The war is long over, Xbox lost early on during the Xone/PS4 generation, it's not even a surprise 5, possibly 10 years ago. Although I feel like that may/may not be the reason this generation of gaming is so weak for consoles.
Does this mean I'm still not getting a new Titan Fall game? I'm not upset that we lost a Star Wars game (considering the direction the franchise is taking and what the last game was like).
What a time to be alive, N64 recompiled, 360 recompiled...
I agree, from anecdotal evidence, all franchises eventually stagnate, it might be a good time to start something new.
Should have been a console game, right now would have been a good time for a new Guitar Hero.
They keep doubling down on garbage like GaaS and put out terrible games, imagine looking at the success from Hogwarts Legacy and saying, "nah, I don't want that money". Should have down an expansion or something for that, or looked at releasing some games from their other IPs.
The PC version runs like absolute garbage, I was hoping they'd try and optimise it more after the beta, but it sounds like they haven't tried according to people who have now bought the game.
Microsoft isn't making jack off hardware, same as Sony, but at least Sony sells enough software to recoup that amount, Nintendo is actually the only one who makes a profit off hardware. As for Xbox, they're kneedeep in Gamepass, I don't expect them to keep making hardware, they'll just become another game publisher and gamepass pusher.
They're planning to drop one? it won't change anything, hardware is not the problem for Xbox, it's pretty much everything else, primarily their games library.
I think this is a fair analysis of what's going on and what's likely to happen in the future despite the disagrees.
Remember Crackdown 3 and "the power of the cloud"?
I'm trying to gather that too, but my best guess is that it's extremely mediocre? It seems to be doing okay-ish based on the Steam charts, not that I was going to play the game anyway, I wouldn't like it based on the trailers.
I've seen a lot of people compare it to Skyrim or Oblivion, but with fewer features than those games, I've also read that reviewers who got free review copies weren't allowed to show footage from the second half of the game. An...
Nah, AI is used best to help remaster a game for modern systems, there's no way it could replicate a game perfectly or almost perfectly from a bunch of videos. I would use it to upscale textures and FMV for example (you'd probably still have to do some work by hand or guide the AI at least), but not remake an entire game.
As if making money, hand over fist wasn't enough, how much money is enough to not gut your development team?
It was dead and buried once the Xone was revealed, they messed up so much just on the official reveal, it was all downhill for Xbox from that point onwards.
Me and my sister used to love playing ESPN Extreme Games, I would also like a modern Road Rash game that doesn't suck, but the modern spiritual successors don't scratch that itch for me.
New games in some of those series would be a no-brainer, I'm really surprised we don't have a new Ridge Racer or Ape Escape, I kinda want to try a modern Dance Dance Revolution game. I used to have all the Battle Arena Toshinden games on my PS, that was a fun fighting series (plus my friends hated playing against me).
Closed Japan Studio, but they bought Firewalk Studio to spend $400 mil plus on a game that bombed badly, a game that they were hoping to turn into a multimedia franchise.
There are still some really great indies if you're willing to at least try the best of them, personally, I'm still buying some AA budget games like the Atelier franchise.
I still go in there and browse, but never buy anything, the video game section is getting smaller and smaller, even the PS5/Series X/Switch game selection is getting tiny.