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I see two of Bethesda's key people are leaving. One is retiring and the other is going over to another dev. I'm pretty sure Microsoft will somehow manage to slaughter the pigs they have acquired. They acquired a lot of smaller piglets along with the big three. I doubt a lot of those smaller...

A commercial celebrating concentration of ownership as a beautiful day. Just fucking terrible.

So Microsoft shooting itself in the foot revealed that, as suspected, Bethesda IPs will no longer release on Playstation. Good thing it won't affect me much as I find Bethesda games boring to play and look at; however, it also reveals exactly why the Activision-Blizzard acquisition never should...

Frankly, MS has done more to slit the throat of their own console than SONY has. They put all their new games day and date on XBOX game pass and Steam, both available for PC. Why would anyone bother buying an XBOX when a person could just buy a PC that not only can play all of XBOX content...

It isn't just about consoles. It's about who becomes the dominant player as gaming shifts from a physical to a cloud-based delivery model. Microsoft is so bloody desperate to get their deal pushed through because they know it will be instrumental in them becoming the dominant market force in...

I can't really agree that it is a good strategy for game developers to use the showcases of of other companies to springboard their own shows. The reason to watch MS's, Sony's and Summerfest is to see actual upcoming releases with gameplay, not.to treat viewers to.a."ro be continued" experience...

Just to clarify, by posting about XBOX's event I had no intent to single their event out for criticism. All of the showcase events were rather lackluster due to thw amount of game developers describing their product trailers as "gameplay" then showing zero actual play but a lot of cut scene hype.

I was reading one article where they start off proclaiming.how the XBOX showcase out did SONY's and the proceeded to show how it was no better by describing how many of XBOX's games aren't coming out until 2024 and showed nothing but empty game trailers with almost zero game play. They went on...

Starfield sounds like Bethesda's version of "No Man's Sky".

It was 600 bucks because SONY marketed it as a media entertainment centre designed to eliminate the need for separate movie disc players and game machines. There was even a name for the concept which I'm forgetting right now. It came with a raft of features right from the start other than the...

I was kind of surprised when MS made the same mistake with the XBOX1 that SONY did with the PS3: focused on XBOX1 as a media centerpiece rather than a gaming system the same way SONY did with the PS3. It floored me that MS learned nothing from SONY's failed experiment in marketing the PS3 as an...

I also think part of the problem is the cost of games in general. They have never been cheap but at 40 dollars a game there was still a lot of headroom to buy games on both consoles if a person wasn't a console fanboy. At 70, 80 and 90 dollars for a game, the cost starts forcing a person to make...

The last part of your post pretty well shows that Phil Spencer is correct. If you are not interested in owning a PS5 regardless of the exclusives, many of which are actually good, then why would someone who doesn't own the present gen of XBOX buy one just because the quality of games goes up...

I'm definitely not missing much. This is the same studio that made "Dishonoured": a title that I found exceedingly boring. Of course, the Witcher III is considered to be a great title too and I find that game hard to get into too. This Redfall debacle just shows that British board was right...

Looks like I didn't miss anything then. I've skipped the XBOX Series X this round because I found u was using the XBOX1 that I bought very little. In fact, it is literally brand new with the amount I have used it. As far as the PS5 goes, the only thing I miss is that SONY is too stupid to put...

How many of those are review bombs because some PS owners are angry that MS made REDFALL an XBOX exclusive?

Exclusivity was only a thing of the past because independently owned publishing houses wanted to maximize their profits by ensuring their products got on to as many console as possible, regardless of manufacturer. When a console manufacturer starts controlling more and more 9f the game...

These acquisitions should be stopped already, especially in the gaming sphere. The concentration of ownership of major publishers by Microsoft is giving them too much market power and ability to starve Sony's Playstation system of content.

I would think only if a person is satisfied with a down converted version since a series X/S game being streamed to a One X/S would have to account for hardware limitations.

Why would.you If you have both systems? Exclusives don't matter in that kind of environment.

I've been trying.to decide if the all access deal through EB Games is worth it? Basically, you sign up for a two year deal that included all access plus either an XBOX series X or S depending on which one a person wants. Total cost is approx C$995. I've toyed with the idea but signing a two...

I'm not. Winter is over. Even with restrictions, more people are going to want to get.out of the house, so I can see these overpriced boxes taking longer to sell.

How does the XBOX's game pass differ from PS Now?

Hardly seems like something that couldn't be applied to the PS5 in a.future update.

What defines a "network update"? Absolutely nothing. At 70GB, it was probably the whole game being downloaded. It is why I have stopped buying physical copies. The disc just ends up as a key. Most of the game ends up being downloaded just like digital copy, except now you have to use the CD as a...

I wish MS had done something to clean up the identifying nomenclature for their consoles. I just find their alphabet soup branding of XBOX One, XBOX One X, XBOX series X, XBOX series S to be too similar and easy to mix up generation-wise. At least Sony's boring method of just changing the...

What kind of dumbass would blow smoke from a vape stick into a 500 dollar console that is going to be like hen's teeth to find for the foreseeable future?

I think releasing downgraded versions of new gen systems is a waste, especially with the core gamer market. Any more than casual gamer is going to gravitate to the top tier release when it comes to these new systems.

I found it amusing how they were waxing on about how transformative this new gen XBOX was and their two "tech demos" were "Gears of War" and "Minecraft": two old dinosaur games.

The form factor and size of it look awkward for a living room, regardless of what one its designers said. Also, it really comes down to the games and exclusives. There was nothing in XBOX1 exclusives that I ever wanted to play, so the console has almost never been turned on since I first...