Tough couple of days eh Phil.
1X was the repeat of original XBox. The most powerful console not many people wanted.
Lmao i love Kyle, miss him on EZA.
I think a lot of people get this. Just because we get that, though, doesn't mean that it's a viable strategy for them right now. Gamepass's biggest failing is that it doesn't have Sony's exclusives. LOL.
Uh, hate to break it to you, but PS Plus debuted in 2010. That's 3 years before Games with Gold debuted, and 7 years before GamePass. Keep in mind it was also a time when MS was putting everything behind a paywall, including F2P games, streaming apps (like YouTube and Netflix), and the freaking Internet browser. All things Xbox fans defended to death, yet also praised them for when it was actually the PS4 dominance that made MS change its anti-consumer practices.ah yes because I want competition in gaming as sony is a juggernaut..
You can thank xbox for ps+ as sony saw how good it was for xbox and made their own (yes I'm subbed to it and will resub @ 160)
you can check my psn is you really want (same name on here) and see I was just playing ys 9 on my ps5. I'm not a fanboy like u
That's actually a damn good point. I definitely see the Series family seeing far fewer cross gen games than the PS5/Pro. Devs are not going to want to be held back by the weak ass S when they are designing for the PS6 and NeXbox (if they haven't gone 3rd party.) I mean just to develop on the Series, you're going to have to get it runnable on 3 very different machines, with very different memory configurations.
exactly my point.sony did all that and MADE microsoft change it's ways. Just like game pass came out and sony was "eh we don't need a game pass of our own" to now they have one. And yes, MS old ways were shitty as fuck and I would never defend that crap.
PS+ predates gamepass.
You're making huge assumptions, as you literally do not know how many copies Starfield has sold vs. how many copies Fallout 76 or Fallour 4 sold.
It is literally the same as F76 reviews did not improve with time, updates, patches, and improvements. Here is the proof:
This is why Phil is where he is and Satya is the CEO.
Satya doesn't give a flying fuck
You're making huge assumptions, as you literally do not know how many copies Starfield has sold vs. how many copies Fallout 76 or Fallour 4 sold.
If you're basing this entirely on the number of Steam user reviews, you're ignoring the fact that Starfield is not PlayStation as F76 or F4 was. So the sales distribution for F76 and F4 were spread thinner across platforms and not just concentrated on Steam and Xbox.
It is literally the same as F76 reviews did not improve with time, updates, patches, and improvements. Here is the proof:
Fallout 76's positive reviews percentage in the last 30 days is exactly the same as the overall reviews. Which is exactly the same as Starfield's reviews.
You may like Starfield more than other people did -- it may be a 9/10 or 10/10 or 11/10 for you -- and that's fine. But you can't deny that Starfield is now the worst-reviewed Bethesda game on Steam, and nearly 30% of people who paid for it and played the game did not like it.
Nothing to yield, my friend. It's not a win-lose situation for us.
You hit the nail on the head!
Remember when Jim Ryan was laughed at for complaining about MS buying ABK? The press and social media had a field day. I've got no love for Jimbo and think he lacks charisma. But he was spot on with this.
It is not for nothing that acquaintances at both Sony and Xbox often prefix mentions of Digital Foundry with "those clowns at"…
This is 100% accurate to my mind. If gaming is one of your hobbies, it would not be beneficial to have MS as the market leader.
The Series X is a good console. Is it superior to the PS5? Absolutely not. But it's solid, quiet, reliable and on par with the PS5. Series S has some issues, though, most recently exemplified with Baldur's Gate 3.
To be fair, they have brought their fair share of innovation to the industry since their entry in 2001.
Like microtransactions, and achievements masquerading as gameplay?
As a matter of fact, yes, some people on this board have been in contact off the threads, and the sentiment is the same as what I stated, fear of posting too much xbox support for fear of banning. For the most part they just gave up or moved to other forums. And we aren't just talking "xbots" here, we are talking multiplatform gamers.
But it's not life or death, just gaming discussion either way.
They certainly have paying for online was a revelation indeed. Buying your way to success was another....
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You can put your cape up. Microsoft earned the criticism. a lot of empty promises over the years. the emails confirmed the suspensions about the company. So of course people are going to talk. Microsoft earned it in that respect.
To be honest, in terms of software (not games), Xbox is way ahead of the competition... things like Quick Resume, GDK and backward compatibility are platform defining for them, on top of that add some DX12 features like SFS and VSR, better VRR, etc. Xbox Series are great products and technically they're incredible.
It's incredible how quickly Microsoft fans rally to shutdown any criticism of the them. We can't discuss Starfield, Microsoft leaks, or Phil's latest word salad.
yeah, they has ps now but it wasn't that good (I tried/used it). now ps now is ps+ with 3 tiers and alot better? "Sony might be working on PlayStation's answer to Xbox Game Pass" from an interview with Jim Ryan back in 2020.
The hard drive, pushing for online gaming on console (taking what Sega had done and doing it better), having the best controller for three generations and releasing Elite controllers as well as offering us to cumstomize our own with Xbox Design Lab, the adaptive controller, offering cross play, back compat through three generations and of course Game Pass. And so on. They've done quite a bit. A small feature like Quick Resume is almost a game changer for me, since I'm always jumping between games and never play for hours on end.
It's like people have collectively forgotten that Xbox used to be good.
