Destiny's world design lead on open worlds and their disadvantages.
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Phil Spencer talks candidly about missing out on both Destiny and Guitar Hero
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Microsoft bought all of Zenimax Media for 7 billion, while Sony paid 4 billion for Bungie. I think Microsoft got the better deal due to acquiring Fallout, ElderScrolls and Doom.
Yeah, I thought it out. I'm not sure you did. But since we are buddy's now, you're welcome.
"Clearly your parents didn't teach you"
You know you lost, when you have to resort to this tactic.
So you're saying that Microsoft has missed out on so many huge gaming franchise in the last 25 years from GTA exclusivity to guitar hero and destiny it's just laughable they had so many misses
Yea, but they're still 100 times more wealthy than Sony. I would say it worked out well.
That isn't because of Xbox though. This is a gaming page, not an I get supplemented by father Windows page
Microsoft's money has nothing to do with Xbox.
Xbox is a money pit to them they would love to ditch but are after some ROI first.
Let's face it, Xbox is like a red headed stepchild that steals from you to buy drugs.
MIicrosoft is NOT XBOX. The current situation illustrates this. And Microsoft wants its ROI.
@Bathyj and daddy Satya has just force admitted Phil to rehab.
you know why MS has so much money, and it aint cause of the gaming xbox branch.
so lets not kid ourselves.
@PhillyDownJawn not more profitable. More revenue with ABK acquisition but them going multiplat shows they are not making much profit
That's great for Xbox gamers ain't it that Microsoft are more wealthy than Sony. Is that really a argument use are using now lol?
Imagine me in my job. Arguing with a fellow security guard at another company. Hahah well the company I work for is worth £800m the one you work for is only work £600m!
Microsoft may have more money but Sony has the talented studios and the games to back up those studios.
Plus turning down Marvel too. Spiderman is only exclusive to Playstation because of that
Best deal deal in gaming must be when Sony bought Insomniac for 229 million dollars. They made over 800 millions on Spiderman for the ps4 alone. Thats just crazy!
another Interview?
how is he the only one who loves the spotlight as much as he does lol
Let's not forget he also famously passed on Spider-man, Genshin Impact and GTA3.
However it's almost kind of cute how he can keep that sh1t-eating grin and say he's a 'no regrets' kind of guy, especially when you think how much just these 5 titles could have swung the world in Xbox's favour instead of Sonys.
How he's kept his job I don't know, he must sure be keeping Papa Nadella's shaft warm somehow.
"But, but Gamepass, he introduced that!!!"
Yes he did, and now look at Xbox, all it's exclusives are coming to Playstation now rendering the platform obsolete.
Honestly, with that kind of track record, you can't convince me Spencer hasn't eaten it from the back in the name of self preservation. Probably unwashed...and at least twice.
That aside, my interpretation of everything here is Xbox has been mismanaged a bit too much and Nadella came down from his throne. The way it is now, I don't believe for a minute the multiplatform move was Spencer's idea. I don't even think the acquisitions was Spencer's work. At this point, I reckon he's got as much power in his role as Hunter Biden at a Ukrainian energy company.
You can never tell how things will turn out if he had said yes to those games. Xbox already has access to some great IPs, however, they hardly do anything with them or fail to deliver. It's also possible their presentation wasn't good at the time, and they made sure the next presentation was better.
I believe that part of being successful is releasing things in the right place at the right time.
Many major corporations have a story similar to passing on successful business ideas. Let us look at Sony Pictures for example. Back when Marvel went bankrupt, they had the opportunity to buy the entire Marvel for only $25 Million but turned them down. An unnamed big shot at Sony reportedly claimed that “nobody gives a shit about any of the other Marvel characters,”. They ended up taking Spiderman for $10 Million instead.
https://www.avclub.com/sony...
Fast forward to today, we can see what the Marvel brand has done for Disney. Is it possible the same success would have been possible had Sony acquired those IPs. We can't say that for sure and it is possible most of those IPs that are successful today may not have been used.
Not comparable...... I would say closer in comparison would be a more open world game like Skyrim..... Some of my problems with games like Destiny is the glass ceiling or wall effect to prevent players from doing what should be possible to do but the devs didn't want to spend the time to create art to make the scenery more believable as to why I can't do something in game that I am capable of doing...... it breaks the immersion........ I remember being able to do stuff in Skyrim that I thought would not be possible (like climb over mountain areas and take short cuts from the path) but was able to do it and that was awesome and made the world feel more open...In games like Destiny, Call of Duty, Bayonette, Metroid and Zelda.... etc following the same path over and over again does feel limited and not open.
With Uncharted I had issues with immersion, as I was able to do these incredible jumps (distance) and grab ledges that are near impossible to grab but I'm in town and I have a shorter jump to a balcony or other areas I could stand and I cant even make the shorter jump or even grab on to the railing or ledge that definitely is more reacheable? How about Skyrim or Zelda where there are barrels I can't break but other's around are easily breakable?
In Destiny's defense what saved them was a fantastic graphical engine that ran pretty smoothly and had incredible draw distances and for the most part no real server issues that interfered with game play..... For instance.... a Game similar to Destiny but came out before Destiny - Defiance - a much less linear world/map than Destiny and there is nothing like jumping in your vehicle and following a large group of people in their vehicles going from destination to destination to battle together and not having to join anything or talk to anyone and don't have to take the linear path to get to the destination but I enjoyed Destiny more than Defiance because Defiance's graphic engine is horrible and server issues are often with Popup everywhere and draw distances for Defiance where not that great.
Destiny is a different game than what was first advertised when the game came out and not all for the good.....
However the changes in game like nerfing of items/weapons that don't make sense, plus overbalancing of characters in the game to the point that it really doesn't matter what class you play in Destiny (it's more for style than substance).
Yet Destiny as a game was not ragged on as hard as No Man's Sky for not delivering what was advertised in the beginning... Other games have done this as well and belong to bigger studios with bigger budgets and did not get their heads chopped off as much as No Man's Sky. Basically everybody is picking on the little guy (studio). No Man's Sky is not the first or will be the last Game Studio to not deliver right out of the box.... However, Hello Games has promised to update and add even add more to the game (even change focus from exploration to other things) so let's give them a chance like the gaming community has given chances to countless other studios..... No Man's Sky is suffering from content (common issue in open world games) but that is no different from other games Like Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen (which in Star Citizen's defense is not Officially released). Each started out with limited content but chose to focus on different aspects of game play when starting out with the promise to add or change focus later on.
Everyone needs to chill..... This Dev from Destiny shouldn't be spending time bashing other choices made by other studios when their choice also has very apparent flaws in the design/gameplay.
Peace