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

[Rhythm]

Three months Game Pass Ultimate for £1?

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... -just-gbp1

Not if you've ever so much as /looked/ at a Game Pass page. I've never been able to qualify for the £1 and was rejected when I tried to convert XBL to XGP. When I tried it out I just ended up paying full whack

[MattyP]

What you can do (or could upto last month) is buy a 12m Xbox Live Gold subscription card and pay a £1 and this would convert the subscription over to a GamePass ultimate one. It will covent whatever Gold subscription you have left to GPU. You can sub for upto three years so you can stack 12 month Gold cards.

The only thing is you have to have let your current sub to GPU or Gold lapse. Worked for me mid November not sure if anyone has tried it since though. It's been the case for years now though.

Note this is not a one off deal I have done this conversion before a couple of years back too.

[Rhythm]

What you can do (or could upto last month) is buy a 12m Xbox Live Gold subscription card and pay a £1 and this would convert the subscription over to a GamePass ultimate one. It will covent whatever Gold subscription you have left to GPU. You can sub for upto three years so you can stack 12 month Gold cards.

Tried it multiple times and it never worked. MS support were no help on it either.

[fog]

So Halo Infinite is now officially targetting a Fall 2021 release. That's quite some delay for a supposed XS launch-day title.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news ... ember-2020

Microsoft have made some lovely hardware and GP is a great deal, but somebody really needs to shake up their in-house game studios.

[WiteWulf]

Lol, Halo Infinite is gonna be Xbox's The Last Guardian, look out for it *next* next gen

[MattyP]

So Halo Infinite is now officially targetting a Fall 2021 release. That's quite some delay for a supposed XS launch-day title.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news ... ember-2020

Microsoft have made some lovely hardware and GP is a great deal, but somebody really needs to shake up their in-house game studios.

Yeah read this earlier. Suppose it is what it is and the impact of releasing a buggy mess of a game will be worse than delaying it. Still a bit crap though. It should have been out with the new hardware. "Launch windows" seem to be a new thing over the past two generations. Guessing games are getting ever more complex so the dev cycles ever longer.... I mean look at CyberPunk 2077 - announced mid-2012!!!! Releasing tomorrow. And its still a buggy mess by all accounts.

This "next" generation wasn't needed just yet IMHO. Thinking I should have waited a year.... or at least another 6 months or so. Tempted to just sell the Series X while demand is high at the moment and pick something up next September time. Although this is a bit of a faff TBH.

[Whiteball]

Three months Game Pass Ultimate for £1?

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... -just-gbp1

Not if you've ever so much as /looked/ at a Game Pass page. I've never been able to qualify for the £1 and was rejected when I tried to convert XBL to XGP. When I tried it out I just ended up paying full whack

Never had that problem. I had the game pass on PC for the initial trial and cancelled then re-subbed again a month or so later, cancelled again and more recently re-subbed again to try their flight sim and then cancelled again.

Just signed up again for the £1 Ultimate xbox pass so it definitely doesn't apply to ANY game pass just the xbox ones?

[Rhythm]

So Halo Infinite is now officially targetting a Fall 2021 release. That's quite some delay for a supposed XS launch-day title.

Am I missing something? I see loads of press about how the "biggest" XS game has been delayed, but wasn't Halo Infinite an XO game in the first place?

[Rhythm]

Three months Game Pass Ultimate for £1?

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... -just-gbp1

Not if you've ever so much as /looked/ at a Game Pass page. I've never been able to qualify for the £1 and was rejected when I tried to convert XBL to XGP. When I tried it out I just ended up paying full whack

Never had that problem. I had the game pass on PC for the initial trial and cancelled then re-subbed again a month or so later, cancelled again and more recently re-subbed again to try their flight sim and then cancelled again.

Just signed up again for the £1 Ultimate xbox pass so it definitely doesn't apply to ANY game pass just the xbox ones?

When I tried out Game Pass I had to pay. When I tried Game Pass for PC I had to pay. When I tried to get Game Pass Ultimate I wasn't permitted (because I had XBLG at the time) and nor was I allowed to convert my XBLG to XGPU

I was told I could create a new account but that would mean losing my past purchases which is less than ideal.

[fog]

So Halo Infinite is now officially targetting a Fall 2021 release. That's quite some delay for a supposed XS launch-day title.

Am I missing something? I see loads of press about how the "biggest" XS game has been delayed, but wasn't Halo Infinite an XO game in the first place?

Yes, originally it was an XO game and got delayed and so became a cross-gen game. Lengthy delays like these don't always lead to good games (see Crackdown) but there's no way Microsoft would risk releasing anything below par this time. While Halo sales have diminished over the years it is still Microsofts biggest IP.

[Rhythm]

Yes, originally it was an XO game and got delayed and so became a cross-gen game. Lengthy delays like these don't always lead to good games (see Crackdown) but there's no way Microsoft would risk releasing anything below par this time. While Halo sales have diminished over the years it is still Microsofts biggest IP.

See, in these days of "smart delivery" I just hear "developed to lowest common denominator". By definition it has to meet specs of the XO and therefore can't ever feel like a next-gen game :-/

[MattyP]

What is "next gen"? what does it actually mean these days? Both PS5 and Xbox Series X are basically PCs these days. Next gen now is just like a PC upgrade really. Suppose the PS5 has an updated controller. But the games? Not expecting that much over what has gone before in terms of new ideas or things that can't really be done at a lower def on existing consoles.

Hope the developers come up with some new ideas however I'm guessing this will be mainly indies these days as AAA games will become ever more formulatic to appeal to the widest audience possible because of how much they cost to make.

Be interesting to see what happens with the new boxes. Think I'm just getting old and grumpy these days though. Nothing feels new or impressive on any console. VR and stuff like Half Life Alyx has been more impressive than console hardware this year.

[Misfit]

What is "next gen"? what does it actually mean these days? Both PS5 and Xbox Series X are basically PCs these days. Next gen now is just like a PC upgrade really. Suppose the PS5 has an updated controller. But the games? Not expecting that much over what has gone before in terms of new ideas or things that can't really be done at a lower def on existing consoles.

Hope the developers come up with some new ideas however I'm guessing this will be mainly indies these days as AAA games will become ever more formulatic to appeal to the widest audience possible because of how much they cost to make.

Be interesting to see what happens with the new boxes. Think I'm just getting old and grumpy these days though. Nothing feels new or impressive these days on any console. VR and stuff like Half Life Alyx has been more impressive than console hardware this year.

You're absolutely right. Higher-res/shinier graphics and fewer loading screens seems to be what next-gen is.

I'm having way more fun with the smaller things I'm finding on Game Pass.

But I am appreciating the difference in speed of use, quick start of games I've played recently and better framerates in stuff I have!

[Rhythm]

"Next gen" has always had a brucie bonus of "shiny" but that's never why I'm there. I'm there to see what genuinely new thing can be done. Give me reasons to understand why you're asking me to pay x hundred quid. This gen appears to be "loading times plus shinies" as a generational leap but show me the things that couldn't be done before. If a game is cross-gen then by definition it doesn't warrant a new machine. Show me the modern equivalent to that Hitman/AC crowd moment.

[Misfit]

But show me the things that couldn't be done before. If a game is cross-gen then by definition it doesn't warrant a new machine. Show me the modern equivalent to that Hitman/AC crowd moment.

I want you to be right, but where is there to go other than more realistic?

It's just a new graphics card in your PC.