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I would buy Viewtiful Joe. I loved that game on GameCube. Otherwise not much jumps out at me. Even tho they have done a really good job bringing back older titles into the modern era. Not as easy as it seems it would be to do. Plus Capcom is raking in cash off them so i have to suspect we get a couple more.

@OldGamer999 yeah i think they are going to have a good 2025. They have the lineup to do it. How much of it will they keep to Xbox/PC is the question. I am not sure what if any will come to PS. I have a feeling Disney made sure the Indiana Jones had a bigger audience. Marvel don’t have to do that with Sony as much cause Sony has given loads of money to them already and signed up for even more games. Doom coming to PS5 is just a given. Doom is just not an exclusive IP. It is always on all devices and I suspect will continue to be. I watched a good video yesterday saying Xbox has a real chance in Japan, and i was like what? Then it went on to say how big RTS games are in Japan and there is a rumor that MS wants a handheld in Japan with a StarCraft game on it. Saying that could be the only way MS get’s some money out of Japan and it makes some sense. So we have to see what they do but they have the IP’s, infrastructure and of course cash to make it happen. But this is MS after all and what they can mess up they will mess up and more so it seems. I am here for the ride tho.

@OldGamer999 Yeah we are big Gears fans. I think it will be really good. Some insiders said when they seen it it was the best looking game they ever seen. I believe it will be. Plus i think it will play well cause they all do. With Marcus and Dom as the main guys this is shaping up to be super good in my opinion. To be honest as i know you are fed up with Xbox and i get it, i am getting there too, only i will stick with them for my set of reasons. But it’s not like Sony is lighting it up like they did with the PS4. They have as many cancelled games this gen that i can ever remember, Concord was a mess, we are getting PS4 games remastered. Outside of the Marvel licensing they really don’t have anything new and amazing out. Not saying that to take pressure of Xbox cause they need to do better as well. But this gen is coming down to who stinks less not who’s winning. Gears and a good to great Fable game can go a long ways compared to Horizon being remastered.

This is the only game i truly want this gen so bad the day’s seem like weeks counting down to its release. I hope the game brings back the competitive pro series the franchise used to have. I hope it moves consoles and does great for the IP. I believe it will cause this developer is top class. This and Doom should have 2025 looking really good for team green. Now if Fable is a hit then wow that’s a huge year for Xbox. But this is the game, it has to be great as a life long Gears fan.

@NEStalgia i don’t touch their games since Halo. Halo was to be a MAC exclusive until MS seen it and paid good money for the IP and team. It went well for them of course but man how Bungie has fallen, i can’t believe Sony paid as much as they did for them. Granted they wanted their knowledge as much as the games. But their knowledge is now living off the past “success” of destiny. Which i don’t like but credit where it is due they did make the game last a long time which in that genre is not an easy task. But they better do something good soon or Sony is going to break them up and put them into other teams. Wow would that make the money they spent seem even worse.

@NEStalgia and Apple Inc was the founder of most of its talent as we all know Halo was intended to be a Mac game. MS bought it and Bungie did well and then KABOOM, Bungie is now a studio i wouldn’t pay anything for their games. I always disliked Destiny and this Marathon game, ouch i think that one could sink more money down the Concord drain.

@themightyant no it wouldn’t hold it back cause the software for say Diablo 4 wouldn’t be the console version, it would run the PC version and scale. That would be my guess. As everything would just be PC software. However you made a point that i too thought about and that would be how well optimized and well would the software run and we see some PC ports having issues from time to time. That is the real deal breaker on this strategy. But this looks to be the direction MS is going and it makes sense. The Xbox will be a lower powered but easier to use PC, kind of like it is now only it will run PC software and the hardware will be open to other manufacturers. In time we will see if this is their winning formula, but i think for the position they are in, it makes the most sense.

@abe_hikura @themightyant the rumor is MS is going to lease out the UI to other hardware manufacturers and they can build a Xbox also. So when the PS6 comes out, maybe it does have a slight edge. But Asus builds a more powerful Xbox. Or Dell comes out with a $1000 dollar alien ware Xbox. Cause the next Xbox is said to be even more PC able than the Series consoles. So whatever the base power level is from MS can’t be under done by the others makers, but can be pushed further. Making the console really feel like PC. So i don’t think the “Xbox” will be behind in power, and it will get the software to run the PC version and not the console version. This is a good strategy cause it cut’s down the console software work needed for dev’s.

