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I actually find Jaffe occasionally entertaining, he had a great stream with Colin Moriarty a week or so back as it goes… but he is the king of hot takes (many of which I disagree with) and generally believes he (& only he) is right. Annoyingly entertaining… or entertainingly annoying in equal measure.

I’d be happy with 2030 not gonna lie

Build it… and they will come.

@OldGamer999 yup, basically once they went all in… the only real play was to keep everything (even CoD) exclusive to your platform. Yes it would hurt your bottom line in the short to mid term… but mid to long term the tide would turn and actually competing is the least they’d have achieved.

Instead, the money people at Microsoft allowed their short-sightedness to overrule the master plan and they’ve ended up an absolute laughing stock of a subsidiary.

What with the mismanagement of Xbox together with the Microslop push… the brand as a whole just holds a hell of a lot of toxicity these days. So the ‘Magnus’ could be an incredible machine at a bargain price at this point and all but the zealots will turn their nose up at it.

@OldGamer999 at this point, I think it’s a mixture of hubris and concern over how 100% capitulation after spending around 100 billion to compete (ActiBliz and all their other purchases they’ve made since around 2017) would negatively impact their share price.

@TrollOfWar just pull out and go full third party of course! The answers been staring them in the face for most of this gen and only hubris is stopping them from capitulating to it. Xbox gamers buying all their games on the Steam store isn’t gonna help their OS.

@OldGamer999 no doubt they’ll struggle! The transition from console hardware to full game-streaming will be the most difficult thing Sony will probably have ever had to navigate… it’ll be similarly difficult for Nintendo to contend with. I’ve always thought that Microsoft have had the forward-footing in this regard due to their standing within the PC sector, due to Windows and also due to Gamepass on PC.

My perspective has changed a little of late though, I’m not so sure Microsoft will so easily manage the transition to full game-streaming anymore. I feel pretty confident that PC Gamepass will have a similar price hike to that of consoles within the next year or so (and the PC community’s reaction will be even more vociferous than yous guys)… and the PC gaming community seem to be more and more against Microsoft lately anyway. As I’ve said many times, just because steam may be on their next box doesn’t mean it’ll help them in any meaningful way… I actually think it would speed up their exit.

@TrollOfWar but is it a good decision if it means that they’ll be earning even less from their platform than they are now? Just because something is good for the consumer doesn’t mean it’s good for the company (see the Gamepass experiment). If Microsoft end up losing even more revenue due to their own decision to allow steam onto their platform, what will be their next pivot/Hail Mary?

@4fold particularly… and I think this is where a lot of people can’t see the wood for the trees, if it also negatively effects the desirability of their own platform.

@UltimateOtaku91 I would use the “but everything’s an Xbox” punchline… but it’s not even worth it anymore 😁

@TrollOfWar yup, and one company has changed tack a frankly crazy amount of times during this gen… and resulted in them losing traction within the market rather than gaining.

@datamonkey smart as in Sony PC ports will be playable on it… not smart as in Microsoft won’t make a penny on their platform when all their diminishing userbase buys everything on steam.

@TrollOfWar remember when it was just 4 games? 😏

lol I put this theme on a week or so back… only now know what game it’s in relation to 😅

@Drnsnsr nice straw man

@Theamazing1 thanks for your opinion on my opinion about the current state of opinions 👍

@Theamazing1 tell me where I said they couldn’t… I just game my opinion. Are you suggesting that I can’t give my opinion, as it differed from your own, as… well, hypocrite much?

I don’t really have a problem with it tbh. They’ve said it’s two player and it is… you just need to earn it through enjoying a first playthrough in single player. Current society’s want to blow up over everything will eventually lead to societal collapse… and a modern dark age will give you some actual reason to moan I can assure you of that.

