He's right, it won't live up to expectations. Not because it won't be as good, but because Skyrim was slightly head of the curve for western open-world RPGs, and it's been built up into this monolithic "best of all time" game over the years...when really it's just a pretty good wrpg.
I'm not holding my breath, if this was hinting toward anything substantial, it likely would have gotten out...especially if MS put VV back together in some capacity to do 3+4, I don't think you could hide that...someone would absolutely leak it.
@Elbow The problem isn't necessarily that they're dated, which also isn't a big deal to me either, more that they're mostly just not very good. Shattered Dimensions is the one that holds up the best out of that bunch in my estimation but, once Treyarch and Vicarious Visions were relegated to Call of Duty support and Beenox took over Spidey games, there was a big, big decline in quality.
And for MiM, Platinum got Tom Waltz (who wrote the first 100 issues of the IDW run) write the game! I just replayed it last year and really don't understand why people didn't like it at the time, I loved it when it came out and had a blast playing through it again!
@Elbow You're honestly not missing anything with the old Spider-Man games, they were great at the time, but none of them hold up. Mutants in Manhattan is still pretty great, though.
@GuyinPA75 I wouldn't count on it. Only played a little of this beta, but put over 30 hours into the previous one and as far as I can tell they did little (if any) balancing between this build and the last. I get the distinct impression that balance is taking a backseat to style and overall fun.
I have two, both about 2 years old. One themed after Spider-Gwen, one themed after She-Hulk. I do use the Gwen themed one more, but do swap between them semi-regularly. Both work and look exactly the same as they day I got them. My only complaint, which is incredibly minor, is how absurdly loud the button presses are. The Gwen one doesn't have the rubber grips and is measurably louder than the She-Hulk one, which does have the grips. Other than that, though, zero issues.
Super excited by the prospect of a new MachineGames title, all but zero excitement for it being Indiana Jones...and that's coming from a 43 year old white dude...pretty much the exact demographic the IP is laser-targeted at.
Honestly, I think making a AAA marquee Indiana Jones game NOW is a massive waste of time, money, resources and the devs at MachineGames' immense talents.
Doom looks incredible and I'm intrigued by Fable, but I'd be lying if I said I had any interest in Gears...and Indy somehow ended up looking worse in action than the reveal trailer let on. I trust MachineGames implicitly, but I genuinely do not think that game is going to move the needle at all.
It was a good showcase, easily the best Xbox has had in years, but the only game that screamed MUST PLAY, at least to me, was South of Midnight and I'm increasingly both disappointed and annoyed at how little attention it's getting.
Everyone talks a big game about wanting new IP and experimentation but, when it comes down to it, the stuff that gets the biggest pops are the safe, comfortable, known quantities.
I'm sorry, but no, it did not "lock in an xbox release".
It's a limited-time, closed (meaning invite only) beta test. The full release isn't rumored to be until next year (though I could see it dropping late this year, the previous alpha test was VERY polished), and there is currently no announced or assumed release date.
And there doesn't "seem" to be a PS exclusive Scarlet Spider skin, it's not implied...it's right there, 100% confirmed, in plain text.
They can't convince people to use the Xbox app on PC...a platform THEY all but have a monopoly on...but, sure, spend millions building, launching, and maintaining a mobile storefront to try and compete with Apple and Google....
This is going to go exactly how anyone with half a brain cell thinks it's going to go.
Imagine being a studio known for one very specific thing, investing in an idea that's so far removed from what you made your name on that it could be seen as a huge risk (even at a lower budget), having that game release to immediate and universal critical and commercial acclaim, and giving your publisher the biggest new IP they've had in nearly 2 decades.
Then, when you go to pitch a sequel, they say "Counter offer, you're all fired."
Why would anyone want to work in this industry, again?
Now that DI2 is on Game Pass, I'm begging people to give it a shot.
It's so much better than it has any right to be and, if you're a big fan of Romero, it is exactly the kind of game that he would have made had he ever been given the chance. If last year hadn't been so insane with some of the best games ever, DI2 would have easily made my top 5.
