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None of them, I'm already sick and tired of AI nonsense being pushed into everything and none of it ever ever useful anyway.

More to the point, didn't all this stuff exist before AI?

It'd be nice if I could actually install it on my PC instead of it just showing up as play on cloud, and people wonder why most just use Steam instead

I'll be playing Marvel Cosmic Invasion but I'm busy replaying many of the Resident Evil games at the moment and some Doom and Duke 3D mods

I loved Timesplitters back in the day, albeit much preferring the 2nd game but I'll be giving this a go on my PC

I loved the original Destiny and it was my most played game last generation but I never really got on with Destiny 2, not helped by them spoiling the Titan's gameplay.

At this point I'd rather them make new IP, not everything has to go on forever as is seemingly the trend these days

Microsoft seem to have given up on selling these with those "deals", I mean that's still more expensive than they were at launch

It would have been important a few years ago but I no longer have the console and only play their games on PC, so now it doesn't matter. That said I would like it if more than just a dozen of my 130 plus games were available for me to play on PC

This could be useful, I do have my PC hooked up to my TV (as well as its own monitor) and have used Steam big picture in the past which works really well, so an Xbox version is welcome, albeit most of my library is on Steam but I have subbed to Gamepass for the next 12 months (great deal on a certain key site)

@Chip-Douglas the main point for me about offline, at home yeah it's basically a non issue but as there is this push towards handheld devices which are likely to be used offline, it would make sense to be more accommodating to them.

I'll pick this up in a sale as I only play the campaigns these days

@Chip-Douglas if it can be played solo then why must it be online all the time? Borderlands is designed to be a coop game but works perfectly fine offline. There is no reason whatsoever for this campaign not to work offline for solo players

@themightyant same, this is one of the main reasons why I've not bought the portal (the other being latency), as I'd much rather wait to play a big AAA game on my big 4K OLED than play them on a small screen with a diminished experience

"We know that while people want to play their library absolutely on console"

So to accommodate that, our next hardware will be an expensive PC.

At this point Xbox executives should just stop talking because all they've done is flip flop constantly over the last few years or outright lied to their customers

99% of my PC library is on Steam, so I am very much the target audience for this, though it is dependant upon the price as to whether I get one but I do really like the idea of it amd that new controller looks exceptional.

I'm so tired of UE5, I get that it's probably cheaper and easier for developers, though almost none of them seem to master it and it does have some great features. It sadly also has many issues, image quality is generally rubbish with it's poor upscaler, lumen reflections always look dreadful, even on PC, traversal stutter and insane CPU usage is common.

Of all the great games I've played this generation, the worst performing are almost always UE5

Well yeah because it'll be a PC and not a console. This and that ASUS handheld are simply to migrate their console players to PC

No because all the reviews did was confirm what we all knew.

This is a great PC handheld and it's not an Xbox console, so doesn't play the vast majority of my library.

Had the cheaper variant effectively been a handheld Series S, I'd have bought one. As they are, the more expensive one is the only viable product and a bit pricey for the use I'd get out of it

@Kaloudz I've got my eye on the arcade 1up of it, if it ever goes on sale for a good price

@Kaloudz Time Crisis is awesome, I regularly play that, the arcade versions of House of the Dead and Virtua Cop

First remake was rubbish and doesn't work properly with the Sinden Lightgun and the second one is just as bad. The graphics are rubbish, the sound is rubbish and if you're on PC and have a modern lightgun, just play the originals far a vastly superior experience than these god awful remakes

I've long been expecting the next Xbox to basically be a consolised PC with some form of compatability layer for backwards compatibility. With future Xbox games all being PC but with maybe fixed performance profiles for this and the handhelds. I also suspect the Gamepass changes have been in preparation for dumping the subscription requirements for online play, as you can't really charge for that if you can just play the Steam version on the same device.

This was a silly game to have timed exclusivity on, this IP and genre in general needs all the support it can get and I hope Xbox fans enjoy it

I will never understand what cheaters actually get out of using them. Surely its boring just having automatic headshots or whatever and if you're paying for these cheats, then I just think you're f***ing stupid

Its completely worthless to me, not least because I already own the very few Ubisoft games I'd actually play but also they are always regularly on sale and usually very cheap

They're full of sh*t, stop trying to put it on your customers. Who was asking for a 50% cost increase, some old Ubisoft games and some Fortnite nonsense. Most of us subbed to Gamepass, do so mainly for their day 1 games and thats it.

At this point they just need to shut up, they're taking the piss and they know they are

Mine was up next month and it won't ever be renewed at these prices. The additions to the top tier have no value for me whatsoever, so now I'll just buy the Xbox games I want on Steam or Playstation as I don't really see a future in me investing in their platform anymore

This seems like a perk that's kind of worthless for most on either side. I'd imagine that most of those who play Fortnite enough to make use of it, aren't playing Indiana Jones, Starfield and Forza day one. Whilst many like myself who do play those games, couldn't care less about Fortnite, making the price increase just less value for me

I really should give this another go at some point. I did try it not long after launch but have never returned nut im not really a big online gamer anymore and much prefer playing solo

It might be a perk if their games weren't regularly available for peanuts in every sale. Surely by now, everyone has already bought the ones they want and if not, just wait till Black Friday where you could pick up half of them for about £20

As Ultimate is the only tier with day 1 games, there is absolutely no value in this for me anymore. I couldn't care less about nonsense like Fortnite, so without a tier that is reasonably priced for day 1 games, mine will never be renewed after next month

Yeah Sarah its called a PC and you have to buy Playstation games through Steam 😂

I swear to God, the marketing around this thing is deliberately misleading. Calling that an Xbox when out of the last 75 digital games I bought on Xbox, only SIX would be available for me to play on this thing

Just a shame Xbox didn't have a 50 minute showcase in Japan, or they could have shown some of it off

Xbox has 50 minute showcase in Japan, focusing on Japanese games and content and for what is now their biggest IP, that is literally set in Japan, they do this.

