Hero-of-Time Posted November 8, 2018 Posted November 8, 2018 Just a quick reminder that X018 is this weekend. Quote We’ll be celebrating an incredible holiday season for gamers with our biggest episode of Inside Xbox yet, including news, interviews, great deals, and much more. Guests include Head of Xbox Phil Spencer, Head of Microsoft Studios Matt Booty, Minecraft Studio Head Helen Chiang and many, many more. Tune in for games including Crackdown 3, Minecraft, Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2, Forza Horizon 4 and of course, we’ll have a surprise or two as well. Will we have Xbox Game Pass news? Do we ever! We’ll be making over a dozen game announcements for Xbox Game Pass. As always is the case with MS events, I will be eagerly awaiting news of any new projects by Rare or appearances from any of their IP. I wonder if Battletoads will finally be shown off? 1
Mandalore Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 Started watching this thinking it'd be a bit like a Nintendo Direct. 30 minutes in, it's more like E3 2018 round 2.
Hero-of-Time Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 4 minutes ago, Mandalore said: Started watching this thinking it'd be a bit like a Nintendo Direct. 30 minutes in, it's more like E3 2018 round 2. It's supposed to be about 2 hours long.
Hero-of-Time Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 Final Fantasy XIII trilogy backwards compatible next week. Very nice!
Ronnie Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 Game Pass is sounding more and more incredible
Hero-of-Time Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 And it's over. Not great but not a total train wreck. It was a essentially a 2 hour advertisement for DLC and Game Pass. The Game Pass announcements were very top heavy, with the latter ones being pretty poor. Its good that MS are quoting more studios (Obsidian finally confirmed) but they are all Western based and does nothing to add diversity to the line up of games. Rare and their IPs continue to be underutilized. Another major absence from this was an new announcements or even talk of original Xbox BC games. That initiative seem to have stalled which is a shame given how many great games are trapped on that platform.
Ike Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 The format for this was pretty bad, the hosts shouldn't have to try and shout over the crowd. Just sounded like chaos.
Ganepark32 Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 The Obsidian Entertainment deal becomes official, about time really as that one's been cooking for some time going by all the industry talk over the last year or so. Almost thought they weren't going to announce it when they announced that Inxile is also becoming a Microsoft studio, especially with the similarities between the two studios. Still, two good acquisitions and again, a reinforcement of the previous sentiment that they're keeping studios independent (such as what Ninja Theory suggested) is good to hear as it'll allow them to create the game and content they want. Definitely a becoming a strong stable of first party studios that covers a breadth of genres, whether it gives Microsoft what they need to compete in terms of first party output remains to be seen (and that's especially questionable with Compulsion Games as We Happy Few was atrocious). As for the show, it wasn't particularly great. Could easily have cut the guff out and maybe should have dialled back on the plants in the audience as it just seemed forced at times. Still no release date on the Ori sequel is a disappointment. Not much in the way of new announcements and a lot of "wait for The Game Awards", perhaps should've been pre-recorded.
Hero-of-Time Posted November 16, 2018 Posted November 16, 2018 Looks like MS are set to release a new budget Xbox One next year. Quote The Scarlett devices are Microsoft’s next-gen consoles and are not expected until 2020 but in 2019, the company is planning to release a disc-less console. And if this is making you nervous because you have a large collection of physical discs for your current Xbox, Microsoft has you covered.In addition to the new console, there will be a ‘disc-to-digital’ program that, as the name states, turns your physical games into digital downloads. The idea is that you can take your disc to a participating retailer (like the Microsoft store) and trade in your disc for a digital download.The goal with the new console is to lower the price point for the hardware. Currently, it costs about $299 to buy into the Xbox One family of devices, Microsoft is looking to lower that price by possibly as much as $100; the new console price point is expected to be $200 or less. 1
S.C.G Posted November 16, 2018 Posted November 16, 2018 Hell to the no! Sure, I can see that this might be right for some consumers but... that sounds like furthering the demise of physical games, something I'm not keen to support at all. I don't have a huge amount of Xbox One games, but I do have a fair few Xbox 360 games plus Xbox Original games as well. Imagine if the program extended to Xbox Original games... trade in my copy of Panzer Dragoon Orta for a digital download and lose over half the value in the process? Nope! I know... it'll be just for Xbox One titles probably and there are loads of people who will buy it, especially if it's half the price of a disc-based console, so it's good for them at least. Personally, I can see the negatives outweighing the positives by a large margin.
Hero-of-Time Posted November 16, 2018 Posted November 16, 2018 (edited) If they get the price down really low and pair the console with Game Pass then it will be a winner. Edited November 16, 2018 by Hero-of-Time
S.C.G Posted November 16, 2018 Posted November 16, 2018 Just now, Hero-of-Time said: If they get the price down really low and pair the console with Game Pass then it will be a winner. Oh yeah, definitely... it IS a good business decision for them. It just saddens me when I see them trying to really push digital downloads over discs and cartridges. But it will sell, of course which is the bottom line and MS definitely need to do something.