I'm glad everyone expecting Phil to come out and say..."Xbox is dead, we're putting everything on Playstation. You're losing all your digital games and I'm headed to the server farm next to pull the plug, then I'm coming to the homes of each and every Xbox console owner to personally smash their consoles with a hammer"...got, uh, the exact opposite of that and all those "leaks" were entirely fabricated ragebait BS.
@ZYDIO Just look back through their comments in this thread, it's all reactionary, worst-case-scenario, jumping to insane conclusions based on...nothing of any circumstance. 12th-hand "news" reported by some rando, who was told by his uncle that works at Walmart, who was told by a regional rep, who heard it from one of the custodial staff at a hotel where Todd Howard took a meeting one time.
There's probably a nugget of truth in all of this, somewhere, but it's been so inflated and wildly overblown and none of these reactions are based in any kind of tangible reality.
*Insert Dr. Manhattan: Source?/I Made it TF Up" meme
Nate the Hate has now state he's rechecked his info, found that he was wrong, and that Starfield isn't coming to PS5.
Huh...it's almost as if this game of telephone we play with leakers, "insiders" and "trusted sources" on twitter ISN'T A RELIABLE PLACE FOR FACTUAL OR ACCURATE INFORMATION.
As I keep saying, until we hear it from the horse's mouth, it's a rumor and should be taken with a planet-sized grain of salt...even when "reliable" tweeters "report" it.
@Phantasystar77 It's real, real easy to "walk back" from nothing. I don't know why I have to keep explaining this, but we do not know what their plans are. We can make reasonable, logical guesses based on actual info (like the Hi-Fi Rush multiplatform datamine), but outside of that, all this doom and gloom is still nothing but pure speculation. It hasn't been a "month of silence", it's been a week...and as soon as the rumors started spreading and people started flipping the F out, Phil addressed it as best he could in the moment, and we'll know for sure what's going on in a few days. Trillion dollar mega corporations do not reactively, hastily address every rumor that comes out about what they might be doing because actual plans take a long, long time to solidify, and even when those plans are "solid" things can still change.
And, y'know what, let Sony try to become a monopoly. Let them try and jack up their prices to astronomical levels, cause that's always worked super well for them in the past. They try to drop a PS6 that's $700, let them try to raise 1st party title prices to $80, $90, $100...all that's going to do is drive people to Nintendo and PC...and if they start dropping 1st party games on PC day-and-date or even a year after the console versions (which they're eventually going to be forced to do because they aren't flush with cash like MS and Nintendo are and cannot afford to keep spending $300 Million dollars on titles for a single platform and hope to see a worthwhile profit), you can bet your ass a whole lotta people will be happy to wait...or not play them at all.
@Phantasystar77 Because leaks and "insider information" have never been wrong before...
Regardless, we're just running in circles here. Nothing I can say is going to ease this weird brand loyalty "betrayal" you feel, so, good luck...I guess.
@Phantasystar77 Sure, all of that that is a perfectly rational reaction to....rumor and speculation. Again, how about we wait to hear what they have to say before putting the nails in their coffin.
@Phantasystar77 This is just knee-jerk, reactionary, alarmist thinking.
"How do you figure its a win? They go 3rd party, Sony becomes a monopoly with high end console hardware and then they raise all prices, refuse to innovate, and their service gets worse then it already is."
We've seen exactly what happens when Sony gets too full of themselves. We get insanely expensive consoles that take an entire generation and multiple revisions to finally turn a profit and secure a solid player base. We get ridiculously overpriced, proprietary storage that kills hardware in the crib. We get niche hardware that's more expensive than the console required to use it at all. Playstation is the one Division of Sony keeping them afloat, it accounts for a full quarter of their overall revenue, screwing over PS users by jacking up prices (more than they already have) is a sure-fire way to torpedo their business entirely. Sony do a lot of stupid things, but they're not that stupid...and if they are, then they can join MS and SEGA on the bench.
"With XBox consoles gone, you can then kiss peoples digital libraries goodbye, Game Pass loses a ton of subs and the service will scale way back, raise its prices, or just flat out go away."