The game will likely be amazing but come on now, at least show the game

@Banjo- Series S is dreadful value these days and at these prices and with Microsoft's current release strategy, I see no reason whatsoever for anyone to buy an Xbox over a PS5 at this point. We're early in Switch 2's lifespan but it's 3rd party ports are showing great promise, with some not being far off what the S can do, plus it's main selling points of having Nintendo games and being portable and I'd certainly recommend it over the Series S

You've got to be crazy to buy an Xbox at any of these prices, especially that Series X for more than the PS5 Pro.

Consoles prices in general are becoming ludicrous and thats before any next gen machines arrive

Same issues on Playstation, whilst on PC it just has dreadful optimisation and shader compilation stutter, but hey, Randy knows best

I did have Bubsy for the Mega Drive back in the 90's and it wasn't terrible but also nowhere near the best platformers of the day. Bubsy 3D however is the worst game I've ever played and whilst I've seen they've given it full analogue controls, I think it would only take it up to a 1.5 out of 10 😂

That said, the upcoming new game does genuinely look really good and I do want to play that one

I can't say I'm too surprised that Switch 2 comes close here. The hardware in the Switch 2 is vastly superior for RT than the RDNA2 GPU's in these consoles, with its limitations being its power draw and lack of CPU resources to offload calculations to.

Don't get me wrong, in general the Series S will have better versions of games but in this case, I'd much rather play the Switch 2 version

"Insane" FPS but its not real performance 😂😂😂

I'm sorry but I don't even touch frame gen on my PC unless I'm already above 60fps as the latency is much too noticable and gorgeous this I'd lock it down to 40fps (if it maintains that)

I enjoyed it, I don't think its as good as Mario Kart World or even Transformed which felt better to play and had a more interesting character roster but its pretty good. For this type of game, most of my time playing them is in local multiplayer, where in MKW you can actually play 3 lap races and I think this isn't going to pull me away from that anytime soon, so its one I'll pickup in a sale

The Mega Drive Bubsy game was a mediocre platformer but Bubsy 3D is the worst game I have ever played and by some distance. Bubsy 3D is the game you introduce your kids to if you want them to have a different hobby

I've seen they have updated the controls of Bubsy 3D and from the clips I've seen that probably elevates its score from a 1/10 to maybe a 2 as it still has awful visuals and dreadful level design.

I am tempted by one of these, though not for the Xbox stuff as so few of my Xbox games are play anywhere and my PC library is dominated by Steam. I have considered the Steamdeck for a while but will be looking at this and this also looks more comfortable to hold than the Deck and existing Rog Ally as well

@BAMozzy I was a huge fan of Metropolis Street Racer which in turn became Project Gotham when moving over to Xbox and PGR2 is in my top 3 all time racing games. Forza Horizon may have borrowed some of it's mechanics but it's never been quite as good at the actual racing bit as Gotham was

About to? I'd argue it took over since Forza Horizon 4 released and I think it'll be difficult for Motorsport to recover after the huge disappointment that the current game is.

Right now there are less than 700 players on Motorsport through Steam but over 13,000 on FH5 and 5,000 (higher than FM all time peak) in FH4, which you can't even buy anymore.

I'd argue that Forza Horizon and Sea of Thieves are actually Xbox's 2 biggest IP these days (outside of those they bought)

"Moving away"

The Last of Us
Ratchet and Clank
Spider-Man
Uncharted
Horizon
Ghost of Tsushima
Days Gone
God of War
Helldivers

None of these are exclusive to PlayStation hardware and in fact, Gran Turismo is their only major exclusive now. They've already moved away from being hardware centric

Rare were a huge part of my gaming back in the 90's and early 2000's and are responsible for so many of my favourite games. But as is the way with modern gaming, the lifespan of Sea of Thieves covers the same period of time as 3 DKC games, 2 Killer Instinct games, 2 Banjo games, Diddy Kong Racing, Blast Corps, Jet Force Gemini, DK64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conkers Bad Fur Day and soon you could add Star Fox Adventures.

Thankfully the rather excellent Donkey Kong Bananza retained the spirit of those classic Rare games

Awesome, I can't wait to play Perfec......, never mind, maybe one day we'll see another Banjo, Conker or Rare IP in general

Utterly absurd, why do I need to prove I'm over 18 on my Microsoft account, which itself is over 18 years old? Not to mention they've regular been selling me 18 rated games for the best part of 20 years

Well today I learned that Anthem was still online. I tried it at some point (feels like a very long time ago) and it was a hugely disjointed experience. The town hub felt like it was from a different game and many environments seemed like they weren't designed for the flying mechanics. I also remember a cutscene where there was a campsite full of people and when it switches to gameplay, there was basically nothing there.

A huge mess of a game that had no direction but did have some half decent mechanics slapped on top

The days of "fully utilising" consoles are gone, these are just PC components cobbled together these days and then you have the fact that we've long since past the point where all the big graphical jumps have already happened. Even on a high end PC you can't really push much past the visual fidelity of the PS5/Series X outside of RT features

Bought this day one back when it came out on PC and it became my favourite game of that year. It perfectly encapsulates what made the the character so good and is a much better sequel to Robocop 2 than that 3rd movie was