No way lmao. I’ve given up hope. Xbox shouldn’t have to be doing any of this. Because Nintendo and Sony never had. People are complaining about their libraries, but that hasn’t been an issue with EVERY OTHER handheld. If a console isn’t a console because it doesn’t support the entire library of the previous console, have complete cross entitlement, and complete cross progression for your library then every console is out. Sony and Nintendo still don’t off free cloud saves. The fact that people are still complaining now over things that ARE NOT industry standard and that Xbox is at the forefront pioneering makes it clear that they’ll hate no matter what.
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They’ll come up with some other complaint to lobby at Xbox, as that’s their MO, but they won’t be able to use this against Xbox.
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I mean they already are with Xbox Play Anywhere not extending to “all” games and some of them even have recently (recently) decided the backwards compatibility already existing on Series consoles isn’t enough. People are just mad right now for reasons that I think aren’t rooted in gaming, but for whatever reason Xbox has become the punching bag. They’ll complain that it doesn’t count if it’s not every game ever. And even if it is they’ll complain that it doesn’t count with some BS like “emulation isn’t native or emulators are fake”. They don’t have reasons that really hold up now, but they sure keep shouting them.
Lol, what a bunch of Sony shills, because if Xbox’s effort with backwards compatibility isn’t enough and they don’t mention the subpar effort by Sony and Nintendo and call it out than we know they’re just a bunch of shills or grifters looking to get people to click on their content to monetize people’s anger or insecurity. The best thing to do is like Jesse told Jon, block them ignore them they will continue to talk this shit all the time.
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I’ve seen this around too lately and it is aggravating! “Not all games were included” “Not all games got enhancements”
I’ll never stop being impressed and delighted that we can play games like Assassin’s Creed and Mirror’s Edge at 4K 60 on console, for free, from the original code. No amount of downplaying can take away the unreal accomplishment that Xbox’s BC initiative represented.
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I really do have to just ignore it as has been said multiple times, but it does feel like the industry, at least console market, is going to kill itself at this rate. Because the Xbox goal post is constantly moving further in the stratosphere, while Nintedo and Sony can happily rest in the nine circles of hell. People have to realize how ridiculous they’re sounding now with the double standard and how dangerous it is to promote. Again, I really don’t think Microsoft would be acting like a charity regardless right now (with all the internal pressure), but there was a time when they were the by far most generous console maker and it did nothing for them. And now people are moving the goal post yet again and again and again. And I really have to just hope its a vocal minority because otherwise we’re kinda screwed. The industry itself is terrible and rewarding the other platforms for being terrible to consumers just because they’re not Xbox isn’t helping. Getting mad at Xbox for doing stuff that’s objectively good for gaming overall (and should’ve been done a long time ago) is DEFINITELY not helping.
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Looks good. The two things holding me back is the price and lack of access to my library of games.
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If there is one thing I’d say it will be that Xbox has set a new precedent in the controller ergonomics of handheld gaming. I’d imagine moving forward this will be a stable of handhelds. There is a good chance if ASUS can lower the Xbox Ally from 650 to 500 for Black Friday or the holidays, they may enter Nintendo selling territory and compete well there.
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