ALL digital libraries will, eventually, disappear...that's just the reality of online services. Servers will shut down at some point, but it won't be any time soon. MS didn't become a TRILLION dollar corp by operating like morons, they're not just going to flip a switch and kill Xbox so your console doesn't work and your library disappears overnight. None of that is going anywhere. Your Series X or S isn't going to vanish in a puff of smoke. We will get a mid-gen revision, we'll almost certainly get a proper "next-gen" Xbox alongside the PS6. Game Pass subs on console and PC have plateaued, the remedy is to offer it on more platforms, plain and simple. They might raise subscription prices, but I would argue being the largest publisher in the world, with one of the most robust catalogues of IP in the industry warrants it.
Maybe we should quit jumping to insane conclusions and making up doomsday scenarios to get irrationally angry about and wait for them to tell us what's going on and how they're going to handle things before flipping out...
MS has already stated (on the record, in court) that they have never made a profit on hardware sales, ever. Going multiplatform means they still get your money from buying their games, you don't have to drop $500 on a new console (especially if you have a PC), and they can slowly ramp down manufacturing hardware they're actively losing money on.
Look, I get being upset by the idea that your preferred console manufacturer may be abandoning their platform...but that is absolutely NOT what’s happening here.
Microsoft lost the “console war”. Look at the numbers for every single generation of Xbox console, they lost every one. People will point to the 360 as some massive success, but the United States is the single territory where it outsold the PS3 worldwide. Microsoft is a Trillion dollar company, but they can only throw good money after bad for so long and...with the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard-King completed...Xbox are the single biggest publisher in the world and going multi-platform (whether that’s fully multi-plat or limited to certain titles) is the best possible decision for the longevity of the brand going forward.
Their hardware sales are, comparatively, poor. Their 1st party flagship titles have stagnated and aren’t doing the numbers they once were, and their smaller more experimental titles aren’t moving the needle at all. Gears 5 didn’t set the world on fire. Halo Infinite fell flat. Redfall was an outright failure on every level. Starfield is performing semi-well, but isn’t the massive success of a Skyrim or Fallout 3/4 and won’t have the legs of either. They cannot keep pouring resources into these very expensive games that people just aren’t buying (and aren’t incentivized to buy thanks to Game Pass) on a scale that supports their funding, they just can’t...and limiting those very expensive games to a single platform (and PC) just doesn’t make financial sense.
Your Xbox Series X|S isn’t going anywhere, your physical and digital libraries aren’t going anywhere, Game Pass isn’t going anywhere. There will be a Series X|S refresh. There will be at least one more "next-gen" Xbox. They're not just going to pull out of the hardware game altogether on a whim and without a long, long lead time. In the long term, sure, things can change dramatically, but in the short term the only thing that is likely to change is that Playstation owners will be able to play Indiana Jones and Starfield, people on Switch will be able to play Hi-Fi Rush. That’s MS’ whole MO, putting their games on as many platforms and in front of as many people as possible.
That’s great for Microsoft because they expand their audience to literally everyone and make more money from sales on new platforms, making the very high cost of those games and the resources required to produce them far more palatable. That’s great for PS and Switch players because they get to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t...the only people that isn’t great for is the toxic console warriors who want the other platforms to fail and want to exclude people because of some backwards tribalism mentality, and screw those people.
This is good for everyone, Microsoft especially. They may scale back or dip out of the hardware game one day, but it's not going to be any time soon.
The guitar bundles for RB4, that included the $60 game and a guitar, retailed for $130. PDP's own Fender Jaguar controller for RB4 retailed for $90. If I were a betting man, I would wager these end up splitting the difference and landing somewhere in the $100-$120 range, which is a little pricy for such a niche item...but, it's also the only way to get a NEW guitar controller for a somewhat reasonable price, and if it's fully compatible with Clone Hero, that's a steal.
