THIS is the future of Xbox, and their new service has already failed dramatically. Flight Sim launched yesterday and is an online streaming games and practically every player has slated it, because they cannot play the game even the ones who paid 200 dollars for the top end version!! It's truly pathetic MS with its network cannot make game streaming work, and yet they are talking about using it for processing power of its next console... so now you won't even download the game.
@NEStalgia Guess we will have to see, I think they are around 5 to 10 years too late with a handheld. And will it run games natively or just stream them? They could make just a Game Pass streaming device aka PS Portal and slash its price. Would seem odd though?
@NEStalgia Rog Ally X 3, Steam Deck 3 and Legion Go 3 will all be out by the time Xbox handheld 1 is released. Too little far too late from
Them. No point releasing next year with Switch 2 either.
@OldGamer999 Absolutely, they should have dropped Series S to £250 and priced this all digital Series X at £370 or so. And they wonder why their consoles aren’t selling…..
It's a whole £20 cheaper in the UK for the new digital edition Series X... wow what a saving... The greed of MS and desperation of making back the 80 / 90 billion they've spent in acquisitions is on full display again.
If they dropped the price by £70 or £50 it would be an interesting price, but alas no. It's more expensive then the PS5 slim which let's not forget has the option of fitting a disk drive...
@Medic_alert No they were ads, a bit like when you load up a physical game and in it's screen on the home page their is always an ad to buy the game digitally on PS5...
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Yeah laying off thousands of staff is never a good thing. But closing studios that have just made an absolutely brilliant hit game perfect for Game Pass with a view to making a sequel that could help drive up subscriber count, just makes little business sense all round and shows some incompetence at the top.
I sold my Series X because of all the forced ads on the dashboard, that was the last straw for me. And from what I've heard it's got worst with full screen ads now? Sony tried to put some kind of ads on the Home Screen last week or the week before, the community outraged and they reversed it a couple days later advising it was an 'error'.
Another example of the disaster the buyouts have caused as they need those ads to drive revenue, Sony doesn't.
I can't see a single thing to entice me back, even the new Gears won't as a lot of rumours claim it'll come to PlayStation anyway.
@NEStalgia Ah didn't know that, still they'll make Spencer the scape goat that's for sure. He will take the downfall for it all. It's a disgusting way to display greed to dominate a market flexing your monopolistic power and trillions in value. And kill one of your brands in the process. I agree they wanted King all along. But what a way to do it, now they won't invest in the Xbox team to cope with all the endless teams they now have to try and manage.
It was the worst decision Spencer and his team could have made and has ended up destroying the Xbox brand.
They should have never purchased the studios and instead copied Sony in nailing down exclusive deals for Xbox console and PC, to drive up sales. That would have lead to the growth of Game Pass.
Instead they blew nigh on 100 billion US on acquisitions, haven't got a team anywhere near capable of managing so many large studios, and it's become a dead duck with MS CEO and Board very obviously driving the ideas to drive profit now, and not for gamers either. They are way out of their depth and I won't be surprised if in a years time Spencer is fired, and if they even release another home console. It's all about a games service now that isn't growing.
And Xbox seems to totally lack any direction or plan now. It's just desperately trying to get that 100 billion back anyway it can at the detriment to its customer base value.
If their next console has backwards compatibility, it may be the one to get. PlayStation just has no games. For me. Yesterdays State Of Play was just utterly dire.
But Xbox are all over the place with no strategy.
@Ilyn And that's thanks to the likes of Valve, Steam is the be all and end all of digital store fronts, and it made a handheld PC to accommodate it, and now rumours are Microsoft will try to compete with that too.. So PC gamers on the whole use Steam, a few use Game Pass but insignificant numbers really, and MS might be planning to take on Steam in the handheld market too, despite thanks to Steam and its reputation and pricing the Steam Deck is by far the best selling handheld PC.
You could not make it up the way Xbox keep shooting themselves in the foot.
They should have just stuck to how they were, introduced Game Pass but paid for exclusive deals for games on it just like Sony, and then supported the studios they already had.
But no they just had to be greedy and tried to buy their way to success, which has only lead in failure. Now close to 100 billion down in acquisitions and a board of the main company and share holders understandably demanding a return on investment, and we have a competitor who thinks Xbox is so irrelevant it's charged £700 for a mid gen refresh with no games on it!
