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@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.

@Daniel1221 As a PS fanboy who also owns a Series X, this is how MS should be doing it if they want anyone to think they care about their own console platform.

I’m cool with either waiting for PS5 or buying it on X, depending on how good it looks.

Costco’s goal is to sell things the manufacturer wants to sell.

MS obviously either doesn’t care to or want to sell consoles anymore, sooo…

Don’t have to deal with Borderlands 4 issues if you don’t waste money on Borderlands 4!

They gave this game away via PS Plus a few months back.

It still remains the only game I’ve never claimed.

@Sindayl Too bad we only made it five comments in before someone preemptively accused people of disliking it for those reasons.

Waiting for the devs to blame the lack of fixes on a coordinated bug-introducing campaign next.

My choice is the “I’ll wait for it to hit the $10 bargain bin as all Borderlands games have done” option.

All they need to do at this point is port MGS4 to non-PS3 platforms and get us non-PSP versions of the Metal Gear Ac!d games.

I welcome all my green brethren in the fight to make the galaxy safe for Managed Democracy alongside us blue PS players and those PC Master Race folks!

FOR SUPER EARTH!

I’m sure everyone commenting will appreciate dissenting opinions and completely respect whatever point of view is expressed!

That said, if these people want higher pay/more secure jobs, then make a better game than Diablo 3 next time!

Ah, we’ve went from “Why isn’t this on Xbox, darn Sony for keeping it an exclusive!” to “Bah, I ain’t buying this!”

I am shocked, SHOCKED I say.

@Jonnybekeww Goof or not, I regret my purchase and I’d sell it if I’d get more than a couple bucks back. I don’t think it’ll sell as well as you think on PS5, there’s not massive clamoring for it like there is for Halo/Forza/Indy/etc.

@VoidPunk So…a complete game uninstall, then?

@Fiendish-Beaver Speaking as a PS5 owner who actually owns Starfield on disc for Series X…we’re not THAT desperate for XBox exclusive games. Halo, absolutely. Gears of War, darn right! Forza, amen!

Xbox can keep Starfield, we’re good.

In a world where the Switch 2 is selling wonderfully and isn’t as powerful as the Series X and PS5, it’s hard to argue that a new console generation is really needed at the moment. Devs aren’t harnessing the X or PS5 (let alone the PS5 Pro) to their limits yet with very few exceptions.

That’s a darn good price for Hogwarts. If I didn’t already have it digitally on PS5, Switch and Switch 2 and physically on Series X, I’d consider it!

Also available on PS5 right now for the same price.

Already snagged it on Switch and I’m glad we now can get it on other consoles!

Given that the video is on the PS official channel, it’s near 100% certain it’ll be on PS HD2 as well.

@munstahunta Fun fact, there are companies that specialize in remasters and ports.

So the actual dev team making NEW games wouldn’t be impacted at all and we could have a shinier DA:O/2 AND new games.

Just…preferably not new games from the specific folks who did Veilguard, please.

@BacklogBrad It’d be nice if PS4/5 owners could play the original Origins and 2 as well. They were PS3 games on PS and the 4 and 5 can’t play them at all. Not to mention have a prettier release with all the DLC included without having to rely on BC.

It amuses me that Pure XBox’s sister site Push Square includes far more context for this, making this WAY less “OMG SONY GONNA GO MULTIPLATFORM!!!1!11!” than everyone is making it out to be.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/08/a-quote-from-a-sony-exec-is-causing-a-hubbub-among-ps5-fans-again

Given they jacked up the prices of the console everywhere, who wants one anymore?

Does it add anything to the single player campaign?

That’s the only reason I’d care.

@Millionski Big difference between spying and actual blocking, but your point is very well taken for sure!

@Coletrain I’m genuinely worried for you folks! It really seems like Bad Things are happening over there!

@TryToBeHopeful You genuinely think the data was deleted?

Look at that Tea app that’s been in the news. They claimed to delete info once submitted. They lied.

Never trust anyone who says this.

“1984 was NOT intended as a guidebook to FOLLOW, you idiots!”

-George Orwell if he were alive today

I’m sorry you folks are experiencing this, my UK brothers and sisters.

I mean, it’s only been six years. Barely any time at all to create a game when you have the bones of the previous game right there to build on over SIX YEARS for a side scrolling metroidvania game.

So ridiculous that it’s taken this long.

@Decimateh Eh, my power bill isn’t bad and running the AC in summer more than makes me not care about what tiny amount I might be charged for the ol spare console running 15 minutes a day.

@TrollOfWar Oh, my PS5 and Switch 2 get used on a daily basis. I just have no reason to use the XBox these days.

@Kraven I power my series X up each day to launch a random game for 15 minutes and then shut it down purely for the rewards points.

Haven’t actually played a game on it in a couple months, sadly.

Sanity prevails.

@RiverGenie If they don’t create them with always-online required, they won’t need to spend more.

Crazy hot take, I know.

@AccessibleDaydream Fun fact? A ton of those Ultraviolet codes will STILL WORK.

I redeemed one from 2015 or so a few weeks ago, and the movie was added to my library.

@AccessibleDaydream Movies Anywhere is a system that syncs up different movie libraries if the distributors support it. You might be thinking of Ultraviolet.

Movies Anywhere is supported by nearly all the big names, except Paramount and Lionsgate.

@Questionable_Duck That we are aware of.

It’s not like every dev gets on a soapbox and starts shouting, “Holy moley, this freaking Series S is annoying, we had to neuter the game to make it run on this thing!”

Only reason the other two dev teams were able to is because they had the benefit of already selling well on other platforms and didn’t have to worry about possible MS blowback from their criticism. At least in my own head anyway, I have no proof of this obviously.

Either way, we have two documented examples of it being an issue. Which isn’t all that many, but it’s still interesting that it HAS happened!

That said, imagine what MS/their array of devs could do with a game if they were NOT held back by having to scale down for the S as well.