It doesn't rank for me. Not that it's a bad game, it's just a pretty standard Bethesda game...which I've come to realize just aren't something I jive with. Outside of Skyrim, I've never particularly enjoyed their games, and Starfield is kind of a perfect encapsulation of everything I dislike about them.
Everyone craps on Gotham Knights and I get why, I don't love the game, but I do think it's better than people give it credit for and anyone curious should give it a shot. It's not an Arkham game and it doesn't play like an Arkham game, but if you go in with expectations in check and open to what it's trying to do there's a lot to like there. Especially if you're a fan of the extended Bat-family.
@ralphdibny Nope, there is no story dlc, it's multi-player focused horde mode stuff, and it is NOT good.
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Re: Bethesda Veteran Says It Will Be 'Almost Impossible' For ES6 To Meet Expectations
He's right, it won't live up to expectations. Not because it won't be as good, but because Skyrim was slightly head of the curve for western open-world RPGs, and it's been built up into this monolithic "best of all time" game over the years...when really it's just a pretty good wrpg.
Re: Tony Hawk Confirms He's Working With Activision On 'Exciting' 25th Anniversary Plans
If it's not 3+4 or a new entry from a reformed Vicarious Visions, I do not even remotely care.
Re: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Socials Updated For 25th Anniversary
I'm not holding my breath, if this was hinting toward anything substantial, it likely would have gotten out...especially if MS put VV back together in some capacity to do 3+4, I don't think you could hide that...someone would absolutely leak it.
Re: Rumour: Microsoft Reportedly Working On Multiple Transformers Projects
@Elbow The problem isn't necessarily that they're dated, which also isn't a big deal to me either, more that they're mostly just not very good. Shattered Dimensions is the one that holds up the best out of that bunch in my estimation but, once Treyarch and Vicarious Visions were relegated to Call of Duty support and Beenox took over Spidey games, there was a big, big decline in quality.
And for MiM, Platinum got Tom Waltz (who wrote the first 100 issues of the IDW run) write the game! I just replayed it last year and really don't understand why people didn't like it at the time, I loved it when it came out and had a blast playing through it again!
Re: Rumour: Microsoft Reportedly Working On Multiple Transformers Projects
@Elbow You're honestly not missing anything with the old Spider-Man games, they were great at the time, but none of them hold up. Mutants in Manhattan is still pretty great, though.
Re: Marvel Rivals Seems To Be Going Down Pretty Well On Xbox So Far
@GuyinPA75 I wouldn't count on it. Only played a little of this beta, but put over 30 hours into the previous one and as far as I can tell they did little (if any) balancing between this build and the last. I get the distinct impression that balance is taking a backseat to style and overall fun.
Re: Talking Point: Have You Ever Bought A Controller From Xbox Design Lab?
I have two, both about 2 years old. One themed after Spider-Gwen, one themed after She-Hulk. I do use the Gwen themed one more, but do swap between them semi-regularly. Both work and look exactly the same as they day I got them. My only complaint, which is incredibly minor, is how absurdly loud the button presses are. The Gwen one doesn't have the rubber grips and is measurably louder than the She-Hulk one, which does have the grips. Other than that, though, zero issues.
Re: Talking Point: How Hyped Are You For Indiana Jones On Xbox Series X|S?
Super excited by the prospect of a new MachineGames title, all but zero excitement for it being Indiana Jones...and that's coming from a 43 year old white dude...pretty much the exact demographic the IP is laser-targeted at.
Honestly, I think making a AAA marquee Indiana Jones game NOW is a massive waste of time, money, resources and the devs at MachineGames' immense talents.
Re: Pick One: Which Game From This Year's Xbox Showcase Are You Most Excited For?
Doom looks incredible and I'm intrigued by Fable, but I'd be lying if I said I had any interest in Gears...and Indy somehow ended up looking worse in action than the reveal trailer let on. I trust MachineGames implicitly, but I genuinely do not think that game is going to move the needle at all.
It was a good showcase, easily the best Xbox has had in years, but the only game that screamed MUST PLAY, at least to me, was South of Midnight and I'm increasingly both disappointed and annoyed at how little attention it's getting.
