There is, there's a Minecraft 4K version in testing right now for Xbox Insiders FWIW.

4k is better than nothing I guess, but it blows my mind that they first canceled that Super Duper Graphics pack they were working on late last gen for Xbox One X, and then later tested Minecraft Series X raytracing via Xbox Insiders only to cancel it as well.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure these "native" versions will just be 4k with better draw distance and minor stuff like that.

They'll probably be out at the same time, the XS version has been in testing for a few months now.

Industry: Fuck our budgets are becoming ridiculous, this is bad, this is becoming really dangerous.

Insomniac: Does anyone even notice our $300m budget! We really need to get this under control!

Journalists: WHY DOESN'T XBOX JUST MAKE 230, $300M BUDGET GAMES!!!

It's baffling how few people actually understand how M&A's are calculated and that a company spending $69bn cash on something isn't them "losing" that cash but changing it into an asset, they still have that $69bn but it's now in the form of Activision-Blizzard. They only lose money if they sell Activision-Blizzard for less than $69bn in the future. While spending $69bn on games, the average budget of each game being $300m, is a guaranteed way to blow all your damn funding and run into bomb after bomb after bomb and THAT would kill your business.

Microsoft: Here's $1bn.
Phil: Hmhm. Lovely. That'll get us 3 games. We're back baby.
Satya: Wtf?

Not even that Microsoft isn't investing in games, they have more games than ever in development, they have dozens of AAA titles in development but the "instead of ABK. Spend it on games" analogy makes no sense and the suggestion to just make dozens of $300m budget games is quite frankly stupid when the industry is screaming out to get budgets under control.

Helmet is amazing, Lol.

Are you doing okay Ryuu? You don't really seem like yourself as of late?

I'm good, am I coming across as different? Lol. Sorry!

It's actually very nice of you to ask though, I really do appreciate that.

Maybe I have a shorter fuse lately? Lol. I am a bit tired of all the negativity/pessimism.

But overall I don't really think I'm much different than usual but Idk how I'm coming across.

Good to hear. Keep up the good work.

Edit: yes, I was referring to the shorter fuse. You always come across very level headed, so I was a bit suprised :).

"Jez says World's Edge has very recently greenlit a new project. Jez knows what it is but he says he won't say because it's too early. He's excited about the project and he thinks a lot of people will be as well."

From UraMallas on ResetEra.

Dunno WTF it could be. Not like "Age of...Something" would be a surprise.

What other RTS does Microsoft own?

Sidenote, do we think if Sega doesn't want Creative Assembly doing it, that Relic would be a good match for Halo Wars 3? I know Halo Wars is like the "simple" version of RTS...Maybe Relic could turn it into a more hardcore RTS or keep it as is but they'd have to simplify their own approach. Microsoft could do a multi-year-multi-game contract with them which includes Age of Empires V and Halo Wars 3.

But maybe whatever this new World's Edge project is will be in collaboration with Relic once again.

Oh! Those Lord of the Rings RTS games back in the day were awesome, I wish we could get an Elder Scrolls RTS set in the First Era. Someone fetch me a list of huge ass creatures and armies in the First Era. We could even have Daedric Princes commanding their armies, a Daedric Prince boss spawn just fucking obliterating everything, fuck canon, end it with one of those Dragon Break nonsense things to justify it!