Still waiting for some more new OG and 360 titles on Xbox but well… I guess it’s a good news if one day I decide to quit consoles in favor of PC…

It was pretty obvious to me that it was a real time 3D video since the backward compatible games render that boot screen at 4k 🤭

Anyway, that new video is cool.

Nice but… I’m honestly already tired of seeing Xbox fall back into the same old Halo–Gears–Forza identity. I’m still waiting for something truly amazing for the 25th anniversary.

I only cared for the Xbox 360 titles that we could « keep » « for ever » and just for that, it was much better than that gamepass core/essential selection I don’t care about. I canceled Xbox’s online membership anyway. It’s too expensive just to casually play online… while it’s free on PC and much cheaper on Switch 2.

So now, with all the closures, cancellations and layoffs we’re back to the same old trinity they were supposedly trying to slightly move away from: Halo-Gears-Forza? Wow what an evolution…

I also don’t really see how Xbox can grow these days with all the crazy price hikes and crisis. It’s like a dead end. I can’t see that many new people buying a brand new 800 bucks Xbox just to play Halo-Gears-Forza when these games don’t really sell Xbox anymore.

TBH, I don’t even care about the next Gears, the Halo remaster and the last Forza horizon. Hopefully we will have Fable soon… but that’s not an exclusive anymore.

Fingers crossed though.

@wildcat_kickz It’s basically a reversed Xbox 360 / PS3 situation.

The PS3 was technically more powerful than the 360 but because the 360 was more popular and easier to develop for, it became the main platform for many devs which is why third party games were often better optimized on Xbox.

Today, the situation is almost the opposite. The Xbox Series X has a real hardware advantage in terms of GPU power and memory bandwidth but its architecture is more complex, especially with the split memory pools running at different speeds.

Meanwhile, the PS5’s simpler and more basic design and larger user base make it an easier target for developers to optimize around.

However, the SSD difference has also been overstated: Xbox’s unique Velocity Architecture, hardware decompression and Sampler Feedback Streaming help reduce the amount of data that actually needs to be transferred, so the raw SSD gap does not directly translate into a real gameplay difference.

« why so much of our gaming libraries can become inaccessible when the Xbox servers go down. »

It doesn’t. You can play offline almost all of your digital games if your Xbox is set as your home Xbox. You can’t do it if you gameshare though.

Everytime there are outages like this, I just unplug the network cable and can play just fine offline since I don’t need any service to validate licences. OFC it’s still an issue if you have to download a game or play online with friends.

If your Xbox is set as your home Xbox in the settings, disconnecting your Xbox from the network should help. No issue with my physical games.

All of my physical games play perfectly fine. I don’t get all these « blabla physical is also impacted »

I can play my physical games atm… I don’t even see ANY reason why my physical games wouldn’t work and at worst I would just disconnect my Xbox from internet just the time to play.

In that case, a refund has to be possible. This is not ok

I don’t give a F about this list haha. I wish there was just something cheaper without game rental that would JUST let me play online for like 2€/$ a month… (even if it should be free just like PC)

@Odium @MinervaX76 I can’t believe how many JRPG fans act as if Lost Odyssey never existed simply because it is (was?) locked on Xbox. Some even assume it’s a bad JRPG because of biased reviews from back in the day without realizing that it’s essentially a great Final Fantasy game made by the original creator of the franchise.

Oh god… get ready for an eternal wave of remasters of remakes of remasters from Ubisoft.

The only slightly sad thing about this is that the lasts REAL Xbox exclusives that were mostly Xbox 360 titles will probably lose the charm of being officially playable only on Xbox (like Lost Odyssey 🤭).

Good news even though I think the first remaster was already more than enough. I’ll wait until I can find a copy for around 15 bucks in a couple of years. Oh and… it could’ve been a great exclusive with proper marketing… sigh.

This is nice. As an Xbox player, I’d much rather see more original Xbox games come to Xbox SX, especially those that Microsoft owns now and widescreen hacks. Fingers crossed for Spyro or Crash Bandicoot.

I honestly don’t get how people are fine with the insane day one digital prices on the XBOX and PS digital stores... Here in France, physical copies are often 15 or 20€ cheaper than the digital versions in many stores which makes the choice pretty obvious to me.

I really hope so! 💚

I’m sooOOOOOOO tired of all these F*ing remasters!! Are we gonna play the same games over and over again?! Use that money for brand new experiences!

(I know they might use the money from the sales of these remasters for potential new games in 10 years blabla)

Bought VII Remake on PS4 and it was one of the worst AAA I ever played. The demo of Rebirth was a boring mess too that didn’t make me wanna buy it. Maybe for 5 bucks in 5 years to play it for 4 hours?

@8th_Observer nope. Consoles can be banned but someone with a banned account can still create new ones… Hence why we are often spammed by newly created accounts by messages.

Physical is still much more safe, even on Xbox.

Hence why I will keep on collecting physical games.

@8th_Observer it will work with any other account anyway. Much better than losing the game for ever.

Owning a successful online game is becoming harder and harder. Shutting down one of the few MMORPGs that are still thriving would be an incredibly stupid mistake.

More than sales, Sony will lose visibility in stores.

Right now, they probably don’t care much because they no longer need to convince another 100 million people to buy a PS5. But next generation, seeing one system with shelves full of games while another has barely any shelf space can make a real difference in consumers’ minds.

