MinervaX76

Not sure why anyone cares the game goes to another plastic box. I will still play the game on my device and ecosystem of choice.

Buying any Xbox Game Studios title on Xbox will mean the game is also playable on PC, giving me the maximum flexibility to play whatever way I prefer.

As far as exclusivity, I think its better to have timed exclusives than perpetual exclusives. Look how many fantastic titles are locked behind old hardware due to dumb exclusivity deals or first party stubbornness.

@Ooccoo_Jr this may actually be easier to understand than the current model.

Currently:
core gives you a handful of games and online access
Console gives you the whole library but no online access
Ultimate gives you both

Now each tier is an upgrade over the last.

Core: handful of games and online
Standard: that plus more games
Ultimate: that plus even more games, many of them day one. Oh and streaming.

This is what I been predicting they would do for years now! Although I never thought they would increase ultimate’s price tag so high.

My biggest grudge here is that’s just 3 cars. Wish we had gotten Fast and the Furious Don’s Dodge and Ghostbusters Ecto 1 instead of 3 versions of the Delorean.

Historically Fable has no character creator, only a selection of female or male. It is always your actions in the game (alignment and development) that change your character's appearance.

I doubt that will be different in this entry, given that's one of the most iconic traits of the series.

That aside, I don't understand anyone complaining about the appearance of the character that has been used on screen so far.

And despite this the install will still eat 300 gb this time around! 🙃

My personal (meaningless) opinion is that Xbox does not need a huge library of exclusive games. They just need a small set of games and IPs that are only on Xbox, and a few other that are Xbox first.

When your operation grows as large as Xbox games studios had, it’s on their best interest to minimize risk on many releases by publishing on as many platforms as possible.

Ideally, the likes of Halo, Gears and Fable should continue to be Xbox exclusive.

A, cant see the show being better without it being a 4 hour show. We know for a fact they did not show everything they have under their sleeves!

My quick reactions:

• South of Midnight jumped to the top of my Xbox Games Studios want list. It looks phenomenal!
  • Indiana Jones looks amazing, they are nailing the vibe.
• Doom Dark Ages looks fantastic.
• I am oddly less into Avowed this time around, will still play it but perhaps its due to so many other things in the show overshadowing it this time.
• Fable still looking great.
• Intrigued by the Starfield expansion. I was a bit disappointed by the base game, but to be fair that's always the case with all Bethesda games for me. Their games only get **really** good (for me) when the expansions/dlc launch.

Many more things have me interested. They definitively had more to show than they had time and that's awesome.

@TheSimulator Gears "6" is E-Day and I don't see them talking about PS on an Xbox Showcase. Even what they said about CoD never mentioned PS by name.

If I did not already own 2 XSX, I would get that Special Edition Xbox for my office.

Maybe I can sell one of the XSX or turn it into a gift for someone in my social circle.

Already unsubscribed yesterday.

My advice to MS: just kill day one. Make it month 3, or month 6. Increasing the price is very likely going to come at the loss of a lot of loyalty (if some survived this week).

Hot air.

They know everyone working on games that are not “high impact” saw the writing in the wall and are panicking, likely already submitting resumes and getting ready to run before they get fired.

This is just an attempt at placating those developers to stick around “because we need you for awards… and we will fire you after we get those awards!”

I’m jumping ship. Bought my last Xbox console game. I’ll play the ones I own, but from now on Steam it is. No more GamePass I think either. I had a huge library of PS4 games and also jumped ship over disagreeing with their direction.

Honestly it sounds like Phill lost control of the ship, and someone else is now in command.

Honestly… it’s starting to sound like ABK acquired Microsoft instead of the other way around…

@HonestHick 343 is a sunk cost fallacy at this point. How m any times have they "fixed" things and "next entry will be the good one"?

I'm sure if they could "fix" 343, they could also had fixed any issues that was going on with Tango. Shutting it down does not only means them giving up on Japan directly but also indirectly. Whom is going to trust them now? Even if it was easy, what Japanese studio will sell out to MS now?

@themightyant Personally, I am sticking with my Xbox. I have two XSX and an XSS. But I'm not sticking with Game Pass. I just canceled that subscription and MS will have to work hard at getting me to re-subscribe. I have plenty of a backlog of games I own on Xbox digitally and will continue to play those games, but going forward, I'm just sticking to PC and Steam whenever I can.

@NEStalgia, for all purposes any PC is a Steam Box. I know its not as slick as booting right into the OS, but with minor fiddling you can have a dedicated PC always booting into big picture mode, and you can always go the extra mile if you feel crazy and install Steam OS.

