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@JezCorden @Crusader3456 Their expansion price is getting close to that though and probably costs a lot less to develop than an entire new game, so more profit from an expansion perhaps. But then again, each expansion less people will buy it, new game reaches more people. Tough choice for the higher ups

Personally I want more expansions here, give us a Baal saga that's 2-3 expacs then move on to Diablo 5, but idk... that retail $70 price is hard to ignore from a business perspective for them. Maybe we get one more expac to set up the next saga then seasonal content until diablo 5.

Do we think Diablo IV is getting more expansions or do we think they are moving to Diablo V after the end of the Hatred Saga? Based on the playable World Map's shape vs the lands we can see but can't visit, I find it very they want to make all of Sanctuary visitable in one game.

@Razorjay12 @Shpeshal_Nick What I am wondering most is why did hellblade 2 get flacked for it's gameplay and why does this game suddenly get a "pass"? Just because it brings up nostalgia for old people?

@Shpeshal_Nick By definition, Mixtape isn't an action-adventure game. It's a visual novel with extra steps, and I want people to admit it. That's my ONLY complaint here.

Yay another tourist "but it has to be combined with good gameplay" No it doesn't. Interactivity is an advantage video games have over all other entertainment medium and storytellers can use the medium to create experiences that others can't Play something other than AAA games

@PassiveProphet So its OK if sony does it, it's bad when xbox does it. Gotcha. Typical pony logic there, not a single braincell detected

@JayWood2010 Lets make a fuss about something 0.01% of gamers might achieve...

Even after the achievements update for Xbox, PlayStation Platinum Trophies still feel better, look better, and are easier to navigate. Its embarrassing that Xbox doesnt have a better answer for fans after a decade plus. Heck, even Steam has a more rewarding 100% achievememt setup by this point

@DestinLegarie Where is the 10-page long @nib95_ post like he did claiming xbox was seeing an AI heavy future? ...

Sony is partnering with Bandai Namco to explore Generative AI

@playstationyesr And you find this hilarious why exactly? The fuck does it matter "how" it plays as long as it plays? You buy the device, plug it in and you can play your console games, and on top, you can also access PC games, not sure what is "hilarious" about that.

Helix is a pc that can play xbox console games through backwards compatibility. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TheLife0fJustin @JezCorden Change it in the settings, much better with the other option.

@JezCorden It would be much better if the driving wasn't so weird.

Do NOT sleep on TerraTech Legion, available now in Xbox Game Pass. TerraTech Legion is a "bullet heaven" survivors-type game, and I've been addicted to it on Xbox Ally recently. The upgrade path is very creative, letting you build tanks with modular pieces a bit like Lego. Huge waves of increasingly crazy robots, along with bosses, as your tank becomes ever increasingly complicated. It's super good. MORE: windowscentral.com/gaming/indies-… 💚

@PandaSayzWhat @JezCorden @WinC_Gaming Yeah in the settings, I changed it immediately to be based on screen direction. Didn't understand the reasoning behind the initial control scheme, seems extremely confusing.

@JezCorden @WinC_Gaming Controls are the worst part though... Is there a scheme I'm missing?

@salvador_flores @thicc_stick_boi Is it that shocking that a game that is new to a platform sells more than a platform that already had the game for years?

third party sells even less on nintendo than xbox devices. People seem to forget this huge oversight.

@_AshWilliams83 @vicious696 Because not every gamepass subscriber is someone who buys COD, so they lost subs because some people no longer saw the value (as COD ment 0 value for them)

@vicious696 And so far other than the small reduction in gamepass subscription nothing to offer the gamers. The money we save on gamepass over a year will essentially pay for a copy of call of duty so why not keep it on and reap the micro transaction rewards?

all these changes at Xbox

@nib95_ Cry cry cry. Any news about xbox you always try to spin in a negative light. And so what if more AI gets involved, if it lowers dev costs, speeds up game dev, isn't that positive? You think PS isn't using AI tools to lower their ever increasing costs?