@DennisReynolds maybe you should’ve added the /s… but I thought it was pretty obvious tbh 😉

Amaze-balls fair play

@DennisReynolds maybe I should’ve added /s… but I thought it was pretty obvious tbh

Throw Tom Holland in there too and then they’ll have confirmed that AI now acts as casting director on all big budget movies.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, dev’s and publishers betting EVERYTHING on GaaS is like your layman remortaging their house and spending it all on lottery tickets. Sure, you might get rich… but you’ll probably lose your house!

I don’t know why but I still think it looks awesome regardless of the tepid reaction around the webz.

Played Asura’s Wrath first the first time around 18 months ago. I really liked it tbh, would be well up for a sequel… maybe even a remaster.

Haven’t heard if this before… but now has my full attention

It’ll never beat the PS2 but has a damn good chance of beating the PS4 now, what with how close its tracking and the probability that this generation will be extended.

Xbox cant save Square Enix, they can’t even save themselves.

@Metonymy it has a good a chance of doing that as anything. The only thing preventing it is my wish for it not to be over 😉

Such a great series… this could be my goty!

Will be helping some of the stragglers with the various multiplayer trophies on Gears of War: Reloaded, while continuing to chip away at the 10,000 competitive kills needed for the Seriously trophy.

And maybe some more Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver if I get some free time.

@Nightcrawler71 both Division games, Helldivers 2, the Zombie Army games and the Remnant games are all great PvE shooters. I also thought The First Descendant was pretty decent given its price (ie free).

edit. none of my suggestions are FPS btw… all third person but all are fun.

I have the ps2 port on ps4 but would love an actual Remaster prior to the release of the sequel 🤞

Update to the report… water is wet, repeat: water is wet!

Still feel a bit gutted about this tbh as was looking forward to it. I don’t know why they don’t just remaster the original.

Some gaming thots in these streets!

They had me at the first trailer way back when!

Cool, cool, cool. Not interested in Undisputed and already have Ace Combat 7… but the other two will do just fine.

Brings to mind “Who watches the watchmen…” but I get it. There are many reviewers with agendas… and that just isn’t cricket!

Love this guy, he’s like Pedro Pascal… but when he was still cool.

I have been a bit surprised by how keen and positive a lot of people seemed to be about this. The original is one of the poorer souls-likes I’ve played… and I love souls-likes but the combat felt like you were swinging a polystyrene sword the size of a surf-board about. Just had no oomph.

Sure I’ll play this… but my expectations have never been any higher than the 6 it got.

Weird… because I do like boxing but have zero interest in playing a boxing game.

I’ll probably pass on this one.

Never in doubt… well, that it would come to ps5 that is. Though I did doubt whether it would release in 2026 when all the rumours circulated in late 2025.

Looks like it could be my cup of tea… might make it my fourth Xbox game this year to celebrate their anniversary. Yeah, Halo, Gears, Forza and Fable feels right.

I did pick 5 on sale a few months back… looking forward to playing it this year. If I end up liking it (which I’m pretty sure that I will), I’ll keep an eye out for a decent price on 6.

@themightyant fair enough… and pretty much the main reason that I never dip-my-toe tbh. I just have far too many games to play and sinking 1000’s of hours into one, if not more of these just doesn’t sound like a good idea.

@themightyant that surprises me as actually, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that you put a lot of time into Gacha games… and this one is supposedly quite good. Any particular reason you’re not gonna try this?

edit. Your edit has pretty much answered my question tbh

This game appeals to me on so many levels. If my backlog wasn’t so un-manageable… and the game wasn’t so buggy, I’d have played it by now. The fact that it was recently patched and now runs great on console does take away my one issue… now back to the backlog to try and remove the other.

Actually feel a pinch of sadness about this. I worked the twilight shift at Sony Pen Coed making trinitrons back when I was doing my A-levels (a loooonnnggg time ago). It always struck me what a proud company they were… how spotless the factory floor was… and how proud they were that their TV’s were the best of the mass-market TV’s.

Well, I now feel even older than I did before reading this article, as well as sadder.. well done!