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They’re obviously joking. If anyone takes these posts seriously, they need to take a step back and relax.

The tongue in cheek-ness is VERY obvious.

That said, E33 deserved it all, though if Bananza hadn’t won best family game I would definitely been irked if Bananza didn’t win GOTY.

When I think of accessibility, Doom is always the first game that comes to mind. Pure accessibility!

And a game for impact…well, I guess the few people that played it were sort of impacted by South of Midnight?

E33 deserved everything it got, well done for them!

Must be for COMPLETELY new subscribers. Mine has been lapsed since January or February of this year and it wants to charge me the full $29.99 right off.

Oh, well.

@demian …you actually took that sarcastic comment seriously, eh?

@Balaam_ That would cut into the required 30% profit margin.

“We want a New Vegas remaster!”

“Best I can do is an overly expensive green controller variant.”

All three of my PS4 digital versions upgraded without issue to PS5. Zero issues.

How is this such a problem lately on the green side? First RDR and now this.

@Brigurugi I should sit down and see how much my PS1/2/3/4/5, Wii U/Switch collection would be worth…

@Brigurugi I look forward to selling my Series X in near perfect condition someday as the down payment on a new house. XD

@Brigurugi My Series X is now worth FAR more than when I bought it last year!

@BrownOwl The cognitive dissonance is real, sadly.

@eduscxbox “It didn't sell because fans already have one and the rest of the consumers will go to the best deal. Xbox didn't had any deal, PS5 got discounts. So that's what happened.”

…so you’re basically saying the installed base of PS5 owners just expanded massively but the installed base of XBox owners didn’t.

You’re really not making this sound better. MS has basically declared victory while abandoning the battlefield.

A discount this early, eh? I’m sure that’s nothing but a good sign for this model.

Apropos of nothing, you can get a Switch 2 with MKW bundled for $449 on sale right this moment.

@BaldB3lper78 Not just the UK, given that some weird little Kinect wannabe game system outsold the XBox over the whole Black Friday time period. MS has fallen and it hurts to see it even for this Sony/Nintendo fanboy who also owns a Series X.

@Gabrie It’s generous of them to give away all their profits like this.

I’m amazed they can afford to do this, given the roaring success this game isn’t.

Not going to lie…I don’t think I’ve even heard of this game till today. That’s…probably a bad sign in and of itself.

Other: I’m accessing it on PS5 and Switch 2.

It’s a shame, I’d track down a disc copy if they gave Xbox owners the same upgrade options they gave S2 and PS5.

@Echtzeit Wow, XBox owners getting a slightly raw deal here. Us PS5 and Switch 2 owners get it for free with physical copies.

But then again, there was no XBox One native version, so I guess a free upgrade for a two console generation old disc is asking a bit much.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe It gets so much worse! PS got at least $100 off at numerous places, and Walmart just put the S2 Mario Kart World bundle on sale for $449, $50 off list.

That said, hope everyone enjoys their new hardware, whatever they spent on it!

It’s just a shame that each and every one of them paid more than launch price for the privilege.

@SuntannedDuck2 My confusion stemmed from your original comment being a) very unclear and difficult to understand and b) having absolutely nothing to do with the subject of this article.

@SuntannedDuck2 …what?

@Chip-Douglas I freely admit I do aim for platinum trophies on PS at times, but only for games I truly love and am willing to spend the time on.

But in all my PS playing time since the orginal, I have a whopping 20 platinums. Which honestly is 19 more than I ever expected to have.

@Chip-Douglas I wish your friend well, even as fail to comprehend them!

I’ll take “utterly silly things to do with your time to inflate a meaningless number,” for $1000, Alex.

You have to expect to sell more new consoles in order to manufacture more, don’t you?

Zero interest, zero influence.

Of course, my Series X is basically a BC box at this point. Hasn’t been turned on except to earn those daily points for a few months.

I laughed my rear off playing it on the PS, and this is coming from a filthy American! Glad my green gaming brethren will get to enjoy this!

@TrollOfWar I played the hell out of the original trilogy (on my trusty old Power Macintosh 7100/66, I might add! Yes, I’m that old. ) and seeing the name resurrected in this fashion just makes me sad.

May you enjoy the final product! I definitely won’t be playing it but I do appreciate this game is also VERY much not aimed at me’

@TrollOfWar Bungie would have had me if they’d done a remake/reimagining of the original Marathon.

This…this might as well be named Dave’s Run And Gun as far as I’m concerned.

