@Cashews to be fair, when I made my comment, I was not talking about JRPGs, which seems to be all that people care about. I care about JRPGs but not that much as I’m bored of anime these days. But I was referring to western and cRPGs.
@Fiendish-Beaver that is the fault of the developer. When people say holding back they mean that the Series S is the cause why games can’t look better or perform better on the X and the PS5. As long as there are people making games for stuff that are worse than the S, that isn’t true.
Larian studio not optimizing for the S from the get go is not the S’ fault. They need to do better.
@BooBreaker There are some hits that are missing the console, but they're all JRPGs. Xbox has some others, not all, like the Trails series plus most western RPGs and cRPGs and a good lot of strategy games. Although some may still be considered niche, are still more mainstream than some JRPGs. So yeah, I think it is the home of RPGs.
You know what people will say in a few years? That the Switch Too is holding things back. We all know that thing is going to outsell the living daylights out of the PS5 and Series X, which will mean everyone, including a possibly independent Activision, will have to develop for it. And if what they said is true that it'll be weaker than a PS4 slightly, then expect PS4 games until 2031 as well.
Gamer hyperbole is scary, and needs to be warded from our own conclusions.
@fizban3332 The Series S is not holding anything back. Not as long as the most widely-used graphics card isn't even in the 20 series of graphics card. It's crazy how the media and fanboys (not saying you are one) have such a grip on how people think.
This is one of my big reasons for wanting ABK to go through. So that MS can get Toys for Bob to make a Banjo game, a Conker game and possibly a Viva Pinata?
Starting to have my doubts about ABK going through though, not gonna lie. The winds always tends to favor Sony for whatever reason, and that's what I'm starting to get here.
Anyway, dawg I'm looking forward to "to a T." I know it will be on GP, but I'm going to buy that day one. I recently fell in love with Katamari Damacy and I can't wait for this one. There are other additions that are awesome for me to try to beat while they're on Game Pass.
You can even ask Bamco how they like Game Pass. They name dropped the service when they were talking about how successful Scarlet Nexus was. It pissed Sony off.
Poor Jim is spewing hot air as usual. Just like how he said he believes in generations. Just like how he said he's not worried about Game Pass.
Just like how he said he wouldn't make a subscription service. Now it's I won't put my games there day one. You will soon, Jimbo.
Really, shoutouts to Bamco and Sega, who continue to be Xbox's best JP partners.
If Xbox is smart, they’d look at Tango and throw a huge bag of money their way and make them into a powerhouse of a studio. Make them into a studio that rivals the size of a small publisher. Have multiple teams within that studio.
But you know. That’s if theyre smart.
Also, write some love letters (laced in gold of course) to your old flame Mistwalker.
I like the myth of Japanese companies being hard to buy. Tell that to Zenimax who bought Tango Gameworks, the people who made HiFi Rush. Tell that to Saudi Arabia, who owns 96% of SNK. They also own… what 10% of the Big N? Tell that to China who owns shares of From and a bunch of other companies in Japan.
Here’s hoping that Sony buys them for absolutely nothing to change.
Lol. There’s really no benefit for Sony to buy a company that releases exclusive stuff for them anyhow. Every game they release disappoints them sales wise lol.
Little Jimmy decided sometime after the Bungie deal closed that screw it we should mess around with the deal. The obvious intent on Microsoft’s part is that they would renegotiate a deal that would reflect how the market looks at that time.
What Phil said the other day is that contingent upon Sony agreeing to have COD on Xbox, they will release on PlayStation. So nothing has changed. Good stuff, poor Jimmy.
It’s like he woke up and realized one day that his player base will be feeding the looming Game Pass machine. Or someone told him “hey you realize that with each COD on PS, Game Pass will get a ton of money right?”
How did you not know that on day one Jimbo? Oh well. Now he’s in Japan, and I’m sure Sony fans are hoping that he buys Square Enix or something. And… keeps the status quo? Lol. Square Enix is a cool company but a lame buy for Sony.
