@BAMozzy I genuinely think that if the Nextbox has Steam and it doesn’t cost the earth it will appeal as much, if not more to Steam only players who want a reasonably powered box under their tv to play their games. For once I think you are underselling the appeal of a hybrid in saying it’s mainly for current Xbox users. There are about 40mil Series consoles in the wild and about as many Gamepass subscribers (and those are charitable estimates)…..Steam has about 70 million daily logins and 130mil monthly logins which have been steadily growing year on year. Do not underestimate the amount of people who could buy the next Xbox solely for a console Steam experience and never use it to play a single Xbox or Gamepass game.
@Fiendish-Beaver If steam is on the Nextbox I could see MS only allowing a proper nerfed down big picture mode because frankly on PC the Xbox can’t compete. Things like searching the store I can get down into granular detail of “I want a roguelite fps, costing between £10-£15, must have co op, at least a positive rating and support the Dualsense controller” and do exactly the same with grouping my library. The moment people start exploring CDkeys or find out about the 3 click no questions asked refund policy from Steam direct the jig is up.
@BAMozzy yep but Steam already has all of that. If Steam is on the Nextbox it is going to have my entire library (not just play anywhere titles), achievements, my steam friends, my humble choice games, my mods and every cloud save.
I don’t want to put words in his mouth but the point I think @Fiendish-Beaver was making is that anyone who is currently Xbox only who buys the next one is quickly going to realise that Steam offers more functionality, more games, better sales, more options for purchase and a better version of play anywhere. Even the staunchest Xbox fans will likely start building Steam libraries and potentially make it their first choice platform. As good as Gamepass is it is truly a tiny tiny fraction of all the games available that end up on it. For most PC gamers it is not a replacement for buying games and that’s because the choice and quality available on Steam at dirt cheap prices is simply too good to avoid.
@BAMozzy Play Anywhere is not going to be a major reason for people to buy into the Xbox ecosystem over Steam unless the entire library is Play Anywhere. Steam has essentially had its own version of this for well over a decade. Any purchases on Steam will carry over to any platform that runs Steam with cloud saves be it a PC, handheld or the speculation Nextbox. Maybe 10% of my purchases I buy on Xbox/Xbox PC will be playable across both platforms and handheld. I understand Play Anywhere is good and better than anything Sony or Nintendo are offering for PC but claiming it can compete with what Steam offers, particularly if the Nextbox runs Steam, is naive.
I downloaded void/breaker last night and it was buggy as hell. The screen wasn’t centred and it wasn’t registering my mouse location or clicks so I couldn’t even try and sort it out. Tried three times but had to task manager my way out of each one so in the end uninstalled. Disappointing because it looks right up my street.
@DonnieTACO Some of the ways I have used the Steamdeck:
Sitting out in the sun
On the couch in front of the tv
In bed
I’m truly ashamed to say but on the toilet
Flights/trains
Downtime on a holiday e.g waiting for the wife to shower and get ready before an evening meal
I take it to my mates and play multiplayer games with him while he’s on his PC
As a mini PC while docked to a monitor (before I got an actual PC)
Reasons I love it:
I was a console only gamer before getting the deck. Even with power limitations it opens the door to hundreds if not thousands of games that aren’t on console.
PC games tend to be much cheaper than their console alternatives
Mods!
I can stream Xbox and PS5 games from my console
A more open ecosystem with different storefronts (which will be even easier to access on an ally)
More options on how and where I purchase my games such as Fanatical and Humble
They absolutely aren’t for everyone, especially at the high price entry point but they are a fantastic gateway drug into PC gaming and great for people with kids who don’t necessarily have full access to their console tv all the time.
@BAMozzy good point well made. Gone are the days of mind boggling generational leaps like we had between the earlier generations and I’m personally ok with that. In general the sentiment about this generation has been pretty negative but we have got lightning fast load times, 60fps as standard, quick resume on Xbox, Haptics on PS5, a dramatic increase in streaming quality and some of the most graphically impressive games ever. Tbh I have found the leap between Xbox One/PS4 > Series/PS5 more impressive than 360/PS3 > Xbox One leap and this generation has pumped out some of my instant top 10 games.
Next gen is likely going to be even more disappointing for people who hate this one because the gains are going to be even less noticeable. Probably targeting 120fps for performance modes and 60fps with ray tracing for graphics modes.
