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A for me and fair play, that was a great show, Forza Motorsport looks stunning and Redfall has shot up my wanted list and topped off with the cool surprise that was Hi Fi Rush. I really liked the format of gameplay and developer commentary and they need to keep to this style of presentation

Finally, it's great to see this game officially available on modern platforms again and ill be giving it a go. A bit of a shame its not the leaked XBLA version and it appears to be a rather basic emulation of it but I have that and a mouse and keyboard version on my PC.

That said I hope we get another print of RARE Replay with this and the other digital games on the disc and for me it still plays great even today

I played Cyberpunk on both the Series S and One X back when it launched and even then it was a better experience on the Series S. The Series S is definitely the better of the consoles performance wise but it's not night and day like it has been in past generations, even on PS5 one of the best looking games I've played has been TLOU2 and that only has an fps boost over the Pro version.

Some of the comparisons here are a bit weird though, GTAV never even got a Pro/X patch and whilst I doubt it would hit 60fps it could certainly have looked much better. The big issue at launch for Series S was playing One S versions of last gen games but as time goes by and it gets its own games this won't matter as much

The one that's not there but out of those I'm looking forward to seeing Forza, I need another good racing game and I hope they don't limit its RT potential on PC as Xbox games can be a bit disappointing in that regard. Redfall is another I'm curious about as well and I hope there's some nice surprises

One of my favourite FPS games of the time and certainly on the N64. This release has just been weird though with the huge gap between its announcement and some update and still silence. Just a shame that Xbox won't get that XBLA version that was leaked a while ago and this just seems to be a basic emulation of the game.

@grumpypotato the endlessly spawning waves of enemies were when you set off the alarms, there are plenty of stages where there are a fixed number of enemies if played as intended. I had a lot of fun with its multiplayer but yes you really had to set your own ground rules beforehand and there were certainly much better multiplayer fps games at the time, just this was fun and easy to get 4 friends together and have a blast with

Hang on, this is a separate subscription? You'd have to be mad to pay for that, Ubisoft games are perpetually on sale

@FraserG that's what EA said 😂

So we get a nice OLED screen that no game will ever use, I'd love for games to actually use such a thing as it was a great feature for the Dreamcast amd as I play on PC and aren't a big fan of Armoury Crate I think I'll pass

Looking back on the gameplay it seems more Borderlands inspired with its abilities then any of the games mentioned here. I've got Gamepass so I'll certainly be giving it a go when it releases

What a joke, who cares what a few random people who have nothing to with this think. All these people panicking as if this creates some kind of monopoly which it can't. Despite COD's huge success, the overwhelming majority of gamers don't play it, same for pretty much any game except GTAV apparently.

Any court taking these clowns seriously need to have a word with themselves

@PcTV Why? If I were in a position where I didn't feel I could afford the £10 per month for a gaming subscription, I seriously doubt I'd be buying a £250 or £450 games console and paying for sufficient Internet access to take advantage of such a subscription.

If you can't afford Gamepass then surely you can't afford to be gaming.

If anything Gold needs to go as it serves no purpose these days, the big multiplayer games are generally f2p so don't even need it and PC Xbox doesn't have it at all

I do love the surprise of how RT reflections look on a 9 year old game, they'll just be able to make them higher resolution as the rest of the game is much less demanding than modern games. It's the same when I play on PC and have RT mods on even older games and they look amazing

@Dezzy70 even online I think they have an issue with visibilityat times, my 6 year old watches random things on YouTube and whether it's through adverts or some games various YouTubers are playing he's aware of many games that he hasn't seen me play. He even links them to various platforms by how they played them or the advert logo, every time he mentions one to me or recognises one when I'm with him he only mentions Playstation or Nintendo even though I own all 3 and he's played on them all.

We see it with reviews as the majority of the time multiplatform games are often reviewed on Playstation and no showing things like the VGA won't help

@Dezzy70 let's be honest not many gamers or people in general have used GAME for years and video games in general have long since lost their high street presence. Supermarkets either don't even have them or have greatly reduced their selections, GAME has disappeared into a poor sports shop. Xbox for a while has been squeezed out of even these limited spaces which makes sense as they focus on a digital and subscription based future

@themightyant to be fair when I first started I couldn't play the likes of Resident Evil 7 for more than a couple of minutes in VR, standing up helped and playing games where you're static like this or Job Simulator helped get me used to it.

