@HonestHick The PS5 itself is $550 in most regions and they are not launching the PS5 slim any cheaper. They are only keeping the lower tag in the US, something that has been largely attributed at it being the one market where Xbox actually is giving Sony some solid competition.
If it's true we will not see an XBox mid-gen upgrade, that gives Sony even less reason to keep things cheap in the US.
If they just do overclocking, then the performance gain honestly wont be worth it, IMO. There **is** a chance they sell it for $700 with a bundled game, but it will likely be a game everyone already owns by its launch (Spider-Man 2 or God of War Ragnarok).
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At the end, I doubt the price difference between both consoles will be lower than $100. with the PS5 starting at 550 in most regions, the minimum I expect is $650 (even the US despite lower slim price) and then only if the boost is simply marginal.
@HonestHick My thought is that either the hypothetical PS5 Pro will be a minimum of $700, or it wont actually be as big a leap as many hope. Even accepting losses, there is only so much they can take before it eats into their profitability. Sony already is running on way thinner profit margins than Xbox and Nintendo, and felt forced to increase the price of their PS5 (twice!, the slim is actually another price increase!) not lower it.
So, regardless power, I doubt they will try to eat much of the cost of producing a PS5 Pro. This is why I feel $700 is as low as they can go with any significant performance gains.
As for the playing in console thing, I hear you. I still play primarily on consoles, generally am not crazy about playing on PC, but I have been playing Starfield on my PC. I get to have 60fps AND ultra-wide resolution. Yes, some games launch way buggier on PC, but it goes both ways. Lets not forget what mess Cyberpunk was on consoles. The PC version was considered "good" (performance wise, the game did have other logic issues that were universal regardless of platform).
Unlike others, I don't think the 30% rewards is too low. Just think about how much time you are likely to lose simply fending off other players if you play during active hours, and its likely the same goals will take you way more than 3x the time to complete. That stuff is usually factored in how rewards are awarded from content.
My concern is no access to captaincy, that I understand is what gives you access to ship customization. That, IMO, should be part of this mode too.
@HonestHick Yea, I predict MS will simply start updating their hardware "generations" at a faster rate than competitors, allowing for full native backwards compatibility.
It has done no favors to MS to be on the same update cycle as PlayStation, if anything, it has made the Xbox look like its competing for the same exact audience and press attention.
Will be interesting to see all 3 consoles launching entirely out of sync, people already twist themselves backwards trying to box the Nintendo consoles in the made up Generational brackets.
Interesting thought: remember when Windows went from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, under some crazy logic about it being the 10th major release or what not? I would not be shocked if they do something similar and the next XBox is called something akin to XBox G6, counting the One X as a "major release".
Would be interesting to see such a hypothetical XBox G6 launch in 2025 just in time for GTAVI.
@HonestHick
That is not a good idea in my book for MS, but they have their plan and are sticking to it it seems
Honestly, the XBox One X was way more powerful than the PS4 or PS4 Pro, and that didn't make a difference. Despite their power, the best selling console month to month was still the PS4 slim. Few players actually care about the super-pro power. This is precisely why the Series S exists, MS saw the same in the Xbox also sold more One S consoles than One X.
And of those that care for power, they can get so much more out of PCs. The Pro consoles wont be cheap this time around. Expect to pay $700 or more for those, when you enter that realm, you might as well start looking at a PC. I have a 4070 TI PC that puts my XSX and PS5 to shame, and no pro console will likely match it (then again, it cost me $1800 so there is that too).
@themightyant But as you said, DLC, microtransactions, and other additional subscriptions.
I keep telling people, stop hoping, WoW will continue to charge its monthly fee as usual, even when fully integrated under Microsoft, same way as Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76 still charge for their premium MMO modes.
They will also make a ton of money from CoD on microtransactions alone, not to mention the mobile games.
At the end of the day, MS is not in this for charity, I am sure they are more than breaking even.
