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If your games don’t sell, you don’t survive. Pretty simple. All three of these studios have made incredible games, in my opinion, but seriously, who actually bought them? Who actually played them? Not a lot of people.

Forgot about Blade, which is strange considering it's one of the few Marvelverse characters I even find interesting to begin with.

Whine whine whine... exclusives! whine whine.... antiquated discs whine whine... I want to pretend it's still 1998 whine whine.

Eh. I gave my Steam Deck to my stepson about 2 years ago because it wasn't doing anyone any good sitting around and collecting dust. It was a competent machine for indie games but I prefer doing that sort of thing on Switch 2. My OG ROG Ally is in much the same spot only my stepson doesn't really need/want it.

Day One buy here.

@kmtrain83 Give your kids your Steam, Xbox, PS, etc. passwords. Problem solved.

Playasia is almost as crap as LRG. Who cares what they think about anything at this point?

I loved this game. Games that don't take me months to finish that recall the good old 360 days are what Game Pass is made for. It absolutely deserved some recognition.

Banjo
Crimson Skies
Perfect Dark ( i know )
Blast Corps
Brute Force
Kameo
Shadowrun
Blinx
Conker
Crackdown
PGR
Amped

and that barely scratches the surface

Worthy praise for sure. Brilliant set of games and the newest one is no exception.

I've never NOT bought the ultimate version of Forza Horizon, whatever it might have been called at the time. I wasn't about to skip 6, so yeah, I have early access, but that wasn't why I bought it. I bought it because I've got thousands of hours into the franchise so far. Early access is just icing on the cake for me.

@eduscxbox Hell yes. This.

@DarkRula I'm with you. I'd sell a kid or two for new entries in the Midtown Madness, PGR, Crimson Skies, etc. series. Honestly I couldn't care less about Banjo - blasphemy, I know - but show me some new takes on older Xbox/MS IP and I'm absolutely down. Amped maybe?

But more than anything I just want Perfect Dark to get finished.

Doom 3 came out in 2004, not "sometime around the 2010's" - I only mention this because I read that and thought my entire sense of the past two decades was WAY off.

I'm going to wait for the 2038 Halo CE RE-RE-REMAKE Remastered.

Seriously, make new games or GTFO.

Swap the pricing. Keep the current highest tier price with CoD day one (and add all legacy CoD games + give some monthly bonuses) - then, drop the price of the next tier down. Easy.

I'll keep my ultimate subscription and everyone that isn't into CoD can pay less.

The ability to record game footage indefinitely to a usb drive. Why am I capped? It’s MY drive!

I still don't get why there's no MP component. I mean, I love the campaign and I've played through it 2-3x now, but multiplayer is really what Halo is about once you've put in the 5-6 hours.

Xbox One, and in particular the Xbox One X, aged the best for me. To have began life as the massive negative that it was, I think Phil & Co really turned it around, and if I'm being honest, I'm not seeing a whole lot of improvement in this current generation. I love my XSX, but it wasn't until 2024 or so that I could really tell the difference between them.

@Herna The Wii U is still legendary in my mind. The nights we (me and three kids) spent playing Super Mario U multiplayer will always be some of my favorite gaming memories.

Though I'm old enough to have been an Atari kid, I didn't start buying consoles day one until the Genesis/SNES era when I bought the first SNES from my local store. Since then I've pretty much bought everything on launch day.

Along the way I've had mixed experiences but honestly, some of the highlights for me have been Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, 3DO, Xbox 360, and PS3.

It wasn't until this latest generation that I've been disappointed - the Switch 2 hasn't AT ALL lived up to my expectations, mostly due to its lack of games, and both the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles didn't do much to differentiate themselves from the prior generation until several years later.

All of that said, I'm in for a PC-ish Xbox in the future. I feel like that's the way the industry is headed. I couldn't care less about PS6, Switch 3, or whatever else comes around.

It’s a testament to just how awful the Xbox one launch was that this game, Ryse, and Sunset Overdrive are “cult” games and not modern classics. All are five star games in my opinion, but Quantum Break is still Remedy’s finest.

@SigmaTheDJ yeah but sadly the Sony solution has its own issues. I've had 3 of them across a PS5 (1) and now a PS5 Pro (2) that have failed on me within 30-45 days of purchase. Pure junk.

The Xbox Back Compat Kit will become a thing. It'll be an optical disc drive. The physical media people will whine regardless.

"Build Your Own Game Pass" will never work because the math doesn't math. Each GP title, including Xbox Studios games, has a dollar amount attached to it. You'd wind up with pricing that scales up and down depending on what you 'rent' and that'd lead to nothing but confusion.

It is funny to me though that everyone that doesn't play Fortnite assumes that they're the majority, or that people aren't finding value in Ubisoft or EA titles on GamePass when Fortnite continues to be the number one game on most platforms and Ubi/EA stuff is always ranked fairly highly among Game Pass games when released to the service.

