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There is not enough room for two consoles that are almost exactly identical in the console space and still be profitable, especially with how expensive consoles are becoming. Xbox already admitted defeat in the console space, they are moving onto being a 3rd party publisher first and a hardware provider second. This doesn’t mean their hardware will go away but it will be, like somebody up above said more niche. They would burn too much money releasing their games only on their platform. Xbox/PC hybrids consoles will just be lumped in with the PC market but with a Xbox UI upfront and center much like the Steam Machine. They will not need to sell as many this way because their games will be available everywhere. I don’t find this to be doom and gloom because it means I can buy an Xbox and be fine with that, I won’t need to also buy a PS as their games will eventually be on the Xbox/PC hybrid and it will still have the Xbox UI and my game catalog plus more store fronts and probably will ditch the online pay requirement. All of these are pluses to me.

Consumer relations matter? I wonder if they are surprised?

Could see them revealing it at their Showcase or at The Game Awards like they did with the Series X/S. I hope they do, it feels like time for an upgrade.

@bert0503 I am enjoying it as well. The raids are a blast. Hoping they do something with the world though because it needs some livening up but the game will grow, hopefully.

I tried the first game and thought it was pretty mediocre. Never finished it so not surprised by this

@Balaam_ I imagine a lot of it is to keep the frame rate steady with the destruction of the bases. Slow down during those parts for this style of game would be brutal.

@InterceptorAlpha it’s free anybody can own it. It is that

@Rangers420 I bet they are starting with 3v3 and will move up from there, I have enjoyed what I played. Definitely going to put more time into it later.

@InterceptorAlpha it’s getting review bombed because people have wanted it to fail. If you are into PvP games it is worth a try.

@Rangers420 yikes. Always going to be arseholes sadly. I have two games down and digging it. The shooting is very smooth

@Rangers420 same happened to me but only took about a minute or 2 in queue to get back in

@Fiendish-Beaver it is pvp.

I just finished installing it and jumping in now. That showcase sold me!

Probably got delayed again so they can get the PS version out at the same time.

Same thing happened to Fable.

Solid A for me!

@Fiendish-Beaver @Kezelpaso I am very, VERY hyped for this. I also do want to see Gears 6 come out and I am curious if there will be some secret within E-Day that may be important to Gears 6. I am just happy to have Gears back! And my boy Dom!

@Fiendish-Beaver I just finished the game. Brutal fun. A sequel is needed, they can call it The Collective. Because I need some answers! Such is our calling.

Gotta go where the largest base is. And that sure isn’t Xbox. The XPCbox will be nice when it comes around. Won’t have to worry about playerbase size anymore.

@Fiendish-Beaver yo just wanted to shoot you a message and say Cronos is fantastic! Can see why it was your GOTY of last year. Very tense game the inventory management is insane 😂

@GuyinPA75 John Romero. Creator of Doom. Xbox pulled funding for his new studio’s project which essentially killed it. He said he has started up work on a new, much smaller project while searching for funding for the larger project.

Space Marine 2 is amazing. I will definitely be checking out Ragebound

@Jenkinss the problem with Scalebound was that it looked terrible graphically and I remember when people got to try it at one of the E3s, it was sad it ran terrible as well. The main character of the game was also pretty annoying if I remember correctly.

Blackbird was definitely up my alley, from the sounds of it. Contraband I thought sounded interesting as well but the one that hurt the most was the Romero game. I am still in awe that MS cut the creator of Doom’s new project. I really hope he secures funding to finish the game.

@swedetrap Scalebound looked awful.

This game looked cool and apparently played good. I think what did it in was that it was a live service looter shooter and those games have been failing like crazy.

They haven’t even gotten the 4k going for cloud gaming. How about that first.

@Scrubchub I have it qued up. Streamers pushing agendas get out of hand anymore, people are like sheep being led to their own slaughter. DA Veilguard was a fun game and did not deserve the hate it got. I’m not a big SW fan but Outlaws looks like it could be a good time.

@Fiendish-Beaver I’m liking it a lot so far. It’s got some good tension the story and premise is very interesting and graphically it’s gorgeous.

@Fiendish-Beaver hmmm I will have to look up some gameplay.

Absolutely loved the first High on Life so looking forward to part 2. Menace looks and sounds really neat but my pc is pretty old 😅

On Xbox Cronos The New Dawn.

On Switch 2, The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.

@Fiendish-Beaver yea you are a wildling for sure Mr Beaver lol

I will definitely be buying Gears collectors edition whenever they announce it. I definitely don’t need the best versions of all the games I play, just the ones I really, really love to play. I will be curious what we see for a Halo treats this year as well.

@IOI See, there is the truth. Nothing about time to money ratios but rather content and ownership, which is fine. The concept of spending $30 on a sub and thinking that you have to play games 24/7 to get your value back, which is what you said is pretty absurd.

