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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.

@Gooseuk Precisely what I was thinking. I mean, I feel bad for the 14 people that were really looking forward to reminiscing about Nickelodeon games, but they really weren't that great back in the day, so you're probably better off and just need to take off the rose-colored glasses.

Ugh. Still no Command and Conquer.

Q: How many negative things can we read into this?

A: ALL of the negative things!!!!!! It's the internet!!

@Darylb88 Agree, except that Xbox doesn't seem to consider this to be a AAA title, despite its budget. I think it'll be a sleeper hit across platforms.

@JoNJoN3 Right? I remember preordering FH3 on disc for a $99 USD and being thrilled with it. Inflation is real. That doesn't mean we have to like it, but c'mon, $20 after a decade or more? Quit crying. At least you can largely write-off the purchase of the base game by telling yourself it came with Game Pass (only to buy it a few years later much cheaper because it's facing delisting)

This looks fantastic

I can't say that I would give this ANY attention at all had it not been for the absolute blast I had playing both Keeper and the Psychonauts games. This isn't my genre of game at all, but I recall saying that about those other games when they were announced too. Double Fine keeps surprising me; Game Pass makes it a no-brainer to try.

I really need to check out the Anno series at some point. Obviously it gets enough attention to warrant a try.

Came here to weep over Beyond Good & Evil 2 but it looks like the comments section is already 2 steps ahead of me.

The funny thing is, I think one of Ubi's best games in recent years was the last Prince of Persia - the 2D Metroidvania one. Hardly AAA, definitely top-shelf fun.

@AverageGamer Because it is. That's the joke.

@BacklogBrad 100% - I'm very confused as to why there's no multiplayer.

@Naughtyottsel92 Better? No. Older? Yeah. The Xbox community in the US is almost as bad – they're just 10-20 years older. That probably makes them worse now that I think about it.

“Healthy” is not how I would describe the PlayStation fan base but maybe it’s just me hating racism, bullying and sexism from 13 year olds in the US Midwest.

@Rangers420 You got to 20 hours? I was hard pressed to reach 2. Just not my kind of game at all.

100% agree with almost all of this, though I’m using an OG ROG Ally with the full-screen Xbox update instead of the Xbox Ally X and tend to leave my machine online so that I can play games via Xbox Cloud for no other reason than I get tired of shaders doing their compiling thing.

All of that said, I have a ridiculously competent (and only 4 month old) gaming PC that still doesn’t get much use because the temptation to just sit on the couch and play with the Ally is simply too great - much like my Switch 2 has been played in docked mode a total of twice. I’m fully convinced that handheld gaming is the future with few exceptions (Black Ops with my pals, for example) where twitch reflexes and slightly better control are necessary. But I’ve now played through Keeper, South of Midnight, Avowed, and the Original Outer Limits on the Ally and it felt great.

Lastly, you’re dead right about Play Anywhere. I just preordered FFVII Remake last night even though I already own it on Steam, just so I could play across the Ally and my Series X. Making a game available via Play Anywhere almost guarantees that I’ll pick it up if of interest.

Looks amazing. But then again, so did Perfect Dark, Scalebound, and countless others. Shame Microsoft has nearly zero clue how to do anything but pointlessly burn money.

Wasn’t this panned for being “woke” or something? I thought it was stellar.