TakeItEasy

I hope starfield and forza motosport can buff those numbers... As this is not good news for us gamepass subscribers, if this model fail to make xbox on top certainly after ABK they definitely try to abondon the model or charge more for it

@NEStalgia and by the way, about your point on "hollywood know how" thats very precise and those games are made to target the general audience (gamers and casuals"
While i don't like cinematic games ( i was actually fascinated by those type of games in my teen years)now i feel limited and chained on those games, do this do that you cant go here go there, cutscene press x.... I feel that my gameplay experience will be so similar to others that i can just watch it on youtube and finish it.

But its true that those games are loved by moat poeple and they will continue to have success and sony is good at those

In the other hand xbox will excel in my favorite genre which is RPG because of bathesda and obsidian, but they have to make cinematic games to make those casuals and also gamers that love the genre to their platform (hellblade can be the one along perfect dark and maybe indiana John's)

@NEStalgia finally a wise man i like your analysis and i spoke what is in my mind better than i ever would

@themightyant
I play on all platforms and playing on all platforms doesnt make you neutral... And obviously your not

So this my take another 3 years to make, im sure this will be a beautiful game with UE5

@themightyant
"Different approach" i call that total greed why to pay 10$ next gen upgrade when its free upgrade on xbox
And why should i subscribe to 24$ monthly subscription to play a limited selection of old games some i already own?
Why should i pay 70$ for a remaster such as spiderman despite being good or not? Resident evil remakesis 60$ and thats a game changer

Sucks? Yes paying not to benifit gamers or put a game on your service instead paying million so a game isnt on other console service is total dirt

You know what forget about it i swear your wearing a blue shirt adios

@themightyant
you need to visit N4G and kotaku then

by bad practices i mean:
*no backward compatibility despite even xbox can run PS 1 2 3 on emulators.
*some backward games are available to play on PS5 but you have to buy them again...
*70$ remaster
*10$ next gen upgrade (big scum)
*blocking games from GP
*paying for big IP to make the exclusives
*buying exclsuive contents in many big AAA games
*PS accounts always getting hacked
*the lawsuit in UK about scamming poeple while charging for games.
*bad porting to PC

for Xbox yes they have the studios and money but i think they still make the same mistakes (redfall recently being always online DRM 30 fps only) and most importantly i don't trust them when it comes to choosing the right project to invest in and games to devolop also i think studios are out of their control and emplyees are somewhere in the building eating donuts

@themightyant
i think we are in the same boat just we need to clear some points:

im not sure if journalist getting paid but their is definitely something going on:
1.do those journalist/youtubers use xbox hate to get the most of views and followers to their articles/videos?
2. why do they ignore in a lot of times bad sony practices or approach them in a friendly way (if it was xbox they will masacre them)?
3.are they afraid to lose exclusive access to PS exclusives and interviews so they are always taking sony side?
4. or all of the above

also i dont think hi fi rush deserve more recognition but seem that any game from xbox is getting attacked one way or another (their was just a humor about hifi rush beng a failure and everyone putting it in headlines and discuss it like its a confirmed thing!

finally yes i think xbox need big guns to earn their respect back thats why i said good games won't do the trick they need at least 2 heavy AAA hitters GOTY material game score destroyers each year to make a real comeback

and you know and i know that xbox now isn't capable to make it but they may in the future as they fail and try again till they get it right.

but one thing that always annoyed me....why Microsoft is spending billions on acquisition but they spend like 10$ on marketing, i see playstation everywhere (youtube ads, soccer matches tv.....) comeon lot of poeple doesn't even know xbox you need to make a huge marketing compaign

@themightyant
I dont know how someone like Don matrick was assigned as Xbox head... Basically sony just had to reveal anything and win the gen, a free win

And he didnt just give them a win that gen but also made xbox a public enemy, you can see the hate they get by gaming community and journalist seem to squeeze it, if you go to N4G or Kotaku...xbox being attacked by both journalist and the community is a dialy routine

From where i see it, xbox have to do wonders to get back, they need heavy marketing (xbox suxks soooo much at marketing) and provide legendary exclsuives (good games will be attacked and underrated like with as dusk fall psychornaut 2 hi fi rush high on life....)

And they need to bribe big youtubers and journalist... Yes i said it because i feel sony maybe doing it as all sony games getting always great reviews and marketing done by youtubers, and all sony bad practices nd anticonsumer action are kept hidden and never speak off or lightly spoke about, when xbox for any small mistakes get humilated and aggressively critisized by journalists and youtubers

It su*ks for xbox

@Tasuki i was a fanboy and xbox one was that useless ugly console in my room that i never turn on and had to buy a PS4 to poay persona 5 and i used it till i bought xbox series X thinking xbox will turn things around they are trying.... But seem they need alot to catch up and to improve as a gaming company

The reveal that destroyed xbox brand for many years to come... Don mattrick is a legend it took him one event to take down +12 years of work done to make the brand ahead of sony... And sony just had to exchange a game (making fun of xbox DRM and blocking game exchange) to win the gen

Now after 10 years xbox is still to recover from that event and still hated by most of the community....

But to be honest xbox seem to not yet get what gamers want and how to menage their studios to make the best out of them

The hate for xbox brand is just so high the level that maybe even ABK deal cant save, Don mattrick have done a big damage to the brand and the leak of exclsuives after that didnt help, seem every journalist and youtube gaming channel just waiting from any small news to put a negative comment on them,

To be honest o don't think good exclsuives will do the trick as they get hate for no reason xbox need to make top tier games and with no always online no rushed releases no 30 fps only!!! Xbox need to do wonders to clean there names

Even if COD is ganna owned by xbox the community will hate on it and they will try to support any game that try to rival it (like xdefient) the loyalty to sony and also the hate to xbox will make a comeback for xbox very hard, and this is funny as sony now is so anti consumer right now but fans wont see it and journalist hides it

@NeutronBomb true phil only sell us hype, while he was the best man to undo what don mattrick did, he and his management team is very bad at menaging studios i know that jumping from 5 studios in 2018 to 24 studios in 2021 was big but till date he doesn't seem to control his studios and i bet for how long those studios are taking to make games that employees are just hiding in corners eating donuts, Phil should be replaced with someone charismatic and can rule with an ironfist and can know a winning project when he see one,
this actually is Sony best weapon they know which project gonna win even when buying 3rd party exlcusivity (FF Remake silent hill 2R ...) or exclusive contents (Hogward legacy, COD...) yes its disgusting but we most admit that they can smell a great game in the making (forspoken is a sole mistake tho)

gamepass is great service
good start with hifi rush as exclusive
bad decisions made with redfall (DRM-always online-30fps) made me lower my expectations (it was already low not its on ''please dont be bad" level)

i would say its good but good isnt enough to beat the compitition

My PC isnt ready to run it!
if Crytek ignore console and went full Graphical wonder that put the highest PC build to scream for help i would be so happy

i remember my happy face playing Crysis 1 and i remember when i bought a new GPU just to run that beautiful Crysis 3

i was hoping Xbox this Gen will turn things around, but seem to always find away to disappoint fans, red fall has DRM always online 30 FPS only mode on lunch after 2 delays halo infinite lunching as F2P service game without any planned contents (also delayed many time) and now this coming from their own studio....i dont know man xbox is very bad at menaging their studios and seem to not understand how to pick a winning project or do the right choices while making games....i start to be very doubtful, i was excited for starfield but i will hold my excitment