Thank God the Switch 2 is coming, for me it's going to be Switch and Steam Deck, because I can't see PS6 being less then £650 and who knows what state Xbox will be in. What a messed up generation this has been.
@IOI At least Nintendo are about to come and throw a grenade into it with the new Switch 2, plus we've had the Steam Deck and other PC handhelds take off in a big way.
Leave it to the handheld games market again to save gaming this gen...
If that’s 5.5 billion, I’m sure I read somewhere they spend 1 billion acquiring games per year to put in Game Pass. Even taking overheads and operating costs into account that’s quite the profit margin they are making. Purely down to the ActiBliz and Zenimax purchases so they need to be greedy and increase profits massively to pay off the investment. Which means consumers paying more.
@Utena-mobile I said that from the start, I did think they spent so much to get King Mobile as they are making billions and it’s from the mobile market that’s worth a lot more then the console one. But it’s obvious MS is struggling to make the money back quick enough hence the studio closures, staff lay offs and restricting and price increases of the services.
Let’s not forget, they also spent 7.5 billion for Zenimax, as a department Xbox isn’t even generating anywhere near that! Let alone 69 billion! Personally I think next gen Xbox will be all digital only and will desperately be controlling prices to try and get the investment back.
The CMA and FTC were right to scrutinise the buy out like they did, probably should have gone further. MS did state they would not increase Game Pass prices amongst other things due to the buy out. And they’ve now done the complete opposite, closed studios, laid of thousands of people in the gaming sector of the business, and increased prices. Is it any wonder the regulators will now be on their backs over this.
@Blofse I already did that, sold my Series X when they changed the dashboard from a lovely fully customisable experience, to endless forced ads I cannot turn off and my games library buried a I get them somewhere. And now they are bringing Ads to Windows, outside works PC I ain’t touching MS. I have my Game Pass Ultimate at rapid up till 2026 so will stream any games I want to play, but I won’t extend it beyond that. Had a Steam Deck twice but couldn’t get in with it? Think the screen was too small for me, will wait to see what the next one is like, but I have a PS5 now and a new high end Mac that runs Diablo 4 great, although I need to use emulation software.
@themightyant As they say, the most popular games are COD, Fortnite and FIFA. All the mass casual gamer wants is online play for those games and that’s it. It will be a pretty hard sell to pursuance them to pay £15 a month for COD and online play. Some people only ever play one of those games.
@FuzzieGinge88 Don’t forget, that 69 billion for Acti was on top of the 7.5 billion for Zenimax. The investors want to see a return on that as does the board, and whether Satya or Phil is making the decisions on that is hidden in rumours only. They just announced their Xbox app for Firestsick owners, which is a cheap device really, and then announce another price increase to use the service in the app. I don’t believe a word MS says about Xbox anymore (this deal won’t mean Game Pass increases.. increase Game Pass price twice in a year), and I won’t be shocked if next gen is their last ever with physical consoles, despite what they say the console sales figures are way low, we all know it. Because they’ve made it too easy to play without an Xbox.
@AverageJoseph Good for you, you’re one person, does not mean there are many people who like to buy their games. Or collect books, films are also different, it takes a couple of hours to watch a film, some games can take 30 for the base game alone.
@Krzzystuff Don’t forget though, as I understand PC Game Pass does not get access to as many games as the console version hence the price difference, plus you are paying for online play on console too, they still charge you to play online games on Xbox consoles, can you imagine them doing that on PC and the outcry it would create?
@Vaako007 sadly for you that is no longer Xbox’s primary business model, Game Pass and game rentals all the way from them now. If they do go all digital next gen, which is rumoured currently, then they will control when games are delisted, Forza Horizon 4 will be delisted this year for instance, and when they disappear off GP. Not like the 360 days…
It’s become obvious they have screwed the pooch a bit, they’ve spent over 80 billion on acquisitions and they want returns. And they now putting COD in Game Pass day one will lose them a lot in sales.
It’s now £180 a year for Game Pass Ultimate, but £120 a year for PSN Plus Premium, so you are paying a lot more for those games on Game Pass. I actually slightly prefer the PS model as you get game trials of big games not in Game Pass, and if course you cannot play your games collection on Game Pass unless it’s in there. PS5 remote play works great, not sure of Xbox does the same?
With rumours of Xbox going all digital next gen and Sony not, it seems Xbox will be all about you renting games, and Sony will still be about you owning them such as it is. I can also see Xbox increasing prices again, one things for sure I’d never believe a word that comes out of Microsoft’s mouth about Xbox!… Phil flat out lied about Game Pass price increases.