Never bothered pursuing these points. All the points I got have been by naturally playing, or using Bing, which I unironically use as my default search engine, on my browser of choice: edge, that I have been using since it switched to Chromium due to Chrome being a horrible resource hog.
Anyways, it never crossed my mind before... but I am shocked MS had such a generous program. Lets face it: when there is a way to make money, its exploited by fraudsters. I am 100% certain there are reward point farms out there, with hundreds or thousands of VMs farming points on alternate accounts just to redeem the cash-back. This timer, more than anything else, might be designed to put a halt, or slow down, that.
I'm actually shocked that Sony allowed EA Play on PlayStation. It did take them some time to green light it, though. Don't think it happened until after EA Play was added to GPU.
@HonestHick curious why wait until an all digital release? More internal storage? The amount of money saved on this would be enough to buy an expansion card or two (lets face it, that digital edition wont be under $500).
@NintendoByNature Honestly, as someone that owns both and still thinks the S is a great console to play games on, the upgrade is still worth it. The S is a great machine, many genres of games you simply lose a bit of visual fidelity, but for this price? Definitely worth it. Plus you can always sell or hand-down the Series S to get some of it back.
I don't predict stock on this to last through the day, though.
@StonyKL even if we wanted to make a case for MS acquisitions being the reason, that does not explain: A) how come Nintendo still having a fruitful relationship with Microsoft B) Sony having a terrible relationship with Nintendo
The truth is Sony does not get along with anyone. They want to be the only player, and that mindset has been dialed up to 11 under Jimmy's leadership.
@themightyant I think itās possible. MS and Nintendo still have a close relationship, and I can see Bowser going in on such an appearance. The issue is all on Sony leadership, and that is about to change early next year, so who knows. Maybe next year or the following. Whomever is lead at Sony will be highly incentivized to work with MS due to CoD, and depending on attitudes, things might work again.
Why is CoD being prevalent sad? They are games people love. Not everything has to cater to any given player. CoD is popular, and if anything this shows that MS made a great choice buying out ABK.
I didn't originally play it on Xbox (Don Mattrick made sure I would not touch anything Xbox for years), but from that list, AC4 wins among the rest, IMO.
Objectively, Ryse and Dead Rising 3 were some very appealing exclusives that I never played due to my dislike of Xbox's direction at the time. Killer instinct would had interested me if it had not been released as a F2P game. That did not help their image in my eyes, at that time.
@FraserG I was not even going to mention them, but you need to be aware that for a network site... if you guys have communication and are not isolated, you might want to discuss at some point the tone they tend to push for the sake of clicks. Hell, the opening comment in their own article posted on this topic... by the writer of the article himself... They end up actively encouraging the comment sections spiraling out like this.
This is a huge part of why MS split their efforts into PC and Console. I'm sure they want to sell consoles, but so far they get goo revenue from the region via game pass and first party PC games, they will be very happy with how things go forward.
Next year is the year that things will really bloom for the xbox division. Thats when we will see how much of a hope there is for them, although it took multiple years, and chains of solid releases, for the PS3 to gain traction in their weakest markets.
Took the combined reputation accumulated from Uncharted 1, 2, 3 and The Last of Us for the PS3 to really make a name for itself. That was a 6 year span. It will similarly take years for Xbox to achieve anything similar. And unlike Sony during that gen, Microsoft is at zero risk of going bankrupt as they wait.
For me, the most shocking highlight from this study is how big Apple and Google are in game revenue despite making zero games. Sure, its all in the back F2P games made by others giving them 30% of the IAP, but damn....
I am going to say a B- IMO. There were not that many titles that interested me, personally, just Hi-Fi Rush and Starfield, but there was a lot coming from Xbox this year. Forza, Starfield, Hi-Fi Rush, Age of Empires IV, Age of Empires II Definitive Edition, GoldenEye... on top of all the crazy high profile day one Game Pass additions... yea it was a solid year for the Xbox ecosystem even if the consoles have not managed to gain ground.
