“Series X game sells: AAA 3rd party, and basically GamePass”
I’ve never understood this line of criticising them marketing Game Pass - you know Game Pass isn’t a game, it allows you to play games? So through Game Pass you access all of Microsoft’s 1st party IP it’s putting out, whether it’s AAA (Forza, the other usual suspects) AA (Hellblade, Ori, etc). So by promoting Game Pass, they’re then promoting all the games within.
It’s like criticising Netflix f...
You’re not wrong, but I feel like that’s the point - we’re dealing with a 360/PS3-era issue here on the PS5
@Stoney
So if your console bricks, that’s it? Can’t redeem progress on a new console unless you have PS+?
Apparently she has a lot of unpublished creative writing under her belt, which I imagine would have come up in the interview - you don’t get in the door for an interview at a studio like Sony Santa Monica without proving you have some writing skill
“In one session”
As others have said, quick resume persists after the console has been turned off.
So you might not play a game for weeks, but if it’s in your last 5 of games played (or whatever the number is) quick resume will put you right back to where you left off as soon as you load the game, no matter how many times your console has been turned off/on since you first played it
@NealGamby
“At least PS HAS games to switch back and forth to”
How does the Xbox not have games? Is it because they also release their games on PC? Should I be booting up my nonexistent PC to play those Xbox games on then? Silly me, why didn’t I think of that before /s
“PS- You do realize that Sony started quick resume back in the PSP days, right?”
My 3 responses to this:
1. And the fan/critical res...
I have 2 main questions:
1. You know that this works after the Xbox has been turned off, right? The quick resume can persist for weeks - if I play Cyberpunk, then turn it off, come back days later, play something that has multiplayer or whatever, then come back again in another few days to play Cyberpunk, it’ll quick resume straight to where I was. I feel like your comment implies it’s only in the one session while the console is still turned on.
2. Takin...
“B-b-b-but what about this other thing over here?!”
Nice one, Nexus. Let’s point fingers and encourage whataboutism instead of recognising a good QoL feature and asking for it to be on our console of choice
In single player games, quick resume literally plonks you at the point you were when you last turned it off - in the game itself, without having to scroll through menus and select your save file.
It’s an extra layer of saving time, so there’s a weird level of downplay from the crowd that’s all about how fast games will load on next gen consoles
@Nexus
I have no choice but to assume you’re being wilfully ignorant of my point - not that Xbox allows you to physically play multiple games at once, but that it gives you the ‘quick resume’ ability for multiple games simultaneously. See below for hypothetical example.
Say I’m partway through playing Cyberpunk, I pause the game and turn off the Xbox for the night. The next day, I play some Squadrons single player, then some Call of Duty. Next day, I watc...
Oh I didn’t realise PS gamers only played one game at a time, and never played any other games or used any other media apps until they were 100% finished with the current game
Just here reading the comments with my popcorn
The gameplay reveal was really widely hated by Xbox fans - no one wants to release it in its current state
“Lol watching them explain the share button that is the same as PS4. But they are acting like it’s brand new, that’s so funny to me”
Cause it *is* new for the Xbox ecosystem? Also cause it’s a cool feature? Yeah it’s been on PS4 and it was cool there too - what are they supposed to say? “We’ve never had this, but if you’ve used a PlayStation 4, then I don’t need to explain it”?
Remember when PS3 party chat was tied to games, in spite of the 360 having cro...
Cause at launch the games are the same price, and the mode is finished for launch, but because Sony flashed their credit card that means Xbox players are paying the same price for less content.
And before start go with “but MS did it first”, it was a shitty practice then and it’s a shitty practice now. Exclusive games are exclusive games, but exclusive modes have always seemed like both a waste of money and anti consumer
So timed exclusivity for game modes is a waste of publisher money?
“The devs put in EXTRA work to get Gears 5 to where it is now on Series x”
... oh no... that’s... bad?
I, too, dislike devs putting in work to make a game look better.
@zigg
You could argue it removes the possibility of Xbox ever seeing a sequel to Sunset Overdrive
Work smarter, not harder
Where were you in the “‘x number’ PlayStation exclusives nominated for game of the year” article, when a number of the named exclusives are also on PC?
I don’t think Sony nor Microsoft consider PC a competitor in any way, but they definitely consider each other competitors - to both publishers it appears as though “console exclusive” is the new yardstick