I played and beat Astro Bot on PS5. Great game. But that controller still hurts my left thumb and just isn’t as comfy as the Xbox controller. But it’s clear the Xbox is shrinking in mindshare on the console front. I would prefer if MS is going to let Sony have the high end market to themselves to release a MS controller for Sony so i can play my PS with a “Xbox” controller. Change out the ABYX for the PS symbols. Change the X home button to a PS logo and for the love of all things gaming get rid of the useless touchpad that makes the controller on PS5 to wide. Then and only then will i buy and play all my games on PS. But yes these numbers are awful and at this point all i want from MS is Gear of War E day and maybe fable if it turns out good.

@nomither6 no clue my friend. That was just a dumb move when they had Sony on the ropes. They were that close to keeping all those 360 fans and at the least only being outsold in Japan and a few European markets. But we are talking they gave HUGE chunks of players back to Sony with the Xbox One. We would have better competition in the industry right now if they would have released a great follow up to the 360. They gave away all the hard work 360 did from them, i just can’t believe it in many ways. Now with the Series consoles they are just a bag of mixed words and confusing us all the time. I still don’t know what their plans are for the series consoles and we are 4 years in.

@nomither6 i couldn’t agree more buddy. I too have the 360 as my greatest of all time. Me and my friends were all in different parts of the country at that age. We used Xbox live to play games together on the weekends and it was just different and special. Gears of War just became gears and beers weekends with the friends. I loved the console and can’t believe the follow up to that was TV TV TV. It just don’t make sense.

I just read every single comment on here. What happened to Xbox? Seeing all your memories and mine. I could see and feel what it felt like again back then. Then the 360 was so great. Xbox one and Series consoles just got so turned around from what they were doing and just how great Xbox was. I mean it still is in many ways, but man those OG and 360 days were special. Some of my favorite memories in all of gaming and i started on Super Nes.

@NEStalgia yeah i don’t think the Portal is for me, thats why i didn’t snag one. I do want Switch 2 of course and Xbox Handheld if they finally announce it in 2025. Which they might. Phil has hinted at it so many times now. It’s coming i just ain’t sure when.

@StylesT portal any good in your opinion? I don’t have one but i seen 3-4 of them at Best Buy the other day and was tempted. Most people seem to like it. Doesn’t look that comfy to hold but again i have to ask cause i have never held and played one before.

I got mine when they launched the smaller controller and played Halo for hours on end with friends. I loved the OG. Well built too, mine never broke or failed in any way.

@RetroMan71 i see no reason to believe this console will have many games on it running 4K 60fps so thats all i care about. There is plenty of games to play, i just want a certain performance for them. This console can and should achieve that. The video on what it did for a game that wasn’t running well on the base is pretty good stuff to me.

@Titntin Heck yeah buddy, once you sell all that the Pro will be mostly free update. I too am going to sell my PS5 and the SSD 1TB i have in it. So the Pro upgrade will hurt a little less. Haha

Yeah i hear you about GP, both the pro’s and con’s of it. Most of the games on it don’t suit me. So thats why I care less and less about it, but for some people it’s a wonderful value. I just think MS really needs to get on a roll and soon. It’s been 4 years now and the console lacks many games that really excite me. I am still supporting it of course as i had said, but the Pro will be my main place now. I too want the dev’s to get their money and not lose jobs, i always consider the health of the industry as i care for it deeply. 😊

@Titntin Yeah i know you have owned a lot of video game hardware in your life and know the industry very very well. So to say this has been your least played shows a little of just how bad the Series lineup has been for you and many others. Sony’s not releasing new games every 3-6 months but man, seems like half or more of the life cycle of the Xbox has just had nothing. With Avowed pushed to 2025 even this year is a bit dry. Like i said i really want Gears of War E day and if that comes to PS and runs best on Pro. That will leave me with very little to play on Xbox. I thought south of midnight looked good. But yeah get the Pro and i am too. From the looks of things it will be a monster console.