The game Awards nominations, as far as I understand, are driven by the reviewing industry voting. It is no secret that a big bulk of the industry focuses on PlayStation, with a disproportionate number of outlets being PlayStation-only. Those wont ever vote for an XBox game, and the pure-xbox outlets are not numerous enough to compensate for that.
Things might had changed a bit when Xbox started delivering all its games also on PC, but I still don't see PlayStation-biased publications (you will have a hard time convincing me some all-platform outlets are not biased when they always request PS copies to review) to give Xbox the credit they deserve, when they deserve it.
Game Awards would be better off (maybe) if nominations were driven by industry developers instead of reviewers that (no offense to anyone here) can often be simply platform fanboys.
Still have not beat it but not shocked. I, however, am shocked about both Spider-Man 2 and Mario Wonder malign the list. Mario Wonder feels odd given nomination patterns and spider-man feels like the opposite, an industry pattern-shoehorned inclusion.
Letās face it: this is Baldurs Gate 3ās award at the end of the day.
These awards are a bit confusing... I am assuming that Game of the Year does not mean exclusive given that the PS5 got Resident Evil 4 to earn that award, but how come a game can be the best platform game of the year and a whole different one still be "overall best game of the year"?
Just wish I could install Adblock addons. My main use of Edge on Xbox is for achievement guide info, since itās very convenient to just click search the web for help from the achievement window, but True Achievements is loaded with horrible ads, many of them video, that make navigating the page a pain on the TV.
Iām confused how this happened. Dont they have 3 studios cycling through the games precisely to make sure every game gets at least 3 years dev cycles?
Wasnāt this year supposed to be Treyarchās turn?
This is not acceptable. I honestly hope there is loud enough backlash to this as there was when they attempted the old stupid Xbox live gold price hike stunt.
Phil, we wanted you to get ABK so you would get rid of Kotick, not for you to adopt his stupidity!!!
Seriously, if my Wingman stops working, I will seriously consider canceling Game Pass and going back to PlayStation 5 as my primary platform. This is not even about me loving the thing that much, but about this being a huge bad sign of the current direction...
I insist, if MS wants to win big in Japan, and hell, just plain out have a big W, they need to "miniaturalize" the Series S, somehow slap a battery in there alongsides a monitor like the one in this article, and sell it not as a handheld, but as a "laptop" style portable.
@Tatoun ignore all the side content and focus exclusively on the Faction quests and the main quest. The main quest starts slow but starts becoming interesting at a point I cant talk about because spoilers.
The Crimson Fleet faction quest is amazing, but depending on your choice's things can get HARD near the end (space combat can be hard if you are at a disadvantage).
These quest lines are not extremely long, but they are the thing that really make the game shine.
@abe_hikura From what I understand, due to how this game was financed and some local laws over tax exemption or what not, this title cant be cancelled even if they wanted to.
@themightyant I did basically say that its not ideal for MS, due to limited resources. But the Game Pass model does work for big publishers and studios. EA and Ubisoft both do their own Game Pass day one services.
The only thing holding MS from getting big Triple A from big publishers (the size of the studio itself is less relevant because almost no studio is "big" enough without the backup of a publisher) is the size of GamePass. At some point they might reach the subscriber base needed to be able to actually offer 300 million cash up front to a big publisher to put some big known IP on the service. In the meantime, even big publishers, despite having great marketing track record, have proven to be more than willing to put new IP triple A on the service. (Outriders, Exoprimal). GamePass "markettiong" potential can help boost even large publisher titles.
@themightyant @Mephisto2869 Starfield managed to snatch the 7th best selling game spot of the whole year being on GamePass, thatās keeping in mind it was not on PlauStation. Lies of P also sold crazy numbers for a new IP despite being on GP.
Iām not sure āitās not goodā in this situation translates to āitās badā in any way. These games prove that should a game be desired enough, it will sell well regardless if itās in GP or not. This does not mean every triple-A title out there can launch on GP. Big TripleA titles launching on the service cost MS a huge bundle of cash, they canāt afford paying for too many such deals.
