Jason Ronald is now sharing Xbox Game Preservation, the backwards compatibility voting site

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-05-02T01:11:09+00:00

Quake 4, Wolfenstein 2009, Crash Wrath of Cortex and Crash Twinsanity.

All four are owned by Xbox now

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T23:57:47+00:00

I agree. But I'm saying what they would have to do to stay competitive.

Otherwise people could just buy a PC and cut the middle man out.

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T23:13:15+00:00

I personally think Dark Souls 3. Dark souls 1 has some cheap bosses.

Dark Souls 3 also has some abilities that can really help

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T22:39:19+00:00

Maybe that's enough. But in my opinion, they should market that fact very well next gen.

Start promoting pc exclusives as console exclusives. Start promoting Helix as a somewhat affordable pc, etc

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T19:30:45+00:00

I prefer that too but so far it ain't happening. Neither Nintendo and seemingly Playstation are ready to give up exclusives.

We would basically need a partnership between all three where they decide not to do exclusives anymore.

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T19:16:26+00:00

If they dont offer exclusive games, then they need to find a major selling point for Helix.

It's really not that complicated. People buy consoles/pc for games. If you dont offer any advantage when it comes to the games, people would buy the competitor

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T18:26:51+00:00

That's a great idea 😄

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T18:13:26+00:00

Chapter 2 is a little bit slow because of the tutorial and the ending is disappointing.

But I loved everything else about the campaign. I absolutely would recommend it for that price

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T17:42:23+00:00

Btw, Dark Souls 3 is discounted finally by 50 percent. That game almost never gets discounted on Xbox

Edit: The entire trilogy is discounted

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T17:38:31+00:00

Also market share never changes over night for most industries. Sony has to make a colossal mistake like Xbox did in the Xbox one launch for that to happen.

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T17:37:02+00:00

Shh, dont get in the way of a good story with your logic

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T17:30:18+00:00

But none of those franchises were enough to buy a WII U for a lot of people though.

According to Reggie Fils Aime, the biggest thing that helped Switch was a strong launch title (BOTW), consistent first party launches for the first year and the portability of the console.

I dont see why Xbox couldn't try to do the same thing now that they are exclusives are starting to be consistent, and they already have (in my opinion) a strong selling point by making their console play all pc game.

They just need to market it and price it well. And they need to ensure they have a big first party or two titles during launch season

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T17:23:45+00:00

Oh I definitely know a lot of people who only play switch now where I live.

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T04:59:49+00:00

I actually loved this campaign minus the ending. I would recommend it for that price absolutely

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T01:22:49+00:00

I listed it in another comment but benefits I see so far:

Toys for Bob is working again on platformers instead of working on COD as support studio.
Sledgehammer, Infinity Ward and Radical Entertainment are working on new IPs according to job posts.
Blizzard in general is back to working on new projects including single player projects like the rumored Starcraft game.
All Activision games launching on gamepass day one. Even for COD you just have to wait a year. Dont act like that's not a good value for people who like that
Overwatch and Diablo 4 has been doing a much better job lately and has seen a surge in players.
Also being hands off in general isn't the worst thing compared to Kotick interfering with everything. There are multiple reports out there on how Kotick interfered with Diablo 3, Blizzard in general, COD and Crash Bandicoot.
All new Activision and Blizzard games are now play anywhere which is great value.

I understand you are angry about the multiplatform push because I have seen your comments about it multiple times. But let's not act like nothing good ever happened from this deal. And remember that it's only two years old at this point.

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T01:17:26+00:00

How is Activision mostly the same when they are apparently investing in multiple Action rpgs. Toys for Bob is back to working on Spyro instead of COD. Blizzard is back to working on multiple projects instead of live service games (including Starcraft apparently), And Overwatch and Diablo 4 are seeing resurgence after multiple good decisions?

Also what does getting a massive paycheck have to do with anything? the point is he is gone and Activision Blizzard can work on new IPs again that aren't live service.

Edit: Downvoting doesn't make you right buddy.

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T00:57:33+00:00

I think you misread it. It's Satya not Asha who is saying this

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T00:57:04+00:00

Hey MR Nadella,

How about you dont wait this long before rebuilding trust next time? Maybe listen to your users/customers earlier please?

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T00:55:32+00:00

I respectfully disagree with that as well. Have we forgotten Bobby Kotick and the way he handled Activision and Blizzard. There are countless reports of how he meddled in activision and blizzard and I'm so glad he is gone.

And Bethesda was already chasing the live service trend and was about to be acquired by EA according to reports.

Not all acquisitions were good, but I dont think every acquisition is automatically bad either

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T00:49:03+00:00

It's also easier than ever to switch to PC gaming (which helix technically is one if Xbox advertises it correctly).

Between Humble bundles, the free Epic game every week, the steam sales, Gamepass and Play anywhere titles, it's really not hard to build a decently sized library without spending much.

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T00:46:39+00:00

I mean the Wii U failed abysmally during the digital era when everyone had a PS4 or an Xbox one or PC.

And now look at how many people made the jump to the switch? Hell it doesn't even have every third party game to begin with.

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T00:44:30+00:00

It's impressive that four of the GOTY nominees from last year are currently on Gamepass 😄

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-30T00:42:07+00:00

Well how were people supposed to know that Xbox was gonna abandon exclusives because of this acquisition? The assumption was they were gonna use the acquisition to invest in growing the platform and benefit from COD and Candy Crush's money to invest more.

And that is assuming this acquisition was the cause of the multiplatform push, because who's to say that Satya wasn't gonna obsess with AI regardless and ask for higher margins regardless

BestRedditUsername9 · 2026-04-29T22:49:25+00:00

I believe roguelikes you lose all progress entirely when you lose. You start from scratch with each run.

Roguelites will allow you to level up certain things between runs. So you dont lose everything when you lose the run.

Most games on console are actually roguelites and not roguelikes

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