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I'm hoping it's been worth the wait.

I have been claiming the Phantasy Star 2 bundles for a few years now without actually playing the game. I wonder how much of this stuff is waiting in the mailbox or whatever in game for me. Lol

@Kevin0104 It's already been heavily rumored that Sony is scaling back their support for PC, no Wolverine, no Intergalictic etc. This news conveniently dropped just before Microsoft revealed Helix.

In my view; without exclusives there is no reason to own a Helix. If everything Xbox makes releases on the Playstation 6 what's the point?

The fact it might play Steam games isn't a big sell for me, it will never be as powerful as my Geforce Now subscription that gives me access to a rtx 5080 rig for $20. That ship has sailed, big reason I don't own a PC is because Nvidia's streaming service is works flawlessly for me, and yes even in competitive shooters like CoD and Battlefield. I don't subscribe ever month but have used it in the past for free play weekends held on Steam of certain games and of course your gamepass library is available there.

Unless Xbox corrects course I'm really looking at the PS6 and just keeping my GFN subscription off and on for the odd PC release. (Playstation games are unfortunately absent from GFN and not many games work through play anywhere, only supporting the Steam or Epic stores.)

This is starting to be very reminiscent of when Phil Spencer said Xbox was back and there was all this momentum.

Then 'its just four games" happened.

Keeping my expectations in check until I see some real commitment from the Xbox team instead of some social media posts. Xbox needs to show me that Xbox is still worth investing in; give me a really good reason why I shouldn't buy the Playstation 6.

I don't play PC, play anywhere is useless for me.

Gamepass is nice to have but not a deal breaker when switching to Playstation since I buy most of my games and Playstation offers a similar service that gets most of the games that come to gamepass, albeit later down the line.

For me to seriously look at Helix and think there's value there Microsoft needs to revisit their exclusivity policy. Elder scrolls 6, next Wolfenstein, Psychonauts 3 etc etc announced as Helix/PC exclusives? Here's my 💰

I used to play this alot back in 2015-2016 and had fun. Might be worth diving back into with all the updates.

"PlayStation Plus subscribers can claim the ESO Gold Road Collection for free from March 3 to April 6, 2026, which includes the base game and major chapter expansions up to Gold Road. This includes zones from Summerset to Necrom and Gold Road."

Damn, Microsoft sure knows how to make us on Xbox feel second rate. Can't even catch a break with first party games.

Excited to play it but this time I'm opting for just the base game. Microsoft is asking for way too much $$$ for the addons bundle. $30 for access via gamepass then another $80 for future DLC, come on now Microsoft.

The Long Dark looks interesting. I haven't played it since like 2017.

I would have rather they made super meat boy 2 instead of this.. experiment.

I'm excited to see more Fable. If there's a bunch of games announced for 2027 I'm just going to wait to play them on the Playstation 6 if it launches next year like rumored.

Looking forward to Sudden Strike 5. The series was unknown to me until Sudden Strike 4 was given away as a games with gold game a few years ago and became addicted to the game. Very fun ww2 rts games.

Reminder that Atomic Heart was funded by the Russian government via state owned entities like Gazprom and VTB Bank. Your information may or may not be being collected and shared with the FSB as well but that is still unverified, unlike the Russian investors.

Do with that information what you will. You are you're own individual.

Like others have said, I never use it. Like the Fortnite Crew pass, Ubisoft+ Classics is unnecessary and is increasing the price of gamepass.

Microsoft should just offer gamepass with things like this as optional addons to add to your subscription like subscribing to "channels" on Prime video. My guess is Microsoft makes more money this way because if we could choose, most of us would choose a gamepass with just day one games access for a cheaper price.

Will this affect Sony's sales? Probably not, especially with GTA VI on the horizon.

Unfortunately this means the PS6 will not be any cheaper than $899 when it launches more than likely. I have zero interest in project Helix after the way Microsoft handled the Series S/X generation, so much so that my launch day Series X will be the last Xbox I own.

Besides the Stalker 2 DLC I would say this show was pretty lackluster. Also using an AI to reveal games instead of an actual human was dissapointing to see, no matter how many iterations there are they still sound robotic.

The black ops 7 campaign wasn't great overall but had some fun parts. I really enjoyed how progression was shared across all gamemodes, including the campaign, so when I jumped into multiplayer I already had my favorite guns unlocked. I hope this continues in the future.

Endgame is still my favorite addition to the franchise in the last five or so years. After I completed the campaign and successfully exfiltrated from my first match of Endgame I upgraded to the vault edition. Loved the giant robot and dinosaur world boss's they did last season, hope to see more of that.

I anticipate a steep sale in the not to distant future.

Ultimate used to be the best value but ever since the 50% price hike, Premium has become the best value for your dollar. Premium gets more new games every month than Ultimate does.

As I said in the previous Marathon article, the game is alot of fun.

Judging by the user reviews across Steam (87% positive from over 9k reviews) , Xbox (4.5/5 from 385 reviews in the US region, 5/5 in Canada based on 36 reviews) , and Playstation ( 4.7/5 based on 3.3k reviews) Seems i'm not alone in really liking Marathon. Pretty crazy, this is the same game so many said never stood a chance.

Theres a few factors that will decide whether I buy one or not.

Price being the biggest factor. I am upgrading day one to a new system as I always have but if this thing is like $300-400 or more than a Playstation 6, I'm probably just going to get a Playstation 6.

If the rumors of Sony pulling back their support for PC and not committing to anymore ports of single player games, the ones I care about, then that also is something I will have to consider.

In this day and age I don't need a suped up Xbox / PC hybrid or even a PC to play PC games at their highest settings as well as taking advantage of the latest tech like DLSS 4.5 or FSR 4 thanks to streaming services like Geforce Now. What I can't play on GFN? Playstation games. Same could be true with the next Xbox and that sucks.

