Listened to the latest XB2 podcast and near the end I think they talk about Xbox’s November sales and how apparently Jez heard the people at MS were mad at the low sales this year due to the 30-40% drop I think in sales. It’s easy to see how due to having no discounts for Black Friday and not even pushing discounts all the way to Christmas like the competition has done and is still doing coming into the new year.
This has me thinking about the launch of GTA6 end of this year and whether or not MS will capitalize on this. This is the biggest next gen exclusive launch of the generation and most likely a main jumping point for people still on last gen and it is important for MS for people still stuck on Xbox One not to be jumping ship. I wonder what’s their plan to replenish retail channels by then and have sales around that time in order to entice new customers or at least maintain the current users as part of the Xbox ecosystem.
We’ve seen the effect of the college sport game this year from EA and how it helped with people moving to next gen but I feel like GTA m6 will be that times infinity and they can’t afford to, at the very least, lose any of their clientele.
I kinda feel like it’s less the users that are idiots (tho surely there is some of that) and more that the game world simulations are so limiting that a user doesn’t know what’s allowable without some sort of indicator.
That would mean that even though exclusivity ended like what, two years ago or so that Sony made yet another deal allowing other platforms except Xbox? That could explain the maker of the game saying he would love to bring it to Xbox, he only specifically mentioned Xbox this year and each time it was about wanting, loving to ship it to Xbox.
Then there are people that speculate Xbox probably doesn’t want it until all three parts are out. I really doubt that though, there is no way Xbox would say no to that just to wait until all parts have been released. We’ll find out next year I guess.
i think its more like level design has not really evolved since Doom or Quake but visual fidelity has overloaded the user with a crapton of noise. Without extra hints users will get lost. We also do this paint important stuff in the real world btw.
I think people speculate that Sony has a contract that requires that (entire series being console time exclusive), not that it is something Xbox wants (there is no way they would want that lol). There’s a lot of people making assumptions about contracts that do or don’t exist but none of it is based on anything.
I recently went back to collect some of the missing collectibles from Gizeh (Indiana Jones).
Went into the Ra Idol temple and got stuck, I wish this area had more white paint! Thankfully I found someone post the way out on another forum:
Yeah, let’s hope it’s finally the end of speculation and that we Xboxers can finally welcome it next year. Release part one and two with a nice discount right off the bat ala Death Stranding and I will get them day one.
I actually spent a few minutes to find my way out as well, the path is well hidden if you don’t pay attention.
I’m kinda mad at the game though right now as I cannot finish the achievement for all notes due to having 1 picture being bugged and not letting me take it (seems common according to forums) and also missing the all ancient artifacts achievement even though I got the alternate ending and you need all artifacts for that but some of the quests are bugged and will show as completed with the checkmark even though it still shows on the map and the item isn’t even there anymore.
Took me around 40 hours to get it all done. Really hoping a patch fixes it soon enough so I can see 1000/1000 and move on!
Ah man that sucks, I currently have an issue in the 6th area as I know where I need to take the photo but I’m not getting the RT prompt which is quite annoying.
Thankfully I found someone post the way out on another forum:
