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Besides Nintendo made stuff, I don't think any other portable gaming device sold over 10M in a decent amount of time. The Vita did sell over 10M, but it took some years to cross that line

I never thought I'd see a game named Soup... I wonder what they'll think of next

I've been using my points to grow my OG Xbox and 360 library, so this may end up being good for my particular situation.
I don't mind the 90 day limit to use the $ because we should have some good sales around BF and Xmas

I wish we could stick with the previous price and leave CoD out of it

The Series S was my first Xbox. It's now become a great retro machine. The only thing that would make me consider a new Xbox console in the next few years is integration with GOG to be honest.

$30 per month? That's insane.
Might as well buy the games at this rate or even better, wait some time and buy them for $30 or less.

@Coletrain Spain here. I've got the same numbers as you

Edit: On top of that. Daily plays on PC and console were cut in half instead of doubled. Just getting 5 each now. At least the weekly hasn't changed (yet at least)
Playing Jewel is still 5 points.

Several of my Xbox360 games are not showing as owned anymore in the games menu. When I click on them I can play them, but they're not showing as purchased. Is anyone else having this issue?
I've tried restarting my Series S and even shutting it down completely for a few minutes. Nothing changed

I'm more likely to believe Sony will release their 1st party PS4 games on Switch 2, actually

What I'm certain is that...
If the remake is too close to the original, people will complain and blame Ubi for lack of creativity
If the remake is too far from the original, people will complain and blame Ubi for not respecting the OG
If the remake is anywhere in between, people will complain and blame Ubi for lack of vision

Hopefully there'll be something good for people outside North America.
Sadly, I've recently dropped from over 50k to now 19k points. I've got over 10 360 games though

@Lup I'm no DQ expert, but given the currently available ones, III would likely be your best bet.

I didn't expect this to come so soon after I&II, but I'm not complaining. I just hope at least some of the pacing issues have been addressed

I'm not sure both Zelda games should be excluded. It's got a new physical release for a new system.
By that metric, Forza on PS5 and LoU2 on PC should be removed as well.

@FraserG I believe all stores has issues handling this launch.

I currently fear for the dev team... drowing in all this money coming in at once

I dropped out of both Yooka games, but this reimagining seems to be addressing some of my issues. I'll check it out.

Mina the Hollower demo is amazing! I hope it also has 120fps on Series

I've just been on a retro shopping spree and got myself five 360 games

Rare Replay on a cartridge is a dream of mine

South of Midnight as well, please

@WildConcept6 XCOM is turn based.
Halo Wars is a great step into different gameplay for the series, but they could do so much more

The fact that Halo basically only has one spin-off series with just two games is criminal. There's so much they could do with it
I'd go crazy for a Halo XCOM type of game

I always rotate most of the games I have. Since I also play on Switch 2 and PS5, I usually have about 15 games (most retro ones) installed on my Series S (512GB) and I still have about 100GB free.

@TrollOfWar Thanks for the data. Always good to get a price on this sort of thing.
But I guess I wasn't clear enough. It's not about being profitable or not. It's about how profitable it is.
Example: Let's say it cost them $2M to port the game and $500k for marketing and the like. They technically need $2.5M to break even. But how much profit did they expect and how quickly? If they expected $20M in profit in the first quarter of sales, $10M in the first year, or $50M in six months, they are all vastly diffenrent scenarios and some can make the project be a success while others can make it seem like a failure.

I'll get neither right away. But I'll eventually only play the campaign and on that note, Battlefield will likely be the one I play first

I think Sony expected higher numbers on PC and that didn't happen.
I can see them making money with some games on Xbox, but I think they'd be fools to ignore the Switch 2. Like it or not, it's on track to surpass 100M. Something it seems Xbox will unfortunately never do.

@Trmn8r It's S-E... I'm just glad there isn't an equation on the title

@Banjo- I appreciate it, and I've done that, buuuuuut it's only a parcial list. Putting the email side by side with the store, shows a bunch of titles on sale missing, unfortunately.
Another issue is that since I moved I switched everything in my account to the new region, but the email still shows prices from the old one.
It would be an easy fix. Heck, even Nintendo has this on the Switch 2

It would be nice to have the option to filter the wishlist to have only games currently on sale.

I would love for the FF XIII trilogy to be on sale. I've been waiting for years and nothing

They sould get it 90% off and get some revenue before it's over. But...

