OldGamer999

Outerworlds 2 and Division 2 for me.

@Kaloudz
Would imagine the new game in 2027 is after all the others timeline wise.
That’s the one I’m really looking forward to.
The reimagined in 2026 will see how it does.

Not my cup of tea, but glad it’s coming for others.

@Cakefish @Kaloudz
Oh I see you 2 finally caught up now 🤣
Must abit didn’t watch live but was up early.

Great new with tomb raider and also the Xbox show in January 2026.

This really could be the year for Xbox and Xbox studios.
Especially me with GPU
I mean Halo, FH6, Gears in 2026.
Also of course there is COD as well.
Now if we get Fable and or Clockwork in 2026 as well
What a special year from Xbox studios.

A lot have ago about Xbox, including me at times but just go look at the other two and what they have only confirmed so far 2026. Not as many and who knows maybe not as good. Mario tennis and Yoshi won’t hit the spot and will be average.
Then Sony have the Returnal follow up a bit niche and then Wolverine, could be very good.

So far 2026 Xbox look to be leading the pack.

@Weebleman
Absolutely AAAA and a very special game.

If they any studio wants to charge 80 for a game that’s cool with me.
It must be the most top AAA critically acclaimed game at its very best in every discipline.

Watched trailer and reminded me of my NeoGEO days.
Lots of sprites, good music and plenty of action.

Tried the campaign not great.
And what has that lead to, me uninstalling the whole COD app from my series x.
So next year best be fantastic so I load it again.

Microsoft are good at giving engagement data, BWT they don’t mention how many have installed COD APP.

Anyway let’s hope next year will amaze us. But don’t really care as we Halo next year FPS campaign wise and clockwork as well.

Finally hopefully some top action AAA action adventures and exploration and a few puzzle in 3d person.

Not sure about the remake 2026 one, my opinion they should have skipped that and used the resource for the new game to release 2026. A shame for me.

Also noticed games for 2027, I now they can cross generation but maybe new consoles in 2028.

I went to bed 🤣
But catched up now, it seemed an ok C to D
for me.
Nothing that special.
Even RE9 doesn’t seem that exciting to me.
I prefer the action RE8 style all the way through and I think a lot of this game will be creepy run and hide rubbish and let’s be scared that I can’t stand.
I demand action and lot of it 🤣

Well that’s just confusing to my little brain 🤣

@stefan771
Probably the reason for that is answered in the post above yours.
New games lack so much.

Chat chat stuff and no new big quality AAA games critically acclaimed 90 plus etc.

As the great Elvis Presley once said.
A little less conversation, a little more action please.

And we don’t mean remasters 🤣

Far too many remasters etc this generation.
Really shows the poor state of the industry studio wise.
Boring remasters.

Just make new top end AAA games critically acclaimed and they will sell.

It’s all dam crazy to an old gamer like me and I will miss the Xbox Vs PlayStation console sales battles and the competition will be very missed and bad for us gamers.

We will be left with 2 major console players N and S and you can already see them getting a bit lazy and keeping the prices high.

Anyway sad to really see this sort of thing happen, but it is what it is now, I’m afraid.

@GuyinPA75
I have always called out WFH on here and where I work
But businesses just let it happen and because they all do, you can’t get the staff unless you have some WFH.
If all the businesses stop at once it would be ok and go back to normal, but it’s for ever now and will never go away.

I appreciate what Xbox are doing here and yes it’s PR.
But it won’t do anything for the brand.

They have done so much more damage this year that it is all totally irrelevant and irreversible.
I mean who get outsold on BF in their own back yard the USA by a little square box thing.

Even the famous COD is now 5th in the UK charts last week meaning this week published.

So console sales as good as dead, game pass going the same way and now COD at its lowest point ever.

If you were paid to kill the Xbox brand 1 trillion dollars, I don’t think you could a better job than Microsoft are doing on their own.

Not even 60fps on switch 2. That’s a bit lazy.

Also that is probably why we don’t get as many top end AAA games with massive 90 plus scores and critically acclaimed. Like back prior to covid.
WFH has slowed and skewed many companies in many areas.

I so applaud this developer. For coming out with working from home effects game development.
And since covid you will have more people working from home in game development than prior to covid and that’s one reason why games are taking longer to produce.