@Kezelpaso Yeh I’m sure they are working hard to get it on Switch 2 and I think it would do very well. If I was Nintendo I would be banging on Phil Spencer’s door waving that signed document in their faces though.
@Kezelpaso Oh I completely agree which is why it was a silly commitment to make in the first place but MS are the ones who claimed day one parity for Switch and its successor following closure of the deal. It’s almost like they were willing to say/do anything to get the deal over the line and in the intervening 2 years we have seen how much of it was lies.
They are doing a terrible job of honouring this 10 year commitment to bring call of duty to Switch. This will be the third COD released since they closed the ABK deal and not a Switch port in sight.
I have tried a few of the old Mafia games and didn’t enjoy them all that much so have very little intention of buying this one. Good for them though, it’s always good to see a game do well.
Unless they plan to make the entire Xbox back catalogue (third party included) play anywhere they need to rethink their advertising on this. It has class action lawsuit written all over it.
@Elbow I have a Deck and I love it but I wouldn’t say the library is bigger than the Ally which won’t require dual booting to access to Xbox PC, Gamepass, Gog and Epic. Not to mention the Ally is more powerful so likely to run games that the deck struggles with or just outright doesn’t support. I personally won’t be swapping my Deck for various reasons; price, steam verification system, the trackpads etc but if I was purely chasing the option to play the most games I may be tempted.
*Unless of course you specifically just mean Play Anywhere titles in which case yes Steam is amazing for it. They didn’t even need to come up with a catchy name like “Play Anywhere” because it’s just kind of accepted that if I buy a steam game I can play it on any PC/Handheld with access to a steam client and carry my saves over instantly. Still applies to the Ally though because I could play my steam library there.
@Grippie I think it entirely depends what the launcher would do. If I can play my first party PlayStation games on PC without buying them again on Steam then I’m all for another launcher. Naturally people will complain about anything and everything anyway but I don’t see how Sony adopting their own version of play anywhere could possibly be seen as a bad thing.
@Millionski Strictly speaking it should score higher. It has had 2 years of bug fixes, QOL updates and a 60fps option added. It is objectively a better game now then it was at launch and will likely be in an even better state when it releases on PS next year.....Still not a particularly good game mind but its always better to have your high hopes smashed in 60fps!
Cool feature but would have still liked the option to choose which version of the game to install. I would rather be able to play indie and some AA games from my external hard drive where the S/X upgrades are negligible but they are taking up valuable SSD space instead.
Personally at the higher price point I would rather just get a gaming laptop. You can get a 4060 laptop in the UK for less than £900 which is going to offer more power and more versatility.
@BAMozzy “It mislead the Gamers who believed the game was much closer to releasing and probably led their boss (Matt Booty head of Studios) to believe things were progressing well”
If that slice is the only thing Matt Booty bothered to look at in 7 years of development he deserves to be sacked. It’s even worse if that’s the only thing he saw and then had no further questions because it was quite clearly not pure gameplay. Xbox have, once again, mismanaged their studios and no amount of blaming the devs will change that.
@Kaloudz I could kind of see your point if MS acquired Rare halfway through Everwild development but they have owned them since 2002! I feel a reasonable portion of the blame should be on Xbox/MS for mismanaging their studio. I know we don’t know exactly who has been cut but I’m willing to bet it’s the people who are on the receiving end of bad decisions rather than those making the decisions.
@Toot1st Thoughts? You love complaining on pushsquare whenever they post anything Xbox related that has nothing to do with PS so I thought you’d be all over this bad boy.
I predominantly play on PC having got myself a new one at the start of the year but play anywhere and the recent gamepass lineup has meant I’m using my Series X more nowadays then I have since I got it in 2021. I’d consider Steam my primary platform though.
I wouldn’t mind it so much if I thought it was anything more than a poorly disguised opportunity to force DLC adverts down our throats. The paid extras for any games that have them (which is most) are front and centre of this new hub. Just incase MTXs weren’t already obnoxious enough within the games themselves, Xbox are doing their best to ensure they find their way into our dashboard experience as well. But even without my cynical take this should have been opt in rather than opt out.
