Xbox's Latest Multiplatform Release Has Been Announced

I don't mind a remake of the first game, but why not remake the entire trilogy?

@Shade_Koopa Remake 3 games and sell them as trilogy for 60/70$USD...
OR
Sell each one separately for 60 bucks!
In short, the reason is money.

Ok now how about Psychonauts 2 thanks

I suspect this will come to Switch 2 as well, just not day and date because of logistical reasons.

@DarkTron

Literally beat me by 23 seconds lol. Weird hype build up to the Switch 2 launch (which I have pre-ordered anyways) when half the articles are “why isn’t this game announced for Switch 2 yet?”

I mean it might come to switch 2, but I’m betting that this was in development before they may or may not have requested Switch 2 dev kits. Plus, dealing with a PC, Xbox X, Xbox S, PS5 and Cloud release, I could see why they’d focus on the other consoles for now.

@ScottyG It's because a reputable insider said they were in fact coming. Much like how Hi-Fi Rush was coming to Switch.

Much like that, they were, in fact, not coming.

@Vyacheslav333 it’s $40 not $60. I’m more ok with a change to $80 games if they are more flexible on prices like this. I bought South of Midnight largely because I paid £35 for it and I’m more willing to take a chance at that price. Turns out it was a very good shout as I love what I’ve played. Just need to make time and do the last 3 chapters.

With Gears of War at the same price I’m definitely picking it up and can probably talk some of my friends into getting it too for some co-op/multiplayer together.

Think of how less brown, drab, cover shootery with the slowest texture loading ever seen the 360 era could have have been if not for this “masterpiece”.

@Shade_Koopa because the first one was already remastered for xbox one its must faster to port an xbox one game then the 360 versions.

by the way this will 100% be a gamekey game if it releases on switch 2.

I remember when the Wii U released with Assassin’s Creed, COD, Mass Effect, Arkham City, Darksiders 2 and Zombi U…

…And Nintendo fans in general didn’t care.

That’s what worries me most about the Switch 2. That Nintendo believes they can fill the Nintendo shaped gaps with old ports of western shooty games. It’s never really worked in the past.

Soooo much griping in the comments. Get over yourselves.

I wonder if we'll have a Microsoft Direct or they'll just be in a Partner one. Also, I haven't really noticed any new announcements of Switch 2 games.

@SalvorHardin Well Gears 1 actually made sense since it was mostly set in a destroyed town. Gears 3 and its sequels are far more colourful since there's are sections set outside of cities.

I do hope third parties work a little harder at parity for game releases day and date for switch 2. (Especially Microsoft who has held up games by forcing day and date releases). That being said last/current gen has trained me to wait two years on third parties not announced for Nintendo. You want my money day 1? Release day 1.

@Glassneedles South of Midnight is so good. Glad you picked it up.

@kfflscnt I don't think MS even published physical copies of their PS5 ports. The last MS published game on Switch that got a physical release were the Ori games IIRC, and that was done by a third party.

@MrGawain
ZombiU was actually a Wii U Release and then ported to other consoles.
Arkham was and still is best on Wii U with Wii U exclusive features.
Mass Effect is also a lot better on Wii U.

If they release 3rd party games with the same sort of effort then I'll definitely support it like I did on Wii U.
I doubt it though

Isn't GoW just inferior KillSwitch (y'know that one with the GameboyAdvance entry ?) ?

There are already alot of games for Launch. Also the existing games that gets an update. Will play tears of the kingdom again lol. Maybe start over.
I hope brothership also follow, that game is perfect for that. It already uses the unreal engine where the switch 1 struggled with it and had some crashes.

@Vyacheslav333 the value of the games gets diluted

Please just announce a complete master chief collection for the switch. 🤞

I don't think this is coming to Switch 2, the Switch 2 is now fully revealed and has a solid release date and there's been games coming to the system much later been announced. So there's no reason for Microsoft not to announce a Switch 2 version if there was one.

I played the first remaster on Xbox and i thought it was so boring. Just a boring, brown cover shooter with one note gameplay. I read i'll get the new remaster for free since i got first one but i don't think i'll bother.

