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Xbox's Next Gen Save System Should Be the New Standard

IGN: Welcome back to Next-Gen Console Watch 2020, our new show following all the news and rumors on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This week we’re talking about Xbox Smart Delivery, PS5’s Dual Entitlement, EA Play Live, and the CyberPunk 2077 delay.

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TheHan1433d ago

Xbox is looking at changing the way games are perceived, keep up the good work Xbox. The reason why they have a steady fan base is because they’ve done right by their real fans. Then you have those who jump ship no matter the reason, could be about games or simply don’t like the system and the UI they use. Whatever the case may be, I feel like this generation in gaming is gonna be gold.

Hakuoro1433d ago

What's wrong with gaming as it is? I have been having fun for years.

chiefJohn1171433d ago

It's called innovation and pushing gaming and technology forward. I was perfectly happen with my flip phone in 06. What was wrong with it? Nothing but thanks to creativity, innovation, etc I'm rocking a smart phone thats an all around media device and mini computer.

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Marquinho1432d ago

Things don't have to be wrong in order to get better, and that's Microsoft's target with Game Pass, Smart Delivery and others.

Christopher1432d ago

***Xbox is looking at changing the way games are perceived***

This is a great feature, but this isn't even close to true considering PC does this and has for decades.

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Marquinho1432d ago (Edited 1432d ago )

I'm a PC Gamer as well but there's a difference between upgrading your video card, and get a better experience out of horse power, and upgrading console, and get a better experience due to horse power AND optimization for the specific hardware you've upgraded to. The improvement is much higher and the cost much lower (compared to upgrading GPU+CPU on PC)

Christopher1432d ago

@marquinho PC games just got free graphical updates to Mafia 2 and will get a version that can play on hardware equal to an Xbox One and a Series X at release let alone have been playing higher quality games than on console.

You're thinking that this free upgrade doesn't happen in PC when it does because it's built in to be tailored to a wide range of setups. It's just not talked about because it's the norm.

Those "enhancements" from Xbox One to Series X aren't needed on PC because they've already had them from the get go.

And this isn't even taking about the modding capabilities on PC that push these games way beyond that.

timotim1432d ago

IGN just flat out said PS doesnt have anything officially like Smart Delivery, yet all we keep hearing is how Sony been doing SD on PS platforms for years now...how SD is a copy from Sony haha. You cant make this stuff up..

Profchaos1432d ago

IGN had always had a bias prior to the launch of the current gen there was countless article after article coming from IGN saying Sony will perform so poorly that Ms will buy the gaming division and Sony will struggle to sell because the 360 was so popular.

The launch came and they went real quiet

jznrpg1432d ago

PS hasn’t revealed nearly as much as Xbox has , so wait and see . I’m sure you will all be disappointed (you won’t say it out loud because that doesn’t fit your narrative)

timotim1432d ago

What doesn't fit my narrative? Im speaking on a falsehood...a narrative fabricated by PS fanboys that says Sony is doing these things RIGHT NOW. Yet here you are talking about what they will or might reveal. Is that the reason I shouldn't correct these fanboys now, because of what they might do in the future?

I got news for you...if they do they do. Just like cross-play when Sony was rejecting games left and right while all the fanboys was saying then that they didnt want it...you know why...because it didnt fit their narrative. Classic move how your trying to reverse it.

WhiteHawk1404d ago

How about not seeing ships to jump to in the first place, how about just being a sailor. Also where were you pre XBOX One launch where MS were all about the consumer?

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russo1211433d ago

I hope I'll never see an anti-consumer company like MS defining gamming industry. Everybody looses.

chiefJohn1171433d ago (Edited 1433d ago )

I bet 50% of the gaming features you use today is thanks to MS so cut the BS. Sony, MS and Nin all pushed gaming to new heights. All have been very consumer friendly and anti consumer. You can speak for yourself but I'm definitely winning when it come to gaming as it stands today

Tacoboto1433d ago

How are Xbox's *current* policies and options anti-consumer?

- Support for discs and games going back to 2001, enhanced with higher resolutions, better framerates, and on Series X, AI-based HDR
- Xbox Game Pass consistently has great AAA titles, even as some come and go. It's also almost always on sale
- Design Lab for custom controllers with variations on textures and colors
- Pro-level Elite Controller with certain swappable parts
- 15+ first-party studios working on games

Their first-party sucked this generation but they've done a lot around to improve their ecosystem that otherwise wouldn't have happened if they had games to do the talking. Remember Sony's ego at the announcement of the PS3 in 2005? That was Microsoft in 2013.