@Jaxx420 I hear you. I think an unseen and often unspoken aspect about what is going on now is the fact that the rest of the giants are watching with bated breath, circling Activision (if the deal falls through) and other publishers like sharks in infested waters. They want to know how to navigate through this this whole ordeal because they are going to buy similarly large companies. I forgot who it was between EA, Ubisoft, Take Two and the rest of the other big pubs, but someone expressed an interest in being acquired if there was a suitable offer, and Comcast, a huge and horrible Telecom company in the US expressed a desire to break into gaming by buying a pub, specifically Activision if the deal falls through.
This happened because Sony was a terrible market leader. I hope people remember this going forward. Someone had to stop Sony's borderline illegal practices and Microsoft were the ones that stepped up to the plate. The fact that it was Microsoft, and the fact that it was Activision that they wanted to acquire, who at that time seemed like an untouchable, too big to buy (coupled with Disney/Fox and Warner/Disco) sparked the interest of some very big companies that frankly have no business being in the game industry looking for ways to infiltrate and ruin it.
Sony has been a bad market leader. Instead of driving innovation, they've been complacent. Looking at what the competition is up to, and benefiting from their innovations, all the while making the same stale game over and over and relying on third parties to cover for their lack of talent. Microsoft just decided to buy the talent since it's being walled off from them (to make up for their lack of talent and to retain games on their system, lets not get anything twisted lol). It was a defensive measure that was heard across the waters by other more devious sharks. The gaming industry is bigger than the movie and music industry combined, and the companies that control those mediums have not even taken a whiff in that direction. Until now. The first domino to a truly awful gaming industry that we may not even recognize anymore is about to fall, and remember: Sony is to blame for this one.
@Kaloudz @Banjo- This will be my last comment until after the trial, then I will come back to this and the sister sites for one last time before peacing out forever. I did come here just to be a troll to those who would rather neigh than play.
But anyway, Microsoft and Nintendo have historically been congenial towards one another (you know, as much as two rival companies can be). Bethesda and Nintendo have historically been congenial towards one another as well.
You see what I'm saying here? If I were Microsoft, I would release my Bethesda titles on the Switch successor, which I'm fairly confident will be capable of running Starfield (if Todd and the team are even remotely thinking about the Steam Deck) and still exclude Sony.
I would punish them by literally releasing select Bethesda titles in the future on every platform but the PlayStation, since it will be true going forward that Microsoft is taking away from Nintendo games that could have conceivable appeared on their consoles.
That is risky though, because if they do that, people will demand a PlayStation port. And they might get the gov involved. I would point to their third party deals and keep it moving though. But Bethesda and Nintendo's communities have an overlap and it would suck to see that go away because of hyper-capitalism.
And to those who think it's unfair or that Microsoft is losing money: tough.
Use that same logic on PlayStation. They are losing a lot of money by not putting Spider-Man and God of War on Xbox. You guys don't realize how foolish your logic is. You are basically asking for a world in which there are no exclusives, yet that is what you pride your very existence on. You try to use anything to justify your cracked and flawed logic that you don't know what the hell you're saying anymore.
Rant over, I guess. What games will you guys be playing in the immediate future? I'm in an RPG kinda mood in anticipation of the release of Starfield and Avowed, so I've been playing RPGs lately. I plan to beat both Pillars games before Avowed comes out and I'll finish Soul Hackers 2 soon. I can't wait to play Persona 5 Tactica, as the Tactics genre is one of my favorites, going back to Shining Force 1-3.
There was a silly rumor going around earlier this year that said Ys 8 would finally be coming to Xboc, and on Game Pass, no less, so I've been waiting for that and eventually Ys 9 to come to Xbox as well. But NIS has a hate b***r for Xbox to this day. They released Raiden 3 and 4 on Xbox, but there was probably a mandate for that. In addition to their strained relationship with Square, they have to build one with NIS. I'll relent and get Ys 9 on PS5 and play it there. I already played and beat 8 on PS4. My favorite game on that console.
Peace.
Edit: I'll be here for a little while if you want to have a conversation, as a matter of fact.
