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purple101

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next dumbest idea is their raising the price of series x in Europe

I. kid . you. not

'The tech giant is set to raise the price of the Xbox Series X in most countries -- except the US, Japan, Chile, Brazil and Colombia -- on Aug. 1. The console's new price is expected to be as follows: £480 in the UK, 550 euros across most European markets, CA$650 in Canada and AU$800 in Australia.22 . -Jun 2023'

590d ago 4 agree1 disagreeView comment

30GB File size. not bad, not a small game - but not massive either.

590d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

is that pre tax, so $22.99 is actually already 25?

590d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

yep. game station was good.

in the uk I buy physical disks but delivered online from

base.com
games365.com
shopto.net
smithstoys.com

etc.

whoever does the best price,

games365 also sells vinyl records, sometimes they have good sale prices too which is a bonus.

590d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

I never knew they raising the console price too, who do they think they are, sony?? hehe

but in all seriousness, they just signed their own death warrant, unless people want to play cod on their series s, in ultra blurry mode.

590d ago 8 agree11 disagreeView comment

only PSpro release will get rid of there loading, at at minimum, half the time it takes.

590d ago 2 agree1 disagreeView comment

I have not exaggerated, a PS5 draws 305 watts, a pc, draws between 600 - 1000watts, depending on how powerful it is,

MINIMUM 600watt power supply, but you need a 850 watt one if you run a RTX4090, zotac for instance recommend a 1000watt.

so as you can see, thats double, if not, more than double.
and you dont Gott'o be broke, im just saying that over a year that could be the price of a game you saved/spent

590d ago 10 agree4 disagreeView comment

Says he, playing on a windows 11 pc, which requires a Microsoft account, so they have all your information and are also monitoring what you use it for by the second

There is a good ‘black mirror’ episode on Netflix recently where a company got all a person’s info, turning it into a reality show!

there was nothing the person could do as they checked all the “I’ve read terms & conditions” box’s

I’m not for it either. But it’s everyw...

590d ago 15 agree4 disagreeView comment

8TH MAR 2023:

Microsoft insists Game Pass prices ‘will not increase as a result of Activision merger’
IT SAYS A PRICE RISE “WOULD BE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE AS IT WOULD INCREASE SUBSCRIBER CHURN RATES”

took 1 year and 4 months, to renege on that one

591d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

I actually thought Kinect was good, they could have tried harder with it and found some success,

the only problem was them including it bumping up the price, they could have had a bundle with it included and another without, but they only had the one bundle, so people felt forced into it.

591d ago 2 agree4 disagreeView comment

you take the hard drive when there are already multiple xboxs there, but you want your account, ie your level 32 on halo, but your mates only level 12, and you intend to go online at some point, etc.

360 scratched disks even without moving the console, laser alignment was off.

591d ago 12 agree1 disagreeView comment

they changed it now you dont need to preorder, I did a post about it from Engadget.com

591d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Obscure, quick,!

grab the duct tape, a hammer, and some nails, -xbox is falling apart.

591d ago 8 agree8 disagreeView comment

starting to think the same,.

only thing putting me off is the high initial cost,
plus when you come to sell/ trade it, the return, is so low, as they are outdated so fast,

you can sell a graphics card one generation behind, but 2 gens, expect to loose.

for example an RTX 2070 which once cost £500, is on ebay now for £135. Big drop your taking in about 5 years. \\not to mention all the other parts, which will be even ...

591d ago 7 agree10 disagreeView comment

"test, and pay 5 hundred developers out their pockets."

500 devs, but spaceship space travel in a space game is missing. good one.

meanwhile on 'No mans sky': https://www.youtube.com/res...

591d ago 23 agree13 disagreeView comment

Not to mention, #scratchgate

And also taking your hard drive to your mates in a backpack, only to get there and find “Error 80072EF3 data is corrupted”

Great one. LAN party Night ruined.

591d ago 10 agree3 disagreeView comment

It was irreparable since halo infinite

That was their chance to win back Xbox nay-sayers

It’s been a slow, sinking ship since that point

591d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Isn’t it pre sales tax, the way the system in America is the price is advertised then tax added after so this 22.99 a month in Canada for instance is actually $25

So $300 a year.
To own nothing

Won’t take many years till your paying thousands and ending up with nothing

The most sickening thing was when phill Spencer said “what does that mean to people building their Xbox library”

You don’t build a library ...

591d ago 3 agree0 disagreeView comment

omg it just gets worse.

591d ago 46 agree8 disagreeView comment

will PALworld get a PS port, --?

yeh, id say so

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