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OMG I miss the music game era so much (mostly the BEMANI one… Guitar Hero, DJ Hero and the others were mostly later copies of original BEMANI games like GuitarFreaks, Drum Mania or BeatMania)

Almost everywhere BUT PlayStation?? That’s almost a first for third-party on this gen haha… XStation.

I got the previous version on PS4 and wasn’t really fan of the new graphic style. I will probably give it a second chance on Switch 2 for portability. I’m a huge fan of the franchise.

This is obviously NOT the real Phil! It’s just a lookalike. The real one has been locked in the basement by Nadella who is now making 100% of all the decisions and now the one taking the spotlight to ensure his evil Xbox plans come to fruition.

evil laugh

@BossBE to me, it has always been clear that the Xbox Series S was designed for lower resolution AND framerate. For the price (easy to find for 200 or less here), it’s an amazing system and several of my friends who are more casual gamers than I am are really happy with it.

We’ve been hearing a lot more from Satya Nadella than from Phil Spencer lately and that’s not a good sign. It’s the business logic speaking, not the passion for gaming anymore. Satya Nadella doesn’t even care about videogames or consoles, he cares about cloud revenue.

The Microsoft board of directors led by Nadella since 2021 is focused on financial returns. Xbox hardware hasn’t been profitable since the Xbox 360 era and the console division as a whole continues to lose money. With billions spent on acquiring Activision-Blizzard, shareholders and Nadella himself expect significant returns, even if it means phasing out the Xbox console in the medium term.

In a nutshell: excessively rich, out of touch executives want to make more money and don’t really care how.

It really suxx if true. And I’m pretty sure that sony will focus more on Switch 2 than on Xbox so the Xbox will remain the losing system.

@Kraven I guess it’s more of a shareholder issue or even Nadella’s but I share your consternation.

I hardly ever play or buy games on Xbox these days… I’ve totally lost trust in them, especially the future of their hardware.

It’s crap… just like most of the stuff we never asked for that Microsoft has been shoving down our throats these past few years.

I got rid of it. The dashboard is already cluttered with useless junk. It was clearly better before the whole « oh look, now you can see more of your background picture » and the mess they added everywhere that same day.

@awp69 I hope so 🌝

The ship is sinking 🌝

The current dashboard « okay »? It’s an awful mess, cluttered with ads absolutely everywhere ever since they said « Oh, you want to see more of your background? We listened to you, fans! » and used that opportunity as an excuse to flood the dashboard with even more unavoidable advertisements!

This idea looks great though.

They obviously do it first for PS players in mind… more than Xbox players… so they can discover the franchise starting from ep1… sigh

I mostly buy physical games and check if the physical release contains a working build on it before buying it.

They say one thing and do the opposite the next month. I don’t trust them anymore.
« Only four games », the closure of Tango, the cancellation of Perfect Dark, the scrapped Xbox handheld project…
I’m pretty sure they’ll cancel the next Xbox too, no matter what they claim now.
It feels like they’ve done everything possible to destroy a once popular brand.

I’ll focus on my Switch 2 now… and I don’t want to support Sony.

@IOI they didn’t buy The Coalition and 343 Indistries.

@Fiendish-Beaver yeah… They announced Gears Remastered on PS5 with a free upgrade for Xbox players to make it easier to swallow… and they didn’t even get the kind of backlash they got with the « only 4 games » announcement. So I’m pretty sure they’re thinking « It’s fine… Xbox fans are used to it now and even if they move to PS, they will still buy our games anyway ».

« OMG I CAN’T WAIT! »

Big announcement day:
« Halo on PS5 »

sigh

@crackeastwood2 <- The guy just logged back into his alt account, saw all the old reply notifications and now feels compelled to answer them all with the rage of a fanboy with a second account 😂
Claiming you’re right doesn’t make you right. Sorry gurl.

Nobody cares. Muted without even reading more than 2 rage replies 😂

Can’t wait for your third account honey.

The « final » dashboard looked like crap only if your Xbox 360 was online. Offline, you could still have the more complete dashboard (without the online features obviously).

Great news for the next gen Xbox for sure! Can’t wait for the Xbox brand to become even less visible in Central Europe… Great strategy, as usual, Microsoft

Why would Xbox be « the best place to play these games » if the Xbox version has no exclusive features or the best graphics of all versions or even haptic controller? (Hi PS5 Pro and PC). Gamepass is not a valid argument for a huge part of the ppl.

No way I’m rewarding them for complying with Sony’s shady third-party exclusivity deals by spending over 20 bucks… especially without a physical Xbox release.

@Dan1283 would you say that about Phil?…

I hope they include physical games when they say « library »

@crackeastwood PlayStation entered the gaming market 30 years ago with literally no first-party studios. They relied almost entirely on third party exclusivity deals and studio acquisitions over time. That’s not innovation, that’s just cutting checks.

Microsoft is objectively more pro-consumer than both Sony and Nintendo. Clearly, you’re not an Xbox player.

