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At this point nobody believes a single thing that any Xbox executive says, that trust has long gone. They'd be better off not saying anything and just get on with whatever they're doing, you don't see Nintendo's bosses chatting with people on Twitter about their plans and even Playstation have largely shut up

@Tasuki this is why I was waiting to see what her actions were and not just celebrating her interacting with a handful of Xbox Twitter accounts

Is it less congested in February? In November you go up against just GTA and I know people bang on about it like it's the 2nd coming of Christ but as with all games, the majority of gamers don't play it. In February there is Tomb Raider and Persona 4 with Resident Evil a possibility and Final Fantasy VII potentially not far away either.

I feel all these developers trying to avoid GTA are putting themselves in a significantly worse position of going up against multiple games instead

It's a bit rich him talking about the lack of components when he's very much a cause of that problem, even to the extent of them having many AI components stockpile that they literally cannot use

“So, if you can’t do that, you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in. In fact, that is my problem today. It’s not a supply issue of chips; it’s actually the fact that I don’t have warm shells to plug into.”

Back to Xbox, it's going to be interesting to see where they are in even just 6 months from now and what those long term plans are going to look like

I can't even remember the last time I saw the boot up screen on my Xbox, I tend to turn it on before changing the input on my TV. This does look nice though

@Balaam_ I have the Xbox Ally X because its portable, so spending that money on a PC would have been pointless as that isn't what I want it for. This will look fine on it's own screen, I also regularly play FH6 on it, Resident Evil Requiem and now Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and have had a great experience with them all, then when I can, I'll play them on the TV with the Series X

I think the last FIFA game I played a lot was FIFA 99 on the N64 with Dennis Bergkamp on the box, after that Pro Evo was a much better game. My favourite FIFA is the first one on the Megadrive because you could push over an opponent by pressing B & C together and then run away from the referee because he couldn't book you until you stopped running 😆

@Banjo- yeah number 2 makes the most sense, no point continuing to release their own games on Steam when it's on their hardware, this is turn would help grow their own PC store which still misses out on many of the biggest games such as RE Requiem

The biggest surprise about Senua 3 isn't that its not exclusive but that it exists at all, I never got the impression that Hellblade 2 was particularly successful or popular.

I would certainly like to hear more about what their plans are for backwards compatibility though as there are still plenty of games unavailable

Who'd have thought that a significant price rise would lose subscribers, trying to justify it with these added extras that will be worthless to the majority of subscribers. Those playing Fortnite aren't likely to be the same as those paying for a subscription to play lots of games, then you have the Ubisoft stuff which are just games that are always on big sales. There was an article here recently showing the many Gamepass perks, none of which I even remotely have a use for.

All I want from Gamepass is access to the games and for a reasonable price

Greenberg making himself look a bit silly here, arguing semantics over what is a month or so time frame at the end of development. However you frame it, it was cancelled last minute.

As said above, Moss was great in VR so hopefully its converted well, I'm also happy to see the Godzilla game

Personally I don't care about exclusives but what is becoming a major selling point is play anywhere. I picked up FFVII Rebirth yesterday on Xbox for this exact reason, so I can play on the Series X and my Xbox Ally X. Then when I get the new Bond game it'll be on Xbox for the same reason and then again for Crazy Taxi

There's quite a few I liked the look of, Crazy Taxi first and foremost but also, Castlevania, the Doom dlc, Spyro, Fable, Halo is looking great. It's a really good time for Xbox games

Even ending on COD I'll give it an A, if only for Crazy Taxi looking awesome but to be fair there were quite a few games I liked, gears looked good, Halo looked great, a new Spyro

1 exclusive per year, it does look really good though

I like the look of the console but at this point I'd rather save for Helix, might get the controller though

Fair play, that was great with a lot of games I want to play

Resident Evil Veronica
Cuphead
Alien Isolation 2
Virtua Fighter
Tifa in Street Fighter 6
Stellar Blade
Many more I can't remember the names of right now, 1666 Amsterdam
Then Final Fantasy VII Revelation to close

Helix is the piece of next gen hardware I'm most excited for, so one thing I hope they won't do is lower the specs

That's a lot of perks but sadly I have no use for any of them

Xbox have put themselves in a very difficult position regarding exclusives, with their biggest game (FH6) already committed to PS5 and of course the Halo remake, then you have Helix round the corner which is seemingly a PC with Steam on it. Then you have their PC store which still misses out on so many AAA games, with Xbox themselves selling their own games on Steam.

