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, but from our perspective, the console hinges on how well Microsoft can bring Windows and Xbox together.

I think the entire thing sinks or swims based on price, like every console before it. $200 killed the ps3 and $100 killed the Xbox one.

Really happy to see the comments here. He's on the Mount Rushmore of video game devs, the online vitriol he gets is disgusting and unwarranted.

@TrevorP86 this is Jez

This isn't a rumor, it's Microsoft PR.

It's going in the backlog. Pacific Drive for me right now.

Xbox died 2 years ago.

This is just like seeing all the Sega exclusives on Xbox.

The only difference is MS stringing certain gullible fans along. We're making another console, IM SUPER SERIAL YOU GUYS!

Reminder that this is the company that thought people bought consoles to watch cable tv, they know what's up

Meh

They already made mcc, just put mcc on Playstation. This is an extra money grab. I think they don't want to split more multiplayer halo away from infinite or whatever the next game will be. I think they want every Halo player playing a f2p cash shop game.

The only possible good that could come of this is if they do 1 at a time and when they get to Halo 3, it gets the full remake treatment including cutscenes. But I'm not holding my breath.

Pacific Drive
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor
Helldivers 2 with the boys

Reminder that it was Amy Hood and Satya Nadella, not Phil, who wanted ABK. They wanted to move their gaming division towards mobile, a sector they see as having huge growth. This was laid out in the FTC trial.

Been waiting for Pacific Drive since Skillup's excellent review. A must play for me

https://youtu.be/WXxJ_66ksD4?si=6rBX6OYni_j4hKEy

Who's decision was it for King employees to train AI that would replace.them when they were laid off?

This game was Darktide but much worse in every aspect. Its failure wasn't due to marketing, it's not a good game.

Imagine thinking directX box wasn't referring to a console. They rebranded MGS to XGS in an effort to hide the fact that Xbox is dying. It looks like someone here really lapped that s*** up, lmao.

Also, even using their asinine definitions, Xbox is not all of Microsoft gaming. Sarah Bond is the president of Xbox. Her boss, Phil Spencer, is the CEO of Microsoft Gaming.

Hopefully Itagaki is smiling wherever he is.

These guys rule. Only recently did I discover they also made Magicka, another all time great co-op game. Based on these 2 games I'm pretty sure we'll see more dpad inputs under pressure and lots of friendly fire mayhem and I'm gonna be there day 1.

Long shot but I really hope they bring Magicka back on Xbox, I bought it back then on PC.

Loved what I played of Metal Slug Tactics

Helldivers 2 with the crew

Deeprock Galactic Survivor, my 5 year old LOVES this game. She has gone from barely being able to use the analog sticks in stuff like the Bluey game and fall guys to a total pro. Parents of young ones, don't sleep on this.

I only play games at home, so buying this would be flushing (a lot of) money down the toilet.

@theduckofdeath they do if laptops sell

No one could sell Xboxes 2 years ago for $350 bundled with Diablo 4. It's cooked at $650 years later.

@Fiendish-Beaver it's interesting to think about, Asus must be livid.

Shooters over perform on Xbox. Many genres, like JPRGs, underperform. Always been the case even at Xbox's height and nothing has changed.

This was a console for dudebros from the start, and Phil Spencer's Xbox largely abandoned them when rebuilding after Mattrick mortgaged their software side. The games, the marketing, everything.

@Krzzystuff he really is

Rumor or not, statement or not, there's zero chance retailers continue to stock a $650 console that doesn't sell for much longer, if they even still are. Take that to the bank.

@DennisReynolds Do you think it's something Sony paid EA for, or something EA paid Sony for? Do you see a distinction between the two?

I don't really know the difference between only certain titles and hardly ever on the poll, i picked hardly ever. I replayed Oblivion when the remaster came out, and I replayed Skyrim a few years ago with one of its rereleases. I replayed Remnant From the Ashes after beating Remnant 2 to recontextualize the story and that was very worth it since I didn't understand it the first time. I replayed The Last Remnant (I guess I like to replay games with Remnant in the title?) when it came out on PC and changed a lot of the systems for the better, but that's 15 years ago - so replays for me are very few and far between.

