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I'm really hoping they pull it all together into a cohesive experience and it's not just a tick list of open world busy work.

The only thing that makes sense is the game was technically a mess. Ubisoft is exploring buyout options so they can't afford the bad publicity, or more likely the hit to the share value, of launching yet another game in a broken state and patching as they go.

Cyberpunk was an excellent game hamstrung by technical issues. Starfield's main problem is it's boring, no amount of technical polish is going to change that. Bethesda has been coasting the fumes of Skyrim for the last 15 years.

@DaPrince Exclusives still sell consoles, no matter how old they are. PS5's sales are still going strong and getting to play Sony exclusives is a large part in that. Porting to Xbox also has very little upside for Sony, it's a smaller market with gamers who don't step outside of Gamepass. The juice simply isn't worth the squeeze. Xbox is porting to PS because they are pretty much dead and buried in the hardware race, they have no choice but to pivot. Rumours of Xbox swirling the drain pretty much killed any X/S momentum, people didn't want to be stuck with a dead format so they didn't buy it. Sony would be mad to introduce that uncertainty into their consumer base, which announcing ports would almost certainly do.

I'm not sold, I'm getting the same vibes as Starfield reveals and marketing.

They were ropey on release, I can't imagine they've aged well at all.

"Hello my name is sega and I like money."

People who are surprised by this move haven't been following Sega's anti-consumer practices for a while.

Sayanora wild hearts can be completed in an afternoon and is absolutely worth you time.

I can't blame them for fleeing Hasbro and returning to their own IP.

Red dead redemption 1

We all know Microsoft's strategy for the franchise is going to be AI.

I'm in the minority but I didn't think E33 was all that good. Great art direction and soundtrack but everything else was pretty mid.

Unfortunately one of the realities of the Chinese game industry is having to keep the government sweet. This isn't the first time HoYo has had to make changes. As the Chinese games scene goes form strength to strength and Saudi Arabia hoovers up any studio willing to take their blood money censorship and pushing political narratives in gaming is going to become more of an issue.

A lot of entitled whining in these comments. CDPR made the stylistic choice for 1st person, they felt it was the best way to experience the work of art they created. Begging for 3rd person modes is just crass.

I was pretty gutted it was so crushingly mid after enjoying the CRPGs.

EA(I), it's in the game

@TrollOfWar probably not. It'd be a lot of work just for no one to buy them. Xbox gamers have been trained that games have no value and to never step outside of Gamepass.

@VanguardKaiser CoDs primary audience is on the PlayStation, though figures are hard to verify previous estimates have been as high as 82%. It's a disaster for MS to lose the Playstation audience as they actually have to pay for the game. The alleged lost $300m in GP sales last year and would have needed 15m new 1 month subscribers to cover the short fall. CoD's addition on attracting new subs was basically negligible.

I not sure why people are shocked, it's exactly on brand for CoD and I doubt 99% of their player base cares.

I want this to be good but they're still obfuscating their revenue model days away from launch. The vague cosmetics, battle passes and some gacha don't cut it, these are standards of F2p and can scale from relatively innocuous to apex predator, they just need to come clean about it all. The poor technical quality, even if its an earlier build, is unexpected, its looked great in preview trailers.

It's EA, hard pass anyway

No. Yet more Xbox deflection for absolutely tanking their own brand.

I played it back in the day and have no interest in revisiting it.

My son has only recently got into games and obviously missed this on Extra so he will be pleased!

@Vaako007 Guerilla has already stated that they were of bored it and have zero interest in returning to the franchise.

That's a name I haven't heard in years. I played the demo on Demo Disc 1 but never got any of them, I'd be interested in giving them a go. The PS1 had some great fighting games, hopefully Tobal no.1 or Star Gladiator will see the light of day once more.

It's amazing that these people still have jobs let alone think they can give advice after overseeing the demise of an entire brand.

While objectively this is a great month, I've already played everything I would want to.

They've never been great but this year's was a low point , I have zero faith next year's will be any better

I'm looking forward to it, hopefully it reviews well.

If only someone, anyone, could have predicted this

Being the most powerful console each generation is a marketing strategy that hasn't really been relevant since the PS1/Saturn/N64 era. Every generation Microsoft makes the most powerful console and every generation the Xbox sells even less

Hopefully the install becomes optional, I have zero interest in this. It's obviously something that felt couldn't stand on its own two feet and have bolted it onto to Genshin in the hopes there's some crossover.

Classic Atlus.

Persona 3 remake

Neither Skate or Dead Space really have the brand appeal to be charging those kind of prices. But if you are buying EA games you deserve to get fleeced.

Maybe I'm being cynical but without an obvious way to crowbar live service MP into the franchise Rockstar is simple not interested in a sequel or remaster

P3r finally made it off the backlog

EA are exactly the type of company to take Saudi blood money without a shred of conscience.

Is push square being paid to advertise this game?

While I enjoyed the beta, I had my butt handed to me in most matches!

Do you hear that noise? It's the sound of their lawyers clutching at straws.

It was a lot of fun until Epic bought it and immediately began the enshittification process.

I fell off in act 2 and am not sure why

They are not objectively crap but many of them are targeting specific audiences and lack any kind of wider appeal.

New Genshin update

“impressed […] with the breadth and the depth of the mythology that’s involved in this video game"

Sounds very much like someone who hasn't played the games.

@Hurblyburbly I couldn't have been more shocked if I had woken up and found my head sewn to the carpet

Unicorn Overlord

@tselliot to be fair to Genshin the story is mostly well written and is like TV seasons, each has it's own arc while also having the overarching plot slowly ticking along. Nod Krai is the beginning of the end, the plot is now drawing together and heading towards the finale.