HeisenbergFX4
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I caught him in Palworld the other day
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EXCLUSIVE | Microsoft plans Starfield launch for PlayStation 5
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digital_ghost
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One of the Men at 343 industries made love with his girlfriend at Bethesda and had a baby.
So in the Matrix Bethesda did make a part of halo,
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
bender
What time is it?
I caught him in Palworld the other day
I'm not sure Palworld has ripped off Pikmin yet.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
bender
What time is it?
The Pleasure
Gold Member
As promised, Phil Spender will bend over and accept your Ass of Can Whooping.
ByWatterson
Member
"If you want to play your digital library long-term, we have a console for that, it's called Series X."
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Moriarty1889
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You can thank that clown Phil Spencer with his gamepass first agenda. That cannibalized sales of games while he kept telling everyone ‘You don’t have to buy an Xbox to play our games’ ……….what a complete and utter moron! How he was not fired is beyond me. Shows the level of stupidity over at MS.
RickMasters
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Nah they won’t stop gaming. They are understandably pissed. To own an Xbox and join a forum is to put your self at risk of ridicule. Bad enough to deal with all that only for the company who’s console yoh gry to just owning in a positive light just spit in your face and slap you with the 500 bucks price for the privilege. They will be pissed now. But Tommorow They will just have to decide what their next platform of choice will be. And if they dont want to mass with PCs ( which is understandable…they come with their own headaches….) their choice is made for them. The Playstation….. come to think of it….. maybe I’ll be getting one after all.
I just want to know what They are gonna do to make sure My library of four gens of Xbox is preserved. So I’d like them to migrate my games to the PC and let me decide what hardware I want to play on from there. But I won’t be investing much in their platform as far as buying games going forward. There may not be a next Xbox for me to migrate my games too. So maybe I buy a few extra series Cs as back ups at massive discounts somewhere down the road.
I’d also like to add…. There won’t be anything for the so called green rats to applaud… because their platform will no longer exist. They get nothing but a slap in the face for supporting Xbox for the last two decades. I dont think Xbox fans are nessarily MS fans. And MS has gotten in the way of any potential Xbox ever had of being a great platform. So honestly fuck MS and their profit. They slap the face of Xbox customers constantly and this is just the final straw. The moment we start seeing halo, forza etc all on PS there is absolutely no reason for an Xbox ( nobody else has a reason too) owner to buy an Xbox when they can buy a PS and have god of war and halo on one console… and shit maybe MS makes their controller available on PS a well to make people feel a bit more settles on their Playstation 6s.
It is what it is… and what is… is over. For Xbox as a console. Xbox as a publisher? May aswell just kill that name too and just be MS game studios. After this even the sight of that X will leave a bad taste in some peoples mouths.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Xbox as a hardware is not going anywhere they have one more generation in them for that I am very certain
Now tomorrow may change that as my info is a couple of months old
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Like $70 software. Will be $80, $90...
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Software is already too expensive, they’ll need to counter it with AI.
ByWatterson
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I think it's more about what the hardware is for rather than whether it exists.
havoc00
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Whats the point? Whos gonna buy an xbox if everything is ported to the more popular company? Do they think next gen gamepass will have people stick with them and fork over 500 bucks for a new console?
Pyramid Song
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Crazy times. I'm only interested in Hellblade II. We'll see what happens.
Also, lmao at the meltdowns
Also, lmao at the meltdowns
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Hardware is not. So they will be able to bring the hardware prices to "normal".
Unknown Soldier
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You're gonna be like that one Japanese guy who hid in the jungle for 50 years because he didn't know the war was over huhI can’t bring myself to buy a PS. It’s not even because of Sony. I think they are a wonderful company. It’s the insuffarable PlayStation fanboy. They have always been a nasty breed and now they get the last laugh. I just can’t bring myself to own one because I don’t want to join them….. steam….. I guess I’m going all in with you and Gabes posse. At least l can still use my Xbox relics ( the controller)
I'm wondering if MS will part ways with, Phil Spencer. Would make sense to have someone else lead MS gaming forward without the baggage.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
That’d impact their profits, hardware is just the gateway.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
The only gateway now. That's big the difference.