I see it where I work and it affects the process flow of work. Aerospace industry.

I used to get grief for saying it on forums but this just proves my point I made a good year ago.

Thank you Gavin.

The overall problem for Xbox is general public enthusiasm and momentum for the Xbox product.

Microsoft bashing console sales to near Zero and game pass as well with price increases.
You really do have to think, what the hell are they doing with Xbox.

Even COD has slipped to number5 in the UK charts now.
I mean you could not make this stuff up, unless you wanted totally to kill a brand deliberately.
Or you are that out of touch with your audience and totally wrapped in your companies own propaganda bubble.

I’m staying chilled as you never know what Xbox might do.
My fingers are crossed with Fable after the PD cancellation.

@Fiendish-Beaver
And we won’t mention in the USA Black Friday week sales. Xbox home turf.
The Xbox was outsold by some cube Kinect Type android game device. And came 4th, it actually is unbelievable.

If I was in charge of videos games at Xbox, I would look for another job right now.

@Fiendish-Beaver
Yep it’s a sorry state of affairs with our once beloved Xbox console era.

A few years ago Xbox used to do great BF deals and I think in the UK one year sold the most consoles that week beating everyone.

Anyway we can say no more about the current situation really.

Makes me laugh how someone puts this together in dreams. But it takes a studio with hundreds of personnel 4 years to probably create a new Banjo game.

I’ve said this before with great dreams games created and studios will probably have better tools than dreams to use.

@Fiendish-Beaver
I get your point about Xbox studios but I was also on about the industry in general.
Even look at MP4 and GOY.
Those big AAA top games say at least 90 plus and critically acclaimed don’t seem to be about as much in the PS4 and Switch era. Also including the start of the PS5 era.

As for Xbox I’m not sure they want big AAA top end, just good games at around the 80s.

Really hope this is the big AAA perfection game it can be.
It’s about time in gaming we got an amazing one, and that is critically acclaimed up there with the best.

For me the problem with the switch 2 and these level of games is the 30fps.
After 5 years of 60fps it’s a tough one.
Maybe for handheld it’s ok but TV gameplay it’s not great.
Star Wars outlaws is not to bad at 30fps but my TV using its game mode motion system really does give it a big helping hand. Without it at 30fps even SWO looks dam blurry when panning around.

60fps with VRR really is the way play and of course on the series x for that.

As nice as all this fannying about is with a very old game.
This should have RDR2 series x update to 4K 60fps.
I shall definitely be skipping this even though it’s a free upgrade for me.

@Fiendish-Beaver
I think the industry has a whole has a top AAA game production issue.
Have you seen Metriod Prime 4 meta score struggle to hit 80.
You would have not thought that 2 years ago.

2026 has the potential to be the best ever GPU year if they all release and are very good games.

Shall be giving it ago on series x with GPU.

On a big TV like line 65” native 4K 60fps is always the purest and sharpness and less blurry when panning, top end solution.
I’ve played a few old gen games on series x at native 4K 60fps.
And even though the LOD of some newer games has more LOD, that crap upscaling is never as sharp and pure as native 4K.
Division 2 is another game that shines so much at 4K native 60fps series x that also have a very high level of detail and puts nearly all new this generation games to shame.

That brand new console feeling and they smell sooooooo good as well 🤣

@Fiendish-Beaver
Oh wise man, were has all the details LOD gone in our new video games, apart from a few exceptions.

I watched an article showing older games against today’s games and the LOD seems lower in most new games.

So I played Division 2 the New York DLC, series x.
And thought this article has a point, the LOD etc puts most new games to shame.

The only thing I can think of, reduction in production LOD and developers chasing and using console resources on things like ray tracing and having to drop LOD. Anyway enjoying the DLC.

Have a fab day.

I jumped in for sonic crosswords racing deluxe edition BF deal, series x.
Going great so far, what a great kart racing and refreshing from the usual one.
Deserves lots of praise, fantastic game.

Also OW2 but somehow I upset the ORDER and everywhere I go I have kill on site from them.
No bounty and can’t stop them.

Anyone know how to get them to stop shooting me and like me again. It sort of spoils the game a bit.

