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@elpardo1984 Are there also dozens of games released this year that sold 20 million within a few weeks?

I kinda doubt it!

Astro Bot and Metaphor were fantastic and definitely deserve those nominations.

Black Myth Wukong is on my wish list, and I’m glad it made it there as well.

Balatro isn’t my thing, and DLC shouldn’t be nominated for best game so Erdtree isn’t even on that list as far as I’m concerned.

…I should probably get back to FF7 Rebirth one of these days…

MS should probably hit Sony up about their Kraken compression techniques.

$13.99 for Kill the Justice League.

…still $10 too high for my blood.

@gollumb82 Til you have an internet outage, then that owned hardware might look a bit more desirable…

Oh god, it’s XBoxes all the way down! Xboxception!!!

@Medic_alert Thanks, I hate it!

@MeanBeanEgg ..I’m even more so, so sorry.

@MeanBeanEgg I’m so, so sorry.

…Dustborn?

Well, I guess they need to get people to play that steaming pile somehow.

@NeoRatt You…are underestimating the current cost and difficulty of manufacturing these in comparison to standard hard drives, me thinks. As time goes on they will be, but until then…us peasants will have to make do!

@NeoRatt In fairness, a non-proprietary 8 TB M.2 SSD is around $750. SSDs aren’t cheap, especially at the speeds required for this gen of consoles.

I really don’t feel like paying that much for the ability to save a few more games. An external 8 TB hard drive and doing some storage shuffling is a much more cost-effective solution no matter how much you and I hate shuffling. Maybe when the PS6 and (whatever MS chooses to release) come out prices will have dropped substantially!

@Rog-X Not a compelling defense of proprietary hardware, in a world where I can save even more money by buying physical media.

Weird hill to die on defending proprietary hardware choices, though.

@johnK All games will run off the expansion cards.

You might be thinking of external hard drives. Only XBone/360 games will run off those, along with a VERY tiny number of X/S optimized games like the MCC.

So glad Sony went the non-proprietary route.

Odd how MS is just in love with these non-industry-standard drive expansions. Didn’t they do the same thing in the 360 era?

Meanwhile I could replace my PS3 and PS4’s internal hard drives with an off the shelf drive and didn’t void any warranties doing so, and stick a standard m.2 SSD into my PS5 with no issues.

The only things these cards have an edge on is installation speed, just insert into console.

(And yes, I do have a 1 TB card for my series X, annoyingly!)

Oh yeah. Overwatch exists.

After they failed to deliver on the promised PvE content for 2, I pretty much gave up on it. And after the game I originally paid for was no longer accessible.

Huh.

@luke88 As Jeremy Clarkson would say:

“Oh no! Anyway…”

When I bought my first XBox ever (series X) and discovered Forza Horizon 4 and 5.

So far…that’s about it. Still definitely much more of a PS/Switch guy, but Forza Horizon is fantastic. Once MS dips out of the console market, I look forward to playing it on the PS5/6!

I haven’t played it but I’ve watched video. Definitely not for me. Modern turns of phrase in a fantasy setting just put my teeth on edge. Maybe I’ll try it on deep discount someday, but it just feels odd to me.

As someone who played and loved the original Marathon Trilogy back in the day…I will never touch this in-name-only thing.

Just shows that a) people want a more powerful console, b) the series X isn’t impossible to find and c) people like having the disc drive option.

(Yes, I know there is now a disc less X, but I hate it. )

If there’s a physical version, I will get it for Switch unless the physical version actually has the series X version on disc instead of that annoying smart delivery.

If there’s a PS version, however, I will get that instead since PS5 is my primary console. PS, then Switch, then XBox as far as my physical priorities.

Digital priorities are PS, then XBox, then Switch.

Some Xbox fans months ago “bah, they’re lying about technical issues and they could bring it here if they really WANTED to!”

Some Xbox fans now: “bah, it’s not that great a game and grifters did things, I’m not buying this garbage!”

Loving this game. Got it for PS5 and I’m about 17 hours in. It’s completely my thing, and I’m here for this weird fantasy world they’ve crafted.

