Easily the biggest and important game released on Xbox the past 6 months.... and it peaks at 9th. And you call that impressive too?????
Oh dear. I'd hate to see what you call mid or unimpressive lol. It's misinforming drivel like this that got the Xbox console and storefront to the position its in today.... the toilet.
Is it still the awful series s versions of games that are only being streamed to you on it...... not at 4K, with horrendous input lag ..... and terrible long queues.... none of which are problems on Nvidia or PlayStation Cloud gaming?
Hahaha WOW. How would that even be worth the money to port? NOBODY is buying Avowed lol. There are things that 20 year old Oblivion did that this game can't manage in its static, people frozen in one spot, boring world........... and people give out about TES' engine and capabilities. Obsidian have such a knack for mediocrity lately. I say lately but mediocre, unimpressive, short, Avowed took SIX YEARS TO MAKE.
@EvenStephen7 Exactly. I bet the news is simply that all 30 or so Xbox original games will be added to game pass ultimate, like they all should be already. But it will be after another price hike by late 2026, probably multiple price hikes, so it will sting more regardless.
Yep and this is why Forza Horizon 6 had to be officially confirmed going to PS5 at its announcement. Would anybody be shocked if Xbox changed their minds next week, for the 5 millionth time and bumped up the PS5 release date from a few weeks to simply day one with the PC version?
Console sales matter. They mattered in 1995 and they matter in 2025 and no mental gymnastics from an Xbox fanboy Youtube channel is ever going to change that.
@Tasuki Its 700 360 games and 30 Xbox original games lol, its not the entire library but you can pretend its all the games you have.
So Sony should do what Xbox did this gen and NOT add the 800 PSVR1 games that run on PS5 including the PS Move controller (like the way they cut off Kinect support so it can't even play all of Xbone's games)??? Why should Sony do that???
So long as they never turn off the those servers. Shame they couldn't even add full BC with the previous console yet again since Kinect 2.0 has zero support on series s/x. Its still something Xbox has never pulled off to date.
@Amin1998 Remember 2 days before the reveal he tweeted about being excited for everyone to see it (deleted tweet now).
The gameplay reveal went on to be the biggest downfall of the franchise (it was delayed only less than 2 werks later) and it has yet to recover from it. How does he keep doing that with his games, especially when he set up the studio and was in charge 7 years before that point? People say he is a gamer but he is tone deaf if he thought that abysmal looking reveal would impress anybody.
And remember everyone, any second or cent spent on development for Infinite is resources taken from other projects, ANY other projects much like the problem with Fallout 76's hemorrhaging continued existence.
No I think the series s version will continue to cause all the problems it is and they will pull a Larian with it and have to make slimy Phil scramble and make a decision again.
@Rodimusprime13 There will be no "series 2". Don't you get this? Who will buy it when their games are available everywhere going forward, much like how all their games were on PC day one at the start of this gen? Nintendo pushed out a Switch 2.............because its time for them to put out a new console. A reminder, Switch 1 sales are still annihilating Xbox console sales. How would Xbox be pushing out a new "console" in the same way like Switch 2? Pushing it out to double/triple sales of series s and x which still is very little???
@SodaPop6548 Also when folks go to take a crap and scroll Tiktok for 5 mins its killing Xbox.......... well according to Xbox lol (although Shawn Layden said it a year ago and intelligent people laughed at that statement then too and it DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING again when Xbox states the same dumb statement).
Imagine having to clarify something like that but then doing it with no substantial evidence to prove it isn't dead lol.
In case you aren't aware, the "Xbox Boss" we are talking about in particular in this context is the myth, the man, the legend, deathbringer of Xbox for a decade straight, Phil Slimy Spencer himself.
Yeah, Forza Motorsport is STONE DEAD and its INSANITY to take anything this man says as truth.
@OldGamer999 Maintaining quality??? Yet Yotei will very likely be getting nominated overall game of the year. Ask yourself, and just be honest now, how many GOTY awards will Avowed be nominated for? If you said anything above zero, you are lying to yourself.
