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Maybe they should sell some Xbox Series Xs first before thinking about next next gen.

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Xbox 720 real 2028??

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Simpler times…

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bet my ovaries its just gonna be stadia 2.0 at this point with their gamepass garbage

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They already cancelled the streaming box they were making (Project Keystone). And they aren’t the only ones making streaming services for gaming.

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Why would they need to release a new console for game streaming? The advantage is that it can run on anything. It would also guarantee that Sony wins that generation before it even begins.

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This controller looks like a bikini top

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I know it vibrates but you should know your controller is not for fucking.

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Rez PS2

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I hear some horny teens have tried to use switch joycons for that because of how small and thin they are

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Fuck microshit for their predatory pushing of game pass and not being able to own games. I would never buy an xbox and hope others don’t fall for it as well.

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People also seem to genuinely believe MS won’t just massively inflate prices once they’ve cornered the market lmao

The current gamepass pricing is unsustainable. There’s a reason why MS refuses to say how much money they make from it (if any) and they lump it in with other stuff in their financials.

I can easily envision a future where gamepass is £30 a month or something, but because MS has bought a lot of studios and people don’t own their games, people have to choose between continually paying that price, or starting all over again with zero games, and not being able to buy a decent amount of the big games, because they’re only on gamepass.

Either that or it ends up like TV streaming where we have to have 5 different subscriptions to access all the games we want access to.

Fuck that. We shouldn’t let either of those things happen.

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Game Pass is awesome. Back when I was a kid, you rented a game for a weekend and it cost you like $8. Now for around that price you rent a hundred games for a month.

Game Pass is just streaming for video games. It works and lets me try out so many games that I would never have spend money on, but ended up liking a lot of them.

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Yeah, I get that gamepass is a good way to play games but the thing is when this is if I really like the game and want to purchase it, I can’t. They won’t ever sell me the game files, they’ll only give me the key to rent it out and can revoke that whenever they want.

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I can totally relate. Paying 30-100€ per game is something for rich people or something I’d do once or max twice a year on very carefully selected games, hoping these games are worth it. With Game Pass I spend 120€ a year to access a wide range of games.

Once I played through or once version 2 of a game comes out, I’m not likely to play it ever again.

Also I have phases where I play a lot and phases where I do not play at all. I can simply discontinue Game Pass in these cases.

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And what about when Microsoft ups the price on their subscription, which is clearly their strategy as gamepass doesn’t appear to be profitable?

At least if you’d spent that 120€ on 2-3 games you’d be able to keep them forever.

That 120€ subscription could easily become 200€, 250€, or more. Something people may feel compelled to pay for if MS continues buying up the industry and decides to make games exclusive, which is something they’re already doing to some extent.

Maybe I’m crazy, but I don’t think giving MS a disproportionate amount of power over the market is a good thing.

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What do you mean by not being able to own games?

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I didn’t say people wouldn’t be able to buy any games. Please don’t strawman.

What I said was that plenty of people won’t own games (due to gamepass being sold cheaply initially), then when MS massively jacks up prices, people will have to choose between swallowing that and buying all their games again at whatever the retail price happens to be.

It’s a trap designed to extort people in the long run.

The other thing I said was that some games will be exclusive.

Please address things that I’ve actually said, not things that you’ve imagined I’ve said.

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I didn’t imagine you saying anything. I didn’t address anything you said because I didn’t reply to you. I just wanted OP to expand on what he meant by “not being able to own games”

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