Redfall DLC 1 was uploaded to SteamDB a week ago.
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What’s great about the Blizzard takeover is that it brings a lot of female characters and Blizzard’s Incredible Charadesigners who are, in my opinion, the best in the industry.
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Underrated thing about Blizzard they’ve always been able to intertwine pop culture in video games. I still remember all of the ads they used to do for WoW that had celebrities advertising the game. Plus, in recent years they’ve used celebs with Diablo 4 and OW. I think stuff like that is invaluable
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I really like the Warcraft Rumble Keyarts
I think it’s so cleverly integrated into the Warcraft lore.
It’s also great that Blizzard provides 3D printing plans for the figurines rather than selling them.
https://twitter.com/StevenMaul_ST/status/1718652935171915788
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you know with they way PS is right now Microsoft has the chance to take back the mindshare in 2024
They certainly have an opportunity to get people really looking at Xbox again! If Playground Games can do it, it would be massive to add Forza Horizon 6 to the current slate of Avowed, Towerborne, Ara and Hellblade 2.
Next quarter is going to be odd to see Microsoft at top that’s for sure.
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Eh, I reckon Sony will be able to sail through the next few years without much bother, even if there first party is non-existent over the next year, they will be carried by third parties and brand power like always
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Its been almost a month and I stal cant believe it…
I wonder if it will be another Minecraft Spin off or a new IP.
You run with that IP imo. It has reached 300 million people.
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I mostly agree with you. But I think Xbox will have a second half of the Series X/S lifespan that proves better than its first. And the recent troubles at PlayStation have a VERY good chance of negatively impacting PS6’s performance and give the next iteration of Xbox an advantage to start the next generation with.
I’m curious if MS is considering ARM for the next xbox? It would make it easier to also have a gaming handheld.
With the way the handheld PC market is shaping up I’m very much suspecting they’ll continue to just lean on 3rd party manufacturers for their handheld needs. With crossplay any handheld PC is basically a portable Xbox anyway.
Phil Spencer has on more than one occasion referred to playing on his ROG Ally, and the Legion Go is shaping up to be pretty great too.
Maybe there’ll be an Xbox branded handheld PC, but even that I think unlikely. At best I suspect we’ll get one from a 3rd party with a “Designed for Xbox” badge, but not an outright Xbox PC handheld.
This is all just complete guesswork on my part based on what seems reasonable to me.
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Yeah… don’t get me started on ARM and all that you’d lose moving away from AMD and x86; mainly for the same reason Apple still is lagging decades behind in gaming support - devs simply don’t code console/PC games for an architecture that makes a fraction of the user base of those devices. Sure would sit in direct opposition to Phil’s stance on BC to me…
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Yeah, the biggest benefit of ARM is energy efficiency, not pure perfromance. Apple made huge gains with the switch to M1 but the next 2 gen upgrades have been very modest. X86’s recent gen on gen gains have been very good. Intel will make a huge leap in efficiency in the next gen with Meteor Lake, so will AMD wth Zen 5.
People also tend to forget that Apple is always using TSMC’s latest node, ahead of AMD/intel and snapdragon, so it’s not always a fair comparison.
With intel’s roadmap in 3 years intel will have fab leadership, so another arm(apple) advantage will be lost. Right in time for choosing a next gen processor for consoles. By 2026, I’m expecting X86 to have much better performance at similar or slightly worse power consumption. Combined with X86’s backwards compatibility, it is almost assured to be in the next Xbox and PS6.
The graphics side arm is still way behind, especially when it comes to modern graphics technologies, Esp against Nvidia (almost 3 gens behind on raytracing). Apple just today introduced mesh shading and ray tracing support; things Xbox series consoles have had for 3 years.
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I think AMD is working on an ARM chip that will work with their GPU. I think the next few years for ARM will be interesting.
Based on the earlier posts I have seen, it will probably be Minecraft Dungeons 2.
Thats the big one people always overlook. M3 is on 3nm and can cram billions of transistors more on the same size die than AMD.
But this is also very expensive. Series S like performance cost 699€ (without a controller and only 256 GB storage) in the Mac Mini.
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