Purely anecdotal, but I’m in the US:

I have some coworkers who have been XBox fans for a while. One has been team green since the OG XBox.

He’s been saying for the last few months that he’ll probably jump to PS when the next console gen happens. He’s annoyed with the decisions MS has made over the last few years.

He bought my PS5 (I got a Pro right before the price increase) and has been incredibly happy with it, to the point that his X has sat unused and he ended his GPU subscription for the first time in years.

He told me that the price drop on GP was a step in the right direction, but it’s still more expensive than it was a year ago.

Now me, I’ve been an X owner for the last couple of years, but always been a Sony/Nintendo kind of guy. Mostly bought used games for BC purposes and had GPU for a while. The Horizon series has made me very happy, as has the PS5 porting. Been enjoying the heck out of 6 via the last 3 month GPU code I’d been holding onto, and even bought a disc copy to go on the shelf next to my 1-5 copies.

Now they’d released it day and date for PS5? I’d be playing it there. Might have still bought the disc for X down the road, but not now.

I guess what I’m trying to do is giving a (rather rambling) current perspective of two people, one a longtime XBox fan and the other someone who has dabbled in XBox but definitely doesn’t use it as a primary or even secondary (that’s my Switch 2!) console.

I’ll stop now.

“Sorry for the confusion over us straight up lying.”

@RadioHedgeFund You can easily get the discs. Sure, the DLC isn’t there anymore and you can’t play online, but the discs are still out there.

Of course, this assumes you’re not on PC or a Series S…

I got my Series X a couple years ago as my first and only XBox, mostly for a bunch of BC games and exclusives I’d never played.

I was close to just selling it, when I tried my first Horizon game. I’m not a racer guy, but figured I’d give it a shot.

The Horizon games were the only reason I didn’t sell it, and I still have my X.

That said, till 6 came out my X was gathering dust in favor of my PS5 Pro and Switch 2. Used my last 3-month GPU card to play 6 online and also bought 6 on disc for my shelf.

Once it comes out on PS5, that’ll be where I play it going forward and my X will go back to gathering dust. If 6 wasn’t coming to PS5…well, I’d probably not have bought 6 on disc, lived with it on GPU for a couple months and then waited for a year or two till 6 went on deep, deep digital discount.

Maybe MS can license that compression tech Sony uses for their PS5 game installations.

It would be amusing seeing an XBox physical release for this that included four discs…

@Gabrie You’d be quite surprised. Purely anecdotal of course, but quite a few of my IRL friends are rediscovering physical media again after getting tired of streaming service price hikes and stuff moving from service to service.

@MaccaMUFC The percent of PS4/5 games that have the actual game on disc is about 90-92%, if memory serves, likely higher. I believe DoesItPlay? quoted that a while back. PS gamers still get the game on the disc, even if MS has essentially abandoned it.

It’s a bold strategy, alienating more than half your installed base and getting zero cash from the other. Let’s see how this works out.

Lego Batman comes out next week, and I’m almost done with Ghost of Yotei and Pragmata.

Sadly I will be holding onto my remaining 3-month and 1-month gamepass codes till I finish those.

Ads on a game system outside of its store are atrocious.

GAME ads I can sort of understand, but fast food ads? Not acceptable.

Well, guess the Series X really WILL be my first and last XBox if this is true.

@superjas Stellar Blade wasn’t even CALLED Stellar Blade when it was announced originally in 2019, and it was targeted at PS4 and XBone. Lots of stuff changed.

Black Myth Wukong was announced in 2020 for “all major platforms” and then came out for both PS5 in 2024 AND Xbox in 2025.

Forza Horizon 6 was announced for both XBox and PS5 in 2025 for release for both platforms in 2026, just a few months later for PS5. Oh, and it’s always been a Microsoft property.

So no, the situations are not comparable in the slightest. Though your response only took nine days or so, a shorter delay than between Black Myth Wukong’s PS and Xbox releases!

Gamepass till it hits the PS5, then buying that one outright.

@Millionski Like I said, no physical disc release has EVER said S/X, just X. This isn’t new, it’s always been the case for physical releases that they only mention the X.

@Millionski …the series S doesn’t use discs. I don’t believe they have EVER put Series S on a box because there would be no purpose unless it was just a game code.

Why would the series S be included in the first place for this? Or was that a typo in your post and you meant X?

Problem is, that Black Flag release says “game disc” bit the whole game isn’t on the disc and requires a download. Even says that above it.

So if Ubisoft is using this “game disc” label for that release, that automatically makes it a meaningless label. Might as well just call it a “game key disc.”

@awp69 That…is almost never a good sign.

Edit: I stand corrected. Both Push Square and Nintendo Life have reviews up and they liked it.

@Jenkinss Gosh, I can migrate my progress to a completely different machine I don’t own and don’t intend to ever purchase? How generous of them!

Yeah, no. The devs can’t be bothered to support the product they already sold, I can’t be bothered to give them another damn dime or (the more valuable commodity) moment of my time.

@RiverGenie Agreed. I was enjoying the hell out of the PS4 version and hoped for a PS5/Series X native version.

Instead the devs dropped a deuce on every console gamer. I’ll never buy another thing they release.

The moment they stopped supporting consoles was the moment I stopped playing this game.

Don’t waste your time on a company that won’t support you.

Thank. God.

I detest this Copilot crap.

I have played all but one of these (the original Horizon) on my series X.

…I hope they carryover to the PS5 version when I port my progress over in a few months.

@CaptainCluck …you know that by saying they can’t mess it up that is now GUARANTEED they will mess it up, right?

@epidemikK Thank you for your doctoral dissertation on the value of storage.

@superjas Sony never said either of those games was coming to XBox. And one of them actually did. Your comparison doesn’t seem very fitting here.

@superjas It’s funny you think that, given that FH5 was a massive seller on PS and MS has confirmed multiple times both cross-progression and the PS5 version coming some months down the road.

@IOI Exactly my plan. The only thing missing from FH5 was the cross-progression so I couldn’t pick up where I left off on PS5. Hilariously it kept using all my XBox numbers for my record roads unlocked and such, though.

Yeah, FH5 runs wonderfully on my Pro. Can’t wait to see the difference between Series X and PS5 Pro.

Whelp, guess I’d better start dusting the ol Series X off soon and bust out that 3 month GPU card I’ve been sitting on. It’ll be nice to play this up till the PS5 release a few months later and then carry over all my progress!

I’m a longtime Sony/Nintendo guy. My first and only XBox is a Series X, sitting alongside my PS5 Pro and my Switch 2.

A few months ago, I thought it would be my last as well, kept around only for BC purposes. Seeing the new direction they’re taking…maybe my X will get some more use after all.

Kiki Wolfkill.

Surely, SURELY that cannot be her birth name. If it is, she chose the wrong career and should be a character in some monster-hunting novel instead.

Can we get a weather check in Hell? I suspect it’s snowing.

@eduscxbox DO we have the numbers? I may have missed an article if so.

MS kinda screwed up PS5 releases for folks who prefer physical media as well. Doom the Dark Ages and Indiana Jones being two big examples which didn’t include the entire games on disc. I know I skipped those at release for that very reason and only got Indy after a deep discount.

Happily picked up the GoW PS5 release and Ninja Gaiden 4 tho.

@Ganon7880 You uh…you might want to watch the actual video rather than vent your spleen at the authors of this article.

Huh.

Smart move on her part. That slogan was just insanely stupid to begin with.

I’ve been watching a bit of gameplay from someone playing on PC and what I’ve seen is good.

Once they fix the controls on console (the devs are only NOW realizing the controls are crap and promised to fix it…wish they’d noticed during the last few years of development!) and iron out bugs for a few months, I may give it a shot on PS5. But I’ll absolutely be waiting for a sale at this point.

It’ll be the silliest name possible, guaranteed.

I’d have respect if they went for “XBox McXboxerson,” though.

@darylb24 I’m aware, I’m just saying that I’m always concerned when a game gives CP2077-launch vibes until proven different.

My play will be on PS5, but I hope for good real-world performance on both console platforms!

@themightyant That’s why I said “little or no” as I know they’ve shown very little.

After the Cyberpunk 2077 Heard Round The World, I don’t trust ANY dev that shows so little console video, especially this close to release.

I hope my fears will be proven meaningless.

Still find it odd that little to no console footage has been shown.

@themightyant For my team green friends, I hope so. It’s rather ridiculous that this wasn’t noticed before release.

…did no one at Ubi actually PLAY the game before releasing the patch? How does this sort of thing slip by whatever QC they have, if any?

@ilyn It says a lot that STS2 doing well was a forgone conclusion…but a game made by BUNGIE doing well is less so!

@Cherip-the-Ripper Apparently the original game was well loved! I got the first one ages ago via (I think) PS Plus and never bothered to try it, but maybe I should…

@Balaam_ If they’d remade the original Marathon trilogy, I’d have bought in instantly. I cut my teeth on those back in the day.

Slay the Spire 2 is destroying Marathon in player count currently on Steam.

I offer this as information only, without casting shade on Marathon. Other than using the word “destroyed,” of course.

Huh. I stand corrected.

I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong.

I came close to deleting the app, it was getting so bad. Probably got 50 notifications before it finally stopped.

“I didn’t expect such scrutiny”

Then someone failed to warn her how dedicated the internet is to researching new people put in charge of the things they love.

That said, the explanation makes sense. Weird that someone ostensibly in charge of AI things didn’t understand how this would go, though…

Gosh, you mean neglecting your actual customers in favor of chasing one that doesn’t exist is a BAD thing?

Huh. Whodathunkit.

It’s blindingly obvious she didn’t play any of those games herself and this is an utterly disingenuous “hello, fellow gamers” moment. Also notice she didn’t say WHICH Halo, just “Halo.”

Amused that this article doesn’t express any doubt as to the validity of this response or this account’s very improbable achievements in such a short time. Either this was an intern under a deadline to boost that gamerscore, or she’s been training AI on those games using her account.

@Millionski I haven’t trusted MS since Windows 95. Hell, since DOS.