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@EvenStephen7 Exactly. I bet the news is simply that all 30 or so Xbox original games will be added to game pass ultimate, like they all should be already. But it will be after another price hike by late 2026, probably multiple price hikes, so it will sting more regardless.

@GamingGod Wait what? How did that get through QA? Isn't it a requirement for a PS4/PS5 format game launching on a PlayStation console?

Yep and this is why Forza Horizon 6 had to be officially confirmed going to PS5 at its announcement. Would anybody be shocked if Xbox changed their minds next week, for the 5 millionth time and bumped up the PS5 release date from a few weeks to simply day one with the PC version?

Console sales matter. They mattered in 1995 and they matter in 2025 and no mental gymnastics from an Xbox fanboy Youtube channel is ever going to change that.

@Tasuki Its 700 360 games and 30 Xbox original games lol, its not the entire library but you can pretend its all the games you have.

So Sony should do what Xbox did this gen and NOT add the 800 PSVR1 games that run on PS5 including the PS Move controller (like the way they cut off Kinect support so it can't even play all of Xbone's games)??? Why should Sony do that???

So long as they never turn off the those servers. Shame they couldn't even add full BC with the previous console yet again since Kinect 2.0 has zero support on series s/x. Its still something Xbox has never pulled off to date.

Maybe get AI to fire and replace the Xbox over paid execs like slimy Phil that have utterly destroyed the Xbox brand, bringing it to its knees.

@Fishmasterflex96 They released games, the jury is out on "amazing" though lol.

@Amin1998 Remember 2 days before the reveal he tweeted about being excited for everyone to see it (deleted tweet now).

The gameplay reveal went on to be the biggest downfall of the franchise (it was delayed only less than 2 werks later) and it has yet to recover from it. How does he keep doing that with his games, especially when he set up the studio and was in charge 7 years before that point? People say he is a gamer but he is tone deaf if he thought that abysmal looking reveal would impress anybody.

And remember everyone, any second or cent spent on development for Infinite is resources taken from other projects, ANY other projects much like the problem with Fallout 76's hemorrhaging continued existence.

No I think the series s version will continue to cause all the problems it is and they will pull a Larian with it and have to make slimy Phil scramble and make a decision again.

So no, it won't be on XBOX this time this year.

@Rodimusprime13 There will be no "series 2". Don't you get this? Who will buy it when their games are available everywhere going forward, much like how all their games were on PC day one at the start of this gen?
Nintendo pushed out a Switch 2.............because its time for them to put out a new console. A reminder, Switch 1 sales are still annihilating Xbox console sales.
How would Xbox be pushing out a new "console" in the same way like Switch 2? Pushing it out to double/triple sales of series s and x which still is very little???

@SodaPop6548 Also when folks go to take a crap and scroll Tiktok for 5 mins its killing Xbox.......... well according to Xbox lol (although Shawn Layden said it a year ago and intelligent people laughed at that statement then too and it DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING again when Xbox states the same dumb statement).

Imagine having to clarify something like that but then doing it with no substantial evidence to prove it isn't dead lol.

In case you aren't aware, the "Xbox Boss" we are talking about in particular in this context is the myth, the man, the legend, deathbringer of Xbox for a decade straight, Phil Slimy Spencer himself.

Yeah, Forza Motorsport is STONE DEAD and its INSANITY to take anything this man says as truth.

@OldGamer999 Maintaining quality??? Yet Yotei will very likely be getting nominated overall game of the year. Ask yourself, and just be honest now, how many GOTY awards will Avowed be nominated for?
If you said anything above zero, you are lying to yourself.

Going by reviews it looks like yet another meh game by Obsidian barely better than the 1st.

And it is definitely not worth the hilarious €90 they tried to charge for it, it's barely worth €60 lol.

@HeavyHoggJP But it doesn't get them within a year. This time last year Starfield wasn't on any other tier but Ultimate. Right now Hellblade 2, released nearly a year and a half ago, is not on anything but Ultimate.

Its just an endless echo chamber of assumption and then misinformation, when it comes to anything Xbox.

Imagine waiting the entire gen on the promise in 2020 that Fable was coming so you should buy a series x and s. And game pass, or the game pass "tier" that Fable will only be available on now, the most expensive one, is 30 quid a month now............... before Fable even got a release date to this day.

This is why I was laughing at people saying "But but but but the roadmap". What about the roadmap? What does that even matter today? Look at what Xbox has been doing to itself the past decade under slimy Phil.

