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That is until they determine the number they need to be selling on PS too

@themightyant dude I think the best streaming service was Stadia. They had excellent infrastructure and they were running Cyberpunk better on cloud than on downloads on consoles. Shame MSFT or others didn't buy up all that great infrastructure. Google wasn't made to survive in the gaming industry. Otherwise yeah, Microsoft Cloud isn't good for my style of games which I agree with your points full heartedly on.

I've increased my usage of cloud gaming solely to get Microsoft Rewards points which I'm sure a lot of us do. I've had so-so experiences with it because I play a lot of action titles that demand high frame rate and minimal lag so def not for me vs downloaded on the console.

I feel so bad for our lovely PureXbox writers and staff to oversee what's happening with the brand, I still come on here to read regularly but have never been more bitter about the state of Xbox. Buying a lot on Switch 2 and saving up for a lot of PC games. I've made my last Xbox purchases outside of DLC for Hunt

A Series S limited edition that looked like a 360 would've sold gang busters

@Ramouz it's the wireless via dongle. Works great. Just have some sync issues with my headset I plug into sometimes so I have to reset it every now and then

@Ramouz it's really good. It has a USB dongle which it wasn't really marketed as having which is lame BUT the gaming experience has been exceptional. Some weird desyncs with my wired headset which means resetting the controller every now and then but still. Zero drift. Super comfortable, best bang for buck

Software is core to what Xbox does because of everything is an Xbox then their ecosystem is important to that. Done with their marketing ploys, just keep giving us good games and stop talking about hardware until it's ready.

Glad they hit the 10k unit mark! An achievement for sure

@Tdx I'm not looking forward to this eShop closing for Switch in the future 😭 at least we had a lot of time for their other storefronts

I have my ultimate running out in 2 weeks. I picked up 12 months of Xbox Gamepass Core for $60 from Best Buy. That'll start end of November. Have to be careful or else it'll automatically convert to GPU for like 2-3 months

Take your time. Bet this means a LOT of shadow drops now that the big guys moved out of the way. Happy for Rockstar to polish as much as they need to

Day one all these games will suffer a bit from AI doing QA, AI can't know that we want to try and ride a chocobo out the back of the mini market closet in the desert

Pricing these at $29-39 is the right thing to do

I like more games even if I don't like their hardware approach. Xbox Studios is cranking out beasts

Rockstar has absolutely 100% earned their budget and time. It is not a luxury, they've made highly profitable games and spent a bucket load to make them real. The product speaks for itself. Hard to compare with other devs as each has their own place in the industry as being followers, leaders, copy cats, creative powerhouses and innovators.

Thank God for Rockstar games and Rockstar leadership. They called Gamepass being an issue years ago and are way ahead of the game on AI. I want people making art that understand the human experience and can make Pißwasser a thing and take true advantage of cultural norms in our godforsaken society. Their writing is PHENOMENAL and their characters timeless.

More Vampire Survivors is a good thing

End of an era, they're clearly lost the console war and they make all their cash and MASSIVE profits with software, they should just become a publisher first and produce hardware second because that is just where they're at. They crush Sony and Nintendo on revenue but still suffer on game quality and studio management in comparison. Yes I know good titles come from them, I've enjoyed them for many years.

I hope this launches and it launches on time

I already bought a PC from all the waffling. I indeed died hard as an Xbox fan 💀

Dumb name, good game. I'm all for it. Multiplayer would be welcome or even better, have this be DLC for Infinite and we'd gobble it up and pay for new skins anyway

Idk if Switch has enough memory to run this, I'd prefer if they do release it to keep it to ~100 planets if it helps performance

Nintendo devices for 30+ years: power on with game, hit Start or A. The thing they take about with updates really killed me with the ROG, I just wanna play games end of day on this thing. Sticking with other devices

That's cool, I want more wraps

@GeeEssEff yeah for real, the fact it's also one of the top innovations of the year for adding a button and reworking Windows for PC handhelds(which they need to do anyway) is nuts . I just picked up a laptop with a 5080 which pays itself off after 5 years of GPU at $30/mo plus the cost of a console or PC handheld. Will just buy games on PC sales to save myself the branding identity crisis

This is great news for the industry and consumers. Oh wait, increase 😞

It's such a good game and not full of crap. I love it, excellent platform to build upon for years to come.