I would be disappointed but there is plenty to play. UBisoft needs a steady stream of games and dlc if they want to keep me subscribed to their UBisoft+ service, though.
The more I see of this game the more it piques my interest. Hopefully it does not end up disappointing, although Iām willing to forgive a lot of yank on this one.
B, in huge part because after so much drama before the MGS3 remake was announced, many insisted it was going to be a PS5 exclusive yet here we are, with Xbox delivering us the first in-engine footage.
Also, Robocop is looking amazing! Canāt wait for that one!
Oh and also loved to see that Animal Crossing-style mini game reveal for Infinite Wealth!
This is a fantastic game. Itās not a traditional MMO due to its heavy emphasis on story. I tend to prefer playing it on PC for DPS parsers but I might actually play a fair share on Xbox if only for the achievements.
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Re: Bungie's Independence Reportedly Under Threat After Layoffs & Destiny 2 Expansion Delay
Microsoft surely dodged a bullet by passing on re-acquiring Bungie.
Re: GTA 6 Launches In 2025, Watch The Official First Trailer Here
@HonestHick The PS5 itself is $550 in most regions and they are not launching the PS5 slim any cheaper. They are only keeping the lower tag in the US, something that has been largely attributed at it being the one market where Xbox actually is giving Sony some solid competition.
If it's true we will not see an XBox mid-gen upgrade, that gives Sony even less reason to keep things cheap in the US.
If they just do overclocking, then the performance gain honestly wont be worth it, IMO. There **is** a chance they sell it for $700 with a bundled game, but it will likely be a game everyone already owns by its launch (Spider-Man 2 or God of War Ragnarok).
Edit:
At the end, I doubt the price difference between both consoles will be lower than $100. with the PS5 starting at 550 in most regions, the minimum I expect is $650 (even the US despite lower slim price) and then only if the boost is simply marginal.
Re: GTA 6 Launches In 2025, Watch The Official First Trailer Here
@HonestHick My thought is that either the hypothetical PS5 Pro will be a minimum of $700, or it wont actually be as big a leap as many hope. Even accepting losses, there is only so much they can take before it eats into their profitability. Sony already is running on way thinner profit margins than Xbox and Nintendo, and felt forced to increase the price of their PS5 (twice!, the slim is actually another price increase!) not lower it.
So, regardless power, I doubt they will try to eat much of the cost of producing a PS5 Pro. This is why I feel $700 is as low as they can go with any significant performance gains.
As for the playing in console thing, I hear you. I still play primarily on consoles, generally am not crazy about playing on PC, but I have been playing Starfield on my PC. I get to have 60fps AND ultra-wide resolution. Yes, some games launch way buggier on PC, but it goes both ways. Lets not forget what mess Cyberpunk was on consoles. The PC version was considered "good" (performance wise, the game did have other logic issues that were universal regardless of platform).
Re: Sea Of Thieves Adds Private Servers In This Week's 'Safer Seas' Update
Unlike others, I don't think the 30% rewards is too low. Just think about how much time you are likely to lose simply fending off other players if you play during active hours, and its likely the same goals will take you way more than 3x the time to complete. That stuff is usually factored in how rewards are awarded from content.
My concern is no access to captaincy, that I understand is what gives you access to ship customization. That, IMO, should be part of this mode too.
Re: GTA 6 Launches In 2025, Watch The Official First Trailer Here
@HonestHick Yea, I predict MS will simply start updating their hardware "generations" at a faster rate than competitors, allowing for full native backwards compatibility.
It has done no favors to MS to be on the same update cycle as PlayStation, if anything, it has made the Xbox look like its competing for the same exact audience and press attention.
Will be interesting to see all 3 consoles launching entirely out of sync, people already twist themselves backwards trying to box the Nintendo consoles in the made up Generational brackets.
Interesting thought: remember when Windows went from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, under some crazy logic about it being the 10th major release or what not? I would not be shocked if they do something similar and the next XBox is called something akin to XBox G6, counting the One X as a "major release".
