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Great news for those who don’t have to spend on ps+ service for enabling a simple feature like cloud auto save.

@gingataisen @endlessleep Jez has confirmed earlier in Xbox Two podcast that it’s not Scalebound but an entirely new AAA IP with a never seen before concept.

That’s a very wise business decision indeed, one that will be beneficial for all. Excited for this game. 🙌

@Arcnail Halo Infinite won’t be a truly next-gen title. It was never supposed to be.

@Trainer 🦄s always talk about how they have all these wonderful “exclusives” to play yet they still got time to come here on a Xbox site to defend their overlord (whenever the narrative goalposts change in media) and tell you how they absolutely hate Xbox platform. You will never find them calling spade a spade and criticise when it’s required by the consumers.

So much for “believing in generations”, eh? 😂🦄🤮

So Jez finally let it out. 🙌

”One thing is for sure, though — if IO is able to hit anywhere near what I believe has been pitched, I for one am very excited indeed”.

I bet they are waiting for some MS funding 🤑.

Microsoft has adopted a really great strategy this time, drop few stocks at a time in different countries rather than pushing everything to the US market just to achieve some silly records. This way many people (europe, middle east, asia) are buying Xbox SX when the other console is out of stock. Gamepass subscription also serves as a good selling point for the retailers.

@blinx01 Except the advantage in loading time, anisotropic filtering and draw distance.

Hola México!

I can imagine there will be different types of terrains to explore off-roading. Also since Forza is really huge there it will work out pretty great.

Battlefield V runs at 1080p120fps due to existing engine upgrades on the last-gen version.

@UltimateOtaku91
“imagine a gta in the future being on a streaming service only, not available to purchase fully anywhere”
This is exactly why Microsoft doesn’t like Gamepass to be called Netflix of gaming. Software licences work fully different from movie DRMs. One can always permanently own the license for future preservation (atleast until the CMOS battery runs out).

Soon all third party studios will support bringing their games on gamepass.

How did I miss this? 😂

Great. Now you can always attend those boring meetings while playing on Xbox.

It’s great to see that they are constantly pushing updates and upgrades to the software post launch after listening to community. Hopefully by end this year, I will get the full stable experience or atleast that’s what they have promised.

So no Forza Horizon: Tokyo Drift?

@TrueAssassin86x Did they buy marketing rights? I think Microsoft now has a way bigger relationship with EA and since they are already making a boatload of money from them (EA Play+Gamepass) I hardly think they will sign any anti-consumer contract.

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Atleast this time we will be assured that it uses the superior DirectX 12 API on Series X|S as opposed to the bottlenecked PC launch.

@Xeno_Aura According to previous rumours, Turn 10 is building a new engine for next-gen Motorsport.

@BrilliantBill There are many explanations which he can provide and it may also be the case that he have always kept a good relationship with his previous employer.

@BrilliantBill Ofcourse more salary with maybe better position. That’s the whole point of changing employers.

@S1ayeR74 It’s a common trick among the employees to increase their salary and demand better pay grade.

@UltimateOtaku91 He said his bandwidth consumption maxed out at 15 megabit per second.

There’s definitely a lot of creative freedom potential with gamepass.

Haters gonna hate here but they will still foolishly cheer on something as unnecessary as who’s got the most console stock and thus more sales. 😂
There are 2 likes on the Resident Evil-Sony anti-consumer deal article and now it’s clear who are behind that. 🦄🤮
A trillion dollar company doesn’t invest their billions just on $1 mouth-freshener ads. Have you ever heard about platform retention? You do realise that there will be a point of time when Microsoft makes so much cash (in billions) every month from GP, that kind of money can be spent for almost every titles available.

One thing left for them to do now is just ensure the Series X stock available in all global markets this holiday.

@LtSarge Looks like it’s not linear but exponential.

50 million by end of 2022? What do you guys think? Also don’t forget the unannounced exclusive title hitting gamepass this year (as leaked by Jason Ronald).

@Dezzy70 This generation will be long (atleast for Xbox) and it will happen soon in 1-2 years (both first party and third party exclusives). We already have games that are officially announced only for next-gen systems from Xbox. They have designed the new Agility SDK to make the jump easier. Microsoft wants to make the whole development process for PC+Series family unified for the next-gen.

@BrilliantBill It’s a umbrella term under which there are lot of next-gen RDNA 2 features/APIs (related to graphics optimisation) developed by AMD (like denoising, supersampling etc).

Missed the most important sessions (Graphics, Audio, Velocity Architecture) because they were not available on-demand to watch later. But anyways very excited to see some titles utilising these next-gen features for even smoother performance optimising to every last drop. 👌💚

UPDATE: They have released the videos on Youtube.
https://youtube.com/c/MSFTGameStack

Ultimately it will be all about who’s got the bigger wallet. Imagine what insane kind of money Phil Spencer will be paying for Battlefield 6 hitting gamepass Day 1!

Hope if they have ever resume the talks, Microsoft gets the deal done.

They already have too many games to reveal at E3 including new IPs so it’s obvious Gears 6 not happening anytime soon.

Now when Microsoft has joined the party, rest will follow soon. I think the stakeholders of Square Enix are more than elated to see their recent success on Gamepass.

One of the most requested feature by the community. 🙌

Team Xbox LISTENS

Only a few weeks ago the community demanded this small UI feature and now they already implemented it.

@themightyant @UltimateOtaku91 Except he doesn’t really have to share anything. It’s impossible to give numbers and get a clear picture as all consoles are selling out pretty fast due to very low stock and low yield. Also Xbox as a platform is no more only about traditional backward mindset of console sale number wars. The Gamepass model opens huge possibilities for creators who want to take some creative risks and not lose anything on the game sales. Stick to your traditional mindset of console sales number wars and you have a company which will only invest on mainstream overrated so-called “blockbuster” titles and we will never be able to discover any diverse content.

@TrueAssassin86x @FraserG It’s alright buddy no hard feelings. 😃

So it’s NOT a typical MMO online looter shooter but something AAA that hasn’t been done before. Truly exciting times for all gamers.

Also it’s funny to see that “wait for games till midgen upgrade” guy has now retracted his previous statements. Guess he has realised that 2-3 years is not a very unrealistic timeline.

2 days old news **YAWN**

@magicismoney I only gave Hellblade 2 as a prime example of a game where you can set very high unrealistic expectations for photorealistic graphics otherwise even a dog knows that they are poles apart in terms of genre and gameplay aspects. For me Halo has always been more about the story, universe, gameplay experience etc. There’s always a certain visual artistic direction that every Halo title follows. Anyways you have clearly shown your inability to read this particular context. I’m all team Xbox and team Halo Infinite so there’s no point in continuing this pointless discussion. Peace ✌️

It’s just those lazy devs who don’t want to improve scalability and flexibility of their crappy engines. Learn something from moon studios.

@magicismoney Who said I am not a fan of halo? In fact Halo is one of the main reasons why I’ve always been team Xbox. I just don’t like people setting false expectations for a franchise which has always been way more than just about photorealistic graphics.

Bring it on Xbox!

@Dezzy Yeah they have upgraded the rendering pipeline. Expect improvement in textures, lighting and shadows.

@Dezzy There’s not gonna be a whole new graphics in one year sorry mate don’t set false expectations that it somehow will start looking like Hellblade 2. Halo has never been about that.

This game is literally on every freaking devices. I have recently played this on Amazon Firestick. It’s an old Android/iOS game foremost.