Whilst I sympathise with rumours, people are questioning the brand because of hard facts in the way they are changing their business and increasing their prices, in some cases directly contradicting their own statements. MS used to among the best at controlling the narrative, but something has changed.
@RetroMan71 Thats alright mate, no problem. He's miffed at MS behaviour and I understand, but maybe MS will go on a redemption arc and he can read it here first!
@RetroMan71 Why would he? This site won't survive if its just the few die hard xbox zealots left here. If you are a games player and you want to see what Xbox are up to, come here to pure. I dont think we need to push people away. My series X is now uninstalled and I'm looking to find someone to give it away to right now. But I have no intent to leave this site, and I'm still interested in the news and supporting Frazer and Ben. You could argue I've still got a PC. But a far better argument is that if 'everything is an Xbox', then everyone has business being on pure. More the merrier.
Ghost of Yotei has me entranced and I don't expect I'll play anything else for a while. Theres a new swiitch 2 in the house, but I'll leave it till my wifes birthday on 29th before we set that up. We are old now, but its still nice to get a suprise on the day!
Whatever you are playing, I hope you have a great weekend!
I was trying to pick an xbox title but, the last one I loved which I played on xbox was Indy, which is not this years! Wasnt keen on South of Midnight, but it should be right up there for art style.
Not finished it yet, but my fave this year is likely to be Ghost of Yotei. Loved Blue Prince this year too.
@Fiendish-Beaver
Usually about 4 or 5 feet (its a 48 inch LG C1).
Scaling that to the extra size of my main screen (65 inch), the ratios of how close to an image I am is roughly the same. You don't need to have brilliant eyes or sit close to a screen to see the trails on moving objects disappear as you increase frame rate.
There is a whole push in the PC space for fastest refresh rates on cards, on monitors and on GPU hardware to increase frame rates.This is happening because is provable fact that people notice it and its a better experience for gaming. Or does some random guy you have parroted from the internet have more sway for you than the entire tech industry and its research?
The push for resolution has moved to the adoption of newer AI upscalers, meaning that a GPU should only need to traditionally render to about 2K internally to output a fantastic quality output at the resolution required. This leaves the extra computational power that would have been spent trying to achieve 4K native to achieve steady and faster frame rates, rendering with RTAO, and I expect in the future some forms of path tracing in addition to excellent physics simulation, better AI and a million other things that I cant even imagine yet.
If you want to see what consoles may achieve in the very near future, take a look at those games which have been developed to use the hardware capabilities of the latest GPU's on PC. It's a shame that's very small proportion of titles, but that's because most PC players don't have that hardware. Once its base level of performance for a console, then all titles use it.
I know you're old, so am I, but the future of gaming tech is a lot more exciting than a random naysayer on the web tells you it will be and you should check you know your facts before spreading false statements imo!
Have a great day! 😊
Ive heard a lot from that source that never came to fruition, so Id definitely be a bit skeptical on the detail. However, their understanding of tech is excellent and its an interesting proposition to analyse and discuss. It seems to be a PC like system, which is good for my needs, so lets see how this unfolds!
@Tainted Sorry mate, its you who seem to read nothing except Xbox press releases. The whole gaming industry is speculating about the future of Xbox not just one person in this thread, and it's therefore not unusual to find people here who will speculate too. Do you actually read any gaming news or follow any gaming channels? Your responses lead me to believe you don't.
...and for the record, I would very much like them to produce something and not just badge someone else's product.
@Fiendish-Beaver The statement that we cant see past 60 fps is an urban myth and is easily disproved. Do the UFO test on a PC @120hz or above and tell me you cant notice it. I won't believe you. Quite apart from that, the resultant lack of lag playing at refresh rates above 60hz is also quite noticeable. Ask a competitive FPS player to play at just a 60hz refresh rate and they will look at you as if your mad. There's been plenty of tests I've seen showing how much quicker competition grade players react when they have much faster refresh rates. I don't get to play many games above 60Hz, but Forza 4 and 5 @4K 120hz is transformative (I have a good PC). Last time I checked I was still human! 😁
Lovely to see some growth for the team here, they are a great studio.
