My guess would be unless you jailbreak it, none of that will be there. Just Playstation apps.

“[Matt]has spent well in excess of £10,000 on player packs in the Fifa football game”

Holy shit. I spend a lot on video games, probably more than anyone should. But my biggest expenditures would be say a new system or peripheral. I can’t even imagine spending that much, on one game, for no good reason.

If developers and publishers of these games werent complete pieces of shit, they would at least place a cap on how much one person could spend. But they won’t.

Asphalt 9 rocks. If they made a version where you just paid outright for it, with no further microtransactions necessary, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

The deal is for 10 years. That sounds like a lot but in reality that’s just a bit longer than the average console generation. I would not be at all surprised if after the 10 years they make CoD completely Xbox exclusive.

This game went from a “maybe” to a “never” for me. Great job, Overkill.

I would argue that MS had every incentive to put Starfield out on PS5, but ultimately decided against it along with all new Zenimax games. They even estimated they would have sold 10 million copies on Playstation. I think that shows they are willing to forego money from some multiplatform games in the short term if they think they will make more money from Game Pass and Xbox hardware in the long run.

I’m a huge fan of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden and Miasma Chronicles. They’re both made by the same developer, The Bearded Ladies. Both feature excellent post apocalyptic stories and characters, as well as turn based combat with real time free roaming and exploration in between. Biggest difference is in MYZ you have a crew largely composed of anthropomorphic animals, who are hilarious. In MC, your main character (Elvis) and robot brother Diggs are trying to find your mom.

https://www.mutantyearzero.com/

https://miasmachronicles.com/

If I has to pick one I’d say I liked MYZ a little better, but it’s close. MYZ also is a lot older so you should be able to find it cheap.

Well, ask me when Sony buys an entire publisher and makes all their future games exclusive.

I don’t think that’s true. Microsoft was afraid of this happening but there was zero evidence it was going to.

Phil Spencer said every single future Zenimax game is going to be exclusive, so it’s not just a few being held back.

I would argue there’s a huge difference between, say, one year of timed exclusivity for one game, versus buying an entire publisher and making every single one of their future games exclusive.

“Execs behind Starfield”

The same execs that bought the company already half way through development of Starfield, and rather than delivering anything new or of value, only wanted to make sure it was extinguished on other systems?

As for “execs behind Halo,” the less said the better. I’ve never seen a series driven so hard into the ground.

As primarily a Playstation and Nintendo gamer, I think this acquisition is going to be 99% bad news for me. Oh well.

Yes but I suspect it will be even harder to do then.

People like my friend Dave, I guess. He’s got Game Pass practically for life (bought through one of those insane 'convert all your Xbox Gold time to Game Pass for $1" deals) and he wants as many “free” games as he can get. Like Call of Duty, last time he bought a Call of Duty game was probably 10 years ago, but he’s still very excited about the prospect of Call of Duty on Game Pass.

10 years probably.

Not the news I wanted to hear today. I loved this game, particularly the flying bits.