Black Friday has come and gone, or has it? Many of the great games are still on sale and Cyber Monday is right around the corner. Goozernation has decided to reflect on Black Friday and asks what were the hot deals of this year and what is still on sale?
The PS5 has ended up dominating Black Friday sales in the US, while the Xbox Series X|S consoles have fallen short of reaching third place.
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X|S losing in UK and, most importantly in the US by ~5-6:1 to PS5 is a very rare and telling sight.
If we hadn't come to know about Xbox execs internal plans, quote: "[...] to push Sony out of business.", trying to buy out Nintendo, Valve, Sega, make From Software games exclusive to GP, CD Projekt Red, and ultimately buying Zenimax and ActivisionBlizzardKing to weaken Playstation's revenue stream and force GP onto other platforms, I would quite certainly have said now: "That's very unfortunate for Xbox!"
But I admit, knowing all of that, that I don't share any pity for Xbox whatsoever.
That's why, no matter how many times the Xbox division comes out saying "we're releasing a new console!", I take it with a huge grain of salt. While Phil Spencer and co. might be all about it, Nadella and the shareholders, who just dumped nearly 100b into buying half the gaming industry and are not seeing that ROI come back anywhere near as fast as they'd hoped, they may have other plans... especially now that they've effectively gone third party.
Even if they do release a new "console PC hybrid" that runs windows and can play all windows games, it'll still be at a disadvantage to equally powered systems that have dedicated gaming operating systems. Now that Valve is also entering into that space to give them competition, and being that PC/console hybrids have traditionally failed, as the average gamer doesn't care to mess with drivers, navigating windows, etc... Even if MS does put out a PC in a lunchbox case and calls it a console, I don't see things changing much for them on the hardware front. It'll (based on rumored specs) be an extremely expensive system, well into the 4 digit range, and at that point, why spend that much money on a PC that you can't upgrade? Give me a box I can swap out GPUs in, add RAM, upgrade the CPU, and have it be plug and play with no need to mess with drivers/etc while still being compatible with all windows games... then you'll have my attention at that price point. However, at that point, you basically just have a PC with a specialized OS... which we can also do with traditional PCs, and MS isn't going to give up on trying to force us to buy a Windows machine, even if it isn't the best OS for gaming (vs. a dedicated gaming OS like we see in consoles).
«It'll (based on rumored specs) be an extremely expensive system»
Yes.
And don't forget to add the current undergoing price surges in components to the math.
They've announced even BEFORE them happening that Xbox Next is going to be «premium» piece of hardware.
"I take it with a huge grain of salt."
They've said they're committed too many times and they're under contract with amd. This is is you who thinks the S was holding back the PS5. I would back down Now because you know you're gonna be dead wrong later like you always are about everything. Because you know, being a fanboy and all.
The gen after next yes I think they won't make their own hardware and do OEM even then that's a maybe.
@Lightning
There is no such thing as a next gen Xbox developed and distribued from Microsoft. They may get Asus to put out a PC with an Xbox sticker on it and it but thats it. It may have the ability to play some Xbox games but thats it. Sure Microsoft could surprise us but right now its just not making sense for them to do it.
@jay that's what I said. License PC stuff with a xbox logo. That's for next next gen maybe for next next gen. Next gen though they've already confirmed more times than I can count they're making
You shouldn't have any pity because they are still making a butt load of money. Hardware sales isn't the only way to measure success.
We don't know that, do we.
Anyone from Xbox stating "We're profitable!" can be taken with a grain of salt.
It's not that I care.
But only for the sake of having a serious conversation it would be very helpful if we'd knew Xbox' operating income.
Which we don't.
It would be disingenuous to call “making butt load of money” on other companies’ platform a success.
Especially considering that you can’t even give them credit for earning the “butt load of money” as they bought the companies AND you can’t even say they are “making a butt load of money” without first explaining that they are in debt to the tune of 89 BILLION dollars which will not be paid off with that “butt load of money” for generations to come.
MS demise of Xbox is on MS at this point. All the painfully stupid decisions is all on MS.
In terms of MS making money. Obviously they do Content and services first party releases (3rd party publisher) and especially GP is said to be a big driver for them. If any of those things wasn't doing anything for them it would all get shut down a long time ago under MS specifically.
I'm a big fan of "karma" and you shouldn't feel any pity for Xbox.
