EdgarTheBug

Excellent, it would be great if they released the source code for Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, it is slightly playable but it could do with some serious treatment like arena & daggerfall unity.

I tried getting through it all recently to than get onto red guard, morrwind and the oblivion remaster but it sure is rough these days on modern systems.

Please God Howard 😂

I think they need some new platformers whilst trying to make new iconic characters like Banjo-Kazooie with good money put into the character and the platforming game's instead of treating it like an AA indie game which some are but you get the drill.

Halo needs to go.

If they go through with this and you are a PC player, one thing to note is, cross progression isn't a thing and there isn't the play anywhere program thing between the xbox console/pc app for these games.

I bought black ops 3 awhile back on the Xbox pc app side of things and my Microsoft call of duty account tied to it was at level 1 whereas I am at level 1000 on Xbox so I refunded it.

But if they could get it to work that would be sweet.

@Elbow Yeah good shout, agreed, I'm going with it being an under-performer due to people, especially parents thinking they already have one at home and some of them won't have knowledge or some insight into the specification of the Switch 2 so they won't bother.

Edit: and with all of this pricing & tarrifs fiasco, that will make it worse but let's not get into that.

Will all of this locking down, monetising & fleecing like aggressive prices tied to multiple products and services, it seems Nintendo maybe nervous with this new iteration because if they weren't, you would think they would be going all out on welcoming new & existing gamers/customers without hidden costs for this new device especially with the welcome tour app.

At heart, for a company that primarily markets and produces products and games for kids in the gaming industry, they're the **ittiest so I can imagine they would pull a fast one (the current strategies) if it doesn't go down well because at the end of the day everyone already has a switch at home and they definitely don't want people emulating their new games if it goes to crap

(which it wont obviously)

Well what can I say, I'll respect the price if the product is a big 4k 60fps AAA game and it has ray-tracing plus all of the bells and whistles (a nine digit cost in price) compared to let's say a Nintendo game that could & will be at 1080p 30fps with a higher polly count slightly higher than the playstation 2.

Some developers/publishers don't deserve the price tag in my eyes & many will abuse it with broken releases so i am slightly against it but if it's good and not broken on release I'll pay it.

I've had a couple of elite controllers and it's the rubber grip padding on the sides that peel off but I super glued one of them and it's still intact so far lol

If it gives the devs less stress to make the next one shine and advance with new gameplay features then you can't go wrong I suppose.

Hopefully they don't get pushed to waste time & effort on silly micro-transactions that leads the game to be un optimised with trash added on because since it is Warner Bros it wouldn't suprise me.

Battlefield 1

If they could find a way to enable cross progression and cross play on some of these games or for some that aren't on the play anywhere support list yet it would be sweet.

Like for example Black Ops 3, it is playable on the Xbox/windows pc store now but it doesn't have the support & features mentioned but it is an old game now I suppose so I can imagine it won't happen.

I'll be giving this a go, gotta support my fellow British developers out there.

I turned my Xbox offline and completed it just so it didn't happen. It felt wrong but it's not my fault.

In my opinion, Halo is super bland with no marketing flavour/hype these days, I think they shouldn't bother but on that note I voted for 50-60.

If it has an oled screen I'd get one.

If GTA 6 doesn't come out this year then maybe because people start buying consoles just for games like GTA.

I know a few people that don't have a current gen console but they're planning on getting a new console when GTA comes out so if Microsoft does release a new one in 2026 it could be a smart move.

But on that note I won't bother straight away if they do because I want to get a top of the mark 77" OLED Tv.

I don't mind it but when the snap feature was a thing, I do miss that Ui. The Ui at the time was more technical and a little more in-depth, it was buggy and slow but that was the Xbox one era I suppose.

@abe_hikura Yeah same

@Kaloudz Agreed, great game.

Doritos Crash Course 3

No, drip fed leaks, like Chinese whispers.

I'll buy them for a dollar.

For me it's the windows store only and excluding infinite warfare I am not buying all three of them again, shame.

I'm not a cheap skate but that wrap better come with have some good blue tack atleast at that price 🙃

Going to get sniper elite 4 deluxe.

