest releases directly on their smartphone, on their smatTV or in the cloud.

They have to put it because European law obliges them to, they can't use your data for advertising without your consent.

If you choose no, you will see ads that are less relevant to you, but you also have the certainty that they cannot use your data.

No, as long as many games bypass the Windows Store and are not released with Xbox achievements and features, and it's not possible to play the full library I already have from Xbox, this is not an Xbox, and therefore I'm not interested.

They've done a great job, although I think games with rendered backgrounds had a unique charm that is lost in this type of remastering.

I have the PC connected to the TV in the living room, I use it similarly to a console.

Yesterday it was updated and now the letters appear giant, I guess they have done it thinking about the screen of the Xbox Ally, but it looks terrible on a big TV xD

Let's see if at some point they implement the possibility to turn on the PC from the controller, it is one of the uncomfortable points using the PC as a console.

I tried to play it on PS4, but it was very difficult for me, it had major control and performance issues. If in X Series the game get 60fps and they have polished the control and interface, I will complete it at last, it is a saga that I love.

Xbox Series X is a spectacular hardware, objectively much better than PS5, but managed by a terrible group of businessmen.