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@IronMan30 then I hope they keep it that way! There is no way Nintendo are sticking with $80 as an RRP going forwards. Or did they not learn anything from the 3DS launch?

@abe_hikura They’re an average of a tenner each on Apple. VUE tickets are £6 a pop.

@Fiendish-Beaver I look forward to the next generation where every game is free to play or perpetually rented by a subscription because nobody can afford them anymore.

It costs more to make movies now but cinema tickets, digital purchases and Blu-ray Discs are still £10 a pop.

Games publishers, and Microsoft are incredibly dumb. If an average customer sees a Nintendo game for $80 or a 3rd party title for $50 which are they going to buy?

Many of these Switch 2 titles will cost a pittance to port and have been on the market for so long they’ve already made back their costs and turned a profit. In other words every dollar made is gravy.

So instead of being greedy, challenge Nintendo in pricing. Customers and gamers vote with their wallets.

Microsoft should list all their ports for $50 at most. More people play their franchises then see on the Xbox they can buy a console for $299 and play all the games they like for a monthly rental fee.

Nintendo clearly don’t want a market where you buy the cart, gain a digital licence and then sell it on for someone else to do the same ad nauseum.

Hands down the greatest home console I’ve ever owned. Such a varied library, great exclusives and I could watch Sky Sports on it over the internet. The final OS was responsive and the Kinect voice commands on-device and almost instant. Being able to just utter ‘Xbox, Pause’ when you leave the room for a beer was so convenient.

How they dropped the ball on the Xbox One I’ll never know.

Only if it can natively play Xbox 360 titles.

Given Apple changed their tune last year why can I still not stream games from the Xbox app on my iPhone?

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times: if platform holders want true accessibility then it needs to be a publishing requirement that every game has to have full rebindable controls. Doing it at a system level isn’t enough; it needs to be an in game option on ALL GAMES.

(The Xbox for example doesn’t let you swap the buttons and triggers around)

I know they won’t do it, but it would be great to see delisted 360 games on the list.

The article doesn’t seem to take into account most of these handheld pcs are being used in the home. They’re far too big to travel with on a train or plane.

@Dalamar73 I attended a lecture by the producer of Fable 3 and The Journey. The Journey was developed using the tech from Mylo as they could never figure out how to build it into a game. In any case it actually bloody worked and wasn’t some smoke and mirrors tech demo!

I see 3 futures for the Xbox:

1. The console reduced to a chipset which can then be integrated into a variety of 3rd party devices. You will see a menagerie of ‘Xbox Powered’ devices from the sorts of manufacturers who make handheld PCs (ASUS etc). Microsoft will of course make their own. It will support PC storefronts magically bringing all Sony’s PC titles to Xbox.

2. A similar series of Xbox handhelds designed to stream new games and play the back catalogue. Despite their best efforts this won’t work out because x86 games are not built for the inevitable ARM architecture (Snapdragon) powered chipset it would require for half-decent battery life. Switch 2 will instead become the de facto handheld Xbox due to 3rd party publishing but will never get the back catalogue that keeps Xbox gamers jumping to PlayStation.

3. They will continue to push streaming as a solution. When xCloud finally comes to the Apple TV (letting us stream our purchases too) many of us will wonder why we even have a games console at all.

Whilst I would had preferred a remake of the first game that ditched Desmond altogether and just told the story of Altair, this has come at the right time. There aren’t as many genres set in Japan as there used to be and even less ninja games. It will be nice to play as the first historically accurate protagonist too.

@anoyonmus Any of these recompiled games are inherently ‘illegal’ abandonware. They were never meant to be played on a PC.

Additional feature: every recompiled game will work on Steam Deck. Portable versions of Fable 2 or Forza Horizon 1? Sign me up.

If he’s talking about the actual story missions then he’s crazy. Starfield has one of the dullest stories I’ve ever played.

If he’s talking about the Freeform role playing aspects then yes, I would agree.

Whilst I have no qualms with a female protagonist, It would be a shame if they’ve taken a more prescribed character route instead of letting you create your own character and narrative.

@cburg Apple previously wanted to vet every game but got rid of this requirement. Services like Antstream now exist without issue.

