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Finally, an mmorpg from level 5 on Xbox. The rest of the OGs in here know the pain I'm referring to.

More people play cod mobile than cod on PC playstation and Xbox combined. Cod mobile is the second biggest reason Amy Hood wanted ABK, the main reason obviously being Candy Crush.

Kinda tempted to get the Pac Man battle royal for $2

@dskatter can you elaborate? Genuinely curious.

@HonestHick this has always been coming, you didn't need to ask. They've just been waiting for the right time to sell it to you

We've heard your feedback, best we can do is more ads.

Voted yes, very worth it, my 2 series x and 1 series s.

It's not a factor in if I buy the next Xbox, assuming there is one, or back to PC.

Remnant 2 isn't just my favorite game on this list; it's my favorite co-op game of all time. Incredible design, the secrets are amazing, infinitely replayable, and the expansions are even better than the base game and integrate flawlessly. It also has my favorite story of games on this list. The closest thing I can compare it to is the fantasy elements of Halo, which I love. Go at it with 2 friends and it's a real ride.

Remember all those commenters on the last earnings report telling everyone it shows how great Xbox is doing? Since then, the game price hike and now layoffs.

Couldn't get into Vermintide I think I tried it on a free weekend or something, or maybe I'm thinking of the first one. But Darktide blew me away, it plays so much better and 40K is just a more interesting setting.

Can't wait for Doom.

Wow that looks nothing like Ranger, the Quake erasure continues. The Ranger skin in Eternal was excellent.

Probably not, my Nintendo consoles are just Mario Kart machines and I can't justify this price for 1 game no matter how incredible. First Nintendo (home) console since SNES I'll skip.

I wish they'd introduce a lower cost home only version with no screen battery or joycons, I'd bite in that.

It was a better time

@Fiendish-Beaver Not entirely sure on that, I only played the intro of the Oblivion remaster when Clair Obscur took my attention. No knock on Oblivion, but when there's two 11 out of 10 games at the same time, you've gotta pick. All my comments were more based on the originals. I believe Digital Foundry has a video on the performance issues which I haven't gotten a chance to watch myself yet.

For my part, Oblivion was by far my least favorite of ES 3-5 mainly because of severe issues with the way level scaling worked (and to a much lesser extent, I like the settings of Morrowind and Skyrim more than Cyrodil). I hear it's been fixed, so I can't wait to go through it without all that frustration. The only thing I can think of to compare it to was The Last Remnant on 360 which also had atrocious level scaling issues, which then were somewhat addressed on the PC version.

Anyway, glad it's on your backlog, it's a 20 year old game - no need to drop everything to play it. I just wanted you to know that (IMO) the big modernization/accessibility jump happened after Morrowind and much less after Oblivion, so if you really love Skyrim, I don't think you're going to dislike it for that reason.

I wonder if Modern Vintage Gamer is doing this? He was the lead dev on the Nintendo Switch port, and he used to be a big Xbox guy.

Edit to add reference
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eZRzaGFWoz8

@themightyant I legitimately believe that Minecraft with RT at Series X launch would have changed the entire history of video games and MS would still be a legitimate contender in the console space. I'm not even a Minecraft guy but there really isn't a more important game on consoles, it would have been THE killer app this gen.

I think you would love Oblivion if you still love Skyrim, but not Morrowind which is my favorite but definitely "plays old.". I had a notebook I used to get me through Morrowind because its quest log is completely useless, but I was used to that having mapped so many blobber crpgs. I don't know if I have the patience now.

Favorite campaign: 1

Favorite horde: 5

Honorable mention: Tactics

@Kaloudz same, I played a ton of mmorpgs in the 90s and 00s, didn't come across this one

In fact I'm playing EverQuest again now.

You can find posts from me on this site from last year saying MS has no choice but to do this if they are going to continue making hardware.

Does anyone make these kind of charts for other 3rd party publishers like EA and Tencent?

I'm not really a Minecraft person but I fired it up for the first time in probably a decade the other day and was shocked you still can't play with ray tracing on Series X. Everyone thought that was coming with the console launch 5 years ago and I just assumed it was added by now.

So what you're saying is, modern Xboxes can easily run Xbox 360 games?

Redfall, South of Midnight, or Bleeding Edge

The FTC was right: the ABK deal did kill competition. What they were wrong about was that it killed Playstation's competition.

@Millionski depending on what the Xbox handheld actually is, it matters a lot. If the Xbox handheld plays existing Xbox games, it's a big deal, while this thunder stealing nothingburger isn't.

Also not that I care because it's pretty irrelevant but your steamdeck numbers are wildly off, like 50%~.

I'm more than fine riding out this gen with Xbox which is indeed more than a gamepass machine. But there's too little info for next gen to pretend there's no chance I'll go back to just PC gaming.

Taken literally, "just a game pass machine" is not enough for me. The most important games to me are usually not on game pass. If 3rd parties without game pass deals pull support in increasing numbers (which is the natural state for any console with declining sales, see the Saturn, Dreamcast, Gamecube, Wii U to name a few), then no, a game pass machine isn't for me.

