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@ILuvGames she says make Xbox an affordable platform. I’m sure that can mean a lot of things. I’d hoped it meant the previous stuff about new console costing loads was history but more I think about it. Gamepass being available to stream and for cheaper is making the “platform” affordable- I think they still over estimate the demand people have to have a gaming/console like experience on a device that isn’t a pc/console but I have a horrible feeling that’s what she means. “Your tv is an Xbox” she doesn’t want to say that but that’s what she means by an affordable platform. You’d say console if you meant console no?

@Gabrie yeah they’ll know people aren’t using it they’ll have stats and they’ll know all the feedback is bad. Rather than flog a dead horse they’ll use Ai differently call it something else and implement it better. I think at this point we know they want to embrace Ai this isn’t a signal it’s going away they know co pilot on xbox failed completely

@Booloon yeah, tbh I had no idea they had a vision to use Ai in games to help if your stuck. But also I can see why people don’t like. If I get stuck I will google and use YouTube etc. if the game has it built in, almost it’ll be too easy to get help at first sign of trouble. I like I need to use a bit of effort to get help 😂

But the idea itself doesn’t suck. Imho. But Ai isn’t popular with the masses and it’s all about how companies frame it, Xbox are deffo in reframe how people think about them mode. Trying to change to feeling towards it. I love Xbox but a lot of the decisions have been bonkers

Played all the Forza games right back to the proper old ones. So easily eligible for all six of these. Finished FH1 completely. The others I’ve got to the point where you are champion/maxed out but still have stuff to do on the map but majority done. Monster games. Shame Motorsport was a bit naff the old ones in that series were all awesome

@Skinny-Pete yeah it seems ridiculous to me. She hasn’t done much imho but say… we wanna do better and we’ve reduced the price and removed COD and it’s still more expensive than it was.

😂

@Millionski not sure if you are joking but since before the Bethesda take over the only thing XBOX has managed is almost constant good PR and media coverage: everything is always so positive. Public response rarely matches it but the PR for Xbox is honestly something to behold. They announce some stuff that now with hindsight is seen as mistakes and bad decisions but at the time the narrative was “well done Xbox” “amazing news from team green” - the Activision take over especially. PR on that was verging on ridiculous.

Again the PR with the new lady is on Overdrive. The outgoing fella had almost constant great PR right up until he left/ he was “amazing”

Until he wasn’t 😂

Fickle bunch/

Finally Gibo has come back to Xbox…..

The wait is over…

Welcome back fella we’ve missed you.

The world seems right again

Looks exactly like the old one. Like old old one. I’d say we’ve seen it almost exactly the same and that will be on purpose. They are trying to recapture the feeling me and many others had towards the brand back then.

Funny how many here have been super positive about every decision for years when some of us haven’t and we’ve been shot down as “haters” and now they’ve listen to us and are changing direction the same users are praising the new direction away from the direction they loved 😂

This would be madness and just show they’ve learnt zero. They don’t need more aquisitions. If anything they could sell off!

It’s extremely annoying but both here and other places I was a lone voice from the start of the takeover to say COD on gamepass was a bad idea and it would eventually lead to a price rise and be removed and everyone ignore me or shot me down and now everyone says it was always gonna happen. Genuinely that’s not what y’all were saying. The “industry” especially was in favour.

Ridiculous

Everyone said the FH5 controller was hideous and it’s lovely. But at £90 Xbox has lost its mind and on this one I’m out

The Xbox only bunch are funny lot, they said day one was brilliant and game pass was best thing ever, they loved “this is an Xbox” they loved Bethesda and Activision takeovers - they scoffed at anyone that had doubts about sustainability or output of said studios if all on day one and under a GPU model…..

Some of us that have been Xbox since OG Xbox and nearly day one (I was a few months late) didn’t want all the games on GPU, some of us didn’t like Bethesda and Activision to be bought, we wanted them to stay independent and have more games, some of us warned that taking titles away from day one would result in bad feeling…. And warned of huge price rises and even more dormant IPs - some of us were right - now those that are unhappy at buying a product to have it drastically change are “entitled children” what? Honestly some of you are crazy.

It’s been terrible decisions for years and only now a fresh face is scrambling to change direction, the praise she is getting is a bit OTT as it’s clear she was brought in cos xbox direction had failed, Activision numbers were what was projected and the purchase hasn’t been what they hoped and now they are trying to undo the damage. In fairly sure the whole move was sold by the old management team that it would shift consoles and GPU subs and the price rise wouldn’t effect numbers - clearly COD being Xbox didn’t sell consoles or GPU subs and all it did was reduce sales of cod to anyone that would have bought it but already subbed to GPU.

The price reduction is still to a point much higher than it was. Now with less perks.

It’s an unmitigated disaster. Short term especially. It was always coming though, it won’t be the end of the changes as the team scrambles to get firm footing and change the numbers and narrative. Genuinely not sure they can do enough that could be remotely seen as positive to change anything soon. Short term it’s gonna be decisions people don’t like. I know people here are praising the decision but I’m not seeing people saying “excellent I’ll sub to GPU now” or elsewhere I’ll buy an Xbox now and I don’t believe COD is suddenly gonna sell millions of more copies…… so it’s hard to see what impact this will really have.

