Please get a damn cloth over these things, filthy!

I figured this was the case after seeing a big collector's edition for Chants of Sennaar at an online EU store.  Although it's good news, I'm not optimistic this'll result in a seismic uptick in Xbox physical editions comparable to Switch 2 & PS5 (the lucky bastards).  Hell, will MS even bother to give South of Midnight or Hellblade II the physical treatment they deserve?  Remains to be seen.

I'm...I'm tempted to try and close all 60 Oblivion Gates...

That's what I did back in the day :).  I spend way to much time with the game ^^'

I forgot this was still going on lol

Everyone says how tedious it becomes after closing like 10 but I am a hero who must close them all and stop the Daedra vermin! 🫡

I'm probably going to grow sick after 10 too

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Looking through the technical specs and benchmarks of the Z1 Extreme chipset vs the Z2 Extreme chipset, I personally wouldn't recommend upgrading from the ROG 1 to the ROG 2, I'm seeing only a modest 14% gap in single-threaded CPU performance and an even smaller gap of 7% in multi-threaded CPU performance, while the GPU goes up from 4.14 tflops to 5.5 tflops. TDP seems a bit higher on the Z2 Extreme as well, so probably lower battery life. Current owners are better off waiting a few more years before upgrading to a new PC handheld.

Not sure about the comparison of the lower end Z1 vs the Z2, but probably no bigger an upgrade than Z1 Extreme to Z2 Extreme is.

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They posted a picture of this thing, dirty, but didn't have the courtesy to put cheeto dust on the buttons. 0/10