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@AlexAtwell Your obsession with Royal Games is kinda unhealthy.

I would get used to reality. It aint coming back.

@BrilliantBill In his defence IGN posed the question about Series S to him rather than as a dev using a platform to moan about it. He had to answer it.

More a case of journos asking it on purpose to put the answer back out for clicks.

@Titntin Bobby Kotick wont be an employee for long. He will take his multi million payout and be gone within a few weeks to a couple of months, if that.

Kinda want it to go through just for all the drama to finally be over. Lol.

@Dan1283 its not holding them back. The architecture is similar to PC so its the same as having a low to mid spec PC vs buying a higher spec. Games are scaled and optimised for both.

@Sol4ris No need to apologise for the late reply! Thanks for the help. I have Lies of P installed so will see how I get on.

My Series X finally back from repair so finally dipping into Starfield this weekend. Slow start but sticking with it as its typical Bethesda and seen from other reviews it picks up later.

Dipping into a bit more of Crew Motorfest and finishing off The Expanse otherwise.

@Sol4ris I am one of those that found Souls/Elden Ring games too difficult for me. Maybe its my hand eye coordination lol. Not tried Sekiro or Lies of P either have bit less of a learning curve?. I like the aeshetic in Lies of P but not taken a punt yet just in case

Edit: @Kaloudz posing the same question to you too!

Is it a slow news day? I am not sure why anyone thought this would be any different tbh. Only some multiplayer games will stay multiplatform.

My Series X is in for repair this weekend, annoyingly so me continuing Starfield is on ice for a few days.

In the interim on the PS5 and The Crew Motorfest trial, dabbling in a little bit more Hogwarts Legacy trying to finally get it finished and dent the backlog with how busy October is looking for releases right now.

@GamingFan4Lyf I think the core issue is and I say this about PS5 also. A lot of marketing spin was thrown out there about this gen being able to offer 120fps options for many of their games and so far only a few indie games have offered that option.

FPS isnt the be all and end all but bottom line dont hype it if you dont plan to offer it.

@Kaloudz Ray Tracing isn't all that anyway in terms of the overall experience. S owners even with a 4k tv will still get a looker here.

@Kaloudz As others have said - lack of history. You will appear on the reports as things like lets say gas and electric bill payments are reported on there. But otherwise you have no debt repayment history to drive up the score.

But tbh - the number matters less than whats in the full credit file so dont worry. Small credit ie credit card lenders, loan lenders etc may go by the number. The important stuff like mortgage lenders would look at the full file and ignore the number so I wouldnt be concerned with it.

If you were just take a card out with a small limit. Buy the shopping from Asda every week (or Aldi, Lidl avoid M and S!) Pay it off the next morning eventually that number will creep up a bit.

@Maddie47 As you are in the UK this is more apt but here is another life hack - if they are for suckers better become a sucker if you want a mortgage!

Unfortunately Credit Scoring requires you spending beyond your means then paying it off to show you can manage spending beyond your means then paying it off.

Isn"t Captialism just beautiful.

@Kaloudz the comments I could only sum up as comedy gold lol

@Kaloudz Just read that review myself. Absolutely no punches pulled there eh? Lol.

@Tharsman Cant disagree with the base point. Sony fans have been rather vocal this week.

Im specifying it to Metacritic. Personal view I think its been a useless source for rating a games success for years. But review bombing has been rife there for a long time, long before this gen and across all platforms.

@Tharsman Never thought Id see you dropping the ponie bomb you dont normally engage in the tribal nonsense.

Yeah there will be some Sony fans doing it but I wouldnt generalise it that way. Seen Playstation titles get review bombed in the same way. Last of us 2 springs to mind.

More often than not its trolls who review bomb any game that had a lot of marketing hype just for fun.

@Cashews some of them are more value than others but i dont think any are justifying the sharp increases at all tbh.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner oh aye getting my 50p pocket money and scranning 50 cola bottles from the local newsagents on a Saturday. Those were the days!

@Kaloudz don't we measure inflation here on the price of a Freddo? Remember when they were 10p!

@PsBoxSwitchOwner there is that too. But even over in TV streaming prices are going up. Amazon Prime also added caveats to free delivery. Its all to recoup money for investors. Capitalism as usual is rife.

Queue some obligatory bashing of the other side in 3...2...1...

Jokes aside. Both are going to be squeezing what they can out of playerbases and hide behind "so we can continue our good service"

Roughly translates to "we made some investments and need to recoup money in the short term so our shareholders dont spank our backsides"

@Moonglow feel the same there. Backlog is big enough as it is Starfield is not going to help lol.

@Chaotic_Neutral Tried Outriders? Not booted up my X in a bit due to work but I believe its still on GP and should float your boat for looter shooters.

@BAMozzy He is obsessed with Royal Games in almost every thread relating to the acquisition wouldn't spend much time there lol.

