What worries me about the MS game strategy is that it's increasingly more about Game Pass than Xbox. Like Disney, MS want to use their raw buying power to lock popular IPs into a platform where customers have no ownership and have to keep paying month after month for whatever MS allows them to play. Once games no longer have to compete on their individual merits as standalone products, they just become part of the never-ending sludge of content (italics added for unrestrained contempt).
CoD hasn't been anything to write home about for a long time, but its ridiculously consistent sales every year still make it a powerhouse IP for anyone raking in a slice of that pie. At a minimum I would expect a new Killzone to be announced this year, but that won't pull in CoD sales numbers. That entrenched beer-belly demographic of casual gamers is going to be nigh on impossible to sway to a different IP. As for EA, I expect that they're high on Microsoft's shopping list.
I don't even play CoD and that offends me
I'm looking forward to trying this. Fact that people who worked on smt are behind it is enough, but it's take on tactical based combat looks really interesting too.
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There's also this deal ending tonight, if anyone is interested.DOTW on Nisa Store is Ys IX Monstrum Nox PS4, for ~£32 including delivery using 'dotw1' code. Cheapest I've ever seen it. Ends tonight unfortunately.
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Ys IX: Monstrum Nox - Pact Edition - PS4®
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Pact Edition includes:- Ys IX: Monstrum Nox for PS4®- Monstrum Memoirs Mini Art Book- Melodies of the Macabre (1-Disc OST Sampler)- Reverse Coversheet "What is real is defined by what is not.Who one is defined by who one isn't."To move forward, one must accept these...
Oh hell yes! I hope this keeps the microtransactionless waifu-collecting aspect of the previous game.
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Got a trailer to netmarble upcoming Solo Leveling game adaption.