Recent content by Johnny Awesome

Actually, Sarah and Phil are both telling me that the next Xbox hardware will be the "biggest leap yet". Not sure where you've been. :) No way it's cheaper to make and ship a Series X then put banks of APUs in the cloud. Doesn't make sense. On top of that you only need 1/5th to 1/10th the APUs.

Turns out there's 41 added since last October to the end of this Summer: Gears of War: Reloaded Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 DOOM: The Dark Ages Warhammer: Vermintide 2 DREDGE Anno 1800 Far Cry 4 Towerborne (Game Preview) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Remastered...

Then MS is in great shape then and so is xCloud. Sure there is. The best reason of all - GamePass. That's even more locked in. Leave GP. Lose a lot of your games. Not everyone we talk to. :) Sony profits on their hardware. So does Nintendo. Nothing new with Xbox profiting on their hardware...

They won't because of GP. Remember that MS believes hardware is going away, so they need a bridge for existing GP users to get to Cloud 10 years from now and that bridge is one more generation of Xbox hardware. The home console is going away once they solve latency/framerate issues. Whether...

It could happen, but I think the idea is to make a streamlined Windows, not go the other way and make a bloated Xbox.

Not many though. This isn't really the point though. Sony isn't altruistically trying to move gaming forward with new hardware. The reason to bring out hardware is keep people buying games. They learned this gen that a heavy cross gen period works well for them. They'll do the same again...

This is why I say that the main customer for a new Xbox is the GP subscriber and there are about 30 million of them on Xbox and growing about 2 million per year at a minimum. My experience with these people, myself included, is that they want to keep GP and would likely buy the next Xbox if the...

Not by much if all you do is make a PS5 version with a few bells and whistles for the PS6 version. That's what they been doing this gen.

Since Eastman thinks streaming is perfectly fine and no hardware is needed he should just do that. The rest of us who don't think streaming is good enough yet and don't want to pay $80 for games will just get the next Xbox with GamePass.

Sony doesn't care if you buy God of War: Dad Sim on PS5 or PS6, as long as you buy it.

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I probably should be careful about trying to attribute too much brilliance to MS, but hear me out. :) Raising game prices to $80 does two things: a) Make a lot of money on other platforms and non-GP users b) Make GP even more attractive to Xbox and PC owners. Putting Gears on PS reminds PS...

It was just an example. The answer is simple though - MS, however much money it actually was. My guess is that even though this game appears to have a $25-30 million budget it could easily be more like an Avowed or Hellblade 2 at $80 million depending on all the outsourcing. Still a fairly...

I managed to squeeze in playing the intro on Friday night and the story telling is amazing. On another note, I sometimes wonder if the narrative out there about how small the dev team is overblown somewhat. I've heard they had a ton of outside support for this game. It's great to claim "33...

A lot of interesting discussion going on. As you know, I'm someone who thinks MS can pull it off, but I'll admit that I'm not certain of it. I hope I'm playing GamePass games on good hardware for <$1000 next gen, but maybe I won't be.