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Xbox Series X (coming 10 Nov 2020)
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COD MW3: (AUD) $89
COD BO6: (AUD) $99
So Gamepass saved me ~$190 by having both these games be free so I could delete them after one playthrough, and after the first level, respectively, because they were awful. 🤷♂️
I can appreciate the humor in this ad, but their vision of a gaming platform does not speak to me. I hope Playstation will not start going down that path,
Can you blame Microsoft? The Xbox was superior to Playstation in terms of computing power, but people keep buying the Sony Playstation despite this.
The only growth Microsoft has is Cloud gaming.
The only advantage Microsoft has over Sony is that Microsoft is probably one of the biggest cloud service providers on the planet.
The only growth Microsoft has is Cloud gaming.
The only advantage Microsoft has over Sony is that Microsoft is probably one of the biggest cloud service providers on the planet.
People buy console games, irrespective of system power. MS screwed up on their first party exclusives (which was a carry over screwup from the XB1 days). MS is taking the slow route towards becoming another Sega in the video game industry.
In the next two years, the price of a gamepass subscription will likely increase by 50-100%. Eventually some games will become subscription only. Therefore even if you don't buy the full game at $99. MS will get $30-50 from you per month. As long as you annual spend on gamepass, the equivalent of buying 3-5 games, they will be happy.
As has been proven multiple times now, the power advantage on paper does not mean better games.
Microsoft have nothing left. They spent 80 odd billion US in acquisitions, now the board and share holders understandably want money back. So their games will be on any platform they can get them on and they are trying desperately to get more Game Pass subscribers but they seems to be stalling.
All Microsoft had to do was get game exclusivity deals like Sony, now they've ended up going the completely opposite direction. And will end up as a third party service games brand.
I think the next Nintendo console will end up doing extremely well with Xbox games.
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Rumour has it that MS was going to bring Halo skins into CoD. I wouldn't be surprised if they use COD as a platform to cross sell their other games. This could be used using skins inspired by Halo, Gears of War and other IP.
The real win (for gamer) is if the skins are available on other platforms (something Sony doesn't do).
Does GamePass actually run on Linux? The advertisement mentions SteamDeck, which is Linux. This is just a question out of curiosity, I don't want a subscription from Microsoft.
The advert posted isn't showing a steamdeck. I believe that is an ASUS ROG Ally.
That being said there is a way to get gamepass cloud gaming working on the steamdeck. MY son did it, I hadn't asked him how.
it's browser only :-(
Xbox Cloud Gaming in Microsoft Edge with Steam Deck
Bummer that a handheld is years away. I thought they would partner with Asus or MSI on an xbox branded handheld, with controller-friendly login and navigation for windows + 3 moths of gamepass bundled with it:
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Microsoft Confirms Plans to Release an Xbox Handheld, but It’s Years Away - IGN
Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer has confirmed the company’s plans to release an Xbox handheld, but stressed it’s years away from release.
I treat hardware requirements like that the same way each time:
-Play at high not ultra settings.
-Don't enable ray tracing unless it's drop dead gorgeous.
-Switch on resolution scaling if you are below 60fps.
If there is cross save I will play the game on both pc and series x.
From what I gather the game doesn't offer a means to turn RT off (like Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition).
EDIT: Guess we will find out tomorrow from all the folk getting early access.
I'm 20 minutes into the initial orientation for stalker 2, it's a nice movement engine, with movement sensitivity cranked to 85. Very pretty graphics so far - gives a vibe somewhat like the film Annihilation (why there hasn't been a game franchise around that, I cant understand).
I tried playing Dead Island 2 - got as far as choosing a character after the opening cinematic, and they all looked like the sort of "my personality came with my outfit off the rack at a mall chain store" ******s that I wanted to see being eaten by zombies, so I noped out.
I tried playing Dead Island 2 - got as far as choosing a character after the opening cinematic, and they all looked like the sort of "my personality came with my outfit off the rack at a mall chain store" ******s that I wanted to see being eaten by zombies, so I noped out.
Wow. A bit like alan wake 2 and frontiers of pandora that use some form of ray tracing, even if it's software enabled.
Bethesda fixed the typos on Indiana Jones’ PC specs — and answered our question about required ray tracing.
[Link: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™ PC Specs | https://bethesda.net/en/article/3Od8RFBcAOGNxNDlD801Rp/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-pc-specs | bethesda.net] We pointed out yesterday that Bethesda’s original grid included some processors that don’t exist. You can see the corrected...
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Bethesda says it is HWRT based GI. So yeah that is going to be rough.
It will be interesting to see how the Series X performs. If hardware enabled ray tracing becomes default then 60fps on the series x will become less feasible unless visuals are set to potato.Bethesda fixed the typos on Indiana Jones’ PC specs — and answered our question about required ray tracing.
[Link: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™ PC Specs | https://bethesda.net/en/article/3Od8RFBcAOGNxNDlD801Rp/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-pc-specs | bethesda.net] We pointed out yesterday that Bethesda’s original grid included some processors that don’t exist. You can see the corrected...
Bethesda says it is HWRT based GI. So yeah that is going to be rough.
Yes. However I'm not sure it's a big problem. I reckon the majority of Series S owners are casual gamers who play fortnite, fifa, madden, verbal, cod and similar life service titles. From day one it's never been a console for anyone who high values eye candy of AAA RPG titles.
Ehh. I know a few people who aren't like that, that picked up a Series S. Personally if there was a Series S with a disc drive for like $350 I probably would have grabbed it over the X. I don't care that much for graphics. I also imagine there's a bunch of kids/teens that got one as Christmas presents or the like with more varied tastes.