We’d be lying to you if we told you that pretty much since the conception of Generation Xbox, formerly known as Solo Xbox One, the hatred towards the brand stopped at some point. Maybe because behind it is Microsoft, a historically hated company – I’ll never forget that Simpsons gag with Bill Gates buying Compuglobalhipermeganet with some Homer thugs – and ahead of it, Sony and Nintendo, who had another type of sympathy Among gamers, even today, Xbox fans, we continue to see this “Xbox tax”, or someone hammering another “nail in the coffin” practically every day.
And maybe the Xbox One was about to do it, there’s no denying it, but the response since has been exceptional. And I tell you from the bottom of my heart, it’s been many years since Xbox needed so much of a defense, of a radical sector that continually draws up lists like “I have more than you.” I say Xbox currently has EVERYTHING. And almost everything is going well.
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Xbox Game Pass is THE EXCLUSIVE you need
Let’s be really objective: The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are exceptional pieces of hardware (1). If all goes well, I’ll buy you that the S series is not that powerful, but… let’s see… WHICH 300 EUR PC DOES CYBERPUNK 2077 AT 60 FPS? Well yes, the Series S is. Japanese games were coming and coming. Just 6 years ago, it was absolutely crazy and insane to say that the Persona saga and the Yakuza saga were going to be released in their entirety on an Xbox console. And what’s better: all their games are on Xbox Game Pass.
After the purchase of Activision Blizzard, the number of studios working directly for Microsoft rises to 32. And the truth is that it makes me laugh when, in this mud of the console war, they say something so , I don’t know, as absurd as “Insomniac is worth 10 of Microsoft.” In fact, it’s no longer a question of value, it’s The huge number of sagas from Xbox Game Studios span virtually every genre (2). Microsoft is the only one to continue to offer completely free content for most of its titles: Halo, Sea of Thieves, State of Decay, etc…
The bet on Backwards compatibility in the Xbox One era has been inherited in the best possible way in the Xbox Series (3). Not only running jewels at 60 fps WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL COST, but also letting us play complete sagas, which it is even insulting to ignore, like Splinter Cell or Dead Space, great games like Dante’s Inferno or Asura’s Wrath, lost on the material otherwise. My children, without going any further, enjoy games like LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, a game from 2013, at 60 fps thanks to the FPS Boost or Sonic Generations, from 2011, which combines an FPS Boost and an increase to 4K in the background . compatibility with Xbox One. Without forgetting that you can also play, once again, without paying anything, the Far Cry saga or the Metro saga, in their entirety, at 60 fps.
The current discussion on the networks, and which unfortunately we cannot leave aside either, is that if the Final Fantasy VII remake does not come to Xbox, it is ONLY A GAME, that if Sea of Thieves is coming to PS5 and it’s going to be a debacle and we’re all going to come together to pay between 40 and 70 dollars per game on another platform like stupid people and all that. There is nothing more. There is literally nothing else. After that, a world of games awaits us. On Steam, on PS5, on Nintendo Switch, wherever you want to play, it doesn’t matter to us. But What “other consoles” don’t have, at least not yet, is Xbox Game Pass (4).
If you don’t like that for $14.99 you can play over 500 games on your console, PC or in the cloud, you have a problem.
And yes, claiming that Xbox Game Pass is nothing but trash or that it doesn’t provide any value is really stupid. That they don’t add good games, that you don’t care about Xbox games, or that the games are never yours, are stupid arguments. It’s like that. If you want to play just one game, go for it. Game Pass is just another option, but I’ll let you in on an open secret: this option is much better because of what Xbox has built for its players. And if you want to know why, look at the four reasons I gave you in the text. They are numbered. And I’m sure you’ll end up agreeing with me.