@Kaloudz Lol. I worded that horribly, huh? What I meant was what will Sony fanboys, of which I am definitely not one, do when Microsoft eventually becomes number one in terms of revenue in the game industry. The metrics are changing and Sony is seeing that. It is no longer about console sales like the fans keep thinking.
I have been thoroughly enjoying this public whooping of the FTC and the outing of all the trashy things Sony has done. And yes, I do have a PS5. Sony needs their medicine though, and Microsoft has brought the prescription. Sony is about to start churning some generic games in the foreseeable future because of a need to retain players through Live content, which the rest of the industry saw half a decade ago. Only now, the audience is starting to tire of the model. Now is not the time to start churning out Live Service games. As usual, Sony is playing ketchup to Microsoft's A1.
And now, just as Sony uses Microsoft's games to diminish their presence in the game industry, Microsoft will use Sony's playerbase to bolster their library and increase their presence.
So, when Microsoft becomes number 1 in revenue, a metric Sony is starting to care about more and more over "console sales," how will the fans process this? The PS fanbase is my favorite because they are the most unironically and categorically insane.
Nintendo beats Xbox by a country mile when it comes to console sales as well, yet Microsoft makes more money in gaming than they do.
What will you do when the same is true of Sony? How will your brains process that eventuality? Sure, they'll sell more boxes, but they won't be top dog. How will you cope?
I mean, you can just go on like nothing in your lives has changed, but you won't.
Some people in here posting in bad faith. Call of Duty is going to go the same place that Minecraft, which was the biggest game in the world when it was bought, went. That is to say, every platform to this day, with each release in the franchise that followed.
Those who spew otherwise in here, who the hell are you trying to convince?
A lot of you just live on this site, with absolutely nothing better to do, despite the fact that you have the "superior" platform with thousands of exclusives.
Play those instead of hanging around here, chipping away at your empty souls. Jesus, save these people for real.
You'll be playing FF in a few days, desperately trying to enjoy it all the while the looming presence of Starfield has you dragging yourself back to the internet to port beg and bemoan every negative thing that goes on in your lives as being Xbox's fault.
Stellar Blade was canceled for Xbox after their first trailer. So cry me a river. It’s not equal, but the amount of Sony exclusivity in the industry more than makes up for Bethesda games.
I’ll get my surfboard for the absolute ocean of tears.
Good. Maybe next time, SOny would mind their own damn business like they should have from jump.
Now MS will get Activision AND look at Sony’s dealings and learn how to counter them. Whomp whomp.
Can’t wait for the Pony meltdown from this.
With this, MS will get more leverage and Sony will lose some among 3rd party publishers. Choice matters, and I’d like the choice to play games like Stellar Blade and FF on Xbox even though I have all consoles, but that’s been taken away from me.
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Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Aiming For 2023 Xbox Release, But Series S Version Still Needs More Work
@Cashews to be fair, when I made my comment, I was not talking about JRPGs, which seems to be all that people care about. I care about JRPGs but not that much as I’m bored of anime these days. But I was referring to western and cRPGs.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Aiming For 2023 Xbox Release, But Series S Version Still Needs More Work
@Fiendish-Beaver that is the fault of the developer. When people say holding back they mean that the Series S is the cause why games can’t look better or perform better on the X and the PS5. As long as there are people making games for stuff that are worse than the S, that isn’t true.
Larian studio not optimizing for the S from the get go is not the S’ fault. They need to do better.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Aiming For 2023 Xbox Release, But Series S Version Still Needs More Work
@BooBreaker There are some hits that are missing the console, but they're all JRPGs. Xbox has some others, not all, like the Trails series plus most western RPGs and cRPGs and a good lot of strategy games. Although some may still be considered niche, are still more mainstream than some JRPGs. So yeah, I think it is the home of RPGs.
JRPGs aren't the only kind of RPG.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Aiming For 2023 Xbox Release, But Series S Version Still Needs More Work
You know what people will say in a few years? That the Switch Too is holding things back. We all know that thing is going to outsell the living daylights out of the PS5 and Series X, which will mean everyone, including a possibly independent Activision, will have to develop for it. And if what they said is true that it'll be weaker than a PS4 slightly, then expect PS4 games until 2031 as well.
