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@Green-Bandit DO IT

@Green-Bandit two series Xs? Are you MAD! Lol i have a series X on my main tv and the series S downstairs, got em both at launch. I use both and enjoy both pretty equally. Dont think i could even find another X these days! Not a huge diablo guy but it looks gorgeous and when it drops on game pass i’m there!

@Kaloudz the onslaught is coming my friend. Starfield bundles? Diablo bundles? Call of Duty bundles? it's ALL coming down the pipe.

Lookin' fire. Still gotta get me one of these elite cores. Someday!

@Kaloudz it's starting to get good now isn't it my friend. We'll be playing ABK in game pass before you know it! That consolidation, gotta love it!

They’re just protecting their business right? The same people that were ok with Jim Ryan acting like a kid are suddenly all up in arms about this i see. Fitting. That’s what happens when you start a gas fire Sony, you F around and find out.

I see the JFTC is gonna pass the ABK deal now as they see no concerns. Ah, can’t wait to have all those games in game pass. Love it!

@themightyant like i said, if someone wants to buy a pair of slacks and a hat in a game "that makes NO difference to how powerful you are or anything" then more power to em. I've never bought one in my life and never will. If someone wants to waste money on that stuff, just like in real life, let em. Won't alter my enjoyment one bit.

If microtransactions are cosmetic only, then i dont care. I've never bought a cosmetic MTX so dont really care.

Just give me immortals: fenyx rising 2!

@Kaloudz are you surprised? Some people take this stuff too seriously and he paid for it. Imagine getting that worked up over video games. Sheesh.

At least he can go get some fresh air and clear his head now …

@Kaloudz i was a krillin fan too, originally, but being the one hit wonder that he is (one punch and he's done with) the arrival of trunks episode i watched on VHS way back in the day and instantly fell in love with the character. The Trunks arc in DBS is EASILY the best one. he's a beast.

@Kaloudz i HOPE you've seen Dragon Ball Super: Super hero from last year. movie was awesome!

@RobNZ64 Starcraft. give it to me.

@Kaloudz NOOOOOOOOOOO. Lol they need to redeem themselves there, that movie just wasn't it. Put a big budget behind it.

@Tharsman have you played Mighty Doom? I heard people really enjoy it, but havent tried it myself.

@Kaloudz DBZ Kai would be the definitive version if it had the Faulconer music. I can't watch DBZ without it. So good!

@Banjo- yeah it's extremely easy to point out the fake-neutrals around here, especially the ones that pretend to be above it all but they forget you can see the comment history on their profile. Not fooling anyone.

@Kaloudz Imagine all those awesome games we'll see in game pass. Man the future is looking bright and I can't wait! Love me some consolidation!

@Banjo- Kinda thought the same thing.

@Kaloudz I think when they made the decision to go full in on game pass in 2017 and with them being third place in the market and it getting more and more expensive to get game into that service (and other companies outright making it so a company has to put in writing a multiplat can't be put in there) they knew they had to make their 1st party so huge that they wont have to try and overpay to make deals with other companies, that they can only start to rely on themselves.

@Kaloudz i see the anti-xbox crowd has already made their way into this article lol this is just promoting a big IP to bring to more players and make money, don't see why they even care ...

@Banjo- Can't say i feel sorry for them. It's not show-friends, it's show-business. At the end of the day, it's big bank eats little bank and big bank is finally showing up to the party.
Competition is good Banjo! lol

@Banjo- yeah someone mentioned it in another article but they locked down Ghostwire and Deathloop, and tried to get Starfield and i bet MS was like "ok, enough is enough" and just bought it outright. They also kept getting exclusive content for ABK and probably tried to lock down more stuff and MS was just getting tired of it.
I've been told time and again exclusives sell consoles, if you want to play that game get the console, ect" Well, it's time to take that same advice on a platform that can be accessed through console, pc, cloud on any device. No reason not to jump in.
If you truly go where the games are, well, there they are then.

@Kaloudz touting console sales/UK physical sales charts won't hide the bitterness on this news I guess.

Not that anything is being taken away from them anyway.

I just want another StarCraft, probably my favorite ABK IP.

@Kaloudz you should see the comment section on PushSquare. "I hope you're all happy!" Acting like the sky is falling, gaming is over, and worried about monopolies and "higher game pass prices."

