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In the wake of the very good release of Skyrim in Space™, it's the Xbox on console, PC, and streaming thread for 2024! Here where we talk about backwards compatibility, high-stakes corporate warfare in the arena of billion-dollar acquisitions, Game Pass still not being on the Switch, how successful games aren't really successful, how long an exclusive actually is exclusive, and the all-digital future as was foretold in the Book of Gabrielle, blessed be He. We fly our ornithopters in thy name.
Xbox Game Pass: Still a Big Deal Seven Years Later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Zz0Og6UuAAs was long predicted by many, Xbox Live Gold has been folded into the multiple tiers of Game Pass subscription, consumed one might say into "The Best Value in Gaming™" ("not really a trademark™") making an already complicated service...even more complicated. Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft's own subscription gaming catalog service ("Netflix for video games") with hundreds of periodically rotating first and third-party titles across four generations of console hardware, making it attractive for people who want to try first party new exclusives (which will make the rounds on the service at the time of their launch) or a few hundred titles from other publishers. Thirty-four million paying users can't be wrong, that's the population of Peru!
Game Pass now has four distinct tiers, all offering at least part of the library (unlike Xbox Live Gold, which did not) alongside discounted prices for library purchases, and the final of which offers the combined benefits of the three previous tiers:
- Game Pass Core, replacing Xbox Live Gold, enables Xbox console multiplayer for games that are not otherwise free (e.g. Fortnite), and includes a limited catalogue of console-only games.
- (Console) Xbox Game Pass, which offers full access to the console catalogue (including new first-party release on console) and console multiplayer.
- (Windows) PC Game Pass, which offers full access to the catalogue for Windows 10 and 11 PCs (Microsoft does not charge for multiplayer on Windows PCs).
- Game Pass Ultimate, the most expensive subscription plan, which offers access to the full Windows and console catalogues, console multiplayer, game streaming via the cloud (more below) and an EA Play Membership, truly making the Cadillac of Netflix for Games. Very, very preem.
In all four options, there is no limit on how many games you can download and install from the catalogue available to you, and access is for as long as the subscription holds--permanent purchases made from the catalog are typically discounted 20%, and DLC by 10%, and do not require any further subscription. Now with a Family Plan option (currently only available in Colombia, Chile, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, and the western hemisphere of Mars). Consult your doctor the website if Game Pass is available in your country.
Xbox Cloud Gaming
https://youtu.be/J4FF_mHhwqwLike Nvidia, Sony's Playstation Plus premium tier, certain Nintendo Switch games and Google in the earlier era of Stadia, Xbox Game Streaming (formerly "Project Xcloud") replaces your grandparents' Xbox game from the ancient era of streaming a console over your home network to the sexy future of piping your game in from The Cloud onto not just your smart phones, but Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles, Windows PCs, certain iPhones depending on Apple's mood that day and the latest of Samsung television and PC monitors! No longer in free beta, it is now available as a benefit from the Game Pass Ultimate, and has migrated to an Xbox Series X experience from the original Xbox One streaming infrastructure (fortunately). Play console-quality games on decidedly un-console mobile phones! Take advantage of all the normal Xbox Live services! Drain your device battery before you know it! Still not coming to your favorite non-Xbox console no matter how hard you ask, consult your doctor before hacking your Switch!
An updated list of current Xbox Game Streaming titles is available courtesy of Windows Central, alongside a full list of touch-compatible titles which are playable without the prerequisite compatible controller.
Xbox Backwards Compatibility Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oe1LUJyCCsSay hello to the most extensive backwards compatibility library since Sony left the Playstation 3 unconscious in a bathtub full of ice! Since early in the Project Scarlett reveal, Xbox has committed to bringing the whole of the Xbox One software library forward to the Xbox Series consoles, alongside the existing Xbox One-era software backwards compatibility libraries on all previous Xbox consoles since 2001 excluding Kinect-hardware requiring titles on Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Yes, we are as shocked as you. After capping the 20th Anniversary Showcase with more than seventy additions from the original Xbox and Xbox 360, the powers that be have sadly turned the page on further additions from 2012 and earlier (at least for now), though all new Xbox One releases are playable. In the meantime, pour one out for those games who couldn't be here with us.
Curious if your favorite Xbox 360 or original Xbox game is playable? Check it out!
