To me switching to xbox isn’t going to be a lot of people
Most people on PS aren’t suddenly going to buy an Xbox just because it’s on GP when they could just buy it there, it’s more about appealing to someone that hasn’t yet bought a console and that being the thing that draws someone into buying a Series console instead of PS
Sounds good!
Man if I didn’t have this backlog I’d buy it, but I do!
It does truly have me in the mood to install Witcher 3 and finally begin with Blood and Wine.
Yeah, I am afraid so too. Maybe for next gen, especially if Xbox is truly going to be a year or even two years earlier than Sony. I do wonder how many people will subscribe to Game Pass though. I mean Samsung TVs have the app, right? Don’t even need the hardware for it. Or those on PC.
I was looking into one but I’d really like to use the Xbox app as I mostly game through Gamepass and I don’t think the drivers and bios are there to install windows 11 on the Steamdeck just yet unless you jump through some hoops.
Because the performance difference isn’t enough to warrant the Ally over the Deck for me and the price on the deck is really good.
Dom Mathews of NT did another interview with the Friends Per Second podcast and of course it started with a question about studio closures/vibes around NT instead of the game, ridiculous.
Like, leave those decisions to the Xbox leadership as the studio heads and such probably have no clue what’s going on and just want to talk about their games. It’s quite disrespectful of the interviewer to be honest.
“Tough questions” are when you ask someone something you know they don’t want to talk about but it is about them. It’s not a tough question when you ask someone something that has nothing to do with them and put them in an awkward situation. It’s just being shitty to get engagement.
Good to hear. But sad that it takes big YouTube tech channels to bring attention to it before anything is done.
The Deck is great for Steam. But only Steam.
I wouldn’t mind an additional Windows device for Xbox, Epic, GOG. But it’s not worth €600 to me. Hoping for some deals later in the year when the Ally X is released.
Media going to media.
This is on Xbox and their shitty timing, of course it will impact the release of Hellblade 2 in many ways.
Then how will MS convince customers that COD as a first party title won’t come to GP until next gen? It literally breaches their promise of all first party titles launch day 1 on GP.
Staffy was saying people won’t go buy an Xbox now but might in a year or two when next gen hits. Didn’t say anything like what you’re asking.
Got to say I generally have to avoid quite a bit of gaming media when Xbox news is available, as the bad takes are so dumb I actually feel brain cells dying reading their drivel.
The CoD on Game Pass news has Eurogamer claiming it’ll need new tiers / changes all off one PS-loving “insider” as they can’t let Xbox good news happen without a major downer, and PC Gamer that should be celebrating it / at least not have a horse in the console “wars” is calling it the nuclear option, likely to fail and claiming the ABK takeover money left a hole in the balance sheet (they don’t understand if you buy an asset, it replaces the cash on the balance sheet ffs).
Guess at least they’re taking a break from the hundred articles on Helldivers 2 or Larian…
Even Paul Tassi at least has an article explaining why CoD on Game Pass is happening and why it’s not exactly a risk - but even then he can’t help the usual snipes at Xbox, but at least he’s not pretending it’s a dice roll that could end Game Pass or Xbox ffs.
The top comments on PC Gamer at least are pointing out how click bait the article is, but jeez I remember when gaming media at least used to pretend they didn’t have a bias…
Yeah there is quite a bit of nonsense out there.
The other day I saw a tweet and iirc this was a decent channel and basically the question was…if Xbox players get CoD for “free” on Game pass, what about PS players?
Bruh, wtf you mean what about PS players? Either they subscribe to GP or they pay the fuck up. 
Don’t Playstation fans take pride in buying their games? 
Yep that’s what they’re annoyed about, you can tell it’s more “what about PlayStation?” (something they never ask about Xbox when PlayStation locks down third party games as exclusives).
Well many of you fanboys were calling it Welfare Pass a few years ago and claiming if you don’t buy games you destroy developers - so don’t worry about us getting it in Game Pass, you guys are into this whole “full price, support the devs” stuff so prove it…
Yep!
With FF7R and 16 they definitely proved to Square Enix that their deal was super worth it. Lmfao.
They really didn’t put their money were their mouths were. They gave free marketing for Sony and SE and that was it. Buying the game too was a bridge too far. 
Remember all the discourse around the original Xbox and its built in HDD or Xbox Live and its required broadband connection? Kinect? TV? Game Pass? I’m sure I’m forgetting something.
People resist change. A lot of people would probably love for things to stay the same despite all of the cracks forming in the gaming business. Things will have to evolve.
And a lot of people just don’t have an imagination for how the industry could change, so they lean into what they know.
Xbox is being talked about because they’re pushing on some boundaries. They don’t always hit the right notes, and can even seem out of touch, but they’ve always had a history of making disruptive bets.
In a way it’s flattering. Everyone is keeping tabs on the giant in the room. It would be way more worrisome if Xbox was making all of these moves and there was zero coverage. Then you know the brand is beyond repair.
Its very sad and pathetic. They keep arguing in circles…one minute “Call of Duty wont save gamepass” the next “Call of Duty is too massive to launch on gamepass”.
So much salt. I think many just cant accept that from here on out, whether its Spider-man 3 sold piecemeal or Wolverine…nothings going to come close.
Call of Duty.
On game pass.
Day 1.
Again and again.
Year after year.
Forever.