"A couple of days back, we had published a similar article on the PlayStation 4. So it only made sense to do one on the Xbox 720. In our continuing quest to shed light on the future of gaming, we now turn our sights to the Xbox 720. "
Hate people like you, focus on only the negative. Of course there will be kinect titles on the next-gen system. Did you not see the rest of the list, I am guessing not since you are most likely on here to bash MS anyways.
I do not think there will be a Kinect sports 3 for quite some time, i think rare is done with Kinect sports, they are ready for core games now with Kinect support probably. I can see perfect dark work fine in combination with Kinect.
I can't say they have a lot, but I found their quality to be better. For example, MGS 4 ran amazing, and so did White Knight, along with Folklore, and a bunch of different titles. I think of it like this, as long as pirates don't attack, the exclusives will be better, well I hope so anyway.
Having tons of exclusives is really cool and all but there is no way I would buy all of them. I feel like people who obsess over them never get a multiplat because of all the money they have to dish out to get their half rate exclusives.
Get it for PC No need for a Xbox...Support Remedy and their favorite platform.They did fight like they want to leave hell that they can bring Alan Wake 1 for PC after the 360 version FLOPPED so hard.
Bert, I'm pretty sure it sold more on xbox than it did PC. Although, you peg-legged PC pirates probably held it back from any decent sales to begin with. Tssssssss
Dude, it's not worth it. I mean don't get me wrong, Alan Wake was spectacular in every way. The story, the atmosphere, the use of the flashlight, and the gun, hell it was even scarier than what the Resident Evil franchise has become. However, the thing is that, I'm pretty sure Steam is going to have it, and honestly, most games that are released on Xbox are released on Steam, besides Kinect and Gears apparently, besides Gears 1.
Yea, pretty good lineup there but I think MS will actually have Alan wake 2 for it. I also think there will be other console exclusives like Just Cause 3 too. Rara is sure to have something for it. Their have been rumors of them working on next gen since 2011.
As a consumer I think MS has heard the cries ,whining & concern from fans about lack of exclusives. They just seem to be handling it in a form where it does not cost tons of cash for both the developer & themselves but where it is still profitable for both parties while satisfying the consumer it just happen to be a slow process. Here hoping for a ton of awesome 1st ,2ND party IP & some great 3rd party new IP ,sequels, prequels.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion, they aren't really pumping out many exclusives. Their strategy this generation has been to offer the same games you can find on other platforms with timed DLC.
That wasn't their strategy for the entire generation. The first 5 years MS was super aggressive about exclusives.
Just watch E3 2010 they didn't announce a single new game besides Ryse and the rest was casual stuff.
Isn't it suspicious that MS stop producing a big quanity of hardcore exclusives after the 2010's big line up? And then all of sudden rumors coming out saying MS has been working on next gen titles for the past couple of years?
Or the fact that MS had that timed exclusive DLC to COD for 3 years? 2009 to 2012 with super heavy rumors of MS new console getting released this fall?
I'm not sure how that's sketchy at all, they started this generation by buying 3rd party support to eat away at the PS marketshare. They then offered timed exclusives on games to which consumers got wise about. You didn't need to spend 200-300 dollars on a new console you just had to wait a bit.
This resulted in the HD platforms being split in user base so every intelligent, 3rd party developer that wanted to make HD games made multi-platorm games for the rest of the generation unless they were paid enough money to make up the difference. Microsoft no longer had to buy exclusives because they were already in the door competing and the 3rd parties had to make multi-platform games anyways or they'd be losing out on roughly half their sales.
I'm just saying they didn't need exclusives at the end of the generation because every 3rd party developer was already resolved to make multi-platform games.
They are in the process of making tons of exclusives you only need to look at how many studios they opened the last 2 years they now have more first party studios then Sony.
@Gildarts That really doesn't convince me of anything, I've been a gamer for many years and I've seen many of my favorite studios get bought out by MS only to never see the games they use to produce ever again. Hearing that they opened some studios with unproven track records doesn't really guarantee anything good will come out of them.
They have to have the studios first to have 1st party exclusives. That's the problem. They have the handful of regulars like Halo and Forsake, and Gears if you include close relationship devs. They got away with times exclusives a lot earlier on this generation, but that well dried up industry wide. 3rd party developers need to make money too. This is why it concerns me what Microsoft will do moving forward. The multimedia box strategy doesn't do anything for me.
Dude do you do any research at all? cause if you did you would know that Microsoft has a shit load of studios that we haven't even see the first game from, Sony is the one that needs more studios they are closing doors left and right. Microsoft has the back catalog and studios to put Sony to shame but they just want use them properly. here's a list of Microsoft studios and what they are working on
United States
343 Industries – Halo series Connected Experiences – Untitled Project – Design Large scale multiplayer title and help other first party studios Good Science Studio – Kinect Adventures, Kinect Fun Labs Kids and Lifestyle Entertainment – Untitled Project Microsoft Studios – Los Angeles – Untitled Project Microsoft Studios – Mobile Gaming – ilomilo Microsoft Studios – Redmond Publishing – Overseeing and co-developing multiple projects in conjunction with third party development studios Platform Next Studios – Untitled Project Playful Learning – Untitled Project Skybox Sports – Untitled Project Turn 10 Studios – Forza Motorsport series Twisted Pixel Games – The Gunstringer, LocoCycle Xbox Live Productions – South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!, South Park: Tenorman's Revenge, Avatar Kinect
Europe
Lionhead Studios – Fable series, Black & White series; Unannounced MMO-like New IP Lift London – Multiple Cloud Based gaming projects Rare Ltd. – Banjo-Kazooie series, Viva Piñata, Perfect Dark series, Kinect Sports series Soho Productions – Kinect Sesame Street TV Press Play – Untitled Project
Canada
BigPark – Joy Ride series, Kinect Sports: Season Two Black Tusk Studios – Untitled Project Microsoft Studios Victoria – Untitled Project
− Non Game Development Microsoft Studios – Sentient Team Working with internal and external teams and sharing new technologies[25] Microsoft Studios – Skype Xbox Engineering Team Bringing Skype communication software to Xbox platforms through Xbox Live[26] Microsoft Studios – Games Testing Organization Responsible for games and entertainment testing; from crash processing, telemetry and data visualization, to automating Xboxes[27] Microsoft Studios – Technology and Incubation Group Advancing new products and technologies[28] Microsoft Studios – Xbox Core Platform team API and SDK development[29]
As you can see they have plenty of studios and unannounced games so who knows what the future of Xbox will be. hell they even have studios dedicated to making the hard ware better, which seems to be the only ones we been seeing from lately.
@whoyouwit04.. Nice big list and all but how many of those studios have made good aaa titles, 3? Halo, forza, gears... That's all the 360 has for exclusives.. All the other aaa like fable, Alan Wake, the Witcher.. They are all on pc too.
Alan Wake 2 might be the game that finally push me to get a microsoft console.
Am all in love the line-up.
As a consumer I think MS has heard the cries ,whining & concern from fans about lack of exclusives. They just seem to be handling it in a form where it does not cost tons of cash for both the developer & themselves but where it is still profitable for both parties while satisfying the consumer it just happen to be a slow process. Here hoping for a ton of awesome 1st ,2ND party IP & some great 3rd party new IP ,sequels, prequels.