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Game Pass, the gift that keeps on giving the whole year!

this game looks great!

This will play GREAT on the Ally X. AND it's play anywhere!

This i fully what i expected it to be. People thought it was going to be $1050 with the price conversion? No way. When that preorder goes up I'm copping.

@HonestHick Indeed. Having xbox play anywhere and all those other storefronts on there (which admittedly the Steam Deck didn't have, loved that thing but it being a little underpowered and no native game pass ect hurt it) I cant wait to have all that flexibility

A MAJOR MAJOR reason i'm getting the Xbox Ally X is because of play anywhere ...

Can't wait to pre-order that bad boy. Already got money set aside. Will be tuning into GamesCom and eager to see!

@WildConcept6 i agree. and exclusives will only start dissolving more and more over the years. Good for everyone, IMO.

@HonestHick couldn;t agree more. Once I get that xbox ally x to go along with my series x I'll have MORE than enough games to play for a lifetime.

@Kaloudz in the future (which might be the not too distant future) we're all going to be playing games on anything with a screen. The younger generation doesn't care about console wars or exclusives, they just wanna play games.

The industry is headed that way.

@Fiendish-Beaver indeed. someday people will STRICTLY be talking about just the games, like the old school internet message boards of the late 90s early 2000s. I remember those days.

@Millionski the things is the whole "it's just LS" games doesn't work because they canceled 95% of em! All they have is Marathon, Fairgame$ (if that even releases) and Helldivers 2. They didn't create a whole job listing and say all this moving away from hardware centric business just to put 3 games everywhere.

The day a single player "banger" comes to xbox is the day the internet melts.

@Kaloudz The writing couldn't be more on the wall, but of course the usual suspects REFUSE to believe it because "it's just 4 games, right?"

Every week more evidence just points to the inevitable, I wont need a PS6 next gen to enjoy their games.

@HonestHick The constant deflection over at Push Square is getting more and more hilarious by the day. Any time more and more things are said by Sony proper and things start to unfold it's seen as "a taken out of context quote, it's just a job listing, xbox gamers port begging ect"

They are doing anything and everything to hold onto that "it's just four games" narrative like we don't all see what's coming in the future. The console war is gonna be coming to an end and i for one can't wait for that day.

More games will be coming to other platforms from Sony "not just live-service" and I can't wait to see how THAT website spins it for the clicks ...

Sony is going more and more 3rd party, and people are just going to have to come to terms with it. I definitely wont be needing a PS6 next gen and the Senior Vice president just has an update today saying they are moving AWAY from Hardware centric business to a community and engagement business.

The console war is done and dusted, time to move on to gaming everywhere!

ill be there day 1!

Sony discontinued tv and movie purchases through PlayStation store what, 4 years ago? and didnt they removed access to paid content as well? I wonder if the usual suspects had the same "PlayStation is dying" as well. I'm guessing not.

@Ricky-Spanish agreed, going from the RPG trifecta of Oblivion remastered to Clair Obscur to Final Fantasy XVI and trying to find the time to complete those was an endeavor, but absolutely peak 2025 for me. Add in Avowed, South of Midnight, and Doom and Game Pass has kept me so well fed and saving so much money FFXVI was the only one I had to buy outright.

Xbox already sent me Gears Reloaded for free for owning the ultimate edition and THPS and Final Fantasy Tactics in September it's just game after game after game this year.

Oh, and I'll 100% buy Final Fantasy 7 remake for the 3rd time and play through it!

@Questionable_Duck which is a shame. Hence another reason i like xbox/pc. Sony's console is far to restrictive and backward thinking.

@BAMozzy very well said. not locked to a single store so yes ps wont need to put their games on the microsoft store itself but since everything will be a windows device in the future you'll be able to play them through steam.

Let's be honest, Xbox was always making another console. Only fear-mongers thought otherwise.

Already got my money set aside. Day 1.

Also, of note, the guy that put out that estimate deleted his Tweet, as he got the estimate based off number of reviews on Xbox, which is a TERRIBLE way of estimating it. As of today, Final Fantasy XVI Complete Edition is #11 top paid games on Xbox US store, for an older game priced the way it is i'd say that's actually not that bad.

I can only speak for myself, but I have played and beat every main line Final Fantasy game, and I purchased this a few days ago on my Xbox. Starting to make my way through and hopefully FF7 part 3 is day one multiplatform release. The franchise could use that boost in the zeitgeist by releasing everywhere. When the other 2 FF7R games come to xbox i will also be there day one. You start making everything multiplat releases SE and Ill purchase.

The fact of the matter is Xbox has something like 12 first party games this year releasing (if you count Ninja Gaiden 4 since they are publishing it). Just an insane amount of game output and keeping my game pass sub well fed. I remember the years when they had almost no first party output (some rough years). the amount of value i am getting from Xbox Game Pass is great and finally starting to see the benefits of all those studios. Will certainly be playing this day one when it releases.

It's also nice to see i got a free code for this game since i bought Gears Ultimate when it released. Awesome to see.

