Topic: The everything Xbox thread

@Magician best deal on the X is @ Kohls. $350 for the bundle and you get $105 back in store credit.

@Magician My guess is X holds its price until after Scarlett is out. It's still the "most powerful" currently available console after all.

And we still don't actually know if X gets positioned as the "budget XBox" with the ability to play Scarlett games at lower specs rather than as a "prior" gen system. MS does seem dedicated to putting their games on any system regardless of power (see Switch.) Everyone thought that was the case, and then everyone thought that wasn't the case...but we really won't know much until E3. They're all about ecosystems but we don't know what ecosystem exactly they intend to build yet.

When was Black Friday on Xbox.com last year? I can't wait to see the latest digital sale.

@BlueOcean November 18th. This year's deals start tomorrow for Gold and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers by the way.

@Grumblevolcano OK, so this year is later because of the X019 event that had a 24 hours deal or whatever. The important thing is that Black Friday on Xbox.com (and on consoles) starts tomorrow.

With Game Pass, I'm not even sure I'm looking for anything on the Black Friday sale this year. I think most of the new games I want to play are on Pass

@NEStalgia That's right but after playing Crash Team Racing on Switch and having a lot of fun but being annoyed by the low resolution I would like to get the Xbox One X version. It's beautiful... but not on Switch All the other games I want are coming to Game Pass.

It's live indeed.

https://majornelson.com/2019/11/18/this-weeks-deals-with-gold...

A huge amount of titles on sale including the Crash, Sonic, Spyro, Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed and Resident Evil games, new and old. Sale available now for Gold and Game Pass subscribers.

Fortunately, not too much I want in them, @BlueOcean .... Picked up KHIII, Life is Strange 2 & a couple of others I liked the look of

Hmm it says the sale isn't live in the UK yet. Do they have different launch time?

@DarthNocturnal

Ner I'm too sporadic in my gaming practices to bother with subscriptions. Just normal purchases.

Some really great prices on the Black Friday sale!

I’m gonna get at least REmake 2, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Devil May Cry 5, Far Cry: New Dawn, and the DLC bundle for Forza Horizon 4. I will probably splurge on some other games too.

@JoakimZ Unlike Nintendo's, Xbox's sales are awesome!

Final MCC development update before Reach's launch:

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-updat...

Gears Tactics and Ori 2 are at the Game Awards:

Y’all, I just realized I can stream my X1 to my Windows 10 work laptop since IT is having me do field tests (and it’s wide open for now). Is it pretty simple to get rolling?
And are there other devices I can second-screen it as well?

@HobbitGamer It should be simple, so long as your X1 is in "Rapid Start" and not "Power Saving" mode (I.E. it's always listening to XBL to see if you're sending the power-on signal.) The client is built right into Win10. Even Server editions. Even Enterprise editions. Which is hilarious.

There's an iOS and Android app but Win10 is best

@NEStalgia Okay, then I’ll certainly need to change my power settings, thanks for that.

So it sounds like I’d not want to use my gen1 IPad, right?😂

@Grumblevolcano

I genuinely forgot Gears Tactics existed! Lol. Does it have a release date?

Don't think so, @Dezzy .... It's supposed to be this year but I think it'll be delayed a bit