Pretty sure that they still exist but right now will likely be a support studio and not take on a project of their own.

it will be interesting to see if they and Undead New Orleans will ever develop a game independently of the main studio.

Inxile Newport Beach is very likely to be a AAA size studio in the future with they way that they are growing plus all the job descriptions mentioning AAA quality/production.

I'm really not concerned in the way I might have been in the PS2/3 days. The tech really is very standardised and scalable now. I think we've seen that a lot this generation. Playing Gears 5 on the One X for example, was phenomenal. When I saw my brother playing it on the standard Xbox One it looked good, but the step up was significant.

I thought the game just felt.. so pointless. It lacks a story and missions but it's filled with copy/paste locations to clear. Driving is horrible. There's hardly any exciting level design which is a shame, because gunplay was ok and there's a good variety of abilities. Should've done a proper more linear campaign instead of useless open world.

I also noted menu freezing. It got very annoying. And if I'm not mistaken,  you can't buy dlc campaign directly from Xbox Marketplace. You have to link to Bethesda account and use in-game store. Wtf is this shit? 

5/10.

I don't see the problem here at all actually. First of all, early adopters are alwas usually the tech enthusiasts who are willing to pay expensive price for hardware itself rather than for a few games. This gen transition will be as soft as possible anyway as third parties won't make a next-gen exclusives for a long time. So, what's the point for MS to stand out and lock Xbox One owners from only 10-20 games at best? The second point that some people are seem to be concerned with is that games will not fully use the hardware technologies of Series X because they will also need to be released on Xbox One. It is completely not true in terms of CPU/GPU side. Games release on PCs with a huge veriety of specs and they look a lot better on high end PCs rather than low end PCs. The only concern that makes sense is the SSD thing. MS releases their games on PC anyway, so they can't force using SSDs as a minimal requirement for PC version anyway. They can't design games with SSD in mind not because of Xbox One but because of PC. And also, if people are expecting that SSDs will have some major impact on game design in terms of complete removal of loading screens and walking corridor sections, they are gonna be completely disappointed in next gen. Because it won't happen. There is no such magic in SSDs that they can completely eliminate loading at all.

True. It will also gain the goodwill from existing Xbox One owners which are not willing to upgrade early in the gen anyway and if they stay subsribed and interested in GamePass, it is obvious which next-gen console they will choose in the future once they decide to upgrade.

IX in late February makes total sense. Ori releases in March, Grounded and Minecraft Dungeons in April. Better get done with this stuff before they start talking about Series X. So that they can focus on next gen entirely.

Series X > Xbox one

@poll not like that’s saying much

Wonder how long they will keep these monthly updates going 

That's pretty much my experience with Rage 1. Played it for ~2 hours on Xbox 360 and never returned.
Then when it was part of the BC program on the One. I tried it once more from the beginning and barely made it further before deleting it off my HDD.

Not a bad game by any means but it didn't felt very interesting and it had a very depressing look.

Yeah kind of weird how they use "Rage-Coins".

Makes me wonder if publishers get a bigger share from consumables than regular DLCs.

Early adopters want to get something for their money. They don't want to see only games which they could all get also on their old console just with better graphics. Sure, that's also nice but one important thing is still missing, the games not on last gen. 

And I see it different with the scalability. Engines are good at this nowadays but Xbox One's CPU was already a problem 7 years ago. How are developers supposed to develop games not possible on weak CPUs when the games still need to run on Xbox One? That totally destroys any freedom for their devs to work on games which were truly not possible before. We don't talk about resolution or shadow quality here. 

Same with the SSDs. Yes, MS could release games which would require a SSD. Most on PC have that already and there will be games coming who require that. Star Citizen already asks for it. Maybe not a NVME but still. This is not only about faster loading times. It's also something which totally changes what kind of games developers can work on.

What does MS want to hear the next years? Instead of "lol 900p" which MS realized that this sucked for many, they will hear "oh look, last gen games but in 4k" or what?

They will get destroyed for not releasing any next gen exclusive game for years. This won't be even funny. It's almost as bad as  just porting your Xbox One games to next gen and tell people to please buy into next gen.  

I was always more an Xbox guy (but I didn't really play this gen and only started again half a year ago on PC) but with such a decision I would rather buy a PS5 and not a Series X at release and who knows if I ever would buy a Series X years later if PS5 would be enough for me. 

They definitely make it easier for some to jump from Xbox to PS.