While sustainability remains a mystery, Xbox Game Pass was wholly embraced by the market in years past, as it reportedly generated considerable revenue.
A new SpongeBob game, Titans of the Tide, has been leaked via the German USK rating board. Published by THQ Nordic, the title may be announced soon.
According to a trusted source, Epic Games Store will offer Deathloop and Ogu and the Secret Forest for free from June 5 to June 12.
One of the biggest coincidences of all time happens as Black Myth is finally coming to Xbox on August 20, 2025.
Now my curiosity is ... can the final Witcher 4 build look better than Wukong, both running on a high end PC.
Obvious answer for now would be a solid 'yes' but by how much?
Wukong looks pretty jaw dropping on PC already but it too faced a slight visual downgrade compared to the initial reveal (remember the devs had to make a follow up video showing that its an actual early build of a game played real time and not a fake rendered gameplay video coz it looked that good).
Sony has to pay for these timed exclusives this gen because they quite literally have nothing new from their stable of 1st party devs. Even a game like Astrobot was initially not meant to be the big hit, it became that way because the fans were hungry for anything new. It's also why MS games on PS5 are doing so well... hungry fans want anything that isn't a rehash of something from just one gen ago.
Sony has really sucked hard this gen. And I'm saying "Sony"... not PS5. They had to resort to their old scummy ways because their leadership has done even worse than the XB Matrick era.
The biggest problem in gaming is acting like Sony have commited some great evil by having some timed exclusives when all platforms have had them this gen. When the Warhammer remake was announced for Xbox I got crickets from you. If you don't have a problem with anyone else doing it, no one is going to take you serious if you get yourself worked up when Sony does it. You are being fake. You either don't like the practice or you don't care. If you only dislike it when Sony does it, you aren't being real.
Coincendence indeed August 20th exactly 1 year after release. Not a random staggered month but 1 year exactly. That's still suspicious.
I know this narrative is trying to be forced on us but I still don't buy it because I don't understand why Sony wouldn't announce the exclusivity. Neither Sony or Microsoft are shy about annoncing timed exclusive deals. Why would this be different?
This proves Black Myth Wukong had an exclusivity deal. The developers lied... Sony lied... and Sony fanboys gobbled it all up without question.
Now, let's see if the fanboys that made up excuses a year ago, are men enough to apologise for being d**k's...
They're gonna run in hide and pretend like nothing ever happened. I apologized for no reason. GS played me. Never again will no be played or manipulated by game devs again...
""I apologized for no reason. GS played me. Never again will no be played or manipulated by game devs again..."
Sure. Says the person who has flip-flopped multiple times between asserting that there was or wasn't a deal.
I told you early on to let things play out. Your problem isn't devs manipulating you. Your problem is your insistence on rushing online to post like you know what you're talking about while being belligerent to people who disagree.
You still don't know. This is the latest thing to have you guessing. Your current position is that releasing exactly a year later is evidence that the devs lied. It's possible that the devs would go so far as to lie to hide the deal only to invite suspicion by releasing on Xbox exactly a year later. It's also possible they fixed the issues with Series S and chose that date because it's the anniversary of the original release. You're still guessing.
Edit: In support of my last point, go to the BMW Wiki page, do a search for "August 20," and see how many times they have used that date for BMW moments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
PS fanboys never had a spine anyway, it's nothing new. They hit the down arrow then run to the next Xbox article
@taco: “PS fanboys never had a spine anyway, it's nothing new. They hit the down arrow then run to the next Xbox article”
Why waste time responding to someone with their hand covering their ears and their head in the corporation sewer pipe drainage?
Now watch all the disagree without comments pop up on this comment.
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Oops forgot the article
Whatever the case might be be it’s been released on Xbox and if it was a time exclusive what benefits would the developer gain from denying it and putting the other console down.
Before you fanboys start because I know y'all will.
https://n4g.com/news/266012...
"Content Ventures team led by Christian Svensson. There’s nobody better in the world than Christian and Shawne Benson at finding hidden gems and nurturing up-and-coming companies that are probably off the radar for most of us. They get tons of support from the third-party account management team and the partner development team, who are often the very first points of contact.
[This team worked with] Annapurna Games very early on games like Stray. The same approach also led our support of Genshin Impact, Black Myth: Wukong and Stellar Blade for example."
So do these deals include taking games off previously announced multiplat titles like WK? SB was multiplat until Sony took over publishing. Noticed how the other "gems" were timed also. Not a coincidence in the least bit.
I know y'all gonna try and fight and defend hard but I Dare anyone. Y'all better bring your your best logic.
Matter of fact let me get start it off because I already know.
"where is the deal!"
It's clearly a cover up using the S as a crutch but GS couldn't say there was a deal. The guy openly said he seeks out "gems" for PS. These gems were all timed or taken off Xbox. Again, Which clearly includes previously announced games that were announced on Xbox. It's not hard to see.
i wonder if they took the exclusivity deal to work on the xbox s version
i remember vaguely that t they had some issues with it.
but u know. bo one has to disclose anything to anyone.
we all knew it was a exclusivity deal.
the devs flat out said the game wouldn't work on the S with it's 10GB of RAM and that's why the game hadn't released yet. But guess what, it's coming out on the S.
lol, I can't wait to hear the defense force spin this. Totally could be a coincidence that the game will release exactly 1 year after it launched on the PS5, right?
We were told that getting this game to work on the Series S with only 10 GB of RAM was impossible.. so what changed suddenly?
The jokes just right themselves here.
Yes!
With more money made out of games on multiple platforms, Game Pass will only grow bigger and better!
Those were in the dry years of Xbox. Plus their games are on PS now. Studio growth/health means more money to the studios means more GP grow also means more games for xbox ppl and PS ppl.
Even if that was profit and not revenue that would be so little.
But lets assume that 25% of that is profit is would take them 140 years to pay back ABK. Of course there is plenty of reason to believe that Game Pass is unprofitable and losing money.
And now we can mathematically see that Microsoft is misleading people about subscribers, they aren't quoting concurrent subscribers but total number of people who have ever subscribed, So if a person subbed in 2017 but canceled they are part of that 35m number Microsoft quoted
Much like in the 360 days when they would throw around subscriptions numbers and all the press for years kept saying it was Live Gold paid subscriptions until Microsoft finally revealed that it was total subscriptions including silver unpad subscriptions.
Gamepass is profitable and a successful service. They are expected to make over 5 billion this year. Time to move on.
$1B a year? So you need 69 years to recoup what you spent on the Activision buyout? XD