I for sure see them doing 2 and 3 and selling them for $50 as they will have more content with Horde mode. So if that’s the case they can get $140 for 3 games instead of putting them all in a bundle for $70 and having to maybe rush dev time to have them all ready for a certain date of release.Much like Capcom did with the Resident evil remakes. As to when we will see Part 2 & 3 that is anyone’s guess but they will come, Then the Rumors of Halo being remade and at some point Halo 2 and 3. Again selling them separate and getting them on PS5. Plus with GP it is all about having games dropping every so often to make it a more exciting monthly subscription. So this works well as well. Can’t wait to play this and i will play it on both Series X and PS5. Gears is my favorite IP in gaming so i will double dip.
@OldGamer999 Yeah the Switch is something i only use for Nintendo games and i only want MKW at the moment. Metroid Prime 4 as well but that’s a little later. So i ain’t in a rush to get it day and date but i do want it. Thats good you were able to secure a pre order. I was to busy and forgot and then once i did remember they were sold out. But i think at that price i will be able to find one shortly after launch.
@Fiendish-Beaver i too am a little disappointed that 2 and 3 aren’t finished. Now that collection would have been super insane. Looks like they will do the resident evil remake thing here and sell them separately to make more money. They can stretch it to $120 for all 3 games this way. Which i will no doubt buy on both Series X and PS5. But i really wanted to see all 3. Happy that the no PVP rumor was wrong. Gears without the online modes would have been a big letdown. Wonder how long we will have to wait to get part 2?
@OldGamer999 you aren’t wrong. I never get the special editions anymore cause there is rarely anything i want. If Gears did a really cool one i would do that. I would be ok with buying a Gears controller if they will do it. But yeah gamers are some of the worst fan’s of any hobby. They complain and then do the thing they complain about. Nothings new other than the internet is here as a tool to keep their receipts.
@OldGamer999 yeah it’s looking different for sure. I am trying to finish South of Midnight now . I am on Chapter 7 so not to much more to go than onto Doom. Crazy to think in around a months time we will have the Switch 2 on shelves and the MS Showcase. I am intersted in what surprise announcements MS will have there. I’d like to think there is 2-3 new game announcements and of course we should see Gears E-Day gameplay, more Fable gameplay and others. It should be good.
@OldGamer999 i am sure it will be Doom here in a few weeks. But i will add another Point for Avowed, i didn’t love it at first until i understood how to play it better. Then i really liked it and put in a little over 40 hours.
@Fiendish-Beaver the end game is the same for MS and it is Sony it’s just Sony is in better position to wait and that end game is…. CLOUD. I mean the day you don’t need hardware to get great performance is the day every single TV is a video game “console” sale. MS has to keep hardware around long enough to solve Cloud gaming and when they do, the Xbox is an App on all devices. Sony themselves said once in an interview with Jim Ryan that Cloud is the future but they weren’t yet looking to it until the tech catches up more. Cloud, PC and Mobile is likely the future but we might be to old to see it in it’s best form. A expensive piece of hardware sitting under your TV that does little to nothing outside of playing games is in it’s beginning stages of being an unnecessary purchase for the younger market coming up in gaming.
@OldGamer999 i always wanted to sell my Series X and get the all white digital for my setup. It would have looked nice and of course got me a new machine as my Series X is from 2020 and i play it a lot. Just never got around to it and now the hike. I tried to see if anyone was selling for the old price and i didn’t see any. Oh well I’ll keep mine and wait for next gen. Glad you snagged one tho and hope you like it.
@Kaloudz I would like to see it be a launch or early life title for the next Gen Xbox. Giving fan’s a new experience and excitement around it. Xbox in my opinion has to start thinking about what next gen titles they will have ready cause i think the more they get that first launch line up out and then the following 12-18 months is very important for the console.
@FraserG thats how i got the game releases going as well. I think the Gears collection will get some fan are around the series again. Those games are not only not on PS but 2 and 3 are not on PC. So that is a nice start for hyping up E-day in 2026. There is even a little rumor going around that the collection could shadow drop at the event like an oblivion release. Fable is looking really good and the extra year of polish is going to make it even that much more.
MS is likely to show even more new titles in development at the June showcase making it a great show. Crazy to think in 2 weeks we have Doom. What a year and as always I appreciate the great coverage on all thats happening.
Hell i am wearing 2 products now that are made solely in Texas. I also have 2 guns on my night stand made in the US. I get it i said things that hurt your feelings. But prices on goods and services are coming down here and remember the whole world is in agreement with fair trade and tariffs. Only China has resistance.
I have a question for you, why did hardware go up and software on video games go up before these tariffs? What i am concerned about is Xbox is about to sell next to no hardware with prices that are worse than PS5. However it’s be long reported Series S was sold at a $100 loss and Series X at $200 loss. There was no Black Friday deals and now a hike in price. Meanwhile Sony is breaking even and often times making a few dollars on their hardware. Another mistake MS must fix next gen.
@MathiasBS lots of leaders in the US took and made bad deals with China, China has their own Tarffis as all countries do. But many countries want fair trade. There is a lot of people in favor of tariffs and less taxes. I for one have heard some deals that should have people kicked out of our country, but i follow this stuff very closely. I’m very interested in seeing where it goes. But many think it will be very good for world trade. I learned that Canada has a 263% tariff on chicken, butter 175% and milk 155%. To think we were putting in a 10% tariff and those were all before we asked for 10%.
@Hoodie718 Tech companies are already bringing semi conductor plants to America, Automotive plants are coming back to America it’s been reported and we would like more pharmaceuticals to join in as well. Those are good jobs. I agree not everything makes sense to be made here. American made products are better but i agree do cost more.
@IOI we didn’t screw the rest of the world NIntendo and Sony and MS did. Most goods aren’t even going up yet, cause Tarffis have been placed on hold while negotiations go on. I can send you a list of companies that are either coming back to the US or ones that are coming here to do business alongside their other areas of buinesss. I am more than happy with my country standing up to bad deals that should have never been made in the first place. Without the US buying goods the rest of the world is screwed, we are the largest market in the world to sell goods to. We want fair trade, the rest of the world outside of china wants far trade. Not everything is as bad as the ones doing the stealing would like you to believe it is. Now back to Video games, i don’t think many games will be $79.99 cause they don’t have that type of clout. Halo, Gears, Fable sure, i don’t see anything from Complusion games being priced that way, so i am in the spot of wait and see which titles they do this with. I can’t see the whole industry going to 80 when most games aren’t selling well in general until the go on sale.
