madmaltese

Good to hear that the PC version is optimised well. Seems that's where I will be playing it when i get to it. Reading some of the load times (4min??? WHAT?) on consoles is insaneeeeeee.

In an age of early announcements and constant delays their current strategy of nearly showing nothing till announcing before releasing within 6 months is so damn refreshing.

Absolute perfection

Yeah that would make sense. Heaps of rumours suggest it is practically done so I guess they just sit on it for now.

Keen!!! After how they handled Better Call Saul I trust them with anything.

Decent direct and that's why you don't talk about Nintendo's year before their first yearly direct. All of a sudden they have by far the most major first party releases this year with more to come. Very surprised to not see MP Trilogy though.

Yes slow jon, I paid $1 for State of Decay 2, Sea Of Thieves, Forza Horizon 4 plus other MS titles I had missed like Halo Wars 2 and Recore. How dumb of me............... then again tbh, most of those aren't worth the $1 so you're probably not wrong

It's also a big portion of where the users are coming from. https://www.resetera.com/threads/35-of-current-sea-of-thieves-players-are-on-windows-10-inside-xbox.97932/#post-17616729 35% to be exact when it comes to Sea of Thieves.... But you're fine with jonb dismissing a platform when it has a 35% player share lol

You're gonna mention Disney Adventure and not Gears, Halo Wars, Sea of Thieves, State of Decay, Forza and every other MS first party moving forward. Pretty much the no.1 reason to have GP is MS first party. Up until last night the only place I ever played GP was on PC. The only thing I claimed is that MS is taking a hit to encourage ppl to hop on board. Say I'm subbing: Nothing Say it's literally the best value ever in gaming: Nothing Say MS is taking a hit with the constant crazy deals in the hope it becomes mainstream:

I mean revenue (and specifically profit wise) wise. Those are all obviously things that MS is currently hoping to promote while taking a hit of the very cheap price of GP. I'm far from convinced by the 'GP has led to increased game sales' narrative that MS spew out. We have no idea how well those things would've sold without GP so them having 'good' sales doesn't necessarily have any correlation to GP. All of Sonys and Ninty's first party games also having excellent record breaking sales but the narrative is different because they don't have GP. So I don't hold much in the words of MS sin

There was that Streaming Service breakdown report a while ago that had it's numbers fairly low. Well behind PS Now (which is so rarely discounted). Likewise though, post links to provide it is doing well. We simply don't know because MS never gives numbers. I hope it is because paying what they currently charge and getting all first parties day 1 plus 100+ other games would be amazing moving forward.

It obviously meant to read 'taking a hit'. and the whole objective to doing business is to make money. Having everyone pay $1 for GP is most definitely not their goal and most def not making them money. They are taking a hit on it now to get ppl aboard hoping the taste makes ppl understand the value and stay on. We'll see how it goes. Seriously you xbox fans are like cult level obsessed. I think I could talk shit about your mothers and not get the same reaction. I literally called it the greatest value in gaming history in this very thread.

Sony won't have a single discless system at launch. 100%

This is gonna be a fun thread.

Will hopefully be an interesting one because they don't have a single game focus as of yet so we might get to see a few things. Pretty sure they'll go Pokemon heavy as that nears release though.

Yeah and I don't think there will only be discless.... But if anyone would do that risk (of having a discless console, whether it's the only one or not) I'm happy for it to be MS because of its market matches that product. It's not rocket science, you just saw US and UK and got triggered like usual. Still waiting for you to back up your tears with facts from actual sales charts outside of the regions I mentioned. tick tock.

No shit there will be a disc based system, I'm talking about the discless system (that's what this thread is about). You are just so sensitive about your Xbox that any perceived slight is like someone talking shit about your children. I said I'm happy for Xbox to try this because their markets match the product. Again, I can show you charts from US, UK, Spain, Italy, France, Japan and pretty much every region that has charts to show you Sony and Nintendo constantly charting. Xbox has US and UK. Feel free to prove me wrong, but you can't because I'm right.

If you think a discless Xbox is targeting everywhere (which is what this thread is about) then you're even more clueless than I imagined..... and that would really be saying something.

The irony of you accusing ppl of 'negatively skewing things' after spending I don't know how long negatively skewing records breaking announcements from Sony and Nintendo is beyond hilarious I've seen you use Vgchartz before as a resource so for eg let's have a quick look. Now VGChartz is absolute ass in regards to actual numbers but that's not what we are looking at, let's look at market share per region. Most recent week hardware. Xbox sold 88K WW: 51K US, 24.5K Europe (of which the mountain share would be UK). So even if we only account for 50% of EU sales being UK,

In other words you can't because they don't exist. When 2 regions (1 literally being a single country) account for 66% (at least) of WW sales then those 2 regions are called your market you dumbass. A country/region not being your market doesn't mean it sells zero there.

The US (and Latin America) and UK are without a doubt the Xbox markets, you can keep crying about it all you want. Feel free to show me other EU, asian, etc markets where XBox and it's games regularly chart.

So the 2 regions I mentioned are near 2-3x the rest of the planet (2x if you believe your made up numbers, 3x if it's the current most known number of just over 40m). Thanks for confirming my point.

Hopefully, although I think certain 2 team dev studios might be getting the little push to focus on MP a little. Guerilla being a possible early PS5 focus with maybe a more MP focused KZ.

I'm all up for MS to be the one experimenting with this. Tbh they are the only ones that can even risk it because they basically only have the US market and to a much lesser extent the UK. Markets that would be more accepting of this. This simple just wouldn't be an option for most ppl WW.

We'll see how it goes, not too optimistic tbh. I preferred their strategy this generation with them focusing what they are the best at (SP focuses games) and partnering with the best MP games. Even when Sony actually developed top quality MP games they weren't successful enough to be proper hits and the market now is more competitive than ever.