I must admit that I bought the Xbox pretty soon after it came out. An upgrade for sure on the previously much-loved N64.
Never even considered any of the PS range since then. 
I’ve been having a go on Sonic Generations this evening. It has been added to the FPS Boost section of backward compatible games. It looks wonderful, better than the 360 original ever did.
All XBox One stuff is backward compatible. Here’s a list of the stuff from yesteryear which works too.
Hmm. Sony apparently responding to PS5 shortages by creating more PS4s. That’s not good and is going to keep things cross-gen for a while. The XBox Series S is looking like an increasingly smart move.
This is probably the most compelling reason to go xbox - assuming they are allowed to do so (anti trust)
Call of Duty as an exclusive will piss me off
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The numbers being thrown about are daft - are they truly worth $70bn?
This does feel a bit AOL / Time Warner
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In news that’ll have @CB-Saint cracking, it appears that a third of the content of his hard drive (Call of Duty) will be owned by Microsoft.
This has all the hallmarks of someone beating themselves off because they might put one in the eye of a fellow poster and not reading the fucking thread 
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I know you got an expansion. Don’t worry. The sale is not going through until 2023 apparently.
I think they’ve paid a lot of money for that portfolio btw. Activision have got some stuff such as COD, Crash Bandicoot, Tony Hawks - but apparently the most lucrative title in the deal is Candy Crush.
Candy crush - jeez is that still going?
I am still struggling to reconcile buying a company for a 50% premium and promptly cutting your market by 50% by going exclusive to one platform
Seems a bloody expensive way of getting ahead of the game
For another $80bn they could have just bought Sony
This feels very much like a format war, a la VHS vs Betamax - with this move being one of several moves designed to end the war.
I don’t play Call of Duty that much, but I know it’s popular enough that Activision felt it was worth releasing every year. A lot of gamers don’t agree.
It’s probably going to be a good thing in terms of getting some decent work out. Activision had a habit of acquiring smaller studios too, and took on a lot of teams which ended up becoming Call of Duty support teams. Hopefully Microsoft will take more risks with the IPs it has just bought.
Sony are in danger of becoming the new Nintendo. The latter used to rule the roost, only to get shoved aside in the late 90s and ending up being a sort of boutique games machine - you’d buy it for the six or seven Nintendo exclusives.
Sounds impossible, but the suggestion that Nintendo would be shoved aside by Sony would have had you laughed out of town in the early 90s.
Yeah, this is big. Lot of extremely funny format war posts on YouTube.
Online word games, eh? Perhaps one day they’ll get to Pong and Space Invaders.
Thought it might be of interest.
A number of folk have clicked on it, so clearly it is of interest.
However, probably off topic unless God Of War : Crossword or Forza Wordsearch are on the horizon.
Had no idea where to dump it tbf.
Yeah, that’s not going to stand up in court in your upcoming public indecency trial 
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I told you not to tell anyone 
This is a bit naughty.
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