Julius Posted November 16, 2018 Posted November 16, 2018 18 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: Looks like MS are set to release a new budget Xbox One next year. Well, that came out of nowhere. I think I saw the Xbox One S selling for ~£240 the other day, and I prefer physical media like @S.C.G so I’d probably get one of those over a disc-free version, but there’s definitely a place in the market for a games console with an RRP of below £200. It won’t help them catch up to Sony (this generation at least), by any means, but that’s a very aggressive way to push out Games Pass and have more gamers considering the Xbox One as a supplementary console to their PS4 and/or Switch. Plus, I suppose from a business perspective, this would help them to prepare manufacturing processes for a disc-free Scarlett, as well as probably better prepare employees at brick and mortar stores for the inevitable questions about a disc-free console/service such as Scarlett. 1
Ronnie Posted December 6, 2018 Posted December 6, 2018 2 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said: Below finally has a release date. Jesus. I thought this day would never come. Can't wait to dive in though, hope the reviews are good. They deserve it after such a long dev time
Ronnie Posted December 11, 2018 Posted December 11, 2018 If anyone happens to spot an Xbox One S selling for cheap somewhere could you let me know? Keen to buy one for a mate. Currently about £180/190 everywhere I look.
Hero-of-Time Posted December 11, 2018 Posted December 11, 2018 4 hours ago, Ronnie said: If anyone happens to spot an Xbox One S selling for cheap somewhere could you let me know? Keen to buy one for a mate. Currently about £180/190 everywhere I look. I think that's about as cheap as you're going to get. I know on BF they were £170 so them being close to £180 so close to Christmas seems like a decent deal. 1
Aneres11 Posted December 18, 2018 Posted December 18, 2018 Similar to the PS4 stats you can get (although they are for all time), XBOX are doing a ‘year in review’ which i wouldn’t mind seeing. Every time i try to access it, it asks me to ‘click to sign in’ which i do and it’s just contstantly stuck in a loop of taking you back to the main page to sign in. Typical XBOX with crap UI making it impossible to access basic information. Ive given up! 1
LegoMan1031 Posted January 2, 2019 Posted January 2, 2019 I actually sold my Xbox 1 X end of last year! How times have changed!! It’s all about the switch and PS4 for me now.
Julius Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 (edited) Microsoft will be airing a commercial during the Super Bowl for the Xbox Adaptive Controller! below is the extended version: Quote When technology empowers each of us, it empowers all of us. This Super Bowl, follow the inspirational story of passionate young gamers rising to the top of their game with a little help from their friends, family and the Xbox Adaptive Controller. The story illustrates Microsoft’s commitment to building accessible technology that levels the playing field and creates opportunity for all of us. I’ve said this before, but I need to say it again: I love the direction that Xbox are heading in. Sure, the future looks bright for their games, and if they can match the technical prowess of their consoles, we’re in for a treat next gen. However, much more important to me is that they are funding controllers and projects like this and helping those that can often find themselves ostracised socially, or often left behind as an afterthought when it comes to gaming options, to be included too. Edited January 31, 2019 by Julius 2
Hero-of-Time Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 (edited) Another rumour about the digital only Xbox has popped up. Quote First detailed by Brad Sams, Microsoft has been experimenting with a discless Xbox One S console codenamed Xbox Maverick, with a launch window thought to be around Q1 2019. According to our sources, we now know a little bit more about the timing and marketing name of this intriguing new console. Microsoft is reportedly set to call the discless Maverick console the "Xbox One S All-Digital Edition," with preorders aiming for mid-April 2019, and with general availability coming in early May 2019. It looks as though it could be near-global simultaneous launch for almost all existing Xbox markets. The discless Xbox One S would be a first for the company, offering fans the ability to ditch discs altogether and go all-in on digital game licenses. As Microsoft pushes for greater access to its game library via things like the Xbox Game Pass digital subscription and the incoming streaming service Project xCloud, dropping the disc drive from the "All-Digital Edition" should make it the cheapest Xbox console yet, although we have no word on pricing just yet, or whether the console will see any design refinements beyond simply dropping the disc drive The normal S model usually goes for around £180-£190 these days so if this new console is real then I expect it to be around £150-£170 mark. In other news, Just Cause 4 is now on Game Pass. Not bad when you consider it was just released at the end of last year. Edited March 6, 2019 by Hero-of-Time
S.C.G Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 If this discless Xbox is really coming out and actually wants to be a success, then Microsoft will probably sell it close to cost or making very little on it, they'll make it back with subs. I reckon we could see it as low as the price that the Nintendo GameCube originally launched at in Europe... £129.99 Any more than that would be way to expensive a trade-off for not being able to read discs I reckon, because don't forget you then also don't have the ability to use older discs as well. With backwards compatability, I can play a lot of my original Xbox games, if I wanted those digitally then they are around a tenner each... ...but if more of those titles are becoming part of Game Pass anyway, this may well be a non-issue for some.
Goron_3 Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 If they launch it at £129(ish) and pack in a month or two of GamePass, I'm in. 1
Hero-of-Time Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 2 hours ago, Goron_3 said: If they launch it at £129(ish) and pack in a month or two of GamePass, I'm in. That would be a sweet spot for a lot of people. I imagine a fair few would be willing to jump in at that price. I think this is a good move by Microsoft. It will help give a handle on how many people are willing to purchase a digital only machine before they launch their new console.
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