It's GTA 6 month, and the others will eat the crumbs (apart from Zelda on Switch 2).

@themightyant Both the Series X and S have been out of stock quite a bit in the last few weeks at where I work (a large UK retailer). Stock is stabilising now, as the UK is getting priority due to higher market share than other parts of Europe/World outside US/Canada. The GTA 6 effect is taking full shape, and I expect Xbox consoles to be out of stock again by Nov 19th. Our next company stock drop is just before Black Friday.

I know it will fly over most gamers' heads who aren't business-minded, but an 8% clawback on revenue decline in a quarter is not something that happens every day. I think Asha will do pretty well if she contines to drive growth at that pace.

@Rimebreaker Well, he was around for nearly all of the 360 gen (2007-13)and was well regarded across his many years at EA before Xbox. He made the mistake of being too ambitious on the digital front. If he had done that for the Xbox Helix, there would have been zero issues.

Witchbrook looks great! A great addition to Game Pass! Early 2027 is looking very strong for Game Pass so far.

@Rimebreaker Don Matrick made mistakes in the planning of Xbox One, but he was also part of the Xbox 360's success and just introduced the digitisation of Xbox a few years too early.

The policies he implemented meant discs had unique IDs, and that's the reason Xbox can do disc-to-digital now. Don Matrick is the reason Xbox can do disc-to-digital and Sony/Nintendo can't.

Looks good! I guess Xbox would assume the Xbox One was the first console since the play sessions go back to before 2020, though they must have been on PC.

The internet - being Twitter lol

I am mainly focused on the games rather than the dashboard tbh.

Watch Xbox Series X and S sell out once GTA 6 launches and nobody can get a PS5..

At $100 billion, the only interested companies that would have the financial leverage to actually purchase Xbox are Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Apple, or a Saudi-backed bid.

The likes of Samsung or Nvidia/AMD could afford it, but why would they? Xbox is a huge financial risk to anyone given its current financial health.

Nobody else who is interested could put that amount of money together in a single bid.

Even if you split Activision, Xbox, and Bethesda, you are still talking about the same players willing to spend billions on each.

2028 for the next console is fine - no rush at the moment

I peel my label off and stick it in the bin.

Would love to see some cool simulation games.

I feel like if GTA 6 uses the same method as Gears of War E-Day to grab more memory, it could easily be one of the best-looking games on the S.

On price, people have dropped the whole "Series S is holding back gaming" argument since the Switch 2 came out and often runs current-gen AAA games docked at half the framerate.

The tagline should be "plays the same on PS5 and Xbox Series X"

"Plays best on PS5 Pro (until the PC version comes out)". lol

Looks like PS5's and the Pro's are selling out everywhere - many people will be buying an Xbox even at those much higher prices.

@Vidorra, usually an expiry of a fixed-term licence.

Looks handy for gaming on the go, especially with smaller laptops/cloud streaming, which I do when I am away from home and don't want to bring a full-sized controller.

@AI-Generation Luckily I already got mine before the price Increase lol

I'm having a great time so far, so an 8/10 seems about right.

The terms stated that anyone who purchased (Via the Xbox Store Web/PC App/Mobile App/Console) the Premium Edition or upgrade before 23:59 on the 1st of October or the Standard Edition before 23:59 on the 6th of October will get the Gift Card.

Redeemed codes from places like Loaded have worked in the past for me (007 First Light), so that may work, but they might have changed that now.

One thing that I know works for sure is that you can buy your store credit codes cheaper, redeem them on Xbox, and then use them to purchase the games on the Xbox store. I know that works.

@AI-Generation There are global shortages of SSD's and RAM at the moment, and both PS5 and Xbox are affected. There is little the companies can do but try to procure as much as reasonably possible, but with the GTA 6 Blizzard approaching, we won't see consistent stock until early next year.

Mine would be 007 First Light, Pokémon Pokopia, and Tomadatichi Life: Living the Dream. I am not sure what order yet, though.

UI seems fine; I just play the games rather than focus too deeply on the UI, tbh.

@pichuscute0 It is a game made by Xbox for Xbox on PC/Steam. Xbox is a platform ecosystem, not just a console.

This looks like they were able to use the 1080p 30ps Switch 2 build and make it 60fps for the Series S due to the moderately beefier GPU and CPU.

The rule of thumb: A 60fps AAA game on Series S will be a 30/40fps game on Switch 2.

I wonder if this will be the baseline for the Helix controller next year.

Hopefully the DE's for 1 & 2 arrive soon!

I would expect you can cloud stream the game on Xbox consoles and PlayStation Consoles/Portal.

It will become Xbox Play Anywhere when the PC version launches.

Dave the Diver DLC looks okay; that is about it for me. Plenty of other games to play until GTA 6 comes out.

I loved Watch Dogs: Legion, so I am happy to hear they might be re-releasing it again.

A lot of the late-2020s themes in the game that Clint Hocking put in there 6+ years ago have become eerily accurate!

Based on Hellblade 2 sales, I don't think that many people care that yet another Senua game is getting cancelled. They should have gone with a new IP, and now they are paying the price.

@themightyant Looking like December, around 6 months after the Xbox launch, a bit out of the way of GTA 6 and in time for holiday and January sales. My guess is Dec 8th or 10th .

The game looks fun! I might check it out on the 6th

28 games I know not to look at lol

@themightyant The home screen game art will have the mythic achievement banner over it when you unlock it for that game.

@Gabrie Most of the EU outside of the UK is very heavily either PS5 or PC, so Xbox has decided to focus on the PC part rather than sell consoles there.

I would love to see a sequel, but for now, more content for the current game would be very welcome too.

I want to know whether we'll receive the Outer Worlds 2 DLC or a refund for the premium upgrade.

Nice to see Ball shutting down negative news stories with factual information.

Randoms on Twitter were allowed to get away with spreading misinformation for too long, which caused brand damage. It is good to see that will no longer happen with some pushback.

Among the many updates, Xbox has streamlined and added new features/designs to the Xbox website too.

As sad as it is for people to lose their jobs, what was before was not working at all, and change was needed.

Not a huge Gears fan tbh, but might check it out on Game Pass when it drops on the 6th.

I am very excited for this game! It is my most anticipated game of 2027 so far. Only Persona 6 could top it, if it makes it to 2027.

I doubt the game will recoup its dev budget, but I think MS knows that and will use it to boost brand recognition for Xbox Game Studios/Playground games across platforms. Being multiplatform will help it reach a much broader audience, which is great for all the new players who get to try a Fable game for the first time.

@SigmaTheDJ That includes all the Xbox game studios stuff too like Fable and Clockwork Revolution, plus Senua and State of Decay 3 that were recently Xbox game studios.

They already have contracts for the games added in 2027, so I suspect that the change may come later in 2027 or 2028

Day one could be dropped, but it would be after March as there are already some locked in Day 1 dates for Jan -March 2027.

Loaded is a trusted supplier I know for Xbox digital codes. The discounts are great too.

They have become so popular they are sponsoring a Premier League team now.

They would not be able to do that if they were not an authorised reseller.

I find it safer than Eneba where there are individual sellers who I have found to be dodgy in the past.

I am curious to try Dune awakening's Single player mode

I remember commenting here at the time, 6 years really did fly by!

Sadly these days these achievement hunters heavily use shovelware to get these scores.

it sort of takes away from the meaning of achievement tbh.