Xbox Series X/S Discussion *xbs*
20-Jun-23 12:47pm
#1 Anxiouz
I was wondering why Xbox chatter got quiet but I see the old thread got closed (due to lack of activity I presume?). Spinning this back up.
I'm excited about some of the Xbox stuff coming later this year (can't wait for Forza to finally get here!) but for my gaming tastes GP has been pretty terrible most of this year. My son is getting a lot of mileage out of it but he and his friends jump games a lot so it works out great and makes for a nice deal.
#1 Anxiouz
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I was wondering why Xbox chatter got quiet but I see the old thread got closed (due to lack of activity I presume?). Spinning this back up.
I'm excited about some of the Xbox stuff coming later this year (can't wait for Forza to finally get here!) but for my gaming tastes GP has been pretty terrible most of this year. My son is getting a lot of mileage out of it but he and his friends jump games a lot so it works out great and makes for a nice deal.
17-May-24 12:14pm
#241 Anxiouz
Slickriven wrote:
Immortals of Aveum joins GPU today via EAplay. Anyone play it? It worth trying out?
I played about 3/4 through it. It's just ok. The core shooting gameplay isn't very satisfying so adding more and harder enemies as you go doesn't make it more fun. I mostly gave it a try to see an Unreal engine 5, and honestly it's not a super impressive example.
#241 Anxiouz
Slickriven wrote:
Immortals of Aveum joins GPU today via EAplay. Anyone play it? It worth trying out?
I played about 3/4 through it. It's just ok. The core shooting gameplay isn't very satisfying so adding more and harder enemies as you go doesn't make it more fun. I mostly gave it a try to see an Unreal engine 5, and honestly it's not a super impressive example.
19-May-24 7:16pm
#242 TalonJedi87
Ouch. Wonder if they’ll start discounting the XSX like heck now to boost sales.
#242 TalonJedi87
Ouch. Wonder if they’ll start discounting the XSX like heck now to boost sales.
19-May-24 7:16pm
#243 PizzaTheHutt
Archer wrote:
The XS is being compared to the WiiU.
The ultimate insult.
#243 PizzaTheHutt
Archer wrote:
The XS is being compared to the WiiU.
The ultimate insult.
19-May-24 7:25pm
#244 benstylus
It was a big boon for MS during the early pandemic. Seemed like that was the only console anyone could get.
#244 benstylus
It was a big boon for MS during the early pandemic. Seemed like that was the only console anyone could get.
19-May-24 7:45pm
#245 Feeb
Not to mention they lumped the series sales numbers when they did report them- correct?
#245 Feeb
Not to mention they lumped the series sales numbers when they did report them- correct?
19-May-24 8:46pm
#246 TalonJedi87
Anything that’s cheaper is going to sell better IMO. Especially with people and say parents with budgets that just get their kids the cheapest console that’s new and it’s by the same name and some parents probably didn’t give a crap so they’re like this is the new Xbox right? Yeah I’ll take the cheaper one. Merry X-Mas Billy. Also I did read in an article a few weeks back that even Sony is seeing a decline in PS5 sales and is looking for new creative ways to boost back up their sales numbers. I mean what did these corpo leeches expect? Once supply catches up to demand things will inevitably level out.
#246 TalonJedi87
Anything that’s cheaper is going to sell better IMO. Especially with people and say parents with budgets that just get their kids the cheapest console that’s new and it’s by the same name and some parents probably didn’t give a crap so they’re like this is the new Xbox right? Yeah I’ll take the cheaper one. Merry X-Mas Billy. Also I did read in an article a few weeks back that even Sony is seeing a decline in PS5 sales and is looking for new creative ways to boost back up their sales numbers. I mean what did these corpo leeches expect? Once supply catches up to demand things will inevitably level out.
19-May-24 9:47pm
#247 Feeb
The problem with the series being lumped is that they are definitely not the same box- different than the ps5 and digital. It seems it would be more akin to lumping ps5 and ps4 pro.
#247 Feeb
The problem with the series being lumped is that they are definitely not the same box- different than the ps5 and digital. It seems it would be more akin to lumping ps5 and ps4 pro.