Hopefully they don't go cloud based with this upcoming handheld device because with the amount of updates and promotions they have done over the past couple of years with cloud gaming I can imagine it has being put on the drawing board plenty of times first and foremost.

With Dragon Ball Sparking Zero out along with a new show/anime, I assume a new James Bond movie is well on the way at the same time whilst this game is in production for marketing and what not.

Totally expected because I was looking to see if black ops 6 is play anywhere and it isn't so on note recouping the costs is necessary I suppose.

Im hoping they will drop a couple of old games they now have from Activisions dusty basement but it seems like they will be drip feeding the big earner's first which I'm not falling far because it's all tied to a subscription service type tactic, I respect it as a business tactic though but on that note I'm like meh, I'll just take it for what it is.

Desperados 2

Before reward points got seriously nerfd along with me not having WiFi, a computer and a good phone back in the day, using the browser via an Xbox One was my primary way of browsing the internet & I accumulated plenty of reward points (atleast 150k) from it but back then it was super stuttery and unresponsive but I tried it on the current models recently and it's miles better thats for sure.

Edit: I even used a keyboard that fits on the bottom of the Xbox controller.

A remake of Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters or Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time from the fifth gen (PS1) era would be cool.

@GuyinPA75 Yeah I think South Korea had the best internet speeds at one point but not now probably.

And hopefully, people going with cloud gaming is the lowest.

@Lup Definitely & you would just accept and appreciate what you have because within reason last gen is still good enough.

When they say the "biggest technological leap" it will be relating to Artificial/Generative Intelligence.

Nintendo: but muh muh my billions.

More layoffs? 😂

It just works.

It's understandable when a high majority of their scopes and strategies are cloud gaming, never ending live service games that are linked to gamepass that keeps people subscribed for longer.

(excluding the recent story driven games that got announced from the pipeline..... finally)

@Deityjester I have noticed that not so long ago and most of those accounts have a random good looking female or a not well known model/celebrity for their profile picture whilst also having fancy fonts and emojis in their profile description/bio but when you look at their recent gaming activities via achievements and what not plenty of them just play FIFA, COD, GTA V, Fornite, and others like Gears of War and Minecraft which wouldn't be something all fellow female players play, it is very predatory if you ask me.

I can imagine they have already found another sucker/peasant that has gone through with it.

Daggerfall Unity.

@Lup I can imagine it was because hi-fi rush for example has a low hourly completion rate for game pass compared to the majority of their games which is a live service product or a never ending bloated game like skyrim. They want people locked into games for a long time and staying subscribed that's for sure.

The movie should be just Minecraft like the mario and sonic movie's but as soon as jack black appeared it definitely popped the illusion bubble of imagination via dopamine.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

It's understandable because Microsoft still has legacy backend bugs on windows that can be linked to windows XP that still needs to be addressed and patched but they just look the other way these days that leads software developers to make a bug that bypasses a windows bug until they finally update the backend system & code but I suppose this is how it works when a trillion dollar company is now primarily focusing on Ai, cloud infrastructures and 365, gamepass subscriptions that also leads to everyone else waiting until later.

But the funny thing is (excluding security protocols) plenty of their machines/servers use a Linux distro so they must know how messy their operating system is 😂

Attempting to complete the Gorod Krovi Easter egg in black ops 3.

Bring on Commandos: Origins.

So it could be said that not marketing black ops 6 with game pass will make the uninformed buy it outright which is respectable when making money but even if you pay for it outright more money will be spent on it due to gamepass replacing gold to play online and if Call of duty is the only game some people play more money will be spent on it.

So paying for game pass ultimate (for example) for two years consecutivly at the price of £13 to play online including the game bought outright it would cost £382 and with a few season passes and the odd skin added on the average relatable player could be spending £500+.

It is harsh but business is business unfortunately so on that note I'll be buying it on steam 😂

Bring it on, there is a few things that was stated in the recent blog that gives me a little bit of distaste like the game being always online, it's horrible going for a high round and it disconnects but then to avoid that going offline was the answer but it's not possible to do that now either, I know there is now a new save feature but it's still the same thing unfortunately but all in all it looks great.