Thanks for the info.
Over the past 3-6 months, I literally can't count it anymore how I often I've seen the "error page" with those red letters at the top (can't remember the specific wording of it), when the site itself doesn't load/can't be accessed, at all.
It actually did happen even when submitting stuff.
It loads, and loads, and loads ... and jumps to "error".
Didn't ...
It would have been ASUS' next Windows PC handheld device anyway.
Paid for/subsidized by Microsoft now to brand it with 'Xbox'. MS were already delivering OEM Windows for it in 2023 anyway.
With now, according to what I've gathered from reviews so far, Microsoft's software engineers first steps combining Windows & Xbox console UI.
It's shaping up, isn't it.
Xbox Next will be the same dir...
Surrounded by EA FC, Super Mario & Battlefield 6, this was a very tough release window I was surprised about anyway.
Good results & congrats!
"Nearly 99% of matches were cheater-free.“
In all fairness, if this is true and followed by a critical ban (account & IP), then I think that's a very good result.
Man, such a low character treat to cheat in no matter what game.
Rumors are rumors. But:
I gotta have to say I'm looking forward to the growing line of people that have already announced to be willing to share their view in the future on when they were working for Xbox.
As far as this rumor right here goes:
That's how I perceive their current and on-going hardware strategy:
Selected from AMD's normal catalogue, even only putting the Xbox logo on devices Asus would have ...
Someone said he's a German troll.
Since the beginning of 2025, PS5 has been selling 5 to 7:1 compared to Xbox. In August it was a solid 7:1.
Xbox is done, especially in Europe.
It's going to be a looong & dire path for them to get to Xbox Next in 2027.
With its moderately growing (big factor) and now only ~34m GP subs, inflated with so many various individual terms and even various individual subscription fees, this complete service has always been on the brink of a bigger price hike.
(... and so many other restructuring processes within the Xbox division.)
My bet: I don't think GP is surviving another 2 years, starting January, 1st 2026.
PS5 still has some juice left. Especially in Europe.
And once GTA6 arrives, it's pretty safe to say PS5 will again overtake the SW2.
"97% it catches."
There is always a catch.
The money I paid for the PS5 Pro + disc drive is definitely my maximum I'm willing to pay.
In fact, it may have exceeded my personal maximum already, but the situation around the disc drive last year was an annoying but driving factor for the purchase at that time.
I am NOT convinced that Sony can't put together a PS6 for 499-599 again.
I claim they can. (... tariffs must normalize again, too.)
But if they are...
Seriously, this is screaming "I am an Xbox Fanboy through and through", purposely disguised as "Oh, the hardware is SO superior".
While, if nothing else, every console is powered by pushing a single button, followed by putting on headset and don't care about that hardware anymore, at all.
And IF you really cared about hardware - how can you logically find a hardware architecture superior that's, only as ONE example, that's ...
I claim that MS had hoped to not be forced to publish CoD (and the ABK catalogue) on Playstation for another 10 years.
I claim that if they had been allowed, then they would have tried and published big IPs exclusively via GP.
Forcing Playstation to open up for GP, and forcing players to subscribe.
I claim that you don't spend 75 billion USD without at least having that plan in the desk.
... so it turns out they didn't really have a long breath with CoD in GP.
Which, to me personally, is only another proof of how Xbox is always trying to just rush things and almost kinda like demand immediate success, meaning quickly growing subscriptions.
Then they miss their totally unrealistic goal, and after only 12 months (short breath) already do adjustments.
I've been reading many opinions that predicted exactly this. And...
So many things about Microsoft & Xbox are just ... strange? Hilarious? Unbelievable?
It's totally beyond me how SIE chase every dollar of revenue and profit while supporting PS5 gen where they can, with hits and misses, but commitment.
Whereas Microsoft, literally printing as much money every quarter worth Playstation's profit in a decade, is SO bad at managing their Xbox business in almost every area.
The minute they bough...
'Aggressively' is different from 'sustainable with perhaps some profit'.
Without thinking twice, Xbox selected the first back in 2019/2020 going forward in hopes to rush a victory over Playstation in 3 to 5 years.
It backfired massively. Even worse than Xbox One.
But make no mistake about it:
They don't sit at Microsoft with headaches.
They simply transfer the losses to their au...
If Xbox was a movie title, then it would have to be 'Everything All At Once ... but failed'.
It's nothing but hilarious that (almost) everything many people talked about for years turned out true over and over again.
Zenimax, ActivisionBlizzardKing, 100 million subs, "one exclusive every quarter", layoffs, cancelled projects, porting Xbox IPs to Playstation, "GP is profitable", price bumps (GP's third one in 3 years), e...
... while writing 100x "Playstation money pays my GP!" on the board.
... while either paying for GP by himself.
... or while not paying at all, only being the cause for the situation Xbox is in the first place.
Vicious circle.
I think this was a decision purely driven by licensing terms and inevitable negotiations with Sony Interactive Entertainment at the time OD was pitched first.
As a collab originally announced by XGS and Kojima, the Decima Engine wasn't a given, since it's property of Sony, not Kojima.
Oh you mean Halo Infinite?
The Xbox game that in 2020 didn't even got nominated for game of the year, but Playstation's Ghost of Tsushima did?
Got it.