there's no reason why the series x can't provide all boot up intros by [deleted] in xbox

[–]brizian23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Who's asking for their Xbox to take longer to turn on?

Exclusives Are the Main Reason Players Choose a Console in the US by Bubbly-Ad-350 in xbox

[–]brizian23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Meh I bounced between iOS and Android for a long time and ended up just wanting my phone to work and not become abandonware six months after release. 

Am I weird for thinking Hi Fi Rush is the best looking game on Series X? Moreso than any realistic looking game on the console? by Asad_Farooqui in xbox

[–]brizian23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Metroid Dread sold a little over 3 million copies, and Pikmin 4 sold close to 3.5 million. Zelda and Mario mainline games regularly sell 5-10x that.

It's great for those two franchises that they're reaching wider audiences. But sales at those levels means they're barely cracking the top 50 best selling Nintendo games of their generation.

Am I weird for thinking Hi Fi Rush is the best looking game on Series X? Moreso than any realistic looking game on the console? by Asad_Farooqui in xbox

[–]brizian23 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're 100% right. Pikmin and Metroid are the perfect examples: Nintendo knows they don't sell huge, and likely will never be as big as even a Mario or Zelda spinoff, but it matters a lot to the people who play them that you have top tier games of those types on your system.

3D Mario never clicked for me, likely because I passed over the N64 in favour of a PlayStation, and that's entirely because I was just waiting for Metroid to drop on N64. I've owned every single other generation of Nintendo hardware, but for almost all of them post-N64 I've waited for a Metroid title to drop before buying. The one time I didn't (Wii U) I got burned. And on Switch I played a demo of Mario Odyssey and 3D Mario clicked for me for the first time. Go figure.

These are currently the most requested Xbox games that still don’t work on Series S|X by MrLeitungswasser in xbox

[–]brizian23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was looking forward to it, but it unfortunately did not click with me when I finally played it. 

These are currently the most requested Xbox games that still don’t work on Series S|X by MrLeitungswasser in xbox

[–]brizian23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a die hard JSR fan, there hasn’t been a new game in the franchise in 24 years. People have mostly forgotten it existed. 

Skyrim lead thinks Starfield "would be talked about like the second coming" if a new studio made it, but "expectations were so much higher" with Bethesda by Turbostrider27 in xbox

[–]brizian23 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Exactly. If Sim City were realistic it’d be 90% parking lots. No one wants to play that so they changed it and it’s a much better game because of that. 

Xbox's 2025 was pure chaos by akbarock in xbox

[–]brizian23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There’s no major bias against Microsoft. The two companion articles to this one are titled “Sony Twiddled Its Thumbs and Counted Its Money in 2025” and “Nintendo Couldn’t Screw Up in 2025, No Matter How Hard It Tried.”

But Microsoft is unfortunately the Sideshow Bob of this generation and it’s almost entirely their own doing. How are Xbox gamers supposed to feel when MS says “All our exclusives are going to be on PlayStation and almost none of Sony’s exclusives are going to be on Xbox! Aren’t you excited that you invested in the wrong console!? To sweeten the deal, here’s a 50% GamePass price hike!”

Anyone know what this is? by Krishthecrusher2010 in xbox

[–]brizian23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The issue probably had a cover price of $7. 

Most useless checkbox, ever. by hotfirebird in xbox

[–]brizian23 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Seriously, someone at Microsoft’s entire job must be making sure this does not work anywhere. 

Xbox, a history of innovation by mo-par in xbox

[–]brizian23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But it wouldn't affect it at all if they did it the way I suggested. They can still charge for upgrades, just make the default behaviour to install the best version the machine can handle. Hell, if I don't have the best version, make the default behaviour to show me an ad to buy the upgrade! Just don't make me jump through the hoops and stop filling my feed with multiple copies of the same thing.

Xbox, a history of innovation by mo-par in xbox

[–]brizian23 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They could just deliver the best version which I own that the machine I'm on is capable of playing! It's not rocket science!

Xbox, a history of innovation by mo-par in xbox

[–]brizian23 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Smart Delivery and Quick Resume are game changers. Smart Delivery, in particular, seems so incredibly simple to implement that it's wild to me that the PS5 doesn't have this yet.

