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@andrewsqual Sort of how like you shifted your parameters from saying "hahaha FF7 Remake will NEVER come to Xbox, Square has no incentive to bring it to the platform" to "hahaha FF7 Remake is coming to Xbox later than expected!"

Compared to other Xbox Tokyo Game Show events, it really wasn't as bad as people are saying here. Maybe a solid C+. Xbox TGS events never have major new game announcements, so I wasn't expecting anything crazy. Plus, MS doesn't normally announce new first-party titles at these events, so FH6 being revealed here is a plus.

I would say it was slightly better than the awful State of Play yesterday, as I was expecting a lot more from that one. Romancing Saga 2, FH6, and Monster Hunter Stories 1+2 got me excited way more than anything from the SoP, so there's that.

If you want to see what a bad Xbox TGS event looks like, you should've seen the one in 2023. They announced literally nothing there, aside from like Octopath Traveler 2 on Xbox and some Yakuza games on Game Pass.

@Nintendo4Sonic Kinda agreed. Knowing MS, the timed exclusivity probably wasn't intentional, but I think it's a good idea to keep timed exclusivity for the new installments in its long-running Xbox exclusive franchises.

I think it's good that they got the PS5 port speculation out of the way by announcing it now, and it's also good that it's coming to Xbox and PC first.

To date, Microsoft has yet to announce a new entry in one of its major Xbox exclusive franchises that's launching on PS5 day-and-date, so I'm curious when they'll make that jump.

Kinda lame that Microsoft is making the PS5 version of Flight Sim superior by adding PSVR2 support, but at the same time, this isn't the first time they've done this.

They added PSVR support to Minecraft several years ago during the Xbox One era, but they got rid of it recently.

@Coletrain It's because Microsoft was the one who patched Yakuza 6 so that it can run at 60 FPS on Xbox Series X/S, not Sega. The game runs at that framerate due to FPS Boost. PS5 doesn't have an equivalent feature.

Probably won't happen, but I hope they announce Trails in the Sky remake for Xbox or something.

@Coletrain Yeah, it's currently locked at 30 FPS. So now, assuming that Kiwami 2's current-gen port has 60 FPS, you will finally be able to play all the Yakuza games at 60 FPS on Xbox.

Yakuza 6 is still capped at 30 FPS on PS5.

@Fiendish-Beaver Only think I can think may cause OD to be a timed exclusive is if they aren't able to get the cloud streaming stuff working on PS as well as they can on Xbox.

While I think the game will most likely be multiplatform (which makes Physint being a PS exclusive all the more disappointing), I don't think the "For All Players and Screamers" tagline has anything to do with the game being on PlayStation. It's most likely referring to OD's Social Scream System, whatever that is, and the fact that it will utilize the cloud somehow.

Great, now we just need Konami to announce Silent Hill 2 Remake for Xbox after the exclusivity deal expires next month. I'm hoping that they'll reveal the Xbox port during an Xbox Partner Preview in October. Microsoft usually hosts a third-party showcase then.

@AgentCooper Glad to see my prediction was right, then! I'm curious how Microsoft's cloud services are going to factor into all this, though.

@ilyn Well, there's probably something that will tie the stories of all the experiences together, and if the game as a whole has dozens of hours of content, like Death Stranding does, then it may be worth the price to some.

Either way, it's gonna be on Game Pass, so I'll just play it there.

From what I can tell, it seems OD is going to be an anthology game, and that OD: Knock is the name of the section of the game that was directed by Kojima himself. There are probably going to be other sections within OD that will be directed by other famous directors, like Jordan Peele.

So Jordan Peele's OD will probably be called OD: [insert name here] or something like that. Maybe the name of each section of the game is meant to represent the fear that it plays off of. OD: Knock is about the fear of knocking, OD: Water or something is about the fear of drowning, etc.

Can't wait for RGG to announce Yakuza Kiwami 3 tomorrow, as well as maybe a release date for Stranger than Heaven.

