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I thought the COd coming was the remaster of MW2's campaign. This is dissapointing, I already played MW2 2022.

Wow its like a night and day difference between the Pro and series X thanks to the ray traced global illumination and better shadows. It's funny to see some people still trying to claim there is no difference. It's just like in AC Shadows where people are saying the Pro looks no different as the same ray traced effects make a huge difference in the presentation of the game.

One positive of Microsofts ambitions to release their games on other platforms will be making next gen cheaper for me only having to buy one console to have all the games I want to play.

I remember so many people around launch saying the game was perfectly fine and ran great. These massive patches say otherwise. Lol

Ah yes Towerborne, the game that averages 20ish players on Steam at any given time. This game won't be around anymore by the end of the year lmao.

@donv2135 Be my guest to look it up for yourself. Or continue being ignorant and sticking your head in the the sand pretending like it's not real I really don't care. Fact remains most consumers are choosing Playstation and to purchase their games over Xbox and Gamepass. Simple as that.

@donv2135 72m ps5's sold and 85% of gamepass subscribers are on console. Both numbers can be googled for easy accessibility if you're looking. But sure let's go with "what ponies said"

@donv2135 the majority of people have shown they would rather buy a Playstation than buy an Xbox for gamepass. Most gamepass subscribers are on console, by a wide margin, so the whole "you don't need a Xbox for gamepass" narrative really isn't sticking either.

@Elbow exactly what I have been saying for awhile now. "Available on gamepass" isn't as big of a deal to most gamers and consumers as "only available on Xbox & PC" is. This is why gamepass has failed to slow down Playstation sales.

Forza and Gran Turismo on Playstation is pretty crazy. Too bad Sony won't return the favor and put GT7 on Xbox.

So we should expect more games to be delayed or skipping Xbox altogether. Understood.

"Available on gamepass" or "day one on gamepass" doesn't have as big of an impact as "only available on Xbox & PC" does and i hope Microsoft realizes that sooner rather than later.

We have purchased our games for 20+ years, I go where the games are available and if Xbox games are available elsewhere, and the competitor's games are not available on Xbox, I fail to see why I should stick with Xbox.

An even better deal would be the base game for cheap. Why would I want the DLC for a a game I have never played before and don't know if I actually like to play? All these sales where the base game isn't on sale but the special editions with all the extras always looks so dumb to me.

Xbox needs exclusives. Simple as that. The gamepas factor of "it's on gamepass" doesn't matter to me as much as "it's only on Xbox & PC" does, I have no issue buying my games like I have for the past 20+ years. I don't understand why Microsoft can't see that.

Why is it always the deluxe and upper tier editions of games on sale during these sales and not the base games? I don't want the extras, I want the game for cheap.

I'm disappointed that almost everything shown today is not exclusive to Xbox. I'm starting to really wonder why I need an Xbox anymore when the games I want to play are also available elsewhere and their games are not available on Xbox.

Gamepass Ultimate used to be worth subscribing to every month but ever since the latest price increase and the introduction of Standard, we have been seeing less and less games each month vs the amount of games being moved over to standard. It's very tempting to start subscribing to Standard and only paying extra for Ultimate when there is a big day one release coming up that I want to play.

Finally some games for Ultimate members, the first 20+ days of this month was a like a kick in the teeth for us with a single game new to the service.

It's one of the worst Far Cry games in existence, even worse than Primal was.

The trend where Ultimate members lose more games than they get continues.

I'm glad I pay extra for Ultimate just to get one game. Thanks Microsoft.

Hoping for some good news today with new gamepass games being announced because as things stand January is looking awfully light and this plus carrion returning to gamepass is really not noteworthy.

Towerborne with just 0.7% of the vote 🤣 that game is going to be a huge flop and I can't wait to watch it crash and burn.

My vote is for Fable.

@Major_Player No different than what you're doing over on Pushsquare in the relevant article. Account is less than three months old and your comment history over there is nothing but bait. How many comments of yours have been removed for trolling/baiting over there now?

@Balaam_ That is exactly what Sony is doing. They have a long history of doing this with many of the companies they have acquired over the years. $320m investment that will see major returns off of Kadokawa's huge portfolio of Anime and video games. Now that they are majority stakeholder they will also be able to influence major decisions, including securing some of Kadowaka's IPs, both video games and anime, for collaborations with Sony's film and anime/film as well as Playstation studios.

