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Exclusives might be a tough one to do between the conditions for buying Activision and them already putting Gears, Forza, & soon Halo on PS. And I'm not sure if Timed Exclusivity would be enough to justify getting an Xbox over anything else.

Free online AND cloud saves would be huge over the other Console Platforms though, enough to sway a good few people I'm sure.

Hope they hit up the Activision licensed library if they can. I'll buy stuff like War for Cybertron, Spider-Man Web of Shadows, X-Men Legends, or Marvel Ultimate Alliance Day One... if they don't make too many dubious choices to change things. Still on the fence for Campaign Evolved, since they're holding out on giving more details as of now.

I'm a bit worried about this Remake. It's allegedly close to release, but we haven't gotten too many updates on it. And there's a lot of factors we don't know that'd make people pass on this, like the price. Even $50 for CE with no Multiplayer or any kind is gonna be pushing it if they don't announce more features.

@smoreon It's to put them on PlayStation, simple as that. And if they're remaking Halo CE, they're gonna remake 2 & 3 at the very least too. I'd imagine (or hope at least) with these Remakes they'll be changing/tweaking a few of the more frustrating bits of these game too, instead of just re-painting them. Like making the Library in CE less repetitive or the Boss Fights in 2 less frustrating, aside from the changes we already know like Sprint, more weapons, more enemy types, & the new Missions. So unlike CE Anniversary and 2 in the MCC they won't be 1:1 with the originals.

But how was the Dead Rising 1's latest Remake unjustified? It was more than graphical, they changed a lot of the gameplay in it to be less janky (guns especially) and made the infamously bad Survivor AI better. Not a fan of all the changes, but it's far from just a new coat of paint.

Depends on the game and the quality of the Remake. Like I love Fallout 3, but if the upcoming Remake has more bugs than the original, I'd rather just not replay it. But for the most part, I'd rather replay an Xbox/PS2 or 360/PS3 game over most modern AAA releases now.

A bit late with already putting your 3 biggest IPs on PlayStation, no? I guess Timed-Exclusivity is still an option, but it's not quite the same.

Really weird that some of them are buggy or unoptimized. You'd think games like this would be pretty simple and similar in terms of making them run properly.

I want online play and nothing else, can I pay like $20 or $30 a year for that?

Worth noting that recently they changed the amount of time it takes to get your gift card from Rewards now. Used to be instant, now it's massively delayed. I have no doubt whatever this change is it's bad.

360 games I couldn't fit in the budget during the last sale. And the same will be for the next big sale.

I want a cheap Tier that's online and nothing else. I don't want Core where I pay extra for a bunch of games I already own.

I wanna know the price. I don't care how pretty it looks, if they plan on charging anywhere near full price for a Campaign and nothing else they're insane.

Out of the consoles I remember buying at launch, no. The Switch 2 is a weird in-between, because if you bought it for new stuff, god no. But I bought it specifically with the intention of it just being a better Switch 1, so I'm not sure.

Honestly wouldn't mind an equivalent to The Exchange in Campaign Evolved for cosmetics that you have to earn, not buy. Without Multiplayer it'd be a great way to add replayability. Just also hope there's a toggle like the MCC to turn it off for people who don't want to see it.

Not touching the Marvel MaXimum Collection until there's a decent sale or they add online for a few games other than X-Men. I understand the Cowabunga Collection costs $40 and this costs $25, but I can't imagine giving the extra 3 or so games with Co-op online servers would cost much more to do.

Not quite what I was hoping from a new Serious Sam game, but conceptually it could work. This is one I'll be waiting to hear what players say post-launch.

Make a Tier where I get to pay the lightest fee possible just so I can use Xbox Live with none of the other nonsense attached.

Waiting to see the REAL games that go on sale. The OG Xbox & 360 ones.

I'll be picking up more 360 games on sale I couldn't fit in the budget last sale. A lot of them are only $10 or $15, but every dollar saved counts.

Being able to bring a limited number of items to NG+ is a great change IMO. Not quite the biggest one the game needed, but a much appreciated one when it encourages you to NG+ multiple times.

@FraserG My hopes are very much dashed, but at least I know the reality of things now. : (

@RejectedAng3L They did show 2 games that aren't currently Backwards Compatible on the promo image. So there'll be new ones, it's just a matter of how many it'll be.

@Brigurugi Imagine accusing it of bot votes because it doesn't reflect your personal tastes.

The 360's Modern Warfare 3 is the only CoD I played, and I loved Survival. As someone who doesn't pay much attention to the series I'm somewhat shocked to hear it's underrated or forgotten.

Gonna be current Backwards games on PC. I guess they could be a bunch of old Activision games being added, but I just have so low of expectations for Microsoft at this point. Would be gladly wrong though.

I'm like 99% certain they took Jurassic Park Collection off sale on Xbox because they want those last-minute FOMO full price sales.

