The Xbox Drive Episode 172: Our 2021 Xbox Predictions

The Most Horse-Powerful Podcast On The Internet, The Xbox Drive is back with Episode 172. This week Sean played Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Ryan played Final Fantasy VII. 

Cleaning the Garage

We’re still giving away 1 year of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate when we hit 500 YouTube subscribers!

We’ll be live streaming our GOTY show on Friday at 11PM EST on youtube.com/thexboxdrive!!!

Gaming for Guru is happening on January 15th-17th helping to raise money for Bobby The Nintendo Guru. Full schedule will be released soon, see @seancapri on twitter for details in the coming days. To Donate: https://t.co/qn3UjwuuGz?amp=1

Ryan’s live streams return at 8PM EST on Thursday! youtube.com/thexboxdrive

The Playlist

Ryan: Final Fantasy VII

Sean: Ori and the Will of the Wisps

The Carpool 

Blaze Knight @BlazeKnight0923 - Remedy Games posted a tweet today that references Quantum Break and the End of Time...  What do you speculate that means? https://twitter.com/remedygames/status/1346511536643334144?s=20

Brent Robinson @Okotokslawyer - Is Hades coming to GamePass? When?!

Drew MacMillan @dmacmill - We have yet to see anything VR or AR hardware-wise materialize for Xbox platforms. Was VR a flash in the pan and have console manufacturers moved on?

Cruise Control

2021 Predictions

2020 Results:

Sean:

Apex Legends will go cross platform on February 4th, 2020. While Crossplay did come to Apex Legends in 2020, it wasn’t until October 6th, 2020. 0.5 points awarded

The Xbox Series X will launch at 549.99 USD and will launch on October 10th, 2020. The Xbox Series X launched worldwide on November 10th, at 499.99. 0 points awarded

The next generation of games will be the same across Xbox One and Xbox Series X and the first 6 months of games will be cross-gen. Correct! Smart Delivery is the roundabout thing that Sean was trying to describe when predicting this! 1 point awarded

The future expansions of Destiny 2 are coming day and date to Xbox Game Pass! Correct! Starting with Destiny 2 Beyond Light, new expansions for Destiny will be day and date on Game Pass! 1 point awarded

Ryan:

The Xbox Series X will launch in North America on November 17th at 499.99 as a single SKU, though a second SKU will be announced. The Xbox Series X launched worldwide on November 10th, at 499.99 but we also got the Xbox Series S at 299.99 the same day. 0.25 points awarded

Perfect Dark is getting a reboot and will launch with the console or the release win