Sony has a long history of investing in companies, eating up shares as they strengthen their ties with them before they outright aquire them. This has happened with Insomniac, Bluepoint and even Bungie where Sony held a significant amount of shares before they purchased them outright.

This does not bode well for Xbox at all. If people aren't buying Series S/X than they most certainly are not going to buy the next Xbox. I know I've already decided that the smartest move next gen is to skip Xbox and get a PS6 instead so I can ply the best games Playstation has and the best games Xbox has all on one console.

Microsoft has made it clear that Playstation is also an Xbox now and with that in mind when it comes time to decide which console to get when the next generation starts, the Playstation 6 is the obvious choice to me. Playstation & Xbox games all on one console.

This game needs more than just 3rd person, Bethesda really needs to do something about how dumb the ai is. I finished Vatican City but could not push myself to continue on through Gizeh because the AI is such a let down. It's almost insulting to ones intelligence how easy the enemies are to not only avoid when sneaking but also the combat leaves much to be desired. Don't get me started on how silly it is that they can't hear you knock someone out with a shovel or sledgehammer and their body goes crashing through some crates or something breaking them in the process and the other AI around "huh, must be the wind."

@themightyant 100% it looks absolutely silly comparing Microsoft as a whole to Sony's gaming division. The fact is Xbox is only a small part of Microsoft and because it's been really struggling, they have been forced to make these sweeping changes to their policies and releasing more games elsewhere to get profits up to make the division within Microsoft look better. Theres simply no other way to put it, Xbox needs to become alot more profitable or Satya will happily shut it down and focus on releasing games instead. This is clear as day but some people still choose to hide behind "but Microsoft is a trillion dollar company". Yes, they are. But what happens to divisions within a trillion dollar company when they don't meet expectations? All the while investing nearly $100b into it over the last 3 years? What we see now is a direct result of spending so much money and expecting their investment to start generating higher profits to make up for it.

Don't worry Satya I'm still excited about future Xbox games, I just won't be playing them on Xbox. My Series X will be the last piece of Xbox hardware I purchase from Microsoft.

I managed to push myself to finish the Vatican map but I have not touched the game since arriving in Gizeh, the game got so repetitive, I'm tired of sneaking around looking for clues there's just not enough action in the game and the super dumb ai doesn't help. Seriously, do these guys have earplugs shoved deep inside their ear canals and blackout glasses on?

Sony has no reason to release their first party games on Xbox unfortunately. Playstation is generating over 1/3 of Sony's total revenue and their stock right now is the highest it's been since 2000. In other words, Sony is riding on a ton of momentum right now as their buisness is booming. I suspect these will just be third party games.

Satya is going to make me a Xbox fan.. on Playstation. Their multiplatform strategy of porting to PS should be in full swing by the time the PS6 rolls around and every 6-12 months there will be new Xbox games releasing on the system, that is unless they launch day one like Outer Worlds 2 and Doom Dark Ages.

I never thought the day would come that I skipped new Xbox hardware but the execs at Microsoft are not making it easy to want to continue to support Xbox as a console.

To think we started the year with "it's just Grounded and Sea of Thieves."

Now we are at or approaching Xbox having no real exclusives. So dissapointing to see what has happened with Xbox. I wish they never spent so much money on Activision, that single purchase alone sped up this whole thing and why we are here now.

This solidifies that I will NOT be buying any new Xbox hardware there is absolutely no reason to if all their games will be available elsewhere. Why would I buy an Xbox and miss out on all the Playstation exclusives when I could just buy a PS6 and have their games plus Xbox's? I can see the diehard Xbox fans still trying to support the brand but it's on life support at this point and I won't be falling for it.

Very dissapointing to see. Xbox needs exclusives now more than ever and they're just handing them to Playstation while getting none in return. When is Playstation going to start porting their games to Xbox?

Why no option for A+? This was the best game awards in years. There was so many great reveals of upcoming games. I haven't felt this optimistic and excited about the next 2-3 years of gaming for a long time.

