Nice synopsis, it sounds interesting. I did a quick Google search and saw it on Steam as well, but I have no issues playing with my PSVR1 headset, so I put it on my PSN wishlist.
They will fund the game halfway, use trailers to get you to buy their console (or Xbox PC, whatever their next device is), then cancel it, and thank the dev team for their hard work after they've been laid off.
Its the Phil Spencer special. Like clockwork. 🙄
Why didn't you write this article after all the fake footage of Kinect 1 in 2011, and the disastrous DRM fiasco in 2013?
You're 12 years late to the party, YA GOOF!
Ignorant, gullible fools. Just goes to show that with age doesn't always come wisdom for most people.
Its been discussed for many years now, but people have been turning a blind eye to it. The best Xbox era was 2001 - 2012, eleven years before it all went to crap. Its been thirteen years since it went to crap, which means the Xbox brand has been around longer as crap than it has been as good. Yikes!
Does "daring to be different" now mean "repeatedly canceling games that they promised and tricked people (not me) into buying their console only to eventually screw them over?"
If so then yes, Microsoft's Xbox division is indeed daring to be different. 🤣
Its good that he has a PS5 now. He should be happy, there's plenty of great games to play and PSVR 2, which is underrated, and has a lot of unique and fun experiences to play.
An extremely obvious solution is to not include the digital code for the game, and decrease the price by $70.
Now that I have an extra $70, I'll buy the disc copy separately.
How hard was that to figure out?
Welcome to 2013. Only took you 12 years to figure it out. Embarrassing. 😂
No disc in the C.E. is why I didn't buy Death Stranding 2 yet, I'm certainly not paying full price for a C.E. that doesn't have a damn disc! I'll get it next year during the Days of Play sale for 50 - 60% off, just like I bought the Spider-Man 2 C.E. 4 weeks ago for 50% off.
Indeed, this is why THPS 3+4 is a rushed half-baked game. Its missing the entire THPS 4 free roam career mode, even though NeverSoft developed THPS 4 in around 10 months on PS2 hardware back in 2001. Yet in 2025, the richest company in the world can't be arsed to pay for a development budget to properly remake the 2001 game.
Embarrassing.
He's been terrible at the job for the past 11 years, when have we had enough of his failings? But to be honest, who would do a 'better' job than him? Any replacement at this point would also be terrible at the job, so what's the point of even bothering to replace him?
The Xbox division is lost. They've gone full third party, they've completely abandoned offline install physical media, most of their games are sub par or worse. Nearly every game that c...
I said this a few months ago, Microsoft has displayed a historical pattern of promising games when they are extremely early in development, in order to get you to buy their hardware.
Then the game ends up canned, fake apologies are issued, damage control is performed, and they hope their fan bases forgets about it within a few weeks, only for the process to repeat over and over again. Idiot Spencer has completely ruined the Xbox brand over the past 11 years. It didn't h...
January 2017: Scalebound canceled. Phil said that this would be a good thing for the Xbox eco system. (LIES!)
June 2025: Perfect Dark canceled. Phil / Sarah will lie some more, spinning this as to how its good to lose a game people were looking forward to.
Can we get a full list of games canceled under Spencer's management? It would be shameful.
What a disgrace. What a disaster. It didn't even have to be this way. I liked Xbox from 2001 - 2011 a lot! But all the great people left, Ed Fries, Seamus Blackley, J. Allard, those are the studs that actually wanted to not only compete fairly, but wanted to create great games and not just buy up the industry in order to choke out Sony.
I would have bought the collector's edition if it came with the disc, or if it didn't come with the digital download, and sold for $70 less, then I would have bought the disc separately.
Overall PS5 is still a traditional console, with offline game installs, as it should be, and that's why I keep buying PS5 games.
Microsoft and most third party games on Switch 2 being digital is crap to me, you're not getting my money.
We don't need remakes of PS4 launch games. The first game makes more sense, though its not like I care about Ubisoft games anymore these days.
Their reputation already in the toilet. They clearly don't give a crap (pun intended).
Xbox has abandoned physical media, and I've abandoned Xbox.
What is this shill crap? Likeable? Not even close, he was annoying and was paid to do a marketing job, nothing more.
TRUSTWORTHY? The guy was full of crap the entire time. He was paid to do a job, he couldn't go against his boss's wishes, how could we trust someone like that?
What kind of buffoon would even think of such an opinion piece, I refuse to click the site, so I'll never know.