FIREKNIGHT2029
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Going on right now on Twitter
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RickMasters
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If…. They are putting their games on other consoles….. I think it would be a waste of resources to make a next gen Xbox. They would be better of using resources to migrate accounts to PC or Playstation. I would be all for that. Absolutely not in favour of another Xbox if I can play Xbox games on other consoles.
Smart move for any Xbox gamer would be to start entertaining the idea of getting used to symmetrical analog sticks. And those buttons with the shapes on them. Triangle in place Of A? Jeez that’s gonna be a head fuck
. I suppose we will get used to it. But I’m still hoping they Atleast make an elite series three that’s PS compatable.
ByWatterson
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At least 10 million will buy the box, and there's no guarantee Sony will allow Gamepass on Playstation even without dedicated Microsoft hardware out there.
Transitional generation.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
I know a lot of people who won’t buy a PS
RickMasters
Member
I remember someone posting a Hellblade 2 pic saying Just get An Xbox........ (not gonna put you on blast)
Welp.
Let me guess it's a guy with a lump in his throat lol
havoc00
Member
Im not the biggest sony fan and did prefer xbox, but no way im buying a xbox next gen just for GP and for 500 buckaroos
digoutyoursoul
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And there it is, what I’ve been saying all along. They are fakes, it’s all about self indulgence for them, clout, recognition. This guy and others, saw what they were from the beginning, I hope more wake up to it
LavitzSlambert
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This is bad news for Microsoft (long term) and bad news for consumers.
And people are STILL trying to justify these sky high prices. They love getting ripped off.
It's a short term cash infusion, and likely Microsoft is going to let go of all of their lowest margin endeavors (first party hardware, physical game releases, in-house game dev). I wouldn't be surprised to see them restructure and get rid of all of the dev teams they just bought, leaving their core business just publishing and Game Pass/XCloud infrastructure. Microsoft very clearly wants to be a middle man to collect $$$, use vendor lock-in and subscriptions to dictate their profits rather than ask, and to avoid anything that actually requires any long term investment. This is going to absolutely kill the brand, but they don't care - because they now have Call of Duty, which is basically legalized crack to the common denominator gamer.
There is nobody to turn to. You have rich fuckboi PC nerds bragging about how much money they waste on components, PS fanlads who trip over themselves to give money to Sony who are role playing as Apple (as if they have even a tenth of the pedigree), and Nintendo who is doing whatever they fuck they feel like and not at all concerned with Xbox's former market. The only savior I can even imagine right now is if Valve decides to make a premium version of the Steam Deck, or revive Steam Machines. Or if Apple or Amazon decides to actually go full-in on the gaming industry and actually create a console ecosystem - I don't see this happening though.
There is no point. Microsoft is going to pay for this in the long term. It's fine now, but there is no reason for anyone to be tied to Microsoft's platform if they abandon Xbox this way. They see it as a way to force people into services, and I am sure they will offer a good deal on Game Pass for a while longer (as they double dip on multiplatform products). It's only a matter of time until they start twisting the screws. Their games will be everywhere, but they will offer exclusive content as part of their services, offer extra tiers that look like a good value. Right up until the alternatives start disappearing, and they'll crank up the fees just like their enterprise software business. It's sad, but this is the straight up classic evil Microsoft playbook they are running. Literally everything people feared back when the original Xbox launched.
bender
What time is it?
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Not really, they’re still better off making it as cheap as possible to get more people into the ecosystem. Hardware isn’t for making money.
Wouldn't that also mean MS raising game prices? In turn bringing in more revenue to Xbox from PS (maybe Switch) users? And users on Xbox consoles not on Game Pass?
It's all about the revenue...right? That trillion dollar company making all that....revenue. Reading theories now that going multi platform is a good way to help fund Game Pass....
"The Best Deal in Gaming"
"be careful what you wish for"
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MarkMe2525
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I would be in the same boat if that was the entirety of the value proposition. I can't imagine that would be their answer. Time will tell, but we can be fairly certain that change is coming, I'm looking forward to see what they come up with. Worst case scenario, I play my games on one of the other boxes I own (or will own).
bwahaha! god loving these manbaby meltdowns. hope microsoft doesnt address this shit until spring so the clownshow can escelate
rickybooby87
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Quite a few of us predicted the 3P move, along with Starfield coming to PS5, that last one was very contentious lol.
All joking aside, this isn’t the worst news, If you’re a true gamer, you should be happy to see your beloved franchises garner a wider audience.
