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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.

I'm sick of developers treating some gamers like second-class users.

A year ago I would have bought it, not now, if for them Xbox gamers are not important, for me, a Xbox gamer, their game is not important.

Honestly, at this point, I don't know what Xbox could do to get me excited. The brand is probably at its lowest point in its entire history, at least in the eyes of its most loyal users. I guess announcing many more first-party games from the competition.

In any case, guarantees that the Xbox platform has a future. What I would most like to see is more Xbox marketing, better Xbox Series sales, and fewer games that ignore the platform.

@Llamageddon I would say that at this point, they don't care about market share in Europe, the US, Asia, or anywhere else in the world.

They have to put order, the store is currently in chaos.

If they get serious and force developers to use SmartDelivery, PlayAnywhere, include Xbox achievements... the store will be a much better place.

The problem is that this contrasts with the other big problem of the store: many games don't arrive or arrive very late. If developers already have trouble including the Windows Store in their releases, imposing strict rules may make this worse.

I wouldn't know how to fix this, but something has to be done.

@Kaloudz yep, it's just permadeath, in the first Hellblade it was quite controversial because it wasn't optional xD

I think there are too many questions surrounding Xbox Ally that need to be clarified, especially the reason for calling the device “Xbox.”

I don't know what she contributed to Xbox, but something tells me we wouldn't miss her much either.

Basically yes.

I think this goes by fads, right now driving simulators, which was already a niche genre, are in the doldrums.

But the least expected day, when nobody remembers them anymore, one will appear that will make the genre popular again, as it happened with Flight Simulator.

I played it a while ago and I liked it, forgettable story and protagonist, but playably it's a lot of fun.

I would be replaying it again if it had achievements on PC, but unfortunately what they have put on Gamepass doesn't have any Xbox features

I see it like this: consoles are a device that is placed next to the TV to play games. They are the same as DVD players were a few years ago.

And the question is how many people still have a player next to the TV to watch movies? It's a question they have to be asking themselves at Microsoft, but by the looks of it at Sony as well.

@Weebleman For some of the things that were said during June this Xbox Ally should play the role of a lab for a while.

That is, being a bit pessimistic, I don't think we will see all the major performance improvements on Windows on day one, nor the “Xbox mode” on other devices anytime soon.

And well, I think it makes sense, first it will be released in beta and then it will be improved, something similar to what they have done with Xbox Cloud.

For those who love indie games, Gamepass is paradise.

@DonkeyFantasy Well, the Windows Store has improved quite a bit over the years, I think it's a decent place to start generating a library of games. I'm buying some games there even though they are available on Steam.

For me the Windows Store still has two major problems:

-Many games just don't arrive or arrive very late, this is something they need to fix somehow.

-Games that are released have to use Xbox features, there is no point in making a game available to buy if it then ignores achievements and all the features that define Xbox games as Xbox games.

If they don't even have Xbox achievements, I don't see the point in releasing them in the store. No one is going to buy them there if there's no incentive.

The JRPG genre, and especially turn-based combat, have not been able to reinvent themselves over the years, Expedition 33 has a great combat system, with a great use of parrys, but for years or there have been no great ideas, or has been abandoned by real-time combat.