Xbox Series S/X: Thread 05

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.chip.pl/2024/12/xbox-znika-z-polski

Microsotft has begun withdrawing the Xbox Series S/X from sale in several lower sales figure countries such as Poland

[briareos_kerensky]

S and X? Are we really looking at the last dedicated X Box hardware from MS?

[fishbowlhead]

S and X? Are we really looking at the last dedicated X Box hardware from MS?

Didn’t you hear? Everything’s an Xbox now, so technically they have 250billion sales and are now no1 in the entertainment industry by MS math, go Xbox!

[Neon Ignition]

MS are such copycats - Sega made this move over twenty years ago. Instant 250m userbase!

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1hhhbg8/ex1stasis_the_elder_scrolls_iv_oblivion_remake_is/

Speculation that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered will be announced in January for a 2025 release

[hudson]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaks...ion_remake_is/
Speculation that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered will be announced in January for a 2025 release

In a wooorrrrld where everything that is released is a remaster...I welcome this one.

[Neon Ignition]

Yep, I've never played it all the way through so the only thing that would hold me back a little is them having a couple of other similar type games out as well next year. Def on the watch list though

[endo]

Loved the original and played it loads, without ever actually finishing it, so I'd be well up for this.

[wakka]

I absolutely thrashed Oblivion back on the 360 and did pretty much everything you could. It's still probably one of my favourite games ever. Totally blew me away when I got it on release in 2006. That moment when you emerge from the sewers into the rolling hills of Cyrodiil was just amazing, especially in 720p on my then state of the art 26" LCD!

I would sit and play it for hours and hours and HOURS on end, to the point where I'd see the crosshair floating in front of my eyes when I got up from the TV, and would momentarily expect objects I was looking at in the real world to have a tooltip with their weight and value next to them...

I'd definitely be interested in a remaster, it'd be very interesting to revisit it twenty years on. Being honest I do actually fear it might feel pretty dated.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-games-industry-will-only-have-room-for-one-non-nintendo-console-next-gen-its-claimed/

Awkward!

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-has-a-new-vp-of-next-gen-and-theyll-be-at-ces-alongside-lenovo-but-what-could-it-mean-for-xboxs-future

MS said to be circling having third parties make their own Xbox's

[Yakumo]

https://www.windowscentral.com/gamin...r-xboxs-future
MS said to be circling having third parties make their own Xbox's]

Don't they remember what a **** idea that was with the 3DO and NUON players? How about the Steam box? Yeah, I can't see this working out well.

[fishbowlhead]

https://www.windowscentral.com/gamin...r-xboxs-future
MS said to be circling having third parties make their own Xbox's

Ah yes, because that’s worked out, hang on I’ll use my fingers to count, OH YEAR, ZERO TIMES, in the past.

But go ahead MS I’m sure some exec has made a lovely PowerPoint on the savings and increased profits for shareholders, so you’ll do it anyway.

[Neon Ignition]

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[wakka]

https://www.windowscentral.com/gamin...r-xboxs-future
MS said to be circling having third parties make their own Xbox's

What a bonkers idea. This never works because the third parties make diddly squat out of software so need to make it all up on hardware, therefore can't price competitively. It's what sank 3DO.