They need to fully commit to one or the other and not some weird middle ground which helps nobody. Either go full 3rd party but with their own hardware as an option, or bring back exclusives by not having them on PS5 AND Steam. This in turn can help to fully unify their console and PC stores and encourage proper support for the latter

I myself have jumped back on board Xbox with the Series X just a few days ago. I was going to get a dock for my Xbox Ally X but the Series X seemed the better solution, so I effectively have an Xbox Switch

Skimming through their show this morning, this is the one game that jumped out at me, I was a big fan of Driver and Stuntman and we don't get many games like this anymore. Hopefully Knight Rider and Back to The Future have substantial content and fingers crossed for some surprises too

They should all show what platforms games are coming to and Asha needs to stop pandering to these Xbox Twitter accounts, this is what caused the mixed messaging of her predecessors

Finally, people need to get over Xbox exclusives, this hasn't been a thing for a decade as they've been on Steam, where as today, Call of Duty is now their biggest IP and is on everything, including Switch 2. The Xbox console is now just one of many entry points to play their games and even that is going to be a PC soon with Helix

I don't care about Asha pandering to the gallery (I think it will come back to bite her at some point) but I do see real progress with the Xbox PC app and Xbox mode, even if there's still a way to go and more games are coming to the PC store. More importantly their lineup of games is really good at the moment, I'm really enjoying Forza Horizon 6 and looking forward to Fable (eventually).

So I'm not sure about being more positive about Xbox but I'm way more interested in Helix than PS6 if that means anything

@J_Mo_Money I've already played Resident Evil but I do want to get round to all the others you mentioned at some point, so yeah, could be a perfect time to catch up

This is exactly why games shouldn't be announced too soon and as for GTA, at this point I'm sick to death of hearing about GTA VI, I don't even get the fascination over Rockstar. Sure I really enjoyed Vice City back on the PS2 but these days I find the controls in their games to be a bit crap. Oh well, at least if that rumoured Ocarina of Time remake is real, I'll have plenty of time to play that

I can't say I care about games being exclusive and the reality is they aren't exclusives when they're on PC anyway and they're not leaving that market. Speaking of PC, I would love to see their backwards compatible games available on there and more backwards compatible games in general

I started this today on my Xbox Ally X with a mix of settings at 40fps and it's great. I also tried it on Xcloud earlier and it was a good experience if a soft image and I remembered I've still got a few days left of Geforce Now and on the Ultimate tier it looks outstanding.

Overall I'm really enjoying the game, the setting is fantastic and I already like it's layout and structure more than FH5

It's always been capitals in my mind

I've literally just picked one of these up as most of my gaming is handheld these days, so I'll be looking to play it at those 40fps settings and if I want a big screen experience I'll use Geforce Now or Xcloud

I'm looking forward to playing this and it'll be the first game I play exclusively through streaming. I tried Xcloud recently through my TV and it worked great, with no noticable latency, same for Geforce Now, both looked great too, especially the latter.

Edit: it'll now be a mixture of cloud and my newly acquired Rog Ally X

@AI-Generation ironically Neo Geo will now be the cheapest console on the market 😆. As for Helix, it may well be the best way to get a powerful PC should its specs and price point be true

I think Helix will be very expensive from a console perspective, whilst also being cheap from a PC one. I think Helix is set in stone as what it is, with the real challenge now being how do you monetise that hardware? If it has Steam on it, there's no guarantee of revenue from game sales and you can't charge for online play.

Then what do they do with their remaining console user base and can they "consolise" Windows enough to get those players onto Helix or perhaps a lower spec version and the various handhelds

DOOM: The Dark Ages?

