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@Romans12 maybe not, rumor has it Sony wants the marketing rights for GTA like they had for COD. Sony wants casual gamers to know PS5 Pro plays GTA best. Rockstar will take a check from Sony cause they’re Rockstar!

@NEStalgia MS screwing something up isn’t surprising news to me. Even Halo was a Mac and Apple thing they bought. They just don’t do creative and entertainment well at all. Never have. That’s more an Apple, Samsung, Sony and others thing. Look at Google they are like MS in a lot of ways with their Apps. They try something hoping it will be big and then a year or so later they closed it down and move on to the next. Google has closed down more apps than they have kept open. They have some MS in them. I think the Xbox 360 fooled us into thinking MS is going to be a major player in console and then they screwed it up. Now it seems like it going to take forever to reverse their mistakes and what do they do? Make more mistakes. Can’t make this stuff up i tell ya.

@NEStalgia @OldGamer999 the one thing the video game or tech industry should teach you is a min is a hour and a year is an eternity. Things happen and change so fast in tech. Console’s and mobile phones are tribal tho. Hard to get users to uproot. Rightfully so. I just for the love of me can’t believe MS plan is to just buy up ABK have no plan for its budget and expense and leave the console market. MS and Apple has some of the best people on earth giving them trends and info along with financial reports. I don’t get guys. I just can’t make sense of what they want to do outside of wait out the future for PC, Cloud and Mobile. It’s well written MS wanted ABK for PC and Mobile. Console wise they wouldn’t have done it, and even the strict and uneducated European courts were like we clear this deal on the console side. It’s Cloud holding us back. MS fought it and i knew at that point they are look Loooooong down the road with this deal and even short in the sense of getting a mobile store front out of it. Damn i wish i knew where this ended up. Gears of war is my top 3 franchise all time alongside Diablo and Red Dead. This showcase next month is suppose to be Gears heavy. Maybe this is my swan song exit but damn it i am going to enjoy it. No internet rumors or MS idiots are going to stop me from seeing Gears back on stage something many years ago brought me and my cousins online together over Xbox Live to play together and countless friends chainsawing hordes. Outside of getting super Mario Bros 3 for a birthday gift has any game meant so much to me. To see it on PS potentially is just insane how the tech world can change on a dime.

This game is going to crush all games coming out next to it and after. We are talking over a decade in the making. Fan’s might even jump off COD and Fortnite to play this. PS5 Pro was build with it in mind is still my opinion. Sony has some marketing deal with it i just know it.

Good to see new studios opening, the industry has talent waiting at home unless they of course decided on a career change. This won’t get everyone back to work, but it’s good to see. Exciting even!

@NEStalgia don’t you mean call from Booty!! Hahaha JIMBO!

@OldGamer999 yeah i understand that completely. It’s a tough call and you have to do what’s best for you. I just don’t see them leaving the hardware space. They have a handheld coming up, next gen console likely. I think they stick with a PC small form factor Xbox hardware for a long time. I also don’t think we will see Gears 6 on PS5 soon. They will use those games to keep hardware sales and GP going. Gears collection on PS5 could be day 1 from what i am seeing and hearing. They really open their mouth too much and make us players question everything instead of just enjoy the hobby.

@OldGamer999 just hang in there with me buddy, if we are going down we are staying on the ship to the end. Thats what fan’s do. I think we will be ok. I still think they see the money in gaming and know they need to stick in this business and not leave it like they did mobile phones. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say i am getting concerned and annoyed with all the bad news lately. They must really have a heck of a showcase coming trying to get all the bad news out first haha

@OldGamer999 Buddy. The writing is on the wall, MS will keep Xbox around for the 30-40 million players that want it. But they are chasing the big money on Mobile, PC and Cloud. Yes Cloud in the future will be big money. I think after this Gen or slightly before it ends, i will Grab my Switch 2 and head to PC. NEVER did I think i would go to PC after being a console guy for 30 years. I still want to wait until this May show where Sony say’s they will lay out their plans for the next 3 years. Want to see what their PC plans are first.

