I wonder if MS will jump the gun on the next gen early. Game Pass finally seems to be starting to deliver the steady stream of new releases they promised all those years ago, but it's happened too late in the gen for them to make the ground up. A new console might put them back in the spotlight again, especially if it's more reasonably priced than Sony's ridiculous PS5 Pro.
I'm still happy with my Xbox, and have never really been tempted to jump ship to PS5 - 90% of what I play is available on both platforms anyway. But I'd like to see them pick a strategy and stick to it, and I hope that involves selling consoles and making games.
That's interesting. I was in CEX yesterday and wondered why the couple of Series X's they had were marked up at RRP.
I think the best hope for Sony is that they'll be kept in check by Steam/Steam portables and the upsurge in mobile gaming some regions have seen.
Seems like they are in stock some places (Argos) but they seem to have discontinued the All Access program. The links to it are all dead or not updated, lists several retailers who pages don't have the correct links etc.
All a bit odd.
Quite surprised this hasn't become a thing in the specialist press. Normally, those fuckers are all over that stuff. Probably too busy making up nonsense about Switch 2.
They have been leaking the Xbox Handheld Stuff this week.
I enjoyed that, especially the photoshopped Game Gear folks used to illustrate the story.
That would be a dream personally! The ones I saw all used mocked up green and black ROG Ally's. Which also looks good.
I have my Ally docked and working as a console/PC on the TV in the bedroom now as been getting that set up last week and played Yakuza 0 on it for about 4 hours yesterday, and feels like that could be a good angle for also marketing a handheld Xbox device with GamePass.
Just put XCloud on Switch 2. Job done.