@NeoRatt Absolutely no one is going to miss Sarah Bond.

Sarah Bond's best friend at Xbox was...Sarah Bond.

Even though I 'got' what they were shooting for with that campaign, I can't help but notice the timing between its release and the heavy decline in Xbox console sales. A lot of that is probably coincidence, but still.

Goodbye Sarah Bond, you won't be missed.

@TrollOfWar I took the comment as "we won't be releasing 2 BlackOps games in a row" or similar, not that there wouldn't still be another CoD this year.

day. one.
that's all i have to say about that.

Huh. After the abysmal Silent Hill f(orgettable) I sort of swore off the whole genre. Looks like that was a bad idea.

Congratulations, Internet! You've once again killed something without ever even trying it. You've been complaining forever that no one tries anything new, and then when they do, you turn to your favorite clickbait YouTuber for their "thoughts," then spew them out tenfold into the void.

In your next social post after that you'll complain that too many devs are left unemployed.

Maybe it's not them, it's you?

Seamus Blackley hasn't been a part of the gaming industry for years. Who cares what he thinks about anything? Well, except bread. I follow him for bread. Other than that? I put about as much weight into his gaming/Xbox thoughts as I do Don Mattrick. We all look at the OG Xbox era through rose-colored glasses. It wasn't really a success so much as a proof of concept.

Leaks suck. I miss the days where we were all pleasantly surprised by official announcements about games, tech, etc. vs. this non-stop cloud of disappointment when all this hard work sees the light of day and we all collectively go "ok, meh, that's old news - what else ya got?"

@sixrings I can assure you that 99% of the Fortniting Minecrafters out there couldn't care less what they're playing on. My teens still don't understand console exclusivity and get frustrated when they can't play Spider-Man: Miles Morales on a phone.

Ah man, when will I have time to finish Bratz before it leaves?

Or just give them a taste with Halo and keep the MCC and all future Halo games as Xbox/PC exclusives.

Moore is a class act, and while it will take a bit more than his wisdom to quell the negativity around all of this, I feel a little better that he sees some good in all of it.

I'm still gonna miss Phil.

Phil was the high bar for gaming CEOs when you think about it, up until MS got AI-hungry. From that point on he has been completely ineffective. I think anyone would have been.

Cool. Let’s start with an OG Xbox mini console like what Nintendo did a few years back. I’ve got up to $149 burning a hole in my pocket for it.

@BacklogBrad Eh, I'll formulate an opinion about her based on having interviewed her at a pair of conventions when she was at both Meta and Instacart. I mean, if you're going to do the "the 1 trillion dollar company ALWAYS knows better" d*** on the table, hurray for you having no real opinion other than fanboyism I guess?

And I respectfully say all that as a long-time MS and Xbox fanboy. This won't end well.

@BacklogBrad yup, about 6 months ago - almost to the day. Doesn't mean she's been following Phil around like a puppy for 180 days. She has all the qualifications - used to run product at Meta, spent some time at instacart, moonlights as a home depot board member. All the ingredients necessary to ensure Xbox is well and truly run into the ground.

She literally was head of their enterprise AI division just yesterday. I have a hard time believing she's written an email, memo, or press release since chatgpt took over. This won't end well for anyone but shareholders.

Phil was amazing. He got a lot of bad press but he’s kept this garbage afloat for a long time. Xbox is now well and truly dead.

Zero interest in this now. Had GTA V been better and had there been more follow up in the years since GTA IV, maybe. I was an OG GTA player a long, long time ago on PS and have played them all since. I'm sort of bored with the whole thing.

That and it all just reminds me of a bad Pitbull (Mr worldwide, not the dog breed) fever dream. Zzzz.

Once upon a time, the BEST Rewards system in all of console gaming.

Microsoft: "Hold my beer."

Merry Christmas AT LAST! MGS4, and I don't even have to burn up my Waffle Iron PS3 to play it!

Just give me lots more overhyped single-player open world adventure games where I’m staring at the back of my character doing fetch quests on a huge map and I’m ready to go!!!

Meh. I've moved entirely to PC for the multiplayer stuff I play (CoD, Battlefield, etc.) and my Series X is fine for FF and all of the single player games. I'll probably never buy another console again anyway unless MS really nails the Windows-On-a-TV interface for the next Xbox.

My Switch 2 is my biggest gaming regret of the past 5 years (possibly more) - consoles are just boring these days.

I can’t wait to use copilot on my new Xbox!! And excel!

I'd love to get an Elite 3 before my Elite 2 finally dies, but seeing as how its well on its way, I doubt that's going to happen. Elite 3 will undoubtedly come out a week after I spring for another Elite 2.