@Kaloudz I hope so too. They did an amazing job that went beyond just their game. They will help shape future RPGs and that's no small feat

@Millionski Sure. There's was a leak from Insomniac a couple of years ago. They hacked and got a bunch of stuff from upcoming projects, emails, budgets, sales, etc.
Part of it was about 100M for licensing fees to Marvel, for a single game. If memory serves, that fee was high because of the exclusivity.
According to their numbers, the games were still highly profitable, but that's a really high fee indeed.

Great for Forza Horizon 5. It's a great game.
I wish Astro Bot sold better though. Such a fun game

@Kaloudz Sony pays 100M+ just to keep Spider-Man out of Xbox and Nintendo. And that was Miles Morales if I recall correctly.

Both Sony and MS announce games too early. Sony's E3 2015 was amazing because it had games releasing up to 2020. But that's the thing, they did eventually release. Even Concord saw the light of day, even if for just a couple of weeks.
But I'm gonna be sour about Perfect Dark for a good looooong while. And all these cancellations do have my confidence on a low setting about Xbox 1st party games actually coming out.
It's a shame that the gen I finally got an Xbox, it's going to be used mostly as a backwards compatibility machine + some periods of GPU

Maybe he should give Nintendo a call. It saved Bayonetta.

Lack of focus can be quite detrimental to a brand. Just ask SEGA.

@Gabrie I've seen a handful of physical games, but they never seem to go on sale. It's weird.
But the marketing is zero. No presence whatsoever. It's really weird

People can't claim the product failed for selling too little if it sold 100% of inventory

"Blood Message is a narrative-driven, linear action-adventure single-player game"
Already hoping this turns out great and sells well

@Decimateh I still have my physical version of WC2 from the 90s, but no way to actually play it. There's a website that emulates DOS games on it. Sometimes I drop by to play some WC and Carmen Sandiego

@Decimateh that would be a dream come true!

@themightyant On Xbox I don't have that comparison since the SS is my first. On PS I can say that I bought far more games on PS3 than PS4. PS5 is still quite recent, but it's on track to be on the a little lower than the PS4.

If the MSRP for GTA VI isn't $79.99 or higher, the whole world will be shocked

@NeoRatt You just proved my point. If defined terminology doesn't matter to someone, they'll just call what they wish. Now, I'll just play a cozy life sim called God of War Ragnarok

@themightyant I haven't bought as many as you and most I bought on Xbox Series were older and/or on sale. The only launch title I actually bought was Hogwarts Legacy.
But in terms of numbers, we're the exception, not the rule. The average of games bought per system on any system is surprisingly low.

@NeoRatt Part of the problem, I see, as people not caring about accurate representation. Just like port, remaster and remake. Which according to some people even on this website would mean that the amount of remakes is a surprisingly low number.

Let's use your Perfect Dark example. We have a 1st party owned IP being mainly developed by a 1st party studio with the support (key work, support) from a 3rd party. That's a first party game which can have the added description of having external support.

Let's suppose that Toys for Bob is making Spyro 4. MS owned IP, external studio. Second party.

Things get "complicated" because people start ignoring meaning. At that point, why bother. Just call Black Ops VII a JRPG, Doom an Animal Crossing clone, and the new Perfect Dark a spiritual successor to Superman 64.

Let me ask you this... Is Bayonetta 1st party for Nintendo?

@SMJ Ninja Gainden Dragon Sword for the DS was published by Ubisoft in Europe. So I'd guess it's also a Ubisoft title...
Ninja Gaiden is certainly getting around. We might own the IP as well and not even know it

@NeoRatt That would make it a 2nd party game. Just like the Zelda Oracle games and Minish Cap. 1st party IP, but developed by an external studio.

@FraserG So I guess words don't mean anything anymore in this industry. Ports/remasters/remakes and now 1st/2nd/3rd party.
Soon enough genres will mean nothing too.
"So, this is a first person shooters?"
"No, of course not. You play in first person and you shoot a lot, but we like to think of it as a traditional JRPG"

@trev666 and @Millionski I agree that at best it could be called second party

@NeoRatt I have. And since none of them are owned by MS, nor is the IP, they could have 50 studios working on it and it wouldn't change a thing.

I'm sorry, but why is Ninja Gaiden 4 being counted as 1st party? Xbox is the publisher, but not the developer.