I'll be honest, if Sony's live service games are getting overshadowed by Sea of Thieves or Grounded, they never had a chance lol. 

Oh don't worry, this is far from the apocalyptic doom mongering we had last week for sure. Which from a PR statement would've made no sense to go with. They had to come in there and have the re-assurances necessary, otherwise this would've gone on forever. 

I'd maintain the current plans, not changing when it comes to the bigger releases ATM. Their choice to implement multiplatform releases based on the criterias they announced though definitely leaves a place to wiggle more as time goes by. 

Could they widen those as time goes and/or if they see new success in this strategy ? Definitely. Doesn't mean it will happen but it's a possibility.

I'm just of the opinion that letting the door open for a few(if successful in this case) will leave it open wider for more of their content, dixit : the bigger releases. Especially if we're talking about GAAS. 

Hardware wise, they announced their commitment, it's positive news for those ingrained in their ecosystem.

Its like Nintendo wanting to expand their audience by releasing Box Boy on the Xbox. Im sure its a nice little game, but thats not what is going to get people to buy Nintendo consoles. Mario, Zelda and Pokemon would. Thats all Im saying. I think MS should just keep all their games exclusive to Xbox and PC instead. Makes the Xbox look better with more exclusives.

Hmh. Game Pass filler tends to be used to mock titles in Game Pass, a criticism towards their quality.

Pentiment is not a system seller, no, all the more reason to port it to PlayStation, Lol.

Again. This is not about the Xbox console, it's about the IPs.

Refall is tainted, even if they fix it (or have fixed it) porting it to other systems won't do the game any favors. Let it die, let Arkane Austin move on.

Assuming he means the biggest generation to generation Xbox hardware leap to date, the biggest leap for Xbox was definitely OG Xbox to Xbox 360, where we went from 13.9 gflops to 240 gflops, a massive increase of 17x in on paper specs (real world wasn't quite that much, but still a huge leap). Next largest was Xbox One to Xbox Series, from 1.3 tflops to 12 tflops, about 9x increase. Smallest to date was 360 to Xbox One, which was 240 gflops to 1300 gflops, only about a 5x increase. I don't think it is possible for the on-paper specs leap from Series X to next gen Xbox to be bigger than OG Xbox to 360, not in 2026 and probably not even in 2028 or 2029. That is why I think things like much better dedicated ray tracing cores allowing path tracing (path tracing is a huge leap forward in game lighting) and AI frame generation will be used to overcome some of the disparity and make it seem like the largest leap yet. 

Unique hardware could have been a reference to the handheld, but that isn't really unique, everybody will be making a handheld next gen, from most PC OEM's to Sony to Nintendo, I'd rather say that dual-layer OS is the unique things, nobody has ever made a console that is both console and PC wrapped up in one package. I do think the handheld is happening though.

What's odd about the digital only Series X is that the AMD leaker back in September said he could find no evidence of AMD working on the 6nm die shrink Series X chipset that was supposed to power it. Maybe they will just do a digital only Series X with the current design though, maybe it was only the shrunken chipset and cylinder design that died.

Why would it be anything else.  Why would any company give you any more details then the basic.  This was free pub over a bunch of rumors that overhyped some games that means nothing as far as being exclusive goes.  Its like a lot of you woke up today and have not experienced corporate communications before.  It never was going to be up to what you wanted.

Doors can also be shut. Plenty of wiggle room.

More or less what I expected for today. They weren't going to like come out and start talking about bigger titles going multiplat, but they wouldn't deny it either. It's just a matter of time. The fact is, they stand to be the biggest 3rd party publisher on Playstation and Switch by a large margin, it's too hard to look off that for them when the existing XBox brand is losing them billions of dollars and declining every generation since the 360.

It will take a few years, but I think they will token release a "next gen console", which will be expensive because they won't subsidize massive losses for it, but they will continue to make more and more of their games multiplat as time goes on and that will effectively sink any momentum the XBox brand has left.

The fact that Phil would not draw a hard line on Starfield and Indiana Jones not showing up on other consoles basically tells you what's really up. 

It is a shame though, it really had potential I think. Better not speak of this game ever again.