@UltimateOtaku91 I'll bet my hat that it's coming to switch 2. I can see pretty much most Microsoft owned games to be ported now the switch 2 is capable of running them.

sony and xbox games are interchangeable that why it makes more sense for xbox games to come to sony..

I quite like Gears of War 1, a really good horror cover shooter... But, what about Gears 2&3? They were better than Gears 1 and are currently dying on the Xbox 360 on almost completely abandoned servers. That and we just got a remaster of Gears 1 not that long ago on the Xbone and it is already on PC. I don't even care if they come to Switch 2, but give me Gears 2&3 on PC.

I really hope that we have more Switch 2 games on the horizon, especially for the holiday season. It would be weird for them to rely solely on a nonmainline Pokémon game that's also on Switch 1 to be Nintendo's big holiday release. I don't really think Metroid Prime 4 would be big enough for a first-year holiday game, either.

@ScottyG Couldn't agree more. If you're enough of a gamer to know about these third-party releases, but only want to use Nintendo hardware to play them, then the problem is kind of on you.

Naah give us Sea of Thieves and I’ll think about buying a Switch 2

Remember the Wii U times? "Nintendo is ddom, I can't wait to play Zelda on my PS4/ Xbox One." How the tables have turned. I can't wait to play Gears of War on my Nintendo!

Again? Gears of war remake for the second time? I did not like it the first time it released, i did not like it the second time, i won't be buying a third time the first gears of war. I wanted Halo, not Gears

Gear of War is a fantastic game. The reason this is being done for a third time is purely to get it on the PS5. Everything that I've read is that it's basically the Ultimate Version that released around 10 years ago, but with some performance updates.

Hopefully this also gets release in some form on the Switch.

I wouldn't be suprised if Xbox is just waiting for the Switch 2 install base to build up a little. The whole point of this initiative is to earn them more money and at launch Switch 2 users aren't going to be enough to cover porting. Once the Switch 2 gets established I expect we'll see lots of X1 ports.

@SalvorHardin MovieBob-level take.

That is not a compliment.

@johnedwin Seething contempt for anything non-Nintendo isn't a good look.

I hate the industry’s obsession with remastering to the point they are now remastering a remaster. If a game is hard to play, either through just being physical and now absurdly expensive, or not possible to play on modern hardware then fair enough, but too many games get remasters that just don’t need it.

MS Games I’d very much be interested in seeing on Switch 2 are Rare Replay and Forza Horizon. I don’t know how easy RR would be though. For Xbox all those games were already available and the hardware was capable of playing all the previous generations so it was just lumping them into a collection. For the Switch, they’d need to port everything individually.

As a fan of both Xbox and Nintendo, I’ve been saying it since they went buddy-buddy, MS, for the love of god, start tossing Fable, Fallout, Oblivion, Pillars 2, and Avowed on Switch(2). You guys will PRINT money.

Sure those games run good-ok on Deck, but bespoke versions for Switch 2 would sell like hotcakes.

Horizon would also do well on Switch as the system has historically had a hole in the racing genre. Tokyo Xtreme Racer proved on Steam Deck that gamers enjoy a handheld racing experience.

My boyfriend said this one means xbox is "dead dead" especially since Halo is also rumored to come multiplatform. I love my xbox so...

@PKDuckman there is a 110 dollar indiana jones premium version that includes story dlc
and a 200 dollar collectors with a storage box globe.

This would be amazing to play on Switch 2 but I would recommend people trying out IRONFALL Invasion which is available on Switch and is one of the best looking games on the console. It's like an indie Gears Of War and it's a blast. Has online multiplayer too! 👀

@kfflscnt Ah, I wasn't aware of that. Make sense.

Just go digital. Then you don't have to worry about the issues and hassles of physical games. ^^

@Vyacheslav333 Ya know, that actually make sense. I retract my now stupid question. XD

Not interested on the Switch because I am not going to pay for online play and that was the whole point of this back on 360.