Hilarious. Clearly they haven't been noticing the price gouging done by competitors, nor do they know what a monopoly even is when they make comments like that. The gaming industry is so vast that thinking this is a monopoly for someone in third place is laughable at best. I can't wait to see where gaming goes now. It's exciting. Some people just want their plastic box to have all the preferential treatment. Not anymore.

Like I've said before ... whisper never a doubt ...

@Kevw2006 that's your problem if you don't wanna use it on your mobile phone, but claiming you need to OWN something like you would a switch or ps5 game is funny to see. You can still find deals of game pass for a buck, or heck, free trials if you want so you pay nothing. Play it, and then unsubscribe. What's cheaper, $300-$500 console to play a game or something you can play for $1 or free on a console, a PC, or on a browser?

I'll let you do the math on that one.

@Widey85 Yup. Gonna be a lot of hurt feelings when this deal goes through. You'll see the usual haters popping off in here. Can't wait!

@Kevw2006 all you'll need is a browser, that same browser you used to type that comment.

@IOI completely forgot about Dead Island 2, which actually, looks pretty good ...

The 30 days from April 12th to May 12th with Ghostwire, this wonderful looking game, and then Zelda is gonna be one HELLUVA hero sandwich if you ask me.

@BAMozzy yeah i think instead of cherry picking and running with headlines like a lot of people do they need to watch the entire interviews he has done in the past. He, indeed, did say that the Bethesda Acquisition was about bringing great exclusive games to platforms where game pass exists, the gameindustry.biz article about games being everywhere was about console/pc/cloud at the same time instead of segmented, and they aren't taking away games from places that specific game exists (like you mentioned, online games) which COD is, single player games i expect to be exclusive.

I think many just want to be ignorant to the fact and don't look into things, just run with headlines and clipped quotes WAY too much.

Case-by-case. Is what it is. I don't think people understood the sit-down of (platforms where game pass exists).

This is why i'm glad MS is buying up studios, so those studios can have a bigger budget to make stuff like this. Can't wait.

Them having the time to focus on the xbox and PC platform and make the game better is a win in my book. Keep it up Arkane!

@FraserG Fraser comin' in clutch!

So which is it? Xbox has no games/exclusives or they do? Certain "fans" need to make up their minds.

@Kaloudz N4G, man i used to go there YEARS ago, but that place is an utter cesspool.

@GamingFan4Lyf I am also going to be delving into Redfall before Zelda comes out, but (depending on campaign length) I should be done with Redfall by the time the other comes out, and then jump back into it again later after Zelda.

Excited for both!

@GamingFan4Lyf you lucky Devil.

@GamingFan4Lyf you got to play it already?

YAWN. it's 2023, don't care if it was online or not. I'll be online all the time anyway, personally don't care if they remove it or not. I'll live.

I've said it before, Arkane has never disappointed me. They are one of the best reasons that MS bought Zenimax and i can't WAIT to dive into this. I'll be there day 1!

@Kaloudz i think it's because it was on the game cube originally and i DID own a gamecube, but after it had been out a while and i only ever played metroid prime, a lot of smash melee, and the legend of zelda collection on it and that was pretty much it, spent most of my time on the ps2 and original xbox when it came out. I played the demo last week and already know i'll enjoy it. Looking forward to it!

@Kaloudz 2 and 3 remakes are awesome, and as someone who grew up in the 90s i actually NEVER played 4. So I'm in for a treat.

@Kaloudz yup, next few months are AWESOME! gonna get RE4 this weekend which will hold me over for a bit until ghostwire and whatever else is on game pass and then redfall comes out and will hold me over until Zelda. Ill be set.

@Kaloudz indeed, and i definitely buy more games (especially digitally) that arent on game pass than if i had no game pass so i consume more content on xbox for sure. if game pass didnt exist i may have switched to playstation as my primary this generation but that service is just too good to me.

@Kaloudz then again, the only thing i do with my subscriptions is buy a year of ultimate at a discount around black friday/christmas and put the code in on the console and im done with it. Rinse and repeat once a year lol

@Kaloudz i dont think so, i believe you had to go onto a web browser on your phone or computer to do certain things.