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Considering the performance of the original game even on Series X, I am not suprised

Considering the gap between Hivebusters and now, it's seems possible it could be out next year.

Finally! Been trying to convince my friends to try MD since Co-op was annouced.

Looking forward to this.

A little suprised only 3 titles have a 2025 date.

For me I have two issues with starfields "creations"

1. Mixing creations and mods is messy in the UI.
2. Unlike creations in Fallout and Skyrim there isn't a minium level of quality and it seems only the Bethesda made stuff doesn't disable achievements (whereas both skyrim and Fallout it's all paid creations was treated as DLC).

(I'm not against creations in their current form with modders having to opt in and not just Bethesda going "that costs now" and that they can't port existing free mods.)

I liked it well enough but it didn't feel like there was anything "new". Granted we got actual looks at these games this time and not just pre-rendered stuff but there wasn't any sort of big announcement (great news for Anno fans)

It was great but it was missing some big bombshell to make it one of those E3s/showcase we talk about years later.

Excited to give pretty much all of them a shot. I wasn't expecting Atomfall from Rebellion, at first I though it was a steampunk spin-off to Sniper Elite.

Obligatory "Where's the Activision games?" remark.

B+.
It was a good pace with plenty of games, most of which had a date (even if its just "2025"), and updates but there just wasn't any real hype bomb drops. Just a chill drop of decent looking games coming out.

Hardware refresh but no new controller was a bummer.

My group used to watch these in watch parties but organising that is a lot harder these days, I believe we're setting up a VR watch party to try and recreate that

Expected something like this to pop up, things had been getting almost getting positive around Xbox Land lol.

Halo on PS5 would be perceived as waving the white flag. Regardless of what messaging around it, confirm a new platform every day of the week, even if they never released another game on PS, people will "consider" that when deciding what console to buy.

Directors cut? Thats either new content or The same game with 18 rated swearing.

Guessing limited Mods for Series S due to performance concerns, content and asset limits on PS5, and Series X will get everything that doesn't need the inevitable script extender and what not.

Interesting and I'm sure I'll get round to some of these but I want Shadows of Doubt first

That's largely what I was expecting from the tech, making sure something that's swinging for 60fps actually hits 60fps consistently.

@IOI if its the same version they included in GTA+, then it could be.

The second is something like Halo, Forza, or even Fable hits PS, Xbox as hardware is done. It doesn't matter how they frame it, what claims of new hardware they have or even if it's confirmed they won't release any other games on PS afterwards, it won't matter the consumers will just see "All Xbox exclusives will come to PS"

Doesn't have to be true, just has to be convincing enough and Halo on PS5 is pretty convincing.

That 60-30(ish) drop in cities is probably a bit too rough for me, though the 40FPS option should be less so.. another excuse... I mean justification to by a new display with VRR

It feels like new set up of the performance modes being based on "priorities" and not predefined specifications like usual this might be "future proofing". Like what next gen Xbox come won't need a special update to take advantage (or turn down both options for a handheld?)

With its dual protagonists reminds me of Syndicate, hopefully it dose it better with that. In Syndicate it bothered me he was the boisterous fighter and she was the cool true believer assassin, and it let you level then up separately BUT seemed I was being g punished for her investing in stealth and him in combat with its missions.

It's almost like saying your platform is crap for about 2 years solid, struggling to release games, and releasing your (some but according to perception all) exclusives on rival platforms, has an effect on people actually wanting to buy your platform.

Deliver the games and the sales will follow.

That's what most of us has been saying.

They need games regardless of their plans, regardless of what studios or companies they buy, they have to make games.

As he says they need to go all in on exclusives and hardware or being a multiformat publisher, they can't do both and trying to do so is... well stupid.

I enjoyed it a lot, was annoyed that I missed one of the Runes and the only way to address that was to do another playthrough.

Think I've played it twice since it first launched on Xbox. It's one of those games I love but don't have a strong compulsion to play again.

She did mention they was in a "transition" before.

"even when the industry isn't growing and when you're going through a time of transition."

So my question is transition into what?

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