Gamer hyperbole is scary, and needs to be warded from our own conclusions.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Aiming For 2023 Xbox Release, But Series S Version Still Needs More Work
@fizban3332 The Series S is not holding anything back. Not as long as the most widely-used graphics card isn't even in the 20 series of graphics card. It's crazy how the media and fanboys (not saying you are one) have such a grip on how people think.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Aiming For 2023 Xbox Release, But Series S Version Still Needs More Work
Xbox continues to be the place for RPGs. Can't wait for this game, whenever it wants to release.
Re: As Banjo Kazooie Turns 25, Xbox Is Still Keeping Us Waiting For A Revival
This is one of my big reasons for wanting ABK to go through. So that MS can get Toys for Bob to make a Banjo game, a Conker game and possibly a Viva Pinata?
Starting to have my doubts about ABK going through though, not gonna lie. The winds always tends to favor Sony for whatever reason, and that's what I'm starting to get here.
Re: Multiple Games Announced For Xbox Game Pass At Annapurna Showcase 2023
Don't worry guys. Annapurna are nobodies.
Anyway, dawg I'm looking forward to "to a T." I know it will be on GP, but I'm going to buy that day one. I recently fell in love with Katamari Damacy and I can't wait for this one. There are other additions that are awesome for me to try to beat while they're on Game Pass.
Re: DayZ Publisher Shows Xbox Game Pass Some Love 'For No Particular Reason'
You can even ask Bamco how they like Game Pass. They name dropped the service when they were talking about how successful Scarlet Nexus was. It pissed Sony off.
Poor Jim is spewing hot air as usual. Just like how he said he believes in generations. Just like how he said he's not worried about Game Pass.
Just like how he said he wouldn't make a subscription service. Now it's I won't put my games there day one. You will soon, Jimbo.
Really, shoutouts to Bamco and Sega, who continue to be Xbox's best JP partners.
Re: Xbox Was Thinking About Acquiring Square Enix Back In 2019
If Xbox is smart, they’d look at Tango and throw a huge bag of money their way and make them into a powerhouse of a studio. Make them into a studio that rivals the size of a small publisher. Have multiple teams within that studio.
But you know. That’s if theyre smart.
Also, write some love letters (laced in gold of course) to your old flame Mistwalker.
Re: Xbox Was Thinking About Acquiring Square Enix Back In 2019
I like the myth of Japanese companies being hard to buy. Tell that to Zenimax who bought Tango Gameworks, the people who made HiFi Rush. Tell that to Saudi Arabia, who owns 96% of SNK. They also own… what 10% of the Big N? Tell that to China who owns shares of From and a bunch of other companies in Japan.
Keep telling yourself what you need to.
Re: Xbox Was Thinking About Acquiring Square Enix Back In 2019
Here’s hoping that Sony buys them for absolutely nothing to change.
Lol. There’s really no benefit for Sony to buy a company that releases exclusive stuff for them anyhow. Every game they release disappoints them sales wise lol.
Re: Here's The Email That Set Sony's 'Alarm Bells Ringing' Over Xbox ActiBlizz Deal
Little Jimmy decided sometime after the Bungie deal closed that screw it we should mess around with the deal. The obvious intent on Microsoft’s part is that they would renegotiate a deal that would reflect how the market looks at that time.
What Phil said the other day is that contingent upon Sony agreeing to have COD on Xbox, they will release on PlayStation. So nothing has changed. Good stuff, poor Jimmy.
It’s like he woke up and realized one day that his player base will be feeding the looming Game Pass machine. Or someone told him “hey you realize that with each COD on PS, Game Pass will get a ton of money right?”
How did you not know that on day one Jimbo? Oh well. Now he’s in Japan, and I’m sure Sony fans are hoping that he buys Square Enix or something. And… keeps the status quo? Lol. Square Enix is a cool company but a lame buy for Sony.
