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Gamepass is still in early growth phase so price increases seem unlikely. If anything we will see more aggressive discounts such as bundling of 1 year of Gamepass for free with console purchase (Apple does this with Apple TV+ and new iPhone purchases).

As for raising the console price? Not smart when you are third place. Xbox needs market share.

Phil was definitely talking about $70 games in my opinion.

100% agree with both of you.

Outside of Hellblade itā€™s a genre I really want to see them expand under their first party studios. Iā€™m still gutted they missed out on Crystal Dynamics.

Currently Iā€™m not that hopeful for Compulsions game but I will give it the benefit of the doubt until I see more.

Personally I really think they should go after someone like Ubisoft next, especially as they are only $3.3B.

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I agree. He literally stated that ā€œthey will raise the price in the futureā€ but of course will be running with ā€œMicrosoft will increase GP prices soonā€ :man_facepalming:

They wonā€™t. He already said, using no uncertain terms, that Game Pass wasnā€™t operating at a loss:

Game Pass is very, very sustainable right now as it sits.

And still, people have been saying all kinds of nonsense about how it doesnā€™t add up. And yeah, now that heā€™s not just saying ā€œsustainableā€ but actually profitable, one would hope people would stop their idiocy. But they wonā€™t. At least Iā€™d put good money on that they wonā€™t, time will tell.

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The only people saying that are the sony fanboys who hate it.

Fanatics are trying to justify why Sony cannot offer something similar. Though they donā€™t care about Sonyā€™s bad customerā€™s support either :man_shrugging:

How in the same article theyā€™re saying ā€œpassed onā€ and ā€œfailed to make a dealā€ the two imply two different scenarios

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Nah theyā€™re based. Uncharted is Sonyā€™s worst mainstream franchise. Neither good gameplay nor good story. Just pretty graphics and set pieces.

This is not true. Letā€™s praise Asobo but letā€™s not be delusional and pretend they are on ND level, faces might look comparable on some screenshots but the animations are on different scales.

I guess its too much to expect actual journalism instead of clickbait articles.

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Nah 40fps is ass just like 30fps. Better to just play a game on PC that isnā€™t 60fps on console.

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Did anybody elseā€™s dash just change? Am I just unobservant? Thereā€™s a search bar and settings gear icon on the top right, next to the time and battery.

The man who wrote that article wonā€™t be playing games at 40fps lol. Not if there are other options.

This is one of the changes they are making to the home screen. Expect more changes in the future.

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Iā€™ve had that for a while, but Iā€™m also in the Alpha Ring.

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Just watched Werewolf by night and it was excellent. It was soo beautifully shot and this is one of the rare cases I wish the special was longer

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Offcourse, there main competitor price there service much higher the Gamepass and offer a lot less in features then Gamepass

Xbox has every right to raise the price as per market demand

Consumers will vote with there pocket

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:cry: She was a major part in crafting Segaā€™s history

Directed Phantasy Star IV, producer of Skies of Arcadia, she even directed the Magic Knight Rayearth game for Saturn which I actually played earlier this year and thought it was awesome.

She was still working at Sega too, right until the end.

Iā€™m heartbroken, RIP Rieko Kodama.

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Really hoping they put the store up at that top of the screen next to settings which would make sense if the search option is there. Then, let me have 8 small game tiles on the dashboard all being the same size and eliminate the settings/store/controller/etc. options from ever being a tile because thatā€™s just a waste. Best of all, I would be able to see more of my Halo Infinite background instead of half or more of it being blocked out.

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What do you think a future Xbox price increase will be?

  • Consoles
  • Games ($70)
  • Game Pass

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What would you choose if it were up to you?

  • Consoles
  • Games $70
  • Game Pass

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