Big changes at #Xbox, and they spell a potentially AI heavy future. New CEO Asha Sharma is "bringing over executives from the CoreAI engineering group where she worked before." Among the new hires: Jared Palmer, VP of CoreAI product and senior VP of GitHub, will join Xbox technical staff to work on product, engineering, dev tools and infrastructure. Tim Allen, VP of CoreAI design and senior VP of R&D at GitHub, will lead design at Xbox. Jonathan McKay, former Meta director and head of growth for ChatGPT at OpenAI, will be Xbox’s head of growth after holding that title at CoreAI. Evan Chaki, general manager in CoreAI, will run a team of engineers that will look to simplify development and end repetitive work. David Schloss, Instacart’s senior director of product and growth, will head Xbox’s subscription and cloud business. Two Xbox veterans are also leaving. Kevin Gammill, corporate VP of Xbox user experience, game development and publishing platforms. And Roanne Sones, corporate vice president for Xbox devices and ecosystem, will take a leave of absence after this summer and later be an Xbox advisor. Sones and Gammill have each spent 24 years at Microsoft. In a memo seen by CNBC Asha Sharma wrote: “We need to evolve how we work and how we are organized across our platform” “Right now, it is too hard to ship impact quickly. We spend too much time inward instead of with the community, and we lack the depth we need in some of the fundamentals.” Hmmm.... Link at CNBC. cnbc.com/2026/05/05/mic…

#xbox marketing in Belgium?!

@PigeonGoGaming I'm in the EU as well and didn't have issues with the EU West region

@Exuldur I actually had major issues at launch in EU. I had to switch to US to find games

Is Xbox's DOUBLE FINE in trouble? 😐 It seems like their last two games flopped badly... 🎮 Steam Concurrent Players: - KILN = Peaked at 193 players. - KEEPER = Peaked at 191 players. 🎮 Xbox Player stats: - KILN is ranked #101 in "most played games" despite launching on Game Pass last week... They're a unique studio... But they NEED a hit at this stage! 🤔 Can DOUBLE FINE survive in this new era of Xbox?

@NextGenPlayer Emphasise on "former"

Former Elder Scrolls Online boss describes Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin closing as a turning point at Xbox “I know where this is going” ▶️ pcgamer.com/gaming-industr…

@JPNHatesXbox @NextGenPlayer @Krafton_inc Ok idiot

@NextGenPlayer Kind of crazy that the only good Xbox game ever made, hi-fi rush, is now best on PlayStation with exclusive content and pro enhancements Really hoping that HiFi rush 2skips Xbox altogether @Krafton_inc The hi-fi Rush community hates Xbox

@K__Med Barely seen any activity about this game releasing on my timeline

The "significant backlash" that Saros is getting (we'll see if it's actually significant when we get sales numbers) is making me think. A lot of the anti-woke crowd doesn’t actually hate politics in games. They hate not being the default anymore. For years games catered almost entirely to guys, so a certain slice of players got used to every protagonist looking like them and every story orbiting their comfort zone. Now when a game shifts even a little away from that, they act like the medium has been taken over instead of just growing. What they want is sameness dressed up as purity. They want every game to feel like the ones they grew up with, so they never have to think about who else plays games. It is not about loving games as an art form. It is about wanting the industry to freeze in place, so they never lose their spot at the center. This doesn't go for EVERYONE that might align with that crowd though. There are some valid arguments to be made about shoving stupid shit into games just for representation, but I think most of these dudes are too dumb to think that deep.

@GoodGameKofi @JONeBLAZE426 It's been working fine for years, only CoD has now been proven to be an issue due to the enormous budget it requires to release it yearly. All the other games aren't near the yearly budget of CoD.

@JONeBLAZE426 Clearly not enough revenue to keep CoD in the service. Its sustainability is still in question. They have even admitted it cannibalizes their game sales

IF these numbers are accurate right, my question is how many copies do you think sold on Xbox consoles! More? (Outside of SoT and Forza) I’d image probably a lot less no? So how does exclusivity solve the issue!

@Buckbreaker1818 @TheGamingLedger Depends on the data. Did they loose existing customers, or did they fail to onboard new ones into the xbox ecosystem because of exclusives going to ps5? They would have earned 30% of any purchase those customers would have made, would that have been more than the sales on ps5?

@TheGamingLedger No way they can justify returning to exclusives ?

Xbox content and services revenue decreased 5% (down 7% in constant currency) being an overall drag on the personal computing segment. I'll listen to the call later and provide my analysis. As expected, it's not looking great. microsoft.com/en-us/Investor…

@Liquid_Luigi @PRODWNDRFL @tomwarren That's data we don't have. How many people left the ecosystem or didn't join and went to ps5 of which they would have gotten a 30% cut from third party sales on the xbox store? Would that have compensated the 70% cut they warn on sales on ps5?

@PRODWNDRFL @tomwarren Do you really think the results would have been better if the games remained exclusive?

Microsoft's Q3 2026 (fiscal) earnings: • 💻 Windows OEM + devices revenue down 2% • 👾 Gaming rev down 7% • 🕹️ Xbox content + services rev down 5% • 🎮 Xbox hardware rev down 33%