I won't be sold on Fable till we've seen some proper gameplay. Nice though it looked I wasn't convinced from the trailers we've seen that they have captured the 'essence' of what made Fable so great to me when the original released - but obviously I'm hoping that they do as I loved those early games and their 'quirkiness'.
Hard to see how they can go wrong with FH6, though I will only play it once it's on PS5 pro now that my Series X is mothballed. I have 4 & 5 on steam as well, so if there's a delay for a PS5 version I might play on PC for a change!
I do hope they revisit the way they handle progress to make it more rewarding, but I'll be all over it even if they learn nothing from FH5. I do love a good carpg! 😊
MS should continue to nurture this studio - it gets results.
I don't want one, but it's nonetheless a nice bit of kit even if it is silly expensive. I was a little underwhelmed by the software interface driving it, but I'm hoping that over time this will develop.
I hope this is true - the business is better off with Xbox hardware. But when you lie to your fanbase so much, people are gonna start questioning if anything you say is truth. Wasn't it just a week ago that Sarah Bond was telling us all how profitable Game Pass was? That was either an outright lie or the price rises are a huge price gouge. Either option kinda diminishes your trust in what these execs say anymore.
Its been a feature of ps plus extra for the last few years and that service is is less than half the cost. I doubt many players will be excited for this benefit, it just adds some raw numbers so the suits can have it on a slide in board meetings... Ive always enjoyed the totally daft 'trials' games, but I bought them for £2 a title some time ago. I hope someone finds some value, but its not much of a sweetener for the price increases. I uninstalled my series X and removed it yesterday. It made me sad but it sure looks neater under the telly with just switch and ps.
@Weebleman I was thinking exactly the same with South of Midnight the gameplay feeling rudimentary at best ( with some stand out boss battles). However the acting was decent and the soundtrack was great. Its a shame it doesnt stand a chance in its catagory against Expedition 33.
I thought this was great game and played it to conclussion when it was released. If you dislike open worlds with a million things to do marked on a map then avoid. For the rest of us its really good fun, but a little 'grindy' in late game. Its a cheap addition now, but still worthwhile..
@Markatron84 Lots of us saw it coming. I wrote on this very site saying so, but was routinely shouted down for doing so. The head of the FTC was routinely pilloried and accused of bias on this site, but was quite clearly correct to raise all the concerns that have now proven to be true.
'I was right' provides no satisfaction as I decommission my series x and mothball it.
Maybe there are those happy enough with what that purchase has done to xbox, but I suspect many more regret supporting that purchase now.
Thanks for posting the link.
@el_pieablo No mate, you should just be getting started! My wife is 52 and Im 61, but we both game passionately! Of course its up to you mate, but I would never stop doing something I enjoy because of what anyone else thinks, I expect they will be breaking a controller out of my hand as they pack me in the box! Its ok to be an older gamer and there are plenty of us 😃
@BattleMonkey Your quite right mate - $ £'s, they get easily confused, thanks for the correction.
I'm still not paying £276 a year either, but at least I'm quoting the correct figure! Still, that's only owning 4 full price titles instead of renting, rather than the 5 I originally stated, so its a decent difference.
If £276 every year to rent some titles is worth to you, go for it and I hope it brings you lots of value. I'd already dipped out of it at the previous price - its not for me, not a single game I'm interested in playing for months for me.
I wonder how long you will need to wait for a connection on this tier? Its not for me, but I hope its a viable solution for some who want to game on the cloud. Cant see I'll want to do anything but run my games on local hardware, but I guess all things change!
Unplugging the series x and mothballing it. For me, without game pass, its a dead machine and I would never pay £276 a year to rent a few titles - thats 4 full price games I could own for ever vs renting. I play a lot but I dont buy much more than 4 full price a year. What a shame.
I tend to play on ps5 anyway (my wife wont touch xbox controllers) and we have 2 pros, so the xbox was rarely used except for good game pass months. Its easier for me to kill it than many others because of this. Im geninely sorry for those that bought into the xbox ecosystem in a big way, you deserved better treatment imo.
I didnt renew 4 months ago, and this news means I never will. Thinking about removing my Series X from in front of the TV as without GP its a waste of space - its literally just a dust trap . Its sad that its come to this, but I don't trust MS one little bit and I won't buy into their ecosystem any more. To all those sticking with MS, I really hope they won't shaft you any further, the core Xbox players deserved so much more.