When my GP expires, it’s stacked at the moment, I’m out and won’t pay for it again. I can only see it going up and up in price.
@themightyant Sadly the narrative Microsoft was forcing o to everyone at launch time, was that the Series X was the ‘most powerful console in the world’ ever. That sentence leads you to think it’ll be better and perform better. Which was never the case in reality. If they never made the Series S and force games on that system, and hadn’t changed all their dev tools at the beginning of the generation, then they may have had a noticeable lead in performance.
@Fiendish-Beaver Sounds reasonable. I should have just kept my Series X. My Series X was a present and I sold it as I stupidly didn't like MS direction or the forced ads on the home screen and for some Christmas money and for a PS5. I think my best bet is to keep the PS5, just buy a Xbox myself, buy physical games on PS5 and then ask for money for my birthdays and Christmas's and then trade in the PS5 for next gen, kinda round about way to get a next gen console as a present as they will probably cost near £500 I expect. And then just sell the Xbox.
My favourite game series of all time and one of the games that is making me want a new Series X. Gonna sell my PS5 to come back to Xbox, should never have left. Both platforms do things right and wrong but only Xbox has my favourite game series....
Having said that will Gears E Day be a current gen title or next gen? As MS announced they are deep in next gen development. When will the next Xbox launch? 2026?
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Your mistake is assuming the games will be rubbish. Firstly I am a massive Gears fan, I can tell you that alone made it difficult to sell my Xbox, secondly I only have time and thanks to the PS5 size and the fact if you stand it up you risk dry spots on the processor with no Liquid Metal, the space for one of these consoles. I may get the next Switch when it’s out but that’s it apart from a home console.
And thirdly I saw plenty of gameplay too, so it is inaccurate at best to claim they were all CGI trailers.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Hmm seems a fair few of the games shown had gameplay and looked damn good one. Sorry not seeing what you are suggesting here. The quality looks just as good as Spider-Man 2 or the third or fourth remake of TLOU.
@awp69 I sold my Series X for a PS5, got it at Christmas and what have I played on it? Dead Island 2 and COD.. dabbled in TLOU2 remake but I've played all the Sony exclusives I care about already on PS3 and 4 already. I'm regretting my decision a bit now, I'm going to wait and see what the new Xbox consoles are like as they may have some upgrades like smaller NM chips and new WiFi etc.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Xbox has Forza and Hellblade etc, difference it it's also just shown some massive games that are current gen only and out this year or next, Sony has shown a 'hero shooter' that looks crap and generic...
To answer the topic though, 'some' games will go to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2, but never all of them, Gears, Perfect Dark, Fable, Forza, Avowed etc etc won't go cross platform, only Xbox and PC.
@Dr_ENT With no games on PS5. It has maybe 2 or 3 actual current gen only games if that. Sony is bone dry with games so far this gen, 4 years in. Hardly the 'ultimate' home console. And I own a PS5.
@TheSimulator Hmm, it comes down to personal preference I think, having used both I find the dual sense to be more solid feeling in the hand, the resistive trigger things are cool but just a gimmick, and it's battery life is utterly pathetic, of course Sony will sell you one with longer lasting battery.. Xbox controller works perfectly fine, doesn't feel as solid and substantial but of course its battery life is miles better. I get on alright with both really.
@Cakefish I agree, those two guys made another full in depth video on them and it is exactly the same size, they said the same thing it's a shame they didn't make something new, but understood like you say it's another to just reuse the same design. Looks good in white though.
30 games.. seemingly only 6 cross platform. Holy hell they just utterly embarrassed Sony. Hence why not many PS4 players are upgrading to PS5, no new games only on PS5 worth playing. Xbox just gave people 30 reasons to get an Xbox Series console.
@Nightcrawler71 To be fair though, Sony hasn’t announced any new games apart from its hero shooter. So all you will be doing with the ‘pro’ is playing your old games at a faster frame rate.
Damn those are expensive. Not sure about that pricing, probably best to get a current console unless these ones have other updates like better WiFi or something?
What he means is cheap games, those closed studios apparently wanted to make new games like a HIFi Rush sequel, but also that would mean hiring more staff for a bigger team. And obviously MS doesn’t like that idea, so it closes them down and will use other small teams to make small games. And if any of them dare suggest they hire more staff no doubt the firing axe will heavily fall onto them too.