No because the ‘announcements’ have mainly been vague marketing jargon. If the absolute best case scenario happens where they release an affordable console that plays all my Xbox, PC and Gamepass games then I’ll get excited. Until then I will assume Xbox are doing what they do best which is hyping up their fanbase to eventually disappoint them
This new tactic of taking pre existing products and branding them with Xbox logos is so quintessentially Microsoft. Why create something new or contribute meaningfully to the tech landscape when you can just buy the right to take credit for it and use it to drag people into your subscription service. Leeches
“ delivering you an Xbox experience not locked to a single store or tied to one device”…A lot of people have jumped to the conclusion this means multiple store fronts but it could simply mean they are fully doing away with PC vs Console for their own software. Currently Xbox PC and Xbox console are two very different stores with different games and capabilities. Xbox have been making great strides at addressing that with Play Anywhere but take the quote at the most cynical level (which is how I usually approach these vague MS marketing videos) and it could just be they are truly unifying their own store fronts into one.
As cool, and expensive 😬, as it would be having a console experience with all the PC launchers I just think there’s too many hoops for MS to jump through technically. But at the same time I have no clue what I’m talking about. I love it for the consumer but there’s no way it’s coming in under £1000 if it does what everyone hopes it’s going to do which just makes it a really weird value proposition for your average console gamer. It would show they are all in on chasing the enthusiast market rather than the general market.
@BAMozzy Nope...Doom 2016 is not available to buy on Xbox PC app or via Gamepass PC. Only available via Steam. But you know what I could do pretty easily? Play it docked on the Switch and then take it with me and play it natively in handheld mode with my saves.
@BAMozzy "Take Doom 2016 as an example as you mentioned it, I can buy that on Xbox and play it on a RoG Ally at 60fps on the SAME save"....no you cant its not even available on Xbox PC let alone Play Anywhere. Even Doom Eternal isnt Play Anywhere which is the problem a lot of people have with this...only a tiny percentage of peoples "Xbox" games will actually be available to play on PC.
@BAMozzy Ok you have really focused on the past there. I’m saying there’s absolutely no chance every future third party game is going to be play anywhere. Xbox don’t have the clout to demand it and if they try there’s a reasonable chance your Ubisofts, Capcoms, Fromsofts etc are just going to tell them to get stuffed and not publish on Xbox atall.
I have a PC and I use Play Anywhere regularly so your optimistic utopian vision would benefit me greatly but it simply ain’t happening. I haven’t bought many games this year but would have bought Monster Hunter Wilds, Shadows, KCD2, Two point museum and Planet Coaster 2 on Xbox if they were play anywhere….the last two especially seem like they would have been made for it but Steam gets my money instead.
@BAMozzy I watched the show….every game shown wasn’t every game ever created. The current and future play anywhere game list is still a drop in the ocean.
Id give it an A. Really enjoyed it but by god the World Premier, Gamepass and Play Anywhere banners after/before everything got obnoxious. Particualrly after Sarah Bond said "everything you see will be play anywhere"
@BAMozzy "Play Anywhere could be a Game Changer if 3rd Party Publishers embrace it to" They wont....why sell it once for 2 systems when they can sell it twice.
@Questionable_Duck the actual quote is “The only thing missing is the Xbox. Which somehow feels a bit wrong, but that 10GB of shared memory – without years of optimisation experience – is really hard to make work.” Which is very different to saying it’s going to take years to optimise. They are saying as a company they don’t have that optimisation background so don’t have the experience to draw from, not “from this very point in time it is going to take us years to optimise”….i mean as part of the same Weibo post your drawing from he also outright denied that there was any exclusivity deal with Sony so that really should be evidence enough.
As mentioned on Push square and conveniently omitted here it’s a special date given the game was announced on 20th Aug 2020, released on Aug 20th 2024 and the legendary Sun Wukong’s birthday is, you guessed it, Aug 20th. Dates and numbers hold significance in Chinese culture and this is clearly a special one for Game Science. I suppose we can’t beat the “Sony is evil” drum if we apply logic, evidence and cultural nuance to a situation though.
@themightyant Yep agreed. With gamepass and quick resume I would almost certainly have more games installed on my Series X than my PS5 but I refuse to spend the current asking price for single use propriety storage. As someone who is terrified of tinkering with hardware I appreciate the plug and play aspect but installing the SSD on my PS5 was surprisingly easy and took less than 10 minutes with a YouTube video.
