@gcunit I don't like it either, it's pretty much a significantly expanded version of the Switch subscription service which I also wouldn't care about if it wasn't required for online multiplayer.
Its a digital version of Gamefly for the Xbox. Its not meant for everyone.
Some people will be happy to pay 10 bucks to have access to all those games for a short time, then move on to something else. Not everyone cares about owning games forever.
People always say ideas are dumb when they don't individually apply to them. I won't use the service at all, but I'm sure some people will enjoy it.
Look at it a different way. We used to pay six bucks for a one week rental. This is basically a rental service with unlimited play time for 10 bucks a month. With access to a hundred or so games.
If there's a month with no releases (common on the Xbox lul), paying 10 bucks to try a lot of different games and possibly beat a few doesn't sound too bad. Its not the worst idea in the world it'll be made out to be on the over-reactionary internet.
@AlexSays Well, I'll concede that it's not for me. I do, however, still think it's dumb. Then again, I also figured Gamefly was dumb, and figured it had died out long ago with the rest of the rental services.
Although it is not for me, given that I don't think I have ever rented a video game before, nor is it likely that I would buy/own an Xbox One, I do think it's a good idea. I can see students in their dorms at college and university making the most out of a Netflix-style rental service for a selection of Xbox games.
@SharkAttackU Thanks for the recs. I've since acquired Sunset Overdrive, and I have Ori on PC, but I'll check out Killer Instinct and Rise & Shine.
I don't have time for 90% of the games that I buy, and that's without buying many RTS games - they just suck time, just learning tends to take a while, so I tend to skip the RTS genre, as much as I know there are some fantastic RTS games out there.
I'll get Gears 4 and Forza later when they're cheap.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
Ryse may well be mechanically shallow, but it's a fun and visually impressive romp that doesn't outstay its welcome, and the second season of The Walking Dead is perfect timing, considering the third season - A New Frontier - is out as well as its third episode coming along next week.
Darksiders is very much a Zelda 'lite', and Assassin's Creed Revelations concludes a decent trilogy (with Ezio).
This months GwG slightly makes up for the underwhelming first three months of this year for the Xbox One.
According to a chap on Windows Central, the Scorpio is going to be unveiled next week sometime, rather than at E3. I think this is quite a sensible idea, as E3 is (usually) all about the games. I very much doubt that they'll announce the date and price there and then though.
One part of me is curious to see how much of a difference that an additional 1.8 TFLOPS will look like, compared to the PlayStation 4 Pro, while the other part of me is perplexed as to why it is a big deal when their line-up is both barren and uninspiring so far this year.
One for the fans, I guess.
:EDIT: And the rumoured name is 'Xbox One X', which kind of goes along quite well with 'Xbox One S', even though I personally believe that plonking a random capital letter at the end of a product name a little bit dull.
@Octane Outside of Xbox fans, I just don't know what Microsoft can do to make people sit up and take notice.
It's going to be expensive; €499/$499 or more.
Besides sailing the high seas in Sea of Thieves, there isn't anything genuinely new to look forward to.
All of the Microsoft Studios published games (going forward) are on Xbox One and Windows 10, therefore there's no longer any exclusives to speak of.
Japanese support is all but nonexistent on the Xbox nowadays.
In two years time, Sony will likely announce if not release the PlayStation 5.
Halo Wars 2 came out in early February. The next game from their stables is not coming out until August or September at the earliest. That's eight months without any release(s) from any of their first party studios.
The latter point was the same old story with Quantum Break last year; there was nothing else in between until Forza Horizon 3 came out in September. When will they learn to evenly spread their games out, if ever?
Saying that, I am curious to see what it looks like! I enjoy seeing new technological products being revealed.
@Peek-a-boo I don't own an Xbox One, and I don't think the Scorpio will change that. Still looking forward to seeing what it is though. After all, it's another hardware announcement, and it's possibly more excited than the PS4 Pro (even in terms of capabilities). There's a reason why Microsoft is doing this, and although I'm not sure what their strategy is, I'm curious, and maybe the Scorpio will explain more!
I expect a game announcement as well.. I think? Maybe. PS4 Pro didn't have any, but I think the Scorpio needs a reason to exist more than anything else. I've heard some RDR2 rumours...
I fully expect Microsoft to use Crackdown 3 and Forza 7 to show off Scorpio. Not enough to excite people outside of hardcore Xbox fans and fanboys imo.
Taiko is good for the soul, Hoisa!
Japanese NNID:RyuNiiyamajp
Team Cupcake! 11/15/14
Team Spree! 4/17/19
I'm a Dream Fighter. Perfume is Love, Perfume is Life.
So this was basically Microsoft saying ''Hey guys, we've got a PS4 Pro too! Goodbye, see ya!''...
Next time, don't tease a reveal if you're just going to release some hardware specs. If there's no actual console reveal or games to go with it, don't even bother.
My concern is the same but worse that I had with PS4 Pro.
It cant have exclusive titles in force. They have locked themselves into this, and if you want to use that absolutely monstrous jump in power on either system, you have to still make your game work on the lesser one. The jump is bigger here than it was from PS4 to PS4 Big Mac Edition, which means the full capabilities of the system cant be used, because of the base systems needing it to run on there too.
Which now begs the question: What was the point? All these two machines have done is marketing, pure and simple. The real world benefits on a scale that matters cant be present because it would come at a cost of pushing away consumers, so what are these machines for?
Sony and Microsoft waving their terafloppies at each other and trying to get a leg up on who can say the most powerful console to entice sales for the next few months. In terms of hardware they have nothing to differentiate them, they know this, so now there is a constant leg up over each other to pull ahead.
But they cant fully commit because it would push away existing users.
Well done guys. You're choking yourselves with this desire to one up each other.
Now Playing: Mario & Luigi Brothership, Sonic x Shadow Generations
Now Streaming: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
@BLP_Software And in the Scorpio's case it's even worse as 3rd party devs aren't gonna take advantage of the extra power it provides over the Pro as the Pro has an entire year's head start on install base!
The specs are impressive enough. Plan on selling my old Xbox One from 2014 to help fund a Scorpio purchase later this year. Still think we're going to see some exclusives for this hardware as well. Seems to be more than an Xbox One 'Pro' to me.
Forums
Topic: The everything Xbox thread
Posts 2,681 to 2,700 of 11,953
Please login or sign up to reply to this topic