Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "XBOX GAMES SHOWCASE 2024: EVERY ANNOUNCEMENT AND REVEAL"

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticNotorious Mass Effect - Segment: Xbox Games Showcase 2024 BreakdownCalling all Xbox enthusiasts! This segment dives into the recent Xbox Games Showcase, unpacking major announcements, key trends, and industry insights.A Feast for Gamers:Brace yourselves for a barrage of exciting titles! We explore upcoming releases like the medieval gorefest Doom: The Dark Ages, the heart-pounding State of Decay 3, and the highly anticipated Dragon Age: The Veilguard.Calling all space explorers! Starfield expands with its first major DLC, Shattered Space, offering fresh adventures.Prepare to delve into the mystical with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and the magical swamp combat of South of Midnight. Both arrive on Game Pass in 2025!Konami brings back a legend with new clips of the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater remake.Agent Dark takes center stage in the extended gameplay reveal of the Perfect Dark reboot, available day one on Game Pass.Fable unveils its magical world and characters in its first gameplay footage, slated for a 2025 release on Game Pass.Max Caulfield returns in a parallel universe in Life is Strange: Double Exposure, launching this October.Gear up for adventure! Indiana Jones and the Great Circle takes you on a cinematic journey through the Himalayas, arriving later this year.Beyond the Games: Industry TrendsGame Pass Takes Center Stage: The majority of showcased titles will be available day-one on Xbox Game Pass, including heavy hitters like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.Hardware Refresh: New disc-less Xbox Series X and S consoles are on the horizon, including a special edition with a whopping 2 terabytes of storage.Subscription Service Push: Microsoft prioritizes Game Pass subscriptions to attract new users, potentially impacting full-game sales.The Gaming Landscape: Challenges and ResponsesEconomic Pressures: The gaming industry faces economic headwinds, with layoffs and studio closures becoming a concern.Xbox Responds: Microsoft doubles down on Game Pass, aiming to boost subscriptions while facing pressure to increase hardware sales.Developer Perspectives: Call of Duty developers express excitement about Game Pass accessibility, focusing on welcoming new players. Blizzard emphasizes long-term engagement with content roadmaps for games like Diablo IV.Fan Reception: A Mixed BagHalo Fans Left Wanting: The absence of new Halo announcements sparked speculation about the franchise's future.Overall Positive Buzz: Despite the Halo situation, the showcase received positive feedback for its diverse and high-quality game offerings.Tune in for more in-depth analysis! This segment provided a glimpse into the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, highlighting upcoming titles, industry trends, and developer perspectives. With the future of gaming evolving, Notorious Mass Effect will keep you informed!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Isn't it? Yes. I'll have what I'm having what I'm having. I ain't a lot. This video pretty funny. It's so good. All right, ladies and gentlemen, so of course if you was watching a video along with the audio, analytic dreams on Spotify, you will see that it is an accurate representation of how

Xbox Game Pass subscribers are feeling because at this point, you know, I'm not a financial advisor, but what I would say for future plans of your portfolio, investing into the Xbox Game Pass would probably be considered a smart investment. Because let me tell you something. Not only, and not only do you get a plethora of AAA games. Because, you know, sometimes, seeing is believing. And throughout all the rumors, Xbox kept it close to the vest. And guess what?

Another one. Call of Duty Blackop 6. Indiana Jones the Great Circle Another one Gears of War Ede Another One Doom the Dark Ages

Another one Wu Kong Perfect Dark Flight Simulator Adam Fall? Hold on now. Babel? All right, y'all get the point, right? Having an Xbox game pass at this point is beyond a smart investment.

Because I don't know if y'all know, but Xbox went through a lot to even have Call of Duty available on a Game Pass. I mean, the Federal Trade Commission themselves went after Xbox, aka Microsoft, and told them that they were acquiring Activision Blizzard simply to make Call of Duty exclusive

on the Xbox. That was the biggest assumption when we're talking about how and what Microsoft would do when they acquired Activision Blizzard. But of course

there wasn't any real evidence because at the end of the day the judge ruled in favor of Microsoft basically throwing away the FTC's injunction request the verdict was announced on July 11th 2023 and then the Activision Blizzard acquisition went through and now in today's age ladies and gentlemen call of duty is available on the game pass I mean talk about flipping the sentiment that all Xbox games are coming to the P to the PlayStation

Phil Spencer basically said yes our Xbox games are indeed coming to the PlayStation but y'all get it for $70 everybody else who owns the game pass is it for free just and gentlemen let's look up how much it costs to subscribe Xbox Game Pass. Put this in perspective. Mind you, one individual game on PlayStation would be $70. Xbox subscription costs $9.99 a month,

while all inclusive Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is priced at $16.99 per month. So of course, those are the two trials as far as, Those are the two memberships when subscribing to Xbox Game Pass. So if you do the math, which, you know, it's pretty easy nowadays to do the math on that. $120 yearly. And let's just say you wanted to play Call a Duty and you wanted to play Doom the Dark Ages. Well, guess what?