@Titntin agreed, the price of the Pro is a little high, but the performance is starting to show a little online already and when more and more games start to really show it’s power it’s going to be nice. I hope i get mine day 1.

Yeah the cuts are sad. Especially cause there isn’t much time left to get a new job in time for the holidays. Crazy to think the holidays and the shopping is closer than i think about it. I hope MS figures it all out and gets some great games out. Cause i like my Series X. But this has been another pretty dry year. Then the big elephant in the room is Gamepass. Seems to be a strong leak out there of MS saying COD needs to boost GP numbers in a big way as the service has largely not grown much at all lately. Might have even shrunk a bit that i don’t know. So what happens if COD don’t grow GP much, which i guess that it will. But say it doesn’t, what happens? Xbox is in odd times right now i think it’s fair to say.

@OldGamer999 i hear ya, i am going to hang onto Xbox as i do like it, but i want to be clear that i will be getting a PS5 Pro and playing my games on that machine more times than not. Sorry not sure i can play my shooters on that controller. Everything else will be on Pro. I have been on the record for months now saying the Pro console is for me. It’s not for everyone and many don’t have the TV to fully need it. But i am liking what i am seeing in some videos I’ve watched recently on the Pro. It’s going to be a monster.

@GADG3Tx87 not everyone!! I am loving the PS5 Pro. Watching videos on it about how the power is going to be used as well as just the overall performance i will get with it. It’s going to be awesome. Sure i wish it was $600 but i will be preordering it. MS on the other hand they need to get some games out and some good ones. GP is not growing and the hardware sales are shrinking to the point i think it’s a say bet to say they won’t outsell Xbox One. They need to get it together and quick.

@MrMagic they did say that. Even tho the court and MS knew they weren’t going to keep everyone. There is no need for duplicate positions. But they did say that.

@OldGamer999 Agreed buddy, i will get Switch 2 for the exclusives, as i always do with Nintendo Hardware. I think it will be a great system and give some extra performance to their lineup. Sure only one Mario game but i loved that game and beat it twice and collected everything. Really enjoy it.

PS5 Pro i will be getting also and for sure playing Doom there if it’s pro enhanced. Runs best and has better effects and experience. I will be playing some stuff on Xbox as i won’t just leave them completely, but they better win me over more with the next gen cause Series consoles have had a lot of mistakes and bad marketing and PR speech. I still can’t believe they would end a show with a just one more thing and that one more thing is ending a Xbox show with an announcement of a big game coming to PS5. That was a slap in the face to a lot of us Xbox guys. To me that was a bigger slap in the face than the Pro’s $700 dollar price tag. Time will tell, but i am going to start being more critical of Xbox going forward. The free passes on mistake after mistake has worn me thin. Not trying to be negative. They just need to do better. 😀

@NEStalgia agreed mobile gaming largely from Apple dominates the true gaming dollar. iOS is the leading money maker for App Store developers. So I get that, but thats a different audience and not why Sony made a Pro console nor target.

Nintendo games are just so different i don’t even touch when they are up or down. They are the kiss of death or jackpot. They go from rags to riches. Not from a IP standpoint, and market demand for those titles. But Nintendo is their own best friend and foe.

I mean i am caught playing devils advocate here maybe more than i want too, cause i see your points, but if no one is pushing this tech then is it not ready or is it just not needed or is it time to see advancement. I don’t think i can say. I agree consoles need to play to their strengths more and not push $700 price points to prove their points. Sony miss this price badly. I agree. But i love MS and Sony and pushing gaming forward in terms of tech, and what not and i think we agree. But within reason, take Astro Bot for example. It’s so much fun and so good.i am loving it. Best game of the generation in my opinion. It’s so console spot on. It ain’t trying to push above its consoles design. I see your points, i see and hear many others points both for and against it all. But there’s not a one size fits all in a creative industry. They are all chasing money but in different ways. Point is for me PS5 Pro is over priced but i want it. I think MS is smart to say no, we don’t sell enough hardware now. We don’t need that to add to the problem. Sony is fine cause the base console will sell really well.

