Give me my Xbox/PC hybrid baby!!! I get all the Xbox games, Game Pass Ultimate, Ubisoft+, free cloud saves, six game refunds a year along with the Xbox PC Game Pass games and Steam/Epic. Oh man!!! If they can pull this off and get the all in one console that I have wanted since the SNES/Genesis days, this will be fucking awesome!! I also won’t need to buy a PlayStation 6 because why would I if I don’t have to? Teehee.
I’m going to assume that if they pull this off, there will be variations of the hardware at different specs in order to run the “PC” version of games. Give me that stacked and packed Xbox PC hybrid console!!!
I wonder if this is a response to the whole next Xbox won’t be bc rumors over the past week? Also this makes me think this console mite be sooner than we think. What if they do come out in 2026? People will be like well so will be more powerful when it comes out. Ok Xbox has an answer to that. The asus/ Lenovo/ Samsung Xbox. With more ram/ power etc interesting time ahead
I‘ve always said that existing Xbox customers would need a little more solid info on the future of hardware than just “we‘re building it and it‘s going to the best the biggest power leap ever“. I’m glad Xbox came out and confirmed that the Xbox PC is a real thing and that it will be a much more open platform. It opens up a lot of possibilities for games that have skipped Xbox in the past. Us with a large library of games can look into the future much more calmly now, because our games will likely be emulated/compatible on Windows devices in some form.
I think this new hardware will come in the form of a cheaper and more expensive device once more, as Bond used the plural in her announcement.
I find it disappointing that when it comes to the biggest games developers showing their biggest games they’re running on a base PS5 and not the better Series X like for GTA 6, Witcher 4 and even when it comes to tech engines, the likes of Epic lead and show off their new Unreal engine on base PS5, like they did on the PS4
That wasn’t the case in the 360 era and is IMO why so many 3rd party games take so little advantage of the Series X over the base PS5, other than a few exceptions like Alan Wake 2 even when almost all game development leads on PC
We’ll see… I’m also hoping Xbox will also get its development tools back up to pace like in the 360 and OG Xbox days because that seems to be another aera SONY has done better with the PS5 and PS4
Overall I’m just happy with Xbox being in the hardware game for the long term, thats the best news in months and hofully will stop the talk of Xbox doing a SEGA
Wasn’t the PS3 really bad to develop for? Launched a year later than the 360, considered more powerful but getting better results from it needed longer development time. It was also way more expensive.
The 360 being the head development wasn’t anything more than mistakes made by Sony and it being the more popular console(sold more) at the time. It had nothing to do with power, or unique set up(that was the PS3).
I read a lot of developers saying the 360 was better and easier to develop on, didn’t Valve go on some rage against the PS3 and how they’ll never work on it (yes ok, they changed their mind ) most certaily the power of the OG Xbox meant we got some games from teams that otherwise would have never happend on consoles like Riddick, Doom 3, Ninja Gaiden, Farcry Instincts.
Success or not the next gen consoles from MS WILL be a big deal and a quite huge innovation for the (stale for years and years) gaming industry. Even if we don’t know how things will turn out I am here for the ride!
Clearing things up about hardware was a good move from Xbox, this confirmation makes the BS insiders that spew crap to shut up so for that alone it was a great move.
Either way I am very excited for the next Xbox and what the future holds for the platform/ecosystem!
Yes, the 360 had a lot of circumstances that put it in a position to be the prefer platform. Easier development, lower cost, a year of being the only next gen console in the market.
But I think there was also talk about the PS3 being more powerful, but it was so hard to develop for that the extra power was rarely used
I remember John Carmack saying how much better the tools were on the 360 and he was seen as the GOD of programming back then I don’t have Remedy down as Xbox bashers, but didn’t come out and say the PS 5 tools were better than Series X development tools
I would say a lot of SONY In-House teams did use the full power of the PS3 and where you saw the difference, like with Killzone 2 against Halo 3. We haven’t seen much of that this gen, even from Xbox’s own In-House teams but I can’t help but feel a lot of that is down to the need for games to be on the Series S .
Every single one of those random indies that pop off will be available on Xbox, no more waiting. Sony will have to pay even more if they want 3rd party timed exclusives because they will have to include PCs too.
Pretty funny to think about it like that, so much for Xbox having no games. Things can turn around pretty quickly.
At the beginning of gen, yes the PS5 tools were better because they were just the PS4 tools with some added stuff.
Currently no, Xbox has gotten their dev tools to a better place. Which is why a lot of times Series X, after the tools were ready, had better performance in games. With exceptions of course, where the devs opted for parity, bugs, or decided to put more dev time on PS5.
Well, it’s all guesswork, haven’t seen a meaningful difference in games these days on the PS5 and Series X though it does look like Fable is going to push the Series X hard with those stupendous visuals where I still can’t believe were all captured on a Series X and also hoping the next Forza Horzion will go all out on getting the max out of the Series X
I made the mistake of reading comments about this announcement. People are saying “it’s about time xbox makes clear their plans”. sony and nintendo are the opaquest companies and yet no complaints about that…
I can’t really think of a single game that would have had better visuals if Series S didn’t exist, those games would still require to run on PCs probably similar to Series S anyway and for what it’s worth, I think DF gave Indiana Jones their best looking game of the year award, Hellblade and Indiana both look incredible and they are/were Xbox exclusive at launch.
And I have had my criticisms for their decisions with Series S plenty of times in this site, because it has clearly given some studios challenges at times, as we saw with Baldurs Gate 3 and apparently Wukong as well.
There’s a very good reason for that - beyond the obvious that PlayStation has the biggest market share and you want to show your game running on the console players are most likely to have.
Money.
Sony invested in Epic, and ever since Unreal has often been shown on PlayStation and they often repeat the utter lies that Sony come out with - such as “the special SSD makes this all possible!”.
Others are often due to marketing deals - PlayStation has marketing rights on GTA6 and appears to have them for Witcher 4.
Pretty standard for Sony - just like Apple, they spend huge on marketing to keep brand awareness high and to try and stop people looking at the better-value, better-performing alternatives.
Finally, other than market share and money, there’s a built-in bias towards PlayStation in the industry - as well as journalists often openly preferring it (we all remember “Xbox haven’t had any other big first party games this year so got to knock some points off Hellblade 2” which won’t happen to Yotei - while even Totilo who’s more even handed straight out admitted he hates Microsoft), many in the industry do too - remember how many came out to say Game Pass would destroy the industry then went silent when PlayStation copied it?
That’s going to increase the numbers showing console builds on PlayStation rather than Xbox as they want it to align with what the “journalists” will most likely play on and because of their own preferences.
But money and market share are generally the biggest factor for the big games…
You almost make it sound like Xbox is a poor little company that can’t afford to compete with Sony or Apple, PR is an area even Xbox fans know Microsoft isn’t doing enough in and has been playing 2nd fiddle in for decades, and all companies tell lies and exaggerate… and get a little bored of Xbox playing the victim card
That is a hard question to answer has Xbox mandate that any game they make must have equal parity on the Series S and so we’ll never will know how much different it would be if we only had the Series X I would bet mind, if Xbox had their way again we wouldn’t have the Series S or they would have put in the same amount of RAM to that of the One X
I agree with you on Indy, but the base PS5 version looked almost every bit as good and was a port was hoping for Xbox games to show a bigger difference for the 12 Teraflop GPU but then again, its not like the PS5 Pro is showing much difference
I’m not a big fan of DF these days and there’s part of me thinking had Indy been a true Xbox exclusive they wouldn’t have rate it so highly and we would have seen Starfield levels of bashing
and also hoping the next Forza Horzion will go all out on getting the max out of the Series X