Topic: Official Push Square Xbox Thread

@Ravix I think Xbox's way out is PC and the next gen teases give that impression. Have a line of Xbox branded PCs with different power so like at the lower end is a Steam Deck like PC handheld and at the higher end is an expensive powerful PC. It would have other stores like Steam so none of the 3rd party support issues Xbox currently has would be present on the new systems.

All 3 go down their separate paths. Future Xbox hardware becomes PC, future PS hardware continues being stuff like good value high end consoles and future Nintendo hardware continues being stuff like good value hybrids. I think the balance would be disrupted in favour of PC if Nintendo ended up releasing their games on PC (PC would be the only place you could play everything) but I don't see Nintendo doing that.

I don't like PC gaming so while there's still consoles I'll get consoles. I also think I should've skipped Series X. I got one in 2021 primarily because my XB1 sounded like it was on its way out but the way the past 3 years have been, I'd have been better off just letting my XB1 run until it died.

@Grumblevolcano yeah, the reason it took me so long to get onto the Xbox ecosystem is probably the reason you may regret getting the X. There's not been a whole lot of reason to this generation, a lack of games and third party tends to be better elsewhere anyway.

I think the only reason I did was there was finally enough on game pass to warrant trying it out (most of it has ended up being third party anyway 😅) and the one show they did this year that looked like they had some stuff coming up I'd also like to try. But now it turns out some of that was coming to ps5 anyway.

I'll probably still end up saving money, as every game pass game I play is only costing me £3ish per month, which is just ridiculous, so that weighted against £50-70 purchases is not that bad at all. But I'd still rather buy games I want tbh.

I also don't see Xbox as a long term investment. I'll just sell it if there is a downturn in my use of it. Although, I do really quite like Dolby Vision gaming, I can't really explain why, but it works for me.

The PC thing is what interests me most, I don't have the nerve to go all in on a proper gaming PC, but I very much have the desire to ray trace the s*** out of everything. So if someone makes a console that performs like a PC with a console style OS, and maybe even has easy to swap out parts, I will definitely want it. I just would also want it to be Sony that made it 😆

Xbox lay off 650 staff, mostly thought to be Activision Blizzard. So they keep on breaking that lie-filled agreement that they 'weren't merging the companies in a way that would affect staff numbers at Activision Blizzard' in order to get the deal through 👍👍👍👍👍

There will be no consequences for them, of course. They can just rake in all the money from all of those PS5 sales of CoD 😅

@Ravix it’s a good move for the consumer and helps reinforce the value-proposition 😉

As a general note I am weirdly ok with Series being the last Xbox. I don’t think I have it in me to buy a next gen system now.

https://www.trueachievements.com/news/xbox-ambassadors-ending

Damn BAM, after all you did for them too!

@colonelkilgore Microsoft on a full run to fire as many shots to the foot as possible 🫣 who knows that might even upgrade to a fully automatic

@colonelkilgore LMAO - it was a good run whilst it lasted and I benefited from it with a free month of GPU every quarter as a result as well as making some great new friends...

@BAMozzy you were a hell of an ambassador dude, you put in the work in a way that puts my own work-ethic to shame… I salute you 🫡

@Yousef- aye, they’ll be buying the full rights to re-release Concord exclusively at this rate 😉

@BAMozzy I guess you won't be being 'rewarded' per word 'anymore' so does this mean you will be 'dialling' down on the 'game pass' mentions in your posts or that they will just be less 'verbose' than they 'traditionally' have been? Either way it's a 'shame' as it sounds like you were 'rewarded' handsomely for your 'efforts'.

@render As I was never rewarded for anything outside of completing the few Activities on the Ambassador website to earn points for rewards - Similar to MS Rewards, that had zero impact on any of my posts on ANY other site/forum. Therefore the closure will have absolutely zero impact outside of the Ambassadors programme website or have any impact on my opinion, length of post or content of them.

My 'traditional' posts and the content will remain as they were not influenced or impacted at all by the Ambassadors programme. They were 'traditional' before I joined and will likely continue. They were NOT associated with, influenced by or 'paid' for by Microsoft in ANY capacity before - I only got 'rewarded' for doing 'activities' (like playing certain games, earning achievements etc). Like MS Rewards, earn enough points per Quarter, you can earn enough for a free month of Game Pass Ultimate.

@BAMozzy ambassador was a great place to connect with people indeed. Sad to see it go.

https://www.purexbox.com/reviews/xbox-series-x/starfield-shat...

https://www.metacritic.com/game/starfield-shattered-space/

Ruh-roh. The expansion for Starfield, the one people thought would be pretty good because that's historically been the case for BGS releases, is currently sitting at a 58 on Metacritic. So, lower than Concord at the moment lmao

It'll probably change once more reviews roll in, but I'm actually a little disappointed. I didn't want to think BGS was just incapable of making good games anymore, but...

This really must be a depressing generation for fans of Western AAA stuff.

@Ralizah good you posted here cuz I slowly stopped browsing PX despite regularly being an Xbox user xD
Couldn’t take all the doomposting
Me and my friend could not stand starfield on release but we’re probably not gonna grave dance either. Not worth the energy. Especially for this.

@Yousef- I'll admit, there's a terrible little person inside of me that eats up despair and doomposting like it's catnip. So following slow-motion trainwrecks like Concord and... everything going on with the Xbox brand, almost... has been a lot of fun.

I was fully planning on playing Starfield when it first dropped, but... I dunno. I still game a lot, but in mid-2023 something inside of me sort of broke and my habits changed. I used to play a lot of newer releases, but with big games, I mostly just... don't have much interest anymore. I was actually eighty hours into Tears of the Kingdom and just... dropped it. Didn't play anything game-wise for half a year or so before slowly picking up the hobby again.

@Ralizah those sudden spikes and drops happen a lot to me as well 😂
Sometimes i just need a step back. Either that, or I can’t get enough of a certain thing.

@Ralizah They could swap games and Concord goes to Xbox and Starfield comes to PS.

I'm imagining Phil Spencer and Herman Hulst meeting in a gloomy alley, and HH (as all the cool kidz call him) passes over a bundle of money in a brown paper bag to Phil.

@Ralizah the comments are pretty funny… with the general consensus being that Pure Xbox reviewers are Sony-Ponies. The psychology of Xbox fans continues to amaze fair play.

@Ralizah Starfield is actually quite good and worth playing, at least in part, but, like all Bethesda games, you get so far and then there's just so much choice and so many open quests and so little overall quality that you just don't bother any more, and it's never really worth powering through for the story either, as that isn't really their strong suit 😅

I feel like I'll go back to it at some point, but i'll ignore half of the quests that I thought would be worth it. It's worth trying for the onbparding phase though, and maybe it will grip you to some extent.

Shattered Space, however... a 5/10 on pure xbox 😬😬😬 eeeeesh

@Ravix What was the exploration like? I hear that is one of the things that people say is missing the most compared to their previous games. Defo my favourite part of their games.

Yep those reviewers on Pure Xbox must be Sony ponies then lol.