@Nintendo4Sonic I would like to add to @LogicStrikesAgain comment that in 2021 I picked up a 1TB WD Black SSD in a Black Friday sale for £170 (which looks like a crap deal now but I was buzzing at the time). I could get the same SSD for £120 today or the 2TB version for £180. And these are in the higher price bracket for SSDs…..a 1TB Crucial is less than £80. I reckon they have dropped about 30% in price over the last 4 years which is pretty substantial considering the prices of the consoles themselves have actually increased.
@BAMozzy ok so unlike you I actually have a Steamdeck and quite literally one of the first things I did with it is put it into desktop mode (2 button presses), surfed the web, downloaded some software off GitHub, connected it to a monitor and tinkered with the display settings, browsed the Linux store etc. I don’t understand the logic that the Steamdeck is not a handheld PC but the Rog Ally is? Well actually I know the logic it’s because you will shill for absolutely anything Microsoft related. Anyway because your not going to take my word for it here’s an article on RPS https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-is-the-steam-deck-as-a-desktop-pc and I encourage you to google “The best handheld PCs”….I can guarantee the Steamdeck, along with the Ally will appear on 99% of the lists. They both do the same thing but one is built on Linux and launches into a dedicated gaming OS and the other is built on windows which it launches into, for now. I assure you I can use the Steamdeck as a pretty capable PC out the box.
@BAMozzy Your first comment didn’t mention windows once, you literally just said Steamdeck isn’t a handheld pc and I was correcting you because it is. A PC with Linux rather than windows is still a PC and your specific OS preference doesn’t change that.
@BAMozzy “I’d rather have a handheld PC than a handheld switch or steamdeck”
The Steamdeck is a handheld pc. You not understanding Linux or dual booting windows doesn’t make it any less of a handheld pc. Not only that but it is the best selling handheld pc by a significant margin.
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Re: Best Buy Lists Prices For ROG Xbox Ally Before Quickly Removing Them
Does it not come with a case?!? Even the cheapest model of the Steamdeck comes with a case and it’s £200 less.
Re: Xbox Exec Talks About Three Core Aims For Microsoft's Next Console
@BAMozzy I genuinely think that if the Nextbox has Steam and it doesn’t cost the earth it will appeal as much, if not more to Steam only players who want a reasonably powered box under their tv to play their games. For once I think you are underselling the appeal of a hybrid in saying it’s mainly for current Xbox users. There are about 40mil Series consoles in the wild and about as many Gamepass subscribers (and those are charitable estimates)…..Steam has about 70 million daily logins and 130mil monthly logins which have been steadily growing year on year. Do not underestimate the amount of people who could buy the next Xbox solely for a console Steam experience and never use it to play a single Xbox or Gamepass game.
Re: Xbox Exec Talks About Three Core Aims For Microsoft's Next Console
@Fiendish-Beaver If steam is on the Nextbox I could see MS only allowing a proper nerfed down big picture mode because frankly on PC the Xbox can’t compete. Things like searching the store I can get down into granular detail of “I want a roguelite fps, costing between £10-£15, must have co op, at least a positive rating and support the Dualsense controller” and do exactly the same with grouping my library. The moment people start exploring CDkeys or find out about the 3 click no questions asked refund policy from Steam direct the jig is up.
Re: Xbox Exec Talks About Three Core Aims For Microsoft's Next Console
@BAMozzy yep but Steam already has all of that. If Steam is on the Nextbox it is going to have my entire library (not just play anywhere titles), achievements, my steam friends, my humble choice games, my mods and every cloud save.
I don’t want to put words in his mouth but the point I think @Fiendish-Beaver was making is that anyone who is currently Xbox only who buys the next one is quickly going to realise that Steam offers more functionality, more games, better sales, more options for purchase and a better version of play anywhere. Even the staunchest Xbox fans will likely start building Steam libraries and potentially make it their first choice platform. As good as Gamepass is it is truly a tiny tiny fraction of all the games available that end up on it. For most PC gamers it is not a replacement for buying games and that’s because the choice and quality available on Steam at dirt cheap prices is simply too good to avoid.