@NEStalgia i agree with that mostly, but some devs see the sales in high end games with large budgets and stories. They see those cheap meta games as peanuts. Be that right or wrong, the budgets are going to the selling paying customers and they see it as the ones that want the industry pushing forward. Again be that right or wrong. Nintendo aside cause they march to them and them only. The largest pool of money wants high end games and stories in 4K 60. The ones that don’t want live service and sports games. Then you have the candy crushers. So plenty of options to take but the console market wants a little of all it. They can do that but there has to be more compromise to your point. I really like the Pro minus the price. It’s $100 high for what i think it will do. But they also need to show more of what it will do and can do. Cause in 9 mins with 2 of those talking about base PS5 won’t do that. The price aside the presentation was bad for a console like t this cause it’s not easy to show FPS and textures over YouTube.

@NEStalgia I slightly disagree cause gamers and YouTubers are blasting games like Starfield for being 30fps. More recently Avowed being 30fps etc etc, Again why not 60. Well cause the silicon at $499 is not giving that performance, you want it? It cost. Now i don’t think Sony should have gone $700. But it cost to get that performance and these companies, MS and Sony all talked about 60fps this gen and it isn’t happening and gamers are calling it out. PC hits 60 and above easily, 30 isn’t a thing over there unless it’s a potato. Yet that cost. I am not defending Sony’s price, nor am i saying every game on console can hit 60fps. But people wanted it and still do. This is our best answer for it and it’s not great cause it’s not good performance to price ratio.

@NEStalgia LOUD SIREN NOISES WO WO WO!!!!

Apple defender gets out of his car, do we have a problem here sir? I am getting calls of attacks against the most powerful tech brand on planet earth. LOL thats lame, someone, namely you will make fun of me for that.

Yes yes i love Apple, they sell me and billions an experience that is not achievable on other platforms. iMessage alone is one of the most powerful software features in the world. It’s a reason people won’t switch. I don’t think a video game company wants or can be Apple. Apple has saved lives on its Apple Watch, has products that simply change the industry and what people are creating and how they create them. Magazine covers being made from Apple Pencil artist on iPad the list goes on and on. For those that don’t like Apple and their “high” prices, they won’t get what i am saying. But a Samsung galaxy can and often times does cost more than a iPhone netting less benchmarks. MS Surface matches their prices or exceeds them to MacBooks. Apple has “affordable” entry points into their ecosystem, hence they are on their way to being worth 4 trillion. They collect all the money from all range of users. I think Sony missed the price on this console. $600 was the number and they missed it. But i do think Consoles are chasing something and it’s not Apple, i think it’s gamers asking for more and more but not truly wanting to pay it for it’s R&D and end cost with mark up. Sony has to make back their cost , not to this extent haha, but here we are. Apple wasn’t nearly the worldwide influence they are now back when Sony launched a $600 dollar PS3. This is a Sony problem and not Apple.

@Banjo- all great point and welcome to another great TV enjoy that new LG TV they are so so good. I agree with you. I think Xbox is here to stay in their hearts at MS. But in the gamers mind i think they are slowing going backwards to think the Series consoles likely won’t outsell the Xbox One is a tad worrying. But I think the next console/ PC in a box model will work well for them. I hope it does, i am buying it haha. But this gen i will rock PS5 Pro for most titles such as GTA 6. Xbox will be what i need it for until i see their next plans. They have the studios to make some great titles and i agree i don’t know nor does anyone if more or what titles are coming to PS. But they leave that door open saying things like we have a business to run and more is on the way. CEO at MS saying he don’t like exclusives and wants games everywhere. Well how does that make a person buying a Xbox feel. Sure Sony will support PC, but i would eat a BBQ possum if Sony ever brought their titles to XBOX. It just won’t happen. Call it stubborn or whatever, but it’s not going to happen cause Sony wants high console sales to support their business. They don’t want people jumping ship. They know console players won’t leave in the 20’s of million to PC. Sure they might lose some but not enough to make it not worth making consoles. Xbox on the other hand, they need to get it right with the next one or they are down to what 25-30 million units. Not sure that cuts it.

@Secryt very well said. I agree if they don’t that looks petty and if they do we all jump there. They are backing themselves into a corner that i don’t see the out. Maybe i am wrong but it looks like they are weakening the brand more and more.