@Fiendish-Beaver
Yes I’m for backing Microsoft with their next console hybrid thing as long as they don’t force Cloud only gaming on me. I must have full download 4K top end AAA experience else it is not worth the cost of the hardware.
That is for existing series x console games, which is my concern.
Obviously I think new PC games for the hybrid console will of course be full download experience.

So all they have to tell me today is.
Yes all series x games can be fully downloaded on the new hybrid console and definitely not cloud gaming only.
It’s so simple.

Well if we get these 2 clock and FH6
Then Halo and Gears sounds like a terrific 2026.
Fable is the only one I’m concerned about release wise.

@TrollOfWar
For me Xbox future strategy hardware needs to be revealed and detailed, that is my only issue with them really.
Do I sit on fence and see what this new hybrid thing is and does etc.
Or do what most have done leave the Xbox ecosystem system and move on.
So just let us know Xbox, what you are really planning in full detail and how it all works and capabilities.

You must want to keep some of your loyal day one Xboxers or do you want us all to leave and cancel GPU.
Because the way you are going about things it’s like you almost want us to leave and forget our decades long lasting relationship.

@Fiendish-Beaver
You got that spot on and things I have said in the past.
Additionally and you know my line sell an Xbox console sell a game pass subscription.

I actually believe now they don’t really want Xbox consoles and now even game pass. They definitely don’t promote consoles they are dead and only sold about 140K worldwide for October 25, that’s embarrassing.

Now gamepass is hardly promoted and really is not selling and taking off and it will go the way of the Xbox consoles, in the bin.

They haven’t released that many games on other consoles and next to nothing in switch and zero in switch 2.

So I really have not a clue what business model they are actually running and what solid aims and objectives they have.

I think the damage is irreversible now and it’s all PS5, Switch and PC.

Definitely not of star wars outlaws quality port to the switch 2.
That port is almost a minor miracle and in some ways shows me how underused power wise the series x and PS5 are used or optimised.
It’s a little 3tflop console when docked against 12tflop or even 16tflop of the PS5 Pro.
Maybe the switch 2 newer technology helps a little and Nvidia GPU with DLSS.

Of course it’s never gonna get to series x level but UBISOFT did an amazing job with SWO port.

Definitely leads the way for Microsoft studios to do some good ports to switch 2 of say Outerworlds 2 or FH5.

Being honest it would have been the most embarrassing and hypocritical thing Microsoft could have done, to celebrate the most glorious days of the Xbox console the Xbox360.
When they have treated the series x consoles like some scum off the bottom of their shoe.
Also only selling about 150k worldwide last month.

@GuyinPA75
I used to think like your good self, and yes I have the consoles, but I’m more open now to something new.
Been gaming for decades on consoles and fancy something different, something maybe PC where I can upgrade if I wish and play PC games, Xbox games and now Sony games.
Like I said it’s probably my decades of consoles, that are now getting rinse and repeat, look at the cross generation games this generation, the slow drag to new generation games. Console gaming is getting sort of dull and unfortunately rinse and repeat like, with a small return on the last generation for what now is getting expensive for very little in return.

I mean put last of us 2 or uncharted 4 on a very good TV with a PS4 Pro and it almost matches today’s new generation console best games. And let’s not forget PS4 Pro Horizon forbidden west.
Then we have the Xbox one and some of those best games.
Very diminishing returns this generation.

@BAMozzy
Very well put now you mention the Gen Z.
also no subs to play online on PC
Is that correct?

@Coletrain
Doesn’t surprise me, even my 10 year old nephew has started chatting wanting a gaming PC.

Then again and being honest, the console companies only have their selves to blame, especially this generation.
There has been a lot of anti- consumer stuff, increasing prices, trying to monopolise the market and mixed messaging and increased profits but charging more.

As we mentioned PCs I bumped into the young crowed at work today 6 of them about 26 years old.
Asked about their gaming, all doing some battlefield multiplayer.
Anyway asked what consoles, no they said we are all PC.
My point about fives years ago asking the same demographic of youngsters at work they would have named whatever console.

Are things slowly moving to PC?
I know a very small group but surprised me.

Having GPU it’s a tough one with plenty to play.
However I’m considering the new Sonic Racing after trying the demo. Think I have 9 days of the sale left.

Wow I remember doing that when I got mine day one from Currys UK.
I feeling old now 🤣