SpacemanJupiter

I only paid 15 dollars once to get Atmos on my PC and Xbox both. What I'm concerned about with this headset is the 40mm drivers. My Man o War and Status Audio CB1 have really nice bass with 50mm drivers. If the Xbox headset had 50mm I'd most likely get one.

I would expect even faster and more agile gameplay, if maybe less armor and big heavy guns. Could be even more difficult, but more rewarding gameplay.

Could be that there is so much 'high ranking' talent at The Initiative that there is bound to be power struggles and not everyone can be the director or lead designer, etc.. Some may feel they've taken a lesser role than their last job after being around so many other talented people on the same level. I'm sure he's great at what he does but I honestly don't feel like a Sunset Overdrive/Ratchet & Clank dev is a great loss for the kind of game they are trying to make.

Many of these game trailers and so called 'gameplay' or 'in engine' displays are outsourced and have nothing to do with the game company making the game. It was probably a complete disaster and looked nothing like the trailers we saw if the whole dev team is being replaced. We'll be waiting quite a while.

Me and some friends enjoyed playing bot matches the last time there was a trial. We'll do the same thing this time if it's available, but I probably won't buy the game. Now that there is good indication that the next COD game is WWII, I'll just wait for that one. COD WWII is probably the favorite of me and my friends and we still play it. Can't be bothered with COD games every single year so we are waiting for 'COD WWII 2'.

@Dezzy70

"Days Gone and a “Whole Slate” of PlayStation Games Are Coming to PC"

Jim Ryan:
"Particularly from the latter half of the PS4 cycle our studios made some wonderful, great games. There’s an opportunity to expose those great games to a wider audience and recognise the economics of game development, which are not always straightforward."

This actually looks fantastic, and unique. Nice surprise. If its executed well it could be a really great game.

@jaydubs I think they should update all other Brutes in the game with enhanced models and visuals except for that one single character. They should make it an easter egg. Where will Craig show up, and who will find him first? They should even leave the helmet on and require it to be knocked off somehow to see if you won the Craig lottery.

Forza leans toward sim. Forza Horizon is an open world racer where crashing gets you points. PGR sat in between back in the day with somewhat arcade action on closed circuit or street circuit road racing and it was exciting. I absolutely feel that PGR could co exist quite easily with the Forza games and I'd definitely throw my money at it.

So fake. They had an old Xbone that no one used or wanted and they decided to dupe people to get some views.

I remember RBI being garbage. From the 360'ish screenshots, seems as though it's still garbage. I've heard MLB is good and coming to Xbox, so there's that.

I keep hearing about enhancements for the console but what does that mean? Are they bringing it up to PC level? Or, are these enhancements also coming to PC? I started off with the PS4 version and went PC as soon as it was Available. I still play it often online and have always loved it. Now days you do get modders in almost every server but it doesn't matter because you can easily 'glitch' the game into an empty server with only your friends. It's great having the whole map to yourself with your friends. I'm honestly in no hurry for GTA6 to get here. I know it's being worked on and that's good enough for me at the moment. I still have a LOT to do in GTA online and RDR2 online, even after all these years.

Me and 2 other friends are going through co op and we are having a lot of fun. We've created a few bot matches which were also pretty fun and challenging. We'll do more bot matches and learn the maps before going into MP. Some of the MP maps look pretty stunning though, even better than some of the SP game.

@tobsesta99 Stuff like Akira or Record of Lodoss War. It has been a long time so I don't remember some other stuff I used to love.

I'm glad this garbage has been cancelled for the Xbox. Leave crap like this to the Japanese market where they relish sexualized 12 year olds with tiddies. I was obsessed with anime when I was in high school but over time I realized how sickening much of it was and they don't even try to hide it. Now it's also in so many games and it's just a huge turn off to see characters that look 10 years old (or younger!) but are sexualized to the max. Seriously, what does anyone see in this type of thing that could be justified? I don't care that the age of consent is like 13 in Japan, that in itself is extremely focked up to say the least. Just seeing all the samey cookie cutter anime 'artwork' is a huge turn off for me now days.

Without question, Alan Wake for me. We really need a sequel. I loved all the Max Payne games, including Rockstar's, so I'd like to see another one.

I've played a bit of QB and Control but for some reason have not been able to get into either yet. Maybe I just need to give them more time.

I haven't experienced any of this, but I do have an Xcloud issue. I have a galaxy note 8 and whether i use gamepass or gamepass beta app, both will only run at 1 frame per second (or maybe less). That includes the UI. Haven't even been able to get into a game yet. I'm connecting an Xbox One controller via bt. Reinstalling the apps and rebooting the phone didn't help. I would love to test out Xcloud while i'm in bed at night and just bought a phone mount for my controller so I'm pretty disappointed that the app isn't working.

Never picked up a blu ray disc, never inserted a disc of any kind into my 1 X. Not concerned, however, I am sure they will patch this up so others can enjoy it properly. Sounds more like a software issue.

I have never really used BC until this past week. I was shocked to see how good Gears of War 3 looked at high res. Wish it would also get a 60 fps update as well. I was also shocked at how good the original Perfect Dark looked with hi res and 60 fps. Was that game remastered or something? Or is it using the same assets from the N64? I never got to play it on the N64.

I imagine you won't see the screen tearing or frame drops if you have freesync or VRR display but they definitely need to get the screen tearing cleaned up for people that have standard displays.

If you have a display with freesync or VRR you probably won't even notice if it doesn't always hit 120.