Re: Xbox Exec Talks About Three Core Aims For Microsoft's Next Console
@BAMozzy Play Anywhere is not going to be a major reason for people to buy into the Xbox ecosystem over Steam unless the entire library is Play Anywhere. Steam has essentially had its own version of this for well over a decade. Any purchases on Steam will carry over to any platform that runs Steam with cloud saves be it a PC, handheld or the speculation Nextbox. Maybe 10% of my purchases I buy on Xbox/Xbox PC will be playable across both platforms and handheld. I understand Play Anywhere is good and better than anything Sony or Nintendo are offering for PC but claiming it can compete with what Steam offers, particularly if the Nextbox runs Steam, is naive.
Re: Four More Games Are Now Available With Xbox Game Pass (August 19-20)
I downloaded void/breaker last night and it was buggy as hell. The screen wasn’t centred and it wasn’t registering my mouse location or clicks so I couldn’t even try and sort it out. Tried three times but had to task manager my way out of each one so in the end uninstalled. Disappointing because it looks right up my street.
Re: Microsoft Explains Target Audiences For ROG Xbox Ally And ROG Xbox Ally X
@DonnieTACO Some of the ways I have used the Steamdeck:
Reasons I love it:
They absolutely aren’t for everyone, especially at the high price entry point but they are a fantastic gateway drug into PC gaming and great for people with kids who don’t necessarily have full access to their console tv all the time.
Re: Xbox Exec Talks About Three Core Aims For Microsoft's Next Console
@BAMozzy good point well made. Gone are the days of mind boggling generational leaps like we had between the earlier generations and I’m personally ok with that. In general the sentiment about this generation has been pretty negative but we have got lightning fast load times, 60fps as standard, quick resume on Xbox, Haptics on PS5, a dramatic increase in streaming quality and some of the most graphically impressive games ever. Tbh I have found the leap between Xbox One/PS4 > Series/PS5 more impressive than 360/PS3 > Xbox One leap and this generation has pumped out some of my instant top 10 games.
Next gen is likely going to be even more disappointing for people who hate this one because the gains are going to be even less noticeable. Probably targeting 120fps for performance modes and 60fps with ray tracing for graphics modes.
Re: Report: Microsoft Has No Plans To Bring Black Ops 7 To Switch 2 At Launch
@WildConcept6 Nintendo could make a s**t ton of money off this deal with very little effort so I’m sure they are pretty interested.
Re: Report: Microsoft Has No Plans To Bring Black Ops 7 To Switch 2 At Launch
@Kezelpaso Yeh I’m sure they are working hard to get it on Switch 2 and I think it would do very well. If I was Nintendo I would be banging on Phil Spencer’s door waving that signed document in their faces though.
Re: Report: Microsoft Has No Plans To Bring Black Ops 7 To Switch 2 At Launch
@Kezelpaso Oh I completely agree which is why it was a silly commitment to make in the first place but MS are the ones who claimed day one parity for Switch and its successor following closure of the deal. It’s almost like they were willing to say/do anything to get the deal over the line and in the intervening 2 years we have seen how much of it was lies.
Re: Report: Microsoft Has No Plans To Bring Black Ops 7 To Switch 2 At Launch
They are doing a terrible job of honouring this 10 year commitment to bring call of duty to Switch. This will be the third COD released since they closed the ABK deal and not a Switch port in sight.
Re: Mafia: The Old Country Off To 'Strong' Start Across All Platforms, Says New Sales Analysis
I have tried a few of the old Mafia games and didn’t enjoy them all that much so have very little intention of buying this one. Good for them though, it’s always good to see a game do well.
Re: ROG Xbox Ally Infographic Appears Alongside Early Amazon Listing
#PlaySOMEofYourGames
Unless they plan to make the entire Xbox back catalogue (third party included) play anywhere they need to rethink their advertising on this. It has class action lawsuit written all over it.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Hoping To See At Gamescom 2025?
@Elbow I have a Deck and I love it but I wouldn’t say the library is bigger than the Ally which won’t require dual booting to access to Xbox PC, Gamepass, Gog and Epic. Not to mention the Ally is more powerful so likely to run games that the deck struggles with or just outright doesn’t support. I personally won’t be swapping my Deck for various reasons; price, steam verification system, the trackpads etc but if I was purely chasing the option to play the most games I may be tempted.
*Unless of course you specifically just mean Play Anywhere titles in which case yes Steam is amazing for it. They didn’t even need to come up with a catchy name like “Play Anywhere” because it’s just kind of accepted that if I buy a steam game I can play it on any PC/Handheld with access to a steam client and carry my saves over instantly. Still applies to the Ally though because I could play my steam library there.
