Next gen seems so far away, and with how few games are taking advantage of current gen consoles I feel we may not get a mid gen refresh anytime soon or at all…. Since, well, not everyone that wants one has one.
New AAA Xbox first party games will launch at $70.00, still on game pass day one.
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I don't feel ripped off and no one should. You only have to look at the extensive catalog of games available on Gamepass to see why. There's a lot of third-party offerings on the service, MSFT kind of has to with its anemic amount of first party games. Point is, there's a lot of variety to make up for MSFT's shortcomings on Gamepass.
Day One games (possibly leaving some out):
- Grounded
- Gears 5
- Gears Tactics
- Sea of Thieves
- The Medium
- Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition
- Battletoads
- New Super Lucky's Tale
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Grim Fandango Remastered
- Full Throttle Remastered
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered
- The Outer Worlds
- Bleeding Edge
- Crackdown 3
- Wasteland Remastered
- Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
- Wasteland 3
- State of Decay 2
- Forza Horizon 4
- Forza Horizon 5
- Minecraft Dungeons
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Halo Infinite Campaign
- Morkredd
- The Bard's Tale Trilogy
- Neon Abyss
- Hypnospace Outlaw
- Five Nights At Freddy's 1
- Five Nights At Freddy's 2
- Five Nights At Freddy's 3
- Five Nights At Freddy's 4
- Two Point Hospital
- Star Renegades
- Undertale
- Pathway
- SupraLand
- Outriders
- Hotshot Racing
- Solasta
- Golf With Your Friends
- Crosscode
- Genesis Noir
- Drake Hollow
- It Lurks Below
- Carto
- Disagea 4 Complete
- Dragon Quest Builders 2
- Dragon Quest 11
- Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
- Monster Sanctuary
- Monster Train
- Unto The End
- Lonely Mountains Downhill
- Forager
- Carrion
- Pandemic
- Mech Warrior 5: Mercenaries
- Second Extinction
- Ikenfell
- MLB The Show 21
- Secret Neighbor
- Phogs!
- The Touryst
- Octopath Traveler
- The Ascent
- Pikuniku
- Worms rumble
- Killer Queen Black
- Streets of Rage 4
- Slay The Spire
- Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
- Knights and Bikes
- The Messenger
- Gonner 2
- Project Winter
- Crusader Kings 3
- Undermine
- Neoverse
- Tetris Effect Connected
- Call of the Sea
- Wilmot's Warehouse
- Double Kick Heroes
- Planet Coaster
- Nowhere Prophet
- Haven
- Totally Reliable Delivery Service
- Scourge Bringer
- Katana Zero
- Cyber Shadow
- Blair Witch
- Spiritfarer
- The Medium
- Tell Me Why
- Backbone
- The Wild of Heart
- Snow Runner
- Luna Nights
- Narita Boy
- Rain On Your Parade
- Somerville
- Plague Tale: Requiem
- Hades
- Scorn
- The Gunk
Based on the ABK docs 2028 seems to be what Sony and MS are anticipating for the next gen of systems.
I have no problem forkin' over $70 for a big, AAA exclusive game if it looks like something I'll enjoy. The question is when is xbox going to start releasing those with any sort of regularity? Right now the only xbox exclusive I know of that fits that bill and has at least a release window is starfield.
It's a justified raise in price, I find it funny that people who knocked it when everyone else did it all of the sudden think it's ok. Not putting that on anyone here but that's the reaction online.
Two of them were originally this year releases (supposedly) and would have been $60, funny how the delay made them more complicated and expensive to make lol. Seriously though the price hike is justified, games do cost more to make and people pretending they don't are fooling themselves.
I don't blame them for the price hike I just wish they'd stop talking out of both sides of their mouth. When you aren't actually putting out product it's easy to talk big about "value" etc but when you are actually (hopefully) going to start releasing some games and decide to raise the price then it just shows who you really are, again this isn't bad it just shows they aren't better than anyone else.
In the past year and a half, at our corporation (Hilton Corporation, I am a controller), we nearly doubled all of the hourly wages for employees at thousands of our hotels and restaurants, and close to 25% increase for management because of the market. All of our product cost is up 20% on average for rooms and for the restaurants. In turn to offset that, we have had to increase our room rates (ADR) to offset that. But a substantial amount.
So I can see that companies need to charge more to offset the rise in costs this past year or two, including labor, product, R&D.
This is more of a general statement, not specific to Starfield.
More importantly, people concerned with $70 games from Microsoft would probably be better off just subbing to Game Pass. You can just get a month pass for $15 and play a couple $70 games. Or you can pay $120 for the entire year and play all the $70 games they have, as well as all the third party games.
I will be paying $70 because I don't do subscriptions. But I do have the choice.
I'll never pay full price for a game again. I look back at when I was a puppy and paid $70 for Strider, Phantasy Star II & III and even $80 for that piece of crap Street Fighter II - Omega Supreme Ultra Turbo Edition. I'll be playing games 6 months late from now on, unless I can find a deal on ebay.
I paid $100 for Virtua Racing on the Sega Genesis.
I pay a lot more for Onlyfans for seconds of entertainment.
I'm not paying £70 for a game either. If it isn't on Game Pass or PS+ Extra day 1 then I'll wait until these games are on sale for £40.
It happens. God of War, GT7 and HFW all were delayed from last year to this year.
There was a base Genesis version for $100 that had a separate chip in the cartridge itself to get the full 10 fps experience.
Buckle up baby.
MS can take their 70 dollar games and shove it too. Gotta say it for both sides to be fair.
I will check out redfall assuming I still have gamepass at that point, but I'm not committed to 'day one' buy it at this point. I've zero interest in racing games so Forza is a hard pass. I'm not sure when my current subscription to gamepass expires, maybe April I think, but tbh in all the time I've had gamepass I have not taken much advantage of it. My gaming preferences have certainly narrowed over the years I suppose.
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