I want Xbox back where they belong and they are still smashing it with games Like Forza Horizon…. Just clearly things are not smooth behind the scenes

Let the HeMan have time and a bit like the poster above let’s have a third person action.

At a hugely reduced rate this would interest me more than the current model tbh.

Tbh online starfield still has an awful reputation due to its launch. So may games that are now very good people write off as trash as online they had so much negativity. So I’m not shocked Starfield didn’t sell loads. It’s a shame but not unexpected

@Kraven nice to see user reviews often more on point than actual reviews. Cheers

We know at launch Xbox games will stay exclusive honestly clutching at straws here. I don’t understand people’s obsession with this. They have plenty of exclusives and sometimes at a later date they now land on switch and ps5 and sometimes they don’t depending on title - is it a big deal?

It’s wild to me that they don’t come with the battery and cable. I own several Xbox controllers and always buy the plug and play kit. People praising Xbox for this shows the low bar people have. I’m a big fan the battery is replaceable - it should come with one though! Especially for the price

“What was announced yeah we aren’t doing that” this is why it’s rubbish to announcements based on no facts. The fact they act like it doesn’t matter suggest the terrible attitude and culture there.

Gaming insiders and media trying to normalise and justify this. The gaming industry is attempting to self sabotage what should be a stable and lucrative industry. The greed in the industry have been creeping in with XP and DLC and Loot packs and whatever horrible fight pass/season pass, live grind low hanging fruit nonsense and everyone normalises it and its ridiculous. A few years down the line and it’ll be like all the other industries in major decline they’ll be saying “poor us” what happened….. greed happened……

@Millionski they have painted themselves in the corner with day one purchases on there and the backlash will be huge if they ever roll back on that IMHO. They’ll also mean the games are judged far more harshly. GP Xbox studio games have been given a better time from reviewers and consumers because they are “free”

Not much for me unfortunately but glad others have found plenty to get excited about.

Steam deck supported was unexpected but very very welcome

People have no taste. Simpsons should be there for real though. What a game that is

Plenty of great games could be added plenty with limited license issues some I suspect with no license issues and tons with complex license issues.

@DaddyDuder agreed, it makes me laugh that people here post about Xbox protecting exclusives or it’ll kill Xbox and yet saying £1200 is a sensible price. If the next console launches at that price home console gaming as a widespread industry will already be dead. As you say 80% of the current console purchasers won’t touch it. Maybe even more. I don’t know why everyone is clamouring for a next gen right now we’ve hardly had a booming generation this one. I’d let this one breathe a good few years and concentrate on bringing out some must have games

Genuinely no point gatekeeping Halo at this point. Just saying

As is in the modern world she (or more likely Xbox) faked it and in a really stupid way. Got caught out and now it’s got silly. They’ve put someone in charge that doesn’t play games. The Xbox cult lot will defend this like they defend everything else, but day one OG Xbox purchasers like me that are more interested in Xbox thriving than defending a billion dollar company will rightly be concerned Xbox has a head that clearly doesn’t have a passion for games. Anyone defending this is bonkers. It might not be the end of the world but it’s a ridiculous situation that was always going to backfire

@StylesT often as a gamer and someone that keeps an eye online it’s amusing to watch reactions to shows, both the media and fans do it, over blow one show and hype it play down others, with the Star Wars Racer, John Wick, Metal Gear stuff, Silent hill, god of war, it was jam packed and whilst a lot of the stuff doesn’t appeal to me I can see the hype and worth of it.

I think Xbox announced a load of stuff and people get hyped cos it’s all “free” on day one - where as everything you have to pay for on Sonys announcement. - I think gamepass is clever that way - people just accept £23 a month and then psychologically claim to themselves everything is free. So then xbox studios everything they release people don’t have to worry about paying or “wait for deep sale” - it’s clever TBH - I liked the look of GoW side scroller but with my back log and the games coming real soon I was like “do I need to pay £25 for this when I haven’t bought the terminator or marvel side scroller yet” but if it was game pass I’d be more hyped coz I’d be saying playing that right away. So I think xbox naturally gets more hype when it has showcases coz Gamepass subscribers know they can play it all day one “for free”

£280 quid a year but also free.

I’m not actually mad at the Xbox strategy like a lot of gamers here are. Coz putting games on Sony and Nintendo just mean those platforms are propping up the gamepass model and helping funding these games.

I’ve cancelled my gamepass as I play too many niche games that take up my time that I didn’t get £280 out of it but for those that embrace it is amazing and it certainly makes Xbox showcases buzz which is something PlayStation can’t compete with coz they want you to pay for the games and deciding how hyped you are for a game this hurts.

First few comments here I was proud to be a member of this community - then it went downhill fast. 😂 why are people like it.

It was a great showcase, any gamer has to say it was full of a diverse mix of games and some of them look truly epic.

