I have to try After the Fall, looks hardcore.
If you like WW2 weapons in VR, Pavlov has WW2 modes like tank battles and such (not to mention zombies and a counter strike homage, all for $25).
I think they are doing just fine with their current plan.
I bought into PlayStation with Uncharted 2, and they have delivered on games ever since. I have zero reason to start doubting their output now.
Right now, I’m playing Pavlov like a fiend, and Runner, Rez and Tetris are great casual backups. I heard RE8 and No Man’s Sky are great, but I’ve been preoccupied with the 4 games mentioned to explore any of the hybrids.
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They 100% poached Starfield, ES6, and Titanfall 1 while we’re at it.
Sony, in contrast, tends to buy a game based on the concept so that it can be honed for their console’s features, such as with Deathloop and the dozen or so Dualsense applications made to show off the controller.
What games would exist without M$, versus what games would exist without Sony? The lists could not be more different.
I don’t have an issue with acquisitions, just an issue with game output solely through acquisitions. M$ acquisitions are out of desperation, they are empty handed ANOTHER year otherwise. Sony buys are padding to an existing game pipeline that has delivered year after year after year…
I want to see a game that has been owned by M$ during its infancy, during its abstract concept development.
Starfield was years into development before it’s developer was bought by M$.
Starfield was going to exist without M$.
Excuse me? How does HiFi Rush count as AAA?
It is a brilliant game, I absolutely love it, cannot say enough great things about HiFi Rush…. But I did not drop $500 on “history’s strongest console EVER” to play AA cell shaded beat-based button mashers.
And Starfield is the only other Xbox release I care about this year; but Xbox didn’t even make it, they bought it.
1. Launch a AAA game that actually demonstrates how the XsX is “the” strongest console ever.
2. Launch a AAA game that is worth buying into the Xbox ecosystem for.
3. Show off gameplay for ANY game that has been teased for years (ie Fable).
4. Stop relying on studio acquisitions for game output.
5. Stop demonizing Sony for not supporting the largest media acquisition in history; something that doesn’t benefit them, or anyone else but Xbox and Bobby Kotick.
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They make it seem like if this deal doesn’t go through, then “the” games are in fact NOT coming…
Wtf Xbox, how hard is it to make games?!? Of course it is hard, but your competitors manage…
…do you think 3rd party exclusivity deals are the cause of Xbox’s drought?
Delivering on their promise for the last decade, “the games ARE coming,” is the ONLY thing that will “bring M$ to a good spot.”
Or, M$ will accidentally reveal the power of the deal to regulators, and they’ll ironically squash it to halt these shenanigans….
Should’ve gotten a Switch…
Purty smug for someone still waiting for an XsX AAA game…
Why can’t M$ make games instead of just buying them?
You cannot compare the size of Sony to M$, just like no media maneuver, for video games or otherwise, can be compared to the merger Sony wants to prevent.
Both M$ are their desired merger are monumental, and Xbox’s contributions to gaming for the last decade contribute to neither.
They just didn’t make games.
Tempest engine uses ps4 graphics cards…. How does the Xbox sound card compare?
You don’t think it’s frustrating that Xbox has been promising that “the games ARE coming” for over a decade, and 5 of those 6 games you listed only have exclusivity with Xbox due to very recent acquisitions?
Were the games ever really coming?
Can Xbox make games, or just buy them after they are 75% done already?
Sony made great games that I am grateful for. Xbox hasn’t done that for me since Gears and Halo 3.
I loved Hi Fi Rush, brilliant game… I would not buy a $500 console to play it.
Name 6 games worth buying into the ecosystem for.
I think Sony doesn’t want M$ to set a precedent for using Office money to buy Xbox out of a decade-long game drought and years of broken promises.
Sony delivered on their promises over the past decade, and contributed to the medium with at least a dozen classic games.
In the last decade, Xbox made Forza and Halo Infinite… eventually. Not bad games, but not Last of Us or Starfield either.
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M$ did this with Starfield and ES6, and Titanfall 1.
They’ll do it again with CoD the moment they can.