These games have been at bargain bucket prices for a long time. They have all been on the much cheaper PS plus service for years too. Pretending they are a 'massive Perk' is really quite ridiculous.
All of these games are available for a few quid. Hogwarts Legacy is probably the most expensive, and that was $11.32 in January this year. They have also been on PS plus extra for a very long time..
It's better and cheaper to own these than rent.
This doesn't excuse the ridiculous GP price increases in any way imo.
@Fiendish-Beaver You were quite clearly always right about GP. There are many on this site who just didnt want to hear it. I'm so sad for Xbox right now - they are being killed off and its quite clear it's intentional. Sad days.
What a shame. Game Pass used to be the very definition of a good value service. I've been concerned by the ever smaller number of releases, meaning there was less likely to be something I really wanted for some time, and its previous price was %50 more than PS plus premium, meaning you had to want the games a lot and not be someone who buys new titles to get the most benefit. I haven't subbed for the last 4 months as there were no titles that made it worth for me, but it now looks like I wont sub at all so my Series X remains purely as a machine to play the odd title I bought on Xbox (like Forza 4). There hardly seems to be a reason for me to have an Xbox at all any more... and I find that very sad for a brand I've been with since its first launch.
Its over on PS plus if anyone has both services. Id like to see this on game pass as it deserves the widest audience. Its a good game and clearly crafted with passion and skill..
Winter Burrow looks sweet and though I thought the reveal was dreadful, FH6 is well worth a wait.
Counting a free to play game as a gamepass game is pretty stupid and devalues the offering which has failed to be as impressive in the back end of the year as it was in the beggining.
I stopped my sub 4 months back and theres been precious little to attract me back since. Up till Summer 24 I had been a continuous GPU subscriber, but there are far less offerings now than there ever were, which means theres often little I want. I guess Im saving money, but it does dissappoint me, and makes me question why Im holding on to the series x at all.
What went wrong? Xbox shows have been good for some time now, but this was an E from me. FH6 reveal was such an anti climax telling us nothing.
It didnt even do a good job in building excitement for the rog handhelds?
The show should have run half that time and it would still have dragged.
Im glad for anyone who found titles to be excited for or was entertained, but I suspect they will be in the minority on this one. Oh well, we still have lots of good games to play.
Ill be in it for hundreds of hours im sure, but that was a lame reveal. No info to get excited about at all. Im really suprised as xbox are normally good with shows and reveals...
Why give shelf space to products that arent selling? It doesnt help that Microsoft have destroyed the brand and are going all in on windows, but if these units sold and made outlets a decent profit, shelves would not be being cleared. Its a trully sad demise and every single person who bayed for them to buy ABK brought this about. I hope their PCbox does well though. Their software buisness will be fine.
I loved the show, but then I mainly play on ps5 and I prefer to enjoy shows of games rather than not. Saros looks fantastic. I still rate Returnal as the best new IP this gen by far, so I guess that a sequal was always going to appeal, and they brought Wolverine to life with the character of the original comics rather than the awful films, so that looks as violent and interesting as I could have hoped. Crimson Dawn has always appealed, but I feared it might not deliver, but it looks like it may deliver all I wanted after all. Getting Alan Wake 2 on ps plus is real boon... I hadnt bought it yet. Micosoft flight sim will sell bucket loads Im sure, but having tried it on my series x, I know its not for me. Nioh 3 looks good, but as I really struggled with the first 2 I think I need to walk by. Last Epoch is looking good and gone immediately on the wish list. Delighted for another Gran Turismo free update. Battlefield 6 campaign stuff looked good enough I want to try it.
Several other little bits that I enjoyed too, but I cant remember all of them. Happy that Im excited for so much from the show, worked for me.
Nice review, thank you. Im very keen on picking this up. If anyone here rates skillup as a reviewer its worth watching his 30 minute review. He REALLY rates this title and is pretty good at explaining why.
@Kaloudz Sorry mate, no offence intended, I just thought you might be mid 30s or something and not been an adult player in a time when schumups and beatemups were pretty much 95% of games. Im glad we've moved on of course, but I'll always appreciate going back to this genre....
