I have to assume games have the biggest spike in release day, so not that crazy. Glad it’s doing well, ‘that’ community needs to take an L for once lol.
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Bigger Steam launch than Star Wars Jedi Survivor too btw, biggest for EA single player games.
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https://x.com/steinekin/status/1852364439355559969?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
I love Christmas but sheesh, can you guys wait one extra day before telling me Thanksgiving is filler.
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I bought the $600 Xbox Series X Galaxy Black 2TB Edition so yeah, I definitely would have bought it. I’m also buying the PS5 Pro next week once I trade in the launch model XSX and PS5.
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that community alwasy takes an L as far as I’m concerned. 
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Yeah trade ins are great. I probably would have done that too with XSX for a Pro model.
In other news, this is rather cool. Playing as Geralt in DA.
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Nope. A midgen with the same miniscule upgrades as the 5Pro isnt worth an extra $250 (digital Base to digital Pro comparison).
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Yeah, I’m not at all interested in a mid-gen upgrade. I don’t see the point even a little bit. I don’t care about frame rates, I don’t care about ray tracing, or load times, or 8k, any of that stuff. None of that make games better.
If I buy anything between now and when the next-gen Xbox is out, it’s a portable device of some kind. Be that an Xbox or the next Rog Ally.
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The difference is 350 fuckin’ euros here for the Pro…which is laughable. lol
As Jon said many times in the podcasts the vast majority of games look great and I agree that we don’t need the neverending chase for more and more fidelity. A good game is a good game even if it’s 480p/30fps and a mediocre/boring game will still be a mediocre game even at 4k/120fps w/ RT and all the bells and whistles on. 
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Yep. I’d even say I wouldn’t mind if they went backwards a bit if it meant more frequent releases. We got two Elder Scrolls in one generation during the 360 era. If reducing fidelity would mean that we could go back to something resembling that pace of development, I’d be all for it.
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Do love when the Xbox store accidentally leaks the behind-the-scenes settings lol - apparently we have less than 775 years to take advantage of the Game Pass discount on Dragon Age: The Veilguard!
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Going live, FOR THE KIDS!!!
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lol and to think that this generation was pitched that it was designed for ease of development & faster dev time 
honestly part of me wishes this gen wasn’t such a big technical upgrade (spec-wise) that devs and engines changed a lot of their ways from last-gen that many things got even more complex and time consuming and they lost some efficiency between the gens.
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Something went off track in the Xbox One/PS4 generation. In retrospect, I would trade a return to Xbox 360 fidelity to go back to a world where 2 or 3 years was enough time to develop a substantial AAA game. (Of course, the double edged sword there is the extent to which those fast development times were enabled by crunch.)
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As much as I want games to come faster, I already can’t keep up haha.
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Yes I would have.
The extra 1TB storage is most of the extra cost tbh.
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Ah man, I was hoping to get it in 2800 when I’ve cleared my backlog.
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Like part of me wants to say yes without thinking, but I’m still unsure if in the end I would have done it. Maybe with a trade in or by selling my Series X but I tend to pass that stuff down to my kids now so I’d be 50/50 right now while a few years ago I was 100% on board, and all that due to the price which I’ll probably have to live with next gen.
I think the fact PS5 Pro is still so readily available speaks volumes about how people feel about those mid gen refreshes right now.
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