OldGamer999

Well at least the internet can stop orgasaming now and go quiet until next year.

@Kaloudz
I can see Fable late 2026 it’s a very big game and AAA, if you want to release bug free ish the play through and quality control must take forever.
Also if they go for a PS5 and Pro simultaneous release that’s even more work to do.
Soz chap.

@FraserG @Fiendish-Beaver
Perhaps you 2 just have some sort of telepathic connection 🤣

Wish you would teasing us with ya gears e day talk 🤣

That’s handy next year May 2026 after the 2026 April financial year.
£150 a game by then.

@Dromosus
Good point about the housing situation, crazy prices in the UK 🇬🇧

@Kaloudz
Well at least we can get on with the Christmas schedule for other games now.

@Weebleman
The good ole top loaders and recording over other family members recordings 🤣

@Kaloudz @Weebleman @Banjo- @coletrain
I have a feeling that the Nintendo price for switch 2 and games and now Microsoft and probably soon Sony are all about setting prices and expectations for the next 3 years and next generation for Sony and Microsoft and the industry moving forward.
I mean look at the prices of say top mobile phones and top TVs none of this stuff at the higher end is cheap.
Consumer electronics at the higher and posher end are all moving upwards
I remember the UK in the 70s and early 80s all this electrical stuff around at the time was luxury goods.
If you had a video player or a good washing machine you were well off.
Actually in the 70s if you had good carpet and a sofa you were doing well.

@Millionski
I have a feeling that the Nintendo price for switch 2 and games and now Microsoft and probably soon Sony are all about setting prices and expectations for the next 3 years and next generation for Sony and Microsoft and the industry moving forward.

I mean look at the prices of say top mobile phones and top TVs none of this stuff at the higher end is cheap.

Consumer electronics at the higher and posher end are all moving upwards
I remember the UK in the 70s and early 80s all this electrical stuff around at the time was luxury goods.
If you had a video player or a good washing machine you were well off.

@Coletrain
If we knew Microsoft’s goal with Xbox consoles etc, we would be millionaires ourselves 🤣

@Coletrain
There also is a bit of an industrial trend going at the moment more than usual.
If you sell 100 items for £50 you make £5000
If you sell 50 items for £100 you make £5000

Now you make the same money but for less production effort by making 50 less items which normally will make more profit.
Now that has become more important than selling the most, it’s the same in the car industry and others and consoles are following that trend.
Of course it’s a little more complicated with cross over points etc.
But selling the most isn’t the main goal anymore, maximising production cost to selling profit is.

@Utena-mobile
You summed that up well 🤣

There also is a bit of an industrial trend going at the moment more than usual.

If you sell 100 items for £50 you make £5000
If you sell 50 items for £100 you make £5000

No you make the same money but for less production effort by making 50 less items stop normally will make more profit.

No that has become more important than selling the most, it’s the same in the car industry and others and consoles are following that trend.

Of course it’s a little more complicated with cross over points etc.
But selling the most isn’t the main goal anymore, maximising production cost to selling profit is.

@Cakefish
Especially after Xbox did get a bit consumer friendly and slightly pro Xbox console a while ago, with some good deals.

Now they have gone all anti consumer and not pro Xbox console at all.

It’s like some constantly pushing you away from them, we are trying your best to stay with them and embrace them.

@dskatter
Sony if wise could do a price increase be still keep the cost lower than series x.
For the USA anyway.

@Coletrain
Same here, it’s hard to give loyalty when the owners give none back to their own product.

I still don’t believe we will have a next gen Xbox home console like the switch 2 or PS6.
If they do, it will not be maybe some standard thing a console owner would buy and probably extremely niche and sell very few.
But the way they have treated the series console I don’t get the point of bothering with design and set up manufacturing and production costs.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner
You are absolutely correct.
I still say the series x is the best form factor console and features like quick resume and Game Pass is becoming more great value.

But Christ do Microsoft absolutely annoy me in their console approach to Xbox consoles especially in the UK and more so with lack of stock and now a price increase.

There you go I’ve said my piece in my post early.
Stop licking Microsoft’s arse and have some self respect and respect for the UK. 🇬🇧

@Coletrain
Considering the USA tariffs having zero to do with the UK and they could ship straight from China to the UK and miss the tariffs is even more annoying for Xbox consoles.