@HeavyHoggJP But it doesn't get them within a year. This time last year Starfield wasn't on any other tier but Ultimate. Right now Hellblade 2, released nearly a year and a half ago, is not on anything but Ultimate.
Its just an endless echo chamber of assumption and then misinformation, when it comes to anything Xbox.
Imagine waiting the entire gen on the promise in 2020 that Fable was coming so you should buy a series x and s. And game pass, or the game pass "tier" that Fable will only be available on now, the most expensive one, is 30 quid a month now............... before Fable even got a release date to this day.
This is why I was laughing at people saying "But but but but the roadmap". What about the roadmap? What does that even matter today? Look at what Xbox has been doing to itself the past decade under slimy Phil.
The ONLY consistent master plan Xbox initiated the past decade......is just how slow they are taking this band aid off so that their hardcore fans can easily digest all these horrendous decisions one week at a time......and then calm down their followers, the Cope Eastwoods and OhNoItsXbot people out there.
For the people saying they are suddenly done with Xbox NOW? Why now?
@somnambulance How could it be? When has an Xbox showcase ever been better? What are the specific parameters you need to set to make this a reality "I hope Xbox show a new controller for the 20th time this year" and that's all you need? This time last year in 2024 FF7 Remake being shadow dropped at TGS was going to win everything. It didn't even make it in 2025 lol. Of course, the parameters shifted instantly again.
Slimy Phil, the destroyer of Xbox consoles, is going to show his hated face. There is one definite thing that is going to happen, you can have that one.
@Ricky-Spanish Every Gears game literally copy and pasted animations directly from Gear 1 and 2 to each game. Even the brand new enemy in Gears 4 and 5 uses the exact same animations. Literally 1 to 1, even a maimed enemy crawling away uses the exact same 13 year old last gen animation in Grars 5.
@Kaloudz The showcase for once made sense. If there are NO release dates for Everwild, State of Decay 3, Fable, Perfect Dark after half a decade already......... then for goodness sake, don't show them. What would be the point???
I agree with it launching elsewhere too though. But why would Gears E Day launching on a new PC "Xbox" thingy be important when its available to play, the same day, on normal PCs and specialised other consoles with unique architecture like PS5 and actual Xbox consoles too like the series consoles?
Glad I didn't buy it but then I would never pay over a tenner for a game that is available digital only regardless. Game would have sold even better if it had a physical release.
@x3King84 No it wouldn't. Nobody is askimg Halo Infinite. Or are they going to start up thart 10 year plan that was abandoned after a 1.5 years???
The millions of people that abandoned Xbox the past 15 years want te classic good Halo games and nothing more. I don't, Bungie is overated and trash. I didn't like the cartoony Halo games 2 decades ago and I don't now either. Halo Infinite is a perfect example of a dead failure Live Service game. Xbox does them too.
@NeoRatt They are a 3rd party publisher. Why would a 3rd party publisher cannibalise their own sales?
They are doing this because after 4 and a half years, series x hasn't even passed 7 million sales, it isnt from the goodness of their hearts, I'm afraid.
Surely putting the price up on series x will help lol?
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Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Off To Impressive Start In The 'Top Paid' Xbox Charts
Easily the biggest and important game released on Xbox the past 6 months.... and it peaks at 9th. And you call that impressive too?????
Oh dear. I'd hate to see what you call mid or unimpressive lol. It's misinforming drivel like this that got the Xbox console and storefront to the position its in today.... the toilet.
Re: Microsoft Unveils New Dashboard For Xbox Cloud Gaming On The Web
Is it still the awful series s versions of games that are only being streamed to you on it...... not at 4K, with horrendous input lag ..... and terrible long queues.... none of which are problems on Nvidia or PlayStation Cloud gaming?
Re: Talking Point: Will The Next Xbox Console Be Revealed In 2026?
Nope but a PC running Windows might get announced.