Would be interesting to see such a hypothetical XBox G6 launch in 2025 just in time for GTAVI.
@HonestHick
Honestly, the XBox One X was way more powerful than the PS4 or PS4 Pro, and that didn't make a difference. Despite their power, the best selling console month to month was still the PS4 slim. Few players actually care about the super-pro power. This is precisely why the Series S exists, MS saw the same in the Xbox also sold more One S consoles than One X.
And of those that care for power, they can get so much more out of PCs. The Pro consoles wont be cheap this time around. Expect to pay $700 or more for those, when you enter that realm, you might as well start looking at a PC. I have a 4070 TI PC that puts my XSX and PS5 to shame, and no pro console will likely match it (then again, it cost me $1800 so there is that too).
Re: Microsoft Spends 'Over A Billion Dollars A Year' Bringing Content To Xbox Game Pass
@themightyant But as you said, DLC, microtransactions, and other additional subscriptions.
I keep telling people, stop hoping, WoW will continue to charge its monthly fee as usual, even when fully integrated under Microsoft, same way as Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76 still charge for their premium MMO modes.
They will also make a ton of money from CoD on microtransactions alone, not to mention the mobile games.
At the end of the day, MS is not in this for charity, I am sure they are more than breaking even.
Re: GTA 6 Launches In 2025, Watch The Official First Trailer Here
Very strange thing to be allergic to. š¤
Re: Microsoft Rewards Begins Adding 15-Minute 'Cooldown Time' In Some Countries
Never bothered pursuing these points. All the points I got have been by naturally playing, or using Bing, which I unironically use as my default search engine, on my browser of choice: edge, that I have been using since it switched to Chromium due to Chrome being a horrible resource hog.
Anyways, it never crossed my mind before... but I am shocked MS had such a generous program. Lets face it: when there is a way to make money, its exploited by fraudsters. I am 100% certain there are reward point farms out there, with hundreds or thousands of VMs farming points on alternate accounts just to redeem the cash-back. This timer, more than anything else, might be designed to put a halt, or slow down, that.
Re: Xbox Boss: There Are 'No Plans' To Put Game Pass On PlayStation & Nintendo
I'm actually shocked that Sony allowed EA Play on PlayStation. It did take them some time to green light it, though. Don't think it happened until after EA Play was added to GPU.
Re: Xbox Series X Drops To Less Than $350 In Post-Black Friday Deal
@HonestHick curious why wait until an all digital release? More internal storage? The amount of money saved on this would be enough to buy an expansion card or two (lets face it, that digital edition wont be under $500).
Re: Xbox Series X Drops To Less Than $350 In Post-Black Friday Deal
@NintendoByNature Honestly, as someone that owns both and still thinks the S is a great console to play games on, the upgrade is still worth it. The S is a great machine, many genres of games you simply lose a bit of visual fidelity, but for this price? Definitely worth it. Plus you can always sell or hand-down the Series S to get some of it back.
I don't predict stock on this to last through the day, though.
Re: Xbox Series X Drops To Less Than $350 In Post-Black Friday Deal
@Grumblevolcano if this was MS doing, this would not just be a Walmart thing.
Re: Xbox Series X Drops To Less Than $350 In Post-Black Friday Deal
I donāt need this, I already have a Series X in the game room and a Series S in the living roomā¦
I donāt need thisā¦. I donātā¦
Damnitā¦. I bought thisā¦.
Edit: I'll likely turn this into a Christmas gift for some friend.
Re: Xbox Teases 'News You Don't Want To Miss' At The Game Awards 2023
I watched this show once. I don't need to watch another one, I'll just catch up all trailers and announcements on various websites.
Re: Talking Point: How Many Microsoft Rewards Points Do You Have Right Now?
199,605. I have never cashed them out. They are my second gamer score
I have a feeling by the time the next xbox comes out I'll just be able to pay for it in full with these points.