Also looking forward to the Xbox show and State of Play this week.

@EfYI We'll see how true those reports end up being, because I can't feasibly imagine Sony selling a PS6 for equal to or less than the price of a PS5 Pro, unless they want to lose hundreds of dollars on each console sold.

@VisitingComet1 It's the Agatha Christie game, Death on the Nile

At this rate, the PS6 and the next Xbox are definitely going to be a minimum of $800, without a disc drive included. Due to their ludicrous prices, I imagine they'll be the worst selling PlayStation and Xbox home consoles ever made.

@Fiendish-Beaver It's a bit odd, I agree, but I don't think Sony not saying anything means that the game underperformed on Xbox or something.

@Fiendish-Beaver Maybe because they're not that interested in providing sales updates on an old game. I don't think Microsoft ever publicly said that Forza Horizon 5 had 3+ million players on PS5, despite it apparently selling really well on the platform.

In fact, I think Microsoft hasn't provided sales data for any its ports of Xbox games on PlayStation.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe They never said that, though? If you're referring to the Push Square article where it says that Sony removed game revenue beyond console from its list of strategically emphasized indicators, I highly doubt that means anything.

The very top of that same list says that Sony is emphasizing "continued expansion of user base and multi device ecosystem," which may be referring to multiplatform, as well. That, of course, isn't even mentioning the whole multiplatform job listing that PlayStation posted a few weeks ago.

Either way, NateTheHate - the guy who's claiming that Flight Sim is coming to PS5 - has already said that PlayStation is working on bringing more of their first-party titles to Xbox. In other words, Helldivers 2 certainly won't be the last PlayStation-published Xbox game.

@AlwaysPlaying No problem!

@AlwaysPlaying Visions of Mana was never in Game Pass, this is the first time it's been added to the service.

Before Visions of Mana was released, Microsoft falsely labeled it as a Game Pass title on the Xbox website, but they removed that label shortly after people started to notice it.

Trials of Mana and Legend of Mana were both released on Xbox and Game Pass at the same time during last year's Tokyo Game Show Xbox presentation.

@Banjo- Seeing how enthusiastic you are about the Fatal Frame series, and this game in particular, makes me want to play it.

@ScalenePowers Legends is the only Mega Man subseries left, I think, but there are a bunch of miscellaneous Mega Man games that could get bundled in a collection, as well.

The collection was actually announced in the Japanese version of the Nintendo Direct today, but it strangely was omitted from the English one. Not sure why.

@andrewsqual I agree with you on one thing. FF7 Remake is an amazing game, and despite what some people say, it's easily the best FF game Square Enix has released in the last decade.

However, there is no reason to believe that FF7 Remake's quality is due to its exclusivity. Something tells me you will call FF7 Remake Part 3 a trash game just because it'll launch on Xbox day-one.

@Lup Kinda agreed. I mean no disrespect to the man, cuz he was clearly a great artist, but I'm not a big fan of Akira Toriyama's art style. Not sure why, maybe it's just too cartoonish for me?

Still interested in checking out the Dragon Quest games, though.

@TrollOfWar They never had a deal for the entire trilogy, that was something that people on the internet made up for some reason.

If there was an exclusivity deal for the entire trilogy, it would have made no sense for FF7 Remake and FF7 Rebirth to have exclusivity deals with different lengths. Remake was a 1-year exclusive (with Intergrade being exclusive for an extra 3 or so months), while Rebirth was a 3-month exclusive.

@masofdas If there was an exclusivity deal for the third FF7 Remake installment, they wouldn't be announcing Xbox, PC, and Switch 2 ports of the game beforehand. That defeats the entire purpose of making it PS-exclusive in the first place.

@InterceptorAlpha Not necessarily, since the Xbox version will most likely launch on the same day as the PlayStation version.

Also, it's likely that Nintendo paid for exclusivity for this game.

