Pretty funny seeing some people calling this a big win for Xbox when we know absolutely nothing about the game, and Xbox is STILL waiting on OD to produce results four years after it was revealed at the Xbox showcase in 2022, or really anything at all besides some screenshots.

Me personally, I don't see this as any kind of "win", especially if Playstation walked away from it when they rely heavily on 3rd party exclusives. They didn't like what they seen obviously, and it's progress was probably far too slow for them to feel confident investing into the project further.

GTA VI will be the better selling game without a doubt.

None. I don't buy physical games. Ever since digital became a much better option late into the Xbox 360 / early Xbox One generation I went fully digital and never looked back.

Booking my flight to New Zealand for sure. 😅

Excited to finally play the Cold War campaign, I have heard really good things about it and it apparently has multiple endings to see. Huge download though for just campaign +HD textures and ray tracing.

Kinda wild seeing some of the same people in here that advocate for physical games, telling cloud users they should just suck it up and buy a console because this only affects 4% of Xbox players.

That's exactly like telling physical players / collectors they should just suck it up and accept the all digital future because in 2026 Xbox accounts for just 4% of the total physical games sold on all platforms.

I thought options for the way people choose to play games were important?

This is one of the most anti consumer moves Xbox has made recently. Absolutely pathetic. That's 30 minutes a day if you don't want to hit your limit before the end of the month.

Geforce Now gives you 100 hours each month, this is just embarrassing.

@ncriggs So as a gamer I'm not allowed to get excited about games? Sure buddy. I haven't owned a Playstation in 10+ years but im a Sony bot. I play on my Xbox for over 5000 hours every year, but I'm a Sony bot.

You fanboys and your console wars are pathetic. Grow up. Cute how you had to make a new account just to say that, says a lot about you.

That was a great show by Sony. Lots of games I am excited to play soon and some I will play on PS6 next gen when I get one.

Until Dawn 2, Wolverine, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, Dino Crisis 2!, Maneater 2, Metro 2039, Daba: Land of water scar

Another huge game that wasn't shown here but I am incredibly hyped for on Playstation is Guild Wars 3. Crazy that it's skipping Xbox, but is another reason I will be getting a ps6 next gen after having not owned a Playstation console since like 2015-2016.

The new Resident Evil film also looks like a good time. Sony Pictures has been on a role with their movies lately I really enjoyed the new Spiderman film.

@8th_Observer Yep. The quality / reliability of Xbox live has gone downhill over the past year or so. It used to be PSN having the majority of issues, now I would say Xbox Live and PSN have roughly the same amount of outages and issues. Just another case of enshittification in the industry as a whole.

As someone who has already decided I will be getting a PS6 next gen, possibly a Helix later on, I will definitely be tuning into the State of Play tomorrow. Wolverine looks incredible and I'm very interested in Intergalactic. Then theres Phantom Blade Zero & God of War Laufey. All games I will be playing on the PS6 as I haven't owned a Playstation since very early on in the PS4 generation. The Last of Us 2 is very, very high on my play list as well as the Spiderman games & Ghost of Tsushima + Yotei

@beltmenot I never turn my Xbox off unless to clean it so these outages usually aren't as bad for me either. Strange how if you were already signed in, it doesn't affect you as much.

Heads up Moonlighter 2 is on gamepass but not under recently added you have to go to the "day one releases" tab and it's in the there. This seems to happen with games that are already on pc gamepass that then release later for console gamepass.

Man, Xbox has been having a lot of server issues lately. The last one that locked everyone out of their digital & physical games was a bad one.

When Red Dead Redmeption 2 was revealed, people complained about Arthur calling him dull, generic etc and that they didn't like his voice. That game turned out incredible and Arthur became just as popular as John was if not surpassing Marston.

I suspect the very same thing will happen with GTA VI.

Already a better month than last month and this is only the first half.

No idea what Microsoft was thinking with that god awful August lineup.

No option for none of them? I tried Beast of Reincarnation, didn't like it at all. Plagued Tale Resonance, didn't like it.

The rest of the month was an absolute bust but thankfully September has multiple games I want to play.

So I'll have this game finished in like two or three days. I was hoping for a longer game than that. Hopefully there's replayability and enough interesting side content.

@uberdaddypig Rockstar didn't develop the definitive edition trilogy, Grove Street Games did. Rockstar are the ones that went back and fixed it after cutting ties with GSG.

After the god awful August gamepass games lineup, September is shaping up to be a much better month.

I tried it but got bored after about two hours and deleted it. The combat is so repetitive and the puzzles up to that point have all been the same light / refracting puzzle over and over again.

