My thoughts on everything that leaked:
The Good
-Fantastic Zenimax schedule, Indiana Jones releasing sooner than anyone expected, the earlier Oblivion remaster leak confirmed and Fallout 3 getting a remaster too, licensed IP game coming (likely the Star Wars Mandalorian game that has been rumored in the past), Dishonored 3, a brand new codename game Project Platinum, current Doom series #3, and Ghostwire Tokyo getting a sequel all in a span of just a few years
-Original S model dropping to $199 Black Friday 2024 to clear out remaining stock before discontinue, it will sell crazy well at that price
-Mid-gen refresh controller has the haptics of PS5 and many other nice improvements
The Bad
-Xbox is only expecting to be at 30m sales when the Series X refresh releases Q4 2024, which means that the Xbox Series manufacturing woes still aren't over (they'd hit close to 30m just this year if they had proper stock for Holiday 2023)
-Not a single physical model planned for the mid-gen refresh, no disc drive S model, no X refresh model with disc drive, and no plug-in disc drive either like Sony is doing on their PS5 refresh, RIP physical on Xbox
-Local/cloud hybrid hardware plans for next-gen, sounds like a huge disaster in the making to me, infrastructure is still not ready for cloud gaming even in the US and won't be by 2028 either, and the situation is even worse in other countries, a cloud focused console is DOA in developing markets where gaming is starting to grow like South America and Africa. I think I may be going with PC/PS6 next gen if Xbox goes through with this plan.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 19 September 2023
