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[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Hunter 🎮 @NextGenPlayer]

Xbox exec Matthew Ball says hardware pricing boom represents "great" opportunity to transition gamers to xCloud streaming

He also says in-game ads could help "keep our products affordable”

▶️ https://t.co/Rcc2z8Yfiy

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@Arlan360oficial

[Hunter 🎮 @NextGenPlayer]

Xbox exec Matthew Ball says hardware pricing boom represents "great" opportunity to transition gamers to xCloud streaming

He also says in-game ads could help "keep our products affordable”

▶️ https://t.co/Rcc2z8Yfiy

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Shinobi602 @shinobi602]

Xbox is floating the idea of in-game ads, noting that may have potential to "keep our products affordable".

Goal is to ensure they can 'continue to fund outstanding work' from dev teams

More ➡️ https://t.co/qjbnG8m2kt

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Idle Sloth @IdleSloth84_]

Blood Message - 19 Minutes Gameplay Walkthrough | The Letter

Coming to XBOX Series X|S, PS5, and PC – TBA

https://t.co/zQB9heqVCZ

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Hunter 🎮 @NextGenPlayer]

Phantom Blade Zero dev isn’t afraid to launch near GTA 6 at all

“We don't even think of the competition”

“What matters is how polished the game is”

▶️ https://t.co/C6k9XqOuSS

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@KAKAROTBCN

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

in the recent Halo: Campaign Evolved preview, Halo Studios accidentally left some unfinished cinematics in the PC build. I’m not going to spoil any of them, but Halo fans are really gonna love one in particular 🙏

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@KAKAROTBCN

[Hunter 🎮 @NextGenPlayer]

"It has become difficult to articulate why you should pick an Xbox console"

- Xbox CSO Matthew Ball

▶️ https://t.co/PhXo119AvQ

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Hunter 🎮 @NextGenPlayer]

"It has become difficult to articulate why you should pick an Xbox console"

- Xbox CSO Matthew Ball

▶️ https://t.co/PhXo119AvQ

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@KAKAROTBCN

[Idle Sloth @IdleSloth84_]

🧢 XBOX FILM + TV 🤔

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Idle Sloth @IdleSloth84_]

🧢 XBOX FILM + TV 🤔

[DARKO360 @darko3601]

⚠️La CRUDA REALIDAD⚠️ CAP 240 https://t.co/cuHPgD07sC a través de @YouTube

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@KAKAROTBCN

[@Zuby_Tech @Zuby_Tech]

Game File:

"Were you previously making a PlayStation version and then stopped?"

Matt Searcy, The Coalition studio creative director:

"Well, we can't really talk about our development process or our plan."

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[@Zuby_Tech @Zuby_Tech]

Game File:

"Were you previously making a PlayStation version and then stopped?"

Matt Searcy, The Coalition studio creative director:

"Well, we can't really talk about our development process or our plan."

[Bola de Drac ✪ @boladedrac]

Digueu-me que no sóc l’únic boig que, en veure en Gaudí al cel, va pensar en en Son Goku.

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Un Sonyer cualquiera @unsonyer]

Gracias @asha_shar por escuchar a la comunidad xboxer y darles lo que realmente desean!

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo]

Game File: "Were you previously making a PlayStation version and then stopped?”

Matt Searcy, studio creative director: “Well, we can’t really talk about our development process or our plan"

From a presentation I attended about Gears of War E-Day

Item 2: https://t.co/xb1gFFPDyx

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Shinobi602 @shinobi602]

Summer Game Fest 2026 was the most watched SGF in its history, up +23% over 2025

Via @geoffkeighley

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@darko3601

[Rhys Elliott @superhys]

Here's how PlayStation Studios games from the past year have sold on PS5 (@alineaanalytics estimates)

Ghost of Yotei has been a resounding success for Sony since launching exclusively on PS5 back in October. It’s amassed 4.8M copies sold, generated almost $350M in revenue, and is still selling.

For the past fortnight (let’s reclaim that word!), Yotei has had its first PlayStation Store discount (down 29% to $49.69), and we’ve seen a clear bump since. In those two weeks, Yotei shifted an extra 250K copies. Players are sinking their teeth in, too. Average playtime overall is 47.7 hours (median 45.5), and around 7% of players have logged more than 100 hours. Fair play.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has now sold 1.7M copies on PS5, amounting to gross revenue of $116M. Decent result, but you’ve got to imagine Sony and Kojima wanted a bit more.

A wrinkle is that two weeks after the Steam port in March (9 months after PS5), DS2 sold 70K copies on PS5, its best two-week stretch since launch on Sony’s platform. There was a price drop to $50, but this was the third time it had hit that price, so the cross-platform marketing was doing work of its own. We saw the same effect with Stellar Blade on PS5 last year when its Steam version landed, and there, no discount was involved.

MLB The Show 26 has sold 745K on PS5, generating over $50M, with almost 95% of its audience in North America. Over 30% of MLB players have logged 100-plus hours, and the game has held PS5 daily actives of around 500K since launch.

So MLB is sticky with high engagement, but MLB The Show 26 is selling slower on PS5 than last year’s edition, which had moved roughly 1.2M copies by this point. Whether that’s because Americans are eyeing up the FIFA World Cup or something else remains to be seen. Either way, a loyal base that’s quietly shrinking is worth watching (unlike baseball, in my humble Welsh opinion).

Saros has sold 406K on PS5, generating $30M. It’s a fantastic game with a committed niche audience (including myself!) But if Saros doesn’t get a PC port, it likely won’t break even.

Sony will eventually claw back revenue and value through PS Store discounts and an inevitable PS Plus stint. But if revenue was the priority here, this banger of a game hasn’t succeeded. The Steam-port question hangs over Saros, with a lot at stake given recent studio closures.

Marathon has now sold 347K on PS5, with around 75K of those arriving after the free week timed to the Season 2 launch. That’s a decent sign, but the not enough the move the needle.

Of those who played Marathon on PS5 this month, almost 12% also played Destiny 2 on PS5, no surprise given Bungie dropped Destiny 2’s final content update two days ago. We’ve got a bigger Bungie/Marathon/Destiny piece coming next week, so subscribe to the newsletter (link in bio) to get that ASAP.

God of War Sons of Sparta has sold 132K copies (almost $4M). A tidy result for a shadow-dropped Metroidvania spin-off that mostly underwhelmed critics but has earned a small band of defenders.

Most Sons of Sparta players have, predictably, played 2018’s God of War and Ragnarok, but the PS5 hardcore showed up here in a telling way. About 15% of Sons of Sparta players have also played Saros, more than have played Silksong (13%) or Animal Well (9%). In other words, this converted PlayStation and God of War fans more than Metroidvania fans.

More on the free Substack. Link in bio.

[DARKO360 @darko3601]

⚠️23:00⚠️

Volvemos en directo, para ver las piruetas mentales que hacen algunos pazguatos, vendiendo derrotas como victorias
Os espero!

[Markitus @MarkitusBA]

@boladedrac

[Geekdom101 @EmperorBigD]

Unable to touch SS2 Gohan, Cell powers up yet AGAIN (4th time since fighting Goku) and bulks up his strength, making the SAME mistake Trunks made against him; and it fails. Toriyama was genius with this callback. Cell's Vegeta/Freeza cells made him so desperate he did what he knew had flaws.

Gohan continues to wreck him and his body breaks down.

From DBZ #188 OBA CC 1080p SoM x Neo