You're already at $140. And then let's just say you also wanted to play Gears of War. Well now you don't surpass $210. Remind you, I am a PS5 owner. So I have no horse in a race. I just acknowledge great business practices when I see it. Because as a gamer, we should champion a company giving us value for our dollar. Because at the end of the day, competition is.

what makes these companies go out and do things like this because if they was the only console on the market best believe they wouldn't be so generous with giving you so much value for your dollar so anyways as you could probably tell the xbox game showcase uh happened just uh not too long ago as major titles were released uh day one uh as far as the showcase and that others as far as the major titles were revealed to come soon like black ops said to come out October obviously there's a lot of other games revealed to come out even sooner but the biggest deal with that was the Xbox game pass and all of its glory because even with navidia app the navidia app you can have access to three months of PC game pass because if you don't know game pass is also on

PC so let me put that up on the screen right now so basically right here as you can see create a navidia account once again analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio create an in navidia account if you created a account previously head here and check your enrolled in gforce rewards download and install hold up this is the original tweet by the way if you want to go look it up is uh warlo 64 on twitter yeah i guess uh yeah he has the actual link so anyways download and install gforce experience or nevidia app beta or alternatively access gforce now rewards and follow the steps listed at the link open either gforce experience or the Navidia app with a G4s GtX 10 series or newer desktop PC or laptop.

Log in to your Navidia account with your chosen app. Click on the Redeem section. Select the PC game pass. GForce reward starting June 4th at 6am, which of course is already passed. So it's available to do now. basically just follow the on-screen instructions. But I just wanted to read that off for people who is only listening audio-wise. So anyways, the biggest thing with the Game Pass is majority of the titles featured during the showcase

are going to be released day one on the Game Pass. That obviously is 999 a month. So if you just want to play a game maybe for two months, I mean, come on now. $20 a month. I mean, $20 for the price of, a $70 game. I mean, come on, you can't really beat that. I mean, I don't know how long it takes you all to beat games,

but I would assume you could beat majority games in like two months. Also, as far as hardware being addressed in the showcase, they announced a new disc-less Xbox Series X and S consoles with a special edition with two terabytes of storage. And I'm laughing because I saw somebody comment because I, you know, I watched the show and I watch all these shows. But somebody was commenting, this is the call of duty console. Because you know, the whole rumor about Blackouts being 300 gigabytes, which is not true, by the way. But, you know, of course, I still don't put it, you know, I don't put to the side that call of duty could be beyond expansive as far as taking up a lot of storage in your hard drive.

So a lot of people is calling the two terabytes console, uh, a collar duty. console which honestly you know what kendricks say let me put y'all on game you know this is terabyte i forget what it's called uh let me see external storage device for uh let's just do xbox because i have one in my ps5 but i want to do one for xbox it called because this is a specific one i want to recommend i don't want to recommend any bad ones i want to recommend the one i've been using like a personally you know attest to it so um yeah here it is okay so the wd black c s 50 is an expansion card that basically gives you more storage in your console and the reason why i'm highlighting this is simply for the fact that these hard drives i believe are not as expensive as just going out

and buying a new console so if you want to get let's see if you wanted to get one of those for your Xbox console it would be about $80 and think about it a whole console for $400 or just get an external hard drive for like $80 I mean you do the math so that's why I put that out there because I know some people are like I got to get a a whole new console for more hard drive when in all actuality there's a whole slot sort of like a PC how you can upgrade it There's a whole slot in each and every current gen console because Xbox Series X and PC and PS5 are technically current gen. You know what I mean? I know a lot of people get confused.

