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Let Bungie go back to Microsoft for another Halo and Sony can have, I don’t know, IP rights to Redfall or something. 😀

Seriously though Bungie probably needs to be put to pasture. Company just keeps on falling from its former grace.

I love how people are video game industry experts and can definitively say the game “flopped”. Things aren’t as simple as just sales anymore but, you know, everyone’s the expert.

How about let people enjoy whatever games they like and let the CEOs and shareholders determine what is actually considered a success for their bottom line?

Don’t care what the stats say, I’m absolutely loving it! That said I’m also still working on the brilliant Expedition 33 as well so there’s been a lot of great games in a short period so it might be eating into Doom’s numbers.

Look at the bright side, you don’t need to make difficult decisions like whether to play Expedition 33 or Doom: The Dark Ages tonight.

They need to just kill premium and roll it into Extra. Even then wouldn’t be a great month but definitely will drop Premium come renewal unless something major changes.

First season was outstanding (and both critical and audience reception was in the 90s on RT. It was far from just “passable”. Honestly think it’s the best video game adaptation on TV yet (yes, better than TLOU).

Cannot wait until the second season!!!

LA Noire never goes below $20. Surprising for that old of a game. But Rockstar….

As an owner of both a PS5 and XSX, I’ve actually been playing my Xbox more than ever. GamePass has been killing it lately and it’ll continue to be a huge reason for me to still want to get an Xbox going forward.

Still enjoy my PS5, but contrary to belief there are people who still like their Xboxes and have reasons for it. And that’s okay.

Just Revenge of the Savage Planet for me but I’ll play it on GamePass.

@ChrisDeku Content and Services is a lot more than just GamePass. Games they published also are in that and probably other things.

All I know is 45% more revenue for PC GamePass is a way more important metric than sub numbers themselves. You can say whatever you want to believe but that’s pretty definitive to me.

@ChrisDeku I never said users. And there’s plenty of articles that say exactly what I said. Like the one below where it explicitly says this:

“Nadella added that PC Game Pass revenue increased 45% year-over-year.”

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-fy25-q3-gaming-revenue

It’s 100% making more money regardless. And that’s good news for Microsoft and GP. GP sub price hikes were not 45% so there has to have been more users to go up that much.

It’s revenue so how could that be “cherry picked”? It’s just a comparison of what it made last year to what it’s making this year. And it made a lot more.

Last part of the article is outdated. Microsoft did recently release some numbers on GamePass as part of their earnings this week. PC GamePass revenue grew by 45% and GamePass overall is up 30%. It was one of the big highlights of Xbox’s earnings report. Seems to be doing just fine.

Own Balatro on three other systems so might as well own it on PS5 too. Though my phone version will always be my preferred way to play (perfect game for touch screens).

Only problem I have with these remaster reviews is that they say it’s the best way to play a game that was highly rated to begin with but then give it an average review score. Makes it seem like it’s actually worse than playing the original.

Not going to happen but it seems like the best solution would be to have a rating for the game itself and then a separate rating for the remaster effort.

Honestly they’re better off. Stay associated with the game and not this POS.

I never even heard of the game and you can’t really blame that on the shadow drop itself. You should be promoting your game months in advance. I read gaming sites daily so the fact that I haven’t even heard of it at all says something.

I bet Sony will end up allowing PS Plus copies to get the $10 upgrade like SE eventually did with Final Fantasy VII Remake. Expecting sales, particularly with Oblivion and Clair Obscur the same week, aren’t gonna be great and they’re still going to need to recoup costs.

@FinneasGH If you only own the first game from PS Plus, you won’t be able to get the upgrade. If you did buy it outright, it should come up for you instead of the $50 stand alone listing.

Don’t see a poll but it’s a 9 for me!

I understand the differences with GamePass and PS Plus with Sony not wanting to do much of the day one stuff. But older first party games? Just does not make any sense why these have to leave. A lot of stuff leaves GP too of course, but at least there’s security knowing that all the first party games will remain.

Kind of odd that the game is also #1 in UK game sales. Bandai Namco can’t be too upset with that result.

It’s also the highest rated game of the year across all genres so far. They’ll have lots of console players with it being on both PS Plus Extra and GamePass.

