Xbox Series X / S

Lupus said:
Whos' been building up a library? Game Pass
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I have. I always got x-platform games on Xbox instead of PS. PS was for their exclusives, but Xbox was my primary console. That changes now...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
I have. I always got x-platform games on Xbox instead of PS. PS was for their exclusives, but Xbox was my primary console. That changes now...
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Eh, for me it's now oh well, fires up PCs
 
You know actually I lied, game4u does have stock of the digital series X,online only. For 15K. I'm surprised a few have already been sold.
 
Gamos said:
I think I might have reached my fill of bad news.

With the latest round of interviews, the forced 30% profit margins, and the terrible earning call...

As a guy who imported my first, original, Xbox into South Africa long before the X360 even became a thing, I am looking at PC hardware for this first time in many years. That should be a telling sign. Heck I even remember the X360 launch in SA at the dome event.

I love my current Series X. It's the bespoke, cutdown OS, single spec for all, well designed piece of hardware that allows it to have features that is not found elsewhere and punch way above its hardware should allow.

It's clear the next Xbox will be a PC and priced for it as well. If the ROG Xbox Ally X is an example of what that means (the thing comes with Teams installed, for heaven's sake!) then I'm out.

With the latest round of interviews, Microsoft's vision is becoming clear to me. 1. The CEO does not care about gaming at all, 2. Phil is a puppet, 3. spam everything on all devices in existence, 4. create a PC/console because we lost the console race 4. screw the loyal customers.

In my opinion (for whatever that is worth), the Xbox brand has suffered tremendous harm and even long time fans are jumping ship. There is precious little reason to worry about Xbox any longer. The PC will play all Xbox titles. The Playstation will play all Xbox titles. And Steam will have the specials you need. Gamepass will do gamepass things (and probably increase another 30% next year to meet its targets)

I shouldn't care this much about it, but I do because some of my best gaming experience came from Xbox. It holds special memories.

Anyway, I hope I'm wrong in all of this.
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That was a good party the Xbox 360 launch.

I also remember their epic fail in putting them in hot sealed perspex boxes and running them all on SD until we sourced the right cables for them.

Incredible amateur hour on all fronts.
 
So PC game pass doesn't seem to work properly anymore.
 
Lupus said:
That really is disgusting actually, I mean they had family game pass which allowed all 3 of us to play and benefit but it only lasted 6 months and they canned it.
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Ironically, I saw this morning there is even a Family game sale for co-op games ie: pushing people to double sub.

They really want numbers to go up at any cost.
 
AlphaJohn said:
Ironically, I saw this morning there is even a Family game sale for co-op games ie: pushing people to double sub.

They really want numbers to go up at any cost.
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Gonna be a different result though, they should instead look at family plans for people instead of expecting people to sub for everyone in their family. They'll rather just lose more customers.
 
Apparently Microsoft fixed this now, so will see on my sons Ally if he can play games on it again from the MS store.
 
Yeah next one is R349 cancelled as well.
Yet wife is still showing 199
 
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and there it is

Now have 30 days to decide whether it's worth the price hike - I suspect not

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I do wonder what the numbers look like since, in reality, MS can afford to lose up to 43% of the current base and still maintain the same revenue level.
 
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