Microsoft has to be more aggressive. That’s exactly what helped Sony win.

@Krzzystuff Most of my Xbox games play fine without patch. I checked. I just avoid games with mandatory download stuff written in the box.

I hope this won’t damage the relationship with Double Fine. I’d really hate to see them skip Xbox for their future releases, especially a potential Psychonauts 3, since the second game is one of the best 3D platformers I’ve ever played. I still can’t believe a studio like that isn’t selling millions of copies of its games.

I’m also pretty sure Sony will try to sign some of these studios, help them make something great (and exclusive, of course) and make Xbox look ridiculous once again.

I really appreciate her transparency.

But I’m also shocked and very saddened by the layoffs… Especially these days, with AI destroying digital jobs. Good luck finding a new one... :/

Xbox 360 but Xbox one is close especially with all the smart delivery games.

@Jaxx420 💚

@Jaxx420 this is a legend. The vast majority of my Xbox discs (some even coming as two disc sets) contain fully playable data without patches, except for the latest first-party crap. And yes, it will be anti-consumer when Xbox and Nintendo eventually follow suit.

I won’t debate online again why Sony has a long history of rather bad consumer practices because we won’t agree and we won’t change our stances on this anyway. And that’s okay.

Physical has to stay on Xbox. If Xbox stops supporting discs and new physical releases, I would rather switch to a living room PC box with Steam. Games are too expensive at launch on the Xbox and PlayStation digital stores and I love physical media anyway.

And regarding Sony, this is what happens when you almost have a monopoly on powerful consoles. Anti consumers as usual.

I hope the 25th anniversary has a lot more in store for us though haha 😅 Because for now, it rather suxx

@Tasuki 👋 here. You could have been genuinely excited about what she was planning to do and still be completely disappointed by the latest wave of bad news. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

I’m pissed AGAIN anyway. Hopefully, I’m also a Switch 2 player. sigh

@NishimaruX
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A single olive branch? I was expecting a WHOLE olive tree.
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But I accept it 💅🏼

Is there even a single Xbox studio left that Microsoft isn’t planning to close these days for F’s sake…

@NishimaruX and I already answered but thank you for your time : )

atomic diva eyeroll

@NishimaruX We… know… eyeroll + sigh

The point is that there’s absolutely no rush, even for pre order bonuses, so it’s crazy that millions of people are already rushing to pre-order digitally a game that’s gonna be released in a little less than 5 months.

Why so many ppl already preorder a digital game anyway? It’s not like there is a limited stock of « datas » haha… Or perhaps they are into empty code-in-a-box?

Regardless, thx to gameshare with a friend, XBOX will be the best place to play the game for half the price on day one.

The Xbox review system is really bad and they don’t even seem to pay much attention to what people write…

The French Xbox store is full of homophobic and transphobic reviews for games featuring LGBTQ+ characters or themes and even when you report them, nothing happens… It just stays up as if it were acceptable…

This is beyond madness at this point. If my Xbox Series X dies, I definitely won’t buy a new one for sure. This is not okay at all.

Wow! The worst Dead or Alive ever made, with not even a discount for previous owners, almost no changes whatsoever + Tekken 1, a game that can run on any potato at 2x or 3x resolution with widescreen mod, here locked to its original low resolution and 4:3 aspect ratio for a ridiculous price.

What a day for fighting game fans… lol…

Several of my friends are going to play it on the Xbox Series S and are still wondering what it will look like.

I really really REALLY hope they won’t be impacted. This is one of the most creative Xbox studio. Psychonauts 2 is one of my fav platformer ever.

I hope that the story won’t be as bland as Octopath’s🤭

This could have been the system seller we have been waiting for a decade… but now that’s it’s also on PS5… It won’t… Anyway, I just can’t wait to PLAY 💚

The problem is that I don’t see E-Day and Clockwork as system sellers (and Gears hasn’t really been one for a long time). With Game Pass, I also doubt that many Xbox players will actually buy those games. So the sales numbers probably won’t be astronomical and then Microsoft might turn around and say « See? Exclusives don’t work. »

Realistically, millions of PS/Switch players aren’t going to buy an Xbox right now just for those two games. It used to make sense to buy a cheap console at the end of a generation for a handful of exclusives because consoles would get cheaper over time. But in this crazy era, the exact opposite is happening.

I will buy (physical) Clockwork Revolution day one though. It looks incredible and I don’t have GP anymore.

I agree with her anyway 💚

Tales of Eternia won’t have a physical edition on Xbox, just like Xillia. Really disappointed… This is probably the thing I dislike the most about XBOX…

It’s quite clear that she is referring to different models of the next Xbox, which is still a smart move. It will just need to be a bit more developer friendly than the Series S which seems to frustrate many devs. I really like her vision for the future of Xbox.

So much talk about such a small thing. It almost feels like a conspiracy theory debate…

None of us is part of their team, so we don’t know what really happened and it’s not like it’s a big deal. It’s possible they made that decision at the last minute like it’s totally possible that they had made it in complete secrecy a while ago for strategic reasons.

Anyway, I’m glad they made that decision. Xbox has to compete and Sony has to be challenged. This is a first small step but probably the beginning of a new big chapter in gaming history.

@Fiendish-Beaver exactly. I totally agree with you