Re: Xbox Boss Promises To Keep Call Of Duty On PlayStation (Again)
@Jaxx420 I hear you. I think an unseen and often unspoken aspect about what is going on now is the fact that the rest of the giants are watching with bated breath, circling Activision (if the deal falls through) and other publishers like sharks in infested waters. They want to know how to navigate through this this whole ordeal because they are going to buy similarly large companies. I forgot who it was between EA, Ubisoft, Take Two and the rest of the other big pubs, but someone expressed an interest in being acquired if there was a suitable offer, and Comcast, a huge and horrible Telecom company in the US expressed a desire to break into gaming by buying a pub, specifically Activision if the deal falls through.
This happened because Sony was a terrible market leader. I hope people remember this going forward. Someone had to stop Sony's borderline illegal practices and Microsoft were the ones that stepped up to the plate. The fact that it was Microsoft, and the fact that it was Activision that they wanted to acquire, who at that time seemed like an untouchable, too big to buy (coupled with Disney/Fox and Warner/Disco) sparked the interest of some very big companies that frankly have no business being in the game industry looking for ways to infiltrate and ruin it.
Sony has been a bad market leader. Instead of driving innovation, they've been complacent. Looking at what the competition is up to, and benefiting from their innovations, all the while making the same stale game over and over and relying on third parties to cover for their lack of talent. Microsoft just decided to buy the talent since it's being walled off from them (to make up for their lack of talent and to retain games on their system, lets not get anything twisted lol). It was a defensive measure that was heard across the waters by other more devious sharks. The gaming industry is bigger than the movie and music industry combined, and the companies that control those mediums have not even taken a whiff in that direction. Until now. The first domino to a truly awful gaming industry that we may not even recognize anymore is about to fall, and remember: Sony is to blame for this one.
Re: Xbox Boss Promises To Keep Call Of Duty On PlayStation (Again)
@Kaloudz @Banjo- This will be my last comment until after the trial, then I will come back to this and the sister sites for one last time before peacing out forever. I did come here just to be a troll to those who would rather neigh than play.
But anyway, Microsoft and Nintendo have historically been congenial towards one another (you know, as much as two rival companies can be). Bethesda and Nintendo have historically been congenial towards one another as well.
You see what I'm saying here? If I were Microsoft, I would release my Bethesda titles on the Switch successor, which I'm fairly confident will be capable of running Starfield (if Todd and the team are even remotely thinking about the Steam Deck) and still exclude Sony.
I would punish them by literally releasing select Bethesda titles in the future on every platform but the PlayStation, since it will be true going forward that Microsoft is taking away from Nintendo games that could have conceivable appeared on their consoles.
That is risky though, because if they do that, people will demand a PlayStation port. And they might get the gov involved. I would point to their third party deals and keep it moving though. But Bethesda and Nintendo's communities have an overlap and it would suck to see that go away because of hyper-capitalism.
And to those who think it's unfair or that Microsoft is losing money: tough.
Use that same logic on PlayStation. They are losing a lot of money by not putting Spider-Man and God of War on Xbox. You guys don't realize how foolish your logic is. You are basically asking for a world in which there are no exclusives, yet that is what you pride your very existence on. You try to use anything to justify your cracked and flawed logic that you don't know what the hell you're saying anymore.
Rant over, I guess. What games will you guys be playing in the immediate future? I'm in an RPG kinda mood in anticipation of the release of Starfield and Avowed, so I've been playing RPGs lately. I plan to beat both Pillars games before Avowed comes out and I'll finish Soul Hackers 2 soon. I can't wait to play Persona 5 Tactica, as the Tactics genre is one of my favorites, going back to Shining Force 1-3.
There was a silly rumor going around earlier this year that said Ys 8 would finally be coming to Xboc, and on Game Pass, no less, so I've been waiting for that and eventually Ys 9 to come to Xbox as well. But NIS has a hate b***r for Xbox to this day. They released Raiden 3 and 4 on Xbox, but there was probably a mandate for that. In addition to their strained relationship with Square, they have to build one with NIS. I'll relent and get Ys 9 on PS5 and play it there. I already played and beat 8 on PS4. My favorite game on that console.