I too have LG Oleds. I have a 65 inch C2 in the media room and a 55 inch C3 in the downstairs living room. When you invest into this type of tech all extra power matters. I don’t love the price of the PS5 Pro, i thought it should have been $599 and i don’t do physical media so i don’t need the drive. But yeah i mean i do think giving up mindshare catches up with you in time. Sony spent $750 million dollar rumors have it to have GTA 6 exclusive marketing. They are going to market the PS5 and PS5 Pro with the largest game maybe ever, but for sure this Generation. How long can MS sit back and be like we have GP? Sorry thats not enough fight in the fight. You know as well as i do Sony is going to speak from the rooftops about having better looking and performing games, even if most people hate the price. MS is going to say play Indiana Jones on GP. I don’t want to beat a dead horse here or get ahead of myself, cause i like Xbox, but you can only not fight for us for so long before you have nothing but Cloud and PC left. Sony Smells blood in the water and even with the high price they will make sure they grow their install base off GTA 6 deals and other games. Don’t even get me. Started on BG3 missing Xbox at launch, you know just a game of the year title. Those are good looks buddy is all i am saying. By the way how much you love that LG Oled. They are so insanely good. I might even get a 48 or 42 inch so i can sit close and play hahaha

@Banjo- oh i ain’t leaving Xbox, but they do need to finally start earning my money than just me giving it to them if they are in fact bringing their titles to all platforms and those platforms have advantages. I am good with games going to more places for people to play, i think MS has a sound plan in terms of making money and building a ecosystem, just don’t forget about us over here on Xbox, and it is feeling that way with Series consoles. I think it’s clear MS can’t wait to get to their next gen plans. Which i can’t wait for either. I look forward to their next console and handheld. I just hit my breaking point with them a little bit this year. They need to get the messaging and plan out to us gamers better. It’s been a bit of an ugly year for Xbox in my eyes. Phil saying i have a business to run, then saying one more thing and ending their show on a PS5 announcement? Man thats just odd to me and a little frustrating.

@OldGamer999 you know me well. We have had a bunch of talks about countless things. My stance on the PS5 Pro is while yes it is overpriced. Sony is making Money on every one of those sold. But it does what i want it to do and that is bridge the gap until next gen and gives me smoother frame rate and better graphics and effects. Not all games will use the overhead power the same way. Some dev’s may focus on one thing or another to benefit their style of game. But the Xbox has made not one, not two, not three but 4000 mistakes since the launch of Xbox One and i am slowly getting sick of them. I will be buying my multi plat games on the PS5 Pro, and if Gears of War comes to PS then I’ll play that there also. I need MS to earn my money back. I love the Xbox controller even tho it needs a huge update. Mostly just quality improvements. Which i thought from the leak we were getting and we didn’t. But enough is enough with Xbox. I do not want or need GP, and bringing their titles to PS makes the Pro worth a little more to me then it would ever been if those titles from Xbox weren’t coming. Remember i said this, rebooting Halo and going to a prequel for Gears sure sounds like a PS5 announcement for me. What’s left for me there? Sorry ain’t trying to rant on you, but i know you feel strongly about this as well. I am loving Astro Bot right now. Like best platformer i have played since Mario and MS has what coming out? Indiana Jones for PS?

Doom Dark ages for me, but i know want to know if it will do any PS5 Pro enchantments. Cause if so i will get it there, if it is looking and running best. I think thats a big question will MS studios support the PS5 Pro? Or will they just cater to the base console and of course Series consoles. Time will tell but Doom in this setting looks great. South of Midnight will be a play for me as well and Fable if that makes it out in 2025.

@Fenbops no i mean toot it. You had it. It’s for sure coming in around $50-$100 more than i thought it would. Nice specs and the leaks on it were right. I’m sure it’s going to be nice for some games and barely noticeable on others. But it’s a good call from you. But this is PS it will sell some. Not a ton but it will not be on shelves for long when it launches.However something i did not see happening was Wi-fi 7 and a 2TB SSD. So that is included in the price. I didn’t account for those.

