You’re right (I think) but I don’t know if I would say Sony would need Xbox. They would only really need COD, which arguably isn’t really Xbox to begin with. Plus, let’s be honest, would any of us really be surprised if Xbox runs Call of Duty into the ground like they did with Halo?
Activision was practically coming apart at the seams to keep Call of Duty releases annual. I could easily see that same mentality affect Microsoft.
Best controller by far, best UI, backwards compatibility and cross play with PC. Plus most of the games are free thanks to Game Pass. PS5 controller is one of the worst PlayStation controllers IMHO, better only than Dualshock 3. If you just want to play games on a blue collar budget and don't care about brand prestige or whatever, Series X is the place.
True, Activision was kinda fumbling over themselves trying to keep it together, and I can’t imagine Xbox, who has been running Halo into the ground for literal years yet haven’t stopped doing the one thing everyone knows is the source of the problem, will make it better. As much as it sucks for Xbox fans, I have to admit I am kinda feeling a massive “I told you so” after predicting Xbox will implode on itself for 5 years and nobody believing me until recently
How are ‘most of the games free’? You’re still paying for Gamepass.
Plus GamePass's selection has been rapidly getting worse, and will only continue to do so
Yeah the days of indies securing sweet deals to launch on gamepass are over.
That's true but in practice you see a game and download it to give it a try. No purchase required for each download.
I would push back on this pretty strongly for the past few months. P3r alone.
every platform has pc crossplay now, and xbox has a huge problem of constantly changing the ui, while never making it not suck ass. And you can't claim BC anymore since they totally abandoned it
If I put in the Dark Souls disc it works. Best way to play Dark Souls on the TV.
It has all the games Playstation has except for some Japanese games that are on Switch/will be on Switch 2, and Sony exclusives which aren't for me. That's a lot of games, and a lot of the new ones worth playing are on Gamepass.
Yeah, I don't own an Xbox, but as a PS5 owner, that UI is way too busy.
Hard disagree.
So you don't see any value in Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman, Horizon:ZD and FW, Ghost of Tsushima , Final Fantasy, Returnal, Death Stranding, Astro's Playroom, Rise of the Ronin, God of War, Sackboy etc.
Of these games, the only ones that interest me at all are Death Stranding (on Pc), final fantasy (I can wait until switch 2), and astro (tech demo). I'm not a fan of the ubisoft-styled open world games or the Last of Us styled "serious" games.
the impression i get for the 20 years of Xbox, is that the lack a clearly business vision/model, you look at Sony/Nintendo with very clear visions, but looking at Microsoft, they seens like, let shoot at everything and hope this suceed, they are too reactiorary,
“So Phil, how are you and the rest of the team going to do to pay back the $70bn loan we gave you to go buy ABK?”
People really need to watch MS’s GDC keynote from 2005. From what I remember that was ground zero for things like horse armor, pay to win, achievement chasing for gamerscore, etc.
Yea, I thought MS’s general strategy for the last 5 years or so was that they were trying to kickstart their own back catalog and first party development program, plus diversifying away from shooters, by doing the usual MS thing of throwing gobs of money around to buy their way in.
In a way yea, but If Sony was the only actor in the high performance home console space, who knows what they might pull.
COD was/is already being run into the ground. If anything the MS takeover gives us a chance of that not happening in the future. However, I expect them to maintain yearly releases for the foreseeable future.
Each to their own I suppose, I love the "trigger stuff", think it's been one of the few genuine technical advancements this gen.
It’s that and the fact that Microsoft doesn’t have a culture for making content. Microsoft’s bread and butter is enterprise software.
Coincidentally this is also why I never believe Apple each year they do the whole “we’re serious about games this time” presentation
And even Apple has been in a rut and haven't succeeded at much new beyond annual iPhone updates. Steve Jobs was an absolute prick on a galactic scale, but he did manage to push innovation that Apple just doesn't anymore.
Glad you can enjoy it. I'm sure there are people who love Starfield too, yeah. Not for me.
Nintendo isn't growth-oriented in the way that the current Western economy is designed around. Nintendo is profit-oriented, which is a very different thing.
Fair enough.
I actually think Apple should probably do more, especially with AppleTV boxes being able to connect a DualSense or Xbox controller. But I don’t think they’d do well managing any studios.
I don't know the Xbox ecosystem well enough to comment on listening to fans part but for better or worse Nintendo and Sony do their thing and drag their fans with them. I never got a sense Xbox had that roadmap, except perhaps briefly during 360 when they had a clear vision for online subscription services being their core pillar