@IOI it’s not poor decisions. China rips the US off and we aren’t allowing it no more. The idea is the tariffs will bring a lot of manufacturing back to the states, which it already has started to do so. Also the tarffis will pay for no federal income tax coming out of our checks. So some of us are happy to see trade being fairly evened out across the globe, the only one not playing ball around the world is China, cause their whole economy is stealing intellectual properties and tariffs. It won’t last long tho cause the rest of the world seems the benefit of being an equal partner to the US and not ripping us and everyone else off. Medicine is made in china for around $5 dollars a bottle and with their tarffis it cost the US 30 plus dollar. Those days are over and i for one am happy for it. We might pay a little more in the beginning but it won’t last long and the rest of the world is on our side cause they benefit from better trade opportunities also. Inflation is starting to go down in the US on fuel and food costs. Next we have to reset the interest rates which will be ugly for a while before it get’s better. But in the end prices were soaring during our last leader and no one said much, now we have one trying to undo that and it’s a harder job than one thinks. It takes time. Video games are a smaller issues when people can’t get insulin at 10 dollars cause china and others trade it for $80 a shot.
This generation sure has been crazy with the prices. That tells me the rumors of the next gen consoles costing $700 or even $800 might be true, as Sony and Microsoft look to no longer take huge losses on hardware. Glad i have all mine bought and paid for. Sad for those that can’t afford to get into console gaming, this didn’t help.
@Kaloudz But but but Gamepass is awful, they are leaving hardware and Microsoft is the next Sega.then we get reports yesterday GP was good for Clair 33 and these reports and somehow someway I promise you my brother from another mother we will hear how they are dead in the water. Sega at their height had the money of 4 high end MS employees. Sony selling hardware like crazy is good for them i ain’t saying it’s bad but their games are on a closed box, cost a ton and they had 12 cancelled games following Concord. You can’t make this stuff up.is everything rainbows and sunshine in Xbox land? No, but thats called business.Nothing say’s they are leaving hardware with not one but 2- 3 new hardware plans. Once the brand is dead and defeated in all its business strategies can someone come on here and convince me they have a source of information. Why be making new controllers when you are leaving hardware? That article was just posted and people seen it and still said they aren’t sure they will release a next gen console. Dumb dumb dumb dumb. This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs egg commerical needs to come back. That was my one liner for you, sorry sometimes they are better than others. Hahaha
Maybe they seen the reaction the extraction shooter Marathon is getting which is mixed and i might be being generous saying mixed on that being in that genre. I played 500-600 hours of Titan Fall on Xbox One, it was such a fun game for me. The 2nd one just died off to quickly and sadly we have likely seen the last of it.
@Kaloudz HAHA not a bad profile pick. But don’t you worry friend i am just sure of it that any minute now they will be flooding this page saying how they were wrong. No way they would just bash on something like they have all the facts and run the numbers to the devs and know for a fact GP is bad. One guy on here not mentioning any name PAGUY said GP is full of gameboy color indie titles. I mean surely he knows more than us. Maybe even more than MS themselves. So maybe don’t expect to see PAGUY here, again not mentioning any names or hints as to who would say such. It’s hard work my friend keeping all these receipts. I do it here and the other website. Wish it was a tax write off cause it feels like a second job. 🤣
@Kaloudz Exactly, but don’t worry buddy you will see them all post how they were wrong and eat crow……………………….. ………………….. where are they? Oh that’s right they only post about GP being bad and MS is leaving the hardware game. Crows would be extinct if they ate crow on all the BS they write just to be sounding like they know what MS is cooking up next. Unreal ain’t it?
@Kaloudz wouldn’t that be nice. But the internet allows people to be their worst. They think cause they don’t have to say something in public to fact to face people it don’t matter. What they fail to realize is they are creating bad thinking skills and those at some point will hurt you in face to face real life interactions. I am as close to 100% what I’d say in person as i do online.
@Kaloudz the reason they won’t just load up a game on their console and enjoy it is because they have 2 hobbies, playing video games and making fun of people that play video games. If all these games were only on. Xbox there would be Xbox people (not us) trolling PS fans, PS fans love to troll the internet cause the hardware sells good. How dare someone like myself that buys all 3 consoles but prefers the Xbox controller have that opinion. Which is just silly, be happy i spend money in the industry and keep it moving. I have always had all the consoles when i was a kid and started playing i had a SNES and Genesis and kids always wanted to come to my house and play the one they didn’t have. What happened to those days, now it’s you are a lesser gamer for owing them all cause you own one that the other person don’t like and they will troll you. Thats weak.
@themightyant You make some great points and i agree. Look at Assassins Creed Shadows, it sold better on console than PC with the PS5 leading the way in sales over Xbox. Which is kind of a no brainer with a 2-1 lead. However then there was the new Monster Hunter which was poorly optimized and it did gangbusters on PC at launch. So it’s a little game by game. HD2 sold better on PC than on PS5. As for where is PC growing it’s everywhere from what i see, to my surprise in Japan PC is growing a lot and that surprises me for some reason. Black Myth Wukong sold 10 million copies with 7.5 being on PC and 2.5 on PS5. So there is the China and Asia data you stated. I just don’t see PS5 being hurt bringing their games to PC sooner and they have hinted at PC being more important going forward, as to what that means we don’t know yet. I think Great games do more numbers not being closed to a single box, unless you are Nintendo. Nintendo is the true exclusive left in the industry. But i am just now starting to look forward to next gen hardware and the Xbox will need to separate itself with more and more of it’s games being on all platforms and Phil has hinted that he wants the hardware to be exciting for players to want it. Time will tell like you said.
@x3King84 nothing wrong with that.but you are the exception not the rule. The sales data shows most PC players stick to PC and for sure favor steam to all the other store fronts. I think it’s cool that you support both PC and Console. But again just know that’s not common.
@themightyant but did you read my point about the data shows PC gamers will just wait, they won’t buy a PS5. So it’s not hurting Sony’s business. If it works for live service games (Hell Divers 2) it will work for Spider-Man 3. There is more money to be made on the PC. PC gaming is growing and often times is more profitable for devs, console sales are staying around the same as they always have. Therefore if Sony would like to make more money they will need the PC market, why not grab that cash a little earlier. Which i think they will going forward, likely not day and date but for sure around 6 months or so if they have the manpower to port it. Which lately they have had some iffy launches on PC. An area they need to improve on and they will be just fine. Yes i agree with you on how MS is making their money. I look for them to make a ton of money this year as the June Showcase is rumored to show Gears of War trilogy remastered and shadow drop it on Series X, PC and PS5. That will sell boat loads. Crazy how many titles MS can put out now.
@Fiendish-Beaver i am concerned some for Hardware from MS, but they are committed to it. Phil said in the future they need to make hardware people want to play games on. So that tells me they are going to do something very different with the next Xbox to get players on board with it. Cause if they just release another Series X, than yes PS will just chew that up. Now what could they do differently to make Xbox hardware exciting within a reasonable dollar amount? I have no idea. But that does make the next Xbox showing very exciting and nervous as they have to really hit on whatever idea they are planning. Then we get to the idea of MS not even making Xbox hardware. Think Asus Handheld, and other OEM’s making Xbox PC/Console hardware. That’s another angle for them to leverage to have Xbox hardware in the stores for people wanting to play on that ecosystem. So Hardware is the next thing Xbox has to tackle. Cause Software wise they are crushing everyone with releases. They got great services, Ui, features like Quick resume, great controllers, they just need that IT factor that put’s some eyes on their hardware. That going to be hard but it’s the only area they are not doing great in. That’s a lot of work from what the Xbox One had. They had a software problem. That’s been fixed, now can they fix the hardware if so they are truly in a great place and by fix the hardware i don’t mean outsell the PS6, that won’t happen, but can it sell in the 60 million range maybe even closer to 70 million range, that would be a huge increase. Time will tell. The industry needs competition, so we all should be hoping MS does get a plan around moving more hardware units.