That said, Spencer BETTER be loving this game, since it looks like MS paid Atlus a good chunk of change to pretend that the PS4/5 versions didn’t exist in almost every piece of promotion they did for the game.

@DJKingaling The game will outright tell you if there’s any you truly need/avoid for a particular dungeon, so you’re safe for the most part!

@OldGamer999 Well, as a primarily PS/Switch gamer, my series X is my first Xbox…and probably my last one. At least I got to play the whole Halo series and discover Forza Horizon 3-5!

@OldGamer999 Yeah, MS’s strategy here baffles me. They say they’re not leaving the console market but at the same time they’re doing everything they can to make it sure SEEM like they want to…

@OldGamer999 Because NEW SHINY I guess.

Anyone who buys that all digital series X when the previous one is an option just hates all discs, apparently.

@StylesT A demo exists. Download it and see what happens.

@Nintendo4Sonic Well. For the XBox one. These are still glorified download tokens for the series X thanks to smart delivery, sadly.

Thank goodness I already have all of these physically for PS, and smart delivery makes me not care about the disc versions at all since they won’t have the series X versions on there!

That said, congrats fellow XBox Yakuza fans!

@Arkz MS is truly for the gamers at every opportunity!

@Ricky-Spanish It’s a great price for a proprietary format memory card.

Really wish MS would have gone the industry-standard route and used the M.2 SSD slot like the PS5 does.

I mean…they’re obviously not going to say anything bad about the game they made and just released an expansion for…

@Yousef- shudder

@Scummbuddy Well, I guess it was good enough for Star-Lord…not for me tho.

Thank goodness he won’t be working on old ideas!

“Hey, here’s some money, please start or keep making games for our systems? I know we sold like ten consoles in Japan last month, but there’s money in America and I guess that Europe place too that you can get!”

I’m wiling to bet it’ll amount to “too much work, too little benefit.”

Not saying that is or is not accurate but I’d wager that’s what most of the non-participating devs will say.

I bought a series X to try out all the Xbox exclusives I had never played. Figured the Halo series would be all I really enjoyed.

Turns out Forza 3-5 were the true gems, and I HATE racing games. Purchase was worth it for those alone.

Well, thank goodness they trusted this DLC enough to give it to reviewers early, eh?

Oh wait…

That’s never a good sign when outlets don’t get review copies.

I’m a die-hard PS fan but have zero interest in dropping $700 on a console I’d have to add a disc drive to in order to access my already owned games.

I’ll happily stick with my peasant-class PS5.

I picked the game up for dirt cheap on disc, and got the premium thing for like $15 at Walmart.

Been holding off on playing for a while. Might when this releases.

@Nightcrawler71 If that was the worry…it was a very valid one. That game looks fantastic!

glances at all the fubars Ubisoft has made with this game, from historical reenactment society symbols being used to the whole broken Torii gate in the last few days and isn’t surprised they’re going radio silent

I don’t give two tugs of a dead dog’s **** about a game company doing anything but making games.

Although hilariously, I guess by selling fewer consoles than Sony or Nintendo they’re making less of an impact…

I genuinely just played this for the first time last week, as I’m a relatively new XBox owner and have never played any Halo games before getting my Series X some months back.

I enjoyed the plot structure, and was VERY pleased to see Nathan Fillion in there, as well as Tricia Helfer!

What, no “Neither because I have no interest in soccer/football and don’t game on PC” option?

I know I’m pretty much guaranteed to buy the sequel, both because I’ll enjoy the game AND I want to reward these folks for giving this studio another chance at life.

Completely unsurprising. One look at the Japanese console sales week after week says it all. Switch and PS5 outsell any XBox by a stupidly huge margin. Heck, Nintendo Life just posted the numbers a little bit ago.

Switch and PS5 sales, even the digital only PS5 which is outsold by the disc version massively, are destroying Xbox there.

MS just isn’t even trying anymore. The only console they can outsell in Japan is the PS4, because almost everyone already HAS one.

Now granted, the Japanese numbers don’t 100% correlate to global sales…but it’s pretty telling all the same.

I mean…compared to Concord, it’s alive and kicking as a roaring success.

No matter how badly xDefiant goes, Ubisoft can at least remember that.