I adore my Audeze Maxwell's but they're a bit more pricey. Phenomenal sound quality and great battery life, but a bit heavier due to the planar magnetic drivers.
Xbox Game Studios + Bethesda + ABK |OT30| Why So Series X|S?
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I adore my Audeze Maxwell's but they're a bit more pricey. Phenomenal sound quality and great battery life, but a bit heavier due to the planar magnetic drivers.
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These just got announced. Got them for $110 using honey, don't remember the code it used though :/
Klob just retweeted this. Positive sign for Hellblade?
View: https://x.com/klobrille/status/1775890000175075749
View: https://x.com/klobrille/status/1775890000175075749
Wait you mean this Arcanum?
If this is the gameyou mean:
that is a baffling comparison.
- This game rules.
- This and Cloclwork Revolution are nothing alike.
The one and only. Only the greatest game of all time and its criminal we never got anything else set in that world.
It's so good. Agreed we were robbed of an amazing setting and series of games.
Idk I think people were saying this last year and then got a bunch of disappointment after HFR and AoE. They'll definitely have the number of games but there's no indication yet that there will be a bunch of great games.
Yeah people keep saying it every year and at this point everyone just needs to let the games come out. Actions speak louder than words. Theres no ned to throw out promises or declarations or anything like that.
Given the timing of him retweeting this (which he tweeted last month), I think he's trying to suggest that Hellblade IS one of these great games (because he's playing it) but obviously he just can't say yet.
Maybe I'm reading into it too much though. It's just curious timing for him to retweet this specifically.
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Also, great games aren't the same as big sellers. HFR was a great game. Pentiment was a great game. Microsoft wants big money.
I don't know what the future holds for Xbox, but I greatly enjoyed Hellblade 1, I'm pretty sure I'll greatly enjoy Hellblade 2 and that makes me very happy today.
I'm also very happy that the game releases at 5 AM my local time, so I'll be able to play it for 3 hours before I start working!
I'm also very happy that the game releases at 5 AM my local time, so I'll be able to play it for 3 hours before I start working!
I care more about games being great and me enjoying them than I do about them making loads of money for their parent company.
I understand the success has an impact on the studio and what games get greenlit going forward. But there's virtually nothing I can do about that and as a consumer I just want to play great games on Xbox.
WSJ confirming Call of Duty will release on game pass.
Expected, but still. Thank god they didn't change their mind.
Last year was great for Xbox if you just like to play the video games and not worry about needle moving and online narratives. 🤷♂️
This year has been much worse so far but it looks good going forward.
This year has been much worse so far but it looks good going forward.
I always found this strange behaviour from many gamers, the sales performance for games being a qualifier for their enjoyment.
Fortnite for example, I wouldn't touch with a barge pole but it's one of the best worldwide for money making.
Honestly, I reckon games won't be an issue going forward for Xbox. They have internal issues they need to address pronto though.
I personally think everyone would be happier if they focused on the former and not the latter, but oh well. The online discourse, no matter how dire, has literally zero impact on my daily enjoyment of my Xbox.
Yeah, people talking about Doritos bags for 10 pages and I'm on my third Starfield run like idk what to tell yall.
Mat Piscatella has a good interview with Kyle Boseman. He talks about how the console makers are all hurting, Microsoft hurting the most, and how everyone's kinda banking on switch 2 and gta 6 to actually drive console market adoption and sales.
And again reiterated that younger audiences care more about pc and mobile and playing the games they want where they want.
What interested me was his comment about how the market basically had a ceiling in 2020/2021. The people could play and spend however many hours/dollars they wanted then and the market is not going to reach that again for some time (hence banking on gta and switch). It's the absolute ceiling and so now it's the fight for engagement and spend rather than growth.
And again reiterated that younger audiences care more about pc and mobile and playing the games they want where they want.
What interested me was his comment about how the market basically had a ceiling in 2020/2021. The people could play and spend however many hours/dollars they wanted then and the market is not going to reach that again for some time (hence banking on gta and switch). It's the absolute ceiling and so now it's the fight for engagement and spend rather than growth.
