Titanfall: Why The Secrecy About The 360 Version?

Titanfall has been a big success on the Xbox One and the PC. The game was actually a system seller and did help shift more than a few Xbox One consoles, but despite the fact it has not been heavily advertised Titanfall is also coming to the Xbox 360.

[wolfdown]

To be honest I almost forgot it was for the 360 I believe as the article stated it may have been a plot to push the xbox one.

[sickamore]

I agree 100% there is no other reason why stop the sales boost now.

[ShinMaster]

They did it to make people buy an Xbox One. They need the boost.

There may be people that are only excited for the game itself but not the new Xbox or may be on the fence, so Microsoft can't have those people finding out that they don't really need an Xbox One to play Titanfall.

[mad at me]

@shin this is cleary direct to you

what i dont get with the general n4g population summary about titanfall not being exclusive to xbox one, is that even tho it also releases on the 360 (pc also but not comparing anything other than xbone/360) it will sell too making the investment even better. At a marketing stand point they have 80 million to convince to stay on their platform, be it xbone/360 (pc) and what better way to do it then a good game. titanfall360 will most likely be the tool to upgrade, plus other titles.... almost like a referral service.

i think they make money twice

[USA007]

@Mad at me

Yes they make money off of every platform Titanfall goes on, but MS will make more money and get a console sale if customers feel the need to buy an X1 for titanfall. Since MS is doing most the advertising, they'll market it the way they can make the most money.

[Angeljuice]

They're taking their time as they are having to gimp the 360 version (the current build outperforms the XBone by 33%).

[killzone619]

nice troll

[medman]

This just in....the 360 version of Titanfall has destructible environmental effects and 12 v 12 player matches...film at 11.

[dieforgame]

If MS only wanted it for the xbox one and PC, then that's how it would been advertised and shipped. It's coming for the 360, be glad that they decided to make some final adjustments. This article asked what changes can be made in two weeks? There was about 3-4 weeks between Beta and release where they made some significant fixes to the glitches.

[KonsoruMasuta]

But it's not only for XboxOne and PC, so why would it be advertised that way?

[Hicken]

What type of final adjustments could they have made to the game a week before release?

[TheRedButterfly]

You'd be surprised how much tweaking can go on behind the scenes in just one week.

[liquidhalos]

@redbutterfly, the disks have already been pressed and packaged at this point. Any tweaks this close will come in the form of patches. Clearly a marketing ploy to push the Xbox One

[ramiuk1]

it should of been xbone and pc only

[No_Limit]

Respawn made the PC and XB1 version so of course more advertisement will be made for those versions. It is not rocket science.

[Qrphe]

If X1 version is having performance issues now imagine a console with a tenth of its power. Game is broken I bey

[Aces17]

Or you know maybe it just isn't done. But I guess Microsoft has to be doing something shaddy, right?

[N4GJD]

It quite obvious that Microsoft wants to create the perception it's an Xbox One exclusive to sell units; and releasing the Xbox 360 port afterwards only helps to do so. The Xbox 360 port of the game will be near identical.

[mhunterjr]

I'm not feeling all the conspiracy theories. Bluepoint probably has a very tough job.... Taking code created by another team, intended for a frantic xb1 game and porting it backwards. The xb1 version had a day one patch... That means Respawn was doing more work to the game AFTER the discs were pressed. So that's even more changes for Bluepoint to try to squeeze into the port. Couple that extra work with the rumored performance issues, and I can see why it would be delayed.

The conspiracy theory just doesn't make sense. How many people would say "I can't wait 2 extra weeks for my $60 game, so I'm gonna drop $500 today."

[bleedsoe9mm]

a pretty good chance the 360 version is complete disaster and they are desperately trying to make it playable enough to sell , titanfall is a thin game and if the thin bit isn't working you can't say well people can play the single player until we get a patch out .

[cyguration]

It's COD with mechs for crying out loud! There's nothing that would stress the 360 that Battlefield 4 hasn't already done 10 fold.

[Baccra17]

Or, the 360 version was the superior version and they are using this time to update the XBone version of the game so that it is improved enough to be classed as "better" than the 360 version.

[bleedsoe9mm]

most times when a dev gets another company to make a version of a game they are working on its because is really easy to make and will be exactly the same game . if it was going to be the same or a superior version don't you think respawn might want the credit , they knew it was going to be a horrible mess

[lovethenoob]

I'd be very curious how it plays on the 360, I for one have been waiting for the 360 release to play with family who don't own xbox ones...I've been disappointed it's been getting delayed

[Edub6822]

it do seem suspect for as much money microsoft poured into this game saying its the next big thing the holy grail of gaming it seems funny that a week before the xbox 360 release it gets pushed back. This is the 1st time i seen so much promotion for a game and people still havent seen a trailer a screenshot or nothing.
I think microsoft didnt want it on the 360 but EA made it part of their exclusive deal thats why ms wants to pretend it does'nt exist. imo i think they dont want to show it because the ,360 version plays almost as good as the one version. Xbox one 792p xbox 360 720p

[W34KN35S]

i agree, the ONLY excuse i could accept is that they already knew ahead of time that they wanted to delay the 360 version and they just let us know late, which is still a slap in the face. i wish they would just let us gamers play games instead of using all of this marketing strategy and etc...

[CanadianTurtle]

No matter how hard they tried to make me buy an Xbox One for this game, it didn't work. I'm still getting the 360 version.

[killzone619]

enjoy that 30fps and sub 720p

[NeoTribe]

Its abvious they did not release it on 360 yet because than nobody would have bought an x1 to play it.

[FATHASUN]

They have made the 360 audience want and expect the game. MS will then cancel it and those desperate enough will have no choice but to upgrade to the One in order to play it. It is coercion.

Maybe.