Leaving last gen behind goes against a lot of Microsoft’s promises about making games available for last gen, the death of console generations, and hardware scaling. Of course, that was before Microsoft went on its spending spree. They apparently bought a lot of games that could not be optimized for Xbox One. Also not great for folks who bought the Xbox One X near the end of the last gen cycle.
If you want ES6 to be multi-platform, don’t buy an Xbox. Simple as that.
Halo 4, 5, and Infinite reviews are good examples of the pressure on review sites to score everything between 8-10 out of 10.
Click bait “journalist” is playing the wrong games.
PS+ Essential games are yours to keep (as long as you subscribe. I have Greedfall and Mafia III from PS+ from a couple years ago. Always add these games to your library.
I discussed this with my family. My wife’s jaw dropped. Then she said “We’re still buying it, right?”
Fallout 4 was disappointing. Slower doesn’t not automatically mean better.
The PS2 missed out on some seriously great games like Morrowind. The real PlayStation golden age was PS4 and that will be lapped by PS5 in a couple of years.
I would be surprised if Sony had $70B they’ve been hiding.
Risk wouldn’t pay off it wasn’t risk.
Mad Max is garbage. I give it a 5/10.
PS+ Extra is $10 a month. Heck, PS+ Essential is $5 a month and it’s offerings don’t leave your library. But Sony has a larger install base so they can make up the difference in volume. Sony is also generating revenue from first party game sales before dropping games on PS+. I expect Microsoft will make up the difference with micro-transactions, like offering the bare bones game for free and charging for expansions and seasonal passes.
Microsoft is a publicly traded company so some amount of talk has to be straight talk. Carefully crafted, attorney approved straight talk.
Fascinating when you consider a few years ago that Microsoft publicly announced their target 45M-50M subscribers. But if you can’t get more subscribers, you can make more money from existing subscribers. Micro-transactions inbound!
PlayStation has double the install the base.
At $120 to $180 per year, Game Pass isn’t the cheapest way to play games on Xbox, especially if you have an Xbox with a disc drive. Personally, I have an Xbox One S that I sometimes use as a disc player player.
If you want the products of a giant corporations with billions in profits to succeed, you want them to nickel and dime you.
If I was a PC gamer, I’d be drowning in my backlog of Steam games and Epic game store freebies. But sure, more games for the backlog!
More people playing Cyberpunk 2077 does not make it better. More patches and bug fixes will make it better.
That becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Frugal folks like me won’t buy anything, and then expect everything to come to PS+.