That man is…well he’s something. Jeez.
I think Xbox could do with some good press for a change - we disagree! How strange.
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I think people just disagree about how much these sort of things mean outside of enthusiast circles.
Are there actually people that discuss this sort of thing IRL?
I’ve been a gamer for 20 plus years and I’ve never met anyone IRL who discussed this sort of thing. Even during the pinnacle of the PS4/Xbox One resolution debates. Even when my wife was running a moderately successful Twitch channel.
It just doesn’t come up outside of forum posts and people trying to “own” the other console. I’m definitely well into the top couple percent of gamers when it comes to spending on the hobby and time spent reading/engaging with forums and even I don’t give a shit about this shadow thing.
I just want to know when Fable, Gears and Indie are coming out. Oh, and a release date for a MechAssault 3 wouldn’t be remiss either.
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It’s as reliable as folks who voted not to buy CoD game anymore.
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Cod gamepass is about 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% As important as fucking shadow quality in a port of a year old game
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That’s a lot of zeroes
It’s probably not enough tbh. I don’t know if there is one single person actually making a purchasing decision off of Port shadows, making it an infinite difference
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I think the real question should be why does it look better on PS5? We know it’s not a question of hardware capability as Xbox Series X is more capable than PS5 and the PC version is a match for Xbox Series X in terms of shadows and PC definitely isn’t less powerful than PS5 either. This means that when Tango Gameworks made the game there is a possibility they went for a specific shadow setting for whatever reason, and that the porting studio worked more on that specific detail and made it better as they had more time. Porting a game means you have more time to focus on little things like this since you don’t actually create the main experience. The porting studio only had to work on the PS5 version and isn’t responsible for the PC and the Xbox version so those changes won’t be applied there I’m guessing unless some code can be shared and patched in quickly, I really don’t know.
Unless TG is responsible themselves for the port, then I don’t have a clue why they couldn’t patch the other versions. But if the work is done by different studios, there is a big possibility that this kind of difference is going to happen more if more games are ported in the future. I don’t think it’s a big issue though, and the Twitter hivemind has no impact on the common mortals that buy these systems at retail to be honest.
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IMO some of you really just need to start the transition to using PS5 as your main console instead “torturing” yourselves on Xbox. 
Would be better than making posts about shadow quality in some game.
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You dont talk for all of us, this thread is useful for this shadow type nonsense, and thats all its useful for. The vast majority of gamers dont give a flying shit about all this “drama” being pushed and received by a vocal minority.
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Seriously, who cares that a guy who’s tied his entire online persona to a particular brand isn’t happy? I don’t follow him, as he always came across as a fanboy who usually does well to hide it, but the mask did slip a few times.
Him currently being unhappy shouldn’t affect anyone’s enjoyment of the Xbox ecosystem one bit, as it’s all about the games, and right now, having finished Hellblade 1 (awesome game, combat was good imo) and now playing Diablo 4/Psychonauts 2, I’m personally having a great time.
Said it before, if you find yourself being affected by the discourse, take a step back and stop engaging with it. Stop following/paying too much mind to people like Klobrille and just enjoy the games.
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I never thought I’d see the day people would turn on someone like Klobrille in order to defend a multi-billion dollar conglomerate all because he expressed dissatisfaction with a brand that he was there for on Day 1. It’s not like he was a toxic console warrior like Timdog, Xbox brought him enjoy, and he put that same positivity back into the community. These are dark days indeed. Maybe us oldhead Xbox fans who expect better should just move on to Playstation or something.
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I’m not turning on Klobrille? But he doesn’t define my complete perspective just because he fervently is or was an advocate multi-trillion dollar conglomerate? If it’s dark days, this is just about fantasy football, which is basically what is boiling down to at this point.
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I don’t recall any of his tweets going at Xbox. He has said some general things like the atmosphere around Xbox community has changed. he obviously doesn’t like the multiplat idea and has said so, I do believe he said he hopes they know what they’re doing and has kept it moving unlike that other guy.
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I have very little idea what he’s been saying about recent events, but the person I replied to is using him as some sort of barometer for the community at large, which shouldn’t be the case.
I’m disappointed more about the Videogame industry as a whole than simply mad about Xbox specifically …
What I wanted was for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo to get very big and competitive. That was the “hope” I felt when Xbox acquired Activision. I wanted it to continue to snowball and for Xbox to buy Sega. PlayStation to buy Square. And Nintendo to make a powerful console. I wanted to see big tech buy the PlayStation brand and really take it to Xbox which would’ve forced Xbox to try even harder and acquire even more studios. I thought a competitively minded PlayStation that had big tech money could keep everything moving forward. Xbox with a Sega partnership could force Nintendo to have to try harder as well. It’s boring that Xbox and PlayStation don’t try to compete with Nintendo anymore and it’s not great that Nintendo is so complacent either. God and don’t get me started on PlayStation, they are a shell of their former selves, PS5 was the most boring console I ever owned, PlayStation simply doesn’t release games anymore. That’s basically where my disappointment lies, because to me the Activision acquisition signaled a beginning to a new competitive landscape for a gaming hobby that I love. Instead we have regulators telling Xbox to stop competing, PlayStation making even fewer games than before, and Nintendo content to never leave their comfort zone. Instead of growth, the industry is laying off and closing studios.
So who’s to blame for all this mess? Everyone honestly, Xbox was always too slow to green light projects, PlayStation was too worried about narrative control (PlayStation and its bias media freaking killed E3 over not wanting to look bad in comparison to Xbox) and now PlayStation never releases much of anything these days, and Nintendo doesn’t seem to even want anything to do with the high end console market despite the fact that a Nintendo console with AAA graphics would actually be a force to be reckoned with (AAA Pokemon alone would sell the console).
The state of the gaming industry is a mess. Hopefully a PC Xbox in 2026 or whatever the rumor is will shake things up again. The industry needs to be shaken every once in awhile because the status quo is pretty boring if you ask me 
A lot of these influencers have built up personalities, social circles, and even income centered around their fandom. They have an emotion attachment far beyond normal people, and that can swing both positive or negative.
Using that group as a barometer for the overall Xbox fanbase is a mistake.
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I personally like where Nintendo is at, it suits them better to be doing their own thing
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Nintendo was my first love as a gamer. Playing NES Super Mario Bros. at my neighbors house for the first time at 5 years old is literally my first core memory 
I can understand most middle aged gamers have probably given up on Nintendo at this point and just consider it that console that our kids play or played. But there is a potential to unlock nostalgia from a wide ranging age bracket of older gamers. Nintendo is a sleeping giant that will probably never wake up, but it would be very cool to see a AAA Nintendo with cutting edge graphics.