What would be cool is if they opened up support for Xbox controllers on PS5. Gotta make it easy for you green rats to acclimate.
All joking aside, this isn’t the worst news, If you’re a true gamer, you should be happy to see your beloved franchises garner a wider audience.
What would be cool is if they opened up support for Xbox controllers on PS5. Gotta make it easy for you green rats to acclimate.
Chittagong
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What I am wondering is that what is the incentive for Microsoft to keep a modestly profitable / loss making games publisher as part of the corporate structure?
Previously there were the pretences of putting Windows everywhere, using Bing, using Azure, then owning the living room.
With Office 365, Azure and Open AI making the money, the prospect of having a bloated 10,000 strong publishing arm that hasn’t put out anything truly remarkable in a while seems redundant.
Previously there were the pretences of putting Windows everywhere, using Bing, using Azure, then owning the living room.
With Office 365, Azure and Open AI making the money, the prospect of having a bloated 10,000 strong publishing arm that hasn’t put out anything truly remarkable in a while seems redundant.
havoc00
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The issue is the Xbox fans, nobody seems to want to explain to them how this move will benefit them in any way, shape, or form. How do you explain to the loyal fans who spent alot of $ on an Xbox console to play Xbox exclusives, that those exclusives are no longer a thing, when many of those gamers now feel like they wasted $500 on Series X or $300 on a Series S now that those games are no longer exclusive? Money they now feel would have been better spent on PC or PS5. How do you justify a move which seems like it will actually hurt the chances of 3rd party developers porting to Xbox consoles in the future, when Xbox is already the platform most in need of ports (no exclusives means less hardware sales, less hardware sales means smaller playerbase, smaller playerbase means higher difficulty of seeing a return on investment on your port to Xbox)? How do you soothe those who feel cheated and burned by Microsoft due to this move?
Is Xbox going to use the money from this multiplatform move to buy hardware success next gen, either through more acquisitions (perhaps) or hatting 3rd party exclusives (doubtful)? Will they use this multiplat money to pay 3rd party developers to port to Xbox consoles (doubtful)? Or are Microsoft and gamers on other platforms really the only ones who benefit from this move, while your own loyal fanbase gets the shaft?
Is Xbox going to use the money from this multiplatform move to buy hardware success next gen, either through more acquisitions (perhaps) or hatting 3rd party exclusives (doubtful)? Will they use this multiplat money to pay 3rd party developers to port to Xbox consoles (doubtful)? Or are Microsoft and gamers on other platforms really the only ones who benefit from this move, while your own loyal fanbase gets the shaft?
XXL
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bender
What time is it?
They envision a future for gaming that is much like their other software as a service offerings and having COD and King under your belt is as good of a bet as any in achieving this.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
"this isn't the worst news"... it shouldn't be a news at all if you are "a true gamer"
The truly bad news could yet still come if you are a "true gamer":
1.Internal turmoil inside xbox
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2. power vacuums
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3. people leaving
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4. culture clash
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1. Games could take even longer to release
2. Drop in quality
3. studios closing.
FIREKNIGHT2029
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Codeblew
Member
I don't think PS would ever let Gamepass on their systems.
Lagspike_exe
Member
Gamepass strategy is having a gravitational effect. They now have to tailor the entire division’s strategy towards GP, and they seem to be sacrificing hardware. In the long run, this will definitely impact hardware as Xbox without exclusives becomes even less appealing.
I was thinking of getting an Xbox (a Pro iteration if they release one) at one point to play Gears, Starfield and some other exclusives but after this I have zero interest.
I was thinking of getting an Xbox (a Pro iteration if they release one) at one point to play Gears, Starfield and some other exclusives but after this I have zero interest.
Anchovie123
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Those Major Nelson tweets are starting to make more sense. He probably knew, right?
bender
What time is it?
It could happen but it would need to variation of Game Pass that only offers MGS titles and those titles would also need to published on PSN and would look a lot like EA Play or crazier yet could be rolled into a tier of PS+ like Ubisoft+ Classics, could be rolled into another tier of PS+ like . Sony would get 30% of the monthly subscription and 30% of any game sales, DLC, and MTX. All of Microsoft's acquisitions would be beneficial in this case as there are a ton of back catalogue titles from Activision, Bethesda, etc. that are already playable on PS4/PS5.
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