Hopefully you can get used to it in the future as even relatively simple games are completely transformed in VR

@themightyant have you ever tried this in VR? Those feelings you described are magnified when playing it that way

@Rangers420 I'm not for 1 second suggesting only Sony have ever done this, just how hypoctical it is of them to argue that point all whilst announcing more exclusive deals

At this point the regulators need to stop being concerned about Sony's well being, it's not their job to ensure their position as the market leader. Xbox has clearly demonstrated the willingness to have COD available everywhere and there are other gaming platforms other than PlayStation, one which let's not forget is more than happy to keep games exclusive and pay for third parties to do so such as Final Fantasy for example

@themightyant I love a bit of Tetris, in fact Tetris Effect is easily one of the best games I played on the PS4.

It's great to see Xbox up there competing, sure the PS5 has had stock limitations for most of the year but its up there with Switch on merit and we have 3 very healthy console options for all tastes

@themightyant really? I didn't get that at all from HFW, it just felt like a very basic action RPG that didn't build upon the original in any meaningful way. It's certainly very pretty and the core combat is still good but it felt pretty lifeless to me.

As for Starfield and somewhat ironically given Xbox's perceived lack of output, this is the big current gen release between both sides that I'm truly excited for. Ratchet was pretty fun and The Medium was ok but here we are 2 years in and not much else is on offer in that regard. I'm a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games so this is right up my street but I'm not going to take Todd too seriously about its looks given the same nonsense about Fallout 76. I just hope it's much more polished at launch and it's story and RPG mechanics are up to the standard of their best games

How about this generation starts before we start talking about next gen? We're about 2 years in and barely into double figures for games exclusive to this generation between both sides

This the same Sony that did its best to end Sega and Nintendo? If Sony had their way then the other options for gamers would disappear

Or you could put the option in and let the customer decide whether they prefer an unlocked 60fps or locked 30fps experience

Whilst not my first online gaming experience, that goes to the Dreamcast but this was the basis for how we've played online ever since, well outside of Nintendo who seemingly have never seen it. I can't say I've ever been the biggest online gamer though I certainly have fond memories of the likes of Borderlands 2 and Destiny over the years

Really? It's a decent feature sure but I can't personally think of a game I've played with it and looking through the list there isn't many I would and add to that it's already finished and has no future.

If anything I suspect this only highlights Xbox's issues over the last few years if a handful of last gen or 360 games getting a boost is the best feature of a next gen console

@rockodoodle I think in general gaming hasn't really changed much in about a decade, like you say its diminishing returns visually and it's more about refinement from what we already have

I think just the faster loading in general is my favourite thing about these new consoles, it could become tiresome the last couple of generations but now its hardly noticable

I've played a few hours so far and it's great so far but at the moment it's competing with Sonic Frontiers for my attention and I think I'll finish that first

I suspect as someone who's played a lot of this in VR it will be hugely underwhelming outside of it. If they can make the controls half decent and it's your only means of playing it then definitely give it a try as it's a great game but I won't be playing it this way

@Would_you_kindly no its not capped and games like Ori are 4K on it

@AstraeaV yet here I am 6 hours or so in on PS5 and haven't noticed it running poorly

@SecretAgentCat that's not gonna happen anytime soon, AMD's implementation just isn't very good

Buys £450 gaming console and very expensive TV to take advantage of it but then wants to turn it down to save a few pennies on the electricity 🤔🤔🤔

Absolutely not and the amount of money you'd save is negligible

News: Person who plays video games is excited to play a video game.

That aside it really does look good and I'll be playing it next week and hopefully Xbox can step up their game going forward

A nice idea but generally the games I buy on Steam I want to keep and 99% of the time aren't on Gamepass anyway, so not much use for me.

