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When you come to think of it and I might be wrong as I’m no Microsoft historian, the Xbox brand is kind of the longest lasting line of Microsoft hardware product. To me the next Xbox will be more or less a proof on concept for their new windows gaming mode, a bit like the surface is more or less a proof of concept for the windows tablet experience.

I expect them to partner with other brand like they did with Asus to built more device centered around that experience while once in a while building another proof on concept to try new ideas. Xbox games will be multiplatform in the sense that they will be available mainly to this new ecosystem while sometime porting some other to other device like the PS5 a bit like they do for some software, like office, on Mac. Gamepass will remain exclusive to the Xbox partners.

Going this way will allow them to iterate on software, their core business, faster and the Xbox brand will be used in the same way some PC are marked as windows 11 ready. It will show as a seal or endorsement of minimum level of compatibility to achieve a given level of performance.

Hopefully 2026 will be better because the 2025 coverage wasn’t positive for the most part for Xbox as a brand and its future.

That said the lack of sale for the console around Christmas and Black Friday and the lack of investment for the player with the year in review leads me to believe that MS more or less see the Series S/X generation as over and kind of give up on them / write them off.

So unless they have big announcements of new hardware and release in 2026 I expect the current tone (at least perceived on my end) to continue or just to disappears.

The Middle Earth shadow bundle is a steal a this price. A lot of hours a gameplay of good games. Im personnaly not a fan of lord of the ring and im currently playing trough shadow of war and have a good time with the nemesis system.

Lot of discount but few all-time low so this is pretty much the same sales as usual but all at the same time. Is it the big summer sale?

What is usually the best sale for games on Xbox?

Im debating MK1 definitive but am in no rush as I have a little time lately.

Nah, I’m getting the Xbox portable from Nintendo as pretty sure it will get its ad that says this is a Xbox…

As it is I don’t see any real reason to get Xbox hardware if everything goes multiplatform any way.

The image made me believe it was fight night champions which would have explained why it was in the ea play holiday giveaway image but never made it to the actual content given away…

This is unfortunate, the game looked like something I would have bought…

Got a series X last year mainly because I had a lot of points and it seemed like cheap way to get games. It had some nerfed recently but still worth it for me.

I would have never taught this before but I play the series x as much or more then the ps5 simply because I get more games on series x since they’re often cheap with the points.

Are these packs included with the ultimate edition? Just recently got the most deluxe edition…

@FraserG I wish this was the case but unfortunately Spec Ops the line was delisted earlier this year without notice so while it remains playable, it’s no longer available for purchase beside physical.

It would have been nice to have this kind of heads up and opportunity for Spec Ops the Line…

I absolutely need to buy an expansion card but they are too expensive at the moment to make me jump, so I put up with installing/uninstalling and sometime simply not play games that I would feel like because they’re not on the hdd.

My father in law come about once every month and he’s a big flight simulator fan, so I have to make space for that every 4 weeks or so…

It seems Solitaire might no longer be my most played game this year…

Was the Steam version a different beast? Update is close to 10% of what it is on other platforms…

It’s a shame, just got an Xbox around this Christmas this was among the games I wanted to buy but last sale was for gamepass which I don’t have…

With a notice I would have bought it before it dissapears…

@AshKirin19 Fully intend to play both Halo and Gears of war… I just have to find the time… hopefully the Xbox bought for little break at my workstation will allow me to do so…

Recently installed it… never played halo before, but it’s always taking a god chunk of my hard drive…. I just never got around to play it yet…

Buy less games as I bought tons (50 or so…) during end of the year sales but truth is I barely have time to play any of them…

Doing some research it seems it can be a symptoms of craving free time… So another resolution would be to find more time to relax and play…

Fun fact, buying the mass effect trilogy remaster is cheaper than buying all 3 backward compatible games and the trilogy also includes the DLCs…

@Sol4ris Pretty sure they said it would be free.

Hum… Arkane and vampires haven’t we seen that recently? Let’s hope goes better this time…

What I miss the most was the 360 games among them as I was an on and off subscribers but you were able to keep the 360 games even when the subscriptions ended… They really felt like small gift every month…