Everyone talks a big game about wanting new IP and experimentation but, when it comes down to it, the stuff that gets the biggest pops are the safe, comfortable, known quantities.
Re: New Free-To-Play PVP Shooter 'Marvel Rivals' Locks In Xbox Release
I'm sorry, but no, it did not "lock in an xbox release".
It's a limited-time, closed (meaning invite only) beta test. The full release isn't rumored to be until next year (though I could see it dropping late this year, the previous alpha test was VERY polished), and there is currently no announced or assumed release date.
And there doesn't "seem" to be a PS exclusive Scarlet Spider skin, it's not implied...it's right there, 100% confirmed, in plain text.
Re: Xbox Mobile Store Launches This July With Its Own 'First Party Portfolio'
They can't convince people to use the Xbox app on PC...a platform THEY all but have a monopoly on...but, sure, spend millions building, launching, and maintaining a mobile storefront to try and compete with Apple and Google....
This is going to go exactly how anyone with half a brain cell thinks it's going to go.
What the actual F are they doing over there?
Re: Tango Gameworks Had Hopes For Hi-Fi RUSH 2 Before Xbox Closure, Says Report
Imagine being a studio known for one very specific thing, investing in an idea that's so far removed from what you made your name on that it could be seen as a huge risk (even at a lower budget), having that game release to immediate and universal critical and commercial acclaim, and giving your publisher the biggest new IP they've had in nearly 2 decades.
Then, when you go to pitch a sequel, they say "Counter offer, you're all fired."
Why would anyone want to work in this industry, again?
Re: PDP Reveals Price & Pre-Order Details For New Xbox 'Riffmaster' Guitar
While these do work with Clone Hero, unfortunately (like the vast majority of stock guitar controllers), tilt and whammy do not work with it.
As nice as they are, they really just are Rock Band 4 guitars with a few minor upgrades...and RB4 guitars can be had for significantly cheaper.
Re: Review: Dead Island 2 - Long-In-Development Sequel Embraces The Absurd
Now that DI2 is on Game Pass, I'm begging people to give it a shot.
It's so much better than it has any right to be and, if you're a big fan of Romero, it is exactly the kind of game that he would have made had he ever been given the chance. If last year hadn't been so insane with some of the best games ever, DI2 would have easily made my top 5.
Re: Roundup: Here's What Was Revealed At The Xbox 'Business Update Event'
I'm glad everyone expecting Phil to come out and say..."Xbox is dead, we're putting everything on Playstation. You're losing all your digital games and I'm headed to the server farm next to pull the plug, then I'm coming to the homes of each and every Xbox console owner to personally smash their consoles with a hammer"...got, uh, the exact opposite of that and all those "leaks" were entirely fabricated ragebait BS.
Re: 'Xbox No Longer Making Consoles' Begins Trending As Panic Continues
@ZYDIO Just look back through their comments in this thread, it's all reactionary, worst-case-scenario, jumping to insane conclusions based on...nothing of any circumstance. 12th-hand "news" reported by some rando, who was told by his uncle that works at Walmart, who was told by a regional rep, who heard it from one of the custodial staff at a hotel where Todd Howard took a meeting one time.
There's probably a nugget of truth in all of this, somewhere, but it's been so inflated and wildly overblown and none of these reactions are based in any kind of tangible reality.
*Insert Dr. Manhattan: Source?/I Made it TF Up" meme
Re: 'Xbox No Longer Making Consoles' Begins Trending As Panic Continues
Nate the Hate has now state he's rechecked his info, found that he was wrong, and that Starfield isn't coming to PS5.
Huh...it's almost as if this game of telephone we play with leakers, "insiders" and "trusted sources" on twitter ISN'T A RELIABLE PLACE FOR FACTUAL OR ACCURATE INFORMATION.
As I keep saying, until we hear it from the horse's mouth, it's a rumor and should be taken with a planet-sized grain of salt...even when "reliable" tweeters "report" it.