@OldGamer999 100% they should have. It’s like Xbox don’t want to win. Instead Gears and Halo might come to PS and then it’s like well what is an Xbox needed for for a lot of us. Should be keeping all the games and sitting back with good pricing and winning people back into the ecosystem. I would not be surprised by the end of this generation that the numbers between PS5 Pro and Series X will be close and thats with a $200 dollar gap. Series X is said to only be around 9-10 million right now with the others being Series S. Thats not good in my opinion and i think the dev’s hate it too. Cause they have to make sure they have the series S game good cause it’s who will largely be buying those games, unless they are just on GP. Weird weird generation. Lot’s to fix for next Gen. starts with better games.

Disclaimer: anything Gears of War, Red Dead and Diablo i am maybe a touch bias. Those are my go to franchise's. That out of the way.

Gears 5 single player shockingly only came in at a 7.5 for me. The open world and running around on a glider just didn’t hit that well with me. The cast of characters weren’t great and the story again right in that 7.5. Onto multi player

Online play was a 9.5 for me, easily the best in the series. It ran, looked and played so well on my One X. I put over a 1000 hours into the multiplayer. Every day i would play it and i am not bragging but proud to say i was in the top 25 in the USA for a while in leaderboard stuff. I loved it. Overall it’s a mixed bag for me. But i suspect Gears of War E Day is going to be outstanding. I mean the cast will be great, the story should be amazing. The locust are back, Sera getting attacked, graphics on UE5 will be some of the best of the generation in my opinion. Overall i can’t wait for it as it’s my most anticipated game of the generation and it will pull me away from grinding levels and gear on Diablo 4.

I put 40 hours in XD. It’s ok at best. The fact it don’t have SBMM makes it hard for players to have fun with it. I am a good player at these games, good not great. There are matches were i am like 9-14 and a guy is 40-3 or even on match 51-6. So it’s just very hard and not a fun experience. With Pro’s beating up causals it makes it feel like a game not worth the time. Once COD Black Op’s 6 comes out i will never touch XD again and i suspect many others will do the same. 6/10 for me!

@OldGamer999 last time i seen the Xbox was only like 6 million behind the PS5 in the US. So it’s fairly close. It’s worldwide that PS just tramples Xbox in sales. Making the gap really big. This announcement won’t hurt Xbox as Indiana Jones wasn’t going to be a system seller. So it don’t hurt them much, but Xbox needs a true system selling game to see if people still care about the brand or will just pass on that game.

Playground games just expanded its team, maybe bringing Forza Horizon 5 to PS5 helps pay for that new overhead. Sure seems to be the only reason. It’s a guess but it seems to make sense.

@IOI you beat me to it. I just did a rant on it haha

This is why Nintendo and Apple rule the industries they are in SIMPLE CLEAN UI. I don’t want to read a book’s worth of text on a Ui. Adding more to what it already has is just lame. Microsoft Windows same thing clutter. even the PS5 Ui is to much clutter with cards that i don’t even want or use. This is a pass for me, make a clean simple 4K HDR Ui that is quick, fun and easy.

Likely Starfield, but i am going to go a different direction and say it will be Indiana Jones with the release date. Thats a game with a big license that might want more broad appeal. It’s a guess, i don’t know the contract details. But again a safe bet is Starfield. Wow if Gears of War E day comes to PS5 & PS5 Pro Xbox hardware sales could flatline.

This game has had more delays than it will likely have levels or play hours. I am still highly interested in it as i like the style and look of gameplay but dang this game has just seen delay after delay. Hope it makes it a great game tho as i am sure thats what the reasoning is.

@NEStalgia yeah even myself i am not a AI guy that much. I don’t use nor want it in my products. I can see the use, and if it’s doing things in the background and i don’t know it in the next consoles thats fine, but i don’t need it to build my hammer.