Got mine at noon today. Connected to a 1440p monitor and everything is smooth so far. Not a pixel to be seen in Gears 5. Gears 5, Halo 5, and Halo MCC downloaded really fast but the rest of the games hit server overload and went very slow. Those are the only games I've played so far. Dashboard is instant with controller actions, impressive. Remote play worked nicely. I was at Qdoba waiting for a burrito and played some Xbox on my old iPhone 8 Plus LOL. GREAT!

Got mine at noon today. Everything smooth as butter so far.

These are just way too big for me. I'd like to see a PC monitor with all the CX options at 27-32 inches. 40 at most. I'll wait

In cases like this I always wait until a year or two down the road to buy the game during a major sale with all DLC for cheap, just out of spite. I'll never pay close to full price for games treated in this manner. I have way too many back log games to keep me busy so it's easy to wait for sales down the road.

I'm loving Odyssey right now but I have to say I really don't like the art direction of Valhalla, and it clearly looks like a last gen game to me. I think Odyssey looks better.

Does this game have cross save feature? I have it for PC but I'm curious if my progress will go over to the Gamepass version for Xbox.

@Gosol Now he calls himself 'Xbot seal of disaster'

I will supposedly be picking mine up at Gamestop on the 10th, just across the street. I hope there are no mistakes or delays.

Holy crap, it looked like it loaded before the GPU could even initialize and render the scene.

@ArcticFox Absolutely. Red Dead 2 on my Xbox 1 X looks absolutely amazing on my 1080p monitor due to downsampling from 4K. It's a very, very clear improvement over native 1080p.

Gamepass is seriously changing the landscape

I didn't even realize this was considered 'grotesque'. Granted, I haven't seen much on the game yet but I haven't really seen anything grotesque.

This is good news. Out with the old, in with the new (people that can get the job done better). Plus the director's job is pretty much done as the bulk of the game is obviously complete if they initially planned on launching it next month. I will not be surprised if we see an article like this for Bonnie Ross soon. With new people like Joseph Staten coming in we will only see better results with this game as time goes.

Would be a very interesting Trojan horse strategy and I'm sure Sony realizes that and will never agree to it. MS could include every PS running Xcloud games as part of their Xbox platform and count those users as Xbox users. It will be a cold day in hell before Sony allows that to become a reality lol.

@Thretosix I think 60 fps is the sweet middle spot for console games. RT will pull fps down to 30 and isn't worth it unless it is used properly, such as for really good global illumination, not just reflections. 120 is great for MP but will sacrifice visuals and doesn't make sense for single player or co op. 4k@60 w/o RT will bring good visuals and frame rate both. RT won't be missed unless it truly and significantly changes the whole visual landscape. I have yet to see that happen yet with real time RT except for maybe Minecraft.

I think 120 will be relegated to MP most of the time and at a visual cost. There really isn't much point in doing 120 hz in single player games unless it can do it at no cost to visuals imo.

This was the biggest and best surprise for me regarding launch. I'm looking forward to this game more than anything so far. If it's anything like Hell Let Loose, I'm in on day one.

I think this game is going to look much better at home than most people think

Enlisted, The Touryst and Cuisine Royale for me! And of course all the games I haven't finished that are BC

I'm not super impressed with anything I've seen so far, including Demon's Souls. It's easy to go all out on graphics when you have the whole game mapped out for you already with level design, mechanics, and gameplay based on a PS3 game from 11 years ago. I'm actually not that impressed with the graphics either.

I am perfectly fine playing a lot of present gen games on the XSX. That's why I'm buying it, actually. I know there isn't much from either console at launch but I have lots of games that I haven't finished yet, some I haven't even started playing. I'm perfectly happy working on finishing those games for a while and happily waiting for upcoming games down the road. Most of the games are going to perform better as well so I can't complain.

My OG Xbone went to my rommate after getting the 1X. Same will happen again and OG Xbone will go to one of her family members.

More convenient and plug n play. I won't get one at launch because 1 TB will be enough for me for a while but later down the road I'll get one. I will probably just wait for a 2 TB option after prices come down a bit.

Falconeer 8K/60 was stated days ago, unless there is a second game to now do it.

I think a good rule of thumb is probably going to be about 6 inches of clearance for the top vent. I think there is a very porous vent at the bottom rear of the machine as well to pull in air. As far as I can see there are no vents on the very bottom so maybe you can actually have it sitting on a carpet floor, but I'm not sure.

The only heat exhaust is the top vent as far as I know, so naturally that is going to be very warm. That's a very decent CPU and 12 Tflop GPU stuffed in there. It's going to get warm. As long as the actual case doesn't feel like it's going to melt, I'm sure it's perfectly fine.

Love MS first party games. They just provide more fun and value for me, and last longer.

The first 8K/60 XSX game is already here. Falconeer. Granted, not too graphically demanding but it's a real thing already. 3090 is doing 8K/60 on well optimized games. I didn't think this would happen until 2 or 3 years from now, but it's here.

Next next gen will probably have a good number of games running at 8K, but 4K will probably still be the standard during the gen after next gen.

@Senua Look up Light Transport (2 minute papers) on Youtube. It's already miles ahead of standard ray/path tracing.

@KelticDevil I just started playing that game this year on PC and was shocked at the visuals from 2013. It's much better than I've heard people say, and the PC version's visuals hold up to God of War very well. I have not played the 1 X version so not sure how that compares.