@Amazing Perhaps you're right. What I'm saying is this could hurt the game. I guess it all depends on how far along they are. If there's any indication in terms of how far along they are we know Phil was playing the game last year so maybe you're right the game is probably safe enough for someone to step in and keep the vision.
@Galmi excuse me? Who said anything about console wars? MS needs to get the game done. Delay it if they need be but MS needs to rel...
I understand 1000%. Fact of the matter is. This hurt the team and in turn can potentially hurt MS.
MS just has bad luck when it comes down to 1st party game development period.
He should be there for his family he should but personal issues aside They need to hire another Senior Director to see the project through and get the game done.
Phil Harrison probably left also. I wonder where he'll end up. Guarantee you it won't be with Sony or MS considering he was part of the botched the launches of ps3 and x1.
He's going to Amazon next.
I feel Bad for Jade. She left pretty quickly she doesn't want to go down with with Stadia.
MS was worried about nothing this whole time it seems. Amazon needs to come right but I don't think they will unfortunately.
MS been in The business for 20 years. The only thing that was a hit on Xbox Halo and Xbox Live at the time. So there was a good foundation for MS. You mean look at google who has been struggling since 2019 and still struggling.
Fact is Amazon came at the wrong time. Where 3rd party are very comfortable developing for Sony, MS and Nintendo. Amazon and google don't have foundations and entered the buissness where either Sony or MS owns allot of top talent. If this was 20 ...
"actual Series X games not likely for years and when they do show up they'll only be exclusive the brand not the hardware, how am I wrong?"
They're already doing that now. They made that clear 5 years ago.
You're right Sony has shown more than MS has so far in terms of what we could expect from this gen. All MS games are just concepts with no gameplay, everyone knows that. But you need to think not just for exclusives sake but everyone who makes 3rd party games only for next gen. We don't know all the games MS will show off or release this year yet. When talking the S we don't know if it'll hold anyone back. We just don't, no point in pretending that you do.
"Even if only sequels and glorified DLC, Spiderman Morales proves PS5 hardware. The pack in bot game. FFS, the haptic feedback features on the controllers have blow people away."
Haptics is a real game changer. Spiderman MM doesn't prove it's hardware when talkin game design. It'd proves it nicely scales to new gen bells and whistles. RT fast load time. Quality of life for a cross gen that's all it is. Demon Souls is showing next gen visuals but s...
"However, that Series X isn't going to have games that really prove the hardware for 2-3 years,"
Next gen hardware in general won't be proven in another 2, or 3 years. 3rd or 1st party regardless. Am I wrong?
@Sully you said "MS might find some devs just walk away from Xbox and concentrate on PC and PS5, unless there's some sales miracle for Series XS."
Why would they get rid of the X if it's the most capable. Why, why would they do that? I'm serious tell me? What does sales have to do with this article? Do you see why your comment is stupid? No you don't you probably think it's the most brilliant comment of all time.
Show me the real world proof can you do that? Hoe has PS5 and X suffered so far shoe me where? Where id the proof right now?
@Mars show us all the negatives of the S? Show us where it's holding X and PS5 back in its comparisons so far.
We hear devs talk but no proof at all it's holding anyone back. Maybe it will, like I said once new gen games release and finally cut the dead weight of last gen then we'll know for sure.
Until then put away or in fact just throw away your crystal ball.
@bathy we don't know for sure yet. How the next gen only games will perform.
Here we go with that word again. "wait"
@Sully Nice fan fiction. You can keep dreaming and fantasizing in your play house. Devs have no reason to drop S yet entirely it's way too early. Dropping the X makes 0 sense seeing how it's the most capable console.
What a brainless comment good lord. Even from you that's a dumb thing to say. ...
They will be and currently are. The only that's downscaled is the resolution.
Feel bad for S Series owners reduced RT and resolution plus additional work. While the XSeries "just works"
Note: he did say the S requires additional work but not a ton of work because getting the game to run at 1080p isn't hard and having the same CPU helps allot also.
Either way the S isn't the way to go imo. You're just not gettin a whole lot from that console.
@Potato that's even better.
You realize Phil Spencer reported to the CEO Nadella and the CFO Amy hood about the Bethesda deal right? Phil is in charge of the entire Xbox division. Making a 7.5b purchase was not done on the Xbox division check. But the company's check. Smartly so. Because the the Xbox division alone would suffer immensely from that transaction so Phil smartly used the company money which is no brainer. 15b$ already made back for the company somethin...
He's not sayin he wants it to be bad. It's just the early showings and previews didn'tlook super promising. Not terrible just a little underwhelming. Basically.
I thought the same thing. It's good to see the game is getting good reviews.
"xbox isn't the console to own right now but give it a year or two and all the studios will start to release games that make xbox worth it to people like you."
I think that speaks for next gen in general. 3rd party and all will get the ball rolling in another year or 2 for these consoles.
Fact is 8 gen has a strong hold more than any other gen because for the simple fact of the money 8th gen has made. Micro transactions, remasters, lootboxe...
Possibly more acquisitions this year from Sony hopefully Blue Point and Housemarque are on the purchase list. As I said before this makes it allot more harder for businesses to get into the game industry like Google and Amazon.
Sure they can build new studios they have the money. Location, time and hiring employees is a challenge in itself.