"Recently, rather infamously, a Microsoft employee took to twitter to vent his frustration at fans who did not like the idea of an ‘always-online’ Xbox 720 console. " | Explosion.com
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
"Hammerwatch II's journey to Xbox has been long and perilous. After first launching on Steam in the fall of 2023, the game finally turned up on PlayStation 5 last December. Since then, Xbox gamers who enjoyed the original Hammerwatch and the sublime Heroes of Hammerwatch have been anxiously awaiting their turn at the long-promised sequel. At last, the wait is nearly over because Hammerwatch II will hit Xbox and PlayStation 4 on April 23," says Co-Optimus.
Joe 'Three Sheets' Neate (Executive Producer): "As I’m sure you can imagine, when it comes to Sea of Thieves my days are full of numbers. Development costs, active servers, days until the next update… Sometimes, though, a truly extraordinary number stands out – a number like 40 million, which I’m incredibly pleased to say is the number of pirates who’ve now set sail in Sea of Thieves!"
Garrr... more people to walk the plank and send to Davey Jones locker.
would have been funny to release this on talk like a pirate day.
40 million have set sail...that's great. How many are sailing now? Monthly active users....when it actually matters. How many people purchased the game is another important number.
You don't get numbers like that from MS mouth pieces, they just like to say stuff like "this game was looked at 129 million time, the biggest amount of people browsing a game of this genre on xbox gamepass ever in the last 3 weeks compared to before gamepass was out (small print only 2 million bothered playing longer than 20 seconds and only 100 people are playing it concurrently)
It's all smoke and mirrors
There are usually around 10,000 concurrent users on Steam not counting Xbox or PS but really it doesn't matter as long as there are enough people on the servers to play which there always were and will be for a long time now with the PS players coming on board. Same goes for how many people bought it and how many are on GP, we aren't the accountants of these console companies so why would we care?
Reporting on MAU stats is very misleading. Other companies publish units sold, MS cannot or will not due to Game Pass. We all know that their prior startegies have not panned out so now they have to actually sell games on other consoles. In any case, SoT is doing impressive preorders on PS5 and will very likely motivate Satya to release more games other than the four indicated games on their competitor's consoles. Take note Phil is radio silent....
40 Mil across Stream, Windows 10, and Xbox. Healthy numbers for sure, but when PC is the biggest platform, I expected more. It’ll be interesting to see how it does on PlayStation. Very well could be double that player count in 6 months with PS too. It’s crazy for developers to skip the most popular platform, not sure why they’d want to, but they must have had their rea$ons.
what's done is done. All there is left if for them to finally announce the console and clarify things if there's anything to be clarified.
All will be forgiven if they show great games coming out for the system.
People wont remember this after they announce the next console and it isn't DRM, because there wont be anything to remember.
I think the fact that everyone is talking up the next Xbox is a great thing for Microsoft, that just means everyone and their mother will be watching the Microsoft reveal when they finally decide to do one.
This isn't doing anything but hurting Sony's hype and helping MSFT bring awareness and anticipation to the 720(good and bad, doesn't matter. Now the Xbox will have more people waiting to see the xbox than ever possible without the rumors. The media will be flooded with whatever MSFT announces.
The xbox brand attacks helped the 360 before it was announced by bringing so much attention to it. Then all MSFT had to do is announce the xbox 360 with features never seen before and after that you couldn't find a 360 to buy until after April the following year, in some places.
I see this backfiring on the trolls feeding this fire hurting Sony in the end.
All this Online nonsense picked back up after the months old rumor about the 720 having two GPU's was brought back into the spotlight after being planted on April 1st to try and discredit the rumor/leak. I mean the next day.
This 720 attention is going to hurt Sony bad after the 720 is announced with different or misunderstood specs.
For all we know what is being talked about, is simply a dev kit feature/security to track all devs with 720 games and hardware if not completely made up. MSFT would have to have a super computer console to overcome the consumers that would be lost because of not having internet.