@FrenchVaniIIuxe with Satiya's and Trump's help absolutely but let's not kid ourselves many bad decisions for a few years.

The craziest thing is though how amazing the January show they had going for them but with so many other issues with communication, announcements hardware price changes, firings of employees, and cancelling internal games it feels like nothing positive happened this year for the Xbox brand.

They can really only blame themselves as they have so much money they could literally eat the costs of both of these price increases and kept the consoles at the same prices below PlayStation or Nintendo. But they didn't, it's their choice.

Good, who knows if day one but at least generally a confirmation is great for every platform. Let's just hope by 2027 on any platform.

I went from day 1 to not really carrying at all after hearing about town building and this is an existing mobile game offline.

I think the cheaper unit is a better deal overall, and potentially worthy for anyone in the PC ecosystem without a Deck, Ally, or Legion. Otherwise just look away from one of the easiest product launches to omit form memory.

Have a Switch 2 and a Deck so these seem extremely redundant. If we had OLED screen 120hz screen and powerful enough to run 1080p120hz with VRR for about $749 I'd have considered. But the problem is we just aren't there yet for handheld performance/price either.

Easy skip until 3-5 more years when a premium product will be here in a handheld for sub $800.

Need the next Virta Fighter. The wait has been too long.

Multiplayer: Battlefield 6
Campaign: Black Ops 7

Best games at the whole direct, pretty cool Square finally decided to stop skipping Xbox.

It sounds like there may not be traditional gameplay mechanics. Either they will appeal to you and something fun or it will end up as brutal to people as Heavy Rain was when it came out. Just a damn chore to play.

Marvel Token, Ghost of Yōtei, Returnal, Silent Hill 2...

Movies Anywhere has always been a great platform that generally works well until you have to re-verify logins due to policy changes every year or so. It would be nice to see it go outside the US for everyone else at some point.

Will it be PlayAnywhere? Or on disc on Xbox? That's the real questions. If it was PlayAnywhere then I'd consider it digital but that's about the only way digital Xbox. Microsoft needs to get it as a standard all games PlayAnywhere until the start of next generation. I'm tired of this half-ass approach.

It looks like more of what Battlefield 4 should have been when they talked about destruction. But still I need to see actual gameplay on console to verify it is like it was just teased.

DICE is really good about not executing what they show in teaser trailers. Actually notoriously bad just like that Killzone 2 trailer at E3 Sony/Guerilla faked two decades ago.

Cool? Physical versions? If so I might buy otherwise don't care unless it's on Steam/GoG.

@awp69 he cannot even see if you want it save time gain more profit why would you get rid of people? Those people could have been using AI to create more faster. It's just simply he wants to 'save money' by replacing humans with AI. Whatever his take at this point in this very very early stage of AI there isn't much reason to get rid people of their jobs.

Still doubt it's a playable build on disc without internet. If it is I'll be shocked as I believe it will be the first time for first party since Pentiment in 2022. Microsoft sucks.

@BAMozzy I got over Scalebound due to the situation and it just being one game at a weird time for Xbox brand. Now it's game after game after game along with studio after studio getting axed.

It's basically like they do not know how to manage game studios at this level of investment and tier of involvement of resources and studio counts. Sure they did pretty well during the OG Xbox & 360 generations but they just didn't have a damn clue during Xbox One and even more now so for Series generation. There is basically no way Xbox isn't moving to 3rd party publisher by mid next generation or earlier.

Negative, it's digital only anyways.

@Nintendo4Sonic just after I held out on GamePass Core only for a year I saw a good boost of games coming for Ultimate to switch for a year. They had a great showing early this year it seemed they were headed in the right track to being solid on releases like PlayStation & Nintendo. Now they just throw away all their good will to appease the Microsoft overlords and shareholders.

Now next July I will not only be not subbing Ultimate but un-subbing and not switching to PC or Core, I'm just over their madness and chaos. My Series X will be a BC machine and 3rd party physical games box moving forward (like there is hardly any releasing on disc anyways today).

Nadella and Spencer need a reality check.

Don't even care anymore, most of the good will is gone with Xbox. They ruined everything great they built to make just to advance AI. Which won't make anything new creatively by itself.

