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Xbox 4's hardware is legit. And its UI is also solid. It's the people who own it that's the problem. They decided to conceive and carry to term a child they never wanted.



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DroidKnight said:

Not sure what all filters you checked on, but I just used Xbox Series.  

Ahh I see, for some reason it opens with default "XBox Series X|S" "XBox One" "Cloud gaming" and "Play anywhere" added to the filters.
(Open the store, click shop now)

Clear all filters gives 15,303 games! But sort by title is useless since there's only "load more" at the bottom. Gonna be a while to load em all lol.

So many games! 

Steam is even worse: 18,559 games have been released in 2024 on Steam (cumulative: 101,043)
Definitely can not catch em all.


That also changes my other 'claims', I didn't see those default filters, user error :/

"Are there really only 6 35 games that offer difficulty levels, Pausable and Save anytime... (returns Atomfall, Evil Genius 2, Golfing in Aether, Learning factory, Retro Classics, Soma) Only 35 375 games that offer difficulty levels? 25 197 games that can be saved anytime? Only 8 101 games that offer basic input remapping (which is a system feature, works on all games...)"

That would be 35, 375, 197, 101 without the other filters.


Fun to play around with, not really how I shop for games though. But useful to see 596 games for PC gamepass, 967 for GPU, 596 for gamepass premium, 115 for gamepass essential.

Easier to find as well than on the PS store, which seems to have 619 games available for subscriptions.




JRPGfan said:

They are legally bound to not do so for atleast 10+ years, after the merger.
Also, they spent like 700$ million on making BO7... and the majority of their player base, is on Playstation.

Imagine the next Call of Duty game, was Xbox only.
Then they are in breach of a contract, and face legal issues.
They still spend like ~700m on the game, but now, because of the loss of Playstation users, they barely break even on the game.
Investors will question why they spent $69-76bn, getting ABK.

It doesn't make sense to do so.

That only applies to the mainline Call of Duty games.

Spin-offs are an entirely different ballgame and can be platform exclusive.




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Yeah that's pretty much the consensus I've heard, that the console itself is fine, it's just that there's not much reason to choose it over the competition.

I was thinking of getting one myself in 2023, almost did, but my gf wanted the PS5 so we got that instead; kinda lucky as a few months later Xbox went third party haha