I mean doesn’t mean a lot when the important specs are still undetermined.

It would be extremely petty of Sony to block them. But Sony has been known to be petty so…

@carlos82 They’re selling a paid DLC expansion that happens to also include two days of early access. Not sure why people aren’t looking at that.

@djlard Some people want the DLC expansion. Not just the early access. Nothing stupid about that.

@Max_the_German Well, you are getting a paid DLC expansion with that so it will still cost you more if you wait two days if you want it.

I’d love a side project that went back to the old style of God of War. Still prefer those games to the newer ones.

Animal Well is going to hurt…

Honestly don’t see why it’s a bad idea to have it on a phone. I’d actually love to have it on the go. Games like this usually work really well with a touch interface.

BUT I don’t know why they feel the need to change it. Why ruin a masterpiece? As long as you can save the game when you want, it’ll be great.

Awesome! Definitely looking forward to playing this on GamePass when it launches. Absolutely my favorite Elder Scrolls game.

Odd that Pure Xbox hasn’t covered this yet.

Not sure I understand why the headline says that PS6 may be the only high-end console. Why couldn’t a console that’s closer to Windows also be high-end? And MS is committed to backwards compatibility so it still will be operating as a console as well. It’s not going to be fully PC but it most definitely could and likely will be “high-end” so the headline is odd and misleading at best.

@get2sammyb I’ve definitely heard complaints about it in just about every game that uses it. Weren’t there a lot of negative comments on the Forza Horizon 5 article? And at that time there was a lot people angry that Microsoft was doing it and acting like they were the only company to have it.

Paid early access is ridiculous no matter who does it.

Hardcore mode. Now that’s funny…. (as I get my ass whooped for the 100th time).

@EfYI Because they have almost nothing in common except cars?!?! They’re totally different games. Only thing comparable on PlayStation is The Crew (and the Horizon games are much better than any of those). Your statements show your complete lack of knowledge about the game.

Open world arcade racing vs semi-simulator style racing on tracks. Cars handle nothing like each other - AT ALL.

Looks cool but not sure how I feel about the “no quests” thing. Glad it’s coming to GamePass to at least give it a shot.

How many stories do we need about this? It’s no longer news.

Sounds like it’s made for me then. 😀

This caught my eye as a title coming to GamePass. Looks slick!

I’ll be taking it for a ride! (Sorry that was the best I could do)

Got Pirate Yakuza but am having a blast with Avowed so might end up putting that on the back-burner for now.

Don’t know if it’ll work or not but it’s way too early to judge. Honestly don’t think you can call it “idiotic” or a godsend at this point. Time will tell.

@ATaco My understanding is that the second “tape” will be on PS Extra next month.

Honestly what they could do is just stop doing State of Play presentations and put a blog post with trailers of upcoming games. Then do focused presentations for Sony games when they are ready to be shown (kind of like Microsoft’s Developer Directs).

Trailers of upcoming games still get out there and they’ll be excitement when there are presentations because we’ll know that they WILL be focused on first party games.

Loved this game on Series X/GamePass. Highly recommend it!

Not sure if this has anything to do with it but there’s numerous reports of layoffs at PlayStation today.

What an idiot. Those fires were devastating and he actually impeded rescue efforts to put out them out with his big boy toy. Guessing with that low of a fine that he didn’t cause it to crash? Some people in the world just don’t have the capacity to handle being rich without being an *****.

Another reason it’s 80 percent on PlayStation is that it’s on GamePass so probably made a big dent on Xbox sales.

Having an absolute blast playing this and very, very hard disagree on the score (which I think is the lowest I’ve seen). Easily an 8/10, pushing 9/10.

BTW, there are a bunch of camera settings that can be tweaked. Did the reviewer try any of them?
Have not had a death yet I would blame on the camera.

I don’t understand the point of these stories. It’s like every freaking day for like the last six months. Yes, we know more Xbox games are coming. Do we need a new story for every single rumor? It’s getting ridiculous. Real announcements like FH5, sure, but a million rumors of ports? No thanks. It’s overkill.

Played High on Life on GamePass and think it’s woefully underrated. Fun game if you don’t mind that type of humor. I’d personally say it’s the “high”light of this month. 😀