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Manic20141432d ago

How in the last 7 years since the announcement debacle, how have they been Anti- Consumer? Genuine question? I have seen them been pro consumer with their offering/services etc.

Hakuoro1433d ago

Oh so Xbox has cloud saves and cross save, how revolutionary.

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DeadManMMX1433d ago

Yeah they’ve had it all gen. It was never manual or hidden in settings like on PS4. It just worked. Also it never had an arbitrarily small amount of space that had to be upgraded
Mid gen. Some things one does better then the other giving them that takes nothing away from
What the others did.

dumahim1433d ago

PS4 always had automatically backed up saves. It wasn't manual only and being found in "Application and saved data management" in the settings menu is hidden, you have problems.
Small storage space? Well deserved criticism.

Battlestar231433d ago

Sony has had this for years why are people acting as if it is new?

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Sitdown1432d ago

Sony has given us the ability to save on the ps4 and then move over and pick it up on the ps5?

Battlestar231432d ago (Edited 1432d ago )

You can copy your saves over to the PS5 from the PS4 thanks to the PS4 BC on PS5.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Director On 95% Positive Steam Rating: "Never Thought I'd See It"

Cyberpunk 2077 has come a long way from being one of the worst games on the planet to being one of the best ones.

DustMan8d ago

I shelved it after a few hours in game at launch, glad I didn't refund it. One of the few games I've actually completed in the last year, and after finishing the campaigns I wanted to just jump back in from the start. They pulled a No Mans Sky and finished one of the best FPS in the last few years.

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Games That Were Bad on Release, But Are Now Great

BLG writes, "Some of the most popular games have had a rough start, with some of them being downright unplayable.

Despite that, developers have managed to turn it around for them and make their game worth playing. Here are some games that had a rough start but were pretty great."

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Terry_B20d ago

Good list..hoped to see Street Fighter 5 there..and it is.

Vits20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.

darthv7220d ago

Several years ago, i submitted an idea to Rare that would change up the mechanics of battling opponents in the game. whereby if you died in battle, you turned into a skeleton warrior and had to fight your way back to the land of the living. It was an interesting twist on respawning and would allow the player to experience both sides of a battle.

I keep hoping to see something like that get added to the game.

Kaii20d ago

They consider FO 76 & ME Andromeda to be great now 🤭

anast19d ago

Every game in the last 2 decades...

INMATEofARKHAM19d ago

It's sad that this quick retort is more often than not true... The industry's acceptance of release and patch has gone too far.

gunnerforlife19d ago

Days gone! By the end of the game I couldn't drop it down! I went around so many hours killing zombies! It was addictive by the end.

S2Killinit19d ago

That game was just plain good game. It didnt improve, it was just good.

gunnerforlife19d ago

I don't know, I got it abit late, and struggled for a few days, and then all of a sudden it just got good!!

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Source Code For The Witcher 3 & Cyberpunk 2077 Has Allegedly Been Compromised

Source code for CD Projekt's action role-playing games The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 have allegedly been compromised.

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just_looken32d ago

Well they are using unreal engine now thanks to there work culture and horrific job on making cyberpunk so for the future no impact.

But it will be interesting to see what mods will be made

https://rebel-wolves.com/

just_looken31d ago

7 disagrees shows how many look at one dlc that had a rip off fight from ghost in the shell and goes wow what a goat team i love cdpr while ignoring that they only made 2 games that were good witcher 2/3 in 20yrs.

But its a new world we want a criminal that support's legal murder as president/support shoplifting love toxic work environments and have a mass casualty event every other day.

GhostMirror31d ago

I’ll admit I didn’t play it at launch, but Cyberpunk 2077 is a really good game now.

And who the hell knows what you’re even going on about in your second paragraph here.

EazyC32d ago

Wait a min...I swear to god CP2077's source code got leaked before. CDPR needs to stop using "password123" for all their accounts 😅

just_looken31d ago

Na its hundreds ex employees no doubt just getting there revenge.

Profchaos31d ago (Edited 31d ago )

This is the same leak the threat actors have been trying to sell the source code after cd project didn't pay the ransom.

They didn't manage to sell the source code to any company largely because it would be unethical for say EA to buy it so the threat actors failed to find a buyer.

After they failed to make any money they went through with their threat of simply giving it away.