Seems that Asha doesnt know what to do, what a surprise.

Its a shame that Asha failed them. Hopefully they will find someone who will appreciate them.

They need to do a remaster of these games. Its way to dangerous to play Black Ops 1 and 2 on Xbox due to the fact that hackers use modded 360's. Playing these games is like having sex with a 2 dollar hooker you dont know what kind of infection you're going to get.

I wonder if the roach is a late night gaming snack for the gecko.

I claen all of my consoles fairly often. Usually with a can of air and a wipe down with a microfiber cloth.

The original AC Black Flag has a soft spot in my heart as it was the first game I got with my shiny new PS4. Having previously played 3 on the 360 and enjoying it and this was a Prequel of sorts to 3 and the best launch game that I could find for the PS4 it made sense for me to get it. It also help that I love pirate games. That being said it wasnt a good AC game but a great pirate game. I wish that we got the proper spinoff that Skull and Bones was originally going to be before development hell took over.

I am looking forward to Resync which I plan to get when the price goes down probably around Black Friday.

So this weekend I will be taking to the seas of the Carribean for.....

Jaws Retro Edition (Switch) What you'd thought there would be another game set on a ship in the Carribean that I would be playing? Anyway I have really been enjoying this game. The improvements they made to this game makes it alot more enjoyable while still retaining that NES charm. Looking to finish Chapter 2 this weekend and start Chapter 3.

Forza Horizon 6 (Series X) Will be doing my seasonal objectives. Still enjoying this game alot. As with all FH games this is one that will be installed on my console for awhile.

Non gaming this weekend I will be going to my local Game Cafe to play some D&D for an event they are having and of course I will be watching the World Cup.

Why is it always the same games on sale?

@Deformedpye Originally thats what Skull and Bones was before it went through all the changes and delays.

@Fiendish-Beaver It seems to me that she wants to go the route of say Ubisoft. Just have a few key franchise, like Ubisoft has Assassin's Creed and Farcry and just release those yearly. Maybe with Obsiadian and Bethesda have them rotate yearly installments of Fallout games like Activision does wjth CoD games. In the end thats not a good thing because its creates a lack of creativity and. Xbox was about being creative compared to Sony and now they just have lost their Identity.

@Titntin I general I feel modern gaming is dead with both Sony and MS doing what they are doing. Its truly sad to see it becoming this way.

I loved Avowed and was hoping for a sequel, both IPs can exist, but not according to Sharma of course. I guess with her around we cant have anything nice. Lets become like Ubisoft and put out the same games every year. Stupid *****. Maybe someone else will pick up the Avowed IP and make the sequel.

So about those exclusives Sharma... Kinda hard to have any if you are axeing studios.

So whos going to get the Indiana Jones license and will they be able to top Great Circle?

@Elbow Yeah let's blame Phil Spencer of course. Last I look Satya was the one in charge of Xbox not Phil. Phil couldnt do anything with out his ok which is why they ended up pushing Phil out for Asha. They made the mistakes, Phil was thrown under the bus of course.

They way they are going what will it matter, they wont have any games for it they way they are closing studios and firing people.

Why does that scene in Simpsons ring true now. The ones with the kids crying stop stop hes already dead.

Yeah Lets go Asha save Xbox!!!! Huh where's her cheering section now?

Xbox 360 easily. At the time I was physical all the way if I had the choice. Of course for digital only titles like some of the XBLA games then yes of course got those digital. At the time too I wasnt sure about how digital games worked. Once Xbox One rolled around the convience of digital won out and with Series X I have gone digital all the way.

Well its the 4th of July and that mean 3 things, Barbecue, Fireworks and Jaws

Jaws Retro Edition (Switch) So I got a physical copy (See Sony people do buy phyiscal) a few months ago from LRG and so to go along with my annual watching of Jaws I will be playing starting this game. Jaws has a soft spot in my heart as its the second NES game I ever played. I am also curious to see what QoL improvements they made to this game.

Forza Horizon 6 (Series X) Will be doing the latest batch of seasonal objectives from the Festival Playlist.

@datamonkey Well to be honest the golden age of gaming ended long ago.

@Grumblevolcano Well of course she was. Phil Spencer wasnt going to and saw what Satya wanted and didnt agree with what he was doing so they got rid of him and brought Asha in.

Is Playstation and MS having a contest on who can piss off gamers more?

Microsoft Shareholder "Satya Sony just announce no more physical games"

Satya "Thats ok have Asha close down another studio, we will show Sony who can piss off gamers more!"

If Phil Spencer was still around I would say yes, with Asha though she likes to follow trends and not go against the grain so I will say that MS will follow suit. However though I can see MS releasing a disc drive add on similar to PCs but that will be used only for older Xbox games like backwards compatible 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series games. Maybe a few third parties like Limited Run Games will still do discs for Xbox but I cant see MS as a whole doing them.

@Weebleman I dont know give it like 20 years or so when the digital only generation cant do like the previous generations and go back and buy the stuff they grew up with. Imagine when the gen that is introduced to gaming because of the PS6 and then decides I want to buy my old games again.

Funny enough we are starting to see the demand of CDs and DVDs go up. Places like Target and Walmart said last holiday season that they saw a huge increase in sales for physical media.

@ZeD No cause they sell digital codes at places like Walmart and Best Buy.

As far as backlog goes I know what you mean I have over 200 games on my PS4 alone most of which I havent played yet so that alone will keep me busy for ahwile. Not only that but I have a few games on my Wii, Switch and several older consoles that I have yet to play so there's that too.

