Thomas Bidaux of NCsoft Europe didn't pull any punches with his presentation at the UK's Develop conference. Instead, the MMO giant's director of product development outlined four major ways in which the MMO world will be turned on its head. Or, rather, the 'online' world -- rather than limit himself to MMOs, Thomas talked about online games as a whole.
Forza is the best racing game. Xbox will continue to work hard to create Japanese titles.
I wonder how the gamers in Tokyo feel after Phil's email came out about how much he'd like to buy Nintendo.
Nintendo is probably laughing rn since they're winning and doing amazing my friend XD.
"Forza is the best racing game. Sure, it has fewer tracks and no VR, but it's better. Promise."
fr0sty
And it's cars and tracks cost money and there is a battle pass, but it's better.
I'm in Tokyo right now, and I can pretty much promise you that the vast majority of gamers in Tokyo don't give a flying F about that.
I’m sure they wouldn’t want Nintendo owned by a Western mega corporation that can’t even figure out what to do with their own gaming division.
Outside of places like this no one really cares that much. Anyone with some common sense knows it ain't happening. Nintendo's investors would never go for it, and regulators would never approve it. No console manufacturer will be able to buy another. Even if MS were to go software-only, with Bethesda and ABK they'd be way too big to allow that purchase.
The most we'll likely see is further collaboration between the two. Maybe a bespoke version of Game Pass to stream games that otherwise aren't available for purchase on Nintendo systems. Or maybe Nintendo will use Azure to revamp its online infrastructure.
Here's a gem
"First, regarding PC Game Pass, since it is on the same PC platform as Steam, we believe that it provides users with a choice. The choice of which library to build is left to the user's discretion."
I've heard this term before from him..."build a library"
Only your comparing steam to gamepass. On gamepass once you stop paying your library is gone so not really a library like steam which you can always go bac, to play your purchases built over thr years, without paying a penny more.
Saying gamepass is a library implies this, but as we know, it's nothing like this.
Keep using this word 'library' sits wong with me.
It's a collection. A library in something you can reference and go back to to look at your dusty booka you loved as a child. With gamepass m$ can yank any title, at will and throw it in the bin,
No one would do that in my library.!
Of course. With Phil it's 10 percent truth and 90 percent lie.
It's like you said, stop paying and you play nothing because with game pass, you own nothing. There's no library.
Only truth was that it's on PC and a choice between it and Steam.
You mean like how all Subscriptions work? You think you get to keep all those PSN+ games after you unsubscribe? Netflix Hulu, you still think you get to watch movies after unsubscribe?
"Only truth was that it's on PC and a choice between it and Steam."
Which is exactly what he just said and exactly what he meant. Congrats you read it but failed the comprehension (so close). Either have GP library or build it on PC or steam since games hit day one their.
5 percent truth and 95 percent lie. But Jim Ryan lies a lot too. They both can go imo
Gee it's almost like Xbox games release on Steam day and date and ppl can build their xbox games library on Steam. A choice of which library to build. Either on GP in which yes you pay for or Steam a PC games platform where they pay full price for games.
That was easy another failed gotcha moment on your part.
Gamepass is not a library in the true honest sense though. That's why it sits wrong with me.. your steam library is a library though.. point still stands.
Being concerned over what's a library and what's not in your own weird definition is weird thing to be "concerned" about.
You're just doing what you always do Complain just to complain about absolutely nothing at all.
Library definition
COMPUTING subsect:
"a collection of programs and software packages made generally available, often loaded and stored on disk for immediate use."
He's right though. GP isnt a library. PS plus as well. They're just collections. Only steam is because you can go back and forth to download your games which you bought without having to worry about them leaving from your library.
I have rented books from the library. GamePass is similar in that it is a rental service, no?
I think the catch is you can buy the same PC games from the windows store and access them via the Xbox app however when dealing with windows apps they are a huge pain and may aswell be running games for windows live I consider the Xbox app the modern equivalent because Microsoft never abandons ideas it tries to trojan horse it another way