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Re: Xbox Introduces 'Stream Your Own Game' Feature With 50 Titles Supported At Launch
THIS is the future of Xbox, and their new service has already failed dramatically. Flight Sim launched yesterday and is an online streaming games and practically every player has slated it, because they cannot play the game even the ones who paid 200 dollars for the top end version!!
It's truly pathetic MS with its network cannot make game streaming work, and yet they are talking about using it for processing power of its next console... so now you won't even download the game.
Re: Xbox's Phil Spencer Confirms Handheld Plans, But Don't Expect One Anytime Soon
@NEStalgia Guess we will have to see, I think they are around 5 to 10 years too late with a handheld. And will it run games natively or just stream them? They could make just a Game Pass streaming device aka PS Portal and slash its price. Would seem odd though?
Re: Xbox's Phil Spencer Confirms Handheld Plans, But Don't Expect One Anytime Soon
@NEStalgia Rog Ally X 3, Steam Deck 3 and Legion Go 3 will all be out by the time Xbox handheld 1 is released. Too little far too late from
Them. No point releasing next year with Switch 2 either.
Re: Xbox Series X Teardown Shows New 2024 Models Are More Efficient
@OldGamer999 Absolutely, they should have dropped Series S to £250 and priced this all digital Series X at £370 or so. And they wonder why their consoles aren’t selling…..
Re: Xbox Series X Teardown Shows New 2024 Models Are More Efficient
It's a whole £20 cheaper in the UK for the new digital edition Series X... wow what a saving... The greed of MS and desperation of making back the 80 / 90 billion they've spent in acquisitions is on full display again.
If they dropped the price by £70 or £50 it would be an interesting price, but alas no. It's more expensive then the PS5 slim which let's not forget has the option of fitting a disk drive...
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Xbox's ActiBlizz Deal One Year On?
@Medic_alert No they were ads, a bit like when you load up a physical game and in it's screen on the home page their is always an ad to buy the game digitally on PS5...
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Xbox's ActiBlizz Deal One Year On?
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Yeah laying off thousands of staff is never a good thing. But closing studios that have just made an absolutely brilliant hit game perfect for Game Pass with a view to making a sequel that could help drive up subscriber count, just makes little business sense all round and shows some incompetence at the top.
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Xbox's ActiBlizz Deal One Year On?
I sold my Series X because of all the forced ads on the dashboard, that was the last straw for me. And from what I've heard it's got worst with full screen ads now? Sony tried to put some kind of ads on the Home Screen last week or the week before, the community outraged and they reversed it a couple days later advising it was an 'error'.
Another example of the disaster the buyouts have caused as they need those ads to drive revenue, Sony doesn't.
I can't see a single thing to entice me back, even the new Gears won't as a lot of rumours claim it'll come to PlayStation anyway.
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Xbox's ActiBlizz Deal One Year On?
@NEStalgia Ah didn't know that, still they'll make Spencer the scape goat that's for sure. He will take the downfall for it all. It's a disgusting way to display greed to dominate a market flexing your monopolistic power and trillions in value. And kill one of your brands in the process. I agree they wanted King all along. But what a way to do it, now they won't invest in the Xbox team to cope with all the endless teams they now have to try and manage.
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Xbox's ActiBlizz Deal One Year On?
It was the worst decision Spencer and his team could have made and has ended up destroying the Xbox brand.
They should have never purchased the studios and instead copied Sony in nailing down exclusive deals for Xbox console and PC, to drive up sales. That would have lead to the growth of Game Pass.
Instead they blew nigh on 100 billion US on acquisitions, haven't got a team anywhere near capable of managing so many large studios, and it's become a dead duck with MS CEO and Board very obviously driving the ideas to drive profit now, and not for gamers either. They are way out of their depth and I won't be surprised if in a years time Spencer is fired, and if they even release another home console. It's all about a games service now that isn't growing.
And Xbox seems to totally lack any direction or plan now. It's just desperately trying to get that 100 billion back anyway it can at the detriment to its customer base value.
Re: Rumour: Microsoft To Launch Next-Gen With Series X Successor & Handheld Xbox
If their next console has backwards compatibility, it may be the one to get. PlayStation just has no games. For me. Yesterdays State Of Play was just utterly dire.
But Xbox are all over the place with no strategy.
What a sad state the console market is in now.