19-May-24 11:42pm
#248 Heavyd814life
TalonJedi87 wrote:
Anything that’s cheaper is going to sell better IMO. Especially with people and say parents with budgets that just get their kids the cheapest console that’s new and it’s by the same name and some parents probably didn’t give a crap so they’re like this is the new Xbox right? Yeah I’ll take the cheaper one. Merry X-Mas Billy. Also I did read in an article a few weeks back that even Sony is seeing a decline in PS5 sales and is looking for new creative ways to boost back up their sales numbers. I mean what did these corpo leeches expect? Once supply catches up to demand things will inevitably level out.
Nah PS5 sales are perfectly fine. It's trending 7% ahead of the PS4. And that's despite the economy being crap and the PS5 still not seeing a price cut. At this point in the PS4 lifecycle, it was already $300 and the PS5 is still $500. Sony just needs to make more realistic sales projections and cut down the development costs. Which they seem to be trying to doing. I like the Japanese dude that's in charge now. Much better than that asshat Jim Ryan.
Also this generation is kinda meh and the PS5 is kinda mid. The fact that the Xbox is posting numbers this bad is worrying for competition in the high-end console space. Sony is coasting and still pulling away somehow. And don't get me started on the Xbox. Buying a bunch of devs and studios when they could barely manage the ones they already had. And someone please explain to me how Matt Booty still has a job. I swear that guy must have some dirt on someone because I have no idea how he is still employed. They change their messaging every two minutes and can't go 2 months without a PR blunder. It's always 2 steps forward and 5 steps back.
#248 Heavyd814life
TalonJedi87 wrote:
Anything that’s cheaper is going to sell better IMO. Especially with people and say parents with budgets that just get their kids the cheapest console that’s new and it’s by the same name and some parents probably didn’t give a crap so they’re like this is the new Xbox right? Yeah I’ll take the cheaper one. Merry X-Mas Billy. Also I did read in an article a few weeks back that even Sony is seeing a decline in PS5 sales and is looking for new creative ways to boost back up their sales numbers. I mean what did these corpo leeches expect? Once supply catches up to demand things will inevitably level out.
Nah PS5 sales are perfectly fine. It's trending 7% ahead of the PS4. And that's despite the economy being crap and the PS5 still not seeing a price cut. At this point in the PS4 lifecycle, it was already $300 and the PS5 is still $500. Sony just needs to make more realistic sales projections and cut down the development costs. Which they seem to be trying to doing. I like the Japanese dude that's in charge now. Much better than that asshat Jim Ryan.
Also this generation is kinda meh and the PS5 is kinda mid. The fact that the Xbox is posting numbers this bad is worrying for competition in the high-end console space. Sony is coasting and still pulling away somehow. And don't get me started on the Xbox. Buying a bunch of devs and studios when they could barely manage the ones they already had. And someone please explain to me how Matt Booty still has a job. I swear that guy must have some dirt on someone because I have no idea how he is still employed. They change their messaging every two minutes and can't go 2 months without a PR blunder. It's always 2 steps forward and 5 steps back.
19-May-24 11:49pm
#249 Heavyd814life
Archer wrote:
Analysts are now saying based on financial reports, that the xbox is being outsold 5 to 1 to the PS5. There are no solid numbers because they wont release them. But they are using the quarterly reports to make the assumptions. The XS is being compared to the WiiU. They have similar sales numbers, or so they think. Thats not good.
It's annoying that we don't have concrete numbers. And it's similar numbers JUST for the last quarter, right? Because I'm pretty sure the Series consoles have doubled the lifetime sales of the Wii U already.
I wonder how they could have posted numbers that bad last quarter, though. Maybe I'll do some research in the morning to see if there are estimates for lifetime sales quarter by quarter. Less than 1 million consoles shipped for a quarter is pretty dire, but I think we need to see that for multiple quarters before we can consider it a trend. Xbox has a good slate of games between now and the end of the year so I don't expect it to be this bad rest of year. If it is then RIP for sure.
#249 Heavyd814life
Archer wrote:
Analysts are now saying based on financial reports, that the xbox is being outsold 5 to 1 to the PS5. There are no solid numbers because they wont release them. But they are using the quarterly reports to make the assumptions. The XS is being compared to the WiiU. They have similar sales numbers, or so they think. Thats not good.
