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lol this generation has been quite the cluster (expletive deleted), hasn't it? i think that Microsoft will do their very best to avoid raising the price, as they are still in 3rd place, technically. they can afford to hold out a while. HOWEVER, if they believe that a price increase is inevitable, they'll likely just go ahead and do it now.

@Banjo- it says 250 British pounds/ $300.

i've BEEN saying this. the economics of game development make it harder to justify not selling your games to as many people as possible. i expect, literally by the end of this generation, to see an "exclusive" be a game that stays on its home platform for a year, MAYBE two, before being ported everywhere. despite how much money Sony has made off the IP, how much money are they leaving on the table by not letting everyone play Spider-Man? Exclusives serve no one but the fanboys...and to hell with them lol

@Dezzy70 here is what i think will mostly likely happen within the next 5 years: there will always be exclusives, but it will become less common. most 1st party games will be TIMED exclusives. games like Spider-Man and maybe Gears, games that we know would sell like crazy, will go to the "other" platform 1-2 years after they release on their home console, basically when sales of the title begin to slow down on the home console. this would prop up sales and even help keep prices down (you wouldn't need to charge $70 if you know you can add 1-5 million more sales this way). fans would still stick with their preferred console because they'd get to play these games first, but ultimately, as game production budgets get bigger and bigger, full permanent exclusivity will make less and less sense. Hell, Companies would already be doing this if they weren't so sure we'd whine and cry about it lol

interesting that almost every reviewer mentions that the dungeons aren't great...

Sony has been paying extra to keep games off of Xbox and competing platforms for a long time, Microsoft has from time to time as well. everyone is aware that exclusivity is a central pillar of Sony's business model. fair enough. the problem is when Sony tried to complain about the possibility of Microsoft doing exactly what Sony does ALL THE TIME (remember, a lot of people think Sony will end up owning Square Enix, and if they do, no one thinks Final Fantasy will ever leave Sony platforms ever again). it's the hypocrisy that's setting people off here lol

@Azirosin yes I'm sure they'll cry their eyes out every time the money comes lol

@SplooshDmg this would have been taken care of before Sony entered into its publishing agreement with 505. No way they agreed to let them publish it wherever they wanted. It's certainly possible that it cones to game pass, but certainly not because Sony is powerless to stop it from happening lol

Every time I read about Death Stranding I think, "that game sounds TERRIBLE."

so yes of course I would try it lol

@ymo1965 try it for yourself. It's tough, but nowhere near Soulslike. There's a casual mode that I wish all difficult games used that helps you if you die too much without actually making the gameplay any easier. It's a great game.

I hope it's Spyro. Crash 4 is amazing, and they've done great work on the Spyro remasters, they deserve to take the franchise over.

Mind you, they simply wouldn't have said that if there wasn't some truth to it...

@themightyant well, in the case of this year, they literally said everything they were showing was coming out in the next 12 months. also, i don't really need any surprises either, because Microsoft has a habit of having their "surprises" be a vague CG trailer of a game they've barely started making, with no release date or even window attached, so they can keep that lol

Microsoft would have a huge advantage in putting their first party games on the service...if first party games ever actually came out. Game Pass is a solid value right now, but if Microsoft doesn't figure out how to get quality exclusive content (not just franchises they've purchased, games built FOR the Xbox series) onto the service in a timely manner, Sony will overtake them. They will find out that people are perfectly fine with buying good games when they come out.

I mean...what would you EXPECT them to say?
"Hey how's the game coming along?"
"Complete tire fire, thanks for asking!"

Oh boy, 2029 can't come soon enough!

you know, I was just about to say I didn't understand why we were even talking about a perfectly fun game that came out almost ten months ago, but then I realized that almost nothing has come out SINCE then.in fact, if you aren't into Elden Ring, nothing big HAS come out since then. might that not be the real problem? maybe?

This was just a dumb thing to tweet. Why? Because what's going to happen if this game gets delayed, even a little.....?

@Snake_V5 I just don't think it's coming at this point. I would LOVE to be wrong, but I think Sony locked that and probably any new FFs up for the foreseeable future.

@Benjamin omg they are SO GOOD at announcing games lol....but then it's like, "now what do we do?"

@RadioHedgeFund it would be if Microsoft were to make COD exclusive. Tons of people are into it (not me), and a large number of them would buy Xboxes to play it.