Let’s also consider the UK is only second to the USA in Xbox console popularity, the console does ok in the UK and so does Game Pass.

The UK should be given better treatment than this rather than putting us with the rest of Europe that don’t buy Xbox consoles and making us pay for some of Trumps tariffs.

Totally ducking disrespect for the UK again by the USA and a USA company. And totally mismanagement of a good Xbox market the UK.

Xbox you don’t deserve the good sales you have in the UK 🇬🇧

Considering the USA tariffs having zero to do with the UK and they could ship straight from China to the UK and miss the tariffs is even more annoying for Xbox consoles.

Let’s also consider the UK is only second to the USA in Xbox console popularity, the console does ok in the UK and so does Game Pass.

The UK should be given better treatment than this rather than putting us with the rest of Europe that don’t buy Xbox consoles and making us pay for some of Trumps tariffs.

Totally ducking disrespect for the UK again by the USA and a USA company. And totally mismanagement of a good Xbox market the UK.

Xbox you don’t deserve the good sales you have in the UK 🇬🇧

@PsBoxSwitchOwner
Totally agree with you on that.
But they don’t seem that interested in selling consoles anyway.
After the financial report yesterday we can see the way they are gonna push.
Oh well let the world get on with it and the consumer suffer as always in all markets not just consoles.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner
Why don’t they just import the consoles straight from China to Europe.
Europe should not have to share the higher costs of Trumps Tariffs.
It’s just also a lazy excuse to increase UK and Europe prices and spread the tariff costs outside the USA

Why don’t they just import the consoles straight from China to Europe.

Europe should not have to share the higher costs of Trumps Tariffs.

It’s just also a lazy excuse to increase UK and Europe prices and spread the tariff costs outside the USA.

The PS5 Pro at £700 with that 2tb ssd storage and other upgrades, even though a bit expensive is looking better everyday now price wise.

Well we not going to worry about the console price increase in the UK.

Because the dump arses keep letting stock run out anyway. So we can’t buy one even if we want to.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner
I have GPU until March 2027 at the £11.99 price.
I feel I have robbed someone now 🤣
Amazing deal I have there.

Currys UK Series x disc was at £499.99 this morning.
Now we know why.

Now just imagine if they actually promoted Xbox consoles as well, that also have the highest GP attachment rate.

This all would be even a lot better.

Microsoft definitely picked the right game where there is a sort of whole in Sonys games, especially a big AAA like FH5.

Then add dualsense support and the best place to play on the PS5 Pro.

Might double dip for me Pro, will wait and see.

You might as well award Microsoft the seal of approval as good as a top Sony studio AAA game.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner
I was thinking that, how much money do they get for being on game pass.

When series x released Gamepass was Microsoft Phil’s big thing.
Now recently Phil says it’s not for everyone.
Gamepass was Xbox big thing the selling point that set Xbox apart.
It sold well for a while but that’s it now stagnant.
It does not help that Xbox consoles have by far the biggest attachment rate and Microsoft do not advertise Xbox consoles that well.

They failed on their big thing gamepass mainly the same way they did Xbox consoles.

Would not surprise me if gamepass goes the same way as Xbox consoles and at some point might get stopped.

Xbox have tried and since the xbox360 days overall been in the decline.
Their main future now they have purchased lots of studios, MICROSOFT GAMES.

Seems a little daft doing COD and Doom the same month both FPS, but I know a bit different.
Should have done COD in June and something else for this month like a platform or adventure game.
Maybe Crash 4 instead.

@themightyant
That’s is true, and Xbox rarely advertise anything Xbox consoles or console game pass related, especially to the masses or general public.
I feel Xbox consoles and game pass on Xbox consoles are just a thing in the background now that drifts along as it is and makes a bit of money but not worth pushing to the masses or general public.
Those Xbox console days are way gone.
But the series x in form factor and with quick resume is still my favourite console, but overall has lost its position to me as best place to play which now goes to the PS5 Pro if you are a visual and performance perfectionist which I am.

The last major final hanging thread for Xbox consoles and loyal fans to hold onto to is game pass on Xbox consoles. Which is great value.

That’s probably why they still sell a few consoles even if at a lot lower amount nowadays.

@Medic_alert
It definitely feels and seems that way with their actions.
They definitely don’t seem to be giving anyone a special reason to buy an Xbox console.