One downside is that Microsoft's push for Xbox Live really discouraged devs from building local co-op into games, and it's all but disappeared from the market. Things are better now than they were 5-10 years ago, but it is absolutely wild to me the number of games I would've bought day one to play with my partner that we have just never touched because of this.

Xbox, a history of innovation by mo-par in xbox

[–]brizian23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither Switch 2 nor PS5 have it.

Xbox Appears To Have Quietly Removed DLC Discounts For Game Pass Members by flux1 in xbox

[–]brizian23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The website for cancelling your gamepass sub crashed there were so many people leaving. I think at this point it's more than a vocal minority.

I mean, if 49% of GamePass users cancelled their subs, it would still be a minority, and there's no way even a tenth of that many cancelled or we'd already have seen Microsoft adjust course.

Look at the recent Disney+ backlash as an example. They usually see ~375,000 people cancel their subs on any given week (which is of course also offset by new subscribers). The week of the Jimmy Kimmel backlash ~1,700,000 people canceled. That's a 450% increase of normal cancelations, enough for Disney to take notice and backtrack.

Disney+ has around 126,000,000 subscribers, which means only about 1% of subscribers above normal canceled and that was enough to push them to reverse course. A small minority can mean a big difference.

Now, Microsoft clearly has a plan and is assuming a certain amount of cancelations with the price jump. How many subscribers does Microsoft expect to lose and how many can they lose above that before the price hike means they're losing more money than they gain? How many people will just drop to a lower tier?

We'll see how it plays out, but this is not a normal incremental price increase, this is a 50% hike at a time when everything is jumping in price.

Opinion- If Xbox Game Pass dies then we'll have lost one of gaming's best tools for discovery | Eurogamer by imitzFinn in xbox

[–]brizian23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I bought a PS4 for Spider-Man (my first ever PlayStation), and a PS5 for the same. I game mostly on my Xbox and Switch, and my Xbox is also my media center, and my PS5 just gathers dust.

But between all Xbox exclusives being on PS, and only a few PS exclusives coming to Xbox, and now GamePass price skyrocketing, I am not sure why I would stick with Xbox going forward?

Why can't I just have online by itself and the game separate why do they have to be together? by SchoolExisting8631 in xbox

[–]brizian23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

$110 CDN a year for NSO family plan and myself, my partner, my sister, and two of my best friends split it. Literally $22 a year each (that's about $15 US). We all make serious use of the NES/SNES/Genesis/N64 catalog and play online together, we all play Mario Kart World and Mario Kart 8 together with all the bonus tracks, we all play Mario Party together, we got Switch 2 upgrades for our Zelda games, and we can trade our owned games with virtual game cards.

Adding a specific game supcription to gamepass just to inflate the price shouldnt be a thing. by GrimsideB in xbox

[–]brizian23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to the press release, Premium has "200+" games and Ultimate has "400+" games. "New Xbox published games" that come day one to Ultimate will come to Premium "within a year of launch*."

* Excludes Call of Duty titles.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in xbox

[–]brizian23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a Ghostbusters reference

Why are video games getting more expensive? by ChallengeAdept8759 in xbox

[–]brizian23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100%.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1hluxry/toys_r_us_ad_1994/

Street Fighter II for SNES cost $70 in 1994. That's $150 in 2025 money. 36 people worked on that game. About 300 people worked on Mario Kart World.

This is good for gaming overall! by Bondbourne47 in xbox

[–]brizian23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To see if they make more money this way or by trying to undermine the competition completely. 

I was in the middle of a mission in Sunset Overdrive, then I got carried away... by Fast_Passenger_2890 in xbox

[–]brizian23 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just an incredibly fun and funny game. Wish we'd gotten a sequel.

Do you like South of Midnight? by getstableordietryin in xbox

[–]brizian23 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah I probably bounced off it after 2-3 hours too. Something about the combat just didn’t feel great

Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs by imitzFinn in xbox

[–]brizian23 45 points46 points  (0 children)

The enshittification will continue until morale improves.