2024 Partner Preview Event (wherein partners are...previewed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591RFRnhNEYTokyo Game Show 2024 (moderately more relevant than TGS 2022...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKNhGrXYiHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZDbtlOQH44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sjwL-8IV6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYqYa6Nkrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifrzTna21O8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOy0RsMDRs82024 Summer Showcase (boy that was long!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ6gafqCjsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC20gLfUHeA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ck15l7DMY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx8WN9fY22M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drVOCrvXHhE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpgAOAOMUnA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RktmztDtwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDyqGZy78Ng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4UHyaaWXuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTVaEPHa9Bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FiBmVBaY0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUi9DR9sc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCTH8R6RD74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngvzOKaj8tY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiCDmeW9eac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14JSXhgAeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7CGFPbfSCY2024 Developer Direct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELFSdlFmDNIOther Upcoming Titles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqXace1fbfg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-K3N71WIog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RhVFeNIBi0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDFuhaYxeMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OAr4Z0aiVsXbox 20th Anniversary Showcase
This wasn't even that recent! Oh, god, we're all so old!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_a0ijMQex4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJYsA1jXf60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT_i6hXf9WU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yappZvmxcP8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC65DNzxyxU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2d6IMBS8oY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1h--43R8OoPenny Arcade Forums' Game Clubs
Pax Arcadia
Arcade Squad (Gears of War series)
The Bees Knees (Halo series)
Additionally, you can find the forums Xbox Live gamertag list here, and the form to sign up here.
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I feel slightly bad for not knowing who this Chongyun anime man is, because it came in a very fancy collectors edition pop up case and I have this keychain and a bunch of little widgets of his with nothing to do with them. He has great taste in controller designs though!
You probably mean all the trailers (there used to be more), but that's not a bad idea either.
I felt it deserved better, so wanted to give someone a chance to do more.
Like Mega Man Legends? Then check out my story, Legends of the Halcyon Era - An Adventure in the World of Mega Man Legends on TMMN and AO3!
So I guess I can't actually play this game?
If you have access to the account on desktop, go reset the password. You can't do any account maintenance on an Xbox itself, that's just asking for pain.
Aw man is it worth having to relog back into everything just to play Banjo Kazooie? That's the main question lol I use that account for PC game pass and my Microsoft Account.
We just recently replayed BK and it was fun but holy crap is the camera frustrating, and there's a bunch of puzzles designed to screw you with the crappy camera.
Steam ID: Good Life
Small dog child with heavy weaponry, learning the joy of dispensing the Emperor's Justice to the heretic.
Steam ID: Good Life
Steam ID: Good Life
Do not engage the Watermelons.
The new-ish Rewards set up has had me playing a lot more of the short pick up game pass stuff lately and it’s probably resulted in the most enjoyment I’ve had gaming in a long time. Also been playing Ace Attorney which I had never played before despite being well aware of it.
Just needs Dan Larson from Secret Galaxy next to it, asking "Can you imagine...?"
Like Mega Man Legends? Then check out my story, Legends of the Halcyon Era - An Adventure in the World of Mega Man Legends on TMMN and AO3!
Makes me curious what kind of agreements go on between Microsoft and Nintendo behind the scenes.
Steam | XBL
Well more than four Microsoft games there. We see how it is, Phil.
But more seriously, Pentiment showed up, so there's one. Looks like Hi-Fi rush maybe isn't on the Switch menu though, which is a shame, it won't have the same impact on playstation.
Pentiment and Grounded are both on there so there's at least two. It IS interesting that Hi-Fi Rush wasn't announced even though all signs are pointing to it being ported. Not sure if they just didn't have a good reel ready to go or not.
Maybe? I don't remember what the fuck it actually was though. My brain is just fucking mush at this point. All I know is that the colors matched the Switch and it also referenced the Switch in the text. Same thing with Sony. Just seemed a little too close.
You mean Power Rangers has been lying to me all these years?!
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Lord knows it's not the first time people have assumed and read too much into something, and lord knows it will never be the last. My brain is also mush and I can't remember a lot of the examples.
No wait, I remember one. I think it was Blizzard? Either way somebody made a tweet of them flicking a light switch on and off. And this was interpreted as being obviously an announcement for a Switch port of something. It's a light switch. Switch. It's fucking obvious!!! And then they came out and said "Oh... no we were just doing a stupid thing with a light switch, there's no Switch game coming".
Sometimes the internet can be too smart for its own good. Then again I won't necessarily blame somebody for overthinking, because a lot of shit has trained you to do exactly that. See: Anything by Hideo Kojima.
Since it's coming to PS, I'd have to assume the Switch port has gotten canceled or delayed. Leaker/podcaster NateTheHate, who had been talking about this since the story began, said a day or two ago it may have been canned and moved to Switch 2 (or whatever it will be called) due to performance issues, which makes sense as a rhythm-based game absolutely mandates a stable and high frame rate. They didn't even release it on Xbox One, unlike Grounded and Pentiment, which is more powerful than the Switch.
For reference, the shirts in the files:
Xbox: Green and white, shadowdrop release
Steam: Black and blue, Overwhelmingly Positive user reviews
Epic Games Store: White and black, Unreal/Epic
Switch: Red and white, "Anywhere" as in portable
PS: Blue and white, it's a game people had been wanting on PlayStation and had been comparing to older PS2/PS3 games
The games that are hitting Switch are also hitting PS4 and already exist on Xbox One, which is a dead giveaway.
Steam | XBL