Didnt really get the Stage invaders bigging up GTA 6. Some people just have far too much time on their hands. Lol.

@Moonglow I also think any direct comparison with BG3 and Starfield is a bit skewed. They are vastly different types of RPG.

Starfields scope is much bigger in terms of map size vs an RPG based on mostly dungeons.

So its fair to expect some sparse areas or barren planets as it were.

GOTY will definitely be a tough call this year.

@Sol4ris I normally agree when you spot the fanboys/folks from that other site blowing smoke and call it out but I dont think thats entirely it with this one.

Theres more than a few in this thread who I have seen very pro Xbox expressing concern with this tweak too.

The update seems to be genuinely dividing opinion here.

@Moonglow We are certainly smelling what the Xbox is cooking now.

@Banjo- @S-Bacc I can't offer much current input on this as I haven't played my emulators in a little while but I have dev mode and did experience it on my Series X albeit sporadically.

Can say the switch between dev and retail was vastly reduced on Series X vs One X but still took a little time. Couple of minutes at most.

I ended up giving up and switching back to emulating on PC with an Xbox controller.

Like you say may be worth waiting for someone with a more current experience of dev mode to weigh in on this been at least 6 months or more since I last used it for emulation.

@Jenkinss I dont think Sony can afford to acquire any publishers right now.

Skepticism and conspiracies aside, I think reality is SE games just sold better on other platforms. MS have stepped in and likely offered some finances in order to bring games back to the platform.

Its a smart and wise investment by Phil as there are a lot of Xbox only gamers who love their franchises.

@darkswabber because there is very much a Playstation vs Xbox narrative in threads here and on Push Square at the moment.

Nintendo doesn't enter their heads when one slags off the other.

@Moonglow While I think they are in a much better position to do so now with a better head at the helm. They were a billion dollar division backed by a trillion dollar corp when "All in one Xbox One" launched and they tried to focus on console, TV, set top box, Kinect etc, didnt work out so well and they dialled back to focus on traditional console gaming.

I think they have more capability now, but cant knock people for being a little bit skeptical.

@Moonglow I dont disagree with the context Xbox wasnt at the top of their agenda for a while. But it was certainly funded by them from day one. Bill Gates wouldnt bring The Rock out to show off a product he wasnt funding.

Same old. Thread mentioning the acquisition an argument breaks out almost immediately. Be glad when its done.

@Moonglow Xbox may have been an independent division operationally but it has always been owned and funded by Microsoft to my knowledge. Source?

Not quite my earliest but my best early memory. Halo specifically Silent Cartographer level. Having warthog races with my mate in co op around the island.

Or in single player morbidly watching marines man the warthog with me not realising I was going to drive it off one of the cliffs jump out, tag with a plasma grenade and watch it fly.

@NEStalgia @Tharsman Elon Musk is a genius and by that I mean your typical genius type you would see on a TV show or a Movie. His brain is so overactive and his eccentricity that he moves into the space of making decisions that on paper seem bordering on being insane.

For every success he has there will be many failures. And those failures will fail really really hard

I have about as much artistic flair as Tyson Fury has hair. But to me the Xbox one looks better by a mile.

@RazputinAquato Microsoft have also paid to keep games off other platforms. They are all at it in one way or another.

This whole acquisition has just brought Sonys antics out into the open a little more is all.

@BowsersBuddy There is certainly more ability now to fix things post release. Driveclub and Cyberpunk 2077 are good examples where that has been successful.

Publishers did get hammered for that in the old days but development tools themselves back then were not what they were now. Releasing games unfinished early to make money is a far more common and worse trend now than it was back then.

@BowsersBuddy agree it happens more often than not these days. Most of the time it is the problem issue of publishers rushing a game out before release, sadly.

Sometimes it is a dev genuinely investing time after disks are being produced to further refining and testing. But in the minority unfortunately.

@BowsersBuddy having worked in development before albeit briefly like @Kaloudz alluded to, day one patches are often developed a few weeks before release sometimes after a game "goes gold" but are not deployed until the day of release hence the day one term.

May have been locked behind a pay wall unlike the others in the early days but it was far more simple and reliable. Xbox Live set the bar for where all the services are at now.

Bottom line - its a move designed in part to incentivise people to move to Game Pass Ultimate.

MS are a business at the end of the day any opportunity to push users toward the more expensive tier they will take it.

Paying for early access bothers me. Bothers me even more with Game Pass. Such a huge emphasis on being able to play first party releases day one should come with the fee not pay even more to access a few days before. Sad road the market is going down.

Looking forward to this. Like a previous comment been a while since GT be cool to check out another sim racer.

@Joabra01Swe Console will always be behind PC in that respect. Comes down to affordability and convenience with console. Former especially. Lots cant afford a gaming PC sadly.

@Total_Weirdo Oh I know may have misunderstood wasnt disputing it just find it odd Sony keep the stiffs in the public eye so much and their avid gamers just to twitter.