Re: Roundup: The First Reviews Are In For Final Fantasy 7 Remake On Xbox Series X
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Re: I've Never Played Final Fantasy 7 Before, But I'm Liking The Remake On Xbox So Far
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Re: Forza Horizon 5 PS5 Sales Beat Sony's Biggest 2025 Exclusive In Europe, Other Xbox Games Make Top 20
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Re: Avowed Releases For PS5 Alongside Free 'Anniversary Update' On Xbox This February
Hahaha WOW. How would that even be worth the money to port? NOBODY is buying Avowed lol. There are things that 20 year old Oblivion did that this game can't manage in its static, people frozen in one spot, boring world........... and people give out about TES' engine and capabilities.
Obsidian have such a knack for mediocrity lately. I say lately but mediocre, unimpressive, short, Avowed took SIX YEARS TO MAKE.
Re: Xbox Exec Teases 'Exciting' Plans For 2026 When Asked About OG Xbox Titles & Game Pass
@EvenStephen7 Exactly. I bet the news is simply that all 30 or so Xbox original games will be added to game pass ultimate, like they all should be already. But it will be after another price hike by late 2026, probably multiple price hikes, so it will sting more regardless.
Re: Xbox Exec Teases 'Exciting' Plans For 2026 When Asked About OG Xbox Titles & Game Pass
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Re: Xbox & Activision Issue Statement On The Future Of Call Of Duty Following Black Ops 7 Backlash
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Re: Geoff Keighley Talks The Game Awards & His 'Balancing Act' Of Pleasing Everyone
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Re: Xbox Dev Reveals That Sony Asked About Microsoft Flight Sim Going To PS5 Years Ago
@GamingGod Wait what? How did that get through QA? Isn't it a requirement for a PS4/PS5 format game launching on a PlayStation console?
Re: Xbox Series X|S Had No Black Friday Deals, So They Lost To A Console We've Never Heard Of (US)
Yep and this is why Forza Horizon 6 had to be officially confirmed going to PS5 at its announcement. Would anybody be shocked if Xbox changed their minds next week, for the 5 millionth time and bumped up the PS5 release date from a few weeks to simply day one with the PC version?
Console sales matter. They mattered in 1995 and they matter in 2025 and no mental gymnastics from an Xbox fanboy Youtube channel is ever going to change that.
Re: Opinion: Backwards Compatibility Still Adds So Much Value To Xbox Series X|S In 2025
@Tasuki Its 700 360 games and 30 Xbox original games lol, its not the entire library but you can pretend its all the games you have.
So Sony should do what Xbox did this gen and NOT add the 800 PSVR1 games that run on PS5 including the PS Move controller (like the way they cut off Kinect support so it can't even play all of Xbone's games)??? Why should Sony do that???
Re: Opinion: Backwards Compatibility Still Adds So Much Value To Xbox Series X|S In 2025
So long as they never turn off the those servers. Shame they couldn't even add full BC with the previous console yet again since Kinect 2.0 has zero support on series s/x. Its still something Xbox has never pulled off to date.
Re: Talking Point: Four Years On, Did Halo Infinite Ever Live Up To Expectations?
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Re: New Microsoft Survey Suggests Five AI Features That Could Be Added To Xbox Game Pass
Maybe get AI to fire and replace the Xbox over paid execs like slimy Phil that have utterly destroyed the Xbox brand, bringing it to its knees.
Re: Two Xbox Game Pass Titles Nominated For GOTY At The Game Awards, But Microsoft Misses Out
@Fishmasterflex96 They released games, the jury is out on "amazing" though lol.
Re: Sarah Bond Insists Hardware Is 'Absolutely Core' To Xbox, Teases Powerful Next-Gen Console
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Re: Halo Infinite's Final Major Content Update Has Arrived On Xbox & PC
@Amin1998 Remember 2 days before the reveal he tweeted about being excited for everyone to see it (deleted tweet now).
The gameplay reveal went on to be the biggest downfall of the franchise (it was delayed only less than 2 werks later) and it has yet to recover from it. How does he keep doing that with his games, especially when he set up the studio and was in charge 7 years before that point? People say he is a gamer but he is tone deaf if he thought that abysmal looking reveal would impress anybody.
