Who would have ever thought we’d come this far in the gaming industry? No longer is the artform something for kids only. No, gaming has extented its reach and come E3, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are planning to take the revolution even further.
But Microsoft’s plans are more ambitious than Sony and Nintendo’s combined in the motion sensing department. In fact the software giant is planning something so big, so great, that it’s hired one of the most popular networks, MTV, to witness the Project Natal experience live.
And what’s this “The Lo” that’s getting Matt Singley, Sr. Dir. of Social Media Strategy for the Xbox and Zune divisions so excited about?
WolfEye Studios boss and Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio understandably remains frustrated by Microsoft's decision to kill off Arkane Austin earlier this year.
Well.. they did make Red Fall and release it in such a state. The backlash Xbox received was mostly for Tango Game works.
to be very fair tho, Redfall wasnt all that good and didnt sell all too well either.
Call of Duty’s development process will stay the same under Microsoft’s ownership, with no planned changes to its structure.
Now EA's following suit as well in order to compete with this CoD of a juggernaut sort of head 2 head ...
i.e employing 4+ studios for the next Battlefield game.
DICE for multiplayer, Criterion Games for single player/MP, Motive for single player, Ripple Effect for a "new experience".
Respect to Phil Spencer, it's because of his direct influence that Rossi was introduced.
And here I am just asking for a new Soldier of Fortune or Heretic ... but guess CoD even engulfed a whole studio for just gun trinkets
Thats... a lot of teams. That's why it's so hard to compete with COD. It's also why PlayStation is so vital to Xbox now. That's a lot of people who need to be paid.
Playstation is just another revenue stream out of many. They´re important of course, but I think PC, Mobile, and Cloud are even more important.
i´m also curious to see how COD will perform on Nintendo Switch 2 after all those years that ABK has been snubbing them. Thanks to Xbox they´ll finally be able to play those games again.
Right Switch 2 (one assumes that COD really isn't going to run on Switch) when it launches will take a few years to build up a sizable audience. One imagines that that can help offset some of the sales lost on Xbox. But as you probably already know, PlayStation has been the biggest platform for COD sales by quite a margin for quite a while. Its not 'just another revenue stream'... its THE revenue stream (as far as Call of Duty). I really wouldn't expect that to change anythime soon. Also, remember when it comes to COD we are counting PS4 and PS5.
As far as Switch goes, the only way in hell I'm gonna even try to play it there is on one of the Pro controllers. The idea of trying to use the joy cons or the handheld itself is already making my hand hurt.
15 studios is A LOT. That’s honestly insane. I thought 3 or 4 was kind of crazy but I suppose it took 3 years for 4 or 5 of studios to make the last one and if they’re coming out yearly still then maybe it’s still just 5 studios per release. I’d imagine 15 studios managing one single game would be far too complicated with way too many cooks.
Could be a good opportunity maybe for EA and SIE to start a collaboration with Battlefield.
Replies(1)Sony couldve created there own with socom but there on a live service Bump crash then bump again.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood had records to boast for the gaming business and Game Pass.
YES!!!
"We set new records for monthly active users in the quarter as more players than ever play our games across devices and on the Xbox platform. Game Pass also set a new Q1 record for total revenue and average revenue per subscriber and as we look ahead, our IP across our Studios has never been stronger.”"
Gamepass is the GOAT!!!
“Last week’s launch of Black Ops 6 was the biggest Call of Duty release ever setting a record for day one players as well as Game Pass subscriber adds on launch day, and unit sales on PlayStation and Steam were also up over 60% year-over-year."
Gamepass didn´t stop COD from continue to be a sales juggernaut across all platforms worldwide!
I can see even more new games coming day on Gamepass as it continues to grow seeing a huge influx of new subscribers, paying for Ultimate to get access to day one games.
Let´s Go!!!
*** Gamepass didn´t stop COD from continue to be a sales juggernaut across all platforms worldwide! ***
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The only thing CoD did outside of the norm is prop up gamepass. It can't do that forever, though.
*yawn* same story from MS and their ring kissing fan club every year, same stagnation being masked by price hikes to increase reported revenue and all at the expense of their console sales and dwindling presence in stores. More proof they only care about becoming a boring monthly service and giving up on driving technology in the gaming space forward. Thats a loss of all of us as gamers. I hope that cheap sub was worth giving up what made XBOX great in the beginning.
"as more players than ever play our games across devices and on the Xbox platform."
To be honest, fair & humble: this wasn't really hard to achieve in the first place though. If you care for context.
But good for them.
Boom for GP is always good. Hopefully Stalker 2 and Indy continue the momentum this holiday and continue it next year with Doom, Avowed and Fable.
'Game Pass also set a new Q1 record for total revenue and average revenue per subscriber'
That literally just means 'we put subscription prices up'
They need to be growing the base, as you can only milk the current base so much.
Microsoft might be shooting way to high here with all this Natal stuff. I'm telling you this might fail, and fail hard.
Take into account that the Zune has been a complete failure.
Lost?
tlo?
The Lord of the Rings?
Shawty Lo??? (look him up) lol