Gaming Xbox Series X|S

Which of these do you prefer

  • Microsoft Game Pass

  • Xbox Game Pass


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Think Phil took the criticism of last year/the year before's conferences to heart from what Grubb said with all the talk of logo reveals/CGI for stuff that is years away so wanted to keep this recent.

Looks like a lot of filler but in 40 minutes time we'll probably be talking about how it is the greatest Xbox conference ever due to the stuff they're closing the show with.

Ok Locky, we are on to you!
 
To be fair, the greatest Xbox showcase isn't actually that high a bar :lol: even i'll admit that

Do think some of their shows have been judged harshly by people here but they were always B at best (and often C)
 
To be fair, the greatest Xbox showcase isn't actually that high a bar :lol: even i'll admit that

Do think some of their shows have been judged harshly by people here but they were always B at best (and often C)
They had good/decent conferences 360, and early One era.
 
With gamepass it does flip how you view the showcase entirely.

For people who don't have it, you just look at most of these games and they're okay but not enough for you to buy a whole new console and subscription, so you aren't gonna care or take note. Pure filler.

If you have gamepass and like me, download and love trying every game that comes to the platform with no intention of ever completing them, you're pretty leaned in and can definitely appreciate quantity even without complete quality.
 
Also, if it's just stuff for the past 12 months, there can't be much more 1p stuff coming in the next 30 minutes. Diablo 4 (soon 1p) and Starfield.

Likes of Avowed, Hellblade 2, Contraband, Fable, Perfect Dark, Everwild etc. won't be getting shown. So don't think there's going to be tons here in this next 30. Starfield may well take 10+ minutes.
 
With gamepass it does flip how you view the showcase entirely.

For people who don't have it, you just look at most of these games and they're okay but not enough for you to buy a whole new console and subscription, so you aren't gonna care or take note. Pure filler.

If you have gamepass and like me, download and love trying every game that comes to the platform with no intention of ever completing them, you're pretty leaned in and can definitely appreciate quantity even without complete quality.

Or you can be like me and get Game Pass, try loads of stuff but always end up going back to and putting hundreds of hours into FM2022 on GP :lol:
 
With gamepass it does flip how you view the showcase entirely.

For people who don't have it, you just look at most of these games and they're okay but not enough for you to buy a whole new console and subscription, so you aren't gonna care or take note. Pure filler.

If you have gamepass and like me, download and love trying every game that comes to the platform with no intention of ever completing them, you're pretty leaned in and can definitely appreciate quantity even without complete quality.

Maybe.

But then it's not what gaming has always been about, that's the Netflix method of throwing lots of shit.

It only works if you have the odd Diamonds to supplement the gold.
 
With gamepass it does flip how you view the showcase entirely.

For people who don't have it, you just look at most of these games and they're okay but not enough for you to buy a whole new console and subscription, so you aren't gonna care or take note. Pure filler.

If you have gamepass and like me, download and love trying every game that comes to the platform with no intention of ever completing them, you're pretty leaned in and can definitely appreciate quantity even without complete quality.
See I really don't get this. I do subscribe to Game Pass but filler is still filler, I really don't get any more excited by it because I get to try it for free. My greatest fear about services like Game Pass is that it will make people accept mediocrity.
 
Not much in the show so far for me. But a decent variety

Wasn’t quite expecting obsidians game to look like what it did….
 
See I really don't get this. I do subscribe to Game Pass but filler is still filler, I really don't get any more excited by it because I get to try it for free. My greatest fear about services like Game Pass is that it will make people accept mediocrity.

Good point.

And it also doesn't cater to people like me who already has played most of those games. The future generations will be even worse for it too, no way the GP stays in it's current state at it's current price. Something has got to give, and as we are seeing with Netflix, it will give sooner than they predicted.
 
Maybe.

But then it's not what gaming has always been about, that's the Netflix method of throwing lots of shit.

It only works if you have the odd Diamonds to supplement the gold.
And shit loads of spare time on your hands... Honestly, I don't have the time to try and find the diamonds.
 
Games coming to PC/Xbox over the next 12 months have been leaked:

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Persona 3 Portable, ouch.
 
Maybe.

But then it's not what gaming has always been about, that's the Netflix method of throwing lots of shit.

It only works if you have the odd Diamonds to supplement the gold.

Last year I felt like they did that with Psychonauts, Flight Sim, Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite. All 4 were very good-great as far as I'm concerned. Shame they couldn't keep that up this year.
 
See I really don't get this. I do subscribe to Game Pass but filler is still filler, I really don't get any more excited by it because I get to try it for free. My greatest fear about services like Game Pass is that it will make people accept mediocrity.

As long as there is A+ games in there too, then a place where B tier games can live in this era is great. But yes, they need to supplement with top tier games too. Not everything can be B tier.
 
Was Diablo 4 gamepass? Missed the end of it.
 
And shit loads of spare time on your hands... Honestly, I don't have the time to try and find the diamonds.
It’s not too difficult to find games. I usually mark anything that looks interesting when it gets released and give them a shot when I find the time. I got series x day 1 and I’ve not purchased one single game for it yet. All gamepass. And I reckon I’m fairly 50/50 Xbox and ps5 in terms of my time is spent