The games I typically play most on my series S are either the latest nhl game(I didn't play nhl 23 though but I do plan to play nhl 24 eventually), halo infinite/mcc or whatever indie game interests me. I do buy games once or twice a year.

Spencer goes beyond that by talking about gen z and the lack of growth in the console market in general.

Forza horizon 5 was the closest. Hi-fi rush and psychonauts 2 also go high praise.

Eh. Spencer is leading the xbox brand at a time of transition that is not just impacting microsoft but the entire gaming industry. I think to many are tied down by the past instead of looking towards the future or the current reality which is a stagnant console market, higher production costs and a new generation of gamers that don't necessarily want to buy a physical box. Exclusives will still be important but at the same time companies will have to figure out how to properly navigate the new reality. There are obviously things xbox can improve like their localisation efforts though.

Pretty much even though outside of halo and nhl I have been playing AA games lately.

Obviously. I plan to upgrade to an X in june or july. I have just under 500 CAD in MS reward points saved up right now. Also obviously you can trade in your old consoles for the ps5 pro but I don't think most people are going to take advantage of that.

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Thank god the PS5 is much quieter. My cousins ps4 was literally a jet engine when it turned on.

The price of both the series X and ps5 are still quite high in canada. The series x still costs around $650 in canada and the ps5 ranges from $579-$650 depending on the model. A PS5 pro will likely cost $700+ unless something changes. I don't think their is a justification for a mid gen upgrade this time because the base consoles still cost a lot of money to get, there aren't many exclusives for them and better looking games isn't as big of a selling point compared to 4k support when the CPU limits things and the resolution boost isn't going to be huge.

Just try to keep the discussion as best as possible to the IGN article about RE5 even though I know SBI will be talked about a bit in this thread to. This thread has mostly been calm so that is why it hasn't been locked.

Nah. Discussion of the original gamergate was quite toxic at the time so we want nothing to do with it. It wasn't as bad on gamespot itself despite some off-site stuff, but with a lot of topics similar to this one and the SBI one they can blow up in a bad way sometimes. Plus like davillian said it's pretty much gamergate 2.0. We are allowing discussion on this topic but pleas don't try to discuss SBI at the same time.

Nice. I have 330k MS reward points saved up for a series X right now. I plan to upgrade to a series X in a few months. The recent reduction in the cost of redeeming gift cards in Canada helps me a bit.