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Ryuu96 on 24 December 2022


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G2ThaUNiT on 24 December 2022

For how much Sony claims MS buying ActiBlizz would hurt competition, they’ve done a great job at proving the opposite.



G2ThaUNiT on 24 December 2022
Ryuu96 said:

Cautiously optimistic. There’s some amazing Game Pass releases to start off the year, as well Age of Empires 2 console port, but there’s just so many questions as to when the current big 3 of known first party releases, will actually release. Supposedly Forza Motorsport and Redfall are getting delayed, and Starfield we speculate will end up being holiday 2023 lol.

One thing is for sure though, Xbox’s 2023 will live and die on how Starfield turns out. 



shikamaru317 on 24 December 2022
Ryuu96 said:

Fairly optimistic.

Hardware wise Phil claimed that stock will significantly improve by halfway through 2023, and Xbox has some big exclusives planned for 2023, especially Starfield, plus we will probably see the first Series X bundle for the Holiday season in addition to a better Holiday bundle for S and a repeat of the $250 S deal for the Holiday, so I think they should be able to have the biggest or 2nd biggest year for Xbox hardware yet across all 4 of their consoles.

Should be a big growth year for Gamepass as well, with Starfield alone driving millions of new subs.

Meanwhile I think the 1st/2nd party games most likely to release in 2023 are:

AoE2 Xbox port (100% chance)

AoE4 Xbox port (100%)

Ghostwire Tokyo Xbox port (100%)

Minecraft Legends (100%)

Redfall (100%)

Starfield (100%)

Forza Motorsport (100%)

Project Belfry (80%)

Hellblade 2 (70%)

Contraband (50%)

Project Mara (40%)

Tango small project (40%)

Avowed (30%)

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G2ThaUNiT on 24 December 2022

Here’s something I’m looking forward to reading a lot of next year, “Redfall and Starfield don’t count as real exclusives since all MS did was open up their checkbook to buy Bethesda”

It’s something I’ve already heard and read quite a few times, but when the games actually release, I expect for those kinds of comments to grow exponentially. 



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NobleTeam360 on 24 December 2022
Ryuu96 said:

One source, who wishes to remain anonymous because they couldn’t speak about their knowledge of the information publicly has said that Jim Ryan had an employee Q&A earlier this month, where he talked about market competition.

In response to a question about Xbox Game Pass, Jim Ryan reportedly said that “When we consider Game Pass, it seems to be getting lower [Game Pass numbers]. When we consider Game Pass, we’ve sold more PS5’s in two years than they have gathered subscribers and they’ve been doing that for 6-7 years.”

Ryan reportedly continued “We’re just shy of 50 million subscribers and they are in the low 20s, but there’s more work to do to grow that number”.

Ryan’s reported comments are somewhat surprising when the company is currently battling Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which Sony argues is “bad for competition, bad for the gaming industry, and bad for gamers themselves”, (via Reuters).

Sony Doesn't View Xbox Game Pass as Competition, Sources Claim - Insider Gaming

The title is pure clickbait since he doesn't say that.

But it's funny, I think it was FTC who said that PS Plus isn't competition to Game Pass but here is Sony directly comparing them both, so clearly, Sony disagrees with the FTC. Also it was Sony who said to the CMA that PS Plus has less subscribers than Game Pass, Lol. Sony also said to the CMA that Game Pass has 29m subscribers, now they're saying low 20s.

Here is the exact quote that Sony gave to the CMA.

"Game Pass leads PlayStation Plus significantly. Microsoft already has a substantial lead in multi-game subscription services. Game Pass has 29 million subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Console and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and is expected to grow substantially in the future. The multi-game subscription tiers of PlayStation Plus considerably lag, with fewer than [redacted] the number of subscribers

Even more of a reason to hope the deal goes through, Jim Ryan needs to be humbled



Spade on 24 December 2022

Please for the love of God be true... I'd love to not play SMT 5 on Switch. Would replay 3 and 4 as well. 



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Spade on 24 December 2022

I'm denting hard right now.. what does NIS America put out again? Not Legend of Heroes right?



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NobleTeam360 on 24 December 2022

NIS does the localization for Ys and The Legend of Heroes games.



Spade on 24 December 2022
NobleTeam360 said:

NIS does the localization for Ys and The Legend of Heroes games.

Fuck yes if true... Now all we need is Compile hearts on Xbox. And the dream is realized. 

Nep Nep > FF 16 @ice back me up



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