I will say that these days the Xbox PC app is much better, it was next to useless just a few months ago. My only real complaint now is having to deal with EA's abysmal launcher for their games, so much so that I don't even bother with them

Persona 5 is the best game on that list but given I've already played it on Playstation I'll go for Plauge Tale, it's actually the first game I've played on the service for some time (I have it mainly for my son) and playing on PC without the need for 30fps I've been pleasantly surprised so far

That's what happens when you bank on the mythical mobile market. These are still good numbers taking into account consoles and PC but I'm tired of so many (not just Xbox) quote these billion or so mobile gamers, the overwhelming majority of whom would never play a console style game or buy dedicated hardware to play.

As I said I still think these are good numbers given their install base and it's clear cloud gaming isn't ready to take off. Then as others have pointed out, you have Xbox's own lack of first party output. When this picks up perhaps those numbers will be even better

I've moved to PC this gen, partly because of Sony's money grabbing antics and partly due to Xbox acquiring Bethesda, so long term will have more games I'm interested in and of course they're all on PC.

I have dabbled with Xbox in the past with the original but didn't really come back until the One X

@Bleachedsmiles if keystone had a hard drive then what is it for without any other hardware? It couldn't play games without connecting to the cloud rendering it a pointless inclusion.

I'm well aware of Stadia's other faults but there just isn't a demand for such a device and Microsoft obviously believe the same, hence why they went down the TV route which makes much more sense in the long run. The market for an Xbox that only plays a fraction of its games and have to be streamed, I would argue is very small.

I'm not really here to argue the merits of cloud gaming, I can see why it would be attractive to some but as for myself I have no use for it at all

@Bleachedsmiles it won't though, what's the market for a dedicated streaming gaming device? Otherwise they would have already done it and if keystone had hardware to download and play the games then that's just a Series S

@PhileasFragg is that really that much cheaper when you consider how much less capable it is and you wouldn't have access to the vast majority of the Xbox library? I don't see many not just buying the Series S instead and given that Stadia was a failure kind of proves it.

Cloud gaming makes sense on existing devices, not on dedicated hardware

Such a device makes no commercial sense, you're gonna have to pack it with a controller and realistically why would anyone buy it over a Series S which can do both? It makes much more sense for these cloud services just to be an app on existing devices such as your TV or cable box.

It's like those streaming handheld like that Logitech thing which are trying to compete with a Steam Deck for the same price

This is one of the reasons why I believe Activision being bought by Microsoft will only benefit gamers, as is they only chase money of stuff like Warzone and Call of Duty. Under Microsoft I believe they'll be much more likely to explore their vast catalogue of IP

@Acurisur I've already stated I was exaggerating but the chips in these are stricty speaking an SOC as opposed to an APU.

In either case a 3600 should not be beating any of these consoles and I feel its more likely a development time issue and they've just come up with an excuse rather than just simply saying we're targeting 30fps at launch

@Moto5 I was exaggerating but the point stands

@Agnostic yet weirdly their PC requirements for 60fps are a Ryzen 5 3600 which is a much less capable CPU then any of these consoles. I suspect the real reason is more the deadline to get the game out than any technological one

@Kaloudz it's funny you mention Dreamcast as more than half of its games run at 60fps, in fact it probably has the highest percentage of 60fps games until this generation. If anything being a gamer for over 30 years I'd say the PS3/360 years had some of the worst performance (along with N64) and those alongside PS4/Xbox One made 30fps the default for so many games.

The world according to Sony

Playstation exclusive = good

Xbox exclusive = bad

I couldn't care less about online play, the disappointment for me is that they haven't even done as much as what has been with the 1964 emulator which has upgraded hud elements. Then the elephant in the room of that leaked 360 version and all of the improvements that brought that's easily emulated

It's good to finally see it but it could have been so much more

@themightyant both are, it's just usually a bit more obvious with Jim.

I've been gaming for far too long and things like this are nothing new. Nintendo used to do it with Sega, then Sony took over and did it to everyone and now its back and forth between Xbox and Playstation. I just wish they wouldn't say things like how they think it'll affect their fans as neither care when taking games away from the other. Jim is worried about losing put on the microtransactions flowing through their store and nothing else.