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Announcing ID@Xbox Game Pass, a Showcase of Indie Games Coming to Xbox Game Pass

We are excited to announce ID@Xbox Game Pass, a stream highlighting great indie games coming soon to Xbox Game Pass, premiering March 26 at 9:00 AM PDT.

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ThinkThink2292d ago

This is great news for independent developers and gamers.

lxeasy2292d ago

Nice, loving the support indie dev are getting well as the spot light

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TheColbertinator2292d ago

Fantastic news. Nothing wrong with more indie support.

Thundercat772292d ago

From the guys that critized the indiestation for having many indies and now suddenly love indies?

Of course. Nothing wrong.

ThinkThink2291d ago

I believe those people were "criticizing" that period of time at the beginning of the playstation 4 launch where sony relied more heavily on indies. It's much more balanced now.

TheColbertinator2291d ago (Edited 2291d ago )

@Thundercat77

I have no problem with Sony support for indies. Sony wanted plenty of games at launch and also produce developers from all types of studios to have experience with their new Playstation. Nintendo and Microsoft are also smart for bolstering their lineup with indies during their dry months of AAA titles.

Some of my favorite studios are indie like CDPR and Bohemia Interactive.

DrumBeat2291d ago

Why resurrect the fanboy nonsense?

I think a lot of people have learned to appreciate the uniqueness, charm, and importance of indies over course of the generation. The bashing of indies by a certain group was a frustrated and emotional response to another group who wanted to make fun of the lesser power of a certain machine.

Everyone likes good games, and we all like a good indie gem that comes out of nowhere. I've played many of these this generation. I hope we get a lot more of them.

Thundercat772291d ago

@ThinkThink

You mean the same was Microsoft relies on BC right now rather than making compelling good quality exclusive games?

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‘I think Xbox hardware is dead’, says Microsoft gaming veteran

One of the founding members of the Xbox team has questioned Microsoft’s multiplatform gaming strategy, and said they believe the Xbox hardware business is effectively “dead"

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Goodguy011d 2h ago

Think that rumor that they'll still make a new console but at a profit at $1000 will be true though. The series consoles will remain their cheap alternative throughout next gen I would say. Keep in mind that game pass and pretty much going 3rd party is their main focus. They want to bring xbox everywhere.

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GamerRN5h ago

If they don't maintain some kind of console presence, I think they will lose gamepass subscribers and just become a 3rd party publisher who eventually sells everything off

Cacabunga5h ago

Xbox games are releasing on all platforms. Who needs this hardware? PS or PC is all you need

Flewid6383h ago

I've never owned an Xbox in my life and I have GamePass.

thorstein2h ago

The only Xbox I owned was the 360. I have gamepass for my PC.

crazyCoconuts4h ago

Even if they could get it down to $800 for a box that can run with comparable performance to a PS6 (at, say $200 cheaper) the population of people willing to buy such a thing would be so limited.
It would be the worst of both worlds.

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Futureshark15h ago

A slow, painful and public death too.

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New Flight Simulation Hardware Revealed by Moza

Hardware manufacturer Moza debuted several new hardware peripherals for flight simulation at FlightSimExpo 2025.

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While Layoffs Hit the Industry, Nintendo Retains 98% of Staff Including 78 With Disabilities

TNS: Based on its most recent ESG data, Nintendo boasts a remarkably low staff turnover rate of just 1.9%, with virtually no reported layoffs.

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Jin_Sakai2d ago

Because Nintendo makes great games.

Yesyes1d 1h ago

It’s unreal that people are downvoting this when they consistently have the best scoring games on metacritic.

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rlow11d 21h ago

Well it doesn’t surprise me. As much money as they make and how they value their employees. It’s a great company in that regard.

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drivxr1d 18h ago

Well, when your games remain full price many years after release.

And you make profit off of outdated hardware.

I would be shocked if they couldn't afford to retain their staff.

lodossrage1d 15h ago (Edited 1d 15h ago )

I didn't want to say anything but drivxr is right.

Nintendo always sells at a profit because they purposely use tech that's always 5 or more years behind. And it's also true their games hardly ever get price decreases.

Don't get me wrong, it's great they kept most of their workforce, but making a point to have your tech specs behind everyone else affords that luxury.

Darkegg1d 13h ago

I don’t think it’s their purpose to use old tech. It’s their purpose to make value of software and know their value. Nobody makes games like them that’s for sure. I just don’t appreciate their customer unfriendly policy.

It’s not impossible to take their status. Companies need to have a selection of 8-bit and 16-bit. Now imagine a split screen for 8 player game for SNES Mario kart and selling at $9.99. The problem is that it doesn’t make profit. So many companies won’t invest in “old” technology. Everyone guns for triple AAA modern technology software but honestly we can enjoy modernized 16-bit creative ideas that allows 8-player mayhem. It’s a pipe dream, possible but impossible.

Shane Kim1d 13h ago (Edited 1d 13h ago )

If they ended up kicking people out after all of that stated above, it would be truly shameful.

DivineHand1251d 9h ago

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla and Meta are all trillion dollar companies yet they are laying people off in large numbers.

I believe the reason Nintendo layoffs off less workers may be a result of their culture. It seems Japanese companies believe in giving their workers long term or life long employment opportunities and will exhaust all options before laying off workers. This is something we don't see much of in the west unfortunately.

Rdeal1d 3h ago

might be something to do with the fact all those companies hire more than 20x the employees than Nintendo

LoveSpuds1d 9h ago (Edited 1d 9h ago )

What the hell are you talking about? It has nothing to do with how profitable they are. Its completely cultural, MS and Sony make stacks of cash and still lay folks off. Nintendo chose not to lay off staff for the same reason their execs took pay cuts to increase staff pay instead; because they value their staff and view them as colleagues, and respect them as such.

If Sony weren't so US centric I fancy they'd fare better too, they should get shot of US and European leadership and go back to when Japanese execs were running the show if you ask me!

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