Remember even 5 years ago the pillars we expected were: Halo | Gears | Forza

I guess now we can say the brand officially transitioned to these games as pillars: Minecraft | COD | Horizon

The Xbox of the past and its games we knew is gone, Gears and Halo are niche titles at this point and are not primary focus anymore due to $.

Better late than never, but this push is just soooooooooooooo late. It's obvious they are looking to move away from consoles and this is the support for that with a 'bigger push'. The start of this generation should have been the start and forced all games to be PlayAnywhere if Microsoft truly cared they didn't care where we played our Xbox paid for & GamePass games.

Just really really poor execution this late.

Hoping for a physical release. No matter I really need to get around to playing this game now since it has controller support.

If wall running and/or gun game I'll be there, but I'll stay for a single player campaign.

This is a great idea and will benefit everyone.

@Coletrain it's pretty non-existent in the US also. Last commercial I saw was for Starfield, and last ads on a non focused gaming site was sidebars on YouTube. Maybe they cover some buses and trains in other cities like Seattle, LA, or New York but I haven't seen big posters/murals/ads in person in basically any city since the Xbox 360 era.

Yet I see Nintendo commercials and ads when a big game is launching or when the Switch 2 released. Then about every other month see is some PlayStation commercial online in an ad/webpage or via YouTube
These are primarily based on a third party game or their next console exclusive.

@Ricky-Spanish yeah I did't worry about for years but it has even happened to me during OG Xbox days. I lost my account with all my OG Xbox DLC from Halo 2 after I was put in multiple official matchmaking ranked games that were modded games. The people who hacked their consoles got banned and I got banned for reporting them while using against the EULA language, so they reported me for hacking. It was a total loss for everyone from what I was told and there was no way to prove otherwise back then even re-appealing the claim. But this was during ranked Halo 2 games with paid for Xbox Live without my console being modded like the other people did whom were the hosts.

Yes stranger things have happened to people and yes that is before the Xbox 360 where Microsoft learned a lot from online play and didn't have a great service to record situations online like now.

The point stands we could loose access to our logins/game access in the future if we don't have a way to prove ownership in a way that Microsoft deem acceptable at that time.

@Ricky-Spanish We don't own our closed store Xbox digital games, there isn't a conspiracy here. This basically means you don't read the EULA/fine print when you signed up for your Xbox account nor the changes they send via email on EULA.

If you are fine to not understand what you signed up for that's on you when purchasing digital games. There is no other way to dumb this down more. I'm just trying to help people be aware you can own your games, but it's just a waste of time apparently.

I love Kojima games and had a real difficult time getting into Death Stranding without reading how far I need to play to get past the introduction. Still hard to keep going due to lots of walking, it's fun but it's just sooooo much.

It seems this is a merge of MGS5 and DS1, which does cut down on the slow walking dramatically with a much focus on gunplay, story, and stealth. Not sure if it's worth 10/10 but sounds much more approachable for more people to get into vs. DS1.

@Ricky-Spanish I get it and I "buy" digital games but people need to understand you do not own them, you just purchase access to them that's all. Like a glofied long-term GamePass sub per game and as long as people understand that that's all that matters.

The only exception is gog.com where purchasing the games are yours forever as long as you can login to your account and/or back-up the installers. Unfortunately nothing like this exists on consoles for digital (but maybe gog games will work on the next Xbox console?), just physical console games discs/carts. This is why (some) people still love renting physical games.

"Physical games most likely won't exist next gen except with the switch 2!"

Only because most people gave up owning games for faster game access by purchasing more digital games than physical games. If more physical games were sold I'd disagree, but you are correct that is the trajectory we are heading.

Looking forward to trying this out to see how it behaves vs GoG vs PlayNite.

The thing about this is that we have learned much from Microsoft announcements in the past. Anyone can officially say anything before an official announcement by Microsoft/Xbox. Then things are different afterwards, but with the wording here it sounds more definitive Xenia team wanted to attempt to inform the public what has been said is not actually true in the past/present.

Though in the future that's another matter entirely. Likely what Jez was given as far as information this time is just factually untrue.

@Ricky-Spanish Gamefly... It's a HUGE reason I even have consoles and most of them. Renting games saves money overall vs buying strictly digital console games. You are effectively throwing money at the wind for an 'entitlement' if "buying" digital console games is the primary way someone plays games.

Only "buying" PC games at a fraction of the cost of a console digital game is a way to save money when only playing digital games (besides GamePass/PS+ service of course).

