If you don't like what's happened to Mass Effect, Bioware, or just hate the way EA operates, just stop buying their sports games.

Should probably get Dune physically.
That way when it's done I can take to CEX, see what can get for atreides. 😁

Oh, how the worm has turned.

@GamingGod Absolutely, yeah.

@GamingGod He didn't. Just a Konami employee while there. MGS is theirs, lock, stock and Twin snakes.

Well, Im not supporting PlayStation ever again. While I wouldn't have the same hostility toward XBOX, as I do for Sony over dropping disc, I would probably still drop XBOX too.
Gamepass ult is all Im really here for thesedays anyway.
It's sad how much gaming is changing---for the worse, imo.
£1000+ NG consoles, rising game prices, cloud priced out before it even got started, physical media falling off the cliff and now maybe no more gamepass day one?

Nintendo and PC for me, by the look of it.

@Coletrain Samepaid about the same too. Probably the last pc handheld I'll ever be able to afford

@oopsiezz Gotcha, thanks.👍

Why do Take-2 need a supoenae Microsoft. If MS is investigating already, why wouldn't they just hand that stuff over willingly?
I mean, MS obviously cares, elsewhere they wouldn't bother investigating at all.
I have to wonder, did Take-2 even bother to ask nicely first? Probably not.

40fps is just fine for me, my TV has 120hz output. Sucks for the many who don't though. 30fps in this day and age is savage imo.

Gamespot post to socials. (Paraphrasing) "look now Xbox are removing games from their service!"
In response to the usual gamepass rotation. I.e same number of game have left every month.

I'm glad if these studios can stay open. XBOX overstretched.

Gamespot will be outraged. 🙄

So the 72 mins gameplay/showcase trailer/Alpha testing wasn't for us at all. It was for drumming up potential studio buyers .
So sick of the way XBOX gives with one hand, then takes away with the other. It's boring now, the constant disappointing news.
And if I don't hear the name Amy Hood ever again, I wouldn't mind that at all.

They want us all on the cloud. Raising prices is how they'll do it, and the A.I crisis is just the first tool they'll use.

$150 more than a PS5, for a Series X.
That tells me that Asha Sharma is either insincere about wanting to rejuvenate the Xbox console business, or she has absolutely no power within Microsoft to do so.

@Markatron84 Geoff Keighley would be devastated.

Probably it will be 30fps, but hoping they can squeeze out 40fps for 120hz screens.

Does Ally count for playing bond on pc?

@MrStark I'll be keeping the SX and ps5, I think. But can't see myself getting what comes next. Probably, I'll stick to Nintendo and cloud one day for everything else.

Horrible situation, but I think XBOX will keep 343, coalition, BGS, Id, Machine games, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Playground, Zenimax, Blizzard (I see King becoming it's own subsidiary). Every remaining studio is axed or sold.

The rest will be XBOX 3rd party deals. As they've hinted at already.

I'm getting a Switch 2 soon, and I'm starting to consider ditching Xbox and PlayStation, sick of both companies and their bs.

Can't wait. I love June. Xmas for gamers (+ the world Cup.)

I wouldn't mind some new mi6 target (hitman style) in existing levels.

Massive missed opportunity imo.
Should've launched exclusive on XBOX this autumn, then on PS5 in February. Ps5 sales offsetting any losses caused by XBOX version competing against gta 6.

I wish they weren't coming to other platforms at all. I wish they didn't need to.
But I appreciate them (XBOX) when they're upfront with us.

9 from me. Only some rough viuals in places let it down.
The hair on characters for example. I think, visually, Hitman games are way better looking imo.

I think we'll end up with 1-2 console exclusives a year. Microsoft seem like they really don't want them. I think they will attempt to compromise, but 1 or 2 won't shift the needle.

@ShiroKitten Thanks 👍

Ah man, wish I didn't have to wait until the 19th. 😒

When can we expect reviews to drop?

FH 5 was a 10/10. I've nothing about 6 to suggest any downgrade at all. On the contrary, it looks way better.

Both are really appealing tbh. Good job, Xbox.

"It delivers an order of magnitude leap in ray tracing performance and capability, integrates intelligence directly into the graphics and compute pipeline, and drives meaningful gains in efficiency, scale, and visual ambition. The result is more realistic, immersive, and dynamic worlds for players."

But only as far as we can still get the game to work on last gen too.

@Scrubchub 100% agree. Ok, they don't sell at all well, but the hardware is sound. I'm entirely satisfied with my series X, and really I couldn't care less if it sold 100 million units or 1 million. That's Microsofts problem not mine. I just play the games.

Sad to say as an Xbox fan, but I think it's PS6 for me.

Dum dum dum... another one bites the dust.

@acmiguens Right or wrong, people want to hate Ubisoft. It seems like its just what you do, now.

More titles I now regret buying. NICE!

@Kaloudz I'll eat Jill. You'll have to manage the others, I'm full.

I feel like U shouldn't give an impression based on another sites gameplay. Play it, let us know how it plays etc. Minor gripe, though.
I picked the game up cheap this morning, I'll try third person later myself.

PC version on Ally 💪.
Switchers eyes would bleed.

The Fallout pad is hideous.

Somethings going on here in UK too. This morning I checked my recurring billing, its was off and turning it on gives me the new £22.99 price. Even though I'm paid up until May.
Just tried again. It's the same. BUT my gamepass ult is now paid up until end of August.

If they're smart (they ain't,) they put something big into the service as an extra to what already announced. They need something to sweeten a rather sour pot.

Gta vi day one would change this conversation. They'd probably jam the website up again, trying to resub.

@BaldB3lper78 I looked at that a few times now, but I can never get over the fact you're just renting a pc. You don't get any games. I have a console I just need regular games for it.
If before offered a catalogue of games though, that service would slay.

Nope, and I think it's irresponsible of those who do. These companies are tyring to make gaming into an expensive luxury, and we're all enabling them.
Honestly, I'm disgusted this thing has sold out, even if I'm not at all surprised. Don't blame those of us with good sense when next time they release new hardware its $1200.

UK thanks, I'll wait for the highlights.

Microsoft is mandating effort from their devs into handheld optimization. New gears runs just as well as the articles claim, even on my z1 extreme Ally.
They will lose interest, though, eventually. Then they'll go back to ignoring handheld optimization.