@Kaloudz I get that, if you are younger and didnt grow up with them, they must seem a strange genre. 45 years ago I was in Soho London playing the original schumups and pumping coins into the arcades, which is where you needed to be if you were a video game fan and needed a fix. For those of us who lived these times (and many who have discovered them since), schumups never die, its a simple concept you can still enjoy all this time later.
They are not selling anyway, so MS are not prepared to take any loss.It doesnt make sense to do so when youve already acknowledged you've lost that fight. They will continue to make good games and make a good buisness from this. I genuinely dont think they have a future for 'xbox', and want pure focus on windows gaming. Im dissappointed as its xbox I like, not Microsoft.
Love to see new games in this genre. I was around in the original days of the schumup, and still love to get the arcade stick out and have a schumup session, even if Im not so good anymore 😂 Love to see this on every format, though I intend to buy on PS as thats where I have a serious arcade stick. I hope it does well..
Love the weirdness and its an interesting look. But simply walking through a landscape is not 'gameplay' to me. There was a simple puzzle at the end of the sequence, but hardly anything to get excited for? Id like to know a bit more about what I'll be doing in this game other than walking about triggering pre animated sequances.. Im pretty sure the game will deliver, but you wouldn't guess it from this clip.
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Re: Xbox Says It 'Defines Success' By How Much Time Players Spend On The Platform
Nadella defines success in $, and no marketing mumbo jumbo will ever change that.
Re: Xbox Journalist Says Latest Rumours Are 'A Huge Challenge For The Brand Right Now'
Whilst I sympathise with rumours, people are questioning the brand because of hard facts in the way they are changing their business and increasing their prices, in some cases directly contradicting their own statements.
MS used to among the best at controlling the narrative, but something has changed.
Re: Xbox Adds Multiple Dynamic Backgrounds On Series X|S, Including A Few First-Party Additions
Love that keeper one! The others, not so much, but free is free and everyone has different tastes.😀
Re: Everwild Screenshots Leak Online Several Months After Xbox Cancellation
@RetroMan71 Thats alright mate, no problem. He's miffed at MS behaviour and I understand, but maybe MS will go on a redemption arc and he can read it here first!
Re: Everwild Screenshots Leak Online Several Months After Xbox Cancellation
@RetroMan71 Why would he? This site won't survive if its just the few die hard xbox zealots left here. If you are a games player and you want to see what Xbox are up to, come here to pure. I dont think we need to push people away.
My series X is now uninstalled and I'm looking to find someone to give it away to right now. But I have no intent to leave this site, and I'm still interested in the news and supporting Frazer and Ben.
You could argue I've still got a PC. But a far better argument is that if 'everything is an Xbox', then everyone has business being on pure. More the merrier.
Re: Everwild Screenshots Leak Online Several Months After Xbox Cancellation
This was the biggest loss for me. From the little we know, this title looked like it would tick a lot of boxes for me, so its sad to see it die.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 11-12)
Ghost of Yotei has me entranced and I don't expect I'll play anything else for a while.
Theres a new swiitch 2 in the house, but I'll leave it till my wifes birthday on 29th before we set that up. We are old now, but its still nice to get a suprise on the day!
Whatever you are playing, I hope you have a great weekend!
Re: Talking Point: As We Approach GOTY Season, What's Your Pick As Things Stand?
I was trying to pick an xbox title but, the last one I loved which I played on xbox was Indy, which is not this years! Wasnt keen on South of Midnight, but it should be right up there for art style.
Not finished it yet, but my fave this year is likely to be Ghost of Yotei. Loved Blue Prince this year too.
Re: AMD's Partnership On PS6 Will Benefit 'Every Gaming Platform', Says General Manager
@Fiendish-Beaver
Usually about 4 or 5 feet (its a 48 inch LG C1).
Scaling that to the extra size of my main screen (65 inch), the ratios of how close to an image I am is roughly the same. You don't need to have brilliant eyes or sit close to a screen to see the trails on moving objects disappear as you increase frame rate.
There is a whole push in the PC space for fastest refresh rates on cards, on monitors and on GPU hardware to increase frame rates.This is happening because is provable fact that people notice it and its a better experience for gaming. Or does some random guy you have parroted from the internet have more sway for you than the entire tech industry and its research?
