HunterRose

I absolutely loved it as an exercise device. I have not played an exercise game as fun or strenuous as Dance Central. The full body tracking for the game was amazing. Games such as Ring Fit or anything that requires me to hold a controller just do not feel the same. The closest I have gotten to full body workouts are games such as Beat Saber, samba De Amigo VR, and Synth Riders on the Oculus Quest 3... and even those don't have the full body tracking that get my legs involved in any meaningful way. I would love to see a device like the Kinect, with its dead simple setup, come back into the gaming world.

If offloading to xCloud is the preferred way to increase battery life, wouldn't people be better served by one of the streaming focused handhelds, like Logitech's option?

I know this does a lot more, but I would like to see devices like this get a higher speed battery... but I think for that to happen we are going to need new battery tech that allows for more power storage in a smaller form factor.

No, in fact I would say Gamepass has helped me buy more... just not always on Xbox. If there is a game I already know what games are Day 1 purchases even if they are coming out on GP. For those, access to GP is not a factor. Other games that I may be interested in, I will try them first on Gamepass and if I like it I will make the purchase. Quite a few of those were purchased on other systems, like my Steam Deck because they were a better fit for quick pick up and play sessions. Disney Dreamlight Valley and Persona 5: Royal are perfect examples of those. At the end of the day the publisher still made a sale, just not through the Xbox Store.

I use it a little differently. In the past couple months I have tried many games on my Xbox to see what I thought and then I ended up picking them up on my Steam Deck.

It is really simple for MS at this point. They just need to pull a Sony. Sell of CoD to a different studio then pay that studio for exclusive rights to the game, similar to what Sony is doing with Square Enix. If they keep it up, Sony is about ready to find out the difference between "petty" and "multi-billion dollar company with deep pockets petty".

@themightyant Microsoft has already stated that they would allow Sony to put Call of Duty on Playstation Plus... so it is not as disingenuous as people think.

I would gladly pay a little extra for this feature. My son is off at college in a different state. We share an account at the moment but we had to designate his Series S as the "home console" so if I lose internet at home I am completely out of luck if I want to play a game.

I would love to see Microsoft step into the area dominated by Sony, first party exclusive with a heavy emphasis on story telling. I love my Xbox but Sony handily stomps them in narrative driven games like Spider-Man, Uncharted, Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima, and Horizon: Forbidden West.

Starfield is going to be a step in the right direction, I just want to see more of that.

@jordan1992 Bethesda never announced the platforms Starfield was going to be on before the merger. After the merger, Todd Howard came out and said that it was great only having to program for one platform. For all we know, it was MS exclusive from the start.

@UltimateOtaku91 This is kind of a straw man argument if you know the full story of Netflix and Blockbuster. Blockbuster had the opportunity in 2000 to buy Netflix for fifty million dollars but declined due to the CEO's arrogance in thinking the service would never take off. Blockbuster shot itself in the foot, it had nothing to do with who had the most money.

@themightyant Microsoft just bought Bethesda, which is a pretty major publisher in its own right.

@gingataisen more a comment against other companies. I am just happy to see competitors cheering each other on. It is rare in this day and age, both inside and outside gaming.

@gingataisen not at all. I have been a an Xbox user since the OG launch and am one of the original Xbox Live Beta Testers… doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the class from the Xbox team.

I love that he did not take the low hanging fruit approach and mock them for the delay. The MS Xbox team has upped its class quite a bit over the years.