I assume FF7 Remake Part 3 will be on all platforms day one

Give me a Trails in the Sky Xbox port announcement, as well as Atelier Ryza trilogy on Game Pass.

I know this will never happen, but I wish Persona 5 Strikers would get an Xbox port, as well.

@johnedwin @Trmn8r That's not the cost of the DLC, that's the cost of the Digital Premium Edition upgrade. That includes/included the DLC, along with the 3-day early access, art book, etc.

The DLC should be less than $35.

@SMJ Yes, it is free if you got the Premium Edition. I got the upgrade at launch to play three days early and, because of it, I don't have to pay extra for the DLC.

@vrubayka Wukong uses frame gen on PS5, but it surprisingly doesn't use the feature on Xbox

@Weebleman Yes, but they never commented on the exclusivity deal rumors. All they have to do is answer a simple "yes or no" question, but to this day, they still haven't responded.

Also, technically speaking, both things can be true at the same time. Game Science struggling to get Wukong running on Xbox could be the reason why they took a deal with Sony at the last minute. This is all just speculation, of course, but still.

@Weebleman If there was no exclusivity deal, the devs at Game Science could have simply just come out and said, "no, we didn't sign an exclusivity deal with Sony." But, in spite of the fact that many outlets have repeatedly asked them this question, they have refused to respond.

Whether they actually signed a deal or not, Game Science is to blame for not shedding light on the matter.

@RegnumSolipsi Child of Eden is already available on Xbox without Kinect support, and it plays fine with a regular controller. Not as good as with a Kinect, of course, but still good.

@Markatron84 Slightly off topic but your Helldivers pfp is great btw

So many games that interest me in both this week and last.

I've already pre-ordered Helldivers 2 (and I got a free code for Gears of War: Reloaded), but I'll sadly be waiting for a sale for both Shinobi and MGS Delta.

Believe it or not, I've never actually played Gears of War 1 or MGS 3, so when I do eventually check those games out, they'll be new experiences for me.

@TheCrafter1578 It's not a Soulslike, but from what I can tell, it's an RPG with extraction shooter elements. Without the shooting part, of course.

Don't know if it can be played offline or in singleplayer

Two shadowdrops - both this and Triangle Strategy - is pretty awesome

What's really surprising is that they brought this game to Xbox before PlayStation. From what I can tell, it hasn't been announced or released for PS5 yet.

Square Enix did a similar thing with the first Octopath Traveler.

EDIT: It's out on PS5 now, as well, it turns out.

@Sindayl Ehhh... Sony porting at least one of their AAA single-player first-party titles to Xbox is a matter of when, not if, at this point.

@TrollOfWar The Fire Emblem games are also all developed by a third-party company: Intelligent Systems. Yet, no one ever considers the Fire Emblem games as second-party or third-party exclusives (even though second-party would probably be the more proper term), because Nintendo owns the Fire Emblem IP.

Also, Intelligent Systems has, to my knowledge, never developed a game for a non-Nintendo platform before, despite not even being owned by Nintendo.

@Kaloudz Yeah, you could listen to music discs and (I think) MP3s on the OG Xbox. Not sure if you could do that at the same time as playing a video game, though.

@WildConcept6 FF7 Remake is only five years old (it came out in early 2020), but it was announced five years before it was officially released. And yes, it was always intended to be a trilogy, even back when it was first revealed at E3 2015.

@FraserG No problem!

@WildConcept6 It's funny that Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Shenmue 3, two of the most hyped PlayStation-exclusive games at Sony's E3 2015 press conference, were both finally announced for Xbox exactly a decade later.

@TrollOfWar Exactly, but people were still denying this.

@Kaloudz This and Death Stranding are basically the perfect games to play while listening to a podcast imo.

Also, in ETS2, you can actually listen to the real-life radio in-game, which is a nice bonus. Not sure if that feature will make it into the console ports, but hopefully it does.

@Godot25 I remember when people were insisting that PlayStation put Helldivers 2 on Xbox in order to appease Arrowhead or something lol