@HonestHick reread my post. I understand layoffs. This is about stupid choices. Shut down studios that deserve it, like 343.

And I am not setting my money on fire. I'll continue using my Xbox to play all the games I own. I just won't be paying more on Game Pass. I got plenty to enjoy without having to give them money every month despite the fact that I don't actually play GP games every single month. They were getting a lot of my money out of pure good will. Thats over with.

The outrage is not about heart or soul or what not. It's about this being a stupid decision. I don't think anyone is complaining about the whole thing, the sore spot is Tango.

No one is taking the shutdown of Tango Gameworks well, me included.

Whomever made the actual call of shutting down Tango, you f#@%ed up. I'm canceling Game Pass. You will have to convince me to subscribe again, but that's going to be a hard sell.

@Randinator123 As much as I hate this, ZeniMax was not doing well and its very likely many of the studios would have had shut down.

ZeniMax was going to sell, regardless. And any potential owner would had shut down things left and right.

I just expected so much more from MS on this front.

In other words: we rather spend our development budget on Triple A high fidelity games with inflated budgets over original and innovative game experiences.

I am calling this now: South of Midnight will be a great game, but it will not perform "to expectations". Compulsion Games will be shut down soon after.

Did they ever deliver the offline play mode?

Honestly, I would be demanding refunds, not "offers".

I have been an ardent defendant of Xbox this generation, but shutting down Tango is the stupidest thing they could do. Arkane is not smart either, but Tango??? Their only Japanese studio? at the same time they keep trying to convince us they are taking Japan seriously??? 😒

Closing down Tango Studios may be one of the biggest mistakes MS could make right now… it completely undermines their supposed “commitment” to the Japanese market, and it leaves fantastic IP to die (Hi Fi Rush, Ghostwrite, Evil Within) just because the titles have not been blowout successes? It also makes Game Pass look weak… they insisted they were satisfied with the performance of those games but still shut them down… terrible look all around.

For the first time since the Series X was unveiled, my confidence on Xbox is plummeting. FAST.

I am positively intrigued about a world where platform holders publish games on competing platforms again. Yes... I said again. Atari and Coleco used to publish games on each other's platforms.

Today the fastest growing gaming sector is PC and mobile, neither driven by exclusives. Hell none has any first party exclusives.

Games industry has always been changing, and I'm genuinely excited about the way things are moving forward with this MS move and the rumor that Sony is going to bring Helldivers to Xbox.

Personally I never cared about pursuing these rewards, but I am likely not the target market. I rather spend my limited time playing what I want to play, not chasing fractions of a cent in rewards.

I do know some with limited means do rely on the program to pay their gamepass subscription and feel a bit bad for them.

I been playing on Steam a bit more lately, and seeing exploring things like trading cards and badges that make me wish Xbox out some time on similar features.

Allowing players to trade trading cards, and even sell them, could result in very similar community engagement goals and the community itself could be the ones paying for other players GP subscriptions.

Dear Microsoft: please save Eidos from Embracer!

PC will get 60 fps one way or another.

Xbox og: 15
Xbox 360: 81
Xbox one: 59
Xbox series X|S: 0

I doubt it, but who knows. Maybe they introduce a variant I cant live without.

@The-Chosen-one the gameplay could be identical and still not be a legal issue.

What Nintendo is likely to be investigating is if any of the assets used in the game were lifted from Pokemon assets and modified. I doubt that was the case but it’s worth looking into for such a large company with the finances to spend the time on it.

The internet outrage is, imo, absurd, but it’s Nintendo’s prerogative to look into this. We seen big lawsuits over way less. Anyone remember the lawsuit over using copyrighted images in a small component of the Resident Evil 4 logo?

I am exclusively a digital gamer on Xbox unless it’s me hunting down delisted titles. I am a bit disappointed there won’t be a physical release, but it won’t affect me.

I’m actually surprised about the $50 price tag. Even if the game is “only” 20 hours, I would have expected the standard $70 price tag.

I would love if we got more $50 games with 20 hours worth of play, especially if we start getting them again every 3 years.

@FraserG but are you ready for the game to become a yearly thing with casino.. I mean “surprise mechanics”?

As much as I like limited run games (I have way too many Switch copies) I always considered their Xbox initiative to be doomed.

I like physical as much as most physical fans, but I buy all my games digitally on Xbox.

Expecting otherwise is also expecting LRG to offer PC physical releases of every single one of their games, and they don’t even if they don’t have to pay anyone royalties to do so.

Hmmm… Crazy Taxi without the “crazy”… I kind of like the idea… if the driving mechanics feel good enough (ideally a bit arcade and not too sim) I might be interested.