Well this is the finally nail in the coffin for me when it comes to modern gaming. With the recent price hikes on 5 year old consoles, pricing of the Next gen consoles, Microsoft going corporate more then ever I am just going to stick with my backlog and retro gaming. If I do modern gaming at all it will be PC and that will be from.GoG where I can make back ups of the digital games I purchase. It was a funny hobbies while it lasted but the corporate greed has ruined it.

Well I called it. When all those people were cheering on Asha and hailing her as some sort of savior. Where's those people now? Asha has finally showed her true colors.

R.I.P. Xbox 2001 - 2026.

@awp69 Anything to tell yourself its not Asha. Open your eyes this was why they replaced Phil Spencer with Asha.

Disgusting absolutely disgusting. They need to get Asha out of their immediately. She's closing down studios, raising prices. This is not for the Xbox fanbase this is for corporate greed pure and simple.

So you give away free consoles Asha for those that attend events but raise the price for everyone else, yeah thats how you run a brand and treat you consumers. Xbox is doing much better with you in charge. Stupid *****

And yet all I am hearing is how expensive its going to be Asha. You raised the price of the Series X/S so whats stopping you from releasing the Helix for even more. Yeah you say you are going to innovate to reduce the price but compared to what?? Reduce it from 2k to 1500? Reduce it from 800 to 500?

You ain't doing ***** for the consumers of your brand. What announce a couple of exclusives and exclusives that arent core to the Xbox IP like Halo or Fable is. But yet you're raising prices and closing studios. Yeah things are much better for Xbox with you instead of Phil. Worthless *****.

@Ecto-1 Its crazy at this point if you dont own a Series X or S you might as just wait for Project Helix to come out and pay a bit more for that then a 6 year old console.

I got my Series X back in December 2020 for $537 from Walmart.com. I was lucky enough to snag one after I got an alert on Twitter that Walmart.com was going to have some.

My Series S I got for a little bit over $300 when I happen to finally see it in stores in 2021.

@ZeD Right but as someone pointed out there are to many whales now in the gaming industry. Take GTA VI for example they are alot of people out there that no matter then price they will pay for it no matter what. More then likely what will happen sooner then a crash is that gaming will be come a rich person hobby like rebuilding cars or horse racing.

@NishimaruX Lol thats what came to mind actually well not Warhammer but TTRPGs in general. Its sad I can pick up for example the three books that most people say you need to play Dungeons and Dragons for around $200 or less. And I can enjoy that as much as video games. I dont need all the extras like maps and minis and there's a ton of free stuff out there like adventure that a person can get. So let's put that in perspective.

Console required to play games on $500 to $1349 depending on what you want to play. Vs a set of books required to play $150 to $200 and to be honest you dont even need the books they have free versions of the books or you can just make up your own.

To me video games companies feel like the rich kids thwt dont want anyone inferior to play with their shiny toys. A rich kids club kinda thing, which is a shame, and they are going to do whatever they can to keep others out. Imagine if music, or movies did that? These gaming companies are just getting to big and greedy now.

At this point I cant help but feel we are headed for another video game crash not due to poor quality this time but due to these corporations greed.

@ZeD Thats the way I feel. I cant justify paying something for a hobby that costs some people an entire months of rent. There are far less expensive hobbies out there. In fact I have made up my mind that unless prices come down on these next gen consoles, the Series X and Switch might be the last consoles I own. Luckily as you said I have plenty in the backlog plus I have several retro consoles with games on them as well.

@Fiendish-Beaver Thats the main reason I dont go on Push Square anymore the Sony fanboys are just outta controller there and the staff over their doesnt help, in fact I have seen alot of times they encourage it. As a result they environment there is to toxic and I dont need that in life.

Way to go Asha we are doing such a great job. Turn away people from Xbox and gaming in general. So glad you're in charge now.

Now her true colors show. All the stuff she was claiming to do was just smoke up our a$$e$ for this.

Is that just it though havent discs essentially become codes in boxes? You buy a physical copy you get the disc. You take said disc out install the game from the disc and never use the disc again and it just sits on a shelf collecting dust. I cant even remember the last time I bought a physical copy of a PC game.

Another long timer that doesnt fit in with Satya's vision of Xbox. Pretty sure that they will bring in another corporate shill who is just another mindless puppet for Satya to controll like they did when they sent Phil Spencer packing.

The problem isnt the pricing the fact is that these games are hacked and modded to all hell making it dangerous to play. Once you get into a modded lobbies you leave your self open to all kinds of infections its like going to a hooker convention.

MS needs to fix these servers and get rid of the hackers, and the only way to do that is create servers that are only Series X can connect which due to Backwards compatibility is not going to happen. They would have to due a remaster like they did with Modern Warfare Remastered.

I give it six months till they shut the servers down.

Not a whole lot.of gaming for me due to the World Cup. When I do get a spare moment I will be doing a few races and the seasonal objectives in Forza Horizon 6.

Honestly I only used auto drive on the city tours, and that just on the first part of them too. It sucks that idiots take a feature designed to give people a chance to play the game who wouldnt normally be able to and use it as an exploit. Honestly those people should get their accounts banned.

If it was the older CoDs then I would be upset but them delaying newer CoDs its no lost. I rather have a cheaper Gamepass let the kiddies pay the $60 dollars to play Fortnite's creepy uncle.

Well exclusive untill Satya says otherwise.