Update: This giveaway will run through to Sunday morning. It's not over and it's not first-come-first-served.
11 bit studios, known for Frostpunk, Moonlighter, and one of my go-to mobile tower defense series, Anomaly, is celebrating six years since its release of This War of Mine as well as the completion of the final Stories episodes of This War of Mine: Complete Edition on Nintendo Switch.
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Not only is the Complete Edition, comprised of the base game, all DLC, and Anniversary Edition updates, on a deep sale on the Nintendo eShop, they've also kindly provided us with 20 Nintendo Switch keys for the game (North America only).
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It's that time of year where not only are we dealing with the scarcity of new consoles, but also many are looking for the best deals they can find on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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Dive into the challenges faced by Xbox physical games enthusiasts. Read about the community's vocal response to recent changes.
Yep, and that’s been the case for Xbox for at least a decade now.
No doubt they alienated their physical media fans, but that happened way back with the Xbox One. What they’re alienating now are just the box collectors.
Speaking for myself... I pretty much stopped buying physical. Unless its some cool collector edition. I find it easier to just buy from the respective eshop.... if its not on a rental service that is.
Going into the 7th gen I was staunchly against the idea of digital game. Even the few PC games I played were physical. It wasn't until digital only games starting catching my eye that I changed my mind. Now I buy mostly digital these days out of convenience but also because I have too many phyical games. SNES, GG, GB, GBA, N64, Dreamcast, DS, 3DS, GCN, Wii, Wii U, PS1-5 and Switch. That's hoarders level of gaming right there. 🤣
Anyway digital sales in several parts of the world, including here in the US have been on the rise. Factor in the Series S being the go two model for Xbox owners it just makes sense for Microsoft to scale back in regards to physical media. That and Xbox published games stay high on PSN. 😆
Unfortunate really since I am an avid collector of physical on Nintendo consoles and I bought Black Ops 6 on disc.
Wonder's role as Persona 5: The Phantom X's protagonist has thrust him into the spotlight, and there are clear parallels to the original's hero Joker.
The Xbox version of Final Fantasy XVI has failed to enter the platform's top 20 paid games list, indicating weak launch sales performance.
Day One Release vs One year later release with zero marketing to build excitement/hype.
Both Xbox and SE should know better.
Also fewer than half the consoles sold compared to the PS5 so much smaller customer base.
I get that the game was older.
But so were Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon when they came to playstation and those made it into the top download lists for awhile. So the coming a year later excuse doesn't really fly anymore.
look at stellar blade on PC. over a year later and it's already sold over a million copies. this has nothing to do with marketing or hype. the xbox audience, broadly speaking, just doesn't purchase games.
Excuses lol. Everyone already knew this would be the case. 90% of Xbox players don't buy games.
If it ain't on gamepass, they ain't interested.
Great job MS for training most of your player base to not want to actually buy games, maybe SE will realise releasing FF on xbox isn't somehow going to help them match their exaggerated sales targets. Hopefully remake fairs better, probably will on Switch 2 at least.
You realize it got most of its sales on PS5 right? Not even the PC version did all that well. One platform will take most of the sales as it had moat of the hype.
No game, especially a AAA one, deserves strong sales after taking years to arrive on a platform and still asking the same price as everywhere else. You can’t just ignore a platform for that long and then expect people to be excited by the release. That cycle came and went already, there is no hype for it anymore.
Either you're all in from the start or you're not. This lazy, bare-minimum approach of tossing out a late port and calling it a day shouldn't be rewarded. If you're not willing to respect the platform, don't bother showing up at all.
But the formerly exclusive Xbox games like Forza Horizon enjoyed great sales on PS even after years past their initial release.
Your references to deserving and "shouldn't be rewarded" implies that gamers are buying games based on some moral platitude that simply doesn't exist in practice.
Gamers buy games because they want to play them.
Nah, it implies how it should be. If gamers weren't the dumbass consumer class around, being played like freaking dumbass because they can't get over the hype for a freaking second and think if that purchase even make sense.
This is EXACTLY why they wouldn't and shouldn't bother im the first place. I can't remember which FF game launched on Xbox with the Switch and Playstation version and ONLY did 4% sales on Xbox. So lets not pretend these sales would have been better because if you believe that you are absolutely delusional
"Either you're all in from the start or you're not. This lazy, bare-minimum approach of tossing out a late port and calling it a day shouldn't be rewarded. If you're not willing to respect the platform, don't bother showing up at all."
Weird. How come you don't say the same about Xbox studio games that show up some YEARS/DECADES later as well?
Sea of Thieves
Grounded
Forza Horizon 5
Pentiment
Hi Fi Rush
Gears of War
Mostly at full price and selling well. Oh right doesn't fit your BS narrative
My most harrowing game purchase was for Persona 4 Golden, the long wait and anticipation to also get the limited solid gold collectors edition.
My most harrowing game purchase was when I waited in line for a couple of hours at GameStop for GTA4 to come out. While waiting, a high speed chase resulted in a wreck in the parking lot about 200 yards away. Getting GTA while the flashing lights were all over the place was amusing, though.
My most harrowing game purchase was with the original Doom 3 back in 2004. I had saved up the money for months and when I finally got it would barely run on my PC, I never bother to checked the PC requirements and it ran like in the single digits with all the setting turned to a minimum. Now not only did I had to save up to buy a new graphics card for about a year but the game was there in my room, the whole time, looking back at me every morning, every night, taunting me…
Purchasing from Hearthstone expansion from Amazon appstore was the most harrowing game purchase. They never fulfilled their promise for giving me their Amazon coin.
Drove from UC Santa Cruz to SF Metreon for the launch of Resistance 2. Rented a zipcar and drove the ~2 hours in the rain with bad tires. Way cool experience when I got there though. 2nd in line and got to meet Ted Price who knew my name due to another Director level contact within the studio. Crazy cool.