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Xbox has a strategy? They seem to be making it up as they go along recently and the sad reality is that I don't ever see their console numbers improving when even some of their upcoming games are going to be multiplatform.

Also what is the selling point of that middle tier of Gamepass which has had a lot of games removed from it? That won't increase subscription numbers.

There are a quite a few Xbox games I want to play hut I'll never own another Xbox console as I don't need to

At this point I just want to see a new Banjo or Conker game from anybody

Not much by the look of it, just seems to be quality mode settings at 60fps with the help of upscaling that's better than FSR. It still seems to have mediocre RT performance but this time at 60fps instead of 30.

Even without the ludicrous price it seems like a lacklustre upgrade but because of that price it's laughable

@themightyant the issue is that it's much harder for these kinds of games to gain any traction, due to their nature of requiring significantly more of your time than single player games. So whilst there is a very large market for them, most of those customers already have the ones they want to play and are unlikely to change.

Sure some new successes can happen, such as Palworld and there's probably mobile stuff I'm not aware of but the problem here is the AAA market to treat them like a major release. Making them with these huge budgets, which is just mind blowingly stupid at this point as the likes of Anthem, Avengers, Suicide Squad and now Concord are all basically dead or about to be, whilst losing a ton of money in the process.

"I've made some of the worst game choice decisions"

Good job you're not in charge of one of the biggest video game publishers/platforms in the world..............

It's quickly going to become an industry problem, Black Myth just launched on PS5 and uses frame generation to hit 60 and as more developers adopt the performance black hole that is Unreal Engine 5, then performance isn't going to get any better

Play Day O̵n̵e̵ Four (or up to 12 months later) on Gamepass

It's funny being able to play Mario Doom on Xbox but not on Switch as it doesn't support uploaded mods, you can even play the Chex Quest trilogy. On PC there's a great RT and Voxel mod for it but only for the Steam version

I bought it a long time ago and I still prefer this to FH5, I made sure to get FH3 too back when it was available

This is why I buy such games on PC instead of console these days and specifically Steam as the Xbox PC version of games often miss out on mods, even the recent Doom update has missed out on a new RT mod.

Even Starfield gets updates on Steam first

All that said, thanks for reporting on this as I now have another mod to look forward to

I wouldn't be surprised if Hi-Fi Rush was the only one they wanted. I doubt we'll ever see another entry for those other games from either Xbox or the former Tango studio anyway

It's a great remaster in the sense of them replicating the original games but as someone who played Mario 64 before these back then, I was never a huge fan but still enjoyed them.

Back to the remasters themselves and I was always disappointed that this, Spyro and CTR were only 30fps games. It'd crazy that Nintendo make Mario Kart and Odyssey at 60fps on Switch and then these are lower fps on the more powerful consoles

Local multiplayer is far more important to me than online play, it's really stupid that just to play a game with my son, I often need 2 pieces of hardware and two screens and then an online subscription to play multiplayer a few feet apart.

This is why the Switch is very important for our gaming but even that is sometimes a step back from 3DS with its download play multiplayer.

We need more split screen/local multiplayer games

Well it just means that I'm barely going to be playing on Xbox for the rest of the year, Avowed was the one I was looking forward to playing along with Indy. Overall this is a very poor year for Xbox

I've got one of those Samsung TV's, the S90c to be precise, though I've not tried Xcloud on it as both my Series X and a high end PC are hooked up to it

"PC & Mobile gamers haven’t purchased Game Pass at the rate Microsoft expected"

The mobile part of this is what gets me. I'm sick of hearing people talking about these billions of mobile gamers in the context of console style gaming. The overwhelming majority of those gamers are just playing free to play games that don't even resemble console games and were NEVER going to subscribe to a service en mass to play the likes of Halo

Why not just scrap the middle tier altogether? It only seems to exist to push people straight to Ultimate, at least Gamepass console was a genuine option if you didn't care for online but I guess they want day one players to be paying much more

For Xbox, the console is increasingly becoming less and less important to them and is now effectively just an option to play their games.