Re: Xbox Series X|S Console Sales Estimated At Under Half Of PS5 In New Report
@Ilyn And that's thanks to the likes of Valve, Steam is the be all and end all of digital store fronts, and it made a handheld PC to accommodate it, and now rumours are Microsoft will try to compete with that too.. So PC gamers on the whole use Steam, a few use Game Pass but insignificant numbers really, and MS might be planning to take on Steam in the handheld market too, despite thanks to Steam and its reputation and pricing the Steam Deck is by far the best selling handheld PC.
You could not make it up the way Xbox keep shooting themselves in the foot.
Re: Xbox Series X|S Console Sales Estimated At Under Half Of PS5 In New Report
They should have just stuck to how they were, introduced Game Pass but paid for exclusive deals for games on it just like Sony, and then supported the studios they already had.
But no they just had to be greedy and tried to buy their way to success, which has only lead in failure. Now close to 100 billion down in acquisitions and a board of the main company and share holders understandably demanding a return on investment, and we have a competitor who thinks Xbox is so irrelevant it's charged £700 for a mid gen refresh with no games on it!
Thank God the Switch 2 is coming, for me it's going to be Switch and Steam Deck, because I can't see PS6 being less then £650 and who knows what state Xbox will be in. What a messed up generation this has been.
Re: Xbox Is Cutting 650 More Jobs, Confirms Phil Spencer In Letter To Employees
@IOI At least Nintendo are about to come and throw a grenade into it with the new Switch 2, plus we've had the Steam Deck and other PC handhelds take off in a big way.
Leave it to the handheld games market again to save gaming this gen...
Re: Xbox Fans Hoping For Backwards Compatibility Announcement As 'Singularity' Gets Relisted
I remember buying this on my PlayStation I think. Great game. If you get a chance to play it.
Re: Analyst Expects Xbox Game Pass To Bring In 'Almost $5.5bn' In 2025
If that’s 5.5 billion, I’m sure I read somewhere they spend 1 billion acquiring games per year to put in Game Pass. Even taking overheads and operating costs into account that’s quite the profit margin they are making. Purely down to the ActiBliz and Zenimax purchases so they need to be greedy and increase profits massively to pay off the investment. Which means consumers paying more.
Re: FTC Calls Out Xbox's New 'Degraded' Game Pass Tier & Price Increases
@Utena-mobile I said that from the start, I did think they spent so much to get King Mobile as they are making billions and it’s from the mobile market that’s worth a lot more then the console one. But it’s obvious MS is struggling to make the money back quick enough hence the studio closures, staff lay offs and restricting and price increases of the services.
Let’s not forget, they also spent 7.5 billion for Zenimax, as a department Xbox isn’t even generating anywhere near that! Let alone 69 billion! Personally I think next gen Xbox will be all digital only and will desperately be controlling prices to try and get the investment back.
Re: FTC Calls Out Xbox's New 'Degraded' Game Pass Tier & Price Increases
The CMA and FTC were right to scrutinise the buy out like they did, probably should have gone further. MS did state they would not increase Game Pass prices amongst other things due to the buy out. And they’ve now done the complete opposite, closed studios, laid of thousands of people in the gaming sector of the business, and increased prices. Is it any wonder the regulators will now be on their backs over this.
Re: Forza Horizon 4 Has A Ridiculously Good Discount On Xbox Right Now
This is discounted because it’s about to be delisted. So how much longer will the servers for it still be running for?
Re: Analysts Claim Xbox Game Pass Price Hikes Were 'Inevitable', And That An Ad-Tier Could Be Next
@Blofse I already did that, sold my Series X when they changed the dashboard from a lovely fully customisable experience, to endless forced ads I cannot turn off and my games library buried a I get them somewhere. And now they are bringing Ads to Windows, outside works PC I ain’t touching MS. I have my Game Pass Ultimate at rapid up till 2026 so will stream any games I want to play, but I won’t extend it beyond that. Had a Steam Deck twice but couldn’t get in with it? Think the screen was too small for me, will wait to see what the next one is like, but I have a PS5 now and a new high end Mac that runs Diablo 4 great, although I need to use emulation software.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier
@themightyant As they say, the most popular games are COD, Fortnite and FIFA. All the mass casual gamer wants is online play for those games and that’s it. It will be a pretty hard sell to pursuance them to pay £15 a month for COD and online play. Some people only ever play one of those games.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier
@FuzzieGinge88 Don’t forget, that 69 billion for Acti was on top of the 7.5 billion for Zenimax. The investors want to see a return on that as does the board, and whether Satya or Phil is making the decisions on that is hidden in rumours only. They just announced their Xbox app for Firestsick owners, which is a cheap device really, and then announce another price increase to use the service in the app.