Re: Grounded 2 Is Off To An Impressive Start On Steam & Xbox Game Pass
Congrats Obsidian! Not played it myself yet but I intend to in the not too distant future.
Re: Sony SVP Says PlayStation Is 'Moving Away From A Hardware-Centric Business Model'
@Grippie I think it entirely depends what the launcher would do. If I can play my first party PlayStation games on PC without buying them again on Steam then I’m all for another launcher. Naturally people will complain about anything and everything anyway but I don’t see how Sony adopting their own version of play anywhere could possibly be seen as a bad thing.
Re: These 9 Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (August 5-14)
9 Kings is meant to be excellent so that's a get for me.
Re: Pick One: What Was Your Favourite Xbox Game Pass Addition In July 2025?
Tony Hawks for me but I’m enjoying Abiotic Factor as well.
Re: Here's Everything That Was Revealed At The THQ Nordic Showcase 2025
The Eternal Life of Goldman looks awesome. Great trailer
Re: Report: Starfield PS5 Port Planned For Spring 2026 Alongside New Expansion
@Millionski Strictly speaking it should score higher. It has had 2 years of bug fixes, QOL updates and a 60fps option added. It is objectively a better game now then it was at launch and will likely be in an even better state when it releases on PS next year.....Still not a particularly good game mind but its always better to have your high hopes smashed in 60fps!
Re: Baldur's Gate 3's Latest Update Targets Various Xbox-Specific Issues
@Sol4ris Forza Horizon 5 has been getting bug fixes pretty much every month since it released four years ago….must be crap eh? https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/sections/4408834302355-Release-Notes-and-Known-Issues
Re: Two Xbox First-Party Games Now Shipping On Disc In 2025, Says Retailer
Am I right in reading on the tweet that only the Deluxe and Premium editions will get disks suggesting the standard versions won’t?
Re: Xbox Game Pass Contributed To 'An All-Time High' For Subscription Spending Last Month (US)
Surely its not coincidence this massively jumped up the same month the Switch 2 and a new Mario Kart released.
Re: Talking Point: Looking Back, How Useful Has Smart Delivery Been To You On Xbox?
Cool feature but would have still liked the option to choose which version of the game to install. I would rather be able to play indie and some AA games from my external hard drive where the S/X upgrades are negligible but they are taking up valuable SSD space instead.
Re: Talking Point: As A Game Pass Subscriber, Do You Still Spend Money In Xbox Sales?
I don’t buy anything on my Xbox so no
Re: ASUS Seems To Have Accidentally Leaked The ROG Xbox Ally Prices (In Europe)
Personally at the higher price point I would rather just get a gaming laptop. You can get a 4060 laptop in the UK for less than £900 which is going to offer more power and more versatility.
Re: Perfect Dark Developer Responds To 'Big Controversy' Over 2024 Gameplay Trailer
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Re: Perfect Dark Developer Responds To 'Big Controversy' Over 2024 Gameplay Trailer
@BAMozzy “It mislead the Gamers who believed the game was much closer to releasing and probably led their boss (Matt Booty head of Studios) to believe things were progressing well”
If that slice is the only thing Matt Booty bothered to look at in 7 years of development he deserves to be sacked. It’s even worse if that’s the only thing
he saw and then had no further questions because it was quite clearly not pure gameplay. Xbox have, once again, mismanaged their studios and no amount of blaming the devs will change that.
Re: Xbox's Everwild Reportedly Cancelled As Layoffs Hit Sea Of Thieves Developer
@Kaloudz I could kind of see your point if MS acquired Rare halfway through Everwild development but they have owned them since 2002! I feel a reasonable portion of the blame should be on Xbox/MS for mismanaging their studio. I know we don’t know exactly who has been cut but I’m willing to bet it’s the people who are on the receiving end of bad decisions rather than those making the decisions.
Re: PS Plus Has 'Surpassed Expectations' Since Becoming More Like Xbox Game Pass
@Toot1st Thoughts? You love complaining on pushsquare whenever they post anything Xbox related that has nothing to do with PS so I thought you’d be all over this bad boy.
