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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.

Culdcept is so underrated.

I'm mildly curious about High on Life 2. The first one grabbed me, but not enough to warrant completing it. If anything, i'll probably go back and finish it now that the sequel is out, same thing I did with Outer Worlds.

I installed and played through Avowed before I ever saw the Internet (fake) outrage about it. Personally, I thought it was a high point for Obsidian and one of the better RPGs of the past decade. Once I saw all of the complaints I just wondered why everyone hates fun. I still think about it from time to time and don't doubt that I'll revisit it at some point in the future - I'd like to be a little more standoffish in my responses next time.

@Coletrain Funny you should mention it. I played all the way through South of Midnight via Cloud but found Doom Dark Ages to be nearly unplayable due to artifacting - worse than any other game I've tried and its not even close.

Haven't yet tried the 2016 one.

@BAMozzy What I don't understand about the hardware vs cloud argument is why there can't be both? I use both. I know several people who use both. I'd likely buy the next Xbox if it isn't overstuffed with AI crap, but I don't spend half my life on my couch either. Why can't I have it both ways? Xbox, for all of their faults, gives me that. Do I wish they were run by braindead, profit-hungry idiots? Of course. Can I do anything about that other than complain? Not really.

@TheGameThrifter And that's cool for you I guess? And besides, I get WAY more for my $400/year on Xbox than I got when I had Netflix. I mean, I watch maybe 5-6 hours of non-sports a week vs. 8-9 hours of gaming.

@Sol4ris I have a few long-time friends that work at a few different Xbox game studios (I live in the Seattle area) and yeah, they all live with a lot of daily anxiety. It's 100% unacceptable in my opinion but they're all still drinking the kool-aid for now and thinking its not going to happen to them.

@GuyinPA75 Is the Series S the "extremely unnecessary" console in this scenario? Just curious. We have a couple at our house, in addition to a Series X, and while no, I don't use it (the kids do), I don't hate it. I don't really like it either, but I wonder how much lower still Xbox hardware sales would be if they hadn't introduced Series S.

@TheGameThrifter I play half my games via Xbox Cloud. It works great. I've been playing FFVII (at work, no less, shhhh) almost exclusively via Xbox Cloud on my work iMac. Perhaps I'm not in my right mind, but it runs great. I've even dabbled in Black Ops 7 here and there, and while its not QUITE as smooth on my Series X, it's hardly unacceptable.

Quake? First I've heard of that.

Honestly, MY roadmap looks a lot different. It's a massive backlog of games that I'll play as I wait for Microsoft to pull their heads out of their butts.

@RiverGenie 100%

@FraserG oh ok thanks. I REALLY tried to love Redout - so much so that I bought the sequel. Neither one really grabbed me in the end.

Are these the original Carmageddon devs? I have such an extreme love/hate relationship with those games that I'm all at once excited and marginally offended that this is on the way.

Eh. They got me over to Xbox from PS5 with that one-off Game Pass inclusion. Mission accomplished. Now me and my friends all play on Xbox instead and are all planning on just buying it anyway.

I quit buying physical Xbox games about halfway through 2014. I can't remember which game it was, but I realized that most of the game wasn't even on the disc to begin with, nor could you even play from the disc alone, so what was the point moving forward?

Also, who wants to leave the comfort of their couch to change games? Lazy? Sure. But I'll own it.