Re: The Game Awards Host Reminisces About 'Special' Moment With Phil Spencer & Rival Execs
@StonyKL even if we wanted to make a case for MS acquisitions being the reason, that does not explain:
A) how come Nintendo still having a fruitful relationship with Microsoft
B) Sony having a terrible relationship with Nintendo
The truth is Sony does not get along with anyone. They want to be the only player, and that mindset has been dialed up to 11 under Jimmy's leadership.
Re: The Game Awards Host Reminisces About 'Special' Moment With Phil Spencer & Rival Execs
@themightyant I think itās possible. MS and Nintendo still have a close relationship, and I can see Bowser going in on such an appearance. The issue is all on Sony leadership, and that is about to change early next year, so who knows. Maybe next year or the following. Whomever is lead at Sony will be highly incentivized to work with MS due to CoD, and depending on attitudes, things might work again.
Re: The Game Awards Host Reminisces About 'Special' Moment With Phil Spencer & Rival Execs
Replicating this would be impossible with Jim Ryan, but maybe the next PlayStation head will be less of a Jim Ryan.
Re: Talking Point: What Kind Of Reveals Are You Hoping To See At The Game Awards 2023?
Hopeless (for this kind of event) but I keep waiting for Shin Megami Tensei 3/4/4a/5 coming to Xbox.
Re: These Are The Top-Selling Games In The Xbox Black Friday Sale 2023
Why is CoD being prevalent sad? They are games people love. Not everything has to cater to any given player. CoD is popular, and if anything this shows that MS made a great choice buying out ABK.
Re: Pick One: Which Of These Xbox One Launch Titles Is Your Favourite?
I didn't originally play it on Xbox (Don Mattrick made sure I would not touch anything Xbox for years), but from that list, AC4 wins among the rest, IMO.
Objectively, Ryse and Dead Rising 3 were some very appealing exclusives that I never played due to my dislike of Xbox's direction at the time. Killer instinct would had interested me if it had not been released as a F2P game. That did not help their image in my eyes, at that time.
Re: Four Years Since Its Announcement, Rare Continues To Hire For Everwild
Feels like way longer than 4 years....
Re: October Sales Data Suggests Xbox Series X|S 'Struggled' In Europe, But There's A Catch
@FraserG I was not even going to mention them, but you need to be aware that for a network site... if you guys have communication and are not isolated, you might want to discuss at some point the tone they tend to push for the sake of clicks. Hell, the opening comment in their own article posted on this topic... by the writer of the article himself... They end up actively encouraging the comment sections spiraling out like this.
Re: October Sales Data Suggests Xbox Series X|S 'Struggled' In Europe, But There's A Catch
This is a huge part of why MS split their efforts into PC and Console. I'm sure they want to sell consoles, but so far they get goo revenue from the region via game pass and first party PC games, they will be very happy with how things go forward.
Next year is the year that things will really bloom for the xbox division. Thats when we will see how much of a hope there is for them, although it took multiple years, and chains of solid releases, for the PS3 to gain traction in their weakest markets.
Took the combined reputation accumulated from Uncharted 1, 2, 3 and The Last of Us for the PS3 to really make a name for itself. That was a 6 year span. It will similarly take years for Xbox to achieve anything similar. And unlike Sony during that gen, Microsoft is at zero risk of going bankrupt as they wait.
Re: Xbox Revenue Would Overtake PlayStation With ActiBlizz On Board, Says Data Firm
For me, the most shocking highlight from this study is how big Apple and Google are in game revenue despite making zero games. Sure, its all in the back F2P games made by others giving them 30% of the IAP, but damn....
Re: Talking Point: Overall, How Successful Has 2023 Been For Xbox?
I am going to say a B- IMO. There were not that many titles that interested me, personally, just Hi-Fi Rush and Starfield, but there was a lot coming from Xbox this year. Forza, Starfield, Hi-Fi Rush, Age of Empires IV, Age of Empires II Definitive Edition, GoldenEye... on top of all the crazy high profile day one Game Pass additions... yea it was a solid year for the Xbox ecosystem even if the consoles have not managed to gain ground.