The ONLY consistent master plan Xbox initiated the past decade......is just how slow they are taking this band aid off so that their hardcore fans can easily digest all these horrendous decisions one week at a time......and then calm down their followers, the Cope Eastwoods and OhNoItsXbot people out there.

For the people saying they are suddenly done with Xbox NOW? Why now?

@somnambulance How could it be? When has an Xbox showcase ever been better? What are the specific parameters you need to set to make this a reality
"I hope Xbox show a new controller for the 20th time this year" and that's all you need?
This time last year in 2024 FF7 Remake being shadow dropped at TGS was going to win everything. It didn't even make it in 2025 lol. Of course, the parameters shifted instantly again.

Slimy Phil, the destroyer of Xbox consoles, is going to show his hated face. There is one definite thing that is going to happen, you can have that one.

@AverageJoseph It's still a class game. And yeah, the GOTY facts leave very little room for arguments, as expected.

@Ricky-Spanish Every Gears game literally copy and pasted animations directly from Gear 1 and 2 to each game. Even the brand new enemy in Gears 4 and 5 uses the exact same animations. Literally 1 to 1, even a maimed enemy crawling away uses the exact same 13 year old last gen animation in Grars 5.

@Kaloudz The showcase for once made sense. If there are NO release dates for Everwild, State of Decay 3, Fable, Perfect Dark after half a decade already......... then for goodness sake, don't show them. What would be the point???

I agree with it launching elsewhere too though. But why would Gears E Day launching on a new PC "Xbox" thingy be important when its available to play, the same day, on normal PCs and specialised other consoles with unique architecture like PS5 and actual Xbox consoles too like the series consoles?

Glad I didn't buy it but then I would never pay over a tenner for a game that is available digital only regardless. Game would have sold even better if it had a physical release.

@darylb24 Only they are in no place to do it given how stagnant their console sales are.

2tb Series x is now more expensive than a PS5 Pro.

Anyone want to change their opinion now on how much of a ripoff the Pro is???

@x3King84 No it wouldn't. Nobody is askimg Halo Infinite. Or are they going to start up thart 10 year plan that was abandoned after a 1.5 years???

The millions of people that abandoned Xbox the past 15 years want te classic good Halo games and nothing more. I don't, Bungie is overated and trash. I didn't like the cartoony Halo games 2 decades ago and I don't now either. Halo Infinite is a perfect example of a dead failure Live Service game. Xbox does them too.

@NeoRatt They are a 3rd party publisher. Why would a 3rd party publisher cannibalise their own sales?

They are doing this because after 4 and a half years, series x hasn't even passed 7 million sales, it isnt from the goodness of their hearts, I'm afraid.

Surely putting the price up on series x will help lol?

@Lup Nope, 81 out of over 70 reviews on Metacritic on the biggest platform PlayStation.

Although if you love Xbox centric websites and and their 10/10 style score reviews for 5 years in the making, AA games like Hellblade 2 and Avowed.... then look no further than their reviews on Metacritic for Shadows with their over inflated 87 average after only 18 reviews.

I'm just done with these bland open world AC games now. 4.5 years to make this.....the longest we ever had to wait for an AC game (B Team DLC Mirage doesn't count), means it should be the greatest AC ever made. And it is most certainly not even close to that. Not one review I have seen talks about the over double time this entry took to make.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner It makes you wonder how many of the 6.5 million series x owners own a series s too, some even two series s consoles.

The Xbox series userbase is even lower than the actual estimated total series s and x numbers of 25 million because for 4 years straight, most series x owners brag that series s is great and they have one too.

What improvements do ypu mean for the Xbox cloud? Like match PlayStations 4K standard for one thing? And DON'T stream the worst series s version at the lowest res and visual settings to people as the only option (because THAT is the reality of xcloud.... and this is something people myth talk about something Xbox excels at)?

Over a month later from this now and series x stock has not been replenished in stores in Smythstoys in Ireland after depleting to 0 about 2 weeks ago. Currys/PC World have also removed the series x product/SKU from their website entirely. The same with website only retailer Very too.

Series x must have ceased manufacturing at this point because if they aren't shipping them anywhere, they can't be making more of them. Its basic supply and demand and a factor in WHY CONSOLE SALES MATTER. Thank goodness they don't though right?

@Rog-X It's not on Xbox series s or x yet either. You are literally still waiting nearly half a decade for it. I don't think you thought that through.

When it's announced for PS5, do you think it will be a 5 year wait all over again too?

@SodaPop6548 How many Xbox 1st party games?