IO during the Microsoft presentations
Even now I still have to double check the name of the current Xbox 
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I love the smug freakin face on the Sony guy. The marketing team must have had so much fun whipping up that 4-slide rebuttal after Xboxâs conference.
Itâs insane what Microsoft somehow thought they could get away with and people wouldnât take issue with, it was literally physical console DRM.
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Kinda makeâs you think where would we be today if Microsoftâs always-online plan would have stayed. 
Sony wiped out the smile off of Microsoftâs face, same as Colossal Order did to EA when they released Cities: Skylines 
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Although not always proportionate or constructive, fortunately most Xbox fans are both vocal and brutal about what they do like and donât like. If Microsoft do something bad, their own fan base will turn on them and this is what happened at the Xbox One launch. More recently, consider the first reveal of Halo Infinite gameplay. Weâve got a significantly better game today because of that response and as criticisms continued upon launch, the game has continued to get better and better.
As @EvilGeniusRo said, imagine what the gaming world would have looked like today if Xbox fans hadnât kicked up a stink at the time and we all just accepted Microsoftâs vision of gaming at that time. In a strange way, itâs a good thing that the Xbox One console generation didnât succeed as itâs been a sober warning to all parties. At the end of day, if you want people coming back you need to treat them well.
This was because their vision at its launch in 2013 was to create a console that would be the go-to device for all your multimedia requirements in the living room. That is, the âOneâ thing youâll ever need. Although the first smart TVs appeared around 2007, it wasnât until around 2013 that they began to become popular. By 2015, there was an expectation that your new TV would be a smart TV. Microsoft had been developing their Xbox One console for years before itâs launch in 2013 and they hadnât anticipated the rising success of smart TVs. By the time the Xbox One launched it was too late to change years of promotion and marketing. They also missed the point that not everyone plays games in the living room.
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Why bother developing official patches? - Godd
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Wouldnât it be amazing if it had no bugs or glitches at launch? Like these modders put in all that effort but there is near nothing to actually be fixed.
I think that would be hysterical.
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it would also be a first for bethesda to ship an actual finished game
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It would be beyond hysterical. Also nobody would believe the game was actually made by Bethesda lol.
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The showcase is set for 9 September at 1pm PT/4pm ET/9pm BST. Not a lot is known as this stage: how long it will be or what games we can expect to see. The only ones we can be sure about are Disney Dreamlight Valley and Marvelâs Midnight Suns, which has sadly been delayed until March 2023 at the earliest now.
As Iâm not aware if Disney Dreamlight Valley has been mentioned in this thread, hereâs a gameplay video:
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Wow. them making a whole stream block for games during D23 is big news.
I wonder if we might be able to expect Insomniacâs Wolverine or Spider-Man 2 to make an appearance. Either of those big-budget things would surely make a huge splash in the showcase, let alone both (if progress is going well on production for both).
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PC gamers with PC Game Pass might have a reason to get excited. They recently changed their profile picture on Twitter. Death Stranding incoming?
They responded with, âsometimes we just like a good landscape pictureâ
Source
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TABS getting ported to Switch is cool, canât wait for IOâs 007 game and Splatoon 3 is hype (even if 1 of the new idols has got a forehead as large as Hector Delgado).
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Not entirely newsworthy enough since I canât find articles yet but
Telltaleâs The Expanse game will be shown off at the Gamescom opening
And chances are Gearboxâs âNEW Tales from the Borderlandsâ will too. (Yes thatâs the title)
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CHIM!
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iwannitiwannit
it looks like so much fun
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Just a week away.
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