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I kinda like the controller, seen much worse Xbox ones.

The gold console? Not very keen…. Should have made a one off circle one!

Unless you have a keyboard and mouse hooked up it’s horrible (just like any other tv browser that hasn’t got keyboard and mouse hooked up)

@InvaderFromSpace unless it’s a handheld I don’t see that strategy working either.

There’s no sign of EA stopping yearly sports games on the last gen, SEGA say they want to keep sonic on the older gen. Hell I even saw (albeit olbscure) game saying it was releasing on ps4 in 26!

I hope MS get a grip of this for the next generation.

Crazy that they are far more expensive than the competition.

To be fair that’s positive.

But what are % like? Is it just because Nintendo have had a bigger drop? Have Xbox improved?

And most importantly we haven’t finished the year?!

Christmas is the most important period!!!

Awesome that you guys are doing this.

But at the same time, majority of your audience probably just goes to cheaper 3rd parties?

Good luck to them on the next game.

I still think we will see more rebranding across Xbox

@Fiendish-Beaver these are the little reasons why MS do worse outside of America. We get forgotten

These DLC’s seem to be getting more and more pricey

People saying it’s off the mark need to go read a few of the other reviews out there - they are saying similar things.

Very nice tagline there.

@themightyant I don’t think it’s going to be just an Xbox thing going forward.

I posted something similar on PS regarding Star Wars, but people are now basically saying I’ll wait till it hits a sub service to play and so on.

Unfortunately without GP backing many smaller games get overlooked by the masses.

@themightyant so as always it’s the most obvious answer.

I think for smaller studios with limited budget, the issue is gamepass. (For consumers obv it’s still pretty good value)

If they get on GP they basically don’t lose, but if you are an indie that is not on GP (PS is probably slightly different) it’s a lot more difficult.

The larger companies have the financials to look at from previous games to see if it’s worth it for them.

@abe_hikura @ZeD I doubt they will this month. You would imagine they want everything focused on CoD.

Putting the older ones on potentially risks burn out for some players.

But something like a Crash game wouldn’t affect CoD. So I guess maybe?

@StonyKL dlc isn’t free.

It’s £30

@FraserG @GeorgeKal first sentence of the article!

@GeorgeKal says so in the title and article

Age of mythology, but until mana was added a couple of days ago, it was slim pickings for console.

PC looked much stronger.

@Krazee5255 there’s so much wrong with this. I don’t even know where to begin.

@mac_da_man only of the month? Jeez I hate to see what else you have read recently!

@Spider-Kev it’s a cross on ps not eks. They are all shapes.

@BacklogBrad why do you expect the next gen to be £700?

@OldGamer999 make your mind up.

You wanted to play ps5 pro quality with all the bells and whistles and shiny things on your top of the line tv.

@TheEstablishment if the numbers were good they would shout it from the rooftops.

In reality how many new subscribers are you getting from a year old CoD and Diablo? Not many. Most that want it would have bought it and another significant amount that already subscribe would have waited for it to land on the sub.

Even Starfield/forza didn’t give a big uptick.

The one that might is next month with the new CoD. But are a lot going to go out and potentially buy a new console? - let’s face it cloud doesn’t work for fast shooters currently.

Good news is all the games will still play perfectly fine on the S/X/5

But how many times have people moaned that they want FPS and Graphics? So Sony have given this option.

I’m all for options, that’s why I think games should have both a 30/60 mode.

@TheEstablishment all the financials show that growth has stagnated in subscriptions (competition has stalled also).

@MsJubilee because if you look at most articles, the only thing that garners comments are ones that tend to say ‘we don’t have’ or some sort of console war stuff.

@GeeForce it’s not going to be 30million customers. In reality it’s far lower. And that’s not a dig at Xbox or anything.

Once you take away all the people that have the ability to play it elsewhere (ps/pc wherever), people who own multiple Xbox. Then all the people not interested.

I hope a console version follows at a later date

Sure I saw this on sale on PS (less than a tenner) but the ‘original’ price was £15.99?!

@FarmDog08 a day? So 30hrs work for £12.

Don’t get me wrong I used to do it all religiously, including some of the more obscure ones.

But now the time investment just doesn’t make it worthwhile. I just collect what I get.

@FarmDog08 but how long is that taking you each day to essentially earn £12?

@Rog-X maybe talk about Xbox sometimes.

Don’t need to bring Sony into everything.

@themightyant ugly. No need to try it. It’s ugly.

Who voted these things a 1/10?!

Needs a console release date.

FIFA is fifa, it’s never going to be amazing. It’s just going to be a 7/8 each year. People know what they are buying by now.

But how you can list Rush and Tactics as a positive. And then a negative makes no sense to me.

@Ricky-Spanish I usually only have one or two games on the go. So I’ve not felt like needing one.

But I’m also abit loathe to download 300gb (was it?) to play a couple of hour campaign.

I’m interested in trying the campaign.

But truthfully it depends on the install size as only have an S

@Titntin it’s ok. I’m sure MS are happy not selling those boxes and getting a cut of everything sold on those boxes too.

We won’t also mention to him that subscription has stalled (true for ps too). Regardless of it being everywhere. Or the fact most subscribers are on that box.

Let’s not pretend this isn’t still happening.

She came in and started stamping her authority, meaning Phil is towing the line much more - when we actually hear from him

@electrolite77 MS make a substantial loss on each console (unless this has changed recently) plus R&D costs etc. as far as I know Sony make a small profit on each?

@Lup they have to care.

Majority of the GP members are on console. (If I remember correctly)

And GP has stagnated. Even with the play anywhere. People beyond the more enthusiasts aren’t just signing up.

And that’s not just an Xbox thing. Sony seem to have hit a sub ceiling too.

It should be advertised as sold/played.

But I wouldn’t worry too much about unhappy people on reddit

@NostromoXP it’s not 85+ million - just as Sony wouldn’t be 150m+.

Take into account second consoles due to breaking etc those that no longer game and most importantly how many of those 50m Xbox one owners that upgraded to a series console. (Sony would have the same things)

@Altaria_97 was plucky squire ever announced for gamepass?

Would be unusual for a game to come to both sun services on day 1.

@FraserG but you are including it in a title that says release date/time + GP details. Sounds like it’s coming to GP.

But heyho