Next year, I expect to be on fire.
Re: Killer Instinct 10th Anniversary Dev Stream Airs Later This Month
Just in time for many fighting game fans to not be able to use their fighting joysticks thanks to new unlicensed peripheral policies!
Re: Reaction: Looking Back, Xbox Has Had Some Strange GOTY Omissions Over The Years
The game Awards nominations, as far as I understand, are driven by the reviewing industry voting. It is no secret that a big bulk of the industry focuses on PlayStation, with a disproportionate number of outlets being PlayStation-only. Those wont ever vote for an XBox game, and the pure-xbox outlets are not numerous enough to compensate for that.
Things might had changed a bit when Xbox started delivering all its games also on PC, but I still don't see PlayStation-biased publications (you will have a hard time convincing me some all-platform outlets are not biased when they always request PS copies to review) to give Xbox the credit they deserve, when they deserve it.
Game Awards would be better off (maybe) if nominations were driven by industry developers instead of reviewers that (no offense to anyone here) can often be simply platform fanboys.
Re: Starfield Fails To Make Shortlist For 'Game Of The Year' At The Game Awards 2023
Still have not beat it but not shocked. I, however, am shocked about both Spider-Man 2 and Mario Wonder malign the list. Mario Wonder feels odd given nomination patterns and spider-man feels like the opposite, an industry pattern-shoehorned inclusion.
Letās face it: this is Baldurs Gate 3ās award at the end of the day.
Re: Starfield Wins Xbox GOTY At Golden Joystick Awards 2023
These awards are a bit confusing... I am assuming that Game of the Year does not mean exclusive given that the PS5 got Resident Evil 4 to earn that award, but how come a game can be the best platform game of the year and a whole different one still be "overall best game of the year"?
Re: Xbox Rolls Out 'Experimental' New Feature To Microsoft Edge App
Just wish I could install Adblock addons. My main use of Edge on Xbox is for achievement guide info, since itās very convenient to just click search the web for help from the achievement window, but True Achievements is loaded with horrible ads, many of them video, that make navigating the page a pain on the TV.
Re: Poll: Will You Be Buying Baldur's Gate 3 For Xbox Series X|S?
Eventually Iāll buy it, but my queue is full for the rest of the year.
Re: Report: Modern Warfare 3's Campaign Had 'Shortest' Dev Time For A New Call Of Duty In Years
Iām confused how this happened. Dont they have 3 studios cycling through the games precisely to make sure every game gets at least 3 years dev cycles?
Wasnāt this year supposed to be Treyarchās turn?
Re: Alan Wake 2 'Excellent' On Xbox Series X & The Best Console Version, Digital Foundry Concludes
Oh ohā¦. I predict a twitter outrage calling Digital Foundry biased once moreā¦
Re: Xbox's Plan To Block 'Unauthorised' Accessories Has The Fighting Game Community Concerned
This is not acceptable. I honestly hope there is loud enough backlash to this as there was when they attempted the old stupid Xbox live gold price hike stunt.
Re: New Xbox Policy To Block Unauthorised Accessories
@Banjo-
I say I suggest everyone to contact Microsoft instead and convince them how stupid of a policy this is.
Re: New Xbox Policy To Block Unauthorised Accessories
OK I got to say: this is a HUGE L.
Phil, we wanted you to get ABK so you would get rid of Kotick, not for you to adopt his stupidity!!!
Seriously, if my Wingman stops working, I will seriously consider canceling Game Pass and going back to PlayStation 5 as my primary platform. This is not even about me loving the thing that much, but about this being a huge bad sign of the current direction...
Re: Xbox Series S 'xScreen' Getting Carbon Black Version To Match 1TB Model
@Strawbnyan mkay
Re: Xbox Series S 'xScreen' Getting Carbon Black Version To Match 1TB Model
I insist, if MS wants to win big in Japan, and hell, just plain out have a big W, they need to "miniaturalize" the Series S, somehow slap a battery in there alongsides a monitor like the one in this article, and sell it not as a handheld, but as a "laptop" style portable.
