While Xbox Game Studios is largely in "execution mode", developing new games for the likes of Xbox Series X, Phil Spencer told Stevivor that it still has gaps and the need for "new points of view".
Keeping acquiring....they need a foothold in Japan. Xbox games studios currently have more studios that Sony. The Initiative will release the great new IP for Xbox that was sorely missing for the Xbox One.
Microsoft published and ownes Ori and the Blind Forest, a very well received game that was a new IP. Microsoft, produced and published good games this gen. However, they didn’t produce or publish a new ip that had similar impact to Halo (6th gen) or Gears of War (7th gen).
How about Daemon X Machima? Ringfit Adventure? Arms? The aforementioned Astral Chain? Or smaller IPs like 1-2 Switch, Snipperclips, and Little Town Heroes?
And let's not forget that even if numerically MS might have more studios, some of Sony's studios are separated in 2 internal studios, for example Naughty Dog and they are doing the same with other teams like San Diego and Insomniac.
"Total assumption because you don't know if their game is going to be good or not."
It's clear that you don't keep up with the goings-on of the studios. They have a lot of staff from SSMS, the writer from Red Dead Redemption, the studio head was the in-charge of crucial dynamics...they have created a world-class team.
"Also, thinking that 1 game is going to magically turn things around for Xbox is very ridiculous don't you think?"
Xbox: Created the Halo franchise Xbox 360: Created the Gears of War franchise Xbox One: Created the best open-world racer Forza Horizon 3-4 Xbox series X: The Initiative IP will be the next big franchise on the same groundbreaking level as Halo, Gears, and Forza Horizon.
"This is not a matter of quantity Master Spurg, this is a matter of quality and Sony also totally dominated Microsoft on that."
Yet Sony has failed to rival the quality of the Halo and Forza Horizon franchise.
These are high-quality studios: Obsidian entertainment Ninja Theory Playground games: Forza horizon team Playground games: RPG team Double fine production Inxile 343 industry The Coalition Turn 10 The Initiative Mojang
Studios that still need to prove themselves: Compulsion games Undead labs
"Xbox: Created the Halo franchise" MS bought Halo along with Bungie.
"Xbox 360: Created the Gears of War franchise" MS commissioned Gears. Bought it when the franchise was either going to be shuttered or made multi platform.
"Yet Sony has failed to rival the quality of the Halo and Forza Horizon franchise." Halo? While Sony certainly tried and failed with Killzone, with the likes of Uncharted or Last of Us, do they really need to?
As for Forza, Turn 10's been chasing after GT since...starting that stupid rivalry. If they've finally gotten a decent racing game on Xbox, that's all they've done.
"Studios that still need to prove themselves" All of them, every game company in the industry, with each game released.
You know how many genres MS doesn't even have a horse in.. How many game of the year awards or even nominations did MS muster this gen, How many quality new ip's...?? Do tell.
My gosh, some people say some delusional things. Produce >> Promise
i have to agree. when i had heard MS aquired Rare, i thought i might end up getting an xbox to play a next-gen conker......i'm still waiting.
at blady, below - not really. nintendo has the same basic releases every gen. "quality" isn't just about the games being good - it's also about new IPs and variety - nintendo strikes out in both areas. really, though - nintendo has their audience and that's it. their days of being relevant in total sales are long gone. switch and wiiu sales combined still fall WAY short of ps4 total sales......nuff said.
even if numerically MS might have more studios, some of Sony's studios are separated in 2 internal studios
"And let's not forget that even if numerically MS might have more studios, some of Sony's studios are separated in 2 internal studios, for example Naughty Dog"
False. ND do not have multiple teams working on multiple projects, same as San Diego! Insonmiac, you´re correct.
Desperate? They have 15 studios with multiple teams within. Clearly Phil is not desperate when he stated we are comfortable releasing games ahead of the series X launch.
"Most of Sony studios have 2 or 3 teams plus the unannounced acquisitions. Hence the reason why Xbox is in desperate need of more developers."
Which ones? How many studios at Worldwide are working on multiple projects? While you´re at it bring actuall proof that Sony has actual studios acquisitionsto make. Please, enlighten us.
@Godmars290
"How are they not desperate while buying studios? Needing to put out games for the XB1 which has been dependent on 3rd party rather than 1st?"
You asked for it! More studios. More new first party games and IPs. Now that MS is on an unprecendent and never seen before agressive acquisition of studios and industry talent its suddenly become a bad thing? Desperation?
Seems to me that Xbox getting better make you somehow feel unconfartable.
If they are interested in Japanese’s studios, I hope they acquire Nippon Ichi. The studio is both a developer and a publisher and I think MS would want that. Plus, they make alot of good niche games.