This might sound crazy but I wanted a “drive around town for leisure” game forever… something without racing, without stress… although never could think how such a game would really be a game. Being a taxi driver sounds like the perfect way!

These days I buy all DLC for games I really like. Like, any Assassins Creed, I’ll get all campaign DLC.

I never buy cosmetic DLC.

I have not seen the first season, and know most fans hated it…. But this trailer looked good! I might catch up with this show!

@nomither6 If there was multiplayer in Origins, I ever touched it. I just remember enjoying the campaign and thinking the hate was not deserved.

I have a feeling they going to hold Hellblade to the end of the year, just for maximum impact, even if it’s ready. We will see a “fall 2024”, but no more than that.

Indiana jones may also be near the later half of the year and have no date, but will get a month.

Ara and avowed will likely get dates. Guessing Avowed coming in summer, Ara coming in the next 3-4 months.

I know it was not popular at launch, but still don’t get why Origins was ignored for this collection, and delisted entirely despite being BC (?)…

I don't see MS quitting the console market so long as its viable at all. The day they quit, its because it all moved to PC for everyone.

@electrolite77

This doesn’t mean they’re all this year does it?

No enough track record to tell for sure, but think everything shown in last year's Developer Direct ended up coming that calendar year.

The vague "During its year of release" makes me want to go FAR back: Ryse: Son of Rome.

I bought it never intending to use it. It’s still in the box and someday I might place it somewhere just for show, or to store ambient temperature drinks.

I have never had any luck with these small mini-fridges, not even the bigger square ones that are the size of two microwaves stacked on top of each other. Condensed water leaks are always a problem.

@J_Mo_Money he is more likely to learn to play on a different platform, unfortunately.

This player might not get their account restored in appeal, but he can always just get the game on PS5 or PC and play there due to the way I understand cross-progression works on that game.

MS really needs to address this, the rating of a game should be factored while auto-sharing clips and their audience.

@PixelDragon this website covers plenty of things that don’t come to Xbox consoles. If it’s related to Xbox studio games or Xbox ecosystem (that includes PC games, as Xbox is literally also an all on Windows) this site tends to see it as relevant to their scope, and cover it if they dim it of interest.

@somnambulance The Forgotten City we got on console was an entire re-make of the original mod created as a stand-alone game by an independent studio with full time employees and developed on Unreal Engine.

It's going to be very hard to get this mod in any legal capacity released in consoles, the best chance is if the rumored remaster of Fallout 4 throws out all the limitations of mods that hindered the PS4 and XBox One versions of the game.

@eire-shabba If you count all side games and remasters, about one per year, this includes spinoffs like Judgement.

This year we happened to get two, but one was a remaster and we didn't get a game in 22.

There tends to be about 4 years in between mainline entries.

Personally, I doubt we will see it. A big reason is that the game will need a Windows Store version of the game, and a lot of publishers don't want to bother doing that. Other is simply desire to tap on double-dippers. From the publisher's perspective, they are making the game twice and the only ones ripping the rewards are Microsoft and end users, not them.

Perhaps MS could sweeten the deal, if the game is offered as a Play Anywhere title, they get a few extra percentage points in rev-share above the standard 70%/30%.

@ZYDIO My understanding is that the holdup on this is due to legalities, not technical issues. Just as how Nvidia cant stream to you games you own without the authorization of the publisher.

@J_Mo_Money I have not been playing much, been too busy with a lot of RL things. Need to still finish Starfield. My "need to play ASAP list" is AC Mirage, Robocop and Super Mario RPG Remake, but who knows when I'll get around to any of that.

@themightyant about that $567 figure, do note their royalty for that tile was 0%. I'm actually curious what the 567 was over, likely some accounting adjustment.

This is usual for a project that is outsourced instead of published. Like, if I was to go to a publisher with my IP and a half-done game seeking it to be published and marketed, I would expect a percentage share. If on the other hand the publisher paid for all development for day one, I could see a zero percent split, but also zero risk to the studio. It would be a "keep the bills paid for 3 years" kind of contract.

@J_Mo_Money

They also need to start putting games on PC WAY sooner and take that market seriously.

This is a big one right here. Recently we heard noise that Xbox is actually more profitable than PlayStation, and a big part is likely that they are not limited by their console install base to sell units. Shipping games to PC day one gives them a huge budgetary advantage as it drastically increases their market reach, without necessarily feeding competitors.

PlayStation should start releasing their games on PC day one, AND they should have their own PC storefront. They still need those games on Steam, but having their own storefront is key to their PC profitability, even if just a small chunk of their players end up signing up for it, since this allows them to also sell third party games for a revenue share of those.