Rodimusprime13

I didn't get the x360 at launch but the earlier title that I played the most was Oblivion.

I think it will sell at or above the price of the ps5/Xbox series X. Steam seems to want to make money on the Steam console so they won't be selling below the cost. My guess would be a 25% margin above the manufacturer cost.

It seems that the more they delay then more will be expected and less people will be interested. It likely going to be a ps6/Series Xbox 2 launch title. There is a strong possibility that GTA 6 will end up like Duke Nukem Forever.

@themightyant My guess is MS might include two memory cards, one for the Series X and the second a standard SSD.

If Ubisoft wants to sell more games they need to be way more generous with the gamerscore. Like instead of the game having only 1000 GS it could have 1500-2000 for the base game and each DLC could have 1000 GS. This goes for lots of games. Civ 6 has 1945 GS when it could easily have 3000 - 4000 GS. And Civ 7 has only the base 1000 GS when it could easily have 4000 - 5000 GS.

I suspect that the next generation of Xbox consoles wouldn't use the storage cards.

I was a big fan of the AC games and purchased all the titles( not for full price) until I saw Valhalla and then I decided to evaluate each game separately rather the just rush to but the game

Xbox has always had the Gold discounts starting on the Tuesday of the week so new sales tend to start close to on the Tuesday.

My speculation is that on the 25 anniversary the Xbox will launch the next generation of Xbox consoles.

I understand what the problem is. All digital purchases are linked to the Xbox store and each game needs to link to the Xbox store to unlock the title. One the game makes the link and the Xbox store returns that you own the game you can play the game. Without a Xbox store web page for the game it returns on your console as an invalid game, which makes the game unplayable. The other issue is that the Xbox console doesn't list downloads like the X360 did but your game library is a webpage showing your purchased games.

The way I see it since the ps5 is at the top of the console sales Sony wants to keep the ps5 generation going as long as possible. For MS since the Series Xbox is in last place MS is heavily motivated to launch the next generation Xbox sooner than later. The next generation Xbox is already in development and MS is likely to shadow drop the next generation console with little warning. Sony is just starting development and likely will delay the launch of the ps6 as long as possible.

Many of the best titles by SE are the JRPG in the first place. Titles like Marvel's Avengers aren't something SE should be focusing on.

I think that there is little real incentive to create a Switch 2 version when a Switch 1 version already exists. If it will cost more to port it to the Switch 2 then the potential sales then it's likely not worth it. It likely only makes sense to create a Switch 2 version if there is no Switch 1 version. I think right now the priority is to bring COD to the Switch and other games are a low priority.

Most of the time the original version get delisted when a remastered version is in the works. Before the recent Tales of games remastered versions appeared all Tales of games were removed from the ps3 store.

My guess is that they will make sure most games that are playable on the Xbox one or better are playable on future consoles. One of the biggest successes of the ps2 was having near perfect emulation of all ps1 titles. The games that were made backwards compatible for the Xbox one had their own individual emulator created for each game. Other games could be made backwards compatible but for some titles they couldn't get the right for that. What I personally want to see is Sonic 1-3 from the Xbox arcade made available for purchase as a bundle on the modern Xbox consoles.

They might reappear in some form but it's hard to tell. If they were made backwards compatible they could reappear on game pass.

@Weebleman The issue with the 69 billion expense is that they now require the Xbox division to have a 30% profit margin rather than just being minority profitable. Previous MS was content for Xbox to have a low profit margin like 5-10% now with the merger they are demanding 30%. This is why all movies and TV suddenly disappear from the Xbox/MS store and why various future projects that were not near along as MS wanted got cancelled. And Halo and Gears are making a Playstation release to increase the profitable of the Xbox division. The whole MS gaming division is now the Xbox division. MS is building the next generation of Xbox consoles entirely in house which means almost nobody outside of MS will have the full spec or know when it releases.

@Weebleman What I said was that the sales of the Switch were stagnant which means they are staying about the same not increasing not decreasing.

@andrewsqual MS sees a profit in making the Xbox consoles they will continue to do so. Right now, even with low console sales they are still profitable. So MS's focus is on expanding the Xbox brand and offering a premium console that will drive sales. MS is already designing/building the Xbox Series 2 and they will announce it when they want to.

My opinion is that the decreasing sales of the Series Xbox consoles will push MS to launch a new console sooner than later. Xbox will keep up announcing new games, and features and finally MS will announce the Xbox Series 2 which likely will launch in summer 2026. The sales of the Nintendo Switch were stagnant so Nintendo pushed out the Switch 2.

My attitude is that it makes perfect sense. Halo is supposed to be a team experience which makes adding co-op a good idea.

I believe the issue is the VCR Xbox one model which massively held back the Xbox.

From listening to what MS has said about the next Xbox and from what Sony has said about the next Playstation it seems that MS is closer to being ready to launch the next Xbox before the next PlayStation. MS had great success with the Xbox 360 which launched before the ps3 so I think they want to copy the success of the Xbox 360 and launch before the next Playstation console. My opinion is that all the recent moves like dropping all TV and movies, changing the game pass system, changing the rewards system and launching the Ally Xbox are all in preparation for the next Xbox console. My opinion is that once Xbox has made all the changes they want to the Xbox console the Xbox Series 2 will launch. The Xbox Series X is selling for $650 -$800 when available and my guess is that the Xbox Series 2 will launch at around the $800 - $900 price point.