Keeper, never miss a Double Fine game.

Ball pit, a Breakout roguelike is a genre combo I would have never imagined. Probably the first game since Nintendo's Tetris battle royal that made me just stop in my tracks because of such an unexpected mashup.

Rare's best game to date was a garden simulator, populated by pinatas.

I'm 100% sure this is happening, retailers aren't going to carry a $650 console which can't possibly be selling at all because they couldn't sell it for $350 bundled with Diablo 4 when the hardware was far less stale.

Richard from DF, who has always been incredibly pro-Xbox, on Microsoft's current credibility, incredibly relevant every time one of these Jez Cordon-esque Microsoft responses comes out:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxAacQhwrUPpwwfCXpOTfuxw9PI0q1kAMn?si=DJwuMC45Essewl-M

We are, once again, at step 2: mitigating messaging.

@DennisReynolds game pass perks are paid advertisements from free to play games, in a way it's the opposite of them going out and paying for exclusivity. They're not going to turn down advertising revenue from shovelware. I wouldn't equate the two at all.

So Microsoft is "basically" shutting down Activision and selling the brand off for $300M? These are nothing alike and the bulk of these layoffs has nothing to do with ABK. Microsoft is cutting vast swathes of employees across all sectors as they are replaced with cheaper foreign labor and AI. Not axing an entire failed acquired company. Beyond laying off staggering amounts of people, there's no similarity, and neither was normal.

Nothing here for me yet

No but I'll play it when it goes on game pass next year, which I'm subbed to through 2027. First Battlefield I have some interest in in many years

@DennisReynolds in case you missed it, Xbox threw in the towel. There's zero chance your hypothetical becomes a reality. And for perspective this is coming from someone who enjoys console competition and exclusivity, an era which started in the 70s and died in the last 3 years. I'm not like most people pretending to be above the "console warring," I'm lamenting its death.

@mikeangry Jez isn't a leaker, he's Microsoft pr. Let's all reminisce about how people said Xbox was no longer being sold in some middle east countries and Jez went nuclear on them (and was hilariously wrong)

Xbox GOTY? Helldivers 2 or E33. Both all timers in their respective genres imo.

Brother do you even know what happened with the Nokia acquisition? Are you for real here?

Are they about to sell Actiblizz off for 300 million? Like either you have no idea what you're talking about or this is weird satire.

@AverageGamer What you're referring to was a restructuring of the company because they bought Nokia a decade ago. "It happens all the time!" No it does not.

Meanwhile,
2023: 10,000 layoffs
2024: 2,000 layoffs
2025: 16,000 layoffs (so far)

Not normal. Not "all the time." Calling "the visa thing" "nonsense" is disgusting.

@AverageGamer I have never seen mass layoffs like MS has done over the last few years while they have something like 9000 work visa applications open and aggressively replace people with AI.

@ilyn loved every one of those, especially BG2 which was my favorite CRPG for 20 years. But to say no non D&D game matches the infinity engine games - IMO Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous surpassed them all, in both story and systems.

Double Fine doesn't miss, gotta try Keeper.

My wife loves this game and got every achievement, maybe I'll try out the coop with her. I know it had couch coop but this sounds way better not tethered on 1 screen.

Then again it might be moot, nothing is tearing her away from Deep Rock Galactic Survivors right now.

Can't do worse than Concord.

This is going to cost MS nothing for the hundreds of game pass subscribers in the EU, a region that so thoroughly rejected the Xbox that Jim Ryan named it Fortress Playstation.

Ffs here we go again:

STILL VERY AVAILABLE IN THE US AT BEST BUY, LITERALLY THE ONLY RETAILER CARRYING THIS ULTRA NICHE PRODUCT.

Somehow I knew this was going to be Jez before I clicked. A better PR man for MS than Aaron Greenberg,.

I wonder if the new challenging battles are going to stop those of us with 150 million damage 1 shot builds, lmao.