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@Wickedspades They did reduce the price of Ultimate, which is exactly what I said. And even though Gamepass has plateaued, it is still making money regardless.
Oh and one last thing... just relax dude. This is a chilled comments section.

@Bettyswollocks that is definitely not the glory days I'm referring to. That was the dilution and mismanagement of the Xbox brand, where things started to go wrong. At its worst you had Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond trying to make the actual console irrelevant with that whole "this is an Xbox" campaign. That has been scrapped now and they are gone. Asha Sharma is focusing on building the brand up again and making the console the point of reference again. These are all good, positive changes for the brand. Wildly different to what the previous management tried. And Gamepass is, by whatever reason or voodoo magic, still successful.

Wow, so much hate for Xbox in the comments... feels like I had just snuck into an enemy base 😅 Xbox is not focused on quick sales right now (they dropped the price of Gamepass Ultimate by a significant amount, for example). They are going through a brand exercise to restore the brand and grow over time. It's a long term plan to get more buy-in from new and returning customers. Exclusivity works for Playstation and works for Nintendo. Xbox is going back to the glory days when it worked for them as well.

@Porco And knowing Ueda's games, there must be a companion character in the game that you form a bond with, which seems to be the floating robot head.

@3Above I second this and highly recommend @Matroska play the unpatched disc version. Feels way better to play at 60fps. There are a few bugs you need to get around but totally worth it. And genATLAS will be the next Ueda masterpiece! 🥹

@Mio_Nakashima I would have to disagree with that because it is confirmed to be in the final polishing phase... also, I coughed up for the Premium Edition and there better be some DLC soon 😭

@awp69 Only Myst was released on Xbox. We are getting the Riven remake on consoles for the first time and I'm so happy I can cry 😭

I was really looking forward to part two for Alien Rogue Incursion 😞

Steep discount kinda game 👌🏻

I absolutely loved this game, but man it was extremely stressful to play 🫪 Will have to sack up for any new content 😅

As a blood-starved fan I will completely eat this up 😬

It's about time they started marketing this a bit. Almost forgot it existed 😅

"This is an Xbox" has already failed... there's no way Playstation will do the same thing. The ram crisis will blow over and consoles will live on 🫡

How the F**K did we get this before a 4k60 patch for Darksiders 3??

This has to be one of the best implimentations of PS1-era retro graphics I've seen in a game 🤩 Also looks very intriguing. A release date would be nice.

@nomither6 Same here 😂 Fired up the old Super Slim about a year ago and it's been a blast! So many awesome games trapped on that system.

Gaming needs to go back to a profitable business model and move away from this risky investment model where some new studios come out the gate with a big AAA game that sinks the entire ship if it flops.

It's like the wise old Shuhei Yoshida once said: "Single-player games now cost so much, so they need additional income by doing remasters and porting to PC to be able to do that", which is a sound business model. I know people are tired of these, but you've heard it from the man himself; they are necessary.

I think the same goes for AA games. If a studio puts out a few of these, it is less risk and even if just one of them becomes a mega-hit, you're set for the bigger games.

Lastly, the management of these studios need to significantly improve. Stop putting single-player game studios on BS live service projects.

Popcorn ready... this is getting spicy 🍿😄

The kids just don't know how good we had it in the 90's with the OG games coming out on PS1 🤣 You had to be there. RE2 scared the absolute sh** out of me. I think I was still in the single digits when I played it.

That heading made me chuckle. Yea I'm old 😅

Wow, they're not even trying anymore 😂🙈

RIP Phantom Blade 0 🥲

Played the original on PC when it launched back in the day. I was but a small boy, yet I remember the imagery and sound from this game with much fondness. The first real "isolated atmosphere" game I've ever played at the time and I was absolutely hypnotized by it 🤩 Seeing the first trailer for the remake in 2024 gave me genuine chills, but I unfortunately didn't have a PC. Can't wait for the console release! 😬

I've bought this game on every console I own and would do it again... NieR is life 🥹

Played the demo for this and had a blast! 😁 I already blew my gaming budget on RE9 though, so might pick this one up at a later stage.

To everyone complaining - are you forgetting that these games are coming to modern hardware and will be more available than they've ever been?? Isn't this how you preserve video games?

Bloodborne remaster confirmed!... oh no, wait... nevermind 😞

They just need to add an 'immersive' mode now to make it less looty-shooty.

@Almost_Ghostly Lol thanks for the heads up!

I'm gonna buy Ebola Village instead

I'll be there day one for Wolfenstein 3 and would've preferred that to The Great Circle. I am such a diehard Uncharted fan that I had hoped the Indiana Jones game would scratch that itch for me 😅 It didn't

These devs need to read the room. It's not safe to release hero shooters anymore 🙈 Rework it into a single player game.

I guess fixing that aggressive motion blur is gonna take some time... amongst other things

Devastating news 😔 The gaming industry has lost one of its most important people. Reading through and remembering all the games he was involved in gave me a lump in my throat. My heart goes out to his loved ones. RIP

Missed a few for 2026:

MIO: Memories In Orbit - 20/1
Replaced - 12/3
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss - 16/4
Saros - 20/4

Say what you will about Jeff and how he is onstage... the man knows how to make money and build hype

John Romero is gonna make you his b*tch!

I eventually stopped playing Silksong after many hours because the game was too hard to enjoy. Team Cherry were completely up their own asses with the difficulty. I'm looking forward to MIO and don't consider Silksong to be competition. If the difficulty is more like the first Hollow Knight or even Grime, it'll be another metroidvania I can enjoy 👌🏻

The sensible part of my brain tells me to steer clear of this because it looks like trash, but my lizard brain just wants to blast dinosaurs 😅

I'm still not over the sword in the key art. Way too curved 🙈

The first season didn't do it for me. They should just make a live action show starring Hayley Atwell as the live action Lara Croft. I can think of two big reasons why that would work 😉

Ok I'm buying this right now! 😬

They couldn't find a kid with bigger eyes to play Link? 👀

Bloodborne remake confirmed!

@GigaGaia Yea I meant for Sony it's more doable because their PS2 emulation have had some issues before. Relax.

@get2sammyb Agreed! Maximum value required 😬

I don't know why Sony isn't flooding the service with it's own 1st party games. PSP and PS1 games are so easy to emulate these days. Even PS2 games are more doable now. Only thing I can imagine is that there's still licensing issues, which would be a weird problem to have with a 1st party game 🤷🏻‍♂️ Or they're just dragging it out...

@nyr2k2 So it's even worse than I thought 🙈

The fact that one person developed most of this game by himself is an incredible feat and I have a lot of respect for that... but just because a game was made by one man doesn't mean I have to like it, especially if it is not up to par. It's still competing against other games for your time and money, regardless of who worked on it. I'm usually a bit sceptical about a 3D game if I hear it had one developer.

Fingers crossed this is good and gives Halo the shot in the arm it needs 🥹 It's been too long since Master Chief's glory days and now more people will experience it. Let's go! 😬

Hearing that music again after all these years 🥹🥹🥹

I must say.. as much as I love SOTC, that multiplayer concept looks like it could have been a lot of fun! 😬