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@FraserG Don't get me wrong, Xbox has done a ton of good things since that launch. I loved my Xbox One and love my Series S! But Xbox is still being outsold almost 2-1, quality exclusives are still the exception, not the norm, and developers are still choosing to develop for everyone except Xbox.

I know console sales aren't everything anymore, but that's still the number everyone looks at. Double the players on PlayStation? Thats what consumers are going to buy, and that's what developers are going to develop for.

I really wouldn't call what's happened much of a turnaround. Things are better sure, but Xbox is still plagued with issues steming from the Xbox One.

@Camble_Refuge Absolutely true. I can't count how many times I've seen people say "I never pay for games". Gamepass is great for developers that get a gamepass deal, those who don't have to compete with it.

Unless you were there for the original Xbox, playing on Xbox Live, the 360 is the obvious no brainer.

New technology leads to lost jobs, its a side effect of progress. Imagine if someone said "We need to shut down this internet thing, it will cause people to lose their jobs!"

I've gotten notifications of someone trying to log into my Microsoft account a few times. I can only imagine what would have happened if i hadn't had 2FA on.

At this point it's like South Park's George RR Martin saying "They're coming!"

Halo is done for. Microsoft hasn't cared about it for a long time and now that they have all these other studios they're just gonna try and get as much money out of Infinite that they can before the series goes on ice.

Less of a strong week for Xbox and more an oddly weak one for PlayStation

Mad World is the most iconic, but all 3 of the original games had incredible trailers. Mad World, The Last Day, and Ashes to Ashes were all works of art.

The library might be infamous, but I've grown to really appreciate it. Some variation on the environment would have been nice, but it was as much of a test of endurance and skill under pressure for the player as it was supposed to be for Chief

How long before Activision/Blizzard games become Xbox's sole focus?

To quote the meme

[softly]
Don't

This is like that episode of Big Bang Theory when Sheldon said he wants to get Stan Lee to sign an issue of Batman.

And yet everyone still says always online isn't a big deal

That's it? Christ 🤦

The amount of whining in the comments you'd think this is a PlayStation site 😂

@Martsmall I was wondering about this, shame, that would have gotten me to sign up

Couldn't be more excited. Tales of Arise was my game of the year for 2021 and i never expected we'd get more.

Now it all makes sense why they keep taking away opportunities to earn Microsoft rewards points

Absolutely not. Gears 5 was as far as it should go. Those sections reminded me of driving the APC through town in Gears 1 or driving up Mt. Kadar in 2, just with more freedom which was nice, it still felt like Gears.

There is zero reason to do a fully open world Gears from a gameplay perspective.

I've been impressed with Microsoft's recent streak of Japanese content with the Atlus partnership, getting Neptunia Sisters vs Sisters, and FF14. Hopefully this leads to even more partnerships and strengthens their existing ones.

I'm still waiting for Ninja Gaiden 2 to go on sale

It all comes back to sales. Microsoft can say they don't want to be judged by console sales but the fact is if Xbox had sold as many consoles as the PS5 devs wouldn't be whining about the Series S.

But when your sales are so far behind the competition developers are gonna ask "why even bother?"

The Series S and Xbox's lack of sales are great scapegoats to get the Xbox version done later. They can easily focus on the PS5 and PC and delay the Xbox version, as long as developers blame the Series S no one will question them.

"New ways to play" just means new weapons, vehicles, and skill trees. Nothing that fixes the core problems the game has

All this talk about the Series S holding back games and Bandai Namco just drops this and walks away 😂

I'm honestly kinda surprised it lasted this long. It sucks but at least they gave an almost year's notice.

Now they just need to show the price for gamepass games

A studio not shoehorning multiplayer into a game? What a concept.

At this point id rather see a Series S with a disc drive and i think that would make more sense for the "casual" console

Communications director? So he's not even a developer? So why the hell does what he say on this even matter?

Is it a coincidence this news comes after Microsoft has the essentially all clear to buy ABK?

It's a cluttered disaster that was clearly meant to be more billboard than anything else

Terrible, just terrible

Now THIS is the Microsoft i know! 😂

Had to of been a great feeling sliding that contract across the table

Two days for GTA5 when it first launched and took a long weekend for RE4 remake. Would have done the same for Gears of War 3 but was lucky enough to have launch day off anyway

Been wanting one for years but couldn't bring myself to spend the 100 dollars. Glad i waited.

No remaster needed. It still looks and plays incredibly via backcompat.

What's even the point anymore? They keep reducing how many points you can get and taking away opportunities to earn points

Didn't they JUST say they weren't going to increase prices? Good job Microsoft, I'm sure everyone will want to buy into your ecosystem now.

It starts with "just cosmetics", just trying to see what they can get away with

No one does corporate speak better than Phil Spencer, he's in a league of his own.

If today's showcase was any indication on the kind of exclusives we can expect they can keep most of them

This game looks like a masterclass in walking the line between legally distinct and plagiarism

Looks terrible. Playground clearly didnt play the originals and/or didnt understand it in the slightest.

The fact that that's how they announce the remaster and their direct is why Grasshopper is one of the best studios.

The time developers wanted Microsoft to cancel their game it doesn't happen. Funny how that works.