this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
354 points (98.9% liked)

Games

38349 readers
1342 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here and here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Xbox first party titles expected to hit $80 USD this holiday; Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

After my series s becomes irrelevant, I'm switching to a PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I pretty much switched to the Steam Deck, but I still have a backlog of games on Xbox that I may end up with one or two last Xboxes if my Series S dies for any reason. Hopefully it lives long enough that I don't have to get a new Xbox sometime in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Slowly being turned towards the sea

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I wonder if the price increase will be spent on making a chart that tells me which XBox is which?

I don't know exactly when I got old, but I feel angry every time Xbox reminds me that I'm too old to know which is which.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

My last Xbox was Xbox one. Never going back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft may as well just cancel their whole Xbox hardware business. Xbox Series is a secondary market for Microsoft games after PlayStation and any console successor they release is going to limp to the starting line. At least the XSX had hype from the Bethesda acquisition and previous Obsidian/Inxile/etc acquisitions

Really we all need a Steam Deck 2 and a stronger Valve produced Strix Halo mini-PC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's looking like the Xbox will stick around as a cheap entry point into Game Pass and the games that Microsoft publishes themselves. Yes, I know, it's not as cheap as it used to be, but still fairly capable for a game machine at that price. The Steam mini PC is likely on its way. A couple of months back, there were leaks of the new Steam controller that leaked on their way to be mass produced after finalizing the design, so they'd probably accompany the living room machine. In the meantime, I have a mini PC running Bazzite that's been awesome, but with tariffs in the US, you won't be able to get the same performance per dollar that I got.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Xbox will stick around as a cheap entry point into Game Pass

Not after these price increases

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As we are all switching from Windows to Linux, I’m actually surprised Microsoft is doing this. I guess they really don’t want to be competitive in the consumer market anymore. I guess they are making enough money through military contracts now that they don’t need to cater to us.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We all? I mean, I have, but we represent single digit percentages of the market, which is why they keep shoving more bullshit into Windows that no one wants, because hardly anyone leaves Windows. The most that this affects Linux gamers is if you like their controllers or individual games that they publish, but that would be the same as on Windows as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We all, all of me. I don't have to care about what others are buying, because Steam and Linux is an amazing gaming experience and they're the ones missing out. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But your entire point was based on the idea that people are switching to Linux in droves...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That was somebody else's point. I just chimed in with my own take. :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Haha my bad! I'm usually good at looking for usernames, but I definitely didn't look this time. Carry on, my bad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Truth. I swapped my laptop to linux a couple weeks ago, and then my ROG Ally, and next I'm putting linux on my gaming desktop. Just trying to decide on a distro for that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

On my laptop I switched from Debian to Fedora and that had a distinct impact on gaming performance, though I think it had more to do with how I had it set up previously. For instance I used full disk encryption for Debian, but skipped that on Fedora, because it does seem to impact games noticeably.

But it also might be because Fedora is more bleeding edge, so the OS itself might actually play a role here.

On my desktop I've been running Bazzite and that's been pretty great so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I have fedora on my laptop, and it seems to game fine. I do have full disk encryption on. Maybe if I turn that off I'll get even better performance? I have Bazzite on the ROG ally and that is doing really good. I'm thinking about putting fedora on the desktop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The last three games I paid for were Minecraft, Factorio and Dwarf Fortress (pre-Kitfox).

I haven't needed a new one since that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Oh no.

Anyway.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

Even though I stopped buying new games on Xbox for sometime now, numerous reasons to boycott Microsoft I'm sure you have yours too. There is still probably another Xbox console or two in my life due to the over 300 game digital library I have accumulated over three generations due to Xbox Live Gold and Microsoft Rewards.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I still use my Xbox One to play some Battlefield games. But I'm never buying a new console ever again. Fuck Microsfot. Fuck Sony. And you know what Nintendo fuck you too. Price gouging, greedy fucks the lot of them. PC+emulators is now the way to go, fuck all these greedy companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Wait till you find out about Nvidia and AMD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately greed is rampant in the PC market, too.

load more comments
view more: next ›