Dissapointing because I had hoped this game would have gripped me with it's advertisement of being more action focused vs stealth like the previous two games were but there's just little of substance here and the story just isn't interesting enough to force myself through the slog of the gameplay loop.

Yes! This is the best Call of duty has been in many, many years. I initially said it had achieved the heights set by MW2019, which was arguably the best CoD since the original MW2, but now I'm starting to lean more towards MW4 taking the crown as the best Call of Duty game period. Of course will have to wait until the full release to say that for sure but what i have played of the beta I am absolutely loving it. This is coming from someone who usually only plays the campaign and zombies each release but this beta has had me hooked from start to finish in the multiplayer.

I don't feel like they will be avoiding GTA VI even in Febraury. The game is going to have long legs selling incredibly well for years to come. Sure, you'll avoid the initial launch which is going to swallow up all attention from media and gamers but then there's still the online portion to come which will be like another tidal wave of GTA hype and coverage and be another massive time sink for gamers.

Frame rate doesn't matter much in a game like GTA. So long as it's a stable 30fps I'm happy. I'll gladly take 30fps in GTA with a living, breathing world full of life than 60fps with compromises like reduced traffic, pedestrian density, lighting, shadows and ray tracing reduced in quality or removed altogether.

@Balaam_ It's really not. But you're free to have your opinion. Reality is if no one is making the components anymore, you can't build the disc drive no matter how much money you have.

I'm sure Microsoft will get right on spending hundreds of millions of dollars investing in factories to make components for dead / dying format.

@HelloCraigo @Mr-Cage Xbox just uploaded a new teaser trailer for Songs of The Past DLC and at the end it has the gamepass logo!

https://youtu.be/9M5iuKKfvkg?si=zfQ6adStgIL88m2r

@Kilamanjaro craziest part to me about the insane visuals is this was captured on a base ps5. Rockstar have squeezed every bit of juice out of the consoles for sure with this one. I look forward to seeing how it looks on high end PCs when it launches there as well.

@FraserG The story looks like a mix mash of a bunch of films to me to be honest. You've got Bonnie & Clyde, Die Hard, fast & furious etc inspirations for sure. Like that segment at the party in the tower penthouse is 100% Die Hard.

I am thoroughly impressed. I seriously thought the opening segment, when it first started, was live action with actors then it slowly gave itself away that nope its just incredible graphics and lighting.

Gameplay looks seriously fun and chaotic and I loved how there was no commentary, it was just segment after segment revealing more and more features and systems in the game. I already had the ultimate edition pre ordered but after today I know without a shadow of a doubt that the game is going to be an absolute banger and all doubts about it have been struck down. Bring on November!

@Mr-Cage I am thoroughly impressed. Gameplay looks seriously fun and chaotic and I loved how there was no commentary, it was just segment after segment revealing more and more features and systems in the game.

The game looks absolutely surreal. When the video first started I thought it was a live action segment with actors but nope, just incredible lighting and graphics.

I already had the ultimate edition pre ordered. This gameplay trailer cemented that it was a good decision. The game is going to an absolute banger of a game and I can't wait to play it in November.

@ZombiesEveryWhere Exactly. Yet some still bought into his bs about it being about advocating for gamers. This guy, or group, didn't care at all about GTA not being on disc, didn't care about the semi paywalled trailer etc, it was all about making money from a crypto scam.

Looks like I didn't miss much today skipping the stream. Nothing here looks all that interesting to me. Shame.

Remember when a few people here said Cyberleek was doing this for gamer rights? Cyberleek just cashed out $250k from his crypto coin transaction fees and the coin is crashing (another crypto rug pull :shockedpikachuface:). He's sure a champion of gamers rights and was looking out for gamers, surely not just using it as an excuse to trick the gullible. 😂

Who in their right mind would buy a Series X for $2000? Lol.. I hope these scalper sit on these for a long time and lose money.

@dkxcalibur It can be a bit of slog at the start but the story gets really good. I haven't played it in probably 6 years or so but when it first released I played it for 24 hours straight on stream with few breaks in-between😅 The remaster is supposed to update the combat as well but it remains to be seen how exactly it's changing.

@Mr-Cage yes standard and complete edition owners get the update. Standard owners have basically been upgraded to the complete edition for free with the DLCs being made free for them. Just without the seperate achievements.

@Mr-Cage Seperate paid purchase.

Also the remaster is coming in the form of an update to the existing game, not a seperate game with new achievements according to the CDPR country director for Japan.

