Hacky McAxe
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I'm guessing so. But the PS5 digital will be the same as a PS5 without the disc drive. While the Series S is a weaker version of the Series X.
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I'm guessing so. But the PS5 digital will be the same as a PS5 without the disc drive. While the Series S is a weaker version of the Series X.
Yup, Also looks like it will also release after Xbox on the 19th of November.
So no backwards compatability with disc based games for current generation consoles? Or forcing everyone to the expensive model if they want an optical drive to play older games?
What the storage on them?
Only 512gb
Hacky McAxe
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Yep. Nice trick by Microsoft
"We support backwards compatibility for any entire catalogue.... Here's a cheaper version that can't take any discs"
My guess is that shortly after release they'll start loading the Xbox store up with digital rips of the old games.
Hacky McAxe
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Microsoft announced that EA Play is being added to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for both Xbox and PC.
Honestly a pretty smart move by Microsoft. Pay a monthly fee and you get an Xbox Series X or Series S with Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play which both have a huge amount of games already.
Sony's response is the traditional "we have the best games, buy our system"
But Sony is also hinting that only a select number of people in America will get it on release. Everyone else will have to wait.
I wouldn't be surprised if this boosts Xbox sales massively.
Honestly a pretty smart move by Microsoft. Pay a monthly fee and you get an Xbox Series X or Series S with Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play which both have a huge amount of games already.
Sony's response is the traditional "we have the best games, buy our system"
But Sony is also hinting that only a select number of people in America will get it on release. Everyone else will have to wait.
I wouldn't be surprised if this boosts Xbox sales massively.
Hacky McAxe
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In the usual style, due to conversion and taxes Australia are getting a little bit screwed on the price. The official Australian prices are:
Xbox Series S = $499 (or $33 per month)
Xbox Series X = $749 (or $46 per month)
Which is honestly about what I expected. For example with the Series S, take the US price then convert to Australian ($410 - $420) add some tax and round it up and we're only being charged an extra $80 - $90. Bloody yanks.
Xbox Series S = $499 (or $33 per month)
Xbox Series X = $749 (or $46 per month)
Which is honestly about what I expected. For example with the Series S, take the US price then convert to Australian ($410 - $420) add some tax and round it up and we're only being charged an extra $80 - $90. Bloody yanks.
Hacky McAxe
Squad Member
For the record, the Xbox One X original release price was the same in the US ($499). In Australia it released for $649. So the Series X is releasing for the same price as the One X in America but in Australia it's costing an extra $100
Surprised those greedy fucks at EA allowed it/made a deal with Microsoft to add EA Play to Game Pass.
But, they've recently added it to Steam so I guess it makes sense.
And speaking of GP, guessing why the storage is so small on the 299 xbox, it's pretty much a Game Pass machine?
But, they've recently added it to Steam so I guess it makes sense.
And speaking of GP, guessing why the storage is so small on the 299 xbox, it's pretty much a Game Pass machine?
Hacky McAxe
Squad Member
Sounds like it. I went over the specs though and it looks like it's a lot more powerful than I initially thought.
It runs at 1440p instead of 4k, it has no disc drive and only 512gb of storage but other than that it's pretty much an Xbox Series X. It can handle all the games the X can handle up to 120fps.
The X will have 1tb of storage which also doesn't seem like much now days.
They will have expandable storage but at this stage it sounds like it'll be proprietary and it won't be cheap. But I think the drive is cloud gaming. They're starting to push their cloud gaming service along with cloud storage as countries have fast internet now. Countries other than Australia.
Hacky McAxe
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PS5 price and such was set to be announced today but it looks like they're pushing it back until at least tomorrow due to the Xbox announcement. I think Sony is now trying to figure out if they can reduce the price to stay competitive.
So it can run 1440 at 120 FPS? If so, that's not bad and truth be told, if I do buy a next gen console when GTA VI comes out in 8 years time, and assuming they don't release it on PC at the same time, that's the Xbox I'd go for.
Having said that, I'd probably buy a PS5 if they have something similar as the Forza series are on PC, anyway. And Gran Turismo is a maybe if they fix it up.
Speaking of Sony, anyone seen Walking Simulator on Steam? Hahahahaha
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1214280/Walking_Simulator/
Take THAT, Sony fanboys.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1214280/Walking_Simulator/
Take THAT, Sony fanboys.
Hacky McAxe
Squad Member
Not bad.
I think EA are smart here as EA Play was kinda dead. In the 2-3 yers I had it basically bugger all was updated. Good to merge rather than end up closing with no interest.
I won't get the new XBOX at that price, theres no interest and I barely play either console as it is (plus have most games on disc).
At 512GB that's not much storage given the size of some games, and if you don't have the optical drive you can't pick/choose what to install or need external storage once again.
Whatever happened to the Nvidia or Steam console that was meant to stream games as you played them. Did it launch or die in the arse?
Hacky McAxe
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The Steam one I think was just the steam streaming box to stream games locally. I have two of them. They're pretty crap.
Nvidia have the Shield which is also pretty crap.
Google have one that was a complete disaster but they're still pushing it to the US hard and planning to release it in Australia at some stage. You basically have to pay a subscription fee, and buy games from them then stream it from their servers onto a Google Chrome cast ultra with massive latency issues.