@Savage_Joe cause you like the ecosystem, controllers etc etc and if not run to PS, they get your money there. Don’t like PS, run to PC, Cloud or Mobile, they got your money there. This is no longer about the console for MS and starting to become the industry as we seen Sony and Square say this week they are going to PC sooner and for good. In a decade we will be looking at Mobile, PC and Cloud as the growth and software leaders. MS will continue to keep Xbox around for it’s 40-50 million player base and the gaming world moves on to where the next set of younger kids becoming adults want to spend their money on and it’s likely not console.

@GamingFan4Lyf as a Mac user we love ole Satya. He gave us the only useful things a Windows PC has and thats Excel and PowerPoint. With those on Mac under his leadership i now have the best PC (Mac) in the world software wise. Well not counting gaming cause we know Apple isn’t going to do that. But my point is you are right Satya loves to sell software and doesn’t want hardware to be the divide between a customer. MS is playing the long game of Mobile, PC and Cloud. They know they aren’t going to move the needle much in the console space and the console space is having the leader Sony run at 4% profit models and running to PC. That shows MS all they need to see. Cause they know they aren’t going to sell PS numbers and yet with those results it wouldn’t matter if they did.

@sonicbooming the one i want was code named Sebile. I haven’t seen or heard anything on it since the FTC leak.

Good for those that need it. Nice to see things Iike this exist. Now MS when are you going to talk and show that new controller code named Sebile? I want that day one. Already trading in all my older ones for 2 new ones. It was leaked for May 2024 and here we are.

@GamingFan4Lyf i’’m right there with my friend. I am going to see how they do over the next year or so and continue to save money on the side. Cause of course i am going all in if i do PC. Never did PC gaming before. So i want all the settings HAHA 4090 or 5090 and treat myself. However i would like to hear more about what the next Xbox is before doing so. Plus i am weird and love to save money and then find a reason not to have to use it. At least we would save on GP and PSN a year. For me thats $200 a year or so. Plus i can finally play redneck rampage.. haha

@RedShirtRod thats an excellent point and well delivered. I do think sometimes we forget Xbox makes money. Especially with the ABK move. But man they need to get some hardware out and show how good it can be. Cause the series consoles are well made. Now if we could only get the improved controller that was leaked. Be even better. Good post.

@nomither6 yeah i may or may not keep the Xbox around if i go PC. Honestly these days i am just happy to play a handful of the games i love and go way down the rabbit hole with them then try a bunch of busted games at launch. If i can play Diablo, Gears of War and Red Dead Redemption then i am fine. I have 800 hours on Diablo 4. The new season 4 is insanely good. So PC would do me just fine for those titles. Of course I’d love to see MS pull its head out of its backside and turn Xbox around. But that is looking like a tall order at this point. They would need a GTA6 level type exclusive game that sells gangbusters and brings every one over to the platform and i don’t see GTA’s growing on trees.

@TakeItEasy i am close to making the switch from Xbox to PC. Just not sure yet and want to save up more money for it. Sad to see MS with all the money and resources they have be so bad at gaming. They just don’t learn and continue to shoot their own toes off.

@PROPS thats awesome, you been with them since the start. Oh heck yes Quake 3 was insanely fun. If they remastered that for Xbox and PC, i would day one that as well. I was just hoping the rumors of a Quake reboot in the way of the Doom reboot is real cause that would be an outstanding game. Unlikely we hear about it this year since Doom Zero seems to be real. But i am sure that will be a killer title. ID rarely if ever misses.

@NEStalgia wow there is just no way I’d want to use a PS controller on PC. That trackpad is so lame to me. But if it has to stay can we for the love of god get concave sticks. Convex just slips right off my thumbs. That’s why i can’t use it well on shooters. Well one of the reasons.

@NEStalgia is it to much to ask for Phil to nuke rockstar for not updating RDR2 to 60 fps on Series X? If so nuke the Sony PS controller designer. Jimbo push the red button!!