@Tasuki Yes, which is why I said 'pay any licensing fees'. Activision owns the games, they pay Disney/Marvel the rights to use them again. As for Sony, even if they have a say, I doubt they'd be against a Multi-Platform Spider-Man considering things like the Marvel vs Capcom Collection & Marvel MaXimum Collection were allowed which are virtually the same situation.

As much as Backwards Compatibility is my favorite Xbox feature, people just need to admit it's done and over with. The only way these games are coming to modern consoles are Remasters or Remakes. And aside from Silent Hill 2 obviously, the only ones I see even potentially getting ones are the Spider-Man games, as now that Microsoft owns Activision, they can easily pay any licensing fees to get these games greenlit and keep them on the market. Same thing for any other Marvel games or the Transformers ones, which Hasbro themselves showed interest in getting back out there.

But a PlayStation is an Xbox, how could it affect the Xbox when it is one?

Is there really anything to leak? They all but moved away from Campaigns, and it's virtually the same Multiplayer every year just tweaked.

Also overall I'm not sure anyone can hurt the CoD devs more than Activision themselves - there's like 2 dozen studios that used to make games and had hopes and dreams, and have since been forced to polish and patch holes in a yearly released IP. RIP High Moon Studios.

Surely an update for the eventual PS5 and Switch 2 ports so new players can get what they want faster. COPIUM

Will be interesting to see how this compares to Scott Pilgrim EX next week, looking to be another great year for Beat 'Em Up fans. Although from what I've seen of Towerborne it almost looks like Dragon's Crown but not Platform-locked?

@Brigurugi For most people these collections are about nostalgia, availability, and replayability, not how long it takes to beat. And yeah, they 'only' take 30-60 minutes because you can spam infinite lives, rewinds, & save states now. A lot of these are legit hard without being able to cheat.

@sixrings "Just pay for the rights and that’s it." Except you have to keep paying to renew them. And believe it or not, paying money for infinity for things that usually stop selling after the first few months is not super profitable for most companies.

Hoping they added a few more games, as it's really weird they got through the web of Marvel, Konami, & Sega licensing nonsense and didn't include as many games as possible. Really want Spider-Man: The Game in particular but I know there's a few more X-Men games people remember fondly.

Have no interest in GTA. I totally get the appeal, just not something I'm too interested in. Of course since there's such a gap in GTA releases, I'll be getting it years from now when it's $20 bucks.

The more I played Starfield the more I just wanted to quit and play Fallout 4. It's a very similar gameplay loop, but for whatever reason they stripped a lot of the gameplay depth and didn't add anything to replace what they took out. Which is sad, because if Starfield was just Fallout 4 with spaceships battles, it might've been one of my personal favorite games of all time.

Glad to see more Backwards Compatible games going on sale. Though the sudden increase in the number of them almost makes me think they'll be Delisted soon and they want extra sales without saying it.

Gonna be the first time in a hot minute I buy stuff on my Series X, they've been doing better about putting 360 games on sale that probably haven't seen sales since the actual 360 Era.

Microsoft and Sony are gonna have a tough time selling their next consoles considering most games are still getting XBO and PS4 versions, and there's only a handful of the ones only on Current Gen that people even like. Quality of life features and slightly better specs can only do so much when nothing takes advantage of it.

Dropped the Campaign really quickly, as while I love the gunplay of older Shooters, I hate the Levels being puzzles to some degree on what to do or where to go to extend the gameplay. Multiplayer is super fun though when you can get someone in the same room to do it.

Hopefully not, I still I don't feel like I've gotten value out of my Series X or PS5.

"It's Apex Legends without any of the stuff that makes Apex Legends good," was a pretty accurate description.

Rhythm Games are much more niche than even other niche Genres. And sadly, an Xbox-exclusive Indie that isn't on Game Pass just isn't going to get any attention, and that's an Xbox-made issue. If it was only on Switch or only PlayStation, it would be less obscure by default comparatively.

State of Delay: 3+ Years

I won't be in a hurry to buy them either way. As much I love 3 & New Vegas, Remakes will have new bugs and I doubt they'll fix any pre-existing ones, so a new coat of paint will not be worth the price tag.

I don't think this will be a good first impression for the PS players. I hope it turns out well, but there's too many questionable choices being made, and that's just from what they've been open about.

Probably gonna be a bigger reveal for PlayStation than Xbox at this point, but hopefully news of an Activision game new or old being released. Hasbro seemed eager to talk terms for re-licensing the Activision Transformers games since they have modern toylines now, but at this point Microsoft doing anything with Activision other than using CoD to bump up the price of Game Pass seems like delusion.

Don't typically enjoy Platformers, but if they do make a new one, I hope it is good for all the people who do want it.

Define 'bought', because I did get games... just with Rewards Points...