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Would seem like a bad time to talk about it. You need good morale to able to take that hit and Xbox morale drops almost weekly.

I get their reasoning but if people aren't buying xboxes, and as such aren't buying games through xbox, is it really wise to piss off the people who are actively spending money?

@Ricky-Spanish Logically they're holding back any "good stuff" for their showcase next month.

So we have to see at least 3 more big bits of bad new, bonehead moves, and tone deaf PR.

Doesn't matter what form the "platform" is, could be hardware or a subscription but growth requires content.

Third Party content helps but that will go and takes any "attraction" it has to go with it.

You don't see Netflix and Disney+ trying to coast long-term on old or third-party content like Microsoft seems to be trying to do now.

You'd think as "worse case" this would just be a hi-tech reskin of Tomb Raider Reboot trilogy.

Like everyone else I just don't understand how things can be so bad at XB.

Gotta love how MS has the worst timing.

Sony spent the weekend with its biggest games community its in open rebellion, its studio actively encouraging it, and even had steam abandoning its returns policy to help.

Its been a long time since Sony has been this weak and then MS dose this and its all forgotten.

@rustyduck at this moment the only hardware plan that makes any sense is allowing steam/epic, turning Xbox into affordable, capable and "simple to use" PC.

It's the only way to prevent the loss of third parties, they won't need to make a "Xbox port" the Xbox will just play the PC port.

I've said before how we imagine gaming as consoles and PCs will end, MS has been preparing for it as far back as play anywhere. But I really wasn't expecting it be so... "deathy" I expected it to pitched as "xbox ecosystem being freed" and not what expecting them sacrificing customers, studios, and games to do it.

I love Xbox (had one part of my set up in every generation they existed), I Love gamepass, and MS is now in control of many of my favourite IP and I REALLY doubt, one way or another next gen I'll have an Xbox (gonna need some more hard drives to back up my digital library.)

I just don't understand this one. They have spent decades trying to get anything in Japan and they finally get it.... then poof.

The only thing I can come up with is that they don't "need" Japanese games anymore. Shifting more and more to a third party footing means they don't have to cater to niches outside their own any more.

Tango is a huge shock considering their output how well Hi-Fi Rush was received and how it became the poster child for Xbox on PlayStation.

Depends if it plays (then) current third party games.

I love xbox but if the next platform doesn't get all third parties and they've increasingly open on the idea of all exclusives going to PS... then why have it? Nintendo survives has a handheld because it the only place to get Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda

It's my main hope with Xbox owning Activision, stop rewarding good studios braking CoD support studios.

I don't doubt their confident on the shows line up, Xbox has been very good at showcases.

It's actually getting games out the door and sticking the landing they struggle with.

I'm not convinced they intended for it to launch when it did.

It didn't make sense to release it weeks after the show, to have no tie in content, another not have paid bundle (like skyrim anniversary).

Throw in the bugs and it seems like they threw out what they had when they realised how well the show was doing.

I thought we got rid of square TVs to stop this happening, is this just going to keep happening until TVs are just this ring that runs along all four of our walls?

Xbox sure does like to kick its own hype in the shins, what's next Gears 6 exclusively plays in a portrait layout to give it a TikTok vibe?

I'm not prepared to say it's "dead-dead" yet, these sorts of games tend to need that year-one update for us to make sure it's dead-dead.

I plan on jumping back in to test the update, I'm mid-way through a run ATM so that kinda needs doing so I can do things like the re-traiting (got some ideas for that) and see how the survival mode stuff impacts it.

This update reminds me of the updates right before Cyberpunk stopped supporting the last gen. It's good stuff, it's just not "jump back in" stuff.

gonna make that do so many jumps.

Man that's some tasty updates, I like glad we get the traits change.

I'd like to know what sacrifices have to be made for the performance modes.

It has to play "actual" Xbox games for it matter.

There will be cheaper and more powerful Handheld PCs and a Xbox sticker isn't going to make people consider it over them.

Playing both PC and Xbox games would be killer.

That... that actually looked better than it had any right to.

Not sold on it and suspect its going to be rather barebones but I'll keep an eye on it.

Kinda hope it's not COD, it's not exactly a franchise that requires a "deep dive", and that's not me "dismissing" CoD entries are fairly standardised unless, of cause, this is the long prophesized CoD that will transform the series taking it in a new direction.

@bluebonics yeah it's like the people who keep point to BG3 ad an example, that was 3 years of Early Access aswell as 3 years of internal development.

They will not be happy if Bethesda annouced ES6 was launching in 2025 but the rest of it won't come till 2028.

Lots of interesting games for me to keep my eye on. Fera looks like my jam.

Was it just me, or did that seem rather "gamepass light" for an Xbox showcase?

For me I prefer stability, a locked 30FPRS is way better than 60FPS when it feels like it..

Beyond that... depends on the game and depends on the sacrifices that have to be made for 60fps. Like I happily take the FPS hit for ray-tracing but if the implementation RT is poor then I'll opt for performance

I think ES fans would actively mutiny if Fallout 5 got bumped up.

Remasters and remakes of Fallout 3/NV wouldn't require much work from the core Bethesda team and most of the work could be done by another studio.

