 Hey everyone, before I get into this video, I want to announce, just right out here at the front, that if we get to 50,000 subscribers before the launch of the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5, I will be giving away one of those next generation consoles and or a Nintendo Switch to one lucky winner. It'll be their choice if we happen to not be able to get you one around launch time because obviously there could be limited stock and pre-orders aren't even up in general. I will get you a gift card to your favorite retailer that you prefer to buy it from if that is something you would rather have instead or obviously we will wait until they come back in stock and then I'll get one shipped to your house right now. The giveaway is limited to the North America region however I am considering opening it up worldwide but right now the giveaways not actually occurring because we have to hit 50,000 subscribers. I made this mistake before we're not gonna start the giveaway yet. This is a if we hit 50k before basically November we will do the giveaway then. That being said, throwing that aside, there is a new giveaway heading into the month of August. You need to subscribe to the channel, hit the bell icon, comment down below and like this video to enter that giveaway and that giveaway is for Final Fantasy, Crystal, Chronicles, Remastered Edition. You could pick a PlayStation 4 version or a Switch version if you like and those are the two systems that's coming to and hey let's get into this news which actually deals with Xbox because Xbox is doing something really cool. According to Jeff Grubb, they're getting rid of the subscription fee on Xbox Live Gold. You'll be able to play online multiplayer for free. Now this could be because they're pushing Game Pass and they might have another subscription fee for say their xCloud service so Microsoft might see the subscription fee stacks getting a little tall. You're asking a little much of consumers and they want to push more towards the Game Pass slash you know cloud gaming subscription model and get away from that and it's interesting because obviously we as far as we're aware Sony is not dropping the subscription fee for the PlayStation Network. In fact they don't seem to have plans for an xCloud like service or a Game Pass like service. You know Nintendo just started charging for online with the Switch and now here we have Microsoft the company that started all of this online subscription fees to play online multiplayer games taking it away. Now this is according to Jeff Grubb who has been an industry insider for quite some time with Microsoft and when he says things like this they basically always happen and this could be one of the big announcements that Microsoft might have coming in supposed events happening in August because Phil Spencer mentioned they have a couple events for the Xbox Series X happening in August. We don't know the exact dates of it yet but pretty crazy that this is happening but to be honest this is like the latest in a long string of moves that has happened since Phil Spencer took over as extremely pro consumer and I feel like because you know Halo Infinite didn't look the the best visually and had a lot of pop in and and there's just been kind of this focus on Halo Infinite and all that even though 343 did respond with actually a really nice response and I plan to get into that maybe a little bit here later today but I want to focus on the fact that because of stuff like that and people having console bias or just preferring a switch or preferring a PlayStation we're ignoring that Microsoft has been doing the most pro consumer moves of the three major platform holders and I want to give credit to reset era user Montrecer for kind of bringing this all to light but let's take a look at their posts that combines all the things that they have done that's extremely pro consumer and Microsoft should get a lot more credit for and maybe even a lot more sales because of with the Series X so let's check this out so in 2018 I was really impressed with the pro consumer moves Microsoft had made since the launch of the Xbox one so much so that I made the following thread okay with the rumored news Microsoft will no longer have an Xbox live gold paywall again we just talked about that and then Microsoft is continuing their aggressive moves towards offering a more inclusive pro consumer product to its consumers break it down the list of pro consumer moves looks like this one open to cross play across all platforms whether it's steam windows 10 Xbox Android iOS switch and PlayStation 4 they've been completely open to it the whole time to allows steam like refunds for any game you've played less than two hours and owned for less than 14 days you may remove this from the list as I can't remember if this is still active this was something they had going on I'm again I I don't I I don't know if they still do this because I've never actually requested a refund but they were allowing that at one point so I don't know maybe one of you guys let me know if they're still doing that number three supports backward compatibility for 360 and original Xbox games on the Xbox Series X supports X enhancements for backwards compatible games both 360 and original Xbox so basically there could be free packs released free enhancement packs for 360 and Xbox games coming out on the Xbox Series X to make them look even better in 4k and all that jazz absolutely free they're not charging for that any backwards compatibility game that you already own digitally or on disc works without paying extra right you don't have to buy the game again right you don't have to buy the PlayStation 5 version of the game or the Xbox Series X version of the game in this case you could just use the old games and get whatever current upgrades exist for those games Microsoft shows us they won't hold back