Xbox Series X/S & Playstation 5 (PS5) Thread. Next-Gen 2020

[Misfit]

Just wondering it made sense to have one place to post about the new consoles?

As most things seem to either be on both or have an impact on both.

Quick Recap on prices/release dates:

Playstation releases 19th Nov
PS5 £449.99
PS5 (Digital version) £359.99

Xbox releases 10th Nov:
Series X £449.99
Series S (cut down digital version) £249.99

Or a 2 year, interest free deal including 2 years of Game Pass for £21/£29 per month

[Misfit]

So here is one to maybe shake things up a little...

Microsoft buys Bethesda for $7.5 billion (!) and says it will release their games on Game Pass! (So that's franchises like Doom, Wolfenstein, Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Dishonored)

They will, apparently, still honour the timed exclusives on the PS5 Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo and future games may still come out on the Playstation.

[fog]

So here is one to maybe shake things up a little...

Microsoft buys Bethesda for $7.5 billion (!) and says it will release their games on Game Pass! (So that's franchises like Doom, Wolfenstein, Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Dishonored)

They will, apparently, still honour the timed exclusives on the PS5 Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo and future games may still come out on the Playstation.

Great signing by MS. Of their big IP's I'm only really interested in are Fallout and Elder Scrolls, but I would buy an XSS in the future to play those. Although, as we haven't had proper new games in those series for about 5 and 10 years respectively, it might even be next gen before I have to worry about that.

Deathloop looks like an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it's for me so I'll wait on reviews for that one.

[Whiteball]

John Carmack tweeted:

"Great! I think Microsoft has been a good parent company for gaming IPs, and they don’t have a grudge against me, so maybe I will be able to re engage with some of my old titles."

Hmm, would like to know what he's thinking there.

[Whiteball]

Responding to my own post here

Maybe Carmack could get in with Microsoft and develop an Xbox VR headset?

I know Microsoft has HoloLens etc, but a more dedicated 'in house' Xbox headset to compete more directly with Sony PSVR maybe.

[fog]

Launch Titles (Subject to change)


Both

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
Watch Dogs: Legion
Immortals: Fenyx Rising
FIFA 21
Dirt 5
Madden NFL 21
Marvel's Avengers
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
NBA 2K21
WRC 9
Outriders


XBox Exclusive Launch Titles

Gears Tactics
The Medium
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Call of the Sea
Crossfire X
The Falconeer
Tetris Effect: Connected
Second Extinction


PS5 Exclusive Launch Titles

Demon's Souls
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Astro's Playroom
Bugsnax
Godfall
Destruction All Stars
Jett: The Far Shore


* Some titles are timed or console exclusives.

[VNVObit]

helpful list
I will probably go with PS5 as it has some exclusives (albeit not as launch titles) such as God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn which I do want to play

of the launch titles the ones I want to play are available for either console so far

[MattyP]

Decided not to buy any new gen console at launch for a change.

I have just had a massive clear out over the past 6-8 months. So at the moment have no consoles at all (well other than my modded Wii). My plan is to grab a NVidia GTX 3080 card for my PC (when I can find one pre-order in).

Stay with the PC + Gamepass for the foreseeable.

Had I not had a capable PC then I would have gone with a Xbox Series X. Simply because on par I've enjoyed MSs way of doing things and their content since the 360 days. Odd exceptions on PS4 like the Uncharted series and things like Little Big Planet etc. Of course PSVR too however now moved to PC for my VR fix now too.

I'm sure there will be a compelling reason to buy a PS5 at some point. Just confused at where Sony are at with backward compatibility and its odd but find it appealing that you can run new games on old consoles as MS are demonstrating with the upcoming gen. Not sure how that will pan out but I think that is a first.

[fog]

XBox Series now up for pre-order.

Series X sold out on Amazon UK, but Series S still in stock.

[Misfit]

XBox Series now up for pre-order.

Series X sold out on Amazon UK, but Series S still in stock.

Crap. I knew there was a reason not to sleep in this morning...

[Misfit]

Game site is down, Shopto, Smyths Toys and Amazon out of stock, assume everywhere else is.

Smyths (and Game) do the 'credit' deal, but also out of stock.

Looks like you can purchase at MS's own store, but gives an error when checking out.

Annoying that I got the console I wanted least.

[WiteWulf]

Re. Fog's launch title list: pretty sure Jett got bumped to 2021 yesterday.

Time passes...

Yup:
https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/18/21445 ... 5-next-gen

[Misfit]

OK, Amazon France has stock of the X if you're desperate to get a pre-order in.

Works out about £475 as the Euro price is 499 and there is some postage.

[venusian]

Annoying that I got the console I wanted least.

Must... buy.... something....

[Misfit]

Annoying that I got the console I wanted least.

Must... buy.... something....

Yes, I know I have a problem!