@Questionable_Duck ubisoft+ has games day one. thats how i consume my Assassin's Creeds if i want to, sub for a month, then decline.

Personally, if they show off Persona 6 (a new Persona) or the new DQ THAT would be big. Personally, I want to see more Final Fantasy. We're already getting a GOAT in Tactics, let's see 7 and 16 up there. It's time ...

Still Wake the Deep ... you have my attention.

Come tomorrow I'll be jumping into that Fallout 4 next-gen update, even though I've beaten it multiple times. That and Rift apart on the Steam Deck have me plenty satisfied until Hellblade 2 next month!

The reason shadows look better on the PS5 is because the PS5 renders shadows on Unreal Engine better than xbox. There's nothing xbox can do to make shadows look better for UE on xbox to overtake ps5 in that regard, it is what it is. So it's not an optimization of the game to bring it "up to par" on xbox, there is simply nothing they can do with that engine with the hardware the way it is, because shadows and UE will simply always be that way with these consoles.

Just give me the original SimCity or SimCity 2000 on steam. I prefer those 2 over the current city builders.

CPU is gonna be bottleneck city, and looks to be another half step for these consoles. MS looks to be doing it the right way and coming out with next gen in a few years. I'm good now that I have my Series X and my Steam Deck OLED. It's ALL GOOD.

Well, any debate between this and Rise of the Ronin (if you have a ps5) is becoming increasingly clear ...

This will fall into the "wait for sale" like Gotham Knights did. Gotham Knights was actually a top 5 game for me that year, i REALLY enjoyed it.

Will play this at some point I'm sure.

Well, considering "some" devs and gamers consider the series S holding games back what would you think this will do to the devs? Another SKU to develop for? Will they make handheld specific games? Is is cloud only? If its a hybrid console i cant see it being their only console as the performance would not increase from current gen and we see that the specs on the xbox/ps are more than what the Nintendo devices can handle. I just think the market will get saturated and the Rog Ally/Steam Deck and Switch would be enough.

Yeah, just more average for me. Maybe when they decide to show up with some big first party stuff, but ...

Zero. Waste of space and plastic IMO. everything else is moving towards digital, as much as people wanna kick and scream about it Agent Smith said it best, "That is the sound of inevitability."

@Savage_Joe I think they know that they'll be forced to by regulators ...

@Kaloudz My first was the original, and Ive played each in succession (aside from 2-3 which didn't come to the US until much later). I've had the pleasure of seeing the evolution from the beginning.

@Kaloudz Jobs are the class types used and the abilities you can acquire, basically like Final Fantasy 5.

@Kaloudz Yeah i'm not sure how prevalent grinding is for this game, because like i said, how you customize jobs to your characters is the important stuff. That and you want good equipment.

@Kaloudz it's definitely not easy imo, but it depends how you build your jobs around each character. If you can have a good set-up it wont be as bad but if not you will have a much harder time, at least that's how i saw the first game. I still beat it twice, but have my reservations of putting 65 hours into a game these days. Hard to find the time.

@Kaloudz no they are not. Both games have the 8 characters which each one having their own stories, and the second one having 8 different characters.

Now, there is a super boss in the first one that is basically a side quest that is supposed to tie all 8 of those characters together and that same super boss returns in part 2 that also loosely ties the first game to the second i believe but the main characters are all independent and unique so no need to play 1 before 2 or anything.

These games are massive, however. To beat all 8 stories in the first one it took me like 65 hours, and it will be similar with part 2. Don't get me started on leveling for the super boss, I wasn't gonna put another 10 in getting prepared for that.

Dang right it's a home run. The amount of content and value that xbox is bringing is staggering. The constant showcases with amazing games, the diversity, the road map, and the crazy thing is there's much more! And that sweet sweet game pass. It'd be nice if a certain other company would give the gamers a roadmap and an actually first party showcase instead of crickets, but here we are.

@Kaloudz PlayStation got the 2nd one already, just not the first that's correct. This looks like straight Mana, and I'm all for it! Glad to see the SE/Xbox relationship flourishing now after those rocky times, but i suppose a new man in charge will do that. Of course, the usual trolls and negative people on here will downplay it, as they always do.

Avowed and Hellblade release date. Give it to me! Indiana Jones i'm curious to see. Ara I don't really have much excitement for but the other 3 I'm curious to see.

@AlwaysPlaying indeed, i was THIS close to buying it but then was like (I probably am not gonna play it anyway) so saved myself money. I really with the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters came to xbox soon because i wanna run through all those. Might purchase 5 for the switch just because it deserves another run-through.

@eire-shabba for all the accolades baulder's gate 3 has gotten i still have no desire to play it. Believe it or not, the highest rated "generational" games such as BG3 and Elden Ring both I have no desire to play, believe it or not. Just aren't my type of games.

@TakeItEasy yeah that is weird. The Game Awards also had it as "best ongoing game" which doesnt even make sense since it wasnt a games as a service type game lol. I'd play through it again as it looked great but i played the original to death back in early 2021 so kinda got burned out on it.

Of course it did, it's a great game. It also is the most played RPG of the year, even over BG3.