Article requires a subscription to view, but assuming this is about the 4 Xbox games going to other platforms, insiders say they are Sea of Thieves, Pentiment, Grounded, and HiFi Rush.

Nate says there's a Banjo in development.

Seems Bandai cancelled a number of titles in development too after their poor results.

We have also decided to discontinue the development of at least five other titles under development and recorded a loss on disposal of these titles.

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Embracer cancelled 29 unannounced games between July and December.

Palworld lost many players:

Palworld devs answer:

"This emerging 'Palworld has lost X% of its player base' discourse is lazy, but it's probably also a good time to step in and reassure those of you capable of reading past a headline that it is fine to take breaks from games," Pocketpair's community community manager, who goes by 'Bucky' online, says on Twitter. "You don't need to feel bad about that. Palworld, like many games before it, isn't in a position to pump out massive amounts of new content on a weekly basis. New content will come, and it's going to be awesome, but these things take a little bit of time."

Bucky rightfully notes that "there are so many amazing games out there to play; you don't need to feel guilty about hopping from game to game. If you are still playing Palworld, we love you. If you're no longer playing Palworld, we still love you, and we hope you'll come back for round 2 when you're ready."

Reason #1000 why Microsoft is experimenting with multiplatform, why Sony is moving harder into PC.

I'm hearing rumors in my head that Sony and MS will team up to launch the next gen as one platform, splitting R&D costs evenly, and splitting hardware loss/profits evenly (if and when it is ever sold for a profit) so that both companies have an easier time selling both hardware and software.

Because it will be co-owned by them and because Nintendo is not part of it, it won't be considered a monopoly.

So, why do development costs explode so much? Wasn't all this stuff about the new Unreal Engine and other engines supposed to do wonders for devs to create something in very short time which took ages in the past? I swear I saw some Unreal Engine videos the last years which were all about creating phenomenal looking things with ease...and not only from Epic but also from many people doing videos about it mentioning how it's all so simplified now so that you can skip a lot of stuff you had to do in the past.

And since they don't need more people for the music or the story as 10 years ago, there shouldn't be such an explosion in costs...

What the fuck, From Software acquired the Elden Ring IP from Bandai...

If Bandai loses From Software as a partner...

Grounded, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, Hi-Fi Rush.

WHERE'S THE BIG GAME, TOM?!

Josh5890 said:

New hardware in holiday 2024? So some kind of pro model I assume?

Seriously? This could actually happen?

If so please let three of them be Rare Replay, Killer Instinct, and a new Banjo-Kazooie in the style of the N64 games. And maybe this could lead to the original Diddy Kong Racing being on Switch.

Man I don't care about the Series X digital, I want them to reveal the rumoured handheld already, Lol.

Do we think the handheld (if true) will release at the same time as the powerful console or separately?

Fantastic assuming it plays more like the first two and not the fourth game.

I hope Tales series isnt affected....Xillia, Graces, Eternia, Abyss, Legendia and Phantasia all need modern ports.

At least Tomb Raider came out....

It was obvious that it would drop. There's too many survival games and way more MP oriented games both already available and coming.

Yep, multiplatform is the way to go.

Would never happen lol

Because people are pushing in to make service games, open world games and games with higher graphic/visual styles - this requires a bigger development team, more advertising and higher expectations.

Thats fine, From can self publish or find a better publisher.

Only one I am remotely interested in getting outside of PC/Xbox would be Hi-Fi Rush.

Thanks for the re-cap.

Xbox Series X Digital

Diddy Kong Racing DS is the best version.

Discussing Microsoft's latest Game Pass figures, Spencer assured Totilo the 9m subscribers added to the service since January 2022 - when Microsoft announced Game Pass had amassed a total of 25m members - were "fully paid" and did not include promotional players. "Those are people," Spencer reiterated, "fully paid subs."

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