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@MaccaMUFC I play on Series X so that isn't a issue most of the time. If you're on Series S though, that checks out with how underpowered it is.

Then you have boosted games like playing Battlefield 4 that has loads of player still, while being a crisp 120fps. When the original release was lucky to find 60fps.

Happened the beginning of last week.

Super annoying because I had a couple hundred games in it.

@MaccaMUFC I wholly disagree. My monitor is 144.my phone is 120, and my TV is 120.

Even ignoring the massively improved smoothness of the picture, the increased response time is night and day difference.

@Divide_and_Wander 120/144hz is. A massive difference in enjoyment of something as simple as moving your mouse across a screen. Of course the clarity you get from a higher frame rate is going to help with the enjoyment of a game with as lovely art as Pentiment has.

I an stupidly hype for the Battlefront remaster. I play Battlefront VR all the time which uses asset we pulled directly from the game. But it is limited to 16 players. Gonna me so nice to have this one.

No disc drive no buy. Even my PC has a disc drive still. The moment Xbox does away with the disc drive all together is the moment I go back to just using my PC.

That said, give me the new controller with gyro already. Tired of using a controller that is still behind the times even compared to the Wii and my TV remote.

@BacklogBrad Sony has been putting games on PC since 2015. Almost a decade now. Starting with the first Helldivers.

@BacklogBrad Using a percentage, when comparing a console to PC is a bit disingenuous isn't it?

PCs install base so almost as large as Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo, combined. Of course more people are going to be playing on it compared to console. That's the whole reason Sony expanded to the PC space. To tap into that massive audience that would never buy a console.

Any good game is going to sell more on PC than any individual console.

Not going to happen.

Sony doesn't put their IPs that they own outright on other consoles. And neither does Nintendo. They understand the value of soldi software selling consoles.

@eduscxbox As well as what is always shaping up to trade blows for number 1 game of the year, Helldivers.

I'm personally in effected as I have a PC and Playstation as well. But it definitely does show who is prioritizing wanting to sell their own platform versus who wants to go the publisher route.

I'm just glad we're at the point of game saturation that it is getting pretty common for dumpster fires of games to sell poorly. It is honestly what the industry needs instead of every major release breaking records.

@rustyduck He does though. The issue is they're just using a wholly original fanfic that is nothing like the story.

All they had to do was adapt Fall of Reach and it would have been great. Even something like Contact Harvest would have been a better start for the first season.

I'd legitimately be concerned if it didn't given how well it runs on the bad PS4. It is over a decade old at this point. Hell, it was even on PS3 up until like 2017/2018.

For extremely obvious reasons.

Why would I when I already own them on Xbox?

@dmcc0
There is absolutely zero chance of Sea of Thieves being on Switch. Maybe when they release the Switch 2. But the current Switch is not remotely suitable for Sea of Thieves.

Wonder how much of this is due to Palworld? Seem like the majority, not all, of people on Xbox Ones and Series S have been having tons of crashing issues with switching to cloud gaming resolving it. Likely due to running on Series X equivalent hardware.

Day 1. Gonna be a ~2 week is late birthday present to myself. 😂

I still play the OG on PC and through Backwards compatibility on Xbox.

If this game actually has full games of 64 players, between it, and Star Wars Battlefront VR, I will be set for a long time.

Is there a physical copy for Xbox?

EDIT: Looks like it has crossplay as well to make sure there is a good population. Even though Switch and PS5 would have an advantage due to gyro aiming, gonna be great.

Hopefully the rumors about the new Xbox controller revision having it are true too.

I really hope this game turns out. I'm not too hopeful after the gameplay they showed. Everything just looks so empty and static. And the enemies looked as responsive as though you'd find in a N64 game.

I hope I'm wrong because I love Obsidian's works, but I guess all there is, is to wait.

@Krzzystuff To be fair, there are just as many games that have the full, playable games on disc now. There are whole websites dedicated to providing lists of these. And there are a lot.

Absolutely not. Ubisoft nose dived after the 360 era. I honestly couldn't care less if they stopped making games all together.

@Fenbops Exactly. The only reason I own every console are their associated exclusives.

The moment any one console stops having exclusives is the moment I am no longer buying their hardware.

@tigersden98
It is literally a Sony owned game. And they seem to be wanting to play enough to overload the servers consistently.

Is this a size increase of nearly 100GB or is just mostly overwriting old data?

Wonder if this is gonna be similar to Skull and Bones' AAAA status.

Though real talk, I trust Sega more than I ever could post 360-era Ubisoft.

Honestly, with 343's track record, it is no surprise Microsoft doesn't want to dump money into a developer that time and time again showed they can't develop a game to g save their lives.

Halo Infinite' netcode has literally been broken since release. Over 2 years now. And still no fix in sight. Even their latest flights only showed marginal improvement.

Sony doesn't put their IPs on other consoles, simple as that.

For anyone that bring up MLB The Show, that is not a Sony IP. It is owned wholly by the MLB, and said MLB forced Sony to put it on other consoles upon their last contract renewal.

Helldivers is wholly owned by Sony and won't be coming to any other consoles.

@Avaloner I personally know 3 people that bought PS5s strictly for Helldivers 2. And social media is full of people mentioning they just got their first Sony consoles for it. So definitely gonna have to disagree there.

Do we know if the oysicial copy contains the entier game you could play in the event you had a fresh console with no internet?

Seems like every other game released now isn't playable from disc.

Any and everything except Titanfall 3.

Hopefully it isn't a third console to make Xbox even more convoluted this generation.

It helps Sony, Phil. They still recognize the importance of exclusives to keep their platform the place the majority want to play.