The last thread is game pass on Xbox consoles that probably keeps some loyal that have Xbox consoles and some sales still happening but it a lot lower numbers.

It’s very simple really and sticking just to consoles because that is really what it is about the Xbox console.

It enables Xbox studios games to be available to another 75 million PS5 owners and 150 million Switch owners.

If you add the 2 together that’s 225 million owners which of course will get higher overtime.

This is of course at the sacrifice of selling more Xbox consoles and potentially game pass sales on Xbox consoles.

So very simply the accountants did the accounting, the analysts did the future potential losses and gains and Microsoft decided they can make more many selling games on other consoles against potential Xbox console and Xbox console game pass sales being lost.

Will they make more money, the future is not ours not to see and of course the Microsoft accountants and analysts hope so, because that’s the gamble and maybe theirs or someone’s jobs are on the line.

For me personally I love the old Xbox 360 days and even the Xbox one days and the fight and the exclusives and it will never be the same.

@donv2135
Just get frustrated as the UK do buy series x consoles when they are in stock.
I have never known an anti we have no stock approach to selling something that could be in stock.

I think the series x is a great console and my favourite this generation as a form factor and things like quick resume. I just want the console to do well and game pass, but the owners don’t see to put their best foot forward to making that happen.
Which makes me Grrrrrrrrrrr 🤣

Interesting because when the UK get stock drops of series x they are mainly disc edition.
It’s hard to get the disc less series x in the UK.

Of course Microsofts fault for taking a strategy of super controlling stock and only replenishing when stock actually runs out.
What away not to sell a console and a game pass subscription.

Watched Gaming Tech video.
Series x, PS5 and Pro not overall great.
Resolution goes very very slightly to Pro.
30fps and 60fps frame rate gets lower, pacing bad and stuttering.
Pro does come out top of a bad bunch.
I think a patch may have been released not sure and what it does.
Shall wait now for patches to improve the frame rate.

1080p 60fps is this generation so weak
And so reliable on shimmering/pixel crawl upscalers.
And I mean for both PS5 and Xbox.

After playing a game last generation, like Horizon forbidden west and also PS5 an open world game.
It’s seems we just have not moved forward this generation, there is just almost no wow factor this generation.

Assassins creed shadows on PS5 Pro once the PSSR patch arrived is probably the tiniest little wow so far and that’s mid generation console costing dam £700.

So far the most least unimpressive generation in a good few decades.

Great to see 4k 60fps on series x.

I think a patch update has just hit as well.
It did in a stream I was just watching.
Streamer was on PS5 Pro and he had to stop as a 16gb patch turned up whilst he was playing and started downloading.

@BacklogBrad
File size please

We’re all DOOMED Captain Mainwaring.

Makes me think all these games releasing and then into next year 2026 gonna get totally smashed wrongly or rightly by GTA6 and also Mario Kart World but a bit more long term.
Sales or up take records will be broken and fastest selling etc and the internet will be focused on that.

When you don’t promote and PR your largest game pass subscription attachment Xbox consoles then what do you expect, subs will get stagnant.

They obviously thought people would snap up gamepass on other devices but it’s not really happening or taking off.

Totally take out the companies or any fan boy stuff.
It’s games that count and followings and peoples friends.

So we know there is a very established system that peoples friends play fifa and cod on and also the casuals enjoy. That system also has some great exclusives and great exclusive history to add as well.

The other system generally creates extremely established characters AAA games with a massive fan base, exclusive for their own device to play them on.

The masses the general public, the casuals and some gamers are all ready well established on those systems and with those games.
They not really interested in another device be it a console or cloud stream stick that has a subscription not matter whats it’s value, because to them the games etc bring nothing to them and the same with cloud gaming.
Or definitely not enough to add or even defect from their current gaming devices and arrangements.

The only way for Xbox to do anything is put those games on those devices people are playing on and hope they sell well.

Basically no one’s bothered in the masses about game pass.

The difference on this game was always going to be very minor.
Series x 1800p upscaled using in house extremely good upscaler to 4K, resulting in no pixel crawl or shimmering when panning etc.
very good 1800p starting resolution.
PS5 Pro native 4K

It’s all cool as according to Microsoft
This is an Xbox (PS5 Pro)
So we all win.

Please all help me I don’t know what to choose
Tesco or Sainsbury’s bananas 🍌.