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So 100 games to buy across the 2 sales that are on?

I think @PushSquare either have to be more selective or just say buy everything.

Because it’s getting a little silly

Literally means nothing as everything in front of it releases sooner.

Unfortunately CoD is here to stay and it will still sell a ridiculous amount.

CoD needs to skip a year and give the devs some proper time to implement some new ideas.

I know it won’t happen due to the money, but it needs it.

Far too long.

A lot of waffle and filler that had nothing to do with games.

Spent too long on certain games CoD for example.

Too many trailers that actually showed little. RE and black myth for instance.

Overall my expectations were low, but still didn’t clear the bar.

I know you guys want us to go through PS but honestly you can get much better deals through known retailers unfortunately.

@Max_the_German

I don’t think they will drop out.

I just currently think in the scheme of things at MS Gamepass is not that big of a priority compared to azure or ai

@Max_the_German Microsoft made something in the region of £100billion profit for the year. $5billion in revenue is very little.

Especially as you are probably talking in the region of $1 billion of that being profit (20% profit margin? Probably too high)

That $1-2billion profit on GP is actually a tiny number to MS - for a lot of hassle.

But again to us consumers currently it’s still great value.

@naruball I edited my above to add more.

I’d love to know what The sales figures for CoD (as an example) were on Xbox prior to GP. Compared to actual sales since added to GP. Because that’s the only way you can tell if GP has covered the difference.

@themightyant I wonder if $1-2billion a year profit on GP is enough for Microsoft. Sure to everyone else that’s a huge number. But in the eyes of MS is it?

There’s a lot of costs that don’t end up in the financials of GP. (Of 1st party games)

There’s no costs of advertising the new releases, the development budget is elsewhere as examples.

There’s also the loss of sales that would have been done, compared to how many sub to GP.

What would the 10% growth (overall) had been without the Sony sales? There’s no previous year to compare with so inflated the figures.

As always there’s lots of nuances around numbers. What is and isn’t reported. But for now for the consumer GP is still good value, which is the most important part.

Didn’t everyone know this already?

It’s always about the line going up.

MS wouldn’t port their games if it wasn’t a money maker for them. People aren’t switching consoles at a large rate to go get Gamepass.

It works for both sides.

SoD2 was a solid game, good to just run around with.

Interesting to see what comes with 3. Hope they don’t push multiplayer too much.

But at this point it would be more surprising if upcoming releases are Xbox exclusives.

So 15 at launch and 20 to follow in dlc

People losing their ***** making it out like it was given a 3/10.

It’s a little bit under the average.

And it’s about time websites started pulling more at day 1 performance. Because it’s often ridiculous day 1 is most expensive and worst performance. I hope PS keep pushing on technical issues whether it be 1st party or indie.

6/7/8 out of 10 I’ll still give it a try after a couple of patches on GP.

@themightyant you beat me to it. Was coming to say the exact same thing.

It can be hard to justify dropping £70?! (If it was £70) on a 7/10. Something has to give somewhere.

Then as you rightly point out I also have both plus and GP, so literally a thousand games to pick from.

I know that’s tough on developers too but can the games industry keep going releasing the amount of games that get released weekly? People have limited time and an ever shrinking disposable budget, families being squeezed left and right, a multitude of f2p games, or games with a roadmap of 18months to keep players coming back.

I’ve always given CDPR the ***** they deserved for the state they released cp77 in. And I will continue to do so.

However funnily enough last week the ultimate collection was on offer at £28 on prime day so I bought it. Along with an LG C4 which arrives tomorrow, so cp77 is my game to test out the tv. So the update is welcome!

Super annoyed I held off buying a C4 until I was home in the evening and sold out.

By 28 that was a 10yr dev cycle.

And we are seeing games struggling to break into the live service market.

But considering MS need day 1 games for GP it’s mad that they are cancelling games

I said at release I was surprised it wasn’t day 1 (and concord etc) because live service needs all the players it can get usually. (Didn’t see hd2 doing so well)

I think it’s more a strategy change if single player games go over.

But Sony has to consider if next Xbox does have steam, they have access to Sony games anyway so maybe they have to react to that. But do I see much going this gen? Probably not.

It should have gone day 1

Definitely on my radar.

Also not really red up on it. Is it looking at something like returnal difficulty or more forgiving style?

But people will keep buying broken unfinished games. So the cycle will continue.

@wildcat_kickz it’s been out for 2years now so unsurprising that it’s hitting other subs (obviously also on GP)

Will probably give a boost to dlc sales,

@Sergo it won’t have any dlc

Didnt p3r metaphor SMT:V all launch relatively close together that are all similar, plus throw in LaD titles that released too and thats quite a number of JRPG titles that people would split across

Bit late on the info here!

People forget premium is what £20 a year more than extra? It’s barely anything and offers the classics and cloud (which is becoming more popular)

And we keep getting told the portal sells well so naturally you would see those users having to upgrade too.

Well considering MS own them I’d have been more shocked if they said it was Nintendo’s fault.

@LifeGirl but concord played ok right? It wasn’t a broken technical mess right?

Sure nobody wanted the game. But you can’t knock points off for no one wanting to buy it.

Was kinda expecting Mindseye on there.

Still time for a late addition right?

@nessisonett they have to defend it because they have to justify the £50 spent on it.

People can’t bare with the thought that they have lost out on £50/70 whatever it costs.

Will come in winter. After gears.

Intime for a new halo next year.

Somy get some good PR and goodwill after an improved SoP and keeping $70 games.

Then they go blow it. Chasing what they won’t get. At least the studio didn’t shut. Small victory.

Now let them make days gone 2 that will be a decent success.

Not played it because I just don’t really co op.

But I can’t help feel that this game has just come out to no fanfare and isn’t really mentioned since it announced it sold well on release

Honestly it was poor.

I understand it has to cater to a large audience. Hence the dragging it out.

But the pacing was slow, the trailers were kind of all over the place. Very little actual ‘big’ reveals.

I think Xbox will have the best showcase of the 3.

Show was good, solid 8/10.

Lots of interesting games. A few not so.

People seem to be mistaking what was good about it for Sony. It was the fact that they actually got a state of play right - the tempo was good, most seemed to be releasing within 12months.

Could they have shown more first party stuff? Sure, but that’s not how Sony operate anymore, we didn’t even see Astro bot till what 3-4months before release?

This game makes sense as to why Sony have the fighting stick ( forget what it was called )in the pipeline

This will be bought!

Solid 8/10

Best version of a State of Play they have produced in a while.

Ah look people intentionally clicking on an article that they don’t need to if they don’t like it to try and push that they have the right view.

If it’s not for you. Ignore it. Just as you would any other game you aren’t interested in.

I reckon it’s to boost popularity in Japan.

Just going out on a hunch there.

Glad wrc will be around

I was interested until I read souls type combat.

I’m just over that right now

@nessisonett or maybe JEJ knew what he was doing and did so to provide further income for his family after his death.

@themightyant oh I do. I just thought I’d ask seeing as though it is the headline then not actually mentioned anywhere else.

Inquiry by who? MS and Bethesda? Or just ‘the internet’ ?

I reckon since gta has been pushed back that their is a higher chance of this being true.

@themightyant it’s what PSquare users expect.

Every month the extra/essential games are also terrible

I mean it’s £2 a game. By your 12months it would average out at £1.

Plus the other benefits you get from premium.

Bit of an overreaction, sure it could be better.

I wanted to try sand land so will give that a go.

Wouldn’t surprise me if more get added to premium

Even if it was 18 that’s still going to be an 8yr cycle. Hell of a long time.