@Lup No. It is a third person, coop, shooter.

Weird for me too because the first one was top down.

Please don't tell me we have to wait until then for the new controller revision.

Oh hey. I guess I'll finally play this then.

I feel like this stick calibration is further evidence the controller refresh is real.

The main use is to zero everything after swapping thumbstick modules. As is that requires resoldering. But the new controller has modular thumb sticks. And this looks likes tool to directly support that.

That said, if this fixes stick drift, this will be amazing.

Would stick much prefer manual, system wide, dead zone settings.

@FatalBubbles Whats worse is when you have two Series X's side by side and can literally see the two screens displaying meters/feet worth of differences in positions.

We play a lot of games together and this is the only one this occurs on.

Even the desync test playlist proved only minor improvements.

Shaping up to be the biggest disappointment of 2024 and this is just the second month.

@Romans12 You're right.

Both of these games are leagues better than the dumpster fire that is Halo Infinite. Halo still hadn't even had the desync fixed after 2 years.

Even in the desync test there could be meters difference between what both my Series X, showed

@Sifi You can't apply the same logic to those two. Destiny was already multiplat. And the MLB themselves mandated it become multiplat if Sony was going to continue to make it.

None of Sony's real exclusives will ever be on Xbox.

@oopsiezz That's fine.

Ubisoft lost me when they ignored my and other testers about bugs we reported for Assassin's Creed Unity 1-1.5 years before release. They showed flagrant disregard and dropped one of their worst launches to date.

They coupled with the conelte disrespect they showed Ghost Recon and Rainbow six while turning Assassin's Creed into a RPG were just a few, additional, nails in the coffin.

The Crew was a absolute travesty and Avatar was hardly anything to write home about. After about a dozen hours in it, for free thankfully, I wish I had my time back. If I wanted to play a good Far Cry game I'd go back to playing 2 or 3 instead of Far Cry Pandora.

I will give Ubisoft that Fenyx was absolutely fantatsic. But even a broke clock is right twice a day. But someone how Ubisoft manage to make it just once after how they treated the IP post release.

I will give though: if you're someone that absolutely has to experience the epitome of mediocrity that Ubisoft has become, then yea, Ubisoft+ is alright. For me though, my time is limited so I don't waste any more time with them than necessary.

Ubisoft still hasn't out together a catalog worth getting Ubisoft+ IMO.

Honestly just hyped me up to play more Sea of Thieves. Definitely will not be buying Skull and Bones.

@FatGuyInLilCoat Agreed. Exclusives are the sole reason I buy a console. It Microsoft ends up bring all their games to say, Playstation, even at a year or two delay, I have no reason to buy more Microsoft hardware.

Hell, at this point I may dip out anyway since they're putting their games on Steam now.

Alternatively could be very surprised by the accuracy and depth of the leaks and rumors.

Can't wait to hear what they say.

I don't use apps on my Xbox. It is strictly for gaming.

Any streaming is done via my 4K Chromecast.

@rustyduck Only at full power draw. My gaming PC draws half of my Series X when even web browsing and even playing some games.

@GeeEssEff Most of my roles are have been relegated to paid testing roles. Have specify paid because most people think public betas when uoh say you test. I'm talking testing before half the assets even exist and you have checkered, purple, cubes representing things. 😂

Not the most glorious thing as you're pretty much spending time intentially trying to break things and/or going down a check list. But hey, a foot in the door and being paid to play something not even released. The bad thing is there are quite a few times you report things that go completely ignored. My time working on Assassin's Creed: Unity is an obvious example of that one. I cannot tell you have many tickets on the tracker I had opened a a year before release that went unfixed by the time it hit retail.

For Bloodstained, I had a little bit more input. Still testing, but got to work on some stage, mob, and boss development as well. Thank you though! I'm glad it turned out as well as it did. I know it isn't some people's cup of tea, and that's okay.

@Fiendish-Beaver There's no reason to believe Sony would prohibit Gamepass on Playstation as both EA Access and Ubisoft+ are already on Playstation. Sony would certainly allow it if Xbox was no longer competition and their cut was right.

And seeing as how smaller companies like EA and Ubisoft were able to negotiate a cut with Sony, there 0.00% chance Microsoft wouldn't be able to.

@electrolite77 if. Microsoft does this, then they will be strictly a publisher.

In that scenario Gamepass will undoubtedly be brought to other platforms.

Hardware and licensing fees are drops in the bucket compared to what they'd made from having Gamepass on Playstation. Especially when in general, there's not much a return, if any, on hardware.

And just like that, all my interested in a new Subnautica went down like the Aurora.

Loved Bloodstained. Though there may be a little bias since my name is in the credits.

Still though, a fun romp with nice aethetics and multiple endings. If you like Meteoidvanias, and Iga in particular, definitely a must have.

As much as I love in-engine cinematics, bring back Blur to do them and I'd be sold.

@GamingFan4Lyf I never said it would be good for consumers.

Only that it would be good for Microsoft. Which at the end of the day is the direction a business would go.

@IOI That's normally how those things go, yes. Microsoft did exactly that with Windows Phone. Then Windows Mobile before that.

Just FYI: you're talking to the the person with a 18 year subscriber badge on his profile, with two Series X's, and has had an Xbox since 2001. So be sure to direct your frustrations appropriately.

That's what we've been saying.

If Microsoft goes multiplat they can simply focus on software and have a larger audience.

They could in turn save money by not having to do R&D, production, and distribution, for Xbox consoles.

Exiting the console hardware game just makes sense for Microsoft given how poorly the console sales compared to the competition.