I imagine it will be Microsoft wanting to sell subs via the app and Apple taking their cut.

Yet Microsoft, with no more roadblocks from Apple still won’t release a native streaming app for iOS.

Whilst I have no problem with Microsoft going third party I do take some pleasure knowing my Xbox 360 will always be so.

I know it’s not financially in their interests but it would be great if you could stream old purchases like Forza Horizon 2.

A friend had the Jolly Green Giant and whilst I did enjoy co-op Halo there wasn’t anything to tempt me to give up my GameCube and the newfound freedom of wireless controllers.

I was late to the party, buying a 360 in 2012. I’d call it my favourite console of all time. The only reason I stuck with the Series was so I could keep playing my old 360 titles.

So worthy exploration, great combat and no meandering social nonsense with your party? Sign me up.

When I went to FFXIV the option wasn’t there

I bought a Series S to largely play my 360 catalogue from an SSD. The amount of ‘next gen’ titles I’ve actually bought or finished is in the single digits and all PS5 ports bar Starfield.

Will I buy another Xbox? Not likely. I’ll probably pick up a PS5 as and when Horizon 3 comes out. But the Series S is a lovely dinky console. I don’t know why Microsoft don’t market it more as a cheaper way to get into gaming.

It would be nice if they rereleased it. They could port it to PlayStation at the same time so everyone is a winner.

POWERSTONE! POWERSTONE!

@anoyonmus Microsoft don’t make any money on console sales anyway. It’s just a software delivery system for them. If you buy them on another platform they make just as much money.

@SMJ I wouldn’t mind them doing as Stadia and giving us a full refund for all those digital purchases!

Even at 50% I’d cash out.

Spring 2025 for PS5 = Switch 2 launch title.

Now that is an interesting place to play it.

Nobody asked for GTA6. If anything we want smaller more bite sized games that are cheaper to develop and thus sell for a lower price. This allows us to play more of them and in turn buy more!

If big games go close to $100 in price then they may as well just cave in to F2P and subscription models as the future.

Microsoft only have themselves to blame. They have always had bottomless pockets and regardless of the number of studios they could have farmed things out. The Series X launched with zero system selling exclusives. None. And had they have done so it would have just been a new Gears or Forza, more dull shooting or racing.

Sony had a few cross gen ports but you could always buy yourself Demons Souls or Sackboy to play with the kids and they were still exclusives.

@OldGamer999 I assume you mean 3DS and not WiiU!

I reckon the wording is a little off and it's a 'new entry for Xbox' meaning Final Fantasy XVI

@Scrubchub They’d probably read Lord of the Rings and complain about the graphics!

@GuyinPA75 The whole point of the S/X is that the X plays S games in 4K120. If they aimed for the lower console you'd hit this level of performance on the top model.

What we instead have are games on the X and PS5 with so much visible vegetation pop-in it would make the PS1 blush.

I would sink the cash tomorrow

Developers should build for the S first and then up the ante for the X rather than the other way around. The majority of games do not need the full power of top end consoles.

A Series S in Xbox 360 colours together with a green power button, please!

One shall stand, one shall fall.

The long held assumption has always been that the plural of Xbox is Xboxen

I’ll stick with Merry Christmas.

One generally has holidays at any time of year and hopes they are happy.

PORT HEXIC RUSH TO IOS AND ANDROID THEN

What he’ll probably find is there isn’t enough demand from anyone.

I strongly disagree. I’m sure all locals say this about every other game but the scale just felt all wrong. Edinburgh to the Cotswolds? Who signed off on that one?! Has they had just done Cumbria it would have felt a little more realistic.

It’s fun to drive around certainly and unlike 5 the weather actually means something. I still think No. 2 has the best map.

It starts up so quickly it’s just as easy just to turn it off at the mains.

When is somebody going to comment on what Sega might be up to? The licensing doesn’t expire on their own titles. It seems likely they’re hordeing them all for some future streaming service, right?

Sega delisting all these games for no real reason indicates that they’re planning a streaming service of some sort. I’m amazed no news outlet has even entertained the idea.

Well if Death Standing can come out then anything is possible!