It's annoying that we don't have concrete numbers. And it's similar numbers JUST for the last quarter, right? Because I'm pretty sure the Series consoles have doubled the lifetime sales of the Wii U already.
I wonder how they could have posted numbers that bad last quarter, though. Maybe I'll do some research in the morning to see if there are estimates for lifetime sales quarter by quarter. Less than 1 million consoles shipped for a quarter is pretty dire, but I think we need to see that for multiple quarters before we can consider it a trend. Xbox has a good slate of games between now and the end of the year so I don't expect it to be this bad rest of year. If it is then RIP for sure.
20-May-24 1:13pm
#250 PizzaTheHutt
I had read a couple of days ago that PS5 is at 59 million units sold, not too shabby at all, but that PSN has 118 million active monthly users, which means half of them are still on PS4. Too many developers releasing last-gen versions of their games are giving people no reason to upgrade.
#250 PizzaTheHutt
I had read a couple of days ago that PS5 is at 59 million units sold, not too shabby at all, but that PSN has 118 million active monthly users, which means half of them are still on PS4. Too many developers releasing last-gen versions of their games are giving people no reason to upgrade.
20-May-24 4:52pm
#251 Bleed_DukeBlue
I'm not sure I get this line of thinking on the PS side. I definitely think the PS5 provides more than a minimal hardware boost. Aside from improved graphics and boosts to fps (e.g., Destiny 2 on the PS5 can do 4K 60fps in PVE and up to 120fps in PVP), the controller (thanks to haptics and better rumble support) is much better. Playing Astro's Playroom when I first got my PS5 definitely felt next gen to me due to the haptic feedback. Probably the biggest change to me, though, is that the PS5 opened the door for the PSVR2, which is leaps and bounds better than the PSVR.
Archer wrote:
Yeah, its really strange that at this point in the cycle of the current consoles, that so many games are still coming out on the previous console. And even games that are only coming out on those consoles. Still lots of PS4 games that don't have a PS5 app version. Because they know you can still play it on PS5 I guess, so why bother. Same on Xbox. Doesn't have to be an XS version. And no one has announced any plans to make that stop. But I guess that is just another point as to why this generation feels so lame as Heavy pointed out above. No one really has any incentive to only develop for the current systems. The systems don't feel special or unique. They are just minimal hardware advances. We also don't have that many games on these systems that really showcase their potential. Almost five years into the life span. This whole generation feels weird.
#251 Bleed_DukeBlue
I'm not sure I get this line of thinking on the PS side. I definitely think the PS5 provides more than a minimal hardware boost. Aside from improved graphics and boosts to fps (e.g., Destiny 2 on the PS5 can do 4K 60fps in PVE and up to 120fps in PVP), the controller (thanks to haptics and better rumble support) is much better. Playing Astro's Playroom when I first got my PS5 definitely felt next gen to me due to the haptic feedback. Probably the biggest change to me, though, is that the PS5 opened the door for the PSVR2, which is leaps and bounds better than the PSVR.
Archer wrote:
Yeah, its really strange that at this point in the cycle of the current consoles, that so many games are still coming out on the previous console. And even games that are only coming out on those consoles. Still lots of PS4 games that don't have a PS5 app version. Because they know you can still play it on PS5 I guess, so why bother. Same on Xbox. Doesn't have to be an XS version. And no one has announced any plans to make that stop. But I guess that is just another point as to why this generation feels so lame as Heavy pointed out above. No one really has any incentive to only develop for the current systems. The systems don't feel special or unique. They are just minimal hardware advances. We also don't have that many games on these systems that really showcase their potential. Almost five years into the life span. This whole generation feels weird.
20-May-24 4:58pm
#252 Feeb
I think all of the current hardware- aside from switch- feels adequate. I don’t do the GPU war stuff though- but I understand others thinking they’re underpowered.
#252 Feeb
I think all of the current hardware- aside from switch- feels adequate. I don’t do the GPU war stuff though- but I understand others thinking they’re underpowered.
20-May-24 5:22pm
#253 TalonJedi87
I would like it if they can finally stop jockeying us around with this performance / graphics mode in future console generations and just have most, if not all games run at 60fps or better while retaining graphical fidelity. I hope that's where we're headed next.