a backwards compatible title just because it has a remaster so the halo games are backwards compatible even though the master chief collection exists gears one is backward compatible even though the gears ultimate remaster exist etc so you can play the original games on Xbox Series X and the remastered versions not just forcing people to use the ones that might be have been modified from the original if you prefer the original great news for people who own an Xbox Series X multiple available subscription options so they have allowed EA access as an example EA access is basically like game pass for EA games and it's honestly if you love EA games there's almost no reason not to have EA access plus you get all the demos and early access to games and all that EA access is a nice program and PlayStation for some reason won't let it be on their platform don't know why it obviously know about game pass what game passes literally the greatest like I don't know it's one of the greatest things in gaming if we're completely honest like one of the best budget oriented gamer friendly models and we now know that Microsoft isn't even making money off it so like it's very pro consumer what they're doing game pass all of the first party titles are there on launch day and date with game pass a game pass subscribers are being held back from people that go out and buy physically day one all with a few exceptions I believe of the first party titles have free cross play with Windows 10 obviously the games around Windows 10 have cross play free for free no no extra subscription fee for that although they made new first party investments and it's expected the vast majority of their titles will be exclusive to Xbox Windows 10 they occasionally have their own first party published games releasing on steam or a killer instinct and said they also had already come to switch Cuphead is was exclusive in his own switch and PlayStation 4 so they're more open to letting their games get in front of more eyeballs not maybe not their big triple a stuff but very interesting related to the above point they didn't try to force gearbox to cut PlayStation 4 out of the we happy few release game made by one of their new first party devs compulsion games and they allowed Ninja Theory to complete a PlayStation 4 HDR patch for Hellblade and they continue to release Minecraft on all consoles again this is all stuff Microsoft doesn't have to do they own all this stuff they could just make it all exclusive and they're like no finish it up like we want it's it's pro consumer for you to finish up the stuff you were already doing and to keep Minecraft across platform game and not exclusive to Windows and and and Microsoft plus obviously they make a lot of money doing this some of this is obviously for monetary reasons leaving Minecraft on everything is beneficial to Microsoft to however it would be beneficial to force people to buy Microsoft systems so very interesting move on their part they offer free cloud saves not part of the subscription service not part of Xbox Live Gold you just get it for free Nintendo charges for it PlayStation charges for it Microsoft does not 100% free cloud save created the adaptive controller which is widely recognized as the king of accessibility controllers for those don't know what the adaptive controller is that is basically controller for handicap people with various attachments it can get a little pricey at times but it's nice that there's an actual option out there and reviews of the adaptive controller are like way sky high like it is truly a nice piece of technology for people who are disabled in various different ways to enjoy video games and in the rumor mill this is all rumored stuff that isn't fully announced or announced at all rumored to be providing full backwards compatibility support for Xbox one era with their next gen console so PlayStation five is only it has said a lot of the games from PlayStation four backwards compatible but not all of them suppose the Xbox series X will be backwards compatible with every Xbox one game rumored to be giving non 4k TV owners the chance to buy a cheaper 1080p version of the series X I don't know if that's a series S or what that is but it's a rumor out there that basically if you don't need the power to push 4k you can still get the same visuals fidelity but get it on 1080p screen again Xbox series X I Xbox series S I believe is the one they're talking about there it's rumored that xCloud will be included with Game Pass Ultimate so basically you can have Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate and if you get the ultimate subscription which is a little bit more expensive you get xCloud service included with it which will allow people to play Xbox games for anywhere tablet PC phone etc any supported platform they would like to see PlayStation and switch supported as well right now that's not in the cards but they would like to see that happen and obviously we'll have free online multiplayer soon if the rumors are to be believed as you can see this is all crazy good news for consumers Microsoft you know all three of these companies let's not kid ourselves Microsoft Sony and Nintendo they exist to make money they're they're for profit entities everything they do even if it seems to be a pro consumer is with the eye and the prize of making more money long haul they lose money on Game Pass now hoping to have enough subscribers down the line to be like Netflix and just dominate and they make so much money that it ends up not mattering and the and the losing money now is a long term investment gain and that's fine but it's interesting that like Microsoft is just hitting the ground running with all of these pro consumer moves and it's really credit to Phil Spencer because this all started with Phil Spencer because they entered this generation anti-consumer mixed messaging on the