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Not going to lie…I don’t think I’ve even heard of this game till today. That’s…probably a bad sign in and of itself.

Other: I’m accessing it on PS5 and Switch 2.

It’s a shame, I’d track down a disc copy if they gave Xbox owners the same upgrade options they gave S2 and PS5.

@Echtzeit Wow, XBox owners getting a slightly raw deal here. Us PS5 and Switch 2 owners get it for free with physical copies.

But then again, there was no XBox One native version, so I guess a free upgrade for a two console generation old disc is asking a bit much.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe It gets so much worse! PS got at least $100 off at numerous places, and Walmart just put the S2 Mario Kart World bundle on sale for $449, $50 off list.

That said, hope everyone enjoys their new hardware, whatever they spent on it!

It’s just a shame that each and every one of them paid more than launch price for the privilege.

@SuntannedDuck2 My confusion stemmed from your original comment being a) very unclear and difficult to understand and b) having absolutely nothing to do with the subject of this article.

@SuntannedDuck2 …what?

@Chip-Douglas I freely admit I do aim for platinum trophies on PS at times, but only for games I truly love and am willing to spend the time on.

But in all my PS playing time since the orginal, I have a whopping 20 platinums. Which honestly is 19 more than I ever expected to have.

@Chip-Douglas I wish your friend well, even as fail to comprehend them!

I’ll take “utterly silly things to do with your time to inflate a meaningless number,” for $1000, Alex.

You have to expect to sell more new consoles in order to manufacture more, don’t you?

Zero interest, zero influence.

Of course, my Series X is basically a BC box at this point. Hasn’t been turned on except to earn those daily points for a few months.

I laughed my rear off playing it on the PS, and this is coming from a filthy American! Glad my green gaming brethren will get to enjoy this!

@TrollOfWar I played the hell out of the original trilogy (on my trusty old Power Macintosh 7100/66, I might add! Yes, I’m that old. ) and seeing the name resurrected in this fashion just makes me sad.

May you enjoy the final product! I definitely won’t be playing it but I do appreciate this game is also VERY much not aimed at me’

@TrollOfWar Bungie would have had me if they’d done a remake/reimagining of the original Marathon.

This…this might as well be named Dave’s Run And Gun as far as I’m concerned.

Marathon-In-Name-Only looks horrible, and as a PS fanboy…yeah, this was one of the dumbest purchases Sony ever made.

Old Bungie is gone forever, only this shambling reanimated corpse is left.

I haven’t had GamePass for months. But I also rarely touch my Series X these days, S2 and PS5 are my main focus till Forza Horizon 6 comes out.

@TrevorP86 glances at the Series S

The Switch 2 is slightly less powerful than the S. I think MS can make things work.

@Questionable_Duck I think MS would print money with a Halo MCC release, that’s a fact. The remake they’re doing instead? I…could go either way, but I suspect it would still do very well.

@Questionable_Duck They’d still make money.

I mean, Doom and Doom Eternal came to the original Switch, along with all the Borderlands games and others.

They’d almost certainly make a profit on a Switch 2 port of GoW. Especially if they followed it up with comparable follow up Gears releases.

Leaving that aside though, you can’t tell me that Forza 5 wouldn’t print money on Switch 2!

Btw I am one of the folks who bought GoW on PS5 when I found out the disc actually had the game on it! I already have the XBone release on disc but as the first GoW game on PS…

The sooner they release games, the better. MS is leaving money on the table by not porting to S2. Especially given that Nintendo sold over 10 million S2s since launch.

To put that into perspective, MS has sold 28.3 million Series X/S consoles combined in five years.

Yeah. MS needs to speed up the porting. Imagine Forza Horizon 5 or Gears of War on Switch 2.

@Gabrie Ubisoft ported Star Wars Outlaws to S2 and the port is darn near rock solid. CD Projekt Red got Cyberpunk 2077 to run on it near-flawlessly. Given that games like Forza Horizon 5 run on the XBox One, I’m sure a port can be arranged. Plus Indiana Jones was already announced for Switch 2. It helps that the S2 is not far away from the Series S in specs.

I don’t understand why anyone would buy this, unless they REALLY had a craving for that creation club stuff. This game has gone on massive sale so many times, a free upgrade exists from the PS4/XBone versions…

Utterly pointless.

It’s a damn shame about Arkham Origins. I found a 360 disc for cheap recently but the dlc is now unpurchaseable.

I do have the dlc for PS3 as well as the game itself, but BC on my X is more convenient than digging the PS3 out of storage.

…seeing things like this brain dead blather from MS execs make it even more likely my Series X will be my first and last XBox.

@ElectricWizard You responded to my comment with a ?, so I clarified. You’re welcome.

@ElectricWizard I would think the context would be rather obvious here. Halo coming to PlayStation. AKA something no one until recently thought would ever happen.

…is “hell freezing over” not a phrase used in other parts of the world?

Huh. Hell has officially frozen over.