Re: Xbox Data Shows 'Most' Console Owners Are Playing On Other Devices As Well, Says Exec
I predominantly play on PC having got myself a new one at the start of the year but play anywhere and the recent gamepass lineup has meant I’m using my Series X more nowadays then I have since I got it in 2021. I’d consider Steam my primary platform though.
Re: Don't Like The New Xbox Game Hubs? Here's How To Turn Them Off
I wouldn’t mind it so much if I thought it was anything more than a poorly disguised opportunity to force DLC adverts down our throats. The paid extras for any games that have them (which is most) are front and centre of this new hub. Just incase MTXs weren’t already obnoxious enough within the games themselves, Xbox are doing their best to ensure they find their way into our dashboard experience as well. But even without my cynical take this should have been opt in rather than opt out.
Re: Talking Point: Have This Month's Announcements Made You Excited About Xbox Again?
No because the ‘announcements’ have mainly been vague marketing jargon. If the absolute best case scenario happens where they release an affordable console that plays all my Xbox, PC and Gamepass games then I’ll get excited. Until then I will assume Xbox are doing what they do best which is hyping up their fanbase to eventually disappoint them
Re: 'Xbox Edition' Meta Quest VR Headset Leaks Ahead Of Rumoured Release Next Week
This new tactic of taking pre existing products and branding them with Xbox logos is so quintessentially Microsoft. Why create something new or contribute meaningfully to the tech landscape when you can just buy the right to take credit for it and use it to drag people into your subscription service. Leeches
Re: Reaction: Xbox's Next-Gen News Is Exciting, But It Also Leaves More Questions Than Answers
“ delivering you an Xbox experience not locked to a single store or tied to one device”…A lot of people have jumped to the conclusion this means multiple store fronts but it could simply mean they are fully doing away with PC vs Console for their own software. Currently Xbox PC and Xbox console are two very different stores with different games and capabilities. Xbox have been making great strides at addressing that with Play Anywhere but take the quote at the most cynical level (which is how I usually approach these vague MS marketing videos) and it could just be they are truly unifying their own store fronts into one.
As cool, and expensive 😬, as it would be having a console experience with all the PC launchers I just think there’s too many hoops for MS to jump through technically. But at the same time I have no clue what I’m talking about. I love it for the consumer but there’s no way it’s coming in under £1000 if it does what everyone hopes it’s going to do which just makes it a really weird value proposition for your average console gamer. It would show they are all in on chasing the enthusiast market rather than the general market.
Re: ROG Xbox Ally Gets Price & Release Date Info In 'Exclusive' Report
@BAMozzy Nope...Doom 2016 is not available to buy on Xbox PC app or via Gamepass PC. Only available via Steam. But you know what I could do pretty easily? Play it docked on the Switch and then take it with me and play it natively in handheld mode with my saves.
Re: ROG Xbox Ally Gets Price & Release Date Info In 'Exclusive' Report
@BAMozzy "Take Doom 2016 as an example as you mentioned it, I can buy that on Xbox and play it on a RoG Ally at 60fps on the SAME save"....no you cant its not even available on Xbox PC let alone Play Anywhere. Even Doom Eternal isnt Play Anywhere which is the problem a lot of people have with this...only a tiny percentage of peoples "Xbox" games will actually be available to play on PC.
Re: Xbox Handheld Is Called 'ROG Xbox Ally', Releases Holiday 2025
@BAMozzy Ok you have really focused on the past there. I’m saying there’s absolutely no chance every future third party game is going to be play anywhere. Xbox don’t have the clout to demand it and if they try there’s a reasonable chance your Ubisofts, Capcoms, Fromsofts etc are just going to tell them to get stuffed and not publish on Xbox atall.
I have a PC and I use Play Anywhere regularly so your optimistic utopian vision would benefit me greatly but it simply ain’t happening. I haven’t bought many games this year but would have bought Monster Hunter Wilds, Shadows, KCD2, Two point museum and Planet Coaster 2 on Xbox if they were play anywhere….the last two especially seem like they would have been made for it but Steam gets my money instead.
Re: Xbox Handheld Is Called 'ROG Xbox Ally', Releases Holiday 2025
@BAMozzy I watched the show….every game shown wasn’t every game ever created. The current and future play anywhere game list is still a drop in the ocean.
Re: Poll: How Would You Grade The Xbox Games Showcase 2025?