#253 TalonJedi87
I would like it if they can finally stop jockeying us around with this performance / graphics mode in future console generations and just have most, if not all games run at 60fps or better while retaining graphical fidelity. I hope that's where we're headed next.
20-May-24 9:16pm
#254 Anxiouz
Archer wrote:
I'm saying most people don't have a reason to upgrade. Neither system is doing anything to make people feel the need to rush out and buy the consoles. The games just aren't there for that.
This. And what I've been reading about the PS5 Pro...that doesn't make a case for itself either. This whole gen has been weird with covid hardware shortages, cross-gen making it less necessary to upgrade, and peaks and valleys of new releases. Right now I feel we're in a huge lull.
#254 Anxiouz
Archer wrote:
I'm saying most people don't have a reason to upgrade. Neither system is doing anything to make people feel the need to rush out and buy the consoles. The games just aren't there for that.
This. And what I've been reading about the PS5 Pro...that doesn't make a case for itself either. This whole gen has been weird with covid hardware shortages, cross-gen making it less necessary to upgrade, and peaks and valleys of new releases. Right now I feel we're in a huge lull.
21-May-24 3:07pm
#256 Feeb
benstylus wrote:
Seems like there are more Genesis releases this year than PS5
Dunno what’s coming up- but I’ve been playing my ps5 non stop this year. There is too much on my plate to keep up. I haven’t finished stellar blade nor started hell divers 2. Barely touched MLB the show and NCAA is coming in two months. I’ll be set.
#256 Feeb
benstylus wrote:
Seems like there are more Genesis releases this year than PS5
Dunno what’s coming up- but I’ve been playing my ps5 non stop this year. There is too much on my plate to keep up. I haven’t finished stellar blade nor started hell divers 2. Barely touched MLB the show and NCAA is coming in two months. I’ll be set.
22-May-24 3:24pm
#258 SMY36738
Archer wrote:
Sounds like that final redfall offline patch is going to come out afterall. I might check it out again after it does. They've released a lot of patches for it. And I guess it doesn't play as horribly as it did at launch.
I played it back in February, and most issues have been fixed...but certain things like long pauses booted you from the game exist. That should all be corrected with "single player pausing" and offline, etc. The game was fine - but not great. Worth a playthrough though. I am a big fan of Dishonored, Prey and Deathloop, so this was as a good, but they patched it from being a train wreck.
#258 SMY36738
Archer wrote:
Sounds like that final redfall offline patch is going to come out afterall. I might check it out again after it does. They've released a lot of patches for it. And I guess it doesn't play as horribly as it did at launch.
I played it back in February, and most issues have been fixed...but certain things like long pauses booted you from the game exist. That should all be corrected with "single player pausing" and offline, etc. The game was fine - but not great. Worth a playthrough though. I am a big fan of Dishonored, Prey and Deathloop, so this was as a good, but they patched it from being a train wreck.
23-May-24 7:46pm
#259 Anxiouz
As I expected, the Hellblade 2 user reviews seem to be either zeros or tens with very little in-between. I'll probably check it out this weekend for the graphics...and because it's on GP.
#259 Anxiouz
As I expected, the Hellblade 2 user reviews seem to be either zeros or tens with very little in-between. I'll probably check it out this weekend for the graphics...and because it's on GP.
9-Jun-24 2:36pm
#260 TalonJedi87
Kind of a huge day for Xbox today and about damn time folks. I’m once again kinda pumped to see what’s coming out in the next year.
Gears of War E-Day and Doom The Dark Ages alone got my nips a bit hard.
https://www.ign.com/...
#260 TalonJedi87
Kind of a huge day for Xbox today and about damn time folks. I’m once again kinda pumped to see what’s coming out in the next year.
Gears of War E-Day and Doom The Dark Ages alone got my nips a bit hard.
https://www.ign.com/...
9-Jun-24 3:06pm
#261 TalonJedi87
Oh yeah I have zero hope for anything New BioWare does. That DA game isn’t even on my radar.
#261 TalonJedi87
Oh yeah I have zero hope for anything New BioWare does. That DA game isn’t even on my radar.
Xbox Series X/S Discussion *xbs*