@fabio1 oh yeah Nintendo is never lacking in fun. I love their games. So much so i wish they had more power to get 3rd party titles more and i would use my Switch even more. It’s a great console and i always support Nintendo as much as i can.

@PROPS for sure, that would be great. Doom is a great IP for sure. I am just more into Quake. I remember playing Quake 3 on a friends PC and just loved it.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner yeah the N64 game was really good. I played the one on Xbox it was so so for it time. But i am excited for this one and yes i used to love playing spilt screen halo matches in the OG days.

I am hoping this one gets the love and time it needs. Cause Perfect Dark could be a nice hit for Xbox. I am interested in it. Again take your time, get it right and it will do well. Hope to see a little bit of it at the showcase. Then next year it should be one of the bigger titles to show at the 2025 Showcase.

@Banjo- i am hopeful. There was a rumor saying they are working on it. It would have a single player and multiplayer. I love fast paced shooters. Despise battle royals. So Quake would hit home with me if they did it and made it really good.

Well it’s less exciting for me than a Quake reboot. But i hope the rumors of a new Quake is still true and comes out after this Doom game. I.D is one of the best dev teams MS has. This should be a huge hit with the fans.

I love final fantasy 16, so to see that come to Xbox will be great. I have been saying it makes no sense to keep their games on one platform. PC in Japan is a decent size. I hope they see more sales as we don’t need more people losing their jobs in the industry.

@tatsumi if the rumors are true and the Switch 2 docked is as powerful as a Series S. Then it could become some players go to only. That is powerful enough to get some nice games on it for a while. The only issue i have with Nintendo is they hold onto the console to long when it’s already underpowered. 7 years with switch is just to long and showing it’s limits in year 4. So for 3 years Switch has been rough in performance as devs have done all they can with that tech. Now if Switch 3 came out say 5 years after switch 2 to gain some more power. I could see Switch like you said coming back into play with a lot of gamers that don’t care about power. The Nintendo is doomed talk always made me laugh, they are to good at their craft and knowing the business of gaming to be dead. Exactly what Xbox is showing they are bad at and thats the business side of gaming and consoles.

@IOI here’s the thing with that. MS knew what condition Xbox was in in the state of the industry before writing the check. They also knew the moment the ink dried on the paper to own ABK. 5 games weren’t in the pipeline to be ready and come out. Thats not how game development works. MS still wants to see more games come out and see what happens, hence they are well under way on work on a rumored handheld and console. Now i agree if those big hitters come out and don’t move the needle any or their future hardware bombs then plan B of being a 3rd party publisher kicks in. But i think we are years off from seeing if that happens. One thing i know about gamers is they will follow great games if in fact they are great and MS needs some great ones and they need to be on Xbox Hardware only as was said in this article. If gamers think they can just wait on these to come to PS, then MS is hurting Xbox and why even support it. I would be lying tho if i didn’t say PC is starting to look better and better to me if we are in fact watching the end of Xbox.

@NEStalgia i knew MS knew nothing about tech the day they made fun of the iPhone on stage and said no one will pay $600 for a phone with a calculator on it. Fast forward to today and it’s Apple that is the richest tech company in the world with working VPN but i digress. I do think on a serious note MS won’t stop trying to get it right in gaming, but at what cost and i ain’t saying just money. Like will they continue to buyout studios and trim the ones they don’t want? Will they have to throw in the towel on GP and try something else? I don’t think they stop until something starts to resemble success. But who knows with them. Every other week the news is good and then bad, bad and then good. Get’s exhausting after a while. Haha JIMBO!

@NEStalgia fair point. Jimbo might not even get a job with Luna at this point. I’d love to see all new suits at MS they need it and not just for Xbox. Not even our old pal Jimbo would mess up VPN and put ad’s on the os. Haha

@NEStalgia oh lord!!! Not ole Jimbo to Xbox. That will be worse than we have now. Which is scary and a little funny to think about. I’d like to hear him talk about Xbox in his English slang. Haha
He did say he believes in generations. I suppose that left the door open.