Id give it an A. Really enjoyed it but by god the World Premier, Gamepass and Play Anywhere banners after/before everything got obnoxious. Particualrly after Sarah Bond said "everything you see will be play anywhere"
Re: Xbox Handheld Is Called 'ROG Xbox Ally', Releases Holiday 2025
@BAMozzy "Play Anywhere could be a Game Changer if 3rd Party Publishers embrace it to" They wont....why sell it once for 2 systems when they can sell it twice.
Re: Surprise! Black Myth: Wukong Finally Has A Release Date For Xbox
@Questionable_Duck the actual quote is “The only thing missing is the Xbox. Which somehow feels a bit wrong, but that 10GB of shared memory – without years of optimisation experience – is really hard to make work.” Which is very different to saying it’s going to take years to optimise. They are saying as a company they don’t have that optimisation background so don’t have the experience to draw from, not “from this very point in time it is going to take us years to optimise”….i mean as part of the same Weibo post your drawing from he also outright denied that there was any exclusivity deal with Sony so that really should be evidence enough.
Re: Surprise! Black Myth: Wukong Finally Has A Release Date For Xbox
As mentioned on Push square and conveniently omitted here it’s a special date given the game was announced on 20th Aug 2020, released on Aug 20th 2024 and the legendary Sun Wukong’s birthday is, you guessed it, Aug 20th. Dates and numbers hold significance in Chinese culture and this is clearly a special one for Game Science. I suppose we can’t beat the “Sony is evil” drum if we apply logic, evidence and cultural nuance to a situation though.
Re: Xbox Quietly Releases New 4TB Expansion Card For Series X|S
@themightyant Yep agreed. With gamepass and quick resume I would almost certainly have more games installed on my Series X than my PS5 but I refuse to spend the current asking price for single use propriety storage. As someone who is terrified of tinkering with hardware I appreciate the plug and play aspect but installing the SSD on my PS5 was surprisingly easy and took less than 10 minutes with a YouTube video.
Re: Xbox Quietly Releases New 4TB Expansion Card For Series X|S
@Nintendo4Sonic I would like to add to @LogicStrikesAgain comment that in 2021 I picked up a 1TB WD Black SSD in a Black Friday sale for £170 (which looks like a crap deal now but I was buzzing at the time). I could get the same SSD for £120 today or the 2TB version for £180. And these are in the higher price bracket for SSDs…..a 1TB Crucial is less than £80. I reckon they have dropped about 30% in price over the last 4 years which is pretty substantial considering the prices of the consoles themselves have actually increased.
Re: Pick One: What Was Your Favourite Xbox Game Pass Game In May 2025?
I’m playing it on Steam but Monster Train 2.
Re: Talking Point: Will You Be Buying The 2025 Xbox Handheld From ASUS?
@BAMozzy ok so unlike you I actually have a Steamdeck and quite literally one of the first things I did with it is put it into desktop mode (2 button presses), surfed the web, downloaded some software off GitHub, connected it to a monitor and tinkered with the display settings, browsed the Linux store etc. I don’t understand the logic that the Steamdeck is not a handheld PC but the Rog Ally is? Well actually I know the logic it’s because you will shill for absolutely anything Microsoft related. Anyway because your not going to take my word for it here’s an article on RPS https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-is-the-steam-deck-as-a-desktop-pc and I encourage you to google “The best handheld PCs”….I can guarantee the Steamdeck, along with the Ally will appear on 99% of the lists. They both do the same thing but one is built on Linux and launches into a dedicated gaming OS and the other is built on windows which it launches into, for now. I assure you I can use the Steamdeck as a pretty capable PC out the box.
Re: Talking Point: Will You Be Buying The 2025 Xbox Handheld From ASUS?
@BAMozzy Your first comment didn’t mention windows once, you literally just said Steamdeck isn’t a handheld pc and I was correcting you because it is. A PC with Linux rather than windows is still a PC and your specific OS preference doesn’t change that.
Re: Talking Point: Will You Be Buying The 2025 Xbox Handheld From ASUS?
@BAMozzy “I’d rather have a handheld PC than a handheld switch or steamdeck”
The Steamdeck is a handheld pc. You not understanding Linux or dual booting windows doesn’t make it any less of a handheld pc. Not only that but it is the best selling handheld pc by a significant margin.