JaegerDice
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In fairness, he's still catching up to Capcom with RE4 and Square with FF7
PS5 vs Xbox Series X
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In fairness, he's still catching up to Capcom with RE4 and Square with FF7
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I was solidly headed towards PS5 first of the two, but this is a monumental game changer.
Games Pass is now undoubtedly the best bargain in gaming. If Elder Scrolls, Starfield and Fallout go Xbox exclusive that will seal it for me.
Games Pass is now undoubtedly the best bargain in gaming. If Elder Scrolls, Starfield and Fallout go Xbox exclusive that will seal it for me.
I'm still gonna buy PS5 for demon souls, but yeah, Im gonna be selling pretty quickly if PS Now doesn't up it's library and bundle with PS Plus
Which by the way, Sony is embarrassingly not rebranding PS Now. There are numerous members of the media that still think PS Now is still a streaming service only, they basically haven't told anyone that it's a gamepass competitor now.
I almost wrote a post last week about how backwards it seems to me to think that exclusives are a good thing and how buying consoles on the basis of them encourages the practice and leads to developers being bought up and more titles being exclusive. Obviously, I wish that I had now. What Microsoft did today was predictable. I think that it's also predictable that these games will be Xbox exclusives, at least for the first 12 months. The timing here, the day before pre-orders for the next Xbox open and just a couple months before both their system and their competitor's are released, is very telling. Microsoft is telling the world, "If you want to play the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout, choose Xbox."
That said, I did read about two potential benefits of this acquisition:
1. Microsoft may want Elder Scrolls VI to be finished sooner, so they might get Bethesda to focus on that instead of Starfield (which probably won't sell systems like Skyrim's successor will) or even just hire more staff to speed it up.
2. Microsoft now owns the Fallout franchise and Obsidian, the developers who made New Vegas, so there's a chance that Microsoft could commission the latter to make a New Vegas sequel.
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flyingkiwi
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To me, this is a far greater concern than licensing fees and subscription prices. The last Forza Horizon was dangerously close and I have a feeling the next one might go all the way. Also the fact that they're getting into bed with EA on the subscription front makes me wonder what kind of collaboration we'll see in the future. But we also may get some amazing games out of this too. I don't want to be too pessimistic.
KCC
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Game pass is definitely a great deal but for me, they have very little that interests me. Even with this massive purchase, if all those Bathesda games go to game pass nothing jumps out at me except maybe The Evil Within. Don't care about Elder Scrolls, Starfield etc. I do know that come launch they will have a ton of games added so we'll see. But for now, no thanks.
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Preordered an Xbox knowing I’ll likely cancel it before launch if I can get a PS5. I wasn’t prepared for the PS5 preorder frenzy so I missed out. I was prepared for the Xbox one because they actually told us when it was going live. Imagine that.
Super Cake
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Even then it was very hard to preorder one.
It was suppose to be live at 8 a.m. my time. Well it f***ing felt like all of them were sold out exactly at 8 a.m.
Chris Pronger
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Also the xbox will not sell out nearly as quickly as the PS5. You probably could comeback tomorrow and still find some
I’m having to stop myself from hunting down a series X. I bought one of each, PlayStation and Xbox, at launch last time, but last time I wasn’t married. I think I’m already pushing my luck with one this go-round.
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I don’t know about that. I got mine at Walmart and when I checked right after check out they were already gone. Not sure about other stores but Walmart went quick.
Super Cake
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These are all going to sell out quickly. COVID-19 is likely making all supplies limited.
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Chris Pronger
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How are they making money off of that? They just bought bethesda for 7.5 billion. Also assuming all bethesdas games will be available on gamepass.
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considering gamepass has over 15 million subscribers, I would say they are fine in the making money department.
I guess over time they will make it back? Lol.
I heard they got Bethesda then when I found out what they paid I was shocked because they will need a lot of subscriptions / console sales to make back that money.
Phil Spencer “confirmed” that all Bethesda games will be available day 1 on gamepass.
Spencer says that “with the addition of Bethesda, Microsoft will grow from 15 to 23 creative studio teams and will be adding Bethesda’s iconic franchises to Xbox Game Pass. This includes Microsoft’s intent to bring Bethesda’s future games into Xbox Game Pass the same day they launch on Xbox or PC.”
Future Bethesda games will be on Xbox Game Pass from day one | PC Gamer
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While this is not an accurate number - 15 million subscribers at 19.99 (eventually) is 3.5 billion dollars a year in revenue. I know people usually pick it up on deals or stuff and the games on the pass cost money to license (unless they're Microsoft IP but still - development cost).
I would expect the 15 million to keep growing and growing so billions in revenue is not out of the question. The only question is the cost of running something like Game Pass which I would imagine is fairly significant.
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JaegerDice
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I got a pre-order in-store at EBGames.
They STILL weren't sure if the payment plan was going to be a thing in Canada, so I'm not sure if I'll get it at launch or just pass on the pre-order and wait til there's a game worth buying for the $500 up front.
They STILL weren't sure if the payment plan was going to be a thing in Canada, so I'm not sure if I'll get it at launch or just pass on the pre-order and wait til there's a game worth buying for the $500 up front.
