There was zero pushback when Hogwarts Legacy did the Game Key disc and went on to become the fastest selling single player game of the last decade.
People only complain when it's easy and inconsequential for them - Alan Wake 2 was thrown under the bus by the same gamers that celebrated Baldurs Gate 3 even before BG3 had a physical edition (that cost $100 and was a year late), or if Ubisoft does it, or Microsoft.
As soon as those gamers are faced with ...
"his actions show him doing the opposite"
By supporting games from 2001 in 2025? What other platform does that?
Yeah what's wrong with an inflatable Gexdoll?
Doom is and has always been Doom, not a political statement.
If the servers *do* stay up though?
Xbox is the only modern console platform where discs from the 2001-era console still do work today. It's the only advantage Xbox has left
If you have a Pro, you damn better have a VRR display where that won't mean anything.
And you'll play Xbox's other games in better quality too.
Doom games are about kicking ass, which Xbox is doing to itself
Same situation with AC Shadows this year, Hogwarts Legacy a couple years ago; PS Collector's Editions likely won't include a disc ever again; Xbox Game Studios definitely won't release a full disc ever again
PS5 Slim + Pro disc drives require online activation and so does the Series X
It's a shame. I think I'm done buying physical. It's an extra expense for an already-expensive PS5 Pro I want before DS2 and GoY, and they'll probably kill...
In your retirement on a Friday night arguing politics on a gaming website... That is not how I see my golden years after working my ass off for 50 years. Is that what maga does to you?
They do not understand that.
They also don't understand the money it would cost to build these manufacturing plants.
Nor the time it would take to build them.
And the jobs by the time these new manufacturing plants are done? AI or mostly automated manufacturing lines. These companies want to cut costs, not pay American wages or salaries or health care or benefits.
I would hope after the learnings in Control 1 and refinement in AW2 for current-gen optimization, that they could reduce cost on the tech side for their next project.
Did you actually watch DF?
It was a long 40+ minute video, of them showing how it is real rendering. Reducing that to them having "Said it was all cutscenes" is a flat out lie.
Sooo. What's the point of this device? If you aren't going to do the bare minimum of following Xbox's colored face buttons, Guide button, or even DPad shape... I don't get it. To show how little the brand means?
If it's just to debut a friendlier app interface, then that should just be available to all Win11 handhelds through a windows update.
It's over 120GB. That physical copy isn't happening.
Xbox bringing one of their biggest IPs finally over to PS as a remastered Remaster is oddly fitting.
I somehow never played the campaign of 3, I thought this year would finally be the year we'd get a full UE5 collection
The State of Play yesterday kinda confused me on this.
The B-roll footage looked way more fun, explosive, creative, and smoother (at 60fps) than the actual gameplay demo, which was in a flat-looking metallic icy area in 30fps and seemed very run-of-the-mill in comparison.
Considering the writing team is trying to avoid a specific kind of tone in their approach to the game, I wonder if it'll be more like the B-roll and those quick exciting moments, or ...
Or it's the ultimate blasphemy - an extraction mode and the three maps it would launch with were different shrines
I don't recall hearing shit about FH5 here.
Only just a few ridiculous things from some special people claiming the player counts are fake or suspicious, even though the player counts are *literally displayed on in-game leaderboards* and are based on nearly 4 years of availability as one of the most acclaimed racers in history having gone through several waves of largely-discounted pricing along the way
You found an OLED monitor for $450 years ago and didn't jump on it then? Well guess what, Samsung's got one now for $549 on Amazon with 240hz, guarantee that one didn't exist "years ago"
You only wanted your dig at Trump; so easy to do but you give fake history over console pricing and fake pricing over a mythical $450 OLED
What business in this world is *not* going to pass an increased cost onto the customer in some way?
You already know it is and they weren't getting your money anyway