I don’t believe a word MS says about Xbox anymore (this deal won’t mean Game Pass increases.. increase Game Pass price twice in a year), and I won’t be shocked if next gen is their last ever with physical consoles, despite what they say the console sales figures are way low, we all know it. Because they’ve made it too easy to play without an Xbox.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier
@AverageJoseph Good for you, you’re one person, does not mean there are many people who like to buy their games. Or collect books, films are also different, it takes a couple of hours to watch a film, some games can take 30 for the base game alone.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier
@Krzzystuff Don’t forget though, as I understand PC Game Pass does not get access to as many games as the console version hence the price difference, plus you are paying for online play on console too, they still charge you to play online games on Xbox consoles, can you imagine them doing that on PC and the outcry it would create?
Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier
@Vaako007 sadly for you that is no longer Xbox’s primary business model, Game Pass and game rentals all the way from them now. If they do go all digital next gen, which is rumoured currently, then they will control when games are delisted, Forza Horizon 4 will be delisted this year for instance, and when they disappear off GP. Not like the 360 days…
Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier
It’s become obvious they have screwed the pooch a bit, they’ve spent over 80 billion on acquisitions and they want returns. And they now putting COD in Game Pass day one will lose them a lot in sales.
It’s now £180 a year for Game Pass Ultimate, but £120 a year for PSN Plus Premium, so you are paying a lot more for those games on Game Pass. I actually slightly prefer the PS model as you get game trials of big games not in Game Pass, and if course you cannot play your games collection on Game Pass unless it’s in there. PS5 remote play works great, not sure of Xbox does the same?
With rumours of Xbox going all digital next gen and Sony not, it seems Xbox will be all about you renting games, and Sony will still be about you owning them such as it is. I can also see Xbox increasing prices again, one things for sure I’d never believe a word that comes out of Microsoft’s mouth about Xbox!… Phil flat out lied about Game Pass price increases.
When my GP expires, it’s stacked at the moment, I’m out and won’t pay for it again. I can only see it going up and up in price.
Re: Digital Foundry Explores Why Some Games 'Run Better' On PS5 Than Xbox Series X
@themightyant Sadly the narrative Microsoft was forcing o to everyone at launch time, was that the Series X was the ‘most powerful console in the world’ ever. That sentence leads you to think it’ll be better and perform better. Which was never the case in reality. If they never made the Series S and force games on that system, and hadn’t changed all their dev tools at the beginning of the generation, then they may have had a noticeable lead in performance.
Re: Gears Creator Cliffy B Discusses What He'd Like To See In Gears Of War: E-Day
@Fiendish-Beaver Sounds reasonable. I should have just kept my Series X.
My Series X was a present and I sold it as I stupidly didn't like MS direction or the forced ads on the home screen and for some Christmas money and for a PS5.
I think my best bet is to keep the PS5, just buy a Xbox myself, buy physical games on PS5 and then ask for money for my birthdays and Christmas's and then trade in the PS5 for next gen, kinda round about way to get a next gen console as a present as they will probably cost near £500 I expect. And then just sell the Xbox.
Re: Talking Point: Are You Interested In Any Of The New Xbox Series X|S Models?
What are the chances of these new models having a boost in specs? Like smaller manometer processors and improved WiFi like WiFi 6E?
Re: Gears Creator Cliffy B Discusses What He'd Like To See In Gears Of War: E-Day
My favourite game series of all time and one of the games that is making me want a new Series X. Gonna sell my PS5 to come back to Xbox, should never have left. Both platforms do things right and wrong but only Xbox has my favourite game series....
Having said that will Gears E Day be a current gen title or next gen? As MS announced they are deep in next gen development. When will the next Xbox launch? 2026?
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
When will the next gen be announced? Next year or 2026?
Re: Reaction: Xbox's 2024 Showcase Felt Like A Throwback To The 360 Era, In The Best Way Possible
It was a simply incredible showcase, I agree with every word of this article.