Played Mindseye on PlayStation and didn't think it was as bad as it reviewed. Decent 12-15 hour linear story, worth a rental.

No wall running is very unfortunate, Black Ops III is one of the better BO games or really any Call of Duty games. A mix of III and 6 would have a great idea especially being a story after II.

Jetpacks is within it's own sub-universe COD with a 'Advance' and 'Infinite', both good but doesn't fit the rest of the 'Black Ops' games.

@Kaloudz I'm older than that and the more chaos the more control I have in Call of Duty games. 'Boots on the ground' movement doesn't really work for a slightly old/modern/modern future sub-universe of Call of Duty like Black Ops. Again not all COD games have to have the same movement feeling but it's established Black Ops games are of the more chaotic.

They are funding/bringing quality games to GamePass yes, also bringing long overdue games to the Xbox ecosystem, and committed to at least one more Microsoft built console yes fairly good but honestly a bit late conformations on the last two.

Otherwise the Xbox Ally and this Xbox Oculus, no waste of time/resources/marketing.

Zero point of this existing besides a conduit to ..streaming GamePass games. This is gonna be worse than the Xbox Ally doesn't play Xbox console games announcement.

This is only going on an assumption it's coming to Xbox via it's "coming to consoles". It was not outright said, so it could come day 1, like Black Myth Wukong, like FF7 Remake, or frankly never. We will have to get official confirmation.

Playing it right now on PS5 Pro, via Gamefly. It's a very janky/jarring/weirdly basic experience. Though it isn't all bad or an unplayable video game and some of the story/dialogue is interesting or just hilariously funny in a dumb way.

I've definitely played worse story based games but with much better gameplay, though the driving in Mindseye isn't that bad. Just don't expect to have a great time nor not to laugh at how simple the gameplay mechanics are.

@JumpingJackson I think it's more split than it's ever been my good friend same age as me would say exactly as you just did. I'd love an OLED but as an older gamer I want a larger screen and a constant fps or VRR to cover up issues.

If we are talking about TVs/monitors sure OLED but they have VRR and battery life isn't a worry but we are talking about a handheld and better battery life is very important.

$649 for Xbox Ally due to basically being a Steam Deck.
$849 for Xbox Ally X due to its a brand new high end part 24gb ram.

If Microsoft would guarantee these SSDs will work on future Xbox console even more so just for Series, One, 360, and OG games I think that would show your money isnt thrown to the wind. Just tell us it can be used for legacy games for next generation.

Price is a hard sell vs other consoles SSD but can they be used the future is more of a problem.

As is with most previews of brand new entries to RE we still don't know who is the main character. Still could be Jill or Leon or Chris or Rose.

We will just have to wait until we see more probably at The Game Awards.

As much as I'd like something portable as an option versus Deck or Switch 1/2 I think Microsoft's problem lies in battery life and expectations of being able to use with all features and games up to Series S power portability.

It's probably wise to wait until 2029/2030 and then price, power, battery will be in a much better place. And then you will be able to play GTA6 on the go!

As someone with ~500 Xbox 360/One/Series compatible digital games along with a Switch, a Steam Deck and a PlayStation Portal: absolutely not.

First thing is a ROG Ally is way too bulky, I need something dedicated similar or smaller to a Deck. If it was streaming only it needs to be equal size to a Portal..

The major factors they need to work on in from an Ally model before selling a handheld is its size (it's way to thick), screen size (should be 7.5-8 inches) then battery life (needs at least 5 hours minimum). The Ally is none of those things from a positive standpoint.

Probably only some new IP. If it's exclusive to Xbox it would be on GamePass or something random 3rd party game not there.

Hard to say as currently there isn't anything worth $80 I've seen on any platform. Maybe GTA6 if the gameplay lives up to what we have seen graphically, probably won't as none of R* games have except the Table Tennis game on 360.

If I cannot remove the ads as a paying Ultimate subscriber why bother? The ads are the problem.

Let FromSoft be FromSoft, not every or any other developers have to FULLY COPY their genre in this own way AND their game type of vision with settings, difficulty, etc.

Gamers are just embarrassing often.

It's been a pretty great 6 months for Microsoft releases. The Outer Worlds 2 will be good same for Ninja Gaiden 4 but see just other small games taking up the time and spotlight.

1. Lies of P
2. Blasphemous 2

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