Re: Starfield's Monthly Active Users For September 2023 Only Beaten By One Game On Xbox
@Tatoun ignore all the side content and focus exclusively on the Faction quests and the main quest. The main quest starts slow but starts becoming interesting at a point I cant talk about because spoilers.
The Crimson Fleet faction quest is amazing, but depending on your choice's things can get HARD near the end (space combat can be hard if you are at a disadvantage).
These quest lines are not extremely long, but they are the thing that really make the game shine.
Re: Ubisoft's Pirate Game Skull & Bones Gets New Release Window, Again
@abe_hikura From what I understand, due to how this game was financed and some local laws over tax exemption or what not, this title cant be cancelled even if they wanted to.
Re: Publisher Thunderful Reiterates Positives Of Xbox Game Pass Releases
@themightyant I did basically say that its not ideal for MS, due to limited resources. But the Game Pass model does work for big publishers and studios. EA and Ubisoft both do their own Game Pass day one services.
The only thing holding MS from getting big Triple A from big publishers (the size of the studio itself is less relevant because almost no studio is "big" enough without the backup of a publisher) is the size of GamePass. At some point they might reach the subscriber base needed to be able to actually offer 300 million cash up front to a big publisher to put some big known IP on the service. In the meantime, even big publishers, despite having great marketing track record, have proven to be more than willing to put new IP triple A on the service. (Outriders, Exoprimal). GamePass "markettiong" potential can help boost even large publisher titles.
Re: Publisher Thunderful Reiterates Positives Of Xbox Game Pass Releases
@themightyant @Mephisto2869
Starfield managed to snatch the 7th best selling game spot of the whole year being on GamePass, thatās keeping in mind it was not on PlauStation. Lies of P also sold crazy numbers for a new IP despite being on GP.
Iām not sure āitās not goodā in this situation translates to āitās badā in any way. These games prove that should a game be desired enough, it will sell well regardless if itās in GP or not. This does not mean every triple-A title out there can launch on GP. Big TripleA titles launching on the service cost MS a huge bundle of cash, they canāt afford paying for too many such deals.
Re: Ubisoft Delays Large-Scale Game, Reports Suggest It's Star Wars Outlaws
I would be disappointed but there is plenty to play. UBisoft needs a steady stream of games and dlc if they want to keep me subscribed to their UBisoft+ service, though.
Re: RoboCop: Rogue City Warns There Will Be Trouble If You Fail to Comply
The more I see of this game the more it piques my interest. Hopefully it does not end up disappointing, although Iām willing to forgive a lot of yank on this one.
Re: Poll: How Would You Grade The Xbox 'Partner Preview' October Event?
B, in huge part because after so much drama before the MGS3 remake was announced, many insisted it was going to be a PS5 exclusive yet here we are, with Xbox delivering us the first in-engine footage.
Also, Robocop is looking amazing! Canāt wait for that one!
Oh and also loved to see that Animal Crossing-style mini game reveal for Infinite Wealth!
Re: Amazon Reveals April 2024 Release Date For Fallout TV Show
Yea but will the show have a day one patch to fix frame rate issues or will we have to rely on mods? š
Re: Xbox Announces 'Partner Preview' Event Taking Place This Week
I keep waiting for Shin Megami Tensei Xbox portsā¦ š¤
Re: Square Enix Confirms Early 2024 Launch For Final Fantasy 14 Beta On Xbox
This is a fantastic game. Itās not a traditional MMO due to its heavy emphasis on story. I tend to prefer playing it on PC for DPS parsers but I might actually play a fair share on Xbox if only for the achievements.
Re: Talking Point: Which Xbox Game Would You Love To Play Again For The First Time?
Hmmmā¦. Either Grand Theft Auto 4 or Assassins Creed 2.