Thinking about it now, I think Sony knew ahead of time that this announcement was coming and "leaked" the recent rumors of no more PC ports of their games, at least single player ones.

Would make sense. There's a number of people who have been chomping at the bit to be able to play Playstation games ever since the rumors first started about Steam on the next Xbox.

This is going to be a tough sell but I'm interested in seeing how it unfolds.

Microsoft is aiming for the high end console market when their low spec / low cost (Series S) console has struggled to sell. Every quarter for the past few years hardware has dropped by double digits YoY, but somehow a very expensive console is going to fix that?

Make it make sense.

Can't say I'm surprised. Doesn't affect me though, I had already decided I'm not buying anymore hardware from Xbox.

I'm seeing several people whom spent the better part of the past year mentioning at every chance they got that the next Xbox would be able to play Playstation games, as if that rumor is true but now rumors should be taken with a grain of salt now?

"I don't care about Playstation games" - you're doing a great job showing everyone how uninterested you are when you've got like 5-6 comments alone on the subject, all coping that this isn't true.

I don't see this selling very well. Gamers have had nearly three years to really rip the game apart and the general consensus is this is the worst Bethesda game yet.

After spending about a day and a half with the beta / server slam I can confidently say Marathon will be a successful game. Will it be successful on the levels of Helldivers 2? Probably not. But come launch, there's going to be a lot of dissapointed people whom have been wishing this game to fail.

The last game I said this about was Marvel Rivals if you look back on my post history. Another user doubted me, said it would be forgotten in a month. How bout' that.

Man, every time these lists get announced I look at what's on offer for Ultimate va Premium and it's like ever since ultimate recieved a 50% price increase, it's the Premium tier that has come out on top as best value.

If I didn't still pay $20 for ultimate buying keys from resellers I would definitely be subscribed to Premium instead.

If consumers thought Xbox Series S/X was confusing just wait until all these launch. Lol

Microsoft has a mountain to climb to convince me to buy the next Xbox.

Yikes, Xbox had 34% in this poll last year, the interest in developing for Xbox is falling fast.

Gotta love the mental gymnastics going on here.

'It's only $30 more than it was just a few months ago whats the big deal?"

The big deal is Microsoft is asking $80 cad, the same price as full price AAA games, for DLC and then asking for $30 a month for gamepass to access said game and DLC.

Anyone that buys this addon bundle, while being subscribed to gamepass, has just spent as much money as outright buying the premium edition of the game to own except now they get to keep paying $30 a month to keep playing it instead.

I hope Microsoft receives a ton of backlash over this and is forced to backtrack. The greed is getting ridiculous.

@AccessibleDaydream Yeah this is over the limit for me and where I draw the line.

First they raise the price of gamepass by 50%. Now they are asking me to pay 100% more for the same addon bundles offered before? Outer Worlds 2's Premium upgrade was $40. Starfield $40. Forza Horizon 5 $40.

I'm not paying $80 cad for DLC then being asked to pay an additional $30/m to access it. Lol

So the premium upgrade for gamepass users is $80 instead of $40 now? No thank you, I will stick with the standard gamepass release.

I still firmly believe the series X should have been the only Xbox until a Pro model equivalent was ready. I went into this generation expecting to buy a series X then a series X Pro a few years later. Now I'm not even certain if I will buy new Xbox hardware at all. Man have things ever changed in the last 5-6 years.

@Fiendish-Beaver Reality is going to be rough for people that still think Xbox has no plans to release games the same day on Playstation. This upcoming developer direct could shatter their realities as they know it haha.

@fatpunkslim I see you're trying to spin yet another story and make a mountain out of an ant hill.

Reality is Ghost of Yotei launched in October, meanwhile Forza released back in April giving it a full 6 months on sale before Playstation even released their game.

Do please go on and continue to tell us how bad Sony is doing as the market leader and how great Xbox is doing, the same Xbox that got outsold by a knockoff kinect. Lol.

I have been waiting for this for a long time. I wonder if it's a global release or if I can't start early taking a trip to new zealand.

@Jenkinss "its just 4 games" except now it's "well it might not launch the same day."

@TheGameThrifter "its just 4 games" all over again. Lol

Very impressive numbers!

With Fable releasing the same day on PS5 as it is PC & Xbox, we will be seeing a lot more Xbox games releasing day one on PS5. The only reason Forza Horizon 6 isn't is because the port isn't ready. Indiana Jones was a Xbox & PC exclusive but once Microsoft seen the money flowing in from Playstation they quickly got a port started and had it out 6 months after, I fully expect the same to happen with FH6.

Kinda strange when you make more money from your competitors audience than you do your own. Lol

@tho_mi Sony get a 30% for doing nothing. They didn't invest hundreds of millions into development or marketing, they get paid to advertise it on their store and sell it on their store. I really don't think Sonyor their fans mind at all.

Looks like they realized they didn't have enough players to support the live service model and keep those servers up. Can't say I'm surprised. I'm really not interested even with the game being single player / offline mode now.

I haven't played since finishing the battlepass a few weeks ago. Looks like it's time to hop back in and hunt some deathclaws in Endgame. Definitely picking up that Fallout Bundle as well.

Anyone else's V bucks disappear from their accounts? I had planned to just claim my free V bucks every month and accumulate a ton of them for if I ever felt like actually playing Fortnite but every month I login I get 1000 V bucks and that's it, all I have, like the previous month expired or something.

One would think the Premium tier recieved a 50% price increase with all the games it receives every month compared to Ultimate.

What a dissapointing start to 2026.

Still too expensive at $2. I thought this sounded good on paper but after watching some gameplay I'm going to pass it looks very rough. Makes sense that it was made by a single person.