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@TheEstablishment That’d be logical but Microsoft doesn’t like logical decisions lol.
I think they’re just clearing the way and focusing entirely on Black Ops 6, they’re betting on it to be the biggest launch on Game Pass ever and it should be, otherwise it’s terrible for the future of the service.

I don’t believe a single word this guy says anymore…

Lmfao Avowed was delayed because “too many games” were coming out and now nothing is coming out in November, but in February we already have AC Shadows, MH Wilds, and Avowed.

Microsoft taking the L as usual.

@SodaPop6548 I read that they can’t have the store and remote play in the same app, that’s why Sony has a separate app for remote play so the App Store’s guidelines allow the PS app to have the store.

I like having everything in one app but I’d rather have the store in the app with remote play being separate as I almost never use it.

@TheOldHunter4K I don’t think it’s all because of mistakes made last generation, they’ve made plenty this gen, like spending half the generation buying publishers talking sh** about your own platform so it gets approved and then suddenly deciding every game isn’t exclusive anymore…

Xbox captures have been unnecessarily convoluted since the Xbox One, can’t believe how easy it is on PS4, PS5 and even the Switch with its limitations, but on Xbox it’s always a mess.

What a fu**ing pathetic generation this has been for both Microsoft and Sony…

@Banjo- It’s ridiculous to be defending Microsoft at this point. And yes, as a customer I haven’t agreed to MANY of their recent decisions, just because I own an Xbox I should be a blind fanboy you keeps defending and excusing every decision they take? That’s BS.

If you have a problem with that just ignore or report my comments.

Hopefully with this statement some people can stop spreading the fake news that Mikami left taking a big part of the studio with him and that’s why MS was “forced” to close down Tango.

That was debunked the same week the news broke but some people kept excusing MS with this lie.

It’s exhausting that they still want to justify it so hard only to get a performance mode with 60 FPS a couple of months after launch, they should at least target 40 FPS as many recent games have done and I think that’s the sweet spot.

And it’s now clear the Series S is a problem even for first-party studios…

@Banjo- Yes I do as MS is doing it very easy for us to complain in an almost daily basis so far this year, you tried to complain about the camera in a remake without even trying it or researching it yourself but ironically while fixed the Xbox version is the “worst” for the remake since gyroscope controls are actually useful…

@Banjo- Why didn’t you check a gameplay or the demo itself before criticizing it?
I just played it and it’s finally fixed but it was obviously expected since the Wii version just didn’t have a second stick to control the camera.

And btw, both PS5 and Switch versions seem better to play since they support gyroscope and it’s pretty important for the gameplay, Xbox doesn’t cause their controllers are stuck with features from 20 years ago.

F*ck it. I’m paying one month of Ubisoft+ with my Rewards points to play this.

Might pull the trigger for Ubisoft+ to play Star Wars Outlaws if reviews are good.

@eduscxbox Nintendo didn’t brag and advertised having the “most powerful console on the market”. Don’t compare Apples to Oranges…

@armondo36 So you really have no issue that every time they’ve showed the game it has been at 60 FPS but it turns out it only runs at 30? Or the fact that this isn’t the first time the exact same thing has happened? Or that Aaron Greenberg said that 60 FPS was going to be the standard for this generation?

Don’t be so condescending, I personally have no problem playing any game at 30 FPS, but they keep lying to us time and time again and creating false expectations showing us the PC version of the game at 60.

Yes, it’s a ridiculous situation that they haven’t been able to get ONE game performing at 60 FPS at launch on the “world’s most powerful console”.

And it’s even worse they always try to excuse it with “30 FPS is more cinematic” or more recently “you don’t need 60 FPS” only to release a patch 6 months later enabling that performance, it lately feels as if the games we get “day one” on Game Pass Ultimate are beta versions and are patched when the PS5 version releases…

All this going in circles is exhausting, I can’t trust a single word that comes out of Philnocchio’s mouth and for whoever that is still somehow trying to excuse or defend all of this just look how many games are already skipping Xbox for whatever reason.

Personally my problem isn’t that X game goes to PS5, but the fact that the platform is becoming irrelevant, it already is for many developers as it’s the platform with less users and therefore less sales, so no third-party dev prioritizes the Xbox version of their game, causing to launch after other platforms, just like Wukong right now, and some are already choosing to skip the platform altogether.

This is only going to get worse, and it’s starting to look like Windows Phone which struggled to get support from developers to bring their apps, MS in their business greed removed Office mobile exclusivity from WP releasing Office for iOS and Android and it slowly made Windows Phone irrelevant for both users and developers alike, sound familiar?

We went from “play it day one with Game Pass” to “play it day 4 only with Ultimate”.

@BacklogBrad You really think 6 months ago there wasn’t ANY plan to port Indiana Jones to PS5?