They could also expand the Creation Club concept and approach modders like those working on Fallout London (or the Play Fallout _ in Fallout 4 mods) and worth with (and pay) them to make an "official" version of their mods as standalone Fallout releases.

I like that this has a "lower resolution, higher graphics and higher FPS" mode even if it's weirdly consigned to a weird auto setting.

Sidenote: I would like games that offer different performance modes actually explain/show the difference beyond "game go 60" and "game go pretty" I really don't want to have to dig up comparison videos everytime I load up a game.

I just wish we could have a wireless version of Xbox, I get Xbox not wanting that.

I'm not a pro gamer or a "hardcore" PVP player so I don't need the milliseconds of improved latency a wire provides but I am a 30+ gamer who has the trauma of consoles going flying with wires stretching across the living room floor, and my own kids are easily 5x as chaotic as my siblings was.

That'll be a fantastic place to work on the four days of British sunshine.

note I know that's not how it works

Come on, just let people connect the Quest to the Xbox like the Quest link/air link/steam link. Let devs release VR games on the store, there's basically no risk for MS as it's Meta actually making the headsets. Then if it's popular release their own.

Apprently I am. Enough to make me not pick the originals in the sales because the remake is coming (at somepoint)

@BowsersBuddy I've been burned by that before too.

I thought about that, "take the bullet" for the rest of us but judging from how this has played out my purchase ends up being the tiping point that makes them delay the gamepass roll put.

Sure is a lot of acti-bliz titles for sale.

@NintendoByNature they did an amazing job of that. Making it interesting for both fans and non-fans alike.

Nice! I was worried this was going to be a classic case of "streaming show gets popular, streaming show gets inexplicably cancelled" destroyed by whatever obscene alchemy of "streaming metrics"

I'm guessing No.

There will be newer "fresher" games that will come out between launch and awards season, and I'm sure there is going to be a narrative of "Game's good but it's let down by Xbox hardware".

Which is a shame because the game is shaping up to be very good.

Ubisoft is an odd duck.

Usually, their "gold editions" aka game+season pass (aka that thing people keep saying they want "I'd pay more to get all the content and not buy DLC") are usually cheaper than other companies' ultimate editions (game+dlc) but their own ultimate editions (Game+season+extras) are insane

I don't think I'll be all that interested unless there's some shake ups. I'm just not interested on yet more destiny. I think I tapped out of Destiny 2 just before they started vaulting stuff.

Maybe if they did something like Helldivers (not so much the GM thing, though that might be cool) but having the players be taking part in an evolving story. I mean these games are unplayable offline and can and will remove content they might as well embrace that.

I saw he also expects there to be big game droughts whilst the industry corrects itself

I want this to do well because A) then we get more Fallout and it sounds like we aren't getting that in game form anytime soon, and B) I want this "spin-off in a different medium" approach to be standard when adapting "choices matter" RPGs like Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate. I much rather see a different story from their worlds than weird "best guess" canonised versions of those game's stories.

k...

Who would imagined Ubisoft would have such trouble remaking one of their classic games?

I am sure this will be interesting but I probably won't watch it until after I finish the game.

At this point I just can't care about Next Gen, this gen just hasn't got going which would be fine if the X1 wasn't also a holding pattern.

games.

Games

GAMES!

Don't get me wrong, yay and I hope this includes a external drive that carries on between generations.

But this is reminding me of the BC and FC talk in the past. Where MS pushed hard on the consumer friendly angle because they had nothing to show. Which is insane conaider8ng their massive line up of studios.

Arcade Paradise was such a pleasant surprise I'll be double dipping on the upcoming VR port.

The same thing actually for Medieval Dynasty too, I was expecting it to be "just a survival crafter" but it was more.

Let me guess Gear 6 in 2026
@BIG3 Tactics 2 would be great.

Solo: Still working my way through Dogma 2, I finished Control Ultimate and Wake 2 is on sales, so maybe that.

Co-op: Probably some Ark.

VR: hopefully finish Asura's Wrath II. Its just not gripping me as I hoped.

As I've said before my concerns aren't "Ps FaNs No PlAy OuR GaMz" my concerns are the continued existence of Xbox consoles, the ability to access my digital library, and handing Sony a hardware monopoly.

If the "important" Xbox exclusives aren't exclusive then why buy an Xbox? Gamepass? but if console sales are bad why would people put games on Game Pass or even make games for Xbox as a platform when everyone is "belt-tightening"?

Obviously, IF Sony also starts sharing exclusives the problem goes away, or if future Xbox consoles can also play PC games.

"It depends" a whole stinking lot of "it depends".

Like horror games require a certain level of suspense and you just can't pad that out. So shorter is better than longer.

Conversely wouldn't want a monster hunter game that took 10 hours to finish.

I don't like a game to drag or feel like it's gone in a flash.

Man it's been ages, I can't wait for a new Gears. I'd also take another Gears Tactics in the meantime. I hope they aren't working on a Gears trilogy remaster, simply because that can be outsourced.

It boggles my mind that MS has, what, 30 studios and theres just 3 confirmed games coming this year (excluding COD and existing Acti-bliz projects). At this rate MS would have released more games on PS5 and Switch than they did on Xbox this year.

It's my "current coop game" but me and my friends are all "deep in dogma" atm, so not played it yet.