I thought last year was a poor year all round really, this year is shaping up to be much much better - especially for multi platform gamers.

If you only have “loyalty” to one brand and defend it like you own it - it’s looking like a slightly rougher year tbh

Both the NBA and WWE games are far better than people would have you believe, they are both good arcade sports titles and there aren’t enough of them about

These sorts of games are doomed. Demand just isn’t there and people don’t want to risk paying into a game built on a premise of “live service” that can be pulled at any second.

The gaming industry needs a big reset.

Anyone know why Steam, Nintendo and Sony aren’t spamming me about verification and only Xbox? Are the other three gonna force everyone too? Xbox gives me frequent pop ups and has already restricted some services for me? Why are they going so hard on it? Sony and Steam haven’t mentioned it? I’ve not used my switch for a while?

@AverageGamer oh no they cant can they. Let’s ban everything. The account is in my name and so is the card. As I say and by your reply, common sense is in short supply. “Whataboutisms” are the very worst.

Common sense unfortunately is now outlawed….. by my account age means there is no way I could be underage. My account has credit card attached to it - credit cards are only allowed over 18 - credit card should be enough verification. It doesn’t matter if it’s Xbox or UK government rules - it’s stupid.

No wonder there is such a backlash

@Daffy-Duck TBF boycotting Russian produced goods and a whole company coz one of its staff is wrong un is different levels. I wouldnt touch anything Russian knowingly.

@Daffy-Duck people boycott everything and anything these days. Harming innocent folks. The gaming industry is rife with online campaigns to review bomb and boycott whole companies and games and it isn’t damaging the people it’s meant to. It’s a shame. I wouldn’t mind if we were seeing better behaviour and society being better but I’d argue everything is getting worse for horrible toxic behaviour

@GuyinPA75 I’m
Ten hours in on Xbox - which is fairly near the end of the story - and controller works fine so they must have lol - it’s not that bad a game tbh - it’s just nothing like GTA and has no real open world sections. There are so many baffling game design choices which is a shame coz the story and missions are actually good

I picked this up for £10 and I’ve enjoyed it. I’m fairly near the end. It’s not at all open world. Which is a shame coz the map is huge and looks amazing, so many design choices are baffling but as a linear cinematic action game and for the new lower price it’s a decent game and very enjoyable. But it’s fine to also believe it’s the worst game ever…..

With the releases to the wwe roster it’s currently the smallest it’s been for years…. We are either gonna have a TON of legends or some very very very random additions to make up the numbers.

lol. Everytime I see these JPEGs it makes me chuckle. Someone struggling to themselves to justify how much they pay for gamepass “but look at all these day one Xbox exclusives” looks impressive at first sight but once you go back through the list…… not so much. Even this “bumper” year from Xbox - isn’t that stellar.

Just being real

Not dated at all imho and still an absolute leader in its field much better than modern FPS but doesn’t feel right at all not on a n64 controller. The reason it was so good was the controller was perfect for this game and added so much to playing

Free day one “but loads of content locked behind a paywall” - it was always gonna go this way and price of GPU has rocketed. I’m very concerned about this game tbh.

Remember the way the address “concerns” in motorsport. To upgrade cars you had to race each car for ages….. terrible decision. I’m so bummed out this was my most wanted game

I’ve played FH5 for well over 200 hours. That’s just on steam deck and must be close on Xbox. I read they were doing this to make “the grind meaningful” and genuinely if making the game a grind is the aim…..I’m out. Wristbands worked fine before but events and not cars were locked. This sounds like a mechanic they make even more live service and no doubt when people get game and complain they’ll fix it with the ability to buy access.

After the disaster that was Motorsport I am deeply concerned now

Comments section on Xbox games going to Sony are always great entertainment on here - from both camps of “fans” for me as an owner of both. Great news that games get reduced and more people can access them. Games shouldn’t be used to divide us. Enough other stuff do that. We should celebrate good games together

I own every gen of Xbox and currently have a OG Xbox, a Xbox 360 and Xbox one S and a Xbox series X - I would disagree Xbox series X is “the best of the best right now” that’s a bold statement but it’s a beast for sure….. but the Xbox one is a monster for sure. But gen for gen all of them are great. What would be truly great is one machine that played all the games. Proper. From Rallisport and Buffy Vampire slayer all the way to Forza Horizon 6…. When it arrives….

Fake news. Everything is now an Xbox. Saw an advert. Xbox sales are highest ever! Xbox world
Dominance has just begun.

“It’s the right path” no one outside Xbox core fanbase and ardent gamers are buying into it. That would be the right path….. if Auntie June and non console owning people start subscribing and loving and and deep down we all know this isn’t happening…… the Wii was genius it had grandparents, non gamers, families all buying and playing, Xbox dreams of creating a Netflix movement for games but so did Google and so does Amazon and it’s not even close to cutting through and gaining traction. You sit on a throne of lies if you believe it is.

Can’t wait for Horizon 6 - please Xbox don’t Motorsport this up…..