@Fiendish-Beaver Yeah i do agree that they need to be careful with some titles day and date on PS. It could make it even harder to sell Xbox’s. I would keep Gears of War E day for 6 months at least. Thats a system seller type game. But Oblivion remaster, that was smart to do day 1. Doom also a start day one. Halo, Gears and Forza and Elder scrolls 6 could all be held back to sell systems and i do think that would be smart. With other titles like Fallout remaster coming day and date. So much like Phil said games would be on a game to game case. Maybe we are starting to see that.
@Kaloudz i agree, i have been criticized heavily for saying Sony should do the same for its PC releases. Ride the wave of excitement and get more sales on day 1. People that game on PC only are not going to buy a PS5 for a single player game. They will wait and the data has shown time and time before they wait until it’s on steam. An example Kingdom Hearts came out on Epic game store and the game didn’t sell, a year later it came to Steam and shot up the charts. So if PC players would even use a different Store and launcher does Sony really think they will buy a PS5?
Same for MS, most PS5 users aren’t looking to buy a Xbox so why make them wait on the game. Get the money will the game is riding hot. I believe in time they will do this, Sony will be stubborn and petty with the PC releases for a while longer tho.
@Kaloudz i agree it’s a great time right now. I just finished South of Midnight. Now onto Oblivion. Fanboys in any hobby are bad but video games is the worst fanboy. So i know what you are saying.
@Kaloudz i really like the art style, i know the gunplay will be great. But the genre of extraction shooter is right there with battle royal for BOOOORING! I can’t do it. I need a fast paced shooter. This isn’t it so for that i am out. As for if it will do well or not. I don’t know. Likely to not do huge numbers but i would suspect a player base to be there at launch. PC might keep it going for a while.but again i like fast paced smaller map shooters. With Gears of War PVP coming back soon there is 0% chance I’d play this. This could make it 14 failed live service games for Sony in one generation. That has to be a record.
I got a 55 inch LG C3 and a 65 inch C2. Love the TV’s. Oled is just so much better. It stinks a little bit that Switch 2 ain’t Oled. But i am sure in time they will release one and i will buy it for sure. Love gaming on Oled. If i finish my 5080 build i want a Oled monitor as well. Cool to see games coming to Cloud over a TV. I do believe cloud will get better and better but for now it’s not something i use on my Series X, PS5 or Switch.
@TheGameThrifter you mean renting or buying digitally. Cause thats an option alongside Gamepass. Physical media is dead as retailers continue to shrink its store space of games. Heck even Nintendo got in on the digital push saying you are buying a key on most the carts.
@Kaloudz The fact is a lot of Sony fans made claims that Gamepass would just be live service games, indies and low budget titles. They drank that kool aid for as long as they could. Now they find themselves BUYING not just playing all the games Xbox Gamepass subscribers are playing. That starts to make them think what value we are getting compared to them. Not saying they are looking to sell their PS5’s and buy a Series X. But the fact that they have to look at GP differently than what they thought is the start of GP being in the minds of all players. Thats where a service or storefront starts out winning customers over time. Just the fact they have to start doing the math alone say’s all that needs to be said. Whether one day they switch over is again anyone’s guess. But to say GP is a waste of money is straight off their rocker talk. Because of GP i am 720 some GB away from filling up my 3TB Series X, something i wouldn’t have done without GP. I am going to laugh when June showcase add’s another 3-4 games plus Ninja Gaiden to GP and those games along with all the others are top of the pre order list on PS5. Wether you like McDonald’s or Burger King MS makes money cause they own the Cows and potatoes hahaha!
@Titntin i am right there with ya. I am hoping to land a pre order on a Switch 2 with Mario Kart bundled. I will sell my Switch Oled and that alone helps. Going to be good! Enjoy it!!
@Titntin nothing is a waste of money if it brings you and others you love joy. Infact i would say it sounds like a good investment cause you both will enjoy your selves. My wife will play Mario Kart and a Forza Horizon on Xbox with me. Opposite of your wife mine hates the size and button layout of PS controllers so she don’t touch that. The software is finally starting to roll out this gen and with Switch 2 coming it’s only going to get better.
As for 2027 it is rumor that Sony and MS will go in 2027. It makes sense, it’s 7 years which is what Xbox One and PS4 did. So i don’t see that being a problem for either to hit. Xbox has the more exciting hardware plans as it seems to be heading a new direction. But i am excited to see a more Powerful PS in the PS6 and getting FSR4 on there. Should be a nice upgrade for both platforms. 😀
@Fiendish-Beaver so a few things, No i can’t say if Gamepass is right for you, but i can ask you if you plan on playing any of the games it has? Cause if you look at what non PC or Xbox platforms could be wanting to play it could be more than what GP cost right now on PS they are buying up Forza, 33, Indy and Oblivion. That is more than what i paid for the year of GP. So it depends if you think that is good value or not. But over 30 million on Xbox do think that to be great value and that number in years time is likely to grow as these heavy hitters keep coming to the service. If thats right for you or not i can’t say that.
We don’t know if the next Xbox is the last or not. Heck in that time we could all be playing on cloud. Then who holds the IP’s that make money? Sony or MS?
As for Sony buying 3rd party titles, i don’t see it, i see the opposite. I see more 3rd party titles selling better by being on all platforms day 1. Even the dev teams themselves (Square) (Capcom) etc etc saying their titles are making more money on PC and Monster hunter launching on all platforms lead to it being the biggest launch in the series history. I don’t see them taking a Sony deal to be locked to a closed box. No way. So sorry but i disagree with you on that.
The only swapping i am seeing the most is console players leaving consoles and going to PC. So it’s to early to tell what the next round of console sales will look like. But one thing is for sure the younger crowd coming in is not platform loyal and the don’t love the closed expensive boxes (consoles) nearly as much as we did as kids that had no other options. So again not enough data on that claim.
My point is MS shifted to a strategy that is making money and lots of it. They are bringing back games that those studios would have not spent the money on. Which is good for all gamers. Meanwhile PS5 is hellbent on live service games which will come to PC day and date, their single player games are timed exclusives until going to PC, thats the strategy for them. I don’t see either side going away using these plans. Phil has said box is in the name of Xbox and there will be consoles as long as players play on consoles. They might even start making more Xbox’s with OEM’s. I would easily pay $1200 for a Razer Xbox with killer specs and full windows bootable. That is something Sony can’t leverage. They don’t have OEMS and windows. So it’s a little early to start saying Xbox is out of the hardware game. But one thing is for sure they are COOKING every service out there with GP. There is no reason to believe it will slow down with the June showcase around the way.