But for current gen consoles, there is an extra slot for external hard drive. And it used to be like that for the last additions like PS4, Xbox 1, things of that nature. But a lot of people just aren't aware of it. So anyways, you know, instead of going out and buying a 2 terabytes of, you know, a whole new console. So you can just buy $80 external hard drive. So anyways, as far as the subscription model, heavy emphasis on the game pass, of course, is Xbox. But the basis is centered around attracting more users

despite the decrease in full game sales. Because if you don't know, this is basically the streaming error. We are in the streaming error. And unlike music fans, other fans don't know how to handle this much consumption at a monthly subscription. Music fans, we've been ripping whole albums and singles for free to the point where all artists are upset and angry,

but they can't do anything about it. Now, developers, movie directors, I mean, the whole Scarlett Johansson Disney Plus lawsuit was about the Black Widow movie going to streaming and then not being directly in the contract. So it's one of those things to where we're in the streaming era and people are trying to get their the recoup,

not recoup our investment, but basically they're trying to get their royalties when it comes to streaming. And what you're coming to find out is a lot of companies really don't make a total, a lot of companies don't make a lot from streaming, you know? So I believe streaming is more pro-consumer

than it is pro-company, which is why you see a lot of people coming out and raising the subscription prices because the owner of Gamma subdivision of Universal Music Group gave a perfect analogy. It's like going into Best Buy or going into a music shop paying $9 a month and you have an access to every single album and single in that store. Really never heard of if you think about in the past when it comes to purchasing music, right? You have to pay

$12 to $15 for an album. Nowadays, you pay a subscription, and if you're a student at a college, you get it even more, you get a discount, which makes it even more inexpensive to purchase, and you have access

to entire artist catalog. So, that's why I put it like that, because basically the Xbox game passes in the same sense, the same thing, basically. $9 a month, Or if you want the all-inclusive ultimate tier is $17 a month, which still for a $70 game, if you're playing two or three of them at a time,

I mean, think about it. You're really getting your money's worth. If you're only planning on subscribing for two months, three months, four months, you still get your money's worth. So anyways, so all of the backlash Xbox's face when it came to their games coming to PlayStation, they basically gave the best ether for that. argument because everybody who is talking about Xbox game coming to PlayStation they

would have to pay the full $70 price but Xbox game pass subscribers and I promise you this is not an ad I'm just glad a company is actually giving us value for our dollar because too often companies try to squeeze the life out of you when it comes to your wallet and this is one of the few this is is honestly one of the best game showcases I've ever seen in my life as far as value for your dollar I can't exaggerate the amount of content that you could get just by simply subscribing to the Xbox game pass so it's not an ad it's just I'm a consumer and this is the most pro consumer conference gaming conference I've ever seen like ever so anyways um Xbox players

I definitely got a dub. As far as the totality, Xbox Game Showcase basically doubled down on the Game Pass, announced a plethora of games, you know, with the highlights being Call of Duty, Doom, Diablo, 4, just so many games, right? Just so many games coming to Xbox Game Pass. Beyond positive response to the showcase, I mean, if you're a consumer and don't like the Xbox showcase, then, you know, some might be wrong with you. But anyways, the whole number of just...

upcoming titles on the Xbox game patch is strongly showcases Microsoft's vision and how they want to go about this gaming industry as far despite the challenges they face financially because of COVID because let's not put aside the fact that a lot of studios have been shut down by Xbox I mean the studio of high five rush just announced they're shutting down think about that successful game like high far rush and that on the game pass mind you and they're shutting down so it's not like it's been on all peaches and roses, right? The game pass has had his ups, had his downs. Some would say mostly downs. I mean, if we're talking about Redfall, talking about some of the other titles that came out as far as just being completely garbage and not lending themselves to promoting the game paths

like Xbox slot acquiring these indie studios would. It all led to this. Them finally is coming back with an actual roadmap of the straight bankers. I mean, Doom, Dragon Age, Starfield, the DOC, Shatter Space coming out. It doesn't give a definitive date. It just says launching 2024. Metal Gear Solid. Perfect Dark reboot, Fable, Life is Strange, double exposure, Indiana Jones.

I mean, the list just goes on and on. And obviously, I've already did an entire segment on Call of Duty because that was the biggest. one as far as what they show so i want to take up too much of your time because at the end of the day let me tell you something all of this information given at a showcase i like to condense it and make it concise for people out there busy and not having a lot of time just to you know watch a whole showcase i want to break it down for you and as you'll probably tell this is one of the best showcases i've ever seen like i would advise you to go back and watch it that's how good it is i i never go back and rewatch showcases but xbox it was just like they just it was no talking

it was just it was on site phil spencer went up there talked about you know xbox microsoft for a little bit and destroyed game after game after game after game that's why i played that video at the beginning because it is a great time to be an xbox gamer with that being said click my link tree in my bio let me know one of my social medias what was your favorite game revealed at the xbox game and with all of the games being announced set to come day one on Xbox Game Pass will you be getting an Xbox console if you already have one will you be subscribing to the Game Pass