The push for resolution has moved to the adoption of newer AI upscalers, meaning that a GPU should only need to traditionally render to about 2K internally to output a fantastic quality output at the resolution required. This leaves the extra computational power that would have been spent trying to achieve 4K native to achieve steady and faster frame rates, rendering with RTAO, and I expect in the future some forms of path tracing in addition to excellent physics simulation, better AI and a million other things that I cant even imagine yet.
If you want to see what consoles may achieve in the very near future, take a look at those games which have been developed to use the hardware capabilities of the latest GPU's on PC. It's a shame that's very small proportion of titles, but that's because most PC players don't have that hardware. Once its base level of performance for a console, then all titles use it.
I know you're old, so am I, but the future of gaming tech is a lot more exciting than a random naysayer on the web tells you it will be and you should check you know your facts before spreading false statements imo!
Have a great day! 😊
Re: Xbox 'Magnus' Leak Suggests Next Console Will Be Powerful, Expensive & Maybe A Hybrid Device
@FraserG Yeah Phil has never uttered anything that wasnt correct has he?
Phil doesnt run this show anymore and we all know it..
Re: Xbox 'Magnus' Leak Suggests Next Console Will Be Powerful, Expensive & Maybe A Hybrid Device
Ive heard a lot from that source that never came to fruition, so Id definitely be a bit skeptical on the detail.
However, their understanding of tech is excellent and its an interesting proposition to analyse and discuss. It seems to be a PC like system, which is good for my needs, so lets see how this unfolds!
Re: AMD's Partnership On PS6 Will Benefit 'Every Gaming Platform', Says General Manager
@Tainted Sorry mate, its you who seem to read nothing except Xbox press releases. The whole gaming industry is speculating about the future of Xbox not just one person in this thread, and it's therefore not unusual to find people here who will speculate too.
Do you actually read any gaming news or follow any gaming channels? Your responses lead me to believe you don't.
...and for the record, I would very much like them to produce something and not just badge someone else's product.
Re: AMD's Partnership On PS6 Will Benefit 'Every Gaming Platform', Says General Manager
@Fiendish-Beaver The statement that we cant see past 60 fps is an urban myth and is easily disproved. Do the UFO test on a PC @120hz or above and tell me you cant notice it. I won't believe you.
Quite apart from that, the resultant lack of lag playing at refresh rates above 60hz is also quite noticeable. Ask a competitive FPS player to play at just a 60hz refresh rate and they will look at you as if your mad. There's been plenty of tests I've seen showing how much quicker competition grade players react when they have much faster refresh rates.
I don't get to play many games above 60Hz, but Forza 4 and 5 @4K 120hz is transformative (I have a good PC). Last time I checked I was still human! 😁
Re: Supermarket Simulator Is Shadow Dropping Today On Xbox Game Pass (October 8)
Oh no...quick, lets re subscribe... 😂
Weird as it is to me, I know some people will enjoy this, so happy shelf stacking I guess!
Re: Xbox's Playground Games Grew Substantially In 2024 To Prepare For Fable & Forza Horizon 6
Lovely to see some growth for the team here, they are a great studio.
I won't be sold on Fable till we've seen some proper gameplay. Nice though it looked I wasn't convinced from the trailers we've seen that they have captured the 'essence' of what made Fable so great to me when the original released - but obviously I'm hoping that they do as I loved those early games and their 'quirkiness'.
Hard to see how they can go wrong with FH6, though I will only play it once it's on PS5 pro now that my Series X is mothballed. I have 4 & 5 on steam as well, so if there's a delay for a PS5 version I might play on PC for a change!
I do hope they revisit the way they handle progress to make it more rewarding, but I'll be all over it even if they learn nothing from FH5. I do love a good carpg! 😊
MS should continue to nurture this studio - it gets results.
Re: Seven Games Tested On ROG Xbox Ally X In 45 Minutes Of Impressive Pre-Release Footage
I don't want one, but it's nonetheless a nice bit of kit even if it is silly expensive.
I was a little underwhelmed by the software interface driving it, but I'm hoping that over time this will develop.
Re: Pick One: Which Is Your Favourite Double Fine Game On Xbox?
Day of the tentacle. Loved it back in the day!
