It would be a dream if one of Xbox's RPG studios made a Halo game in the vein of Mass Effect. Maybe sometime in the next decade or 2 lol.

InXile possibly could after they finish their current project. 

Obsidian is pretty efficient and will likely be done with both Avowed and Outer Worlds 2 by 2024/early 2025, so maybe sometime after. They are also open with working on IP's outside of their own. But I see them making a Fallout spinoff before they would do anything Halo.

I don't see Bethesda working on something outside of their current IP's and they will be busy with ES6 after Starfield. Starfield 2 is way more likely than anything Halo. 

Anti-competitor clause... We believe in generations, the $70 fiasco with multiple first party titles on top of charging extra for upgrades, GT7 DRM and MTX fiasco... They're becoming more and more anti-consumer by the day. That's just off the top of my head from the last year and a bit...

MS has done some equally ( or worse) crappy things but they're seeminglty headed in the different direction.

I'm happy that Undead Labs is expanding, I really want SoD 3 to be as polished of a game as possible and I'm still hoping that there's a far larger focus on actual storytelling in the game this time around (which even if they go the MMO route is still easily doable). The amount of support Undead Labs has given to SoD 2 is also rather impressive. 

Hum I am very disappointed by Spartacus :( I was expecting something to really respond to GamePass but they are just adding more games to the same exact thing it is right now basically and merging both services into one.. PSP games on PS5 are cool tho. And the rumor about PS3 being "playable" and not streamable was not correct...

So yah, I think GamePass is going to have some really sexy years ahead, the day one games from Blizzard, Bethesda, Activision, Microsoft, etc... is just making too much of a difference imo.

PlayStation Officially Announces 'All-New PlayStation Plus' Subscription With Multiple Tiers and Retro Games - IGN

sexy years? Man y'all need to go to pornhub before y'all post here jk.

But Gamepass looking pretty good right now. Just wish we had some news :/

nah, Pornhub is over for me. DigitalFoundry did some analysis and some videos :

- Framerates are too inconsistent
- The lightning and other effects are just off for the majority of videos
- There is NO way those boobs are using ray-tracing
- And the loading time is way too long, at home, it usually take 1 or 2 minutes, some guys in those videos are taking like 20 minutes... They are probably not using SSDs. Don't know

This is unacceptable in 2022 and like many, I do not play games/watch videos if they are not 100% perfect based on DF assessment!

The one thing that the PS Plus higher tiers has over Game Pass is the annual option for a cheaper price. $99 or $119 per year makes them more palatable imo. I know about the trick of getting XBox Live and converting it to GPU but even that's being nerfed because they're phasing out the 12-month of Live deal. It would be nice if they offered 12-months of GPU up front for less than $180.

Then again, I use MS Reward points to get GPU so I'm not paying anything either way, but still....

Don't forget about the attempted closure of the PSP, PS Vita, and PS3 stores. PSP still closed, most likely due to the planned inclusion in the new service, but still, even attempting to close 3 major stores without any alternative at the same time was a huge WTF moment. Jim Ryan is really trying to hurt PlayStation's reputation, which is why we see Hermen Hulst a lot more lol. I'm weary about their upcoming 9 additional live service games now that GT7 is confirmed by Polyphony as a live service game. 

If Ultimate sub could be linked with a family account(s) that would be nice to me. So those acoounts could play on any console.