Their wording on this is confusing. These are being removed only from the 360 marketplace, which the Xbox back compat store doesn't use.
So basically, you won't be able to buy these on a 360 anymore, but will be able to buy and play them on Xbox One / Series.
Seems accurate to me - it's still sitting in stock 24/7 without any queues or restrictions.
It's clearly not selling like gangbusters.
If it's selling like crazy, they will announce that in the earnings tomorrow - but I bet they don't.
"First three comments aren't about Yes, it's coming to game pass."
It's almost like... gamers like GamePass 🤯😲 Mind = blown.
Go read any of their arguments to the FTC or CMA.
I'll take this with a grain of salt. We're about 24 hours away from an earnings call, so they wouldn't confirm this today anyway. Lets see what kind of forecast they set out in the call.
That being said, the thing doesn't seem to be selling very well, so they'll likely have to adjust their projections or risk being wildly off come the end of Q3.
@jznrpg Right... but... as I wrote "My sub shows lots of games" - there's still more games on GP than just HiFi today. so claiming someone is paying just for HiFi is a lie.
p.s. I'm not PS only, PS5 is my primary console but I do play certain games/genres on PC too - mainly RTS and the FPS games you can't find on console (like Ready or Not).
"Sony Group Corp. reduced projections for the initial launch of its PlayStation VR2 headset dramatically after early pre-orders disappointed, signaling little improvement for the hyped-but-unproven virtual reality sector."
"The company halved its forecast for shipments of the PSVR2"
So everything I wrote about PSVR2 was accurate. Yet people were telling me "It's just permanently in stock and has no shopping restrictions like P...
"Your issue was the fact they even entertained increasing the price of their consoles saying that they can "afford not to do this""
So then my issue still stands true to this day - Sony announced they are making a profit on each PS5 sold, therefore they could afford to not make such a large and widespread increase ~6 months ago 🤷
Yep, I was simplifying it for time and brevity.
As I stated above, In the future I'll be more accurate and use "increased the prices in every major market minus America" or "increased the prices in ~50 countries" (or 33, it’s not clear if Europe is the continent or union).
I don't think it will anytime soon, if anything, they're going in the opposite direction of technically making it cheaper with the F&F plan.
My views on the Sony price increase situation haven't really changed since my last post, so yeah you could call it swinging back hard I guess, but it's basically just re-iterating what I wrote ~6 months before.
Maybe if they knew what they know today, they wouldn't have spent $70bn on ATVI - and layoffs are definitely not good optics. The only 'silver lining' - and I certainly don't celebrate people losing jobs - but 343 definitely needed a severe s...
One is a price increase in Japan, the other is a price increase in over 30 countries - every major market minus America. Not even comparable.
But you’re in the minority if you think Forspoken is actually good.
“ Forspoken is a very good looking game, while hi fi could easily run on ps3 or xbox 360”
It’s almost like gameplay > graphics for enjoyability…
Also Forspoken doesn’t look that great, it looks dated. And the graphics absolutely do not warrant drops to 720p res.
“ you're paying $15/month to rent a $30 game.”
Is Hifi the only game on your GP sub?
My sub shows lots of games, plus lots more coming like Atomic Heart, Stalker, Forza and Starfield.
Okay so in the future I’ll adopt the wording “increased the prices in every major market minus America” or “increased the prices in ~50 countries” (or 33, it’s not clear if Europe is the continent or union).
How’s that for accuracy?
Yes I simplified it to ‘across the board’ to save listing out all the countries that are in Europe (plus I doubt I could name them all).
Perhaps “every major market minus America” would’ve been more accurate.
I do still think Sony pulled the trigger early, plus much wider and with a substantial increase - and announcing them while also announcing you’re now making profit on consoles wasn’t good optics.
That being said, I live in the US ...
They made the decision to buy Activision a year ago. A lot has changed in the economy in that time, heck the Russia-Ukraine war hadn’t even begun.
Yeah - them or ID software. Whoever it ends up being, shouldn’t be 343 unless it’s in name only.
Activision doesn't make Halo.
The article author was confused too:
"What the publication does not explain very well is whether they will only disappear from the Xbox 360 marketplace, or if, on the contrary, they will do so permanently. We have asked a Microsoft representative to clarify this point, but we have not received an answer at the moment."
It just takes some time / deciphering to work out that it's two separate stores. They could've just settled everyone...