Re: Xbox Issues Statement Denying Rumour That Next-Gen Console Could Be Cancelled
I hope this is true - the business is better off with Xbox hardware.
But when you lie to your fanbase so much, people are gonna start questioning if anything you say is truth.
Wasn't it just a week ago that Sarah Bond was telling us all how profitable Game Pass was? That was either an outright lie or the price rises are a huge price gouge. Either option kinda diminishes your trust in what these execs say anymore.
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Ubisoft+ Classics Being Added To Game Pass Ultimate?
Its been a feature of ps plus extra for the last few years and that service is is less than half the cost. I doubt many players will be excited for this benefit, it just adds some raw numbers so the suits can have it on a slide in board meetings...
Ive always enjoyed the totally daft 'trials' games, but I bought them for £2 a title some time ago.
I hope someone finds some value, but its not much of a sweetener for the price increases.
I uninstalled my series X and removed it yesterday. It made me sad but it sure looks neater under the telly with just switch and ps.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 4-5)
Ghost of Yotei. Im realy enjoying it.
Whatever your playing, have fun!
Re: Xbox Game Studios Titles Up For Several Awards At Golden Joysticks 2025
@Weebleman I was thinking exactly the same with South of Midnight the gameplay feeling rudimentary at best ( with some stand out boss battles). However the acting was decent and the soundtrack was great. Its a shame it doesnt stand a chance in its catagory against Expedition 33.
Re: Talking Point: So, Have You Tried Out Hogwarts Legacy On Xbox Game Pass Yet?
I thought this was great game and played it to conclussion when it was released.
If you dislike open worlds with a million things to do marked on a map then avoid. For the rest of us its really good fun, but a little 'grindy' in late game.
Its a cheap addition now, but still worthwhile..
Re: Here's Your First Proper Look At The 'Premium Case' For The ROG Xbox Ally
Rediculous that the huge price doesnt include a case. This one seems particularly expensive - xbox are price gouging on all cylinders.
Re: Poll: What Are Your Plans For Xbox Game Pass After This Week's News?
@Markatron84 Lots of us saw it coming. I wrote on this very site saying so, but was routinely shouted down for doing so. The head of the FTC was routinely pilloried and accused of bias on this site, but was quite clearly correct to raise all the concerns that have now proven to be true.
'I was right' provides no satisfaction as I decommission my series x and mothball it.
Maybe there are those happy enough with what that purchase has done to xbox, but I suspect many more regret supporting that purchase now.
Thanks for posting the link.
Re: Poll: What Are Your Plans For Xbox Game Pass After This Week's News?
@el_pieablo No mate, you should just be getting started! My wife is 52 and Im 61, but we both game passionately!
Of course its up to you mate, but I would never stop doing something I enjoy because of what anyone else thinks, I expect they will be breaking a controller out of my hand as they pack me in the box! Its ok to be an older gamer and there are plenty of us 😃
Re: Poll: What Are Your Plans For Xbox Game Pass After This Week's News?
@BattleMonkey Your quite right mate - $ £'s, they get easily confused, thanks for the correction.
I'm still not paying £276 a year either, but at least I'm quoting the correct figure! Still, that's only owning 4 full price titles instead of renting, rather than the 5 I originally stated, so its a decent difference.
If £276 every year to rent some titles is worth to you, go for it and I hope it brings you lots of value. I'd already dipped out of it at the previous price - its not for me, not a single game I'm interested in playing for months for me.
Re: Microsoft Set To Announce 'Free' Xbox Cloud Gaming Tier With Ads
I wonder how long you will need to wait for a connection on this tier?
Its not for me, but I hope its a viable solution for some who want to game on the cloud.
Cant see I'll want to do anything but run my games on local hardware, but I guess all things change!
Re: Xbox May Have Accidentally Leaked Mortal Kombat 1 For Game Pass
Its already on ps plus at 33% of gp price, so I dont see this as a big addition.... or have I missed something?
Edit: I should really read other comments before replying. Sorry Im parrotting earlier posts, doh!
Re: Poll: What Are Your Plans For Xbox Game Pass After This Week's News?
Unplugging the series x and mothballing it. For me, without game pass, its a dead machine and I would never pay £276 a year to rent a few titles - thats 4 full price games I could own for ever vs renting. I play a lot but I dont buy much more than 4 full price a year. What a shame.