I mean it has 40% moire GPU power than the base models. It should show nice performance enhancements. These games will all see big boosts next gen with PS6 and next Xbox. This is why i say 2027 is not to early for the next consoles as they will give the devs the power they need and us the experiences we want. I’m looking forward to next gen hardware for sure. Speaking of next gen. Hey Rockstar you better give us Red Dead Redemption 2 on next gen hardware. Yes i will pay for it, we know you want give us a free upgrade haha!
@Titntin now just imagine how good this game will look when it’s updated for the Next Xbox and PS6. All the games today are going to get nice updates with next gen power. But Pop in are to be excepted on base models. Another reason i am on here saying 2027 is not to soon for next gen hardware. It’s right in line with what devs need and we want our experiences to be. 😀
@IOI @IOI Sony are petty but they can’t go off Steam for any reason. PC games only sell well on Steam. Sony would be throwing money away and they aren’t in position to do that. I don’t know if the next Xbox will be able to play Steam or not. But if so they can’t really block it as the next Xbox is just a PC. Steam don’t allow you to block certain GPU/CPU devices just by name. I think Sony and MS need the PC’s money. As been reported PC is making more money than consoles combined for devs. Plus PC gamers won’t do other launchers. They made Sony bend the knee quick on their policies. I don’t much care the outcome, i am just here for the conversation of yes Sony is petty and no they can’t avoid Steam and make money. 😀
@Fiendish-Beaver i understand the business side that Sony makes money and i think that too is a win for the industry. Keeps another Platform holder profitable in a time where Sony can’t even get a game out the door, Concord and 12 cancelled games hurts their bottom line to go with a small profit margin. So again i sell the millions of dollars they get as a good thing. For MS they will gladly take the 70% on all platforms, 100% on there’s, plus GP revenue. So i think all platforms are pretty healthy which is what i want. I do not want a Sony only console situation. I don’t even like the controller all that well. I seen on Steam oblivion is already number 1 in sales, which we all know the PC now is the bigger money maker than all consoles combined. So they need games that PC players will purchase and they have them. Happy to see what Team Green is building here.
@Kaloudz Bingo my friend and thats why i was hear to tell you i see what you are saying to the naysayers on here all the time and the truth of it is they know it’s true they sometimes just want to jump on the hate train that the internet is good at throwing out there. The minute the next Xbox comes out and people have them in hand, there will be articles saying Xbox is leaving the hardware business. I mean it’s just the nature of these people. Meanwhile Xbox is laughing to the bank with every gamers money with near 40 studios cranking out games near monthly it feels like. This isn’t so much an anti PS5 comment to me, it’s more about Xbox is stronger in this strategy than people realize. You know how much money Oblivion will make on Steam and PS? A lot of money for Elder Scrolls 6 would be my guess. It’s a great time to be a Gamepass member and this service is still getting Gears of War and others come June. They are starting to flex with the studios now. The value is starting to really show. Enjoy my friend.
@Sol4ris that my exact situation as well. I buy all 3 consoles every gen. I have the PS5 and Series X now and all i have played on my PS5 was GOWR and ratchet and Clank rift apart. I once again don’t love the controller to buy anything 3rd party, it cost more for less when it comes to services, next to no return policy for digital purchases, i mean the older I get the more I value my time and money and I just ain’t doing nothing with PS5. I understand it sells more and has the mainstream eye on it over Series X. But i actually like using my Series X and continuing to add games to it to play. I did download Oblivion yesterday after work and didn’t get to really play much. But thanks for the reply and i hope you enjoy whatever game you dive into next.
@Kaloudz i wanted to share this with you, cause we have been very pro MS going multi platform. Do they not see what is happening since the ABK and Zenimax buyouts? This is an avalanche of software revenue for MS. They could sell 30-45 million consoles and still be making PS money with them at 100 million consoles. PS players are buying more MS games in 2024-2025 then Sony games. At 70 to 30 spilt MS will take that all day long and it’s not going to stop, it will be Fallout, then Elder Scrolls 6 and Gears of War and Diablo 5 and so on and so on. No way Sony can keep up software wise. Their platform is a timed exclusive box with higher cost of play. I don’t care if it sells 200 million, it’s not the better platform anymore as it was with PS4. Even tho i liked my Xbox One better. I ain’t saying People will leave PS for Xbox but what you and i have been saying on here for a while now is Xbox isn’t leaving GP and they sure as heck ain’t leaving Hardware, especially when other platforms are paying for it. MS is owning gaming software this year, sure Mario Kart will come out and do amazing, but Sony is sitting there doing what? Selling consoles? Thats like selling printers but your competition sells the ink, good luck with that.
A game this size will have updates coming to it for years to come. But overall a great first impression and again this is the difference of MS owning Zenimax vs where they were financially under the previous ownership. Phil Spencer is cooking and MS is making money while Sony is canceling games MS is making cash on every platform. What’s the old saying the rich get richer, this is an example of it. Very very happy with Team Green this year so far and we aren’t even to the June Showcase yet.
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Re: Reaction: Gears Of War: Reloaded Makes Perfect Sense For Microsoft, But Not For Xbox Fans
I for sure see them doing 2 and 3 and selling them for $50 as they will have more content with Horde mode. So if that’s the case they can get $140 for 3 games instead of putting them all in a bundle for $70 and having to maybe rush dev time to have them all ready for a certain date of release.Much like Capcom did with the Resident evil remakes. As to when we will see Part 2 & 3 that is anyone’s guess but they will come, Then the Rumors of Halo being remade and at some point Halo 2 and 3. Again selling them separate and getting them on PS5. Plus with GP it is all about having games dropping every so often to make it a more exciting monthly subscription. So this works well as well. Can’t wait to play this and i will play it on both Series X and PS5. Gears is my favorite IP in gaming so i will double dip.
Re: Reaction: GTA 6's Delay Could Be Great News For Xbox And Its Fall 2025 Lineup
@OldGamer999 Yeah the Switch is something i only use for Nintendo games and i only want MKW at the moment. Metroid Prime 4 as well but that’s a little later. So i ain’t in a rush to get it day and date but i do want it. Thats good you were able to secure a pre order. I was to busy and forgot and then once i did remember they were sold out. But i think at that price i will be able to find one shortly after launch.
Re: Xbox Announces Gears Of War: Reloaded, Releasing Summer 2025
@Fiendish-Beaver i too am a little disappointed that 2 and 3 aren’t finished. Now that collection would have been super insane. Looks like they will do the resident evil remake thing here and sell them separately to make more money. They can stretch it to $120 for all 3 games this way. Which i will no doubt buy on both Series X and PS5. But i really wanted to see all 3. Happy that the no PVP rumor was wrong. Gears without the online modes would have been a big letdown. Wonder how long we will have to wait to get part 2?
Re: Talking Point: Would You Still Buy An Xbox At Microsoft's 2025 Prices?