You can have your full *PC gaming library with you wherever you go, not Xbox library. The marketing team is bold!

You can grab a TUF or Lenovo 5i pro gaming laptop for a couple hundred bucks more that run games better and even have some upgradeability. This is more inconvenient than sliding a laptop into your bag. Just my opinion given my experience with ROGs in the past. Switch 2 will also run games very well at 45% of the price and comes with a dock and is much smaller. Always felt the ROG was between two worlds, personally not a fan but glad for those that like it as it is an an undeniably cool concept.

@Zenszulu preach

Their feedback portal is just AI and I spent 15min trying to give feedback and got a human that looped me right to the start. What a joke!

I am immediately downgrading to Essentials and buying a laptop in the next two months for free online play

I called this a year ago after the first price increase, they want to push Xbox gamers to PC and I've been saving towards that the past year so when my sub is up end of November I'll be there without Gamepass and my Steam and Epic library. Crazy and totally disconnected from the market. Who gives a crap about Day 1 when the games launch buggy? I knew they'd keep doing this.

Just remake the games released on OG Xbox and I'll pay you $120 for the game EA. DO IT!

How do PC users like PC Gamepass?

@yeaman they have some of the highest rated games of all time on Switch and Switch 2 with games optimized to run on them with no additional settings tweaks. I'd say yes it is. Xbox imo should've only focused on 1 handheld instead of two so vastly different, the Ally X is the better experience hands down and pretty sure a lot of Xbox fans will be underwhelmed by the lower tier entry

Haven't they only sold like 1.2 million Xboxes in Japan. They're really skewing numbers this week

They sold out of Series X in Italy! Oh wait, they stopped producing there two years ago 😂 give us numbers brah, Nintendo sold millions, how big is production here?

Can't believe there's even a campaign, that's great! I got it for the stellar multiplayer. The gift that keeps on giving

@Cikajovazmaj may as well get a gaming laptop for that price or start building a PC right? Crazy prices

@BattleMonkey that's Nintendo's console strategy, use older easier to develop for tech and their games and output are amazing for it.

They may as well have not made the lighter version.

@Boogaloo_Jenkins we regret to inform you but prices will be going up to $89.99 for our first party titles

Sorry Microsoft it was OUR largest investment ever with the price increases. Swapping to CORE this year but have to admit the past 13 months have been bang on. The year before was trash in comparison

@BaldB3lper78 you I know I bet part of the reason us Xbox made production cut decisions early last summer in multiple markets and now the supply is lower than demand so they shot themselves in the foot. Whereas Sony has had production running for PS5 sales. Either way it's a shame

I actually bought a Series S to host all my previous Xbox gens on and to play games while traveling with an HDMI. I returned it since I have a Switch 2 and a bunch of other handhelds (3DS, Evercade) and my Series X is just so very good. Decided to put the Series S money into an upcoming PC build because I think over 5-7 years the cost of the PC will even out because of the discounted games available there across multiple storefronts. I really should've bought the S as a side console when it was $230 new 😭 can't justify it with new consoles and a Series X but I get why you did it and am happy you're loving it!

@Valhura big Halo fan and I finally stopped sometime last summer. They cut seasons, then they cut cutscenes and then the prices for the items were a slap in the face to the few thousand people left playing because they're so high. I'm sure the number is probably between 3-5k people still playing and most are doing the horde mode which is PvE. Good to grind through their impossibly long Hero Rank to get Master Chief Armor which is not worth hundreds of hours for

I hope the next Halo game launches with all this type of content. If Forge is done correctly they can be rolling out new maps or cycling some in every week with proper battle pass challenges to keep the live service engaging

I threw away my OG Xbox because it was broken with the lord of the rings game inside And I was pissed about the EA LOTR game. They played so good, gameplay still holds up. Hope they re-release them