The lie is that although it wasn’t a part of the initial 4 games he knew perfectly well there were already plans to port it to PS5 as every single port has to be planned and done with several months or even years in advance, and yet he chose to name Indiana Jones as a game not coming to competing consoles, here we are just half a year later with a 180º turnaround on that statement, how could anyone believe a single word that comes out of his mouth? It’s not even the first time Phil gets caught in a lie and yet some people keep excusing him…

Lying Phil comes back at it, y’all remember how just 6 months ago he denied Indiana Jones to be coming to PS5? It wasn’t part of the initial 4 games but a port isn’t decided and done in a few weeks, back when he said that he fully knew there were already plans to making the port and yet he affirmed it wasn’t planned just mere months ago.

He lied straight up to our faces, and it isn’t MS forcing this upon him, if he wasn’t okay with this strategy why is he still the head of MS Gaming?

And yes, the strategy will work for Microsoft, they will get their revenue, but us as users are left with a dying platform that more developers deem pointless to develop for, and with a shrinking user base it’s only going to get worse, the only thing left to do is abandoning the sinking ship with our digital libraries sinking with it…

No thanks, I’ll keep my Halo edition Series X as my last Xbox ever.

Microsoft will gets its money selling software everywhere, but Xbox is dead, it’s a double spit that the day Black Myth Wukong skips or didn’t prioritize Xbox for whatever reason also a new big first-party game gets announced for PlayStation (and even like a hyped ‘one more thing’ kind of announcement) mere months after releasing on Xbox.

Just ignoring the fact that games aren’t exclusive anymore the optics of that announcement are terrible for Xbox fans who are yet again treated like third-class citizens, more games will keep skipping the platform as less people choose Xbox as it’s the console with less games with no exclusives. Gigantic f*ck up that sadly seems irreversible right now.

Unironically, it’s going to be interesting when this is ported to PS5 Pro, imagine if we could only get 4K 60FPS there…

I only see multiple PS5 games.

All coming to PS5…

Trying it on Game Pass Day One but DEFINITELY would buy it only on PS5.

Tbh I don’t think I’ll ever straight up buy games on Xbox anymore, doesn’t make sense to invest in a platform not even its parent company believes in.

LFMAO, only Steam version coming in 2024 but “so many games coming” caused Avowed to also be delayed to 2025, what a f**king joke.

Sounds realistic, I’m gonna play it day one with Game Pass as I already have it paid but if I really like it I’d buy it on PS5 and that goes for every game moving forward.

Won’t keep investing into a platform where not even the parent company bets on it.

Nothing in Xbox this gen has lived up to the hype…

Great, more clutter that can’t be removed from the Home Screen…

F*ck you Microsoft, announce the closure of Xbox already.

January 2025 lmao

Not looking forward to 2 hours watching ads from Keighley’s events…

Seriously when can we stop giving attention to “reports and rumors” of attention seekers who call themselves “insiders”?

Have we learned nothing from the whole “Starfield, Halo and everything is imminently coming to PS5” fiasco back in January?

You have no idea how happy this makes me!

I really hope that the sequel and the franchise becomes such a runaway success that Microsoft will be left in ridicule for almost axing both the studio and the IP.

Isn’t it like the fifth time they stated the same thing?

But there goes the folks at GameIndustry.biz asking this again fully knowing the answer to capitalize yet again on some Xbox hate.

Such reassurance from the guy that killed Windows Phone…

@PsBoxSwitchOwner The problem is that when big corporations realize that one sector will never perform as the other ones their answer is to just get rid of the entire sector altogether, like MS already did with Windows Phone.

I refused to believe that Microsoft would get rid of Xbox is it wasn’t allowed to buy Activision-Blizzard, now I’m 100% certain it was true.

@Arcticpandapopz I honestly already accepted that Xbox will eventually cease to exist at least as the hardware we know today, I stopped buying anything on Xbox and moving forward I’ll buy every game on PS5, but I’ll keep an Xbox as long as it exists to be able to play my digital library.

And then corporate MS acts so “worried” that Xbox hardware sales have gone down 42% compared to the same quarter last year.

Their play of slowly getting rid of hardware is so obvious and deceitful…

@PsBoxSwitchOwner It’s equally complicated on PS5 and PC, this is Activision’s fault for pushing the HQ instead of individual games.

@themightyant They do with devices like Surface, it just baffling how consistently bad they are at naming their Xbox hardware.

Honestly they shouldn’t even set a date, just release the game when it’s ready, we understand.

That Call of Duty HQ can rot in hell, I seriously wish we could go back to having individual games and not having to install 100GB just to allow me to install the game I want to play for another 100GB.

And I’m sure that whatever they do somehow will end up with us console users getting screwed over again.

And it probably won’t be enough…

I’m with the FTC here, Microsoft outright lied to the regulator, and I mean, we all knew that if CoD made its way to Game Pass the price was inevitably going to go up, but they literally said they wouldn’t do it, not once but many times.

It’s crazy how just last year almost all of us were rooting for Microsoft excited for the possibilities of expanding Xbox with Activision, little did we know this would push Microsoft to get rid of Xbox and just be Microsoft Gaming.

My most anticipated game this year definitely, but I’m honestly expecting it to be delayed to Q1 2025.

Wouldn’t you know, another day, another disappointing news for Xbox fans.