Another excellent game awards in the books! Man what a show I loved every minute of it. The Orchestra was on point yet again and Snoop Dogg put on an excellent performance as well. 2025 is looking absolutely stacked and then 2026 and beyond has some heavy hitters on the way that just look incredible and I can't wait to play them.

I have never missed watching the game awards live and this year won't be any different. This is my favorite gaming related show of the year every year they always have incredible reveals, fantastic musical performances and it's entertaining to see the winners live and listen to the winner's speeches.

That will happen when you haven't made a good game in well over a decade. Not even Microsoft could save them with gamepass money for Outriders, god that game was bad.

Microsoft really dropped the ball this generation with the Xbox brand in my eyes. They looked poised to come out of the gate swinging after purchasing Bethesda but due to mismanagement and bad PR from games like Redfall and the mixed reception of Starfield, that never really panned out. After spending over eighty billion dollars in the span of just three years, the execs now demand Xbox to become more profitable leading us to where we are now with games once thought to be a red line, never to appear on a competitors platform now are all either being discussed internally or ports have already been worked on and completed. I personally would have MUCH rathered Microsoft spent that eighty plus billion on bringing more games, securing more third party exclusives and improving their development pipeline and management. Now they simply have too many studios and they don't know how to manage them when they couldn't manage the studios they had before.

As an Xbox gamer, I'm pissed Phil dug Xbox into this hole. I bought an Xbox because it had a decent amount of the games I wanted to play exclusive to the console, gamepass was just a bonus. Now however these games are on their way to Playstation and other platforms leading me to wonder why I spent over $600 on a Series X at launch when these games would just be made available to me at some point in the future had i just stuck with a Playstation 5.

I can tell you right here, right now, i don't care if there is another Xbox after this. I'm not going to continue to invest in their consoles unless by some miracle Sony starts porting their games over to Xbox before the next generation starts. In that case having those games plus gamepass would be one heck of a bargain. Helldivers 2 on Xbox would be huge for me and I would buy it again just be able to play it on Xbox instead.

I play Xbox a ton, over 5600 hours this year alone, but if the games rumored to be headed to Playstation are true, such as the Forza Horizon games starting with 5, the next gears etc, that will be where I take my leave from the platform. As I said earlier, I bought Xbox because it was the only place to play these games on console, my preferred way to play. So if they make them available to other consoles I simply don't see the value anymore in owning a Xbox when I could be getting the best Playstation has to offer along with Xbox's over on Playstation.

Helldivers 2 is a shoo-in for game of the year for sure. Such a great game.

Since multiplatform games are in the Xbox game of the year category, Final Fantasy XIV is it for me.

I have hit my first game breaking bug. I'm nearly done everything there is to do in Vatican City but there is still a photograph I need to take at the fountain of confession but every time I get close enough and line the shot up my game instantly freezes and crashes to dashboard. I have reloaded my game three times and each time it happens. Guess I won't be getting 100% until another patch.

Took the dive and purchased the premium upgrade today. My Xbox is telling me I played five hours before turning it off.

Like the graphics

Like the story so far

Puzzles have been okay, some better than others so far. Nothing too difficult but also solving them is not the most rewarding unless you're going for a 100% run or something.

The gameplay however is exactly what I was worried about after reading reviews. You're not forced to sneak around, but the game certainly let's you know you're not supposed to go around beating up enemies as you get swarmed and overwhelmed by multiple enemies throwing attacks at the same time at you. The melee combat is very repetitive, I must have thrown the same punch a few dozen times and fought enemies that look the exact same as each other (sometimes they all have the same face in an area even!) In my five hour total. That's another thing, there is very little variety in enemies.

The enemy AI is also... very dumb. Even on hard you've got a very generous amount of time to get out of sight before they spot you, like they all have sand / dirt in their eyes or something. Instead of using the rifles on their backs, they decide to run after you when you're spotted to duke it out, when i first experienced this I was like "reallllllly??" You got this gun but you're going to run all the way over to me to throw punches? Lol

This game reminds me of the Thief games with an Indiana Jones paint. The stealth and combat is very alike.

So far I would give the game 5 - 6 but it could get better. I'm not a fan of the repetitiveness though, I couldn't play anymore of it and switched it off.

@Lrapsody could be worse, you could be playing on a 'next gen' console playing at 1080p 30fps (series S).