Re: 'Xbox No Longer Making Consoles' Begins Trending As Panic Continues
@Phantasystar77 It's real, real easy to "walk back" from nothing. I don't know why I have to keep explaining this, but we do not know what their plans are. We can make reasonable, logical guesses based on actual info (like the Hi-Fi Rush multiplatform datamine), but outside of that, all this doom and gloom is still nothing but pure speculation. It hasn't been a "month of silence", it's been a week...and as soon as the rumors started spreading and people started flipping the F out, Phil addressed it as best he could in the moment, and we'll know for sure what's going on in a few days. Trillion dollar mega corporations do not reactively, hastily address every rumor that comes out about what they might be doing because actual plans take a long, long time to solidify, and even when those plans are "solid" things can still change.
And, y'know what, let Sony try to become a monopoly. Let them try and jack up their prices to astronomical levels, cause that's always worked super well for them in the past. They try to drop a PS6 that's $700, let them try to raise 1st party title prices to $80, $90, $100...all that's going to do is drive people to Nintendo and PC...and if they start dropping 1st party games on PC day-and-date or even a year after the console versions (which they're eventually going to be forced to do because they aren't flush with cash like MS and Nintendo are and cannot afford to keep spending $300 Million dollars on titles for a single platform and hope to see a worthwhile profit), you can bet your ass a whole lotta people will be happy to wait...or not play them at all.
Re: 'Xbox No Longer Making Consoles' Begins Trending As Panic Continues
@Phantasystar77 Because leaks and "insider information" have never been wrong before...
Regardless, we're just running in circles here. Nothing I can say is going to ease this weird brand loyalty "betrayal" you feel, so, good luck...I guess.
Re: 'Xbox No Longer Making Consoles' Begins Trending As Panic Continues
@Phantasystar77 Sure, all of that that is a perfectly rational reaction to....rumor and speculation. Again, how about we wait to hear what they have to say before putting the nails in their coffin.
Re: 'Xbox No Longer Making Consoles' Begins Trending As Panic Continues
@Phantasystar77 This is just knee-jerk, reactionary, alarmist thinking.
"How do you figure its a win? They go 3rd party, Sony becomes a monopoly with high end console hardware and then they raise all prices, refuse to innovate, and their service gets worse then it already is."
We've seen exactly what happens when Sony gets too full of themselves. We get insanely expensive consoles that take an entire generation and multiple revisions to finally turn a profit and secure a solid player base. We get ridiculously overpriced, proprietary storage that kills hardware in the crib. We get niche hardware that's more expensive than the console required to use it at all. Playstation is the one Division of Sony keeping them afloat, it accounts for a full quarter of their overall revenue, screwing over PS users by jacking up prices (more than they already have) is a sure-fire way to torpedo their business entirely. Sony do a lot of stupid things, but they're not that stupid...and if they are, then they can join MS and SEGA on the bench.
"With XBox consoles gone, you can then kiss peoples digital libraries goodbye, Game Pass loses a ton of subs and the service will scale way back, raise its prices, or just flat out go away."
ALL digital libraries will, eventually, disappear...that's just the reality of online services. Servers will shut down at some point, but it won't be any time soon. MS didn't become a TRILLION dollar corp by operating like morons, they're not just going to flip a switch and kill Xbox so your console doesn't work and your library disappears overnight. None of that is going anywhere. Your Series X or S isn't going to vanish in a puff of smoke. We will get a mid-gen revision, we'll almost certainly get a proper "next-gen" Xbox alongside the PS6. Game Pass subs on console and PC have plateaued, the remedy is to offer it on more platforms, plain and simple. They might raise subscription prices, but I would argue being the largest publisher in the world, with one of the most robust catalogues of IP in the industry warrants it.
Maybe we should quit jumping to insane conclusions and making up doomsday scenarios to get irrationally angry about and wait for them to tell us what's going on and how they're going to handle things before flipping out...
Re: 'Xbox No Longer Making Consoles' Begins Trending As Panic Continues
@phoenix1 ...and that's a problem how exactly?