But at the same time, are they really hurting? This all just seems to be moving in the direction they actually want. I think any hardware sales at this point is considered a win for them.
Well done PS5 again. Launched over 5 years ago and still going strong. Massive success.
"NEX Playground ranked third (14%), leaving Xbox Series X|S consoles in the likely fourth place."
I follow gaming news very regularly and I follow a few gaming channels on youtube, I've never even heard of NEX Playground. What the hell even is that? (rhetorical, I know I can just google it) The fact Xbox is losing to that is extremely embarrassing.
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yeah I was like WTF is NEX? never heard of it mentioned anywhere LOL
I googled it and watch about it on YT and it's basically EyeToy/Kinect but it's a subscription only console?? Americans really loves their subcriptions ha?
The PS5 shows no signs of slowing down. Five years after release, it commanded the Black Friday market in the US, UK, and Spain, responsible for nearly half of all units sold
Microsoft is a 4 trillion dollar company. The 23.5 billion dollars that it's gaming departments has brought in equals about half of one percent of that. If anything, Microsoft can drop it's gaming divisions and not bat an eye. And they should. Because they can't seem to make it work.
I’d rather they sell of the IP to co panics that have a passion for gaming. They don’t have a very good track record of managing studios and IP.
I’d rather they sell off the IP to companies that have a passion for gaming. They don’t have a very good track record of managing studios and IP.
Take-Two: "We know there have been some concerns from Borderlands fans about Take-Two’s Terms of Service. Maintaining transparency and confidence with the community here is always our goal, and we wanted to address some of these concerns."
IGN - Assassin's Creed's focus on character-driven storytelling has been buried by its RPG sandbox features, and the series is weaker for it.
A rare W opinion piece from IGN.
IMO, Ubisoft needs to setup two primary AC dev teams. 1 would focus on and release character-driven OG-style AC games for OG fans and the other would continue the current RPG-ified AC style for current fans.
Release by them Bi-annually and alternatively. There'd less fatigue and a boost to quality.
I definitely appreciate 3 more after playing it again in recent years along with the Liberation game. Back when 3 was new I was still riding high on AC2 and Brotherhood so when I played 3 I felt a bit let down. Even the ship battles grew on me.
AC2 - Yes
AC3 - Urm...I don't know
I feel they kind of dropped the ball with AC3 and with the way the story went it just didn't make sense to me at all. I felt it would have made more sense lore wise if they had it so the Red Coats were mostly Assassins and the Templars were mostly the Colonists who wanted this "new world" as a fresh start for their operations, to build a country up they'd have full control of from the start so they manufacture the war as something else while really it's just a front for the Templars vs Assassins.
It just meant that since the Red coats lose the war it explains how the Templars have gained full control of future America and how the Assassins have slowly died out by then. This entire event would have been the turning point of how things went to s**t for the Assassins and how there's not many of them left in the present.
Haythem was a lot more interesting than Connor and he should have been the main Assassin of AC3.
I thought AC2 was the greatest of the series and it is but replaying it recently, I stared to see more flaws in the game. Basically every single mission is an assassination besides a few tailing missions lol. Still, the implementation of all the new mechanics were great. The smoke bombs, disarming guards, story, hidden tombs, swimming, flying machine, multiple locations, etc. it definitely felt a bit more special to me at the time of release though
Dunno about 3, the 1st act was cool, then i couldn't tell you what happens after that. But 2 was so good! The entire acts 1-3 were al memorable, whereas i really couldn't even tell you what happens in any other AC game
I might have went alittle overboard. Dishonored and Gran Turismo 5 XL for the PS3 from Walmart. Kinect Star Wars, Forza Horizon, Binary Domain, Dragon Dogma for the 360 from the Microsoft store online and a 12 month Xbox Live card from buy.com via eBay.
Now that I type it out it doesn't seem that bad, lol.
Yea thats not too bad. I can't believe you bought Kinect Star Wars...
From Amazon for my PS3 I got:
Dishonored - $25
AC3 - $35
XCom - $25
GoW Collection - $15
For my 9-year old:
LBP Karting - $25
Lego Batman 2 - $15
The deals are awesome!
I got Hitman Absolution on the UK Amazon for £22. I bought some blu-rays as well. Men in Black 1-3 for $17 and Dark Shadows for £8.
Very good deals.