General gaming discussion

I'm the opposite, getting Dying Light on release and keeping Horizon for a letter date. I want to get Sifu and have to get Elden Ring so a busy Feb.

I'm the same with games, have to concentrate on 1 or 2 or i just bounce between them like I've been doing. I'm actively stopping myself from buying 3 more games on sale, all going cheap but i know they'll be wasted.

I have the arse played off Dying Light 1 and i would gladly go back for more but definitely want to go into DL 2 fresh.

Now that I think about it, Twilight Princess on the Wii had that kind of piss filter too. Hmmm, no wonder I couldn't finish it.

MS spending a load of $$$

I expect Sony to come out fighting. It'll be like Disney+ vs Netflix vs Amazon Prime soon ...

They're gonna run out of money to throw at stuff at some point... then again, I don't know many people who like Hitman but never bought them.

Also, if no one can rival it, then that could also mean that no one else has the money to throw at it like they do, or they know its not long term viable without a massive risk, which they can't take as they don't have MS backing.

Still, it is currently amazing value, especially if you do the Gold trick.

When Microsoft bought Bethesda for 7B they had four times that amount in cash reserves. That's increased again since then.

Microsoft print money, they'll never run out.

I think a lot, but not all, of their long term is to get cloud gaming/gamepass into India/China in particular. If you dominate the predominantly mobile market there you have potentially more gaming customers than the Amercias and Europe combined. It's probably a bit of a stretch but I'd say that is what they are aiming for.

If you want to know where gaming will be in 5 years look at what MS are doing today.

Whether that's putting ethernet cables in consoles when no one had broadband, getting people to pay for online services when everyone else was doing it for free, or making consoles digital focussed (remember all the **** they took over the Xbox one at launch, now 80+% of games are digital). They have been ahead of the curve.

So where will we be in 5 years?

It's not VR, it's not boxed games in stores, it's not walled gardens. It's your subscription, streaming to any device, at anytime you want with minimal fuss. Cross platform, cross progression and NFTs up the wazoo. 😂

Wasn't there speculation they'd add Crunchyroll as part of one of the tiers?

Wait til ye see, they'll add Spiderman No Way Home as the first film for the top tier, the shnakes.

Microsoft and Sony switching places again. Didn't Microsoft already try the whole - complete TV entertainment package thing at the start of the Xbox One era?