My most played games on Xbox in 2024 were Remnant 2 (purchased long before it was added to game pass), Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, WH40K Rogue Trader, Dragon's Dogma 2 (my GOTY), Elden Ring (DLC), WH40K Darktide, Diablo 4 (purchased before game pass), Lords of the Fallen, Dead Island 2, and Space Marine 2.

So in my top 10 most played games, 3 were on game pass (when I played them).

if I'm deciding between Xbox or PlayStation right now, I'm leaning 100% towards Xbox.

Well this I can say for certain I would choose the same.

When info started coming out on this months ago, here's what I said

Releasing this low demand device's main consequence will be customer confusion when they release their dedicated handheld in the next few years. This is the most Xbox move possible, creating L's when no one else would even see an opportunity for one. I would bet this is Aaron Greenberg's brainchild.

And here we go. Article headline "Xbox handheld gets leaked" and not "Asus handheld gets leaked," obviously because of click potential. By the time thee real Xbox handheld comes out, no one is going to care after a year or so of stories about this thing that no one wants. What a total disaster this company is, how did it get this bad? It's so frustrating to watch. I hate myself for still being invested in this.

@RBRTMNZ no you were never told that Xbox have any games, it's library has been 95% the same as PlayStation. You were told it doesn't have any good exclusives. Now it doesn't have any exclusives.

I've said everything I need to say about this going back to Feb 2024 when they announced this was happening to anyone who wasn't in complete denial.

Pentiment must have done REALLY well when they were "testing the waters," right guys who kept saying it's just 4 games?

Looking back, Xbox Game Pass last received a price increase in July of 2024, when Xbox Game Pass Ultimate jumped from £12.99 / €14.99 / $16.99 per-month to £14.99 / €17.99 / $19.99 per-month. It hasn't even been a year since that announcement, so it surely wouldn't be a great look to announce yet another increase in 2025 as well.

Yes they'd have to be real piles of **** if they increased the price only a year after their July 2024 price increase. Before that, they hadn't increased the price since... July 2023. Oh...

I still don't know what an extraction shooter is but I'm pretty sure it's not for me.

Oooo, new aoe2 dlc.

Clair Obscur and a little Towerborne.

@FelixArgyle the entire point is that the people playing on Xbox aren't sold copies, they're subscribers. I would also assume PC Gamepass users are categorized as """"""""Xbox"""""""" users.

$600 for a new powerful console, yes. That's still a good deal vs building a PC.

$600 for a 5 year old console, lmao.

As promised, the stats

Q3 FY23 -30%
Q3 FY24 -31%
Q3 FY25 -6%

This isn't bad, this is catastrophic. Those are years 3, 4, and 5 for a console which should peak in years 5 and 6. Remember these percentages are YoY, not off of some baseline, that's why negative anything at this point is horrific. So if Series consoles peaked in year 2, they dropped 30% off peak, then 31% off that lower number, and then 6% below that.

We'll make up a generous number to start with, let's say they sold 2 million consoles in Q3 FY22. That means they sold 1.4 million in Q3 FY23, 966k in FY24, and now 908k in FY25 (when sales should be peaking historically). Xbox 360 sold 2.7 million in Q3 FY211.

Might as well raise the price since they're not producing them anymore, upcharge for these collector's items.

I'm going to be able to trade in my 3 Series consoles for more than I paid for them. I've already seen Series S trade in deals for more than I paid for mine.

@WildConcept6 you seriously believe consoles normally peak in sales in year 2?

I already know this is beyond wrong because I've posted the numbers for other people who somehow believed the same thing. No, this is not normal.

Hardware being down 6% YoY after being down last year after being down the year before. Anyone of you "this is fine" guys understand how far hardware is down from 3 years ago? I'm laying in bed, I'll put together the number tomorrow.

Glad MGS is doing well.

The latest Golf with Friends map.

To the Moon is on sale, it is by far the most emotional game ever made as far as I'm concerned. Like... by far, I can't overstate this. Recommend if that's your sort of thing.

I didn't like Lost Odyssey and I'm loving Clair Obscur.

As far as a remaster, there's a remaster for Xbox 360 exclusive The Last Remnant available on all platforms except Xbox. Take that how you will.

Stoic = at minimum must try. The animation in this game is gorgeous, Stoics art team is phenomenal

"it's bad for Xbox fans, but great for MS shareholders!"

Oh ok I'm on board now

9, great so far. Still not totally sold on the premise but it's a great opening. Superficially very similar to Greedfall's opening, which was also very good.

If I love this game as much as I suspect I will then Infinite Wealth, Metaphor, and Clair Obscur is IMO the best string of JRPGs in 30 years going back to Phantasy Star IV, Final Fantasy VI, and Chrono Trigger.

I got to play for a little bit last night and I'm blown away.

There must be so much anxiety at Compulsion right now. They really can't know their future until after they ship the PS5 version, just like Tango.

I always wanted to play Pathologic, and for some reason every time Amnesia pops up I think it's Pathologic for a second and get excited. I have no idea why these two games are linked in my head.

US here I got one of these years ago but never since.