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@jedinite what is? Everything points to Xbox becoming one unified platform and that being PC, Helix just one avenue to access that. None of that is a bad thing, in fact it could be the best value gaming PC on the market

@Questionable_Duck so basically what I said then 😆 and by the time this comes out, GTA6 may well be on PC anyway.

@Questionable_Duck so what else will it be? I already said it'll have backwards compatibility for Xbox console games. Their own slide says they have a unified GDK for Windows PC's/Handhelds and this, which basically says new games will be the PC versions

It sounds like they're making them available to play on PC. Speaking of which, looking at some of their slides, it looks like games made for Helix will simply be PC games and the console part is just for backwards compatibility

@betterthings its simply that DLSS is a significantly better upscaler than the software solution. Thing is whilst image quality maybe better on Switch 2, performance is largely a locked 60 on Series S but unstable on Switch 2

I think without the direction Phil went, Xbox may not even be around now.

Realistically, what else could they have done? Xbox One lagged hugely behind PS4 due to decisions of the previous regime and Xbox's lack of first party unfortunately coincided with Playstation's purple patch on PS4.

Coming into this generation and people already having digital libraries elsewhere, Xbox were in no mans land and nobody would bankroll many billions of acquisitions just to sell those games on a console selling 30 to 40 million.

At this point I don't see how it would be possible to make games exclusive again, especially in the current hardware market

I'll wait until I see what actions she actually takes and not judge her on getting some Mick Foley style cheap pops from the fanboy Twitter nation

I'll be getting it on the PS5 Pro and maybe day on, depending on what else releases around the same time.

Ultimately its Resident Evil that I'm most excited for this year

I've said repeatedly that the concept of generations is over and with the push towards handheld PC's, along with Switch 2 being in its infancy will keep Xbox Series and PS5 relevant for a very long time

It's a brilliant collection that is presented beautifully, with each game showing the physical box, cartridge and manual should you so wish and has a music player.

My only hope is that we get another collection with the Turbografx games, the excellent Saturn Bomberman and others such as N64

@Fiendish-Beaver I still expect to see this next Xbox because I don't feel they were ever likely to make it in big numbers anyway. Xbox Series seems to be the end of the line for true Xbox consoles with future hardware and games simply being PC versions. With Microsoft seeing their future as a publisher, with Gamepass in the cloud as much as (if not more so) PC

@themightyant I wouldn't mind but we used to have more customisation with the pinned groups and I really liked the UI at that point. Shame they had to spoil it

I'm not fan of the PC Xbox App but I dont think this is an improvement and it always makes me laugh how they manage to show so few games on the panel on the left, and what's with the play with friends nonsense taking up so much space?

The Xbox Series dashboard of a couple of years ago was the best, when I could organise my games how I wished its before they ruined it somewhat by removing customisation

"the port is a good one" In what world is that true? It's garbage, not the game itself but the Xbox port is awful with a laundry list of issues from enemies getting stuck in geometry to sound issues and the fact that you can't even move at full speed with the default control scheme. It is easily the worst way to experience Goldeneye, which is a shame as the leaked cancelled port is great

Not a game I'd play but looking around its clear that on PC at least, its CPU optimisation is abysmal and you can be CPU limited running around an empty map. Also a setting is either broken or deliberately lies, "post processing quality" changes your internal and output rendering resolution when it shouldn't.

@FraserG RDR2 didn't win GOTY, so I don't think its a forgone conclusion that GTA will.

Thing is, I feel far too much emphasis is placed upon Geoffs GOTY and it has no real correlation with the games I enjoy

@FraserG this is exactly how I've felt about open world games for a long time. I'd much rather have a smaller world that is fully interactive, than a huge one like AC Valhalla where nothing feels remotely important.

Games like Yakuza and Shenmue were great at this and Skyrim was such a hit as even with its big world (for the time), the cities felt alive and there was adventure to be found everywhere.

So this coupled with that noc system they have and your actions being reflected by everyone, makes this a must play for me

If they pull it off, then Fable could be a GOTY contender. One of my biggest gripes with open world games, is the world and it's people not feeling important and this looks to make them the star of the show

It was only Forza and Fable that I was interested in but the presentation style is great, probably a B for me

@DaPrince what are you babbling on about? Who said everything is about mods? I've long since played through Starfield without mods but they're a great way of extending the replayability of a game

"or the Xbox PC app"

One of the reasons I still buy the games I want to keep on Steam, even if I have Gamepass. Modding support amongst other things is poor making the Xbox app worthless for buying games on.

As for this mod, I was going to download it recently but their site says it has another big update coming at the end of the month, so I'll get it then

Perhaps the One X if you can get it cheap enough as its really good for the select back compat games. But I wouldn't go anywhere near the standard Xbox One, which regularly had poor looking versions of games, which ironically became the Series S's biggest weakness, not being able to run One X versions

This is the big Xbox release for me this year (assuming it is this year), so I can't wait for the direct

It certainly needs changing, its so poorly designed at the moment compared to Steam and I certainly wouldn't mind having it replaced with something that looks like the Xbox Series UI

I don't see it being open world, more likely that's a cutscene or linear scripted section.

In either case, this is easily my most anticipated game

@Fiendish-Beaver I'm certain they'll make new hardware but it won't be a console, in the sense that it'll essentially be a PC in a box and new games running on it will simply be the PC versions and they'll have some form of backwards compatibility layer.

I've really enjoyed playing on Xbox consoles over the years but sadly those days have gone, as console gaming isn't what it used to be in general. I'll still be playing "Xbox" games as Microsoft have bought a few of my favourite IP and developers but this will be on PC

PC (mainly Steam) is my main platform these days with a bit of PS5 and Dreamcast in the mix and I no longer have an Xbox console. That said I have played Xbox releases such as Indiana Jones, Doom and Oblivion Remastered this year

If this was a native app I'd play it regularly but streaming adds too much latency, especially for these kinds of games. Which is a shame as there are many great games here and some great ideas with the challenges

The campaign was good but didn't live up to the expectations that come with the Halo name, or even just a big PS/Xbox 1st party games in general and in a way the game was effectively Xbox's last hurrah as a traditional console platform

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

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