In the future, gamers will have no idea if a game launched well or not. They’ll know if it’s good or not, that’s for sure, but they won’t really know if it was remotely financially successful: this is already complex information thanks to games-as-service mechanics, microtransactions and the lot, but it’s only going to get more obscured with time.
Gears 5 is a test case for that: for all intents and purposes, it seems to be a huge success. It’s putting up huge numbers, with more than three million players in its first weekend. It’s also got great reviews, and a promising future in multiplayer even if the first weekend had some pretty serious issues. So, in other words, a slam dunk. But Microsoft’s ecosystem is more complicated than it used to be, so this warrants further examination.
This should make fans attending the ahow event happier as Bandai Namco is bringing some interesting game experiences to the convention.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.
@christopher: “ That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest”
The key word big can be ether good or bad 🤷🏿only time can tell
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Blacknut has announced a brand new partnership with Kalypso Media. This will see Kalypso's gaming portfolio arrive on Blacknut.
The partnership will take hold from June 27th with the arrival of a selection of Klaypos Media titles onto the Blacknut cloud gaming platform.
Great but gamepass + steam sale saved it but it's not a bad game at least.
Forbes still going strong.
This is a major PR SPin and if you 'dig into it' it's actually quite embarrassing.
Multiplat Gears 5 game that you can play for 1 Dollar boasts of 3 million players?
Meanwhile in the UK this Gears 5 game sold less than any other Gears game in the franchises entire history, by a considerable amount.
"But that's due to GamePass" - Really? Gamepass is available for 1 Dollar on PC and Xbox One and it could only get 3 Million players? For 1 Dollar to sign up and play? The fact that Microsoft was boasting about this was truly pathetic.
Microsoft won’t be boasting about software sales ever again