I do rather like that new Xbox logo and its good to see them showing some love to the console

Issues? Yeah, performance in the open world is atrocious and magnified due to dumping the game into the waste of resources that is UE5. Bethesda should be ashamed of themselves for making no effort whatsoever to fix it

Having recently tried Xcloud again and it working rather well, I'm just going to play it that way, or through Geforce Now

This device has come onto my radar recently, as this year I've sold my PC dues to needing the space my desk occupied and I really don't have much time to play on the TV these days, so this looks like an ideal solution

@themightyant about to say exactly this, if you play COD the cost is basically the same and if you don't, it's now cheaper.

The only issue is those like @StylesT who have already paid the higher price for a years sub (or more) and now won't get COD and will they get reimbursed in any way?

A smart move, if you want to play COD then the price is effectively the same and for the many who have no interest, Gamepass is back to a reasonable price

I'd leave it as it is, we're long since passed the point of no return regarding exclusives and as they're on PC, they wouldn't even be exclusive anyway. With the best will in the world, it's 20 years since Xbox was a genuine sales competitor to PlayStation and Xbox consoles are never going to sell in huge numbers again, with or without exclusives

There is no chance they return to full exclusivity, not least because everything points to Helix games just being Xbox PC games, so you immediately hit that dead end, then you have the issue of how many units will Helix sell and woth Steam on it, you can't guarantee people even buying games from Xbox directly.

But even without such issues and pretending that the next gen box is a fully fledged console, their user base simply isn’t big enough to sustain these big games anymore, hence why they changed in the first place.

At best, I could see their exclusivity, just meaning not on Playstation for the first 6 to 12 months on some.games but that's it

Rare Replay
Halo Master Chief Collection
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Forza Horizon 4 (can you still buy that?)
Indiana Jones
Sea of Thieves
Definitely some of the back compat stuff, I'm just not sure which you can still buy but the Dead or Alive games, Daytona USA, Radiant Silvergun, Hydro Thunder, Streets of Rage Collection etc, Half-Life 2 The Orange Box.
The many Doom games.

To be fair the first thing I'd say is subscribe to Gamepass for a month. Whilst its a service that is of no use to me, this is a situation where its perfect for a newcomer to test out many games and see what direction they want to go in

Really looking forward to this game, though it might be one of those rare instances where I pick it up for Switch 2 to play it on the go

Let's see, the first console I bought with my own money at launch would have been the Dreamcast, I also got the GBA, Gamecube, NDS, Wii, Xbox 360, 3DS, Wii U, PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox Series X, PS5, PS5 Pro and Switch 2 at launch and got the N64 close to launch for my birthday. The Wii was an accident (for launch), my local Gamestation had 49 units in stock for a midnight opening and all had been reserved, I went with a friend just to experience it but one person didn't show, so I was allowed to buy theirs.

All of them were worth it and I have loved playing on them all, I even still have Dreamcast under my main TV today

If by Xbox One, you mean the One X then I could certainly see the argument but the standard Xbox One aged badly very quickly. Whilst I'd still be happy to play the og Xbox or 360 today, for Xbox One I'd rather play it's games elsewhere

This is why I've long since hated cgi trailers, not only do they often give you little idea how a game will actually look and play but you also get this nonsense. If you want to reveal your game, then do so with gameplay and if you haven't even started making the thing, don't bother at all

I've had Gamepass in the past and PS Plus but neither have any real value for me. This year I've been playing Resident Evil Requiem and Crimson Desert and I'm looking forward to Pragmata and Mouse P.I. For Hire, none of which are on any subscription.

I'm sure many still enjoy these services but they're not for me anymore

@FraserG basically on PS5 VRR doesn't work on PS4 games and also they don't fully utilise the full power of the console, so this patch doesn't even acknowledge the Pro's existence. Outside of probably only this game, the lack of VRR for back compat titles isn't even an issue.

Ultimately, Series X has always had an advantage for backwards compatibility, owing to the One X often having better versions of games than the PS4 Pro did