Rodimusprime13

My take is that Avowed wasn't a good as it could've been. The problem with Outer Worlds 2 is simply not everyone was impressed with the first game so less people tried the second.

Most Xbox sales tend to start on Tuesday so the most likely date is February 3, 2026

The optimal time for a new console to release is in the fall just before the Christmas season which is the biggest retail season. Given that the sales of the Series Xbox consoles are down and they are in third place MS is likely to push out a new console sooner than later. MS will is likely to keep making all the changes to Xbox then after all the changes are finished they will announce the next generation of Xbox consoles. Likely later 2026 or 2027. I doubt MS will wait until after 2027 since it will give the PlayStation too much of an advantage.

It's inevitable that the Xbox wouldn't get every game but overall I am content with the number of titles that do get released for the Xbox. My opinion is that the Series S is both an advantage and disadvantage for MS. The big advantage to the Series S is that it a lower price point which means more games will jump into the Series S. The disadvantages are that not all developers want to bother programming for both the Series S and Series X and with the Series S there is less incentive to create physical games. I think the game looks kind of like the Plague Tale games in a way. Can't say that it's a game I am interested in.

What is the obsession with releasing games with NES pixel games? To me most of these games seem like the developers aren't even trying to make it look decent. The Activision titles that are Retro Classic look way more polished.

My guess is that they will announce various titles that will be coming to game pass along with adding various titles that day.

Many of these titles were digital titles as well but they got delisted so unless you previously owned the digital version you would need the disc.

The Series S isn't perfect but it's a good cheaper option to the series X. The biggest issue I see the memory limitations which means that having multiple series games active on the series S does impact it's performance, even though MS claims it doesn't.

My prediction is that MS will wait until the Steam console launches then depending on the price of the Steam console and the sales they will then launch the Xbox Series 2 after that.

It's 11 letters. So it can be either one 11 letter word or two words with once space, with once space the two words would use 10 letters. Tales_Abyss?

@Lup Perhaps. I managed to get to the boss fight at the cathedral and couldn't beat the boss at all. Changed the difficulty from normal to easy by mistake then found I hard locked all achievements.

@Lup Flintlock was interesting but brutally difficult to finish on normal, the lowest difficulty to still get achievements. Also lowering the difficulty below normal hard locks all achievements for that play though.

The initial batch of next generation consoles will likely be produced by MS at there Redmond campus. MS has continued to expand its hardware offerings starting with the Xbox, later the MS Surface and now A Xbox/PC console. The only real issue will be the price of the next generation consoles.

The games that I am currently playing are Visions of Mana, Age of Empires 2 and 4 and The Grinch along with Tales of Arise.

It's clear that the Xbox division is profitable and MS is clearly not subsidizing Xbox in anyway.

My speculation is that MS is planning on a 2026 launch of the next generation of Xbox consoles due to the weak sales of the current generation consoles. An even bigger speculation is that MS will launch the next generation consoles at near costs for a limited time after launch. All pure speculation.

@FarmDog08 It has options to play the game as a turn based game or as an action game. You can even shortcut attacks to buttons to make it more action oriented.

If you have a TV with HDR 10 you can get 4k on the Series S, but you will lose some of the detail that the Series X is capable of. The main difference that I can clearly see is that the Series X has finer details than the Series S. The game looks more than decent on the Series S.

The paid offers finally got fix a few days ago. The YK2 game had a free offer so if you owed YK2 you got the Series version for free.

NG 2 Black will be leaving game pass at some in the near future due to the release of NG4. My guess is that around when NG4 joins premium NG2 Black will leave game pass.

My speculation is that it for the current Series Xbox and the next generation of Xbox consoles because they want to be the first on the market.

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.