Topic: The everything Xbox thread

While I'm not interested in the Xbox brand, currently (that might change if Microsoft gets its exclusives situation sorted), I do have to say that I absolutely adore those memory cards they're releasing for Xbox Series X. It's not even necessarily about the convenience... I just think they're cute. And they also appeal to the nostalgic Playstation fan in me.

@Ralizah same for me, no reason for me at all to ever get another Xbox but the memory card things are so neat! Use to love all my different color memory cards back in the ps1/2 days!

@redd214 Third-party memory cards could come in a lot of fun shapes and colors, too. My favorite on PS1 was shaped and like a baseball. It even had fake stitching on the side of it.

@Ralizah yeah I remember a bunch of weird ones back in those days. A friend of mine had a Spyro shaped one I remember!

@Zuljaras They won't make the same mistake twice at least with the always online feature. That pretty much killed MS this gen and they know it. We saw how fast they got rid of Mattrick from the backlash alone they got for that idea. I mean they pretty much have made it past that point this gen but the damage was already dealt this gen for any point of a recovery.

@Tasuki Yep, Xbox One S and Xbox One X were more about restoring the Xbox brand after Mattrick's disaster than beating PS4 but now with Play Anywhere, xCloud and Game Pass Microsoft is not even worried about not beating Nintendo or Sony in the consoles market but to stay relevant in the full video games spectrum. I think that the rivalry of Nintendo and Sony is bigger than ever although Nintendo is focusing on mobile gaming at the moment, especially after last year's Switch Lite.

@BlueOcean Right and there will always be a rivalry between Sony and Nintendo but that's to be expected due to Nintendo screwing over Sony with the Philips deal.

Why would Micro Soft or Xbox go through all of that trouble just to make another Gaming system,when are they going to stop?

you don't see Nintendo coming out with another gaming system,Now do you?

Mostly caught up on rebuying my physical library digitally as my XB1 disc drive doesn't work properly, only thing left is the Bioshock Collection but I may just skip that as I have the 360 games on backwards compatibility.

Inside Xbox tomorrow, no XSeX news

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/04/06/april-2020-inside-xbox...

Hopefully there's a XB1 release window for Gears Tactics.

At this stage of the generation, wouldn't it just be cheaper to replace the console?

@gcunit No, the games I was missing generally go on sale at crazy discounts such that it's still a lot cheaper to get digitally.

Deal alert if anyone is interested. Refurb X with the Witcher 3 for only $230. Heck of a deal even with the new boxes coming in November!

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/ab064673?AID=...

I've gotta admit, I'm not a Microsoft fan, and have no real interest in any iteration of the Xbone, but this is a snazzy looking console. If it was a special edition Series X, I might find it more tempting.

I just played like 7 hours of Gears of War 5 campaign in online co-op with brother.

Thoughts

This is easily one of the most amazing exclusives I’ve played all generation. I can’t believe how good this game is! Yet so few people talked about it when it released? Gears has always been good, but this game is on another level. It’s unbelievable. Previous Gears games were great- I played a fair bit of Gears Ultimate and Gears 4. Solid 9/10 games. But I’m struggling to find a reason Gears 5 isn’t a 10/10. I just can’t find any reason to knock this game. It’s near flawless in every single way. And it’s definitely one of the best looking games I’ve ever seen. 2160p 60fps Ultra? This game isn’t messing around.

I’ve always admired the fact Gears of War is designed ground up to include co-op in the single player campaign, both local splitscreen and Online. And that’s not even including the four other modes, which, horde mode is, of course, a classic. But man, exploration in this game is so addictive. The gun play is absolutely phenomenal (on PC, with gyro in the controller mapped to the mouse for aiming).

I wasn’t originally going to preorder Gears Tactics, but after tonight, it’s a day one buy. I’m into it.

I seem to remember hearing it had online multi-player problems, at least on launch, @JaxonH .... Those might well have been fixed by now? Glad you're liking it so much, anyway!

Ok Xbox just dropped the best console trailer ever (I think it's IGN joking? Is it? I have no idea what's going on)

"Just a sh*tload of ports" Lolololol.

My guess is that this is a real thing but IGN made a fake trailer for it, for a laugh? That size thing can't possibly be real.

Lols, yeah, that's a joke, @Dezzy .... I mean, the series X looks like that but the XXL bit gives away that they're making it a lot bigger While the 'sh*tload of ports' is blatantly not going to be true! Since it'll already play all XB1 games, most 360 ones & they're looking to improve BC further, why do ports?
Quite a funny video, though!