As for Hellblade, well it was never a "big" game and I've got to be honest, it's also the worst game I've played this year

Going forward though, there are some very promising games on the horizon with Indiana Jones in particular later this year

@OldGamer999 I just tried another Gamepass game and it came up with "There's a temporary network problem" but I just clicked on use offline at the bottom of the screen and it worked

@OldGamer999 yeah it's baffling why it simply just doesn't ask you to sign in offline when it fails to connect

@OldGamer999 yeah it certainly needs a better solution, for Switch it's something like an automatic 7 day check in for NSO, I'm not sure what it is for Gamepass, I've seen 30 days for PC but nothing about console, though I'm curious why I and another here can play Gamepass games but you can't

@TheBigBlue no problem, have fun

@101Force Is that because the other user hasn't been set up to have that Xbox as it's home console? Looking at mine I can freely sign in and out of accounts but I never set the other one as a home console.

Overall the system definitely needs looking at and made more user friendly for such situations

@ErgoGnomic look at my comment above

For anyone seeing this who may be unaware, if you go into network settings and go offline then you'll be able to sign into your console and play games which don't need an online connection, even many Gamepass games

@rustyduck not as it stands, these versions have been updated for modern PC's by GOG themselves but hopefully this shows Capcom there is a demand for these titles to put them elsewhere

Capcom just dropping bangers on a random Wednesday. First the original Resident Evil trilogy pops up on GOG and now this.

I love this game

Good, then I won't have to see them all moan about it for months on end.......

I take that back, they're still complaining about Indy.

In any case, I'll be playing it in first person

There are quite a few I'm really excited for but Doom would have to be top of that list, I'm a big fps fan and Dok is at the top of that particular tree.

Others I'm looking forward to include Perfect Dark, Fable and Indiana Jones

@Kezelpaso Gamepass revies are incredibly relevant, not everyone subscribes to it and I often visit other sites even if I don't play on those platforms. Plus even as a Gamepass subscriber, it's unrealistic to download every game that comes out, I simply don't have the time.

In any case, good review and I am going to try this, as whilst I didn't enjoy Hellblade 2 I do enjoy a good walking simulator from time to time

Yeah there's no need to rush, it's only been 9 years since the last single player installment and the next is likely still another 10 years away.......

Perfect Dark on the N64 is one of my favourite games and this is looking like a great successor from what we've seen so far and I like the character model and a good choce of voice actress too. It's a shame about certain people online who are weirdly offended by real women existing in games such as this and Fable but personally I can't wait for both games

I love that it's first person and it is way more immersive, I've played enough Uncharted and Tomb Raider games to want something a bit different. So far this is looking very promising and is probably my most anticipated game for the rest of the year

Doom The Dark Ages has got to be top spot for me, with Fable also looking very promising

As others have mentioned we need to see more gameplay but the storytelling so far seems on point with some great cameos. Unlike seemingly many others, I like the look of the protagonist and don't care if there isn't a character creator and from the small snippets of gameplay this looks very promising. It's certainly very high on my wanted list

There was a lot in that showcase that I'm looking forward to and at the top of that list is Doom, Perfect Dark and Indiana Jones and I'll even give COD a go this year as I already have Gamepass

@themightyant I meant the console store as opposed to the Xbox web page

@themightyant yeah but most will be shopping for this on their consoles where it tells them a very different number. I get reporting it but I don't see anyone mentioning the fact that it gives you a very different number on the console itself

@themightyant If you stay on the listing it very quickly changes to about 122.75GB for this device, on Series X at least, so I'm kind of baffled why it's constantly reported as over 300GB

Hunter is out of order there by suggesting Phil directly said Playstation were slimy, there's nothing to suggest he wasn't referring to Xbox's own past as much as anyone else

Doom was a game I always expected to remain multi platform with how he initially talked about the acquisition and as @BAMozzy says, the advantage for me on Xbox is I can play it on my console or PC with one purchase/sub with cross save, where as Playstation they're all seperate. This is why I buy so few games on Playstation these days

Doom was already multiplatform and the suggestions since the acquisition were always that it was likely to remain that way. I'm glad it has even if I'll be playing on Xbox as it should be available to a wider audience, it's also pretty telling that Bethesda is referred to outside of Xbox Studios

@Banjo- yep the "insiders" who basically know nothing 😅

It's looking very promising, certainly way better than the rumours would have us believe

Yes I'll play the vast majority of them, what an insane list of games

Mecha Doom
Captain America Doom
Panzer Dragoon Doom

All in one game

One of many games that I though looked great

A, it's the best show I've seen in years. It was around 80 minutes long but didn't feel long and had a great format with no down time. A lot of games that I'm looking forward to playing

This game could be so good if it was just that, a complete full priced game with all the characters and cars included