And remember everyone, any second or cent spent on development for Infinite is resources taken from other projects, ANY other projects much like the problem with Fallout 76's hemorrhaging continued existence.
Re: Talking Point: Do You Think GTA 6 Will Actually Launch On Xbox A Year Today?
No I think the series s version will continue to cause all the problems it is and they will pull a Larian with it and have to make slimy Phil scramble and make a decision again.
So no, it won't be on XBOX this time this year.
Re: PSA: The Next Few Months Could Be Very Busy With Xbox-Related Showcases
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Re: Xbox Content & Services Revenue Sees Slight Increase In Q1 2026, Hardware Drops Almost 30%
@Rodimusprime13 There will be no "series 2". Don't you get this? Who will buy it when their games are available everywhere going forward, much like how all their games were on PC day one at the start of this gen?
Nintendo pushed out a Switch 2.............because its time for them to put out a new console. A reminder, Switch 1 sales are still annihilating Xbox console sales.
How would Xbox be pushing out a new "console" in the same way like Switch 2? Pushing it out to double/triple sales of series s and x which still is very little???
Re: Xbox Content & Services Revenue Sees Slight Increase In Q1 2026, Hardware Drops Almost 30%
@SodaPop6548 Also when folks go to take a crap and scroll Tiktok for 5 mins its killing Xbox.......... well according to Xbox lol (although Shawn Layden said it a year ago and intelligent people laughed at that statement then too and it DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING again when Xbox states the same dumb statement).
Re: Xbox Boss Says Forza Motorsport Isn't Dead Despite 'Scaling Back' At Turn 10 Studios
Imagine having to clarify something like that but then doing it with no substantial evidence to prove it isn't dead lol.
In case you aren't aware, the "Xbox Boss" we are talking about in particular in this context is the myth, the man, the legend, deathbringer of Xbox for a decade straight, Phil Slimy Spencer himself.
Yeah, Forza Motorsport is STONE DEAD and its INSANITY to take anything this man says as truth.
Re: Hands On: Is The Outer Worlds 2 Obsidian's Third Xbox Success Of The Year?
@OldGamer999 Maintaining quality??? Yet Yotei will very likely be getting nominated overall game of the year. Ask yourself, and just be honest now, how many GOTY awards will Avowed be nominated for?
If you said anything above zero, you are lying to yourself.
Re: Hands On: Is The Outer Worlds 2 Obsidian's Third Xbox Success Of The Year?
Going by reviews it looks like yet another meh game by Obsidian barely better than the 1st.
And it is definitely not worth the hilarious €90 they tried to charge for it, it's barely worth €60 lol.
Re: Phil Spencer Addresses AI & Developer Creativity At Xbox Game Studios
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Re: Xbox Game Pass Is Getting A Major Overhaul With New Names, Games & Price Changes
@HeavyHoggJP But it doesn't get them within a year. This time last year Starfield wasn't on any other tier but Ultimate. Right now Hellblade 2, released nearly a year and a half ago, is not on anything but Ultimate.
Its just an endless echo chamber of assumption and then misinformation, when it comes to anything Xbox.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Is Getting A Major Overhaul With New Names, Games & Price Changes
Imagine waiting the entire gen on the promise in 2020 that Fable was coming so you should buy a series x and s. And game pass, or the game pass "tier" that Fable will only be available on now, the most expensive one, is 30 quid a month now............... before Fable even got a release date to this day.
This is why I was laughing at people saying "But but but but the roadmap". What about the roadmap? What does that even matter today? Look at what Xbox has been doing to itself the past decade under slimy Phil.
The ONLY consistent master plan Xbox initiated the past decade......is just how slow they are taking this band aid off so that their hardcore fans can easily digest all these horrendous decisions one week at a time......and then calm down their followers, the Cope Eastwoods and OhNoItsXbot people out there.
For the people saying they are suddenly done with Xbox NOW? Why now?