Yeah, more CoD players on Game Pass = more MTX revenue. Plus, a year of Game Pass to play CoD until the next game costs more than buying the game, so they're making more money from that person than if they bought the game.
There's also the fact that CoD sales will only go down on Xbox, not on other platforms where the majority of sales are.
yeah for years it was always i aint paying this amount of money just to pay this years call of duty when i can wait and just play warzone and MS better be advertising the ever livng hell out of it like all previous cods and new one all available on game pass
They own the Activision marketing machine so I don't think that's going to be a problem.
If I were them, I would do it early next year, after this banger fall and right as (hopefully) a banger 2025 kicks off.
2023 was great for me. 2024 may end up even better if Avowed and Indiana Jones do what I hope they can do. Just get those missing animations in Avowed's combat and I'm all-in on that one. Indiana Jones looked great, MachineGames are awesome, first person + 3rd person is GOAT, I just need it right now.
Age of Mythology will be anwesome. I'll muck around in Flight Sim and Towerborne. I'm even a little excited for COD. Imagine that.
for sure they want the new signups they get from COD to be on the new fee and will probably reorganize the tiers to be less confusing mess than it is now
Side note but I think Myth Retold is going to be huge, especially launching on both platforms together.
I'm curious in this idea that young kids prefer PC. I'd like to see the data. In my experience as a teacher, pretty much they all talk about console, with some kids occasionally mentioning "I want to build a PC." I'm not convinced it's some complete total console apocalypse.
Hopefully they drop last year's COD into Game Pass too because I never got around to that one.
At least in my experience it's absolutely true. Swtich is still popular, but my wife is a teacher and all the kids talk abouhang out on discord and play GaaS on PC.
Tiers? Pricing? Game inclusion?
This is only vague bait behaviour
I'd like to think they will start doing the old CoDs (and other ABK games) at the showcase and then throughout the rest of the year. A big drop at the showcase, and the rest released monthly after that.
Probably price increase per Tom?
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Microsoft to add next Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass, WSJ reports
The next Call of Duty arrives in October.
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They basically making the big bet and or experiment.
1. If COD doesnt move adoption, nothing will
2. COD players mainly just play COD so if you can get them in for GP you basically have long time sub users instead of 1 month users
Possibly they just make a tier thats just for COD which would be funny
I don't see many hardcore COD players switching to Game Pass if that is all they play so I doubt GP numbers increase much.
What I do see happing is a lot of gamers who don't care for COD but have Game Pass trying out the new (and old COD games) which will massively increase the player bases and could convert them into hardcore paying COD players.
What I do see happing is a lot of gamers who don't care for COD but have Game Pass trying out the new (and old COD games) which will massively increase the player bases and could convert them into hardcore paying COD players.
Well PC is growing, consoles are not. So there has to be growth form somewhere.
But I do agree with you, its not a console apocalypse, not yet. Playstation is still doing extremely well, Nintendo obviously is and xbox is still at roughly 30 million or so. The problem is, we are in an industry that require continual growth, so this apocalypse is just a product of that system. Everyone jut does fine as is, but if that number doesn't go up, its bad.
Just saying, but Xbox needs to push out a large media campaign around october that says "Play all COD on Game Pass, including the brand new Black Ops" if they even want the larger COD community to be aware.
A lot of those players probably don't even know what a Game Pass is.
A lot of those players probably don't even know what a Game Pass is.
Raising Ultimate another buck or two seems inevitable. All subscriptions are going up these days. Also making COD exclusive to Ultimate seems inevitable. I mean, you kinda need it to play anything besides the campaign anyway. Getting all those "I only play COD" players to change their core subscriptions to ultimate pretty easily makes up for the lost sale, and either they keep paying for ultimate, or drop back down to core and have to spend $70 to keep playing.
"Changes to the Xbox Game Pass Tiers are coming, mainly due to Call of Duty.
There are still things to confirm, but I hope to provide more information soon"
View: https://x.com/eXtas1stv/status/1791468893925417436
There are still things to confirm, but I hope to provide more information soon"
View: https://x.com/eXtas1stv/status/1791468893925417436