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Ryuu96 on 14 February 2024

Oh I just had a random thought, if the stores were ever merged, GP Console and GP PC can finally be merged into just "Game Pass" Lol.

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DroidKnight on 14 February 2024

NobleTeam360 said:

Lol, digital-only and 100-dollar games? consoles are dead to me if that happens.

Gaming will be dead for a lot of people. Especially if the choice is do I eat this week? or do I buy a game?

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G2ThaUNiT on 14 February 2024

DroidKnight said:

NobleTeam360 said:

Lol, digital-only and 100-dollar games? consoles are dead to me if that happens.

Gaming will be dead for a lot of people. Especially if the choice is do I eat this week? or do I buy a game?

Definitely will be dead for me. I either wait for a game to go on sale or am insanely selective over what game I get when it launches.

Just for my family alone groceries are about $120/week give or take. Prices go up too high and I'll just be sticking to my collection of emulated games.

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PixelPirate on 14 February 2024

Ryuu96 said:

Oh I just had a random thought, if the stores were ever merged, GP Console and GP PC can finally be merged into just "Game Pass" Lol.

Maybe they can take this opportunity to create a better 'store' on PC. It certainly leaves some things to be desired when comparing with Steam of even the Xbox Store on console.

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Spade on 14 February 2024

Ryuu96 said:

Spade said:

I wonder how much transparency we're going to see from this podcast on Thursday. Have very little faith anymore. Case by case = Xbox going through a wall.

Will you finally clean your room after the Xbox is shattered over your floor?

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konnichiwa on 14 February 2024

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5 Predictions that I think we see in the next console gen:

- Digital-only consoles/games
- PS/Xbox handhelds
- $100 games as standard
- Games to go 3rd party with incentives of timed exclusivity/content
- 3rd party publishers to streamline further and focus on established IP
— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) February 14, 2024

If they leapfrog $80 and $90 and go straight to $100.....

Didn't you spend 100$ on Starfield tho?

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trunkswd on 14 February 2024

G2ThaUNiT said:

DroidKnight said:

Gaming will be dead for a lot of people. Especially if the choice is do I eat this week? or do I buy a game?

Definitely will be dead for me. I either wait for a game to go on sale or am insanely selective over what game I get when it launches.

Just for my family alone groceries are about $120/week give or take. Prices go up too high and I'll just be sticking to my collection of emulated games.

Same here for the most part. If it is on Game Pass or is a big Nintendo game I am excited for I'll play it day one. Otherwise I wait for sales to buy games. A lot of the time you can get games heavily discounted within 6 months of release.

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shikamaru317 on 14 February 2024

I have only bought 2 games at full price since 2020 honestly, they were Cyberpunk 2077 and Hogwarts Legacy, and honestly I felt kind of short-changed by both purchases, Cyberpunk because I got hit by a game breaking bug due to it's messy state, Hogwarts because I 100% completed it in only like 60 hours, not even getting an hour of content per dollar I spend just doesn't seem like good value to me any longer. With the poor state the economy is in, gaming is becoming far too expensive for my tastes. The only things keeping me gaming are subscription services like Gamepass and Gamefly, and deep discounts on both physical Amazon sales and digital Xbox store sales. Being able to fully fund Gamepass with just Microsoft Rewards points helps alot, but who knows how long that will last, with Microsoft continually decreasing the number of points you can earn and making it harder to earn them, and likely future Gamepass price increases also likely driving up the rewards points costs. Moving to PC gaming and the cheaper PC gamepass is seeming more and more like the best plan for me moving forward.