@Fiendish-Beaver I am actually shocked you have Gamepass at all haha after talking to you so much on here you definitely have more of a collectors/owning vibe

I use Gamepass like how I use my Apple Music. I buy the vinyls of the albums I really love and the rest I use a sub for. Kinda like how I will buy Gears collectors edition even if I have Gamepass at the time. There are a lot of games I own that I just really don’t need to where as I don’t feel that way with my music and I imagine that is because Gamepass can’t have the entire industry in its library. 😅

@IOI Going out to see one movie costs as much here. I will never understand this mentality. I’ve seen people say this like if they spend 20-30 dollars for the sub they HAVE to be playing games constantly to get the value but turn around and buy a game for $70+ that they play for maybe 20 hrs. People are crazy.

I still use it. And there are a lot of games already lined up next to year, I don’t see myself leaving the service, but I’m also still paying $20 a month for Ultimate not the $30. See what happens when/if that stops.

@Fiendish-Beaver yep! Both can be played by yourself. When in co-op the other person brings one of their survivors from their community to help grow yours, it’s cool but the co-op partner doesn’t benefit as much but does get rewards and resources to take back to their community. They are designed to be played solo and co-op. I am really hoping they expand on it with 3 to where you can have true shared communities that are drop in and out. There were rumors of it going the mmo or shared world route where other survivors share real estate on the same server. Do you can set up trade and such with the other communities. I’m excited for it!

@Fiendish-Beaver although the sales numbers have dropped for the latest one, it seems to be more based on the latest game not being as good as last years which did very well. I’m not a COD player but I feel like this isn’t the first time this has happened to COD, they have their occasional off year and then bounce back. Personally I would be fine with COD disappearing completely and opening those studios to new projects but also see COD as a lifeline of funds for the Xbox brand so even if I am not a fan of the games I do want them to do well so we continue to get the Xbox games I do enjoy. If that all makes sense.

@Fiendish-Beaver I played a ton of the first two, more so the second one because the multiplayer was just amazing fun. You don’t need to have played through the previous games, they are more structured as survival, community games. So like you will find different people with different characteristics and you will grow and nurture the ones you like and outcast the ones you don’t. Also these characters are permadeathed if killed. So you swap between the survivors, it’s a very neat game that has its own unique twist to these zombie games that I have really been looking forward to seeing how they evolve it with the much larger budget and staff. Growing pains I assume.

@Markatron84 I did do a little digging last night before bed and there was a report that State of Decay 3 got more investment thrown at it last year to make it a bigger game apparently. So looking more like 2027. Hopefully they have plans for it to atleast show up at the summer showcase. I do miss the series.

@Fiendish-Beaver COD was just reported as the second most played game on consoles (only behind Fortnite) and number 1 on Xbox consoles, I don’t think they are as worried as the internet is about it lol

Also I don’t think they will see too many clashes over COD and Fable. Xbox did release Outer Worlds 2 and Ninja Gaiden 4 only a couple weeks apart last year. I think Xbox is more worried about releasing a full product that is launch ready and whenever that lands is when they will launch the game.

Forza in May
Gears in September
Fable in October
Halo in November

That would make sense. But I can see State of Decay 3 maybe finally releasing this year. It’s been so long.

@Fiendish-Beaver September it is for Gears!!

I will give Outlaws a shot.

I enjoyed both Hellblade games but that being said I would like for them to make a more fleshed out game and incorporate their amazing storytelling.

Finishing up Dragon Quest 3 HD 3D Remake, what a fantastic remake!

@Fiendish-Beaver it will probably never be ALL because of licensing. But, if they continue to make their Console/PC hybrids with their stores and other than there won’t be a whole lot of need for it to be all. They may just merge future purchases, it’s just the old ones and of course physical copies.

I went Fable, Forza, Surprise and than Beasts. Still holding out hope for E-Day to show up!

@Questionable_Duck Don’t feed the trolls.

@FraserG ahhhh good catch. They do say first party studio so that pretty much nixes Toys for Bob. I am going to check that link I don’t believe I have heard about Kiln before. 🤔

@FraserG doesn’t Xbox just claim all games published by them as first party? I know they were calling NG4 a first party title last year and they have always considered Gears of War first party even when it was being made by Epic. Regardless, if Obsidian has yet another game on top of the 3 they released last year what a beast they would be eh? I remember Ninja Theory had a smaller title, Bleeding Edge, maybe they had a smaller title they were working on alongside Hellblade. They were just teasing a new game as well not too long ago of the team sitting in front of a large screen watching the game. So many possibilities!

@FraserG hmmmm that really makes me think it’s either Toys For Bob or Double Fine. 🤔