@TheGameThrifter all they have to do is get the $199 Series S and a GP core subscription which is cheaper than a PS5 and PSN, however whether they will just opt for the PS5 and spend the extra money is the question. But if COD is only on Series and PS5 this time. People will upgrade cause up to this point there has been very few big games to leave people’s Xbox one and PS4 for. COD and GTA6 will get players to upgrade.

@NEStalgia Good ole Jimbo! Haha

Yeah i really hope MS suits let Phil and company get back to their plans but it seems like that money given up from the suits say’s we need our return on this and we are going to have a say in how and when we get it. Which is sad. But i am hoping it works out for the best. Cause MS will be happy in the back half of this year with COD money and the Diablo 4 expansion. But what about Avowed and HB2? That i am not so sure about. Meanwhile somewhere ole Jimbo is saying what a shame they cancelled all my gaas titles. 😂

@NEStalgia @OldGamer999 @Banjo- if one of my favorite information outlets is right here is what they hear is planned at the June showcase and beyond. COD is getting the big after show highlight. Why? Cause rumor per them is this is the first COD that won’t be on PS4 and Xbox one. Also it has been in development longer than any cod is recent history and is adding new movement. Whatever that looks like. Stay with me here. The rumor is MS is going to control the marketing for it, i know i know, stay with me. They are going to advertise it not only coming to GP but later in the year they will have a $199.99 bundle with COD on Series S. That could grab a lot of causals and players that are about to find out they can’t play this year on Xbox One and PS4. Will it move the needle much? Idk but it’s a smart move and keep in mind this year Sony can’t market COD, it would be illegal. It’s now MS. So let’s see if this is the marketing push they were waiting for. June will tell us more.

@OldGamer999 easily my favorite controller. Now if Xbox left the industry and took its games to PS, i would hope they would also sell their controllers on it as a 3rd party. 10/10 i would buy it.

@Ricky-Spanish i agree and it may get there in time. I think thats the next step. Of course PC gaming will be there for the more hardcore groups like you and i and others if we wish to. Consoles have a little life left in them some. But it’s not going to grow over the next 10 years like Sony and MS wish or need it to.

@OldGamer999 yeah they do need more infrastructure to it and are building it up over time. I have 1000mbps and sometimes it’s still not perfect. However i can download a 75GB game in 8-11 mins. So i stick to that. 😊

@NEStalgia @OldGamer999 @Banjo- i agree wholeheartedly. Tango lost talent and MS decided not to fill it. Look you know i love you and NES and many others on here. Y’all keep me company, more knowledgeable, and are just some of the best people i trust in all of the industry. I had to say that before i say this. Gamers love to panic and complain. Period! Take leakers for an example they get 8 out of 10 things right, it’s the 2 they missed that are talked about. Sony closed studios this year and hacked and slashed Japan studios and went to California. Seems a little more extreme than closing Tango. My point is. Business is business and we might not all see the reasons for it and understand the decisions. Some of us do understand and flat out disagree with it and thats ok also. But we don’t get to call in death threats to devs. We don’t get to slander people online that we never met. We aren’t a fly in the room on the wall watching Phil tell the board he would like to keep Tango or why he wishes to close it. This isn’t the 6th or 7th gen of video games where the options of places to play are thin. There are like 15 devices including handheld PC’s, consoles, mobile cloud and more options to take the players time and money to if they wish. I have said regardless if i agree with everything or not from MS i am sticking to using and enjoying an Xbox console as long as they make them. If…. IF MS leaves console i will build a PC. I can not play Gears and COD and others on a PS controller. It hurts my hands, i don’t love the layout etc etc. i will use that controller for their exclusives only and of course i use Nintendo for exclusives only. In closing gamers love to scream and yell on social media and try and look smart and important and good for them. But not all news be it good or bad is as good or bad as it’s made out to be. There is some grey areas to these situations that we need to respect more. I don’t wish to offend people on here but i know this post alone will turn into me sympathizing for MS or something. I am sad to see tango go but if the smaller indie dev’s have shown us anything before it’s they can pop out the next big indie hit out of no where and run with success (Hades) so i wish all at Tango to keep their heads high, get back to work soon and be a part of a game that is so awesome and received that you barely miss your time at tango. Long live the big 3 and long live our friendships on this site enjoying Xbox together and the industry as a whole.