@OldGamer999 you aren’t wrong. I never get the special editions anymore cause there is rarely anything i want. If Gears did a really cool one i would do that. I would be ok with buying a Gears controller if they will do it. But yeah gamers are some of the worst fan’s of any hobby. They complain and then do the thing they complain about. Nothings new other than the internet is here as a tool to keep their receipts.
Re: Reaction: GTA 6's Delay Could Be Great News For Xbox And Its Fall 2025 Lineup
@OldGamer999 yeah it’s looking different for sure. I am trying to finish South of Midnight now . I am on Chapter 7 so not to much more to go than onto Doom. Crazy to think in around a months time we will have the Switch 2 on shelves and the MS Showcase. I am intersted in what surprise announcements MS will have there. I’d like to think there is 2-3 new game announcements and of course we should see Gears E-Day gameplay, more Fable gameplay and others. It should be good.
Re: Reaction: GTA 6's Delay Could Be Great News For Xbox And Its Fall 2025 Lineup
@OldGamer999 i am sure it will be Doom here in a few weeks. But i will add another Point for Avowed, i didn’t love it at first until i understood how to play it better. Then i really liked it and put in a little over 40 hours.
Re: Talking Point: Would You Still Buy An Xbox At Microsoft's 2025 Prices?
@Fiendish-Beaver the end game is the same for MS and it is Sony it’s just Sony is in better position to wait and that end game is…. CLOUD. I mean the day you don’t need hardware to get great performance is the day every single TV is a video game “console” sale. MS has to keep hardware around long enough to solve Cloud gaming and when they do, the Xbox is an App on all devices. Sony themselves said once in an interview with Jim Ryan that Cloud is the future but they weren’t yet looking to it until the tech catches up more. Cloud, PC and Mobile is likely the future but we might be to old to see it in it’s best form. A expensive piece of hardware sitting under your TV that does little to nothing outside of playing games is in it’s beginning stages of being an unnecessary purchase for the younger market coming up in gaming.
Re: Talking Point: Would You Still Buy An Xbox At Microsoft's 2025 Prices?
@OldGamer999 i always wanted to sell my Series X and get the all white digital for my setup. It would have looked nice and of course got me a new machine as my Series X is from 2020 and i play it a lot. Just never got around to it and now the hike. I tried to see if anyone was selling for the old price and i didn’t see any. Oh well I’ll keep mine and wait for next gen. Glad you snagged one tho and hope you like it.
Re: Talking Point: With Forza Horizon 5 Now On PS5, Do You Expect To See Horizon 6 Anytime Soon?
@Kaloudz I would like to see it be a launch or early life title for the next Gen Xbox. Giving fan’s a new experience and excitement around it. Xbox in my opinion has to start thinking about what next gen titles they will have ready cause i think the more they get that first launch line up out and then the following 12-18 months is very important for the console.
Re: Reaction: GTA 6's Delay Could Be Great News For Xbox And Its Fall 2025 Lineup
@FraserG thats how i got the game releases going as well. I think the Gears collection will get some fan are around the series again. Those games are not only not on PS but 2 and 3 are not on PC. So that is a nice start for hyping up E-day in 2026. There is even a little rumor going around that the collection could shadow drop at the event like an oblivion release. Fable is looking really good and the extra year of polish is going to make it even that much more.
MS is likely to show even more new titles in development at the June showcase making it a great show. Crazy to think in 2 weeks we have Doom. What a year and as always I appreciate the great coverage on all thats happening.
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@Friendly this should catch you up enough to see the bigger picture at play here.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/president-trump-is-remaking-america-into-a-manufacturing-superpower/
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@Friendly here you go friendly misinformed Xbox gamer.
http://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/sas/local-news/samsung-austin-semiconductor-pumps-13_6-billion-into-central-texas-economy-in-2022/
Hell i am wearing 2 products now that are made solely in Texas. I also have 2 guns on my night stand made in the US. I get it i said things that hurt your feelings. But prices on goods and services are coming down here and remember the whole world is in agreement with fair trade and tariffs. Only China has resistance.
I have a question for you, why did hardware go up and software on video games go up before these tariffs? What i am concerned about is Xbox is about to sell next to no hardware with prices that are worse than PS5. However it’s be long reported Series S was sold at a $100 loss and Series X at $200 loss. There was no Black Friday deals and now a hike in price. Meanwhile Sony is breaking even and often times making a few dollars on their hardware. Another mistake MS must fix next gen.
Re: Xbox Price Hike 'Just The Beginning' For The Industry, Says Analyst
@MathiasBS lots of leaders in the US took and made bad deals with China, China has their own Tarffis as all countries do. But many countries want fair trade. There is a lot of people in favor of tariffs and less taxes. I for one have heard some deals that should have people kicked out of our country, but i follow this stuff very closely. I’m very interested in seeing where it goes. But many think it will be very good for world trade. I learned that Canada has a 263% tariff on chicken, butter 175% and milk 155%. To think we were putting in a 10% tariff and those were all before we asked for 10%.
Re: Xbox Price Hike 'Just The Beginning' For The Industry, Says Analyst
@Hoodie718 Tech companies are already bringing semi conductor plants to America, Automotive plants are coming back to America it’s been reported and we would like more pharmaceuticals to join in as well. Those are good jobs. I agree not everything makes sense to be made here. American made products are better but i agree do cost more.
Re: Xbox Price Hike 'Just The Beginning' For The Industry, Says Analyst
@IOI we didn’t screw the rest of the world NIntendo and Sony and MS did. Most goods aren’t even going up yet, cause Tarffis have been placed on hold while negotiations go on. I can send you a list of companies that are either coming back to the US or ones that are coming here to do business alongside their other areas of buinesss. I am more than happy with my country standing up to bad deals that should have never been made in the first place. Without the US buying goods the rest of the world is screwed, we are the largest market in the world to sell goods to. We want fair trade, the rest of the world outside of china wants far trade. Not everything is as bad as the ones doing the stealing would like you to believe it is. Now back to Video games, i don’t think many games will be $79.99 cause they don’t have that type of clout. Halo, Gears, Fable sure, i don’t see anything from Complusion games being priced that way, so i am in the spot of wait and see which titles they do this with. I can’t see the whole industry going to 80 when most games aren’t selling well in general until the go on sale.
Re: Xbox Price Hike 'Just The Beginning' For The Industry, Says Analyst
@IOI it’s not poor decisions. China rips the US off and we aren’t allowing it no more. The idea is the tariffs will bring a lot of manufacturing back to the states, which it already has started to do so. Also the tarffis will pay for no federal income tax coming out of our checks. So some of us are happy to see trade being fairly evened out across the globe, the only one not playing ball around the world is China, cause their whole economy is stealing intellectual properties and tariffs. It won’t last long tho cause the rest of the world seems the benefit of being an equal partner to the US and not ripping us and everyone else off. Medicine is made in china for around $5 dollars a bottle and with their tarffis it cost the US 30 plus dollar. Those days are over and i for one am happy for it. We might pay a little more in the beginning but it won’t last long and the rest of the world is on our side cause they benefit from better trade opportunities also. Inflation is starting to go down in the US on fuel and food costs. Next we have to reset the interest rates which will be ugly for a while before it get’s better. But in the end prices were soaring during our last leader and no one said much, now we have one trying to undo that and it’s a harder job than one thinks. It takes time. Video games are a smaller issues when people can’t get insulin at 10 dollars cause china and others trade it for $80 a shot.