MS has already stated (on the record, in court) that they have never made a profit on hardware sales, ever. Going multiplatform means they still get your money from buying their games, you don't have to drop $500 on a new console (especially if you have a PC), and they can slowly ramp down manufacturing hardware they're actively losing money on.
Sounds like a win for everyone involved.
Re: 'Xbox No Longer Making Consoles' Begins Trending As Panic Continues
Look, I get being upset by the idea that your preferred console manufacturer may be abandoning their platform...but that is absolutely NOT what’s happening here.
Microsoft lost the “console war”. Look at the numbers for every single generation of Xbox console, they lost every one. People will point to the 360 as some massive success, but the United States is the single territory where it outsold the PS3 worldwide. Microsoft is a Trillion dollar company, but they can only throw good money after bad for so long and...with the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard-King completed...Xbox are the single biggest publisher in the world and going multi-platform (whether that’s fully multi-plat or limited to certain titles) is the best possible decision for the longevity of the brand going forward.
Their hardware sales are, comparatively, poor. Their 1st party flagship titles have stagnated and aren’t doing the numbers they once were, and their smaller more experimental titles aren’t moving the needle at all. Gears 5 didn’t set the world on fire. Halo Infinite fell flat. Redfall was an outright failure on every level. Starfield is performing semi-well, but isn’t the massive success of a Skyrim or Fallout 3/4 and won’t have the legs of either. They cannot keep pouring resources into these very expensive games that people just aren’t buying (and aren’t incentivized to buy thanks to Game Pass) on a scale that supports their funding, they just can’t...and limiting those very expensive games to a single platform (and PC) just doesn’t make financial sense.
Your Xbox Series X|S isn’t going anywhere, your physical and digital libraries aren’t going anywhere, Game Pass isn’t going anywhere. There will be a Series X|S refresh. There will be at least one more "next-gen" Xbox. They're not just going to pull out of the hardware game altogether on a whim and without a long, long lead time. In the long term, sure, things can change dramatically, but in the short term the only thing that is likely to change is that Playstation owners will be able to play Indiana Jones and Starfield, people on Switch will be able to play Hi-Fi Rush. That’s MS’ whole MO, putting their games on as many platforms and in front of as many people as possible.
That’s great for Microsoft because they expand their audience to literally everyone and make more money from sales on new platforms, making the very high cost of those games and the resources required to produce them far more palatable. That’s great for PS and Switch players because they get to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t...the only people that isn’t great for is the toxic console warriors who want the other platforms to fail and want to exclude people because of some backwards tribalism mentality, and screw those people.
This is good for everyone, Microsoft especially. They may scale back or dip out of the hardware game one day, but it's not going to be any time soon.
Re: PDP Unveils New Xbox Guitar Controller For Rock Band 4 And Fortnite Festival
The guitar bundles for RB4, that included the $60 game and a guitar, retailed for $130. PDP's own Fender Jaguar controller for RB4 retailed for $90. If I were a betting man, I would wager these end up splitting the difference and landing somewhere in the $100-$120 range, which is a little pricy for such a niche item...but, it's also the only way to get a NEW guitar controller for a somewhat reasonable price, and if it's fully compatible with Clone Hero, that's a steal.
Re: Capcom Has Officially Raised Its Prices With The Arrival Of Dragon's Dogma 2
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Re: Talking Point: Where Does Starfield Rank In Your Top Games Of 2023?
It doesn't rank for me. Not that it's a bad game, it's just a pretty standard Bethesda game...which I've come to realize just aren't something I jive with. Outside of Skyrim, I've never particularly enjoyed their games, and Starfield is kind of a perfect encapsulation of everything I dislike about them.
Re: These Six Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (September 19 - October 3)
Everyone craps on Gotham Knights and I get why, I don't love the game, but I do think it's better than people give it credit for and anyone curious should give it a shot. It's not an Arkham game and it doesn't play like an Arkham game, but if you go in with expectations in check and open to what it's trying to do there's a lot to like there. Especially if you're a fan of the extended Bat-family.
@ralphdibny Nope, there is no story dlc, it's multi-player focused horde mode stuff, and it is NOT good.