It should be the standard; hopefully their competitors in the PC and console space take note. It's why I hope they clean up this gen, because they are doing lots of good things this round that their competitors need to step up on.
This is me. I'm impressed that they can pull this all off but it's just not a selling point for me.
I recently had the urge to play Yakuza 0 again; I had beat the game 2-3 times in the past few years but I told myself this would finally be the time I 100% it and get all the achievements. Of course I stopped playing halfway through because Game Pass makes my backlog constantly explode.
So, here I am booting up Yakuza 0 like I said and somehow the game was still in Quick Resume, like 5+ months later and I'm not even in the same state I was when I last played it. I played tons of games since then and it was still suspended in the background. It booted up in a few seconds and was right where I left off.
I truly feel that this is what it feels like to be next gen.
"Why would anybody play this?"I think you must be one of the very few remaining Kinect fans.
He'd be on to something where Kinect is concerned lol.
They did ship the adapter when they initially released the Xbox One S & X. Then people stopped buying them so they stopped making them.That's such a strange excuse. If all it requires is an adaptor, why not just ship it to existing customers? That's literally what Sony did with the PSVR.
Yes I'm loving I too.
The PC Xbox experience is the one glaring stain on Phil and Microsoft right now. Get that shit together man.
For. Sure.Considering how easy it is to just build a normal launcher with normal win32 deployments, I assume the reason it's a cluster fuck still is because of deeply entrenched political disputes between parts of Microsoft. Like whoever is thr stakeholder on the win store or UWP stuff in the Windows division making life super hard.
I assume the reason it's a cluster fuck still is because of deeply entrenched political disputes between parts of Microsoft. Like whoever is thr stakeholder on the win store or UWP stuff in the Windows division making life super hard.
I'm always confused when I see people post this. Microsoft didn't even support Kinect games on the very next generation, let alone beyond that. I don't blame them for making that decision at all, it's just weird to see people pretend that it never happened.
For. Sure.
There is literally no logical reason to not break off and create a win32 Xbox store that's juiced to the gills like Live on steroids because PC.
I have to imagine that's why Phil and co were like "fuck it just put them on Steam too".
I don' t even use handheld mode on my Switch so I am definitely not the intended market
Please clear this up for me once and for all then: is the answer that people don't know, or don't care? It seems like the only people who respond are in the Jim Ryan camp on it, which seems at odds with everything else I see posted at Era.You're not confused at all, you keep bringing this up across multiple threads. This must be like the 10th thread I've seen you do the same thing. You've found a "gotcha" to use and are trying to milk it. At least be more honest with your concern trolling.
Please clear this up for me once and for all then: is the answer that people don't know, or don't care? It seems like the only people who respond are in the Jim Ryan camp on it, which seems at odds with everything else I see posted at Era.
How is this not a legitimate question when it comes to discussion of long term hardware support in the console space? It's front and centre.So you're concern trolling multiple threads because you haven't got a definitive answer? C'mon son. We both know what you're doing.
How is this not a legitimate question when it comes to discussion of long term hardware support in the console space? It's front and centre.
Firstly, I only found out that it was the case fairly recently, and it surprised me because in all of the countless BC discussions here, nobody had ever thought to mention it. Since then it continues to surprise me when people say things along the lines of "I'm only buying Microsoft hardware because they always support their old hardware" and nobody responds that that isn't true, with this obvious example from this very gen.I don't have an issue with questions. You just aren't asking them in good faith. The point you make is valid, MS dropped support for first party hardware and software. But you already know that. Bring that up as an issue you have with MS, don't try to act like you just found out some brand new info though.
Last time you brought it up, I asked you something like, which Kinect games did you want to use on on your series console and can't. Your response was to literally ask if I was Jim Ryan.
Firstly, I only found out that it was the case fairly recently, and it surprised me because in all of the countless BC discussions here, nobody had ever thought to mention it. Since then it continues to surprise me when people say things along the lines of "I'm only buying Microsoft hardware because they always support their old hardware" and nobody responds that that isn't true, with this obvious example from this very gen.
If somebody posts "I'm only buying Nintendo hardware in future because of their excellent third party support" or "I'm only buying Sony hardware in future because Jim Ryan is #4theplayers" is it concern trolling to respond that the facts don't support that? I'll admit that I'm guilty of blunt/snarky posts more often than I should be, and with more than 6,000 posts here I think that some boneheaded posts are inevitable, but I also think that the Jim Ryan analogy is absolutely on point, and topical 😁
It depends on the game. Ideally playing on my 65" CX OLED in my basement is optimal but it's not always convenient. Slapping on a Bluetooth controller to my phone works on occasion but it's not the best for every game due to screen size (and tiny text). On occasion I like playing remote on my laptop in my bedroom. I'm really looking forward to the PC remote app. It's long overdue.I feel like the only way you are all in on this philosophy is obviously if you like to jump between games and don't care where you can play them. I never play more than one game at a time and I never sacrifice quality for convenience. For a while I tried to get in on the Vita remote play thing but then I was like - why am I doing this? If I have time to play a game I want to sit down put my headphones on and play it on a big screen.
Some slight disappointment that not all 360 games are backwards compatible (I could understand not all OG XB games not being BC) so I feel I need to buy a backup 360 at some point BUT point taken. Even if Sony has reversed course on the PS3 store closure, the genie is out of the bottle and the likelihood (however into the far flung future) that my PS3 breaks and I can't find a replacement and my digital purchases (particularly the PS1/2) games are inaccessible frightens me. Feels like even if it's not perfect (ie. Not all 360 games are bc), feels like at least my last gen purchases and onwards will carry forth from now on more likely with MS environment, so gonna be avoiding buying digital on PS. To be fair, PS4 and onward should be OK, but again, between them two, I'm pretty comfortable saying my purchases will be more likely to carry over on Xbox.Xbox is the only place I feel my digital library will be playable long into the future.
They seem to be on the right track so far with their recent investments. I'd wager in two years, Xbox will be pumping out first party games fairly quickly.If they can finally get their in house exclusives in order they'd be unstoppable I think, and this from a long time PS fan. I'm impressed with what Xbox has done, and kudos for fully supporting the PC which was a pretty big gamble that's paying off big time
The iOS/ Apple(?) of gaming, where the ecosystem works across different hardware. I think that's the best way to describe it.
Here I am, got my Xcloud beta access. Log on to my phone at work, iOS via the web app. Oh look, Gears Judgement is on here.
Wow, my 360 saved loaded up from like 8 years ago... Runs pretty well too. And theres Rage 2 as well, my save I was playing a few hours ago just loads right back up. Now i'm using my Macbook to play rage 2 at work. Works well enough to get some Arks grinded through.
The ease at which you can just enjoy your games, save files, no matter where you are is incredibly convenient and really just makes gaming so much easier and more convenient.
Starting to understand MS's goal here. Not that xcloud is the primary part of gaming, but supplementary, at least for me I believe. Just makes you want to buy and play more games.
Series X, W10 and now Xcloud. Definitely played more games past 2 months than I have in the whole last year. I've knocked down my backlog by like 10 games already... So good.
I would rather call Microsoft the "Microsoft of Gaming" ;)
I work in Enterprise IT and have a lot of non-gaming interactions with MS stuff. Most of the stuff they are doing with Xbox, they have been doing with Office, Exchange, Active Directory, Skype, Windows 10/Server and so on for a decade.
They can be a really cool company.