Here’s what I said about this on Push Square. I like Remedy and I’m looking forward to Control 2 when it happens, BTW.
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Gosh, who would have thought that making a live service game while barely promoting it and not shouting out the ties it has to your previous games’ universe while your latest game in said universe took nearly two years to break even/make a profit would backfire?

I am shocked, shocked I say.

Hopefully they can use whatever lessons they learned with this failure on Control 2.

@Questionable_Duck Thank you for that! Too many times it’s a “trust me, bro” situation with stuff like this, and I appreciate you citing sources!

@Questionable_Duck Where are you getting the PS5 dev kit price from?

MS: “We want more people to make and play games for our platform!”

Also MS: “We raised the price of our consoles multiple times and devs need to pay 33% more to make games.”

Hm. I know things are getting more expensive but you’d think MS wouldn’t be raising costs on BOTH ends…

@ElectricWizard I humbly beg your forgiveness for daring to advise people who also own PS5s that they needn’t be worked up about any delay in porting this mediocre game to their console of choice.

Speaking as both a PS5 and Series X owner who made the mistake of buying Starfield…

…there’s no hurry on this port. It can wait till 2028, and my fellow PS owners won’t miss much.

@Cvantez Right, but again…I believe MS owns Quantum Break. So Remedy can’t tie stuff into it anymore.

Edit: If Wikipedia can be trusted, found this. “In July 2018, after announcing their new game, which stars one of the Quantum Break actresses, Remedy CEO Tero Virtala said that a sequel is pending approval from Microsoft, which owns the intellectual property (IP) of Quantum Break.”

@Cvantez If I’m not mistaken, MS owns Quantum Break and the associated IP, so there’d have to be some work behind the scenes with MS and Remedy, or maybe Remedy buying the rights from MS.

@Banjo- I started playing Quantum Break last year but unfortunately it was when FF14 had its claws in me REAL deep so I let it sit.

I need to go back to that. Maybe after I’m done with Trails In the Sky 1st Encounter and Trails of Cold Steel 1&2!

Now that is very, very interesting.

So few games seem to take advantage of the series X’s slightly faster bits that it becomes normal to expect equal performance between it and the PS5, or even better results on the PS5 for some games.

Even as a Sony fanboy (who also owns a series X) I can appreciate the extra work Remedy did to harness that horsepower! Especially since I own Control for PS5 and on disc for X.

Bertram Fiddle 1 and 2.

Trust me.

I went to a couple of local stores yesterday. Two Targets and a Walmart.

Target: One had zero Xbox game displays up anymore. It was just gone from the wall. They had an accessory display and prepaid cards but zero systems and no place to even display physical games. The other DID have physical game displays but it was half the size it used to be.

In comparison; the Sony area was unchanged from previous visits (one entire side of an aisle) and Nintendo owned an entire aisle in both stores.

The Walmart I went to was unchanged in size of displays…but there were maybe five physical games in what was a huge XBox display case. A to of wasted space. A couple of Series S and X consoles and some clearance headphones and a full case of controllers were next to the empty game display.

So…YMMV but it isn’t looking fantastic. I live in a larger metro area as well. I also stopped by my local Sam’s Club (it was right next to the Walmart) and they had plenty of PS5s, Switches (no S2) and plenty of XBox controllers. Zero XBox systems at all.

@MrStark I’m only reporting what I’ve seen with my own eyes in the last 24 hours. It sadly partially tracks.

@Tainted That…is an extremely odd statement to make as MS seems to be doing everything it can to exit the actual console-making business and Sony’s CEO said the’re working on the next console.

It just seems like MS is doing everything they can to lose in the hardware space at this point.

At least we know there’ll be a PS6.

Who the heck knows if there’ll be a Series 360720XP?

@Questionable_Duck Valid! I have a plethora of free time myself, so when I had gamepass it was a decent value to sample a bunch of games. (Less so now, of course….)

I already know I’ll be getting this, whether at launch or down the road. Hilariously the only reason I even tried it was because it was a PS Plus monthly game a while back, and I got addicted to it.

@Questionable_Duck $24.99 actually.

And you assume someone will only play this game for a month and no other. I sincerely doubt that most people will do this, gamepass folk tend to go from game to game.

That said, I’ll definitely be buying this on either Switch 2 or PS5 for sure.

“Look, the price increase caught us by surprise too, and we have to make sure that the discount you get doesn't remind you TOO much of the old price…

Same update for PS5 as well. Amused it took this long!

How many times have people and companies denied rumors only to find out later that those denials were complete and utter lies?

Only way to know which case this is will be to see what gets announced, if anything.

I don’t want it and the addition of it to GPU makes it far less likely I’ll ever use GPU again other than the single 3-month card I have stashed away for Forza Horizon 6.

That whole “gamepass is such a great value!” argument is getting less and less plausible, isn’t it?

glances at Gollum and Tales from the Shire

You shall forgive me if I’m…skeptical of any future LotR based games…

Yeah, I think I’ll stick with my Switch 2, PS5 and Series X. Kudos to anyone who takes the plunge on one of these, though.