My impression is that MS is reasonably further along with releasing the new Xbox console than Sony is with releasing the next Playstation console. MS has every reason to release its new console immediately when it's ready and I personally think it's like going to be in early/summer 2026. I believe reason why the Xbox got dropped is because the base model will be all digital.

My guess is the MS has shifted production to the next generation Xbox consoles and plans to sell them at around the current Xbox Series X price point. My guess is that the next generation Xbox will be available in early 2026. MS biggest success was with the Xbox 360 which launched before the ps3 so perhaps MS thinks it best to launch before Sony.

I think the growth is due to Nintendo stumbling with the Switch 2. The whole play anywhere isn't a big deal in North America but in Japan it might be a game changer.

I am purely speculating but I think that there is a good chance that the next generation Xbox will be launching in the holidays 2025(unlikely) or in early 2026.

My opinion is that the games are still overpriced.

I currently have a Series S and it seems like it would be better to wait until the next generation Xbox consoles launch then get a new console before they go up in price.

Only games that have gone gold are available for pre orders. If there ate no pre orders the game isn't finished. I personally think that GTA 6 isn't going to do the sales that GTA 5 had in the first month. It launched on the ps3 and Xbox 360 as a single player game without multiplayer. The multiplayer was added on later after launch.

Auto redeem is good to a degree but the auto redeem date is always set to a particular date and it's sometimes better to just redeem points when you want to immediately use it towards a purchase. Also once points are redeemed they are only valid for 90 days.

These are a new trend of games that have started to appear on the Xbox store with no achievements at all.

The games are still expensive even when they are on sale. Like BG3 is regularly $90 and it's on sale for $67 so it's $76 with tax.

Slightly frustrated with GOG. I bought a bunch of older RPG games and had them installed on my hard drive but after it was updated to GOG galaxy all the games that were on my hard drive were gone and I was forced to run everything through GOG galaxy.

I think the problem is that the Unreal Engine is supposed to do tons of things but it's not nearly as good as Epic would like to pretend it is. And Epic would rather just blame the developers rather than admit the Unreal Engine has serious limitations.

There is only a handful of Playstation exclusives that I want to see on the Xbox. I would like to see Spider Man and the Gundam series. I know that the Gundam games are produced my Bandai Namco, but they are the only other series I want to see on the Xbox.

It good and a huge bonus but since it's the technology the same version you don't get a second achievement stack. Other people have raised this issue but if there is a full series version you can only use the series version. Then you have games like Halo MCC which are right in the middle. Halo MCC only has the Xbox one version but it has a few Series enhancements which can only be used when the game is used on a SSD.

It's mediocre. It is useful so you don't just automatically start a you don't want to but other than that the information isn't all that useful in my opinion.

EA has numerous decent games but it's hard to justify paying for Ultimate just to rent older EA games.

It's wasn't even a game I was even interested in.

I am finding that it better to wait until games are available at a steep discount then it's time to buy the game. Game pass is ok, but there just aren't enough games I want to play that I don't own.

My opinion is that the move to dump movies and TV shows is part of their new strategy for the next generation of Xbox consoles. I don't understand why, but my guess is that MS is copying Sony's ps4 strategy to just make a plain gaming console without any of the extras. My guess is that the next generation of Xbox consoles will not support digital movies or TV shows at all.

On one hand I do kind of like it but the problem is that you always have to see them or never see them. And the game hub doesn't really show anything more the you would see checking your achievements in game. Perhaps game hubs 2.0 might be better.

My guess is that MS will want to launch the next generation of Xbox consoles before the next PlayStation launches. MS is gearing up to launch when they want to launch. My guess is that they will continue to release more and more titles for the Series Xbox and will do everything to get more publishers to release there games on the Series Xbox, then after they have built enough momentum they will launch the next generation of Xbox consoles were most titles will have a next generation version available on day 1.

My opinion is that MS will keep building momentum with the launch of more and more games so they have next generation Xbox games available at launch. I figure MS will launch the next generation Xbox console with lots of Xbox Series 2 titles available at launch. Some titles will be remasters/remakes and others will be Series 2 exclusive games.

I personally found most of the games that were shown off to be interesting. MS did a better job showing of upcoming ps5 titles than Sony's recent State of Play. I am way more interested in the titles than MS is releasing with the Xbox studios, then other platforms. I am guessing that Xbox PC refers to the third party Xbox handheld they announced in the showcase.

Perhaps from Sony's point of view. From the gamer side, the PS+ is not good, and only offers minimal value. And over the past year or two more games have left then joined the service. And that includes the titles added to premium which are all classics Playstation titles that have been made backwards compatible on modern consoles.

My guess that they planned to launch a handheld along with a new console but the handheld would be too expensive so it got sidelined. MS might shift focus on launching the next Xbox console soon that later.

Big surprise. The game has a long main storyline along with the various guild quests which I remember talking more time then the main quests. Now they have added achievements for the Arena which is more will take more time. I personally like to finish all the side quests, or at least most of them before I finish the main quest line.

It's likely to happen because MS would be able to boost the sales of the next generation Xbox, likely get some cut of games purchased on the Xbox's other stores and will allow them to get into the PC market, but in a limited way. If MS is the only console which allows you to play select PC games it would give the Xbox something unique that there competitors don't have. For me I would like to play some of the games that are only on steam but I don't want to spend a huge chunk of money just to play a handful of games. Any other time this idea of PC titles on the Xbox might not work but now perhaps it's the right time.