In a more than upbeat presentation than the "dire" scenarios that many outlets were rumoring, Microsoft Gaming finally came forward about the future of #Xbox and while acknowledging that all the mentioned things in the special Xbox Podcast episode were planned as early in December, it doesn't need to be taken a change of plans at all. Xbox Game Studios will be launching 4 unnamed games for Playstation 5 and Nintendo Switch and it was hinted that 2 of them are more than a year since launched, are community-drive games and no, is not neither Starfield nor Indiana Jones and for now they are not committing on more games. First party Xbox games will be on Game Pass with no End of date, including new launches and actually, new games will be releasing on Day1 and Game Pass is an Xbox service exclusively. Activision Blizzard King Games will be coming to Game Pass starting with Diablo IV on March 28th. Phil Spencer interestingly acknowledged that there is an importance of exclusive games for platforms, that includes Xbox, but he foresee that the strategy will be small part for the industry in between the next 5 to 10 years. Regardless of that, Xbox President Sarah Bond assured that Xbox is not abandoning the hardware business and actually, next-gen Xbox is already in development and we are inbound for some news this Holidays season but, Microsoft Gaming did not acknowledged the future of physical games while addressing Xbox's view on gaming preservation. Tomorrow I will be given my takeaways in a new gaming podcast episode. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

NIS America confirmed that #Ys X Nordics will reach our part of the world in Fall 2024, coming for PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch & PC (Steam, GOG & Epic Games Store) Chronologically, the events of Ys X occurs between II & Memories of Celceta. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Nintendo announced that #NintendoSwitch have surpassed the 139.36 million unit sold and overtaking DS family as the best-selling video game system of all time in Japan. During their quarterly conference with investor, Nintendo claims that Switch will be main business for 2024 & didn't mention anything about its successor, slated to be released this year and reportedly, key partners are already developing games with dev kits. During the three months until December 31, Nintendo reported an operating profit of ¥184 billion yen, slightly down on the same period last year but still, went better than analyst expected. Analyst are impressed on how Nintendo have a steady business with an aged Nintendo Switch ecosystem & limited hardware compared to PC and gaming consoles, all this without major price cuts. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

My bad for the late party entrance, but Nintendo announced late last week that on of the best RPG of the GBA era, #GoldenSun and its sequel The Lost Age are the latest Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion offering! #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Sources at Windows Central claims that a potential release of Hi-Fi Rush to Nintendo Switch is part of a plan by Microsoft to bring many past games outside #Xbox in the future as a semi-new strategy. Since heading to buy Activision Blizzard King, Microsoft has already being doing deals with competitors about still getting the conglomerate's games, as a proof that housing gaming IP is not the real purpose of the purchase. While there aren't many details besides the noise about Hi-Fi Rush port of Nintendo Switch (and maybe Playstation 4/5), since last year it was suggested that a revisit of Banjo Kazooie by Rare is already on schedule. #Gaming #GamingNews

Rumored to be the final full year of #Nintendo Switch, Nintendo reported 334.9 billion of yen in revenue and 1.133 billion of software sales, but overall is a 4% in decline compared to last year. Nintendo still forecast for 15 million Switch sales goal. On the other hand...president Shuntaro Furukawa has denied to investors briefing developers about a Nintendo Switch successor & dismisses multi-screen patent. Probably is a desire to contain the narrative & control the hype until is announcement time. #Gaming #GamingNews

Update 17.0.0 for #Nintendo Switch was deployed without details. Data miner OatmealDome dissected it and revealed to include the latest SDK build, OS rebuild, HOME set of messages update & banned words list update including Japanese slangs for testicles. #Gaming #GamingNews

Just like when a failed redacted document was leaked on the Internet, it seems that the Court of North California District needs to have double-check on their office clerks. Because there was a massive leaks of findings and evidence regarding #Xbox that were filed during the failed FTC Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft on attempting to buy Activision Blizzaard. The leaked documents highlights all plans that Microsoft have for this decade including a buying spree with names like Nintendo (it will be the 2nd time since late 90's attempt), WB Games, Valve and more. AS for Xbox Hardware, despite Phil Spencer confirming that there will be no mid-gen upgrade, we could see an All-Digital Xbox Series X (no Blu-Ray ROM) by 2025 & new custom Xbox controller in 2024. Microsoft tentatively aims for 2028 to say/launch what's next for Xbox hardware. It will be interesting on the reach that Xbox wants to stretch as there are visions of maybe a proper Nintendo Switch answer for the next main hardware as an "hybrid" computing and also, a Cloud-Ready Xbox console was mentioned. Now that Stadia is out of the picture, Microsoft is already developing Game Pass Cloud Servers upgrades to prepare Xbox as a proper PC gaming streaming and no longer exclusive Xbox Series X environment. Talking about Stadia, Microsoft was wary on chances to compete, but after the first rumors of Immersive Stream, the corporate version of Stadia, was a new priority rather Stadia itself, CEO Satya Nadella asked Xbox team about any opportunities & how they see why Google failed. At the Preliminary Injunction hearing, it was revealed that Microsoft chose NOT to upper up their Cloud Gaming offering & let Stadia take the lead, precisely because Microsoft knew that it will be used against it in case of a massive purchase, like the Activision Blizzard deal. Finally in gaming software related, The Elder Scrolls VI was originally slated for a 2022 release, but Starfield took priority. Before the purchase of ZeniMax Studios and Bethesda, works on the next DOOM game, Dishonored 3 & a Ghostwire Tokyo sequel were in the pipeline. Finally, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout 3 remaster are also in development, meanwhile, it was mentioned that Rockstar Games is working on the next-gen upgrade of Read Dead Redemption 2. There is an expectation that more things will go public in a matter of days. #Gaming #GamingNews

A while ago, #Nintendo submitted a big set of patents locally at Japan that if granted, makes many mechanics of the new Zelda as proprietary. Now it was revealed that Nintendo submitted a new one where details a joystick that contains a ‘magnetorheological fluid’ (MRF), which changes viscosity depending on the intensity of a magnetic field. The move is BIG as one of the negative aspect on the life of the Nintendo Switch was the issue known as "drifting" where a joycon sticks could not maintain its absolute zero position provoking troubles for moments that you need 100% of CONTROL of characters/camera movements. But Nintendo lack of "rush" on solving this situation only limiting to special discounts and a short-lived repair program (legally obligated to add the insult), made the issue almost impossible to solve unless gamers resorted on 3rd parties. I believe this is Nintendo saying "HELL NO BE ON THIS CRAP AGAIN" on the next Nintendo hardware, heavily suggested to be announced on Spring 2024 and launching at the second half of 2024. #gaming #gamingnews

Insiders are doubling down on reports that #Nintendo brought a Nintendo Switch successor prototype at Gamescom 23 & demoed a optimized build of TLOZ: Breath Of The Wild & the Unreal Engine 5 Matrix demo to key partners. We are expecting 2024 to be THE year. #Gaming #GamingNews