Deal already existed, so it's more smoke and mirrors, trying to hoodwink regulators. Microsoft and EE entered a partnership on the 4th of May 2021 covering GP which already includes xCloud.
PS5 SSD have been better valued since 2021, I got mine on Black Friday for £275 including a heatsink, 2TB too!
People have been saying they're a ripoff since before launch, but only now is it getting corrected.
So it's only $40 cheaper than Seagate's version. I take it Xbox terminated or paid off their exclusivity with Seagate seeing the massive backlash lately, even from tilted sites like Windows Central.
WD - BLACK SN850 2TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 Officially Licensed for PS5 with Heatsink
The same manufacturer is selling the drive above on PS5 for $199.99, $20 more but double the capacity.
As I said, only $40 cheaper, that isn't much o...
Seagate has the exclusive rights to make the official SSDs for Xbox, they will never be another official model until Microsoft terminates that deal.
Why did they think Xbox got it right in the 1st place?
Their SSD solution was junk when they announced it.
@343
Higher prices - Xbox already confirmed consoles prices will go up, in India, one of the poorest countries per capita has increased several times since the announcement, and in Japan prices just went up last week, $30 conversion per model. Phil also stated XGP will increase this year, even though they lost around 2.5m users in the last year.
Reduced range - COD is not coming to Switch, and Activision has no interest in putting it on Switch nor is Swit...
Oh, we know Phil is lying, the more this goes on, the more we see how transparent his nonsense is.
The released emails alone, even with redactions tell us how much they say one thing to regulators/media/fans, yet internally say the exact opposite.
"Gamepass increases software sales" to the press, in reality, "Gamepass has cannibalised our B2P market" for them, no wonder they never talk sales, just engagement numbers, also, they reveal ...
'more microtransactions, less ownership'
EU has already said as much.
Microsoft can only go to court against FTC because "America".
UK/EU, the deal is dead in the water.
Officially dead in the water, Microsoft doesn't have an appeals process in the UK, can't go to UK courts, and the buck ends with CMA, so either they make these concessions or drop the deal.
Gamers win.
We've already seen that isn't the case.
That Xbox Dev Direct really showed what they have done to achieve in-game RT, and it's 360 era car models, check the BMW and Mercedes in the trailer vs Forza 4's version of those cars, no difference in quality, and the tracks from distance look worse than GT4 on PS2, that's not even a joke, plus people used to laugh at GT having cardboard trees, yep Forza for Xbox Series now has those too, all to get RT in-game, I ...
Yes, it did;
Over 6 years in development.
1,000 devs from 4 major studios were involved by the end.
$500 million budget on development and promotion.
What did people get?
A 6-hour campaign
MP with less content than Halo 2
No coop (legitimate anyway) and Forge a year late.
It deserved it!
They wasn't interested in 11x2 then? :P
PSVR2 vs XR Elite
2000x2040 pixels per eye vs 1920x1920 pixels per eye - PSVR2 win
OLED display vs LCD display - PSVR2 win
HDR vs SDR - PSVR2 win
120Hz vs 90Hz - PSVR2 win
Eye Tracing vs no eye tracing - PSVR2 win
The price is actually insulting, especially when PSVR2 is workable on PC;
PSVR2 still trashes VIVE XR Elite in almost every spec, but mainly in the important ones;
Resolution
Panel Quality
Refresh Rate
Eye Tracking
Haptic Feedback (Headset & Controllers)
Price ($550 vs $1,100)
That's completely wrong, PS5 can support dozens of versions of M.2 format, and not just Gen4 either, as DF proved, a top-end Gen3 (cheaper than Gen4 yet still vastly faster than Xbox Series SSD) works fine largely thanks to PS5 I/O tech.
PS5 offers drive support for; PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 - Sizes from 2240, 2260, and 2280 - as low as 120GB upto 4TB - starting from $15 going upto $450 (4TB model matching PS5's internal drive speed).
That's pro-consu...
Why would they, lock people to one format, charge through the nose, anti-consumer.
Not a surprise, absolutely not worth the price of admission this year, the majority of core gamers, and especially hardcore were abandoned by Xbox this year, considering they have 30~ studios + Phil said years ago he plans to have 1 AAA game release every 3 months, it's kind of shocking they've not had 1 in 12 months, and won't for another 5 at least. David Jaffe said it right, management at Xbox is at an all-time low.
Sony never made a commitment to keeping every thing they make on their service forever.