Re: Xbox: 'You Are Going To See More Of Our Games On More Platforms'
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Your mistake is assuming the games will be rubbish. Firstly I am a massive Gears fan, I can tell you that alone made it difficult to sell my Xbox, secondly I only have time and thanks to the PS5 size and the fact if you stand it up you risk dry spots on the processor with no Liquid Metal, the space for one of these consoles. I may get the next Switch when it’s out but that’s it apart from a home console.
And thirdly I saw plenty of gameplay too, so it is inaccurate at best to claim they were all CGI trailers.
Re: Xbox: 'You Are Going To See More Of Our Games On More Platforms'
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Hmm seems a fair few of the games shown had gameplay and looked damn good one. Sorry not seeing what you are suggesting here. The quality looks just as good as Spider-Man 2 or the third or fourth remake of TLOU.
Re: Xbox: 'You Are Going To See More Of Our Games On More Platforms'
@awp69 I sold my Series X for a PS5, got it at Christmas and what have I played on it? Dead Island 2 and COD.. dabbled in TLOU2 remake but I've played all the Sony exclusives I care about already on PS3 and 4 already. I'm regretting my decision a bit now, I'm going to wait and see what the new Xbox consoles are like as they may have some upgrades like smaller NM chips and new WiFi etc.
Re: Xbox: 'You Are Going To See More Of Our Games On More Platforms'
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Xbox has Forza and Hellblade etc, difference it it's also just shown some massive games that are current gen only and out this year or next, Sony has shown a 'hero shooter' that looks crap and generic...
Re: Xbox: 'You Are Going To See More Of Our Games On More Platforms'
To answer the topic though, 'some' games will go to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2, but never all of them, Gears, Perfect Dark, Fable, Forza, Avowed etc etc won't go cross platform, only Xbox and PC.
Re: Xbox: 'You Are Going To See More Of Our Games On More Platforms'
@Dr_ENT With no games on PS5. It has maybe 2 or 3 actual current gen only games if that. Sony is bone dry with games so far this gen, 4 years in. Hardly the 'ultimate' home console. And I own a PS5.
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
@TheSimulator Eh? It is as innovative, Quick Resume is brilliant, and a feature far better then Sonys adaptive triggers.
I'm seriously now considering ditching my PS5 and returning to Xbox.
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
@TheSimulator Hmm, it comes down to personal preference I think, having used both I find the dual sense to be more solid feeling in the hand, the resistive trigger things are cool but just a gimmick, and it's battery life is utterly pathetic, of course Sony will sell you one with longer lasting battery.. Xbox controller works perfectly fine, doesn't feel as solid and substantial but of course its battery life is miles better. I get on alright with both really.
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
@Cakefish I agree, those two guys made another full in depth video on them and it is exactly the same size, they said the same thing it's a shame they didn't make something new, but understood like you say it's another to just reuse the same design. Looks good in white though.
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
@Cakefish A video of the new consoles, looks like it’s the same size sadly.
http://youtube.com/shorts/kKn3yv-fKjU?si=1161ntyjpbEq_wGr
Re: Poll: How Would You Grade The Xbox Games Showcase 2024?
I wouldn't give it an A but a solid 9/10 for me. Brilliant showcase.
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
@Cakefish Definitely need to wait for a proper view as we are going by a single picture with a funny angle.
Re: Here's Everything That Was Revealed At The Xbox Games Showcase 2024
30 games.. seemingly only 6 cross platform. Holy hell they just utterly embarrassed Sony. Hence why not many PS4 players are upgrading to PS5, no new games only on PS5 worth playing. Xbox just gave people 30 reasons to get an Xbox Series console.
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
@tho_mi Nope, they also stated new hardware will be coming for the holidays. Many expect it to be a new handheld from the company.
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
@Cakefish I’m not so sure? To me it looks smaller?
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
@Nightcrawler71 To be fair though, Sony hasn’t announced any new games apart from its hero shooter. So all you will be doing with the ‘pro’ is playing your old games at a faster frame rate.
Re: Xbox Announces Three New Series X|S Consoles Launching In 2024
Damn those are expensive. Not sure about that pricing, probably best to get a current console unless these ones have other updates like better WiFi or something?
Re: Xbox Apparently Still Needs Smaller Games For 'Prestige And Awards'
What he means is cheap games, those closed studios apparently wanted to make new games like a HIFi Rush sequel, but also that would mean hiring more staff for a bigger team. And obviously MS doesn’t like that idea, so it closes them down and will use other small teams to make small games. And if any of them dare suggest they hire more staff no doubt the firing axe will heavily fall onto them too.