8thDoctor

great addition! I don't get yearly CoDs so I jumped from MW1 ('19) to BO6 when that released on GP. It will be nice to do the whole reboot story now.

$500 for fairly equivalent to Switch 2 specs could be killer deal if Microsoft puts it weight behind it in promotions.

If GTA6 fails the whole damn gaming market would crash along with it. lol Everyone is banking on it being the 2nd coming of Christ, meaning anything less than record breaking money is effectively a failure. Ej. Square Enix thinking Tomb Raider 2013 was a failure for failing to meet targets even though it sold millions of copies & made profit, but on a truly MASSIVE scale.
I don't believe it will actually happen, but man it's scary when the whole industry (particularly the speculative market) effectively puts all its eggs on 1 basket.

If Sony could manage it, I'm certain PC gamers would make a functional workaround in less than a week. It's just a money sink waiting to happen, they would have to block around their contract with Valve and in a way that doesn't also block the non-Xbox portables that can already play those games.

It's a lot of fun, randoms eventually realize that sticking together in small groups is the way to go. One of the biggest issues this early on is that too many people just rush through the torture chambers, you got to level up your damage and health 3 or 4 times so you're doing proper damage as enemies scale up. Getting to Ascension & Lucifer with a +3 damage is a death sentence.

Did the finally fix the godawful character select screen with the dozen separate John Cena's that all play the same?

COD is always there to fill the major Fall release date now, & in the face of GTA6 (supposedly) also releasing in that October-November time frame there may genuinely be no point in having anything else from the 1st party studios around that time.

Sony did the same releasing Puppeteer two months before the PS4 hit store shelves. Suits are always down to make some completely stupid choices & then not take responsibility when the product fails.

Assuming the XsS version is as well made as can be expected, a Series S GTA6 bundle for $350 would sell like crazy.

IMO in a few years the Series S will be reflected on very positively for helping pave the way for the Steam Deck, Switch 2 and all the other disparate handhelds to have very playable games.

Kinda funny that the NG2b UE5 remaster shadow dropping today looks graphically better than NG4 running on Platinum's engine that comes out late in the year, which is par for the course for PG. Of course, Nier Automata looks like a 360 game while still being one of the crowning jewels of last gen so as long as it plays great & tells a good story it does not matter.

If this is real I'm really worried about how UE5 is going to handle the physic systems and object persistence Bethesda games are known for. What the engine allows is a big reason why Bethesda hasn't moved on and just keeps building on top of the rickety Gamebryo bones. That's even without getting into the stuttery mess UE has been for a while now.

I wonder how the math works, do they take 30% of the 30% MS takes or 30% on top of what MS takes? The later one would be untenable for game devs.

I think the games where we will see big games are the ones that run at godawful lower native resolutions. where you'll get a X1/1S to X1X case, so FF7 and the Ubisoft pirate game, maybe even in frame-gen games if PSSR can couple with FSR frame-gen to get better results. Thing is that there are very few games this gen that are like that, no doubt in part because we're still getting cross-gen games to this day, but also because the main consoles are just very solid all around, RT not withstanding.