I said 70 million for the generation for Xbox should be a nice goal and sweet spot, sure PS5 is only at 61 million currently but thats without GTA6, and some of Sony’s 1st party bangers they normally have 1-2 of a generation. So they will easily in time hit 100-110 million PS5’s, if Xbox in the future could do 65-70 that is more competitive and i think makes them stick around consoles, but you are correct in saying consoles are slowing and customers have 2-4 devices in their homes right now they can play a game on. Throw in the PC growth and i think like you do that gaming is changing and has already changed as well. It’s just too big a market for it to only be in 1-2 areas. Heck it’s in car’s these days. So at some point someone’s numbers are going to grow and the others shrink and i think it will be the dedicated console that seems some dip in sales. Especially if the parts prices don’t allow consoles to do a price reduction in the later years as we are seeing now. So once again great points and i agree with ya.

@NEStalgia i agree with that 1000%, image is a huge problem at the moment for Xbox.which in gaming is hard to change at times. Like you said even more so with the casuals buying PS. They seem content with their PS experience and have games bought there. Very well said friend, i agree.

@NEStalgia Phil has already said he wants a native handheld that is a portable Xbox from the Ui, to the achievements and friends list and everything. I think that was a good look at how this thing will be and anyone thinking it will just be a portal clone hasn’t been listening. He likes the Asus handheld just not the Ui, that was his vision for what he wants it to be. Funny to hear me say i have confidence in anything MS but i think they get the handheld right. Now the Series X2 i am calling it for now, that is where they need to look at past mistakes and drive home a much better name, branding launch titles, year 1-2 titles and the sort. If they can do that then we have the winning formula for those wanting to be in the Xbox ecosystem which is me and here we go again put the dang gyro and better tech into the controllers. Hall effect Elite 3. No more messing around, who do you think you are Scuf HHAHA

@NEStalgia i am think that or maybe AI enhancements? The rumors are still there that MS wants AI to do some heavy lifting in the next Xbox and so does Sony. Both are rumored to be far along in that feature set for PS6 and SX2. I think it will play a vital role in the handheld. Man i have to say i really want a Xbox Handheld. I hope they do it right. I know i know it’s MS they won’t but a man can wish right. Anyways it’s looking more and more that Xbox and MS teams are committed to gaming and i think they will continue to look at ways to get the console more love and grow those numbers in the future. I know Xbox is only near 30 million in sales and might only hit 45-50 for the gen which will be worse than Xbox One. But think of that, no killer launch games, wrecked Redfall, Halo Infinite while good, no maps and content to keep players, them telling everyone you don’t need the console to play their games and more negative news stories than you can shake a stick at and yet they have 30 plus million fans buying it. It could be worse and while i don’t think MS will ever be a 100 million console seller like Nintendo and Sony, i think it’s fair to set a goal of like 70 million units, thats a fairly healthy console business when you have all the other ways to access the library. Again i am just throwing out ideas and by no means am i saying Xbox is Doomed but it sure could be going better.

@NEStalgia Me too and it works still. Easily a top 3 all time controller for me and if i tried hard enough it could be number 1. I was a MASSIVE fan of the GameCube. I loved that thing so much.

@NEStalgia i ain’t buying that mouse for work i use a Microsoft Surface mouse and i like. Just the thought of were tech is heading is insane. Don’t even seem real at times and yet here we are.

@Cikajovazmaj you wont get frowned on by me, this is what this platform is for is to share what you like and don’t and why. I respect what you said and what is working for you. I am just not getting the types of games and franchises that excite me so far this generation. It will change at some point, but i find myself waiting on things more than playing whats out. Well other than the few titles that i do like have been released. I am hope in 2025 we start to see less cross gen and push some true life into the software before we see the next gen consoles. I enjoyed your reply and always look forward to speaking on any topics 😀

@OldGamer999 yeah i do agree with those points and while i am a stay at home worker. My job is ideal for it. There job is to be around creators and share idea’s and make sure each others work is jelling together, i think video game work from home is not ideal. This Gen has been awful honestly. I am sure it will get good right before the new generation starts and yes i agree i love the Series X hardware, it’s the best made hardware they have ever made but they are wasting it on doing everything else poorly. Sony is just living off past history and a fan base that thinks they do no wrong in some cases. But even Sony this gen has been a lot of failed live service projects and remasters. At least this far along. Nintendo could release the Switch 2 at any point and it will sell. They said they wanted to have enough inventory so scalpers didn’t ruin the launch so they are making sure when they do they can flood the market. I respect that actually if true.