Then don’t swallow it. I’m not. Wait a couple years, check your hoarding instinct and 1TB really isn’t that bad. I went through my list on my console and it is amazing the stuff I keep installed but never play. Prices will go down over time, a 1TB drive was crazy expensive just a few years ago.

F'kin COTD right there!

It seems to me like they told the truth about a game that was still over a year away from launching, but got pushed by Sony to ship right away. After all, the rumor was that all of the stuff they discussed was in the game but so far away from launch-ready that they spent the last few months of development actively…

Wow. Are there still people left in the “but they lied” crowd at this point?

That’s sort of how I am. I have a day 1 PS4. I’ve never been a “new every 2" kind of guy. I didn’t get the Pro. I didn’t get the slim. So it’s a friggin dinosaur at this point, and I’d like to get the PS5. But I can wait until December, January or even February at this point. As long as my PS4 holds out, and nothing…

I’d bet my mortgage that you’ll never, ever see Game Pass on Playstation. You might see Sony build out a similar service, but they have a deal in place with Microsoft where such a service would likely run off of Microsoft Azure servers. So they get your money.

I got a Series X sitting in my cart and I am debating pulling the trigger

I got a Series X sitting in my cart and I am debating pulling the trigger

They would, but they probably won’t. The difference is that these titles will be $60-$70 retail on Playstation, while they’ll be day-and-date “freebies” on Xbox Game Pass. That’s almost as good as an exclusive, without being seen as unfriendly to gamers. And Microsoft is more than happy to pocket that money from any…

Eitherway microsoft wins.  One can think of an xbox as a cheaper entry to PC gaming.  But really wish people would stop comparing a console to a PC where a good graphics card alone would cost the same as the console.

Sure but those people all left because of how bad the former management was. Microsoft now has a clearly better trajectory, so at best you could speculate about whether that’s enough to retain the people this time around - it’s certainly not valid to use Rare as an example of why it’s a foregone conclusion that…

A lot of people don’t seem to be aware that two things can be bad, and they can both be bad for different reasons.  

Under former management? A bunch of Kinect games.

Sony purchased Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Bend, Sucker Punch, Guerrilla Games, and Media Molecule, but OK.

The big difference is that they’ll be $70 retail titles on PS5, or day-and-date freebies on Xbox Game Pass. And if your choice is still the former, well, Microsoft will happily take your money.

The issue with Tencent has more to do with them being in the pocket of an authoritarian government.  

Microsoft has always been very honest about their intention to release Minecraft on as many platforms as possible. I think they are fully aware that Minecraft is a game mostly played by kids, so it makes sense to put it out on as many platforms as possible, simply because it will sell a fuckton more copies like that.

If I recall, Oblivion was supposed to be a launch game, but got delayed...I remember being bummed about that, but ended up with more than enough great games to play anyways. The only thing that pried me away from Oblivion for months after it’s release was Rockstar Table Tennis. What an awesome game that was. I had to…

Indeeeeed. King Kong, Condemned, CoD2 and Geometry Wars made for a pretty great launch, in my eyes anyways. I STILL play Geometry Wars after all these years via BC.

Played it last year on 360 finally and it’s really excellent. Still can’t believe Michel Ancel did that game — that kind of designer-IP marriage is almost unthinkable now.

OG Xbox has Halo:CE, which basically means it wins.