Good one, Versus.  Almost had me there.  ;)

As a comparison Avowed has 152k in 47 days vs 94,971 in 46 days for The Outer Worlds. I'd guess overall it's tracking essentially the same as The Outer Worlds on both Xbox and Steam so when the PS5 release happens I think the game overall will track similar to The Outer Worlds. So all in all I'd say it's doing well, considering The Outer Worlds got a sequel.

Seeing how we are a quarter into the new year, How is everyone doing with their gaming goals? (and otherwise?)

My TA Goals were as follows...

Hit 80% completion - This one is kinda a stretch for this year but I always wanted to hit this.

Play 30 New games - I actually went with 33 so I could have a nice round number for games played but in past years I've struggled with getting into my backlog for multiple factors mainly depression but I really wanted to challenge myself to play new games and not stick to the ole GAAS all year long.

Reach 200,000 GS - This is a little over a 20,000 increase, this would easily mark my best GS year aside from the year I played some cringe games.

Get 20 plats... errr completions - This kinda goes hand in hand with the above, I initially didn't have this goal but figured why not after seeing the cheevo/trophy thread here on VGC

Beat a mainline FF every month - I thought it'll be a fun idea to play the Final Fantasy franchise I-XII that match with the corresponding month (FF3 in March, FF6 in June for an example) The only stipulation being instead of XI it'll be X-2 in November.

Anyways, here is how the TA goals are going

Currently at 10 completions - 11 Games Played

0. Crash Team Racing (This one technically doesn't count because I started it late December)
1. Final Fantasy
2. Death's Door
3. Lightyear Frontier
4. Final Fantasy II
5. Stray
6. Gris
7. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
8. Split Fiction
9. Final Fantasy III
10. Life is Strange: Double Exposure
11. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (Beaten but needs cheevo cleanup)

April is when I usually start falling off my gamer goals so now is the real test, and with me putting more work into health and youtube I know it'll be harder.

The Switch 2 direct is just steam rolling... This is crazy good. Even Final Fantasy 7 Remake is making it to the Switch 2

When people thought there was no way Rockstar would release GTA VI at $100, in comes Nintendo to price games at $80. Fucking hell, the floodgates have been opened once again, everyone is about to hike their prices up again, Lmao. 3rd parties going to hike up to $80 at minimum now, wouldn't be surprised if GTA IV is closer to $90 for digital.

So Nintendo skips $70 and goes straight to $80? Wild. This is US prices? I'm not buying the base version of a game for $80. All this is doing is keeping me subbed to Game Pass more than ever and buy games on sale. 

Just a slight correction, $80 for physical, digital is cheaper, I got confused, the European prices mixed me up, Lol. Still bad.

• $80 Physical.
• €90 Physical.

Anyone have an actual source for the digital price?

I just want to know what 3rd parties are going to start charging us 😂

I think I'm going to have to pass on Switch 2. $450 is a high entry point for handheld gaming imo, price increase on both digital and physical games, only 256 GB of internal storage which is only enough to fit like decent sized AAA games (meaning that unless you are ok with constantly deleting and redownloading games, you will need to buy high end SD Express cards to match the speed of the internal storage, even a 256 GB SD Express costs $60, so an extra $60 just to double your storage, $200 for 1 TB SD Express card).