Re: Roundup: All The Xbox Reveals From September 2025's State Of Play
@somnambulance How could it be? When has an Xbox showcase ever been better? What are the specific parameters you need to set to make this a reality
"I hope Xbox show a new controller for the 20th time this year" and that's all you need?
This time last year in 2024 FF7 Remake being shadow dropped at TGS was going to win everything. It didn't even make it in 2025 lol. Of course, the parameters shifted instantly again.
Slimy Phil, the destroyer of Xbox consoles, is going to show his hated face. There is one definite thing that is going to happen, you can have that one.
Re: Xbox Store Links Discovered For Horizon: Zero Dawn & Other PS5 Games, But Don't Get Excited
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Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Finally Heads To Xbox In January 2026
@AverageJoseph It's still a class game. And yeah, the GOTY facts leave very little room for arguments, as expected.
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Re: Alinea Analytics Says Gears Reloaded Is Tracking Well Behind Forza Horizon 5 On PS5
@Ricky-Spanish Every Gears game literally copy and pasted animations directly from Gear 1 and 2 to each game. Even the brand new enemy in Gears 4 and 5 uses the exact same animations. Literally 1 to 1, even a maimed enemy crawling away uses the exact same 13 year old last gen animation in Grars 5.
Re: Xbox Data Shows 'Most' Console Owners Are Playing On Other Devices As Well, Says Exec
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Re: With The Summer Showcase Over, Xbox Is Now Focusing On Gamescom 2025
@Kaloudz The showcase for once made sense. If there are NO release dates for Everwild, State of Decay 3, Fable, Perfect Dark after half a decade already......... then for goodness sake, don't show them. What would be the point???
I agree with it launching elsewhere too though. But why would Gears E Day launching on a new PC "Xbox" thingy be important when its available to play, the same day, on normal PCs and specialised other consoles with unique architecture like PS5 and actual Xbox consoles too like the series consoles?
Re: With The Summer Showcase Over, Xbox Is Now Focusing On Gamescom 2025
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Re: Poll: How Would You Grade The Xbox Games Showcase 2025?
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Re: Multiple Final Fantasy Games Confirmed For Xbox, Including A Shadow Drop Today
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Re: Last Chance! What Are Your Final Hopes For The Xbox Games Showcase 2025?
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Re: Oblivion Remastered's Performance 'Degrades' Over Time, Digital Foundry Discovers
Glad I didn't buy it but then I would never pay over a tenner for a game that is available digital only regardless. Game would have sold even better if it had a physical release.
Re: Xbox Announces Gears Of War: Reloaded, Releasing Summer 2025
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Re: Xbox Is Raising The Price Of Consoles, Games And Accessories
@darylb24 Only they are in no place to do it given how stagnant their console sales are.
Re: Xbox Is Raising The Price Of Consoles, Games And Accessories
2tb Series x is now more expensive than a PS5 Pro.
Anyone want to change their opinion now on how much of a ripoff the Pro is???
Re: Microsoft CEO Announces 'Top Publisher' Milestone For Xbox Games On PS5
@x3King84 No it wouldn't. Nobody is askimg Halo Infinite. Or are they going to start up thart 10 year plan that was abandoned after a 1.5 years???
The millions of people that abandoned Xbox the past 15 years want te classic good Halo games and nothing more. I don't, Bungie is overated and trash. I didn't like the cartoony Halo games 2 decades ago and I don't now either. Halo Infinite is a perfect example of a dead failure Live Service game. Xbox does them too.
Re: Microsoft CEO Announces 'Top Publisher' Milestone For Xbox Games On PS5
@NeoRatt They are a 3rd party publisher. Why would a 3rd party publisher cannibalise their own sales?
They are doing this because after 4 and a half years, series x hasn't even passed 7 million sales, it isnt from the goodness of their hearts, I'm afraid.
Surely putting the price up on series x will help lol?
Re: Phil Spencer 'Very Excited' About Xbox Handheld Plans For 2025
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Re: Multiple Upcoming Xbox Games Appeared At Today's Switch 2 Direct
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