Nothing screams « anti-competitive » louder than aggressive third-party locking and studio buyouts, exactly what Sony has been doing since 1995. Let’s not forget that this kind of strategy is part of what helped kill SEGA, who didn’t expect a non gaming company to bulldoze its way into the industry with such ruthless tactics.

But sure... You clearly don’t know much. « Your opinions are trash » random internet fanboy/gurl

I won’t bother reading your « replies », we know how it goes with your kind of people.

Ah yes, an old, bad Final Fantasy sold at full price, running worse on the more powerful Xbox. And of course no physical version because why put in any effort?

LOL! Same price as the Tomb Raider Remastered 1-2-3 collection, which was an actual and great remaster. This is a joke. And those wobbling PS1 textures… seriously? I get that 3 didn’t have a PC port, but 2 did! They just threw in the PS1 ISOs with a widescreen hack into their homebrew emulator, slapped a frontend on it and are selling it at the price of a proper remaster. Ew.

At least they didn’t have the nerve to put « Remaster » in the trilogy’s title.

I’ll grab it for 5$ one day.

5 years ago: « Xbox games are poop »
Now: « POOP ME UP, DADDY! »

eyeroll

Crystal ball: In 5 years they won’t even bother to release games on Xbox anymore… since they will probably find an excuse to cancel the next REAL Xbox just like they just canceled the native Xbox handheld.

Their « current strategy » has been the same since the very first PS : third party locks and arrogance.

Sony doesn’t need to lock it. The lock on the second one already had the desired strategic impact on the minds of mainstream gamers, making them believe it’s a « PlayStation » franchise.

@cornholio005 they would, they just continue to lock third party games like they’ve done for 30 years.

@ZuneTattooGuy Avatar and The (s)Crew MF are notorious examples of Ubisoft craps.

For Avatar, a first patch is mandatory before being able to play offline. The Crew is an online game so you’re obviously screwed once the servers shut down.

The other games on that list work fine offline without day one patch, except for a few modes that require an internet connection like in MK1.

My nephew is a big fan of Barbie Project Friendship on his Switch so I guess I will try it on Xbox

Metaphor Refantazio, Tekken 8, Mortal Kombat 1, Avatar, Tales of Arise, The Crew Motorfest… and those are just the ones I bought lately.

@ZuneTattooGuy hence why many games are being released on 2 discs now

Like others said, it’s not even a JRPG lol…

It’s like taking the next Bayonetta, slapping « Final Fantasy » on the game box, adding some chocobos and summons and saying « It’s the new Final Fantasy and since it’s Final Fantasy of course it’s a JRPG ».

« We need some more time to release it day one on PS5 too »

@ZuneTattooGuy It’s true in some cases but the claim is really overstated. Plenty of games still ship with a complete playable version on the disc. I usually play a few hours unpatched just to check what’s actually included on disc (it often only contains the Xbox One and Xbox One X versions though).

Seriously? For such an iconic game as Ninja Gaiden 4?

I’m really pissed.

@awp69 => Microsoft implied it was a permanent block from Sony during the ABK drama.

I’m gonna wait for a big discount. No way I’m gonna pay full price for old games (FFXVI is not yet available on the store atm)

We all know they will anyway, so answering that question is pointless.

And they shouldn’t. Why? Because everyone knows that people will buy a Switch 2 (even PC players) because of the exclusives. If Xbox had maintained strong exclusives, with a bit more hustle and proper marketing (like Nintendo does) they could’ve now stayed in the competition.

But the truth is that’s not what they really want. It takes too much time and effort and being a third party publisher is simply more profitable. Satya can just buy himself a yacht or whatever expensive stuff he can afford thx to this new strategy.

Anyway same blablabla as usual. Some Xbox fans think it’s amazing, some others think it’s crap (including me) and that’s it.

So let’s see… which third party stuff did they lock ONCE AGAIN? Final Fantasy Tactics? the Marvel fighting game from ASW?

They’re so obsessed and enraged with their shady third party locking tactics that one day they will end up paying Microsoft to make the next Forza Horizon a PlayStation exclusive…

[EDIT] So FFT is multi then. But what about the Marvel fighting game?

I love these 2 collections SO MUCH that I dream about a third remastered collection of the best unofficial episodes made by fans with the official Tomb Raider level editor.

With their new policy, no more exclusives to be expected and probably the announcement of even more Xbox games ports on PS5/Switch, it will feel like a third party publisher event like an Ubisoft or EA showcase… So for the first time, the hype is super low to say the least…

The Xbox expansion cards, even if pricier and proprietary, have one big advantage: they’re plug and play. This means I can bring my digital games to a friend’s place and play them after loging in as if I were bringing, say… an N64 cartridge. On PS5, you can’t do that with internal SSDs.

Typical Xbox… Mistakes after mistakes, as usual for the last 15 years.

The success of Microsoft ? Yes and the fall of Xbox hardware and Xbox store for sure, including our investment into the brand.

@Ilyn My phone has a huge screen, the battery lasts forever, my USB-C mobile controller is absolutely divine and I have (almost) unlimited 5G without needing to share it with any other device.

Of course my phone is way more expensive than more basic device such as « Portal ».