Re: Xbox Is Raising The Price Of Consoles, Games And Accessories
This generation sure has been crazy with the prices. That tells me the rumors of the next gen consoles costing $700 or even $800 might be true, as Sony and Microsoft look to no longer take huge losses on hardware. Glad i have all mine bought and paid for. Sad for those that can’t afford to get into console gaming, this didn’t help.
Re: Xbox Achieves Record-Breaking Results In Latest Earnings Report
@Kaloudz But but but Gamepass is awful, they are leaving hardware and Microsoft is the next Sega.then we get reports yesterday GP was good for Clair 33 and these reports and somehow someway I promise you my brother from another mother we will hear how they are dead in the water. Sega at their height had the money of 4 high end MS employees. Sony selling hardware like crazy is good for them i ain’t saying it’s bad but their games are on a closed box, cost a ton and they had 12 cancelled games following Concord. You can’t make this stuff up.is everything rainbows and sunshine in Xbox land? No, but thats called business.Nothing say’s they are leaving hardware with not one but 2- 3 new hardware plans. Once the brand is dead and defeated in all its business strategies can someone come on here and convince me they have a source of information. Why be making new controllers when you are leaving hardware? That article was just posted and people seen it and still said they aren’t sure they will release a next gen console. Dumb dumb dumb dumb. This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs egg commerical needs to come back. That was my one liner for you, sorry sometimes they are better than others. Hahaha
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Maybe they seen the reaction the extraction shooter Marathon is getting which is mixed and i might be being generous saying mixed on that being in that genre. I played 500-600 hours of Titan Fall on Xbox One, it was such a fun game for me. The 2nd one just died off to quickly and sadly we have likely seen the last of it.
Re: Indie Dev Defends Xbox Game Pass As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Sells Most On PS5
@Kaloudz HAHA not a bad profile pick. But don’t you worry friend i am just sure of it that any minute now they will be flooding this page saying how they were wrong. No way they would just bash on something like they have all the facts and run the numbers to the devs and know for a fact GP is bad. One guy on here not mentioning any name PAGUY said GP is full of gameboy color indie titles. I mean surely he knows more than us. Maybe even more than MS themselves. So maybe don’t expect to see PAGUY here, again not mentioning any names or hints as to who would say such. It’s hard work my friend keeping all these receipts. I do it here and the other website. Wish it was a tax write off cause it feels like a second job. 🤣
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@Kaloudz Exactly, but don’t worry buddy you will see them all post how they were wrong and eat crow……………………….. ………………….. where are they? Oh that’s right they only post about GP being bad and MS is leaving the hardware game. Crows would be extinct if they ate crow on all the BS they write just to be sounding like they know what MS is cooking up next. Unreal ain’t it?
Re: Indiana Jones 'Selling Faster' On PS5 Than Xbox & Steam, Says Analysis
@Kaloudz wouldn’t that be nice. But the internet allows people to be their worst. They think cause they don’t have to say something in public to fact to face people it don’t matter. What they fail to realize is they are creating bad thinking skills and those at some point will hurt you in face to face real life interactions. I am as close to 100% what I’d say in person as i do online.
Re: Indiana Jones 'Selling Faster' On PS5 Than Xbox & Steam, Says Analysis
@Kaloudz the reason they won’t just load up a game on their console and enjoy it is because they have 2 hobbies, playing video games and making fun of people that play video games. If all these games were only on. Xbox there would be Xbox people (not us) trolling PS fans, PS fans love to troll the internet cause the hardware sells good. How dare someone like myself that buys all 3 consoles but prefers the Xbox controller have that opinion. Which is just silly, be happy i spend money in the industry and keep it moving. I have always had all the consoles when i was a kid and started playing i had a SNES and Genesis and kids always wanted to come to my house and play the one they didn’t have. What happened to those days, now it’s you are a lesser gamer for owing them all cause you own one that the other person don’t like and they will troll you. Thats weak.
Re: Indiana Jones 'Selling Faster' On PS5 Than Xbox & Steam, Says Analysis
@themightyant You make some great points and i agree. Look at Assassins Creed Shadows, it sold better on console than PC with the PS5 leading the way in sales over Xbox. Which is kind of a no brainer with a 2-1 lead. However then there was the new Monster Hunter which was poorly optimized and it did gangbusters on PC at launch. So it’s a little game by game. HD2 sold better on PC than on PS5. As for where is PC growing it’s everywhere from what i see, to my surprise in Japan PC is growing a lot and that surprises me for some reason. Black Myth Wukong sold 10 million copies with 7.5 being on PC and 2.5 on PS5. So there is the China and Asia data you stated. I just don’t see PS5 being hurt bringing their games to PC sooner and they have hinted at PC being more important going forward, as to what that means we don’t know yet. I think Great games do more numbers not being closed to a single box, unless you are Nintendo. Nintendo is the true exclusive left in the industry. But i am just now starting to look forward to next gen hardware and the Xbox will need to separate itself with more and more of it’s games being on all platforms and Phil has hinted that he wants the hardware to be exciting for players to want it. Time will tell like you said.
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@x3King84 nothing wrong with that.but you are the exception not the rule. The sales data shows most PC players stick to PC and for sure favor steam to all the other store fronts. I think it’s cool that you support both PC and Console. But again just know that’s not common.
Re: Indiana Jones 'Selling Faster' On PS5 Than Xbox & Steam, Says Analysis
@themightyant but did you read my point about the data shows PC gamers will just wait, they won’t buy a PS5. So it’s not hurting Sony’s business. If it works for live service games (Hell Divers 2) it will work for Spider-Man 3. There is more money to be made on the PC. PC gaming is growing and often times is more profitable for devs, console sales are staying around the same as they always have. Therefore if Sony would like to make more money they will need the PC market, why not grab that cash a little earlier. Which i think they will going forward, likely not day and date but for sure around 6 months or so if they have the manpower to port it. Which lately they have had some iffy launches on PC. An area they need to improve on and they will be just fine. Yes i agree with you on how MS is making their money. I look for them to make a ton of money this year as the June Showcase is rumored to show Gears of War trilogy remastered and shadow drop it on Series X, PC and PS5. That will sell boat loads. Crazy how many titles MS can put out now.