"The remaster update scheduled for delivery on 9/29, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, will be delivered as a patch" - https://x.com/homma_force/status/2092533208864989267

@CallMeDuraSouka It does seem like many modern games lack enemy variety nowadays. Outer Worlds 1+2, Avowed, Hellblade 2, Beast of Reincarnation, Banishers etc the list goes on and on of games criticized for their lack of variety.

Not sure where the creativity has gone.

I already own the complete edition so I'm going to hold off for the remaster.

Combat looks fun but we still know next to nothing about characters, the world or the story, the most important parts of an rpg. Playground has zero experience in that, they know how to make open world racing games. I'm not convinced at this point that they can make a memorable fantasy world filled with memorable characters and a great story yet. These are the weakest points of their Horizon games, the "stories" in them, if you can call them that, are very weak and the characters are soulless. Would love to be proven wrong when the game launches but as things stand I am being cautiously optimistic.

I'm sure the game will be fun (hopefully not another Avowed) but next year has Final Fantasy VII Revelation which I already know will be game of the year.

@Schonks read my comment again. This isnt about discs, this is about the components to make disc drives to actually read discs.

"Speaking to my own Xbox hardware sources, I was told that it's less about the discs themselves and more about the supply chain around optical disc drives collapsing. Factories and assembly lines previously oriented around making optical disc drives are moving towards other, more lucrative and more scalable industries, such as camera lenses and the like. Demand for optical disc drives revolves entirely around Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 right now, with laptops, Blu-Ray devices, and other formats essentially phasing out the tech."

Now it's being reported that the supply chains that make the components for optical drives are pivoting away to other tech as consumers have opted for digital-only. Jez Corden (Windows Central) says the entire supply chain is collapsing for optical drives.

"Speaking to my own Xbox hardware sources, I was told that it's less about the discs themselves and more about the supply chain around optical disc drives collapsing. Factories and assembly lines previously oriented around making optical disc drives are moving towards other, more lucrative and more scalable industries, such as camera lenses and the like. Demand for optical disc drives revolves entirely around Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 right now, with laptops, Blu-Ray devices, and other formats essentially phasing out the tech."

If this is true, perhaps there's more to Sony's decision to stop producing disc, as they can see disc drives are soon to skyrocket in price as the components will no longer be readily or easily accessible. I certainly don't see Microsoft including one in the Helix either if this is indeed what's going down. The pieces to puzzle are all slowly falling into place.

Now it's being reported that the supply chains that make the components for optical drives are pivoting away to other tech as consumers have opted for digital-only. Jez Corden says the entire supply chain is collapsing for optical drives.

"Speaking to my own Xbox hardware sources, I was told that it's less about the discs themselves and more about the supply chain around optical disc drives collapsing. Factories and assembly lines previously oriented around making optical disc drives are moving towards other, more lucrative and more scalable industries, such as camera lenses and the like. Demand for optical disc drives revolves entirely around Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 right now, with laptops, Blu-Ray devices, and other formats essentially phasing out the tech."

If this is true, perhaps there's more to Sony's decision to stop producing disc, as they can see disc drives are soon to skyrocket in price as the components will no longer be readily or easily accessible. I certainly don't see Microsoft including one in the Helix either if this is indeed what's going down. The pieces to puzzle are all slowly falling into place.

The game looks good but time will tell if Playground Games can make a compelling story, world and rememberable characters. Going from open world racing games with little to no story whatsoever doesn't fill me with a lot of optimism in that regard. Especially when the previous 2 entries to Horizon have recieved a lot of criticism for the characters in the tiny bit of "story" they do contain.

@Millionski Seems more like a hint that the rumors of Xbox opening the Magnus chip up to 3rd party manufacturers is true to me. Xbox's Helix may be the most affordable while a 3rd party console using the Magnus chip that come in more powerful versions. This would help bring the costs down for Microsoft and other manufacturers take on the risk of selling $1000+ consoles.

Fable and Gears are looking great. Besides that, not too much else at the show that looked like something I would buy. I was hoping for a few surprises and at least a shadow drop of some kind.

The new Drift Attack in Forza should be fun, I have heard it's going to seperate drivetrains on the leaderboards which should make it more competitive and viable for rwd builds.

Sounds like making the most powerful Xbox / console has been put on the back burner in order to make it affordable.. that doesn't sound great to me. If it's not powerful enough to make a meaningful jump in fidelity from current gen, what's the point?

To be truthful, I never finished the first two games. I found the stealth and focus on avoiding combat kinda boring and the story wasn't enough to keep me going. This one however has me more interested with it being more action oriented. We shall see tomorrow.

It's another feature I will never use, like Play Anywhere, but im sure theres some people who will be happy. Myself, I have been all digital for 14+ years already.