The thing is, Microsoft as a corporation is probably pretty happy just selling the game to everyone they can and taking in the profits...

As I understand it, COD is routinely Playstations #1 seller, so yes I would imagine that it IS a big deal. Phil should have used it as leverage to get games like FF7 Remake (which I don't believe will ever make it to xbox). Now I expect the higher ups at Microsoft to reconsider making COD exclusive...

I wish they wouldn't even tell us about stuff until it was nearly done. For all we know whatever this is won't drop until 2026 lol

The gameplay looks fun enough, derived from the Arkham games. The voice acting though.....why is most voice acting in games STILL so bad?

i know that he meant this as a compliment, but is sometimes my complaint about Game Pass: it seems like just like "here's a whole BUTTLOAD of stuff! bound to be something in there that you'll like, probably, we guess!" instead of a more considered, carefully curated game library. especially when it sometimes feels like Sony effortlessly snaps up the REALLY good stuff as exclusive.

@Dusk_Actual (most of them are lol)

i hope it turns out well for everyone, but i'm all Soulsborned out at this point lol

@Dezzy70 Xbox has ANNOUNCED plenty of games. the problem is at the studio level. they continue to be AMAZINGLY inept at actually getting games over the finish line. in 2 years we're talking really about 2 games, one of which was delayed a year lol. i don't know who's responsible for it, so i won't blame anyone but they're pretty close to being out of time with me...

this one never grabbed me really

who's canceled more games than Xbox? lol

@Chaudy no one appreciates how good Deadlight was lol

i can't for the life of me remember the title of the game, but it was made by Sega, and was basically a top-down shooter where you were in a truck/tank hybrid, and the game was basically a wink at the 80's GI Joe era. it was a great game, but damn if i can remember what it was called lol. i also loved Bastion, Castle Crashers and the Dishwasher...

the easiest, most sensible, most requested, most obvious solution would be to do Titanfall 3.

So you KNOW that's not what they're doing.

"....ok now we're REALLY about to start making the game for real this time we're serious!"

looks really good, but....how is it possible that voice acting in games isn't routinely better? graphics have improved one hundredfold over the years, animations are better, and games are more immersive and complex.

most voice acting still just sounds like a person reading from a script. it's weird.

i just...i don't feel like we needed another one of these. Sega has a MOUNTAIN of franchises they could have had these people work on. this looks like it was conceived in a marketing meeting.

@Rmg0731 they've had PLENTY of time to simply say, it's never coming, they've known for some time that it wasn't coming. Leaving everyone wondering was a ***** thing to do. This game is a consolation prize. "Hey Sony bought us off, but we still want your money, so here's this game. It KINDA looks like remake, doesn't it?" Lol

@GunValkyrian Square is getting worse and worse...

@Chaudy my only problem is....why not just say that? Why all the radio silence? Why string everyone along for two years?

Yea Remake is never coming, and I'll pass on this.

sigh....PGR...

welp, Horizon is a good consolation prize i suppose lol

there's a middle ground, in my opinion: when you initially show a game, a CG trailer is fine. once the game has been announced, i'd prefer to see gameplay. CG trailers can be very exciting when first announcing a title.

the polls after these events are pretty pointless. you KNOW there were Playstation fans going out of their way to say the event sucked, and the same will happen when Sony has their next big event. Microsoft showed off lots of gameplay, announced a lot of games for the next year, etc. yea maybe whatever game you may have wanted wasn't there, but what's the big deal?

@StylesT even before they showed the gameplay, you knew there would be people like "It LoOkS tErRiBlE". i'm personally super excited, and i understand why it had to be delayed (the framerates didn't seem quite steady).

Persona 5 MIGHT be the best jrpg I've ever played. I'm 100% going to replay it, and I've heard P4 Golden is right up there with it, so this is amazing. If FF7 is finally announced, that will be the icing...

@UltimateOtaku91i feel like switch will probably get them too eventually, maybe

@A01 oddly, if a ton of the planets were just empty rocks with a few resources on them...that would be WAY more realistic lol

@Chaudy that's kind of their thing now. Spend 90 minutes promising to release games someday lol

i would like Square to simply SAY it isn't coming, if that's the case. it's beyond ridiculous to leave this up in the air for so long.

@Royalblues it just looks like most companies are moving on, 3 years into the generation is about right. I have a switch, and I can tell you there are a lot of games on there that are there just because they "got it to run", but that run like crap lol