Xbox one not launching the Xbox one without connect even though connect wasn't in high demand which led to the console being $100 more expensive than the PlayStation 4 like mixed messaging on is this a multimedia box or is it a video game box that has multimedia functionality like it's fine to have multimedia functionality but why are you focusing on that when you're launching a video game console everyone's got Roku's or other things smart TVs to handle multimedia multimedia should be a secondary feature not a primary one but they treated it like it was this big deal that you could watch live sports through your Xbox like okay cool that's cool I use the TV pastor on the Xbox one but I okay it's not really why you buy one right so I think that there is just a lot of things that they messed up with Xbox one but then Phil Spencer took over and from that point forward it's been pro consumer move after pro consumer move after pro consumer move and apparently the biggest pro consumer move of all right now getting rid of the subscription model for online multiplayer that they started getting back to the PC early console routes were online was free and thank God for that I am so happy that Microsoft is doing this and I know that it might come across as a Microsoft shield but I think this is like an example setter I hope this is a trend setter they set the trend to charge for it now they're getting rid of it I hope that's that Sony's paying attention here and if this is officially announced and confirmed in one of these August events that Sony comes on like hey we're gonna drop our subscription fee too of course Sony's probably not going to do that because right now they don't have any other subscription fee service out there that's worth a damn to try to make money off of they make their subscription money off of the PlayStation Network stuff whereas Xbox has gained past them you know with 10 million plus subscribers already they're hoping to gain even more subscribers of xCloud so like Microsoft is going all in with their consumer friendly services that ultimately lead to higher profitability in the end if they can get enough consumers partaking in it versus what obviously the old model was which is they wanted a recurring revenue stream through charging for online multiplayer now they're done with that though I done with that I don't know what that means for the games of gold service they're probably going to do away with that I assume because they put all these games on Game Pass now they don't really need to do the games of gold they could just everything could just be a Game Pass so yeah I'm pretty stoked in general that Microsoft is doing this and this is kind of like a shots fired kind of thing like yet we might not have the price of the Xbox Series X or the PlayStation 5 yet but Microsoft is like throwing another it looked like hey Halo Infinite yeah we hear you all the stuff I know it's kind of controversial but hey guess what bam bam free online like it's a big move is it going to be the kind of move that's going to make Xbox Series X sell more than the PlayStation 5 probably not because Sony's got a wider worldwide market popularity with their platforms so does Nintendo but but this could this get them back to like Xbox 360 levels where they're selling 60 70 80 million units of Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S I think that's actually attainable if they keep this up and if this doesn't work if we live in a world where pro consumer moves and release in a bunch of quality games because remember they bought all these studios out to get more and more high quality semi exclusive games between Windows and Xbox like if this doesn't work out for them then what does that say for consumers where we're always asking these companies to do things to make games better like we like for years and years and years Microsoft was criticized for a lack of exclusive system games and so they went on to bought a bunch of high quality studios and we've already seen some fruits of the labor in the most recent Xbox showcase like if we're not willing to reward a company for listening to consumers and making all these pro consumer moves of Game Pass and xCloud which we presume xCloud will be pretty pro consumer at least better than what we got from Google Stadia and then obviously you know listening to consumers where we don't want to pay for online like it's ridiculous that us that already pay for online like internet services that we have to also pay to access the internet again just to play games online like they're listening now with that and getting rid of that like Microsoft should be rewarded in my opinion with our money um you know that doesn't mean don't buy a PlayStation 5 I'm just saying that like Microsoft is doing everything they can to build consumer trust and if they can't gain consumer trust by making pro consumer moves then what does that say about us as consumers um and maybe our inability to get away from brand loyalty at times that being said I do plan to own an Xbox Series X and a PlayStation 5 on launch day plus give one away so you guys know what's up with that unless people decide they want to switch instead of course that's always an option better on my pocketbook too but I am more than willing to get a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X or a gift card for one auto winner if we hit 50,000 subscribers again the giveaway has not started there's no way to enter right now this is a hey if we hit 50k that's our big celebration giveaway and god knows you know if we hit 100k you know what I give away like three of them four of them that would be nuts I will say we hit 100k there'll be something special going on but I think you guys were for tuning in I appreciate all of you hope you enjoyed this video uh kudos to Microsoft for what you're doing and we'll catch all of you guys in the next video