Xbox Series X|S

So if the worst of the rumours are true. The FTC was correct all along just not in the way they thought.

Although I got carried away with my own excitement, I think it’s just going to be a case of software going multi platform with Xbox users getting a 3 - 6 month head start and access through Gamepass.

That would be really unexciting, but far less drastic.

It must really be devastating for the fanboys. To have so much attachment to a plastic box only to have everything crumble before you.  It's losing what was seemingly a neverending "war", fought on internet forums and playgrounds.
But I hope it's not quite so severe and Xbox sticks around making hardware  I just can't picture Sony being the only one in the console space, let alone picture it as a good thing.

Maybe the market is primed for the Ouya 2. 


*ahem* Users who liked this post but did not like my previous attempt at the same joke have been noted and taken OFF the christmas card list. This isn't some sort of game. 

I’d buy Halo and never play it.

Don really sent Xbox down a dark path.

I'm not going to blame Mattrick entirely for this, he obviously had backing it wasn't done in a vacuum was it?

Yeah others(including Spencer) went with it.

But that Xbox 360 line was all him.

Oh, great minds

Theres a free to play multiplayer Halo game right now. How is it not one of the most popular games around?

I wouldn't be surprised. They seem to like following what is successful, and it was no coincidence they looked at what the Wii was doing, and introduced the Kinect. I could see the same thing with the handheld. But makes you wonder.. what's the point? You can manage to get xcloud/GP on your Steam Deck/whatever you are using. 

I didn't mind Infinite but at the same time I uninstalled it after finishing the campaign and never went back.

Talking of handhelds, there's a rumour that Sony are gearing up to have another go (with a proper portable console, not a streaming device like the Portal). I'm betting it'll cost the same as the PS5, have a battery life of just over an hour and, after reasonable-but-not-astounding sales will be killed by Sony 18 months after launch.

And I'd still buy it, because the PSP and the Vita were both amazing machines with a great catalogue of games and my hope is that this one would follow suit. (But it's probably just going to be a portable PS4)

It's a pita for sure. There are a lot of games that I'd like to play but due to all the extra baggage I can't often justify it to myself, though realistically I could just just play as much as I want and drop it. With all the fomo with battle passes and limited time events, etc., I choose to just sit out instead.

If I were younger and still played multiplayer regularly, I would definitely be favouring Halo over most of what else is on offer currently. It is proper sci-fi instead of a near-future military shooter (which are really just modern military shooters with less pretence of realism), offering a time to kill a little closer to traditional shooters instead of the more common modern style of whoever shoots first wins. Destiny probably offers similar but the games as service style, sort of MMO type thing doesn't hugely appeal.

The fact I didn't really play much Halo Infinite is probably more a me problem than the game itself and the fact that I really only play single player nowadays. What I did play of the multiplayer seemed really good, even if the single player was just ok.