Thats been my angle for a while now. When not if but when cloud is 90% as good as a console to the causal gamer the console market is dead. They won’t see the value in buying a $500 box to play Madden, FIFA and Fortnite. They will play on their TV or cloud device. That leaves PC for the gamers like us. So MS is not trying to fight the console space with Sony no more as it looks to the next thing. Cloud won’t over night be as good as a PS6 but once it is the casuals will go to it over night and the console market will be sitting there in a cloud of dust. Eh… get it…. Cloud of dust.
Come on people laugh a little…. It’s been a hard week. 😊

@Banjo- 100% and they can get there cause the Ip’s they have now are giants. But it’s going to have growing pains of who they keep and what they need them to work on that some gamers might not like or understand.

@Banjo- @OldGamer999 @themightyant @FraserG @SolarSailor

It needs to be reminded on here so we can get this message out to some of the ones that aren’t as in the know as we are. Remember: ABK was bought for KING! It was said out loud many times not COD or Tony Hawk.

MS wanted into mobile and to build a store front on iOS and Google the only way they could do so is to get a cash cow game in Candy crush. This is a point i never see said online or by YouTubers. I repeat ABK was bought for King mobile studio.

Now MS has to figure out what to do with the AB part of ABK.
So there was a plan as to why they went with this buyout and mobile makes more money than all other gaming platforms combined.

@FatGuyInLilCoat i understand. I am in the same boat. I just don’t love the PS controller. But Gears is Xbox like Mario is Nintendo. For that to leave the platform it’s a no brainer many Xbox players will leave for PS. Then if MS is dumb enough to enhance Gears on the PS5 Pro and have it be the best looking console version. I mean what are we doing here?

@GamingFan4Lyf I’ve been saying for a year or longer that if MS wants to grab a small number of PS owners back over to Xbox. Get rid of the online paywall. I know many that hate it. The CoD crowd would love to buy a $70 dollar game and not need a $60 or more purchase to play online with friends. Now it’s taking loads of money off the table for MS. But it depends on how aggressive you want to be to be a major platform in the industry. This move wouldn’t solve all issues over night. But it would be a move i think that would do wonders.

@Fiendish-Beaver this very well might happen. Plus it’s rumored that Gears of War Marcus Fenix collection will be announced at the June showcase and it will come to PS5 day and date. That is just a kick in the head to us Gears and Xbox fan’s. That is arguably Xbox’s biggest franchise. That trilogy sold over 40 million. It was a game if not the game that made millions buy a 360. Coming day and date would just be a huge insult to Xbox players and last but not least we will see Halo MCC on PS5 at some point. They are just tanking the brand. At this point they should sell it to Google, apple or anyone with the cash and they can re name it.

Where the heck is the new controller that leaked and said coming May 2024? Thats the one i really want, i will be trading in my 2 and getting 2 of the newer ones with haptics and quieter buttons.

@NEStalgia i do agree that MS would be wise to let devs know what they have planned. The thing is Sony can do almost whatever they want now. At least in Europe where it’s like a 4-1 lead and even 8-1 in some areas. At least here in the states it’s fairly close and Sony can’t just ignore Xbox completely. Thats a huge question if MS goes down would someone else come in and not be cloud. Steam would be cool only if they get it right.

@NEStalgia Yeah PC is expensive for sure. I don’t know what is going to happen at Xbox. I wish i did. But they did it to themselves. So no need to feel bad for them. Man a PS and Nintendo only console world would be odd times.

@NEStalgia man that would be bad if Ubisoft didn’t support Xbox. Maybe they will be done in a few years. I don’t know. I hope not. But if so can i get a Xbox controller on PS with the PS symbol's?

@Utena-mobile no i get it. You aren’t wrong. But they are chasing that big cash cow and all those Ip’s. I think it time they will get it to the way they want it. But these closures stink.