I tend to play on ps5 anyway (my wife wont touch xbox controllers) and we have 2 pros, so the xbox was rarely used except for good game pass months. Its easier for me to kill it than many others because of this. Im geninely sorry for those that bought into the xbox ecosystem in a big way, you deserved better treatment imo.
Edit: adjusted as I quoted wrong prices...
Re: Poll: What Are Your Plans For Xbox Game Pass After This Week's News?
I didnt renew 4 months ago, and this news means I never will.
Thinking about removing my Series X from in front of the TV as without GP its a waste of space - its literally just a dust trap .
Its sad that its come to this, but I don't trust MS one little bit and I won't buy into their ecosystem any more.
To all those sticking with MS, I really hope they won't shaft you any further, the core Xbox players deserved so much more.
Re: 'Ubisoft+ Classics' Joins Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Hugely Expanding The Library
These games have been at bargain bucket prices for a long time.
They have all been on the much cheaper PS plus service for years too.
Pretending they are a 'massive Perk' is really quite ridiculous.
Re: 40+ Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (October 1)
All of these games are available for a few quid. Hogwarts Legacy is probably the most expensive, and that was $11.32 in January this year. They have also been on PS plus extra for a very long time..
It's better and cheaper to own these than rent.
This doesn't excuse the ridiculous GP price increases in any way imo.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Is Getting A Major Overhaul With New Names, Games & Price Changes
@Fiendish-Beaver You were quite clearly always right about GP. There are many on this site who just didnt want to hear it.
I'm so sad for Xbox right now - they are being killed off and its quite clear it's intentional. Sad days.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Is Getting A Major Overhaul With New Names, Games & Price Changes
What a shame. Game Pass used to be the very definition of a good value service.
I've been concerned by the ever smaller number of releases, meaning there was less likely to be something I really wanted for some time, and its previous price was %50 more than PS plus premium, meaning you had to want the games a lot and not be someone who buys new titles to get the most benefit.
I haven't subbed for the last 4 months as there were no titles that made it worth for me, but it now looks like I wont sub at all so my Series X remains purely as a machine to play the odd title I bought on Xbox (like Forza 4). There hardly seems to be a reason for me to have an Xbox at all any more... and I find that very sad for a brand I've been with since its first launch.
Re: Report: AAA The Lord Of The Rings Game In Development With Third-Person Gameplay
Great IP. Hope the game will do it justice...
Re: Ubisoft Might Be Bringing Prince Of Persia To Xbox Game Pass Soon
Its over on PS plus if anyone has both services.
Id like to see this on game pass as it deserves the widest audience. Its a good game and clearly crafted with passion and skill..
Re: Three Games Announced For Game Pass At Xbox TGS 2025 Showcase
Winter Burrow looks sweet and though I thought the reveal was dreadful, FH6 is well worth a wait.
Counting a free to play game as a gamepass game is pretty stupid and devalues the offering which has failed to be as impressive in the back end of the year as it was in the beggining.
I stopped my sub 4 months back and theres been precious little to attract me back since. Up till Summer 24 I had been a continuous GPU subscriber, but there are far less offerings now than there ever were, which means theres often little I want. I guess Im saving money, but it does dissappoint me, and makes me question why Im holding on to the series x at all.
Re: ROG Xbox Ally Prices Finally Revealed, Pre-Orders Now Live
No need for handheld, no intrest in windows gaming rather than a console. Definitely not for me.
Re: Poll: How Would You Grade Xbox's Tokyo Game Show 2025 Event?
What went wrong? Xbox shows have been good for some time now, but this was an E from me. FH6 reveal was such an anti climax telling us nothing.
It didnt even do a good job in building excitement for the rog handhelds?
The show should have run half that time and it would still have dragged.
Im glad for anyone who found titles to be excited for or was entertained, but I suspect they will be in the minority on this one. Oh well, we still have lots of good games to play.
Re: Roundup: All The Reveals From The Xbox Showcase At Tokyo Game Show 2025
I was going to pick FH6 as the highlight, but it was pretty poor. No footage not even an explanation of what they are aiming for!
I guess the highlight for me is that theres lots more rpg on xbox, even if most seem to be remakes, I'll take that!