Re: Indiana Jones 'Selling Faster' On PS5 Than Xbox & Steam, Says Analysis
@Fiendish-Beaver i am concerned some for Hardware from MS, but they are committed to it. Phil said in the future they need to make hardware people want to play games on. So that tells me they are going to do something very different with the next Xbox to get players on board with it. Cause if they just release another Series X, than yes PS will just chew that up. Now what could they do differently to make Xbox hardware exciting within a reasonable dollar amount? I have no idea. But that does make the next Xbox showing very exciting and nervous as they have to really hit on whatever idea they are planning. Then we get to the idea of MS not even making Xbox hardware. Think Asus Handheld, and other OEM’s making Xbox PC/Console hardware. That’s another angle for them to leverage to have Xbox hardware in the stores for people wanting to play on that ecosystem. So Hardware is the next thing Xbox has to tackle. Cause Software wise they are crushing everyone with releases. They got great services, Ui, features like Quick resume, great controllers, they just need that IT factor that put’s some eyes on their hardware. That going to be hard but it’s the only area they are not doing great in. That’s a lot of work from what the Xbox One had. They had a software problem. That’s been fixed, now can they fix the hardware if so they are truly in a great place and by fix the hardware i don’t mean outsell the PS6, that won’t happen, but can it sell in the 60 million range maybe even closer to 70 million range, that would be a huge increase. Time will tell. The industry needs competition, so we all should be hoping MS does get a plan around moving more hardware units.
Re: Indiana Jones 'Selling Faster' On PS5 Than Xbox & Steam, Says Analysis
@Fiendish-Beaver Yeah i do agree that they need to be careful with some titles day and date on PS. It could make it even harder to sell Xbox’s. I would keep Gears of War E day for 6 months at least. Thats a system seller type game. But Oblivion remaster, that was smart to do day 1. Doom also a start day one. Halo, Gears and Forza and Elder scrolls 6 could all be held back to sell systems and i do think that would be smart. With other titles like Fallout remaster coming day and date. So much like Phil said games would be on a game to game case. Maybe we are starting to see that.
Re: Indiana Jones 'Selling Faster' On PS5 Than Xbox & Steam, Says Analysis
@Kaloudz i agree, i have been criticized heavily for saying Sony should do the same for its PC releases. Ride the wave of excitement and get more sales on day 1. People that game on PC only are not going to buy a PS5 for a single player game. They will wait and the data has shown time and time before they wait until it’s on steam. An example Kingdom Hearts came out on Epic game store and the game didn’t sell, a year later it came to Steam and shot up the charts. So if PC players would even use a different Store and launcher does Sony really think they will buy a PS5?
Same for MS, most PS5 users aren’t looking to buy a Xbox so why make them wait on the game. Get the money will the game is riding hot. I believe in time they will do this, Sony will be stubborn and petty with the PC releases for a while longer tho.
Re: Xbox Is Already Achieving Massive Success With Oblivion Remastered
@Kaloudz i agree it’s a great time right now. I just finished South of Midnight. Now onto Oblivion. Fanboys in any hobby are bad but video games is the worst fanboy. So i know what you are saying.
Re: Marathon Players Share Their Initial Thoughts As Xbox Alpha Goes Live
@Kaloudz i really like the art style, i know the gunplay will be great. But the genre of extraction shooter is right there with battle royal for BOOOORING! I can’t do it. I need a fast paced shooter. This isn’t it so for that i am out. As for if it will do well or not. I don’t know. Likely to not do huge numbers but i would suspect a player base to be there at launch. PC might keep it going for a while.but again i like fast paced smaller map shooters. With Gears of War PVP coming back soon there is 0% chance I’d play this. This could make it 14 failed live service games for Sony in one generation. That has to be a record.
Re: Xbox Cloud Gaming Arrives On LG TVs With New Dedicated App
I got a 55 inch LG C3 and a 65 inch C2. Love the TV’s. Oled is just so much better. It stinks a little bit that Switch 2 ain’t Oled. But i am sure in time they will release one and i will buy it for sure. Love gaming on Oled. If i finish my 5080 build i want a Oled monitor as well. Cool to see games coming to Cloud over a TV. I do believe cloud will get better and better but for now it’s not something i use on my Series X, PS5 or Switch.
Re: Digital-Only Xbox Series X|S Consoles Have Accounted For 75% Of Sales So Far In 2025
@TheGameThrifter you mean renting or buying digitally. Cause thats an option alongside Gamepass. Physical media is dead as retailers continue to shrink its store space of games. Heck even Nintendo got in on the digital push saying you are buying a key on most the carts.
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@Kaloudz The fact is a lot of Sony fans made claims that Gamepass would just be live service games, indies and low budget titles. They drank that kool aid for as long as they could. Now they find themselves BUYING not just playing all the games Xbox Gamepass subscribers are playing. That starts to make them think what value we are getting compared to them. Not saying they are looking to sell their PS5’s and buy a Series X. But the fact that they have to look at GP differently than what they thought is the start of GP being in the minds of all players. Thats where a service or storefront starts out winning customers over time. Just the fact they have to start doing the math alone say’s all that needs to be said. Whether one day they switch over is again anyone’s guess. But to say GP is a waste of money is straight off their rocker talk. Because of GP i am 720 some GB away from filling up my 3TB Series X, something i wouldn’t have done without GP. I am going to laugh when June showcase add’s another 3-4 games plus Ninja Gaiden to GP and those games along with all the others are top of the pre order list on PS5. Wether you like McDonald’s or Burger King MS makes money cause they own the Cows and potatoes hahaha!
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@Titntin i am right there with ya. I am hoping to land a pre order on a Switch 2 with Mario Kart bundled. I will sell my Switch Oled and that alone helps. Going to be good! Enjoy it!!
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@Titntin nothing is a waste of money if it brings you and others you love joy. Infact i would say it sounds like a good investment cause you both will enjoy your selves. My wife will play Mario Kart and a Forza Horizon on Xbox with me. Opposite of your wife mine hates the size and button layout of PS controllers so she don’t touch that. The software is finally starting to roll out this gen and with Switch 2 coming it’s only going to get better.
As for 2027 it is rumor that Sony and MS will go in 2027. It makes sense, it’s 7 years which is what Xbox One and PS4 did. So i don’t see that being a problem for either to hit. Xbox has the more exciting hardware plans as it seems to be heading a new direction. But i am excited to see a more Powerful PS in the PS6 and getting FSR4 on there. Should be a nice upgrade for both platforms. 😀
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@Fiendish-Beaver so a few things, No i can’t say if Gamepass is right for you, but i can ask you if you plan on playing any of the games it has? Cause if you look at what non PC or Xbox platforms could be wanting to play it could be more than what GP cost right now on PS they are buying up Forza, 33, Indy and Oblivion. That is more than what i paid for the year of GP. So it depends if you think that is good value or not. But over 30 million on Xbox do think that to be great value and that number in years time is likely to grow as these heavy hitters keep coming to the service. If thats right for you or not i can’t say that.
We don’t know if the next Xbox is the last or not. Heck in that time we could all be playing on cloud. Then who holds the IP’s that make money? Sony or MS?
