XboxEra Community Hangout |OT12| The Dirty Dozen

Due to covid and the boost to gaming thanks to everyone being stuck at home, valuations absolutely exploded. ABK was valued at a little over $100 a share at it’s peak during that period.

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Anyone find it odd that no media outlet reviewed Helldivers 2 yet?

For example, IGN usually do reviews in progress for most GaaS titles, but 24 hours after launch… not a single review on the internet

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It feels like no games have been reviewed this week. People even forgot Foamstars was out and that one is free.

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https://x.com/paultassi/status/1755606548209082671?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

With new games popping out, live service and full single player, and old games commitment, this was bound to happen. The Finals is here to stay, still charting, Palworld took the world by storm, and the list goes on. Halo Infinite continues to beat it over Xbox for a week now. I don’t know what they need to do, but they got to do more good will before launching the next expansion.

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It could be worse, I don’t think TESO is even in the top 50 on Xbox anymore.

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It pops in and out at times. Still, Destiny 2 was aligned with Apex and other live service games. Sure, it may not be the most popular, but it shouldn’t fall that much. Not to mention, the reports got them under pressure while others including TESO just do what they want. It’s more at stakes if anything.

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I remember someone from Zos saying that Bethesda trust them with the lore, but I don’t know if Zos can write/add whatever they want before Bethesda approved it still.

But yeah, it sucks for Bungie that any miss step could end up costing them more than quite a bit of freedom to do things.

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One of my favourite YouTubers is even discussing the recent Switch leaks.

I think Switch 2 is going to be humongous, it will be difficult for PS or Xbox to compete with it (hopefully it doesn’t launch the same year as Xbox).

NSFW - He is very British therefore lots of language and British slang :joy::

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This is a cool trailer and Gold Edition is one hell of a package.

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https://twitter.com/xboxera/status/1755969474971246620

I like this guy as well, very fun guy. Really like that he review a lot of midrange smartphones.

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Absolutely, it’s one of the reasons I follow him. I can’t be bothered with flagship phones anymore especially when they are out of date within a year.

Most of the mid range phones give you 90% of the specs for 1/4 of the price. Especially when you consider some of the foreign phones like Xiaomi etc.

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Totally agree. You only pay more if you need a better camera. And it takes Google, Samsung and Apple a damn long time to upgrade the charging speed. Xiaomi, OnePlus and co already have 60w or more while the flagships of the bigger brands are still 45w.

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Definitely getting the Switch 2, but I’m not too sure at release. Rather have nice limited edition. :eyes:

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Yeah and most of that seems to be software related rather than hardware (the sensor on the Pixel isn’t actually that good comparably).

I do want to see Samsung improve their charging tech although I think it all depends on the battery type (Li-Ion). I read previously that OnePlus and Xiaomi typically use a different type (Li-Po) which despite allowing a faster charge do not hold their charge as long and degrade quicker than Li-Ion. Therefore when you see they hold a much higher mAh it doesn’t necessarily mean longer performance.

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Jep. Download the gcam apk and you’re good.

TIL. Thanks for the information.

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I’m glad I’m not the only one :wink:.

So many people don’t do this.

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https://x.com/xboxwire/status/1755985155314065749?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

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https://x.com/matpiscatella/status/1755955958373851576?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

https://x.com/matpiscatella/status/1755956727038738504?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

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