Peace.
Edit: I'll be here for a little while if you want to have a conversation, as a matter of fact.
Re: Xbox Boss Promises To Keep Call Of Duty On PlayStation (Again)
@Kaloudz Lol. I worded that horribly, huh? What I meant was what will Sony fanboys, of which I am definitely not one, do when Microsoft eventually becomes number one in terms of revenue in the game industry. The metrics are changing and Sony is seeing that. It is no longer about console sales like the fans keep thinking.
I have been thoroughly enjoying this public whooping of the FTC and the outing of all the trashy things Sony has done. And yes, I do have a PS5. Sony needs their medicine though, and Microsoft has brought the prescription. Sony is about to start churning some generic games in the foreseeable future because of a need to retain players through Live content, which the rest of the industry saw half a decade ago. Only now, the audience is starting to tire of the model. Now is not the time to start churning out Live Service games. As usual, Sony is playing ketchup to Microsoft's A1.
And now, just as Sony uses Microsoft's games to diminish their presence in the game industry, Microsoft will use Sony's playerbase to bolster their library and increase their presence.
So, when Microsoft becomes number 1 in revenue, a metric Sony is starting to care about more and more over "console sales," how will the fans process this? The PS fanbase is my favorite because they are the most unironically and categorically insane.
Re: Xbox Boss Promises To Keep Call Of Duty On PlayStation (Again)
@Banjo- Those people on that just like to rile up the echo chamber of undesirables. And they eat that crap up.
Re: Xbox Boss Promises To Keep Call Of Duty On PlayStation (Again)
To those who still care about consoles;
Nintendo beats Xbox by a country mile when it comes to console sales as well, yet Microsoft makes more money in gaming than they do.
What will you do when the same is true of Sony? How will your brains process that eventuality? Sure, they'll sell more boxes, but they won't be top dog. How will you cope?
I mean, you can just go on like nothing in your lives has changed, but you won't.
So, what will you do?
Re: Microsoft Is Literally Now Saying That Xbox Has 'Lost The Console Wars'
@Tharsman Gonna hafta arrest you for manslaughter.
I mean, didn't FFXVI just come out? Why the heck is he just here instead of playing that?
That's because fanboys aren't gamers.
Re: Major FTC Hearing Begins This Week With Microsoft & Activision CEOs In Attendance
Some people in here posting in bad faith. Call of Duty is going to go the same place that Minecraft, which was the biggest game in the world when it was bought, went. That is to say, every platform to this day, with each release in the franchise that followed.
Those who spew otherwise in here, who the hell are you trying to convince?
A lot of you just live on this site, with absolutely nothing better to do, despite the fact that you have the "superior" platform with thousands of exclusives.
Play those instead of hanging around here, chipping away at your empty souls. Jesus, save these people for real.
You'll be playing FF in a few days, desperately trying to enjoy it all the while the looming presence of Starfield has you dragging yourself back to the internet to port beg and bemoan every negative thing that goes on in your lives as being Xbox's fault.
Good luck trying to enjoy your hobby.
Re: Report: Redfall Was 'Immediately Cancelled' For PS5 Following Xbox Takeover
Stellar Blade was canceled for Xbox after their first trailer. So cry me a river. It’s not equal, but the amount of Sony exclusivity in the industry more than makes up for Bethesda games.
I’ll get my surfboard for the absolute ocean of tears.
Re: Xbox Takes Major Step Towards Activision Blizzard Approval In UK
Good. Maybe next time, SOny would mind their own damn business like they should have from jump.
Now MS will get Activision AND look at Sony’s dealings and learn how to counter them. Whomp whomp.
Can’t wait for the Pony meltdown from this.
With this, MS will get more leverage and Sony will lose some among 3rd party publishers. Choice matters, and I’d like the choice to play games like Stellar Blade and FF on Xbox even though I have all consoles, but that’s been taken away from me.