As for Sony buying 3rd party titles, i don’t see it, i see the opposite. I see more 3rd party titles selling better by being on all platforms day 1. Even the dev teams themselves (Square) (Capcom) etc etc saying their titles are making more money on PC and Monster hunter launching on all platforms lead to it being the biggest launch in the series history. I don’t see them taking a Sony deal to be locked to a closed box. No way. So sorry but i disagree with you on that.
The only swapping i am seeing the most is console players leaving consoles and going to PC. So it’s to early to tell what the next round of console sales will look like. But one thing is for sure the younger crowd coming in is not platform loyal and the don’t love the closed expensive boxes (consoles) nearly as much as we did as kids that had no other options. So again not enough data on that claim.
My point is MS shifted to a strategy that is making money and lots of it. They are bringing back games that those studios would have not spent the money on. Which is good for all gamers. Meanwhile PS5 is hellbent on live service games which will come to PC day and date, their single player games are timed exclusives until going to PC, thats the strategy for them. I don’t see either side going away using these plans. Phil has said box is in the name of Xbox and there will be consoles as long as players play on consoles. They might even start making more Xbox’s with OEM’s. I would easily pay $1200 for a Razer Xbox with killer specs and full windows bootable. That is something Sony can’t leverage. They don’t have OEMS and windows. So it’s a little early to start saying Xbox is out of the hardware game. But one thing is for sure they are COOKING every service out there with GP. There is no reason to believe it will slow down with the June showcase around the way.
Re: Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 Gets 'Big Visual Boost' On PS5 Pro, Says Tech Review
I mean it has 40% moire GPU power than the base models. It should show nice performance enhancements. These games will all see big boosts next gen with PS6 and next Xbox. This is why i say 2027 is not to early for the next consoles as they will give the devs the power they need and us the experiences we want. I’m looking forward to next gen hardware for sure. Speaking of next gen. Hey Rockstar you better give us Red Dead Redemption 2 on next gen hardware. Yes i will pay for it, we know you want give us a free upgrade haha!
Re: Talking Point: We Played Xbox's First Forza Release On PS5, And It Felt Weird
@Titntin now just imagine how good this game will look when it’s updated for the Next Xbox and PS6. All the games today are going to get nice updates with next gen power. But Pop in are to be excepted on base models. Another reason i am on here saying 2027 is not to soon for next gen hardware. It’s right in line with what devs need and we want our experiences to be. 😀
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@IOI @IOI Sony are petty but they can’t go off Steam for any reason. PC games only sell well on Steam. Sony would be throwing money away and they aren’t in position to do that. I don’t know if the next Xbox will be able to play Steam or not. But if so they can’t really block it as the next Xbox is just a PC. Steam don’t allow you to block certain GPU/CPU devices just by name. I think Sony and MS need the PC’s money. As been reported PC is making more money than consoles combined for devs. Plus PC gamers won’t do other launchers. They made Sony bend the knee quick on their policies. I don’t much care the outcome, i am just here for the conversation of yes Sony is petty and no they can’t avoid Steam and make money. 😀
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@Fiendish-Beaver i understand the business side that Sony makes money and i think that too is a win for the industry. Keeps another Platform holder profitable in a time where Sony can’t even get a game out the door, Concord and 12 cancelled games hurts their bottom line to go with a small profit margin. So again i sell the millions of dollars they get as a good thing. For MS they will gladly take the 70% on all platforms, 100% on there’s, plus GP revenue. So i think all platforms are pretty healthy which is what i want. I do not want a Sony only console situation. I don’t even like the controller all that well. I seen on Steam oblivion is already number 1 in sales, which we all know the PC now is the bigger money maker than all consoles combined. So they need games that PC players will purchase and they have them. Happy to see what Team Green is building here.
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@Kaloudz Bingo my friend and thats why i was hear to tell you i see what you are saying to the naysayers on here all the time and the truth of it is they know it’s true they sometimes just want to jump on the hate train that the internet is good at throwing out there. The minute the next Xbox comes out and people have them in hand, there will be articles saying Xbox is leaving the hardware business. I mean it’s just the nature of these people. Meanwhile Xbox is laughing to the bank with every gamers money with near 40 studios cranking out games near monthly it feels like. This isn’t so much an anti PS5 comment to me, it’s more about Xbox is stronger in this strategy than people realize. You know how much money Oblivion will make on Steam and PS? A lot of money for Elder Scrolls 6 would be my guess. It’s a great time to be a Gamepass member and this service is still getting Gears of War and others come June. They are starting to flex with the studios now. The value is starting to really show. Enjoy my friend.
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@Sol4ris that my exact situation as well. I buy all 3 consoles every gen. I have the PS5 and Series X now and all i have played on my PS5 was GOWR and ratchet and Clank rift apart. I once again don’t love the controller to buy anything 3rd party, it cost more for less when it comes to services, next to no return policy for digital purchases, i mean the older I get the more I value my time and money and I just ain’t doing nothing with PS5. I understand it sells more and has the mainstream eye on it over Series X. But i actually like using my Series X and continuing to add games to it to play. I did download Oblivion yesterday after work and didn’t get to really play much. But thanks for the reply and i hope you enjoy whatever game you dive into next.
Re: Xbox Is Already Achieving Massive Success With Oblivion Remastered
@Fiddleroyolanda your comments are getting deleted quicker than Concord.
Re: Xbox Is Already Achieving Massive Success With Oblivion Remastered
@Kaloudz i wanted to share this with you, cause we have been very pro MS going multi platform. Do they not see what is happening since the ABK and Zenimax buyouts? This is an avalanche of software revenue for MS. They could sell 30-45 million consoles and still be making PS money with them at 100 million consoles. PS players are buying more MS games in 2024-2025 then Sony games. At 70 to 30 spilt MS will take that all day long and it’s not going to stop, it will be Fallout, then Elder Scrolls 6 and Gears of War and Diablo 5 and so on and so on. No way Sony can keep up software wise. Their platform is a timed exclusive box with higher cost of play. I don’t care if it sells 200 million, it’s not the better platform anymore as it was with PS4. Even tho i liked my Xbox One better. I ain’t saying People will leave PS for Xbox but what you and i have been saying on here for a while now is Xbox isn’t leaving GP and they sure as heck ain’t leaving Hardware, especially when other platforms are paying for it. MS is owning gaming software this year, sure Mario Kart will come out and do amazing, but Sony is sitting there doing what? Selling consoles? Thats like selling printers but your competition sells the ink, good luck with that.
Re: Oblivion Remastered Players Share Their Initial Reviews On Xbox, PS5 & PC
A game this size will have updates coming to it for years to come. But overall a great first impression and again this is the difference of MS owning Zenimax vs where they were financially under the previous ownership. Phil Spencer is cooking and MS is making money while Sony is canceling games MS is making cash on every platform. What’s the old saying the rich get richer, this is an example of it. Very very happy with Team Green this year so far and we aren’t even to the June Showcase yet.
Re: Xbox Announces Limited Edition DOOM Controllers And Series X Wrap
@Titntin Happy Easter Buddy, it’s a holiday weekend here in the states as well. Wishing you and the family a great weekend! Thanks for the chat!