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Wow the Jaguar game is a rare one and interesting.

Seems pretty obvious how she isn't the right person for the job anymore. We need a president who is truly dedicated to the brand, passionate and focused on it.

Well it looks like something I'd pick up at the bargain bin

Tired of all these gaming related shows.

All they had to do was make a proper Forza Motorsport 8 like the past Forza Motorsport games. But no, they couldn't, they wouldn't. They had to go all-in on trying to turn Forza into a live services deal for reasons I will never quite understand. Surely they have to realize they screwed up there first and foremost.

I think it would look a lot better with the transparent green plastic like the old original Xbox Halo edition.

Love this game, it's exactly what I've been begging for as a SWAT 4/R6 Vegas fan.

What is with all the cartoon animal games?

@MaccaMUFC With how sophisticated AI is getting, I bet people will be able to fake identities with ease before long.

So whatever happened to parental controls and parents deciding what is appropriate or inappropriate for their children? This is true nanny state stuff right here.

@TrevorP86 That old Bungie is gone. This is just the name.

Not sure how much hype there is for this but even as someone who buys a lot of handhelds I just have no real excitement for this. Forza Horizon 4 and 5 work just fine on my Steam Deck and those are the only real Xbox games I would really want on a handheld. I mean a proper Xbox handheld with full OG, 360, and One backwards compatibility would be amazing but this is not that.

So what exactly is Xbox still working on? Fable?

The Xbox brand has so little going for it now.

I am not surprised, Mafia 2 was by far the best and even though the previews for this reminded me of Mafia 1 that game came out a very long time ago and I doubt anyone who made it is still at the studio today. This honestly just looked like a mediocre action game.

Glad to hear but there is no denying how this game lost to GT7. Only thing that really redeems it for me is the variety of cars, engine swaps, and that Japanese mountain road track they added.

@theduckofdeath I think there's a pretty big difference between small sites, hotel sites, and Microsoft's ability to have a functioning web service.

@Cikajovazmaj I just think they would really need to restructure the dev, reduce it's size, and go back to what made it great in the first place to redeem it.

I have given up on anything genuinely good coming from their IP's anymore.

I think they're toast. At best they will have mass layoffs and rebuild it for something in the future, but I think their live services Forza Motorsport game was a big flop. They should have simply made it Forza 8 and stuck to their tried and true approach to a racing game. All of their new ideas were bad and largely rejected by fans and gamers alike. The whole car RPG leveling thing was just a genuinely awful idea that really ruined any momentum it could have had out the gate.

I have a 2TB PS5 Pro with a 4TB M2 internal drive and a 4TB external SSD for PS4 games, combined I got 570 games installed.

Probably not. Doesn't look that good and I have no shortage of games like it to play right now in my backlog.

@theduckofdeath Yes and that was always a very lame excuse at best. There is no good reason a company as big as Microsoft should take so long to simply get a different payment system.

Too late, bought an Elite 2 on sale.

They've been milking VF5 for about 20 years now. It's only $20 but I feel like I am tired of just seeing new releases for the same old game.

The 40 years might as well be a reference to the studio's lifespan by now.

$90 for a 3'rd party controller? No thanks.

What's the point anymore? Microsoft isn't trying to sell consoles anymore anyways, the way they have them priced after the price hike made that all too clear. By now I wouldn't bother buying another Xbox even if it is a cool looking special edition.

Can't believe it's been a year. I remember getting an Xbox 360E in blue with the 500GB HD off Ebay for the store shutting down. Still play it occasionally as my go-to 360.

@GuyinPA75 Yup I switched back to Mac after not buying their computers for over a decade because Microsoft has ruined everything I liked about Windows with the Windows 11 era. Apple includes all the Office software FOR FREE, NO SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED. They also make it easy for me to setup an external hard drive for time machine backups, no need for cloud subscriptions on data heavy backups. I see no reason to stick with Microsoft anymore.

Sounds like their actions are finally starting to catch up with them. I knew this would happen, can't make your platforms undesirable and not eventually lose revenue on them.

They are trying to push this sort of thing in the US now as well. Hope we fight it as much as possible.

I've been telling people this is basically Skyrim all over again but it turns out a lot of people have very selective memory. That game was a complete mess when it first came out and it took years for all the bugs and issues to be ironed out, and even then most fans agree that the game is a lot better with mods.

Yay mass layoffs!

Yay executives making more money!

The engine they used was among the least problems that game had.

@FatGuyInLilCoat Yup same here. I was still a big fan of Xbox back when this gen started and I was even a big fan of Windows throughout the Windows 10 years, but their decisions over the past year at Xbox and Windows 11 in general have really turned me off Microsoft. It doesn't seem like I am going to buy a new release game on my Series X ever again, and I recently went back to Apple computers after not buying their computers for over a decade.

Microsoft just seems completely tone deaf and like they are not even trying to give me any reasons to stick with any of their platforms anymore. They are all about trying to force subscriptions and AI features that I don't want and while that might help drive investors it's been driving me away as a customer.

@Tainted Going all-PC is my plan for next gen. Tired of all the forced subscription nonsense on consoles these days.

Anthem huh? Now that's a game I never had any interest in.

I would love to see them go back to the classic mission based tactical shooter direction Ghost Recon games originally had. Tired of everything Tom Clancy either being open world or online multiplayer.

Sounds like a remake of Plants vs Zombies, should be fun but that's just an old classic lightweight game.

Pre-order numbers were probably low.

I actually really liked this game. Big fan of the original two TDU games, still play them on occasion, and this new one isn't quite as deep, lacking the buy a home feature and driving out to businesses for clothing and customization, but I have been really enjoying it. Feels a lot more grounded than The Crew Motorfest which just seems to constantly throw online/gaming stuff at you as your driving around. In this it's just more immersive to drive around and explore.

@Simu001 It won't if SKG succeeds.

They feel unnecessary, something I totally don't need or desire.

I absolutely loved Descenders, the kind of AA game that really appeals to my personal interests.

It's like Microsoft is trying to burn every bridge they built.

This seems to be showing off the downfall of AAA gaming as well as the rise of AA games and studios. Been saying it for a long time now, AA is basically the new AAA and today's AA studios remind me of the way many big AAA studios were back in their 90's and 00's glory days.

For me I pre-ordered Ready or Not because it's basically the proper tactical shooter that I have been begging for studios to make for over a decade that nobody was willing to make apparently until now. Heck it's been longer than that, much longer. Last great games like this that I can think of were Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and SWAT 4, with Vegas dating back to 08 and SWAT dating back to 05. Crazy how it's been two decades.

If only the Switch 2 version was like this. Code in a box.

What is happening here?

@phoenix1 It's not like there is really anything special about it either. Just a baby blue controller with white bumpers and a beavis and butthead logo decal. Oh yeah and a call of duty decal, as if that has anything to do with the show.

This reminds me when a store chain that is clearly going under stops stocking merchandise for months with their shelves going empty as they keep saying some excuse like "we are changing distributors" or something.