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@Deshalu Well this is just untrue. PlayStation has tons of games you can play without ever connecting online. Pop cart or disc in, install what's needed off the disc, sans internet, and play.

Microsoft on the other hand is pretty threadbare on these.

Just objective fact.

@Fiddleroyolanda

Exactly. There's even a website dedicated to show all the console games that you can play without installs.

PlayStation and Nintendo are heads above Microsoft on this.

Cyberpunk 2077.

If it is a live service extraction shooter as rumored, we can expect to see EA spool up a subsidiary with Tencent having 25% control.

Definitely highlights benefits of PC.

I can still play DOS games from the 90s on my Windows 11 PC. 🤣

They're doing as intended.

Make rewards so paltry most quit using.

And that in turn reduces the payouts they have to give, further.

Not holding my breath. Xbox controller have been absolutely abysmal this gen.

You can really tell they cheapest out, even in just how it feels in your hand. The launch Series controllers felt like flimsy Mad Katz you'd buy back in the day.

At this point. I'm just about to to buy a wireless PC controller with hall effects and gyro.

@Krzzystuff That's already a thing.

I can play Helldivers 2, God Of War, etc, through my PC, from my Xbox with the app Moonlight.

As a matter of fact my Xbox is seeing a lot of use as just mirroring my PC...

What's wild is that it runs on last gen, but is 30fps on Series S.

I'm sure Halo did wonders for their confidence. 🤣

Steam controller still beats it out because of track pad and gyro though.

Really hoping the Elite Series 3 brings these to the table as I could see it being my go to moving forward.

Really telling to see that the PC version is selling more than consoles combined.

Assassin's Creed lost me when they turned into a BS RPG.

This has nothing to bring me back.

Looks very similar to a VR controller.

Hopefully has VR support.

After Metro Awakening, 2D Metro just feels bland.

You know what would also save space? Being able to select screenshot resolution. I don't need every one to be 4k.

If they don't bring back 4 player split screen, I'll skip it and stick to Black Ops 4. Like I have the last few.

Definitely lame to see. But it is obvious why it happened with the writing on the wall.

Best of luck and I'll be following your new channel Craig!

My nephew ran into this over the weekend.

Showed him how to play the game without using the Xbox ecosystem and he's back at it.

Good thing there are options to Microsoft's progressively worse and worse offerings.

Might as well stick with 1&2 then. Guess I'll skip this.

Ironic given Xbox is kinda in the same waters.

I easily use my VR more than Xbox. Especially because I have a VR treadmill and can do cardio at the same time.

Xbox isn't giving me reasons to spend on it, or even use it TBH.

If this releases in good order, I will be buying to day one on Steam.

I played way too much of it on the PS1

Things like this are why my hopes for any future Xbox are in the gutter.

And that's to say nothing of the companies' IPs Microsoft has gobbled up at this point

Glad to see this coming to Steam.

The first was a blast on 3DS.

One less reason to buy Xbox I reckon.

GOG is the only marketplace worthing using other than Steam.

I never understood idle mode.

If I'm going to be away long enough for it to idle, I turn the screen off. Reduced brightness is still needlessly burning electricity and aging the screen. Especially if you have OLED.

That said, wasn't this posted already?

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2020/04/did_you_know_you_can_manually_put_your_xbox_one_into_idle_mode

Last shadow drop they closed down the developer didn't they?

Not much faith in that given that nobody thought Xbox was at threat when it was almost shut down in 2021 by Nadella.

Though at the same time, I reckon if everything is an Xbox, it wouldn't be at threat.

Nadella has never been a fan of hardware and never will be. When he sees an opportunity to gut it, he does.

@ChickenPossible

Wish you all the best!

And thank you for all the hard work!

Is it really cross play when everything is an Xbox?

Not really. Obsidian has burned any goodwill they had with some seriously lackluster releases. And bled off a significant amount of their good talent a couple years back.

"but what happened?!"

Microsoft's new direction happened.

It is pretty obvious when Microsoft got fed up with Spencer doing things like this and tightened the leash. Happened shortly before the backwards compatability program cancelation announcement.

@fatpunkslim Again, 1st and 2nd party games are not comparable to 3rd party games.

No games owned by Sony are coming to Xbox.

Games owned by Microsoft are going to Playstation.

Simple as that.

At this point I feel like you could say this about all Microsoft exclusives and still come out right. Eventually.

More like it was pushed back because of theGhosts of Yotei. And to give the retooled the ad campaign time to kick in.

Was so excited for this after the original announcement.

But of course this gets canceled while other slop continues to release.

@AverageGamer Yes they are. Indie games have a much larger presence on Steam than cobsoles put together. As a matter of fact, that's the direction most indie devs went once Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom killed XDA, dev, and others services they had. Then they folded indie games into general releases instead of having their own category.

You're as likely to see some no name indie game on the front page as you are AAA.

But if you're doing generic RPG maker crap, then yea, you're gonna have a hard time.

They don't even have to pay for advertising either if they release a substantial enough game as it will put put on the front page simply from being organically popular.

How many other platforms can you say do the same?

@johnedwin1969 Funnily enough you can do that on consoles too. Pretty much every console ever.

I fail to see the relevance of the minority of people on all platforms, to this conversation, though.

Discs vanishing from PC is why I moved to console.

The vanishing from console is one of the reasons I went back to PC games.

With PC I'm not committing to a walled garden with subscription fees. I don't have to beg to do things with my games like install mods, use different cotbeollwrs, or even VR.

Consoles have essentially outlived their usefulness aside from Nintendo. Since they actually keep things on their platform.

Things like this are why, atleast in the AAA space, all we get are slop sequels.

Thakfully Steam is excellent at giving small developers a place to release their games while still getting visibility.

@fatpunkslim An exclusive is not an exclusive.

That's why people though Helldivers was coming to Xbox because they didn't understand the concept of first and second party games.

Only 3rd party will ever drop on Xbox.

That's fine. I've already jumped back to PC where my current build will likely outperform the next two generations.

And my wife gave gave up on Xbox because of the abysmal support and releases since most of the things she likes skips Xbox, or she already played a year or more ahead of the Xbox release, on a different platform.

@fatpunkslim
Microsoft owns Crash and Spyro.

Nothing else you listed is owned by Sony.

None of Sony's first party games, or 2nd party like Helldivers, are coming to Xbox.

@fatpunkslim Is it? Does that mean XCloud isn't evolving or is stagnant?

Because the experience is almost identical to when I was in the alpha tests, what, 6-7 years ago now?

Well that's just prime.

Well that's gross.

@Elbow Irony being that if this episode had been made, it would have likely been better received than the whole of Paramount's Halo.

That's what happens when you alienate your audience like Halo has.

People generally stop caring about it.

Microsoft has absolutely no idea what fans want.