Re: Forza Horizon 6 Heads To Japan In 2026, Day One On Xbox Game Pass
Ill be in it for hundreds of hours im sure, but that was a lame reveal. No info to get excited about at all.
Im really suprised as xbox are normally good with shows and reveals...
Re: Dynasty Warriors 3 Gets An Unreal Engine 5 Remaster On Xbox In March 2026
I know they are an acquired taste, but Ive always enjoyed these games and I'll be happy to buy this one on release 😃
Re: Major Retailer Seemingly Clearing Out Xbox Series Stock In Certain Regions Right Now
Why give shelf space to products that arent selling? It doesnt help that Microsoft have destroyed the brand and are going all in on windows, but if these units sold and made outlets a decent profit, shelves would not be being cleared.
Its a trully sad demise and every single person who bayed for them to buy ABK brought this about.
I hope their PCbox does well though. Their software buisness will be fine.
Re: Roundup: All The Xbox Reveals From September 2025's State Of Play
I loved the show, but then I mainly play on ps5 and I prefer to enjoy shows of games rather than not.
Saros looks fantastic. I still rate Returnal as the best new IP this gen by far, so I guess that a sequal was always going to appeal, and they brought Wolverine to life with the character of the original comics rather than the awful films, so that looks as violent and interesting as I could have hoped.
Crimson Dawn has always appealed, but I feared it might not deliver, but it looks like it may deliver all I wanted after all.
Getting Alan Wake 2 on ps plus is real boon... I hadnt bought it yet.
Micosoft flight sim will sell bucket loads Im sure, but having tried it on my series x, I know its not for me.
Nioh 3 looks good, but as I really struggled with the first 2 I think I need to walk by.
Last Epoch is looking good and gone immediately on the wish list.
Delighted for another Gran Turismo free update.
Battlefield 6 campaign stuff looked good enough I want to try it.
Several other little bits that I enjoyed too, but I cant remember all of them. Happy that Im excited for so much from the show, worked for me.
Re: Review: Silent Hill F (Xbox) - A New Front For Konami As Silent Hill Makes Its Return
Nice review, thank you.
Im very keen on picking this up. If anyone here rates skillup as a reviewer its worth watching his 30 minute review. He REALLY rates this title and is pretty good at explaining why.
Re: Earthion Has Finally Arrived On Xbox, And It's One Of The Best-Rated Games Of 2025
@Kaloudz Sorry mate, no offence intended, I just thought you might be mid 30s or something and not been an adult player in a time when schumups and beatemups were pretty much 95% of games.
Im glad we've moved on of course, but I'll always appreciate going back to this genre....
Re: Earthion Has Finally Arrived On Xbox, And It's One Of The Best-Rated Games Of 2025
@Kaloudz I get that, if you are younger and didnt grow up with them, they must seem a strange genre.
45 years ago I was in Soho London playing the original schumups and pumping coins into the arcades, which is where you needed to be if you were a video game fan and needed a fix. For those of us who lived these times (and many who have discovered them since), schumups never die, its a simple concept you can still enjoy all this time later.
Re: Microsoft Announces New Price Increases For Xbox Series X|S In The US
They are not selling anyway, so MS are not prepared to take any loss.It doesnt make sense to do so when youve already acknowledged you've lost that fight.
They will continue to make good games and make a good buisness from this. I genuinely dont think they have a future for 'xbox', and want pure focus on windows gaming.
Im dissappointed as its xbox I like, not Microsoft.
Re: Earthion Has Finally Arrived On Xbox, And It's One Of The Best-Rated Games Of 2025
Love to see new games in this genre. I was around in the original days of the schumup, and still love to get the arcade stick out and have a schumup session, even if Im not so good anymore 😂
Love to see this on every format, though I intend to buy on PS as thats where I have a serious arcade stick.
I hope it does well..
Re: Here's Some Direct Gameplay From Double Fine's New Xbox Exclusive Keeper
Love the weirdness and its an interesting look.
But simply walking through a landscape is not 'gameplay' to me. There was a simple puzzle at the end of the sequence, but hardly anything to get excited for? Id like to know a bit more about what I'll be doing in this game other than walking about triggering pre animated sequances..
Im pretty sure the game will deliver, but you wouldn't guess it from this clip.