Marathon-In-Name-Only looks horrible, and as a PS fanboy…yeah, this was one of the dumbest purchases Sony ever made.

Old Bungie is gone forever, only this shambling reanimated corpse is left.

I haven’t had GamePass for months. But I also rarely touch my Series X these days, S2 and PS5 are my main focus till Forza Horizon 6 comes out.

@TrevorP86 glances at the Series S

The Switch 2 is slightly less powerful than the S. I think MS can make things work.

@Questionable_Duck I think MS would print money with a Halo MCC release, that’s a fact. The remake they’re doing instead? I…could go either way, but I suspect it would still do very well.

@Questionable_Duck They’d still make money.

I mean, Doom and Doom Eternal came to the original Switch, along with all the Borderlands games and others.

They’d almost certainly make a profit on a Switch 2 port of GoW. Especially if they followed it up with comparable follow up Gears releases.

Leaving that aside though, you can’t tell me that Forza 5 wouldn’t print money on Switch 2!

Btw I am one of the folks who bought GoW on PS5 when I found out the disc actually had the game on it! I already have the XBone release on disc but as the first GoW game on PS…

The sooner they release games, the better. MS is leaving money on the table by not porting to S2. Especially given that Nintendo sold over 10 million S2s since launch.

To put that into perspective, MS has sold 28.3 million Series X/S consoles combined in five years.

Yeah. MS needs to speed up the porting. Imagine Forza Horizon 5 or Gears of War on Switch 2.

@Gabrie Ubisoft ported Star Wars Outlaws to S2 and the port is darn near rock solid. CD Projekt Red got Cyberpunk 2077 to run on it near-flawlessly. Given that games like Forza Horizon 5 run on the XBox One, I’m sure a port can be arranged. Plus Indiana Jones was already announced for Switch 2. It helps that the S2 is not far away from the Series S in specs.

I don’t understand why anyone would buy this, unless they REALLY had a craving for that creation club stuff. This game has gone on massive sale so many times, a free upgrade exists from the PS4/XBone versions…

Utterly pointless.

It’s a damn shame about Arkham Origins. I found a 360 disc for cheap recently but the dlc is now unpurchaseable.

I do have the dlc for PS3 as well as the game itself, but BC on my X is more convenient than digging the PS3 out of storage.

…seeing things like this brain dead blather from MS execs make it even more likely my Series X will be my first and last XBox.

@ElectricWizard You responded to my comment with a ?, so I clarified. You’re welcome.

@ElectricWizard I would think the context would be rather obvious here. Halo coming to PlayStation. AKA something no one until recently thought would ever happen.

…is “hell freezing over” not a phrase used in other parts of the world?

Huh. Hell has officially frozen over.

Here’s what I said about this on Push Square. I like Remedy and I’m looking forward to Control 2 when it happens, BTW.
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Gosh, who would have thought that making a live service game while barely promoting it and not shouting out the ties it has to your previous games’ universe while your latest game in said universe took nearly two years to break even/make a profit would backfire?

I am shocked, shocked I say.

Hopefully they can use whatever lessons they learned with this failure on Control 2.

@Questionable_Duck Thank you for that! Too many times it’s a “trust me, bro” situation with stuff like this, and I appreciate you citing sources!

@Questionable_Duck Where are you getting the PS5 dev kit price from?

MS: “We want more people to make and play games for our platform!”

Also MS: “We raised the price of our consoles multiple times and devs need to pay 33% more to make games.”

Hm. I know things are getting more expensive but you’d think MS wouldn’t be raising costs on BOTH ends…

@ElectricWizard I humbly beg your forgiveness for daring to advise people who also own PS5s that they needn’t be worked up about any delay in porting this mediocre game to their console of choice.

Speaking as both a PS5 and Series X owner who made the mistake of buying Starfield…

…there’s no hurry on this port. It can wait till 2028, and my fellow PS owners won’t miss much.

@Cvantez Right, but again…I believe MS owns Quantum Break. So Remedy can’t tie stuff into it anymore.

Edit: If Wikipedia can be trusted, found this. “In July 2018, after announcing their new game, which stars one of the Quantum Break actresses, Remedy CEO Tero Virtala said that a sequel is pending approval from Microsoft, which owns the intellectual property (IP) of Quantum Break.”

@Cvantez If I’m not mistaken, MS owns Quantum Break and the associated IP, so there’d have to be some work behind the scenes with MS and Remedy, or maybe Remedy buying the rights from MS.