“ Explain to me how this actually about wanting the games and isn't just about keeping games off PlayStation?”
To boost their Game Pass service? Why did Sony buy Insomniac? Explain to me how this actually about wanting the games and isn't just about keeping games off Xbox and Game Pass.
“To boost their Game Pass service? Why did Sony buy Insomniac?”
Insomniac has been making exclusives (key word) for Playstation since before Xbox even existed. Long history across 4 generations: Disruptor Spyro Spyro 2 Spyro Year of the Dragon Ratchet & Clank Ratchet&Clank Going Commando Ratchet & Clank Up your Arsenal Ratchet & Clank Deadlocked Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Ratchet & Clank Quest for Booty Ratchet & Clank A crack in time Ratchet & Clank Into the Nexus Ratchet & Clank Full Frontal Assault Ratchet & Clank All for One Ratchet & Clank Collection Ratchet & Clank 2016 Resistance Resistance 2 Resistance 3 Marvel’s Spider-man
It’s not like they bought Bungie. You can’t miss what you never had and those games were never going to gamepass. Sunset Overdrive was already free on GWG. Ship sailed.
“ Insomniac has been making exclusives (key word) for Playstation since before Xbox even existed. ”
And you conveniently forget that Insomniac had made an exclusive game for MS as well. And what does this have anything to do with acquiring studios? Or are you seriously saying a publisher can’t acquire a studio if those studios haven’t made tons of games for them?
I didn’t “conveniently forget” anything. I acknowledged Sunset Overdrive in the last paragraph. It was free April 2016 https://majornelson.com/201...
“Or are you seriously saying...”
I’m not saying anything, I’m just answering your question. Sony didn’t buy Insomniac to keep R&C off GP. They already owned it before the deal https://mobile.twitter.com/... . Spider-man and Resistance were never multiplatform.
It’d be like, if Sony bought Quantic Dream. QD hasn’t had a game on Xbox since 2005. You wouldn’t have even noticed.
Even as a fan of what Sony has done, I won't deny that MS is doing what they need to to have a fighting chance at keeping up. Bought some good studios and have a good shot at making some good games. Fingers crossed to see them back in the fight!
"Xbox games studios currently have more studios that Sony."
You wanted to bring sony into this. Well, Microsoft sure as hell doesnt have better games than Sony, currently. Also, that doesn't mean they will make better games than Sony in the future. What is the point of even mentioning that?
They don’t need anything in Japan why worry about a market that literally doesn’t care what they do. Focus on your markets that actually still buy your products as way it’s going I don’t see why they would going forward.
Don't care if the rumors are true or not, but Microsoft could buy sega, sony, and Nintendo and still have enough money left to still be a multi trillion dollar corporation
I have always wished Microsoft would buy Sega. That has been talk since the Sega Saturn days. Another MS should have scooped when they were wobbly was Capcom. I know those bigger studios are more entrenched and difficult, but MS could if they wanted. Buying Sega and/or Capcom would have given them an instant presence in the Japanese market. If ...IF they had our ever do buy such a studio as Sega or Capcom...leave them be as much as possible. Don't meddle in their thinking and developing methods!!!!
And here you have it. The daily puff piece of this talking head pulling off more pulp fiction. Microsoft algorithmic generator working in full force. CHECK.
"Xbox games studios currently have more studios than Sony."
Is this more of your pulp fiction? Since you are not interested in the delivery of exclusives why all of the sudden you are interested acquiring studios? Is this your new "wait for E3" strategy trying to fetch clueless early adopters like you did with the XBONE? Oh wait, Sony is not going to attend the next E3. ^^.
"In fanboy World it should take no less then 6 months to deliver games."
Microsoft can't commit to exclusives because they don't believe in them. Sony dedicates time to these because Sony considers them as investments. Microsoft marked exclusives as "non profitable" in their bull headed mindset. No wonder why they sold less than the 360. No wonder why Crackdown 3 was less than joke in the delivery? Microsoft IS NOT INTERESTED IN QUALITY, it is interested in PROFITS throughout services.
Sony is INTERESTED IN QUALITY BECAUSE THAT IS THE WAY SONY MAKES PROFIT. They do them showing off lots of top quality EXCLUSIVES. Wait, so you are expecting in such "fanboy world" that Microsoft acquires studios and all of the sudden plug a triple A successful exclusive? Looks like Microsoft is interested in the money that consoles does, right? But they don't want to invest, right?
"Then I wanna see Insomniacs New game up and running at the PS reveal."
In your XBONE you have not a SINGLE exclusive whatsoever to be proud of for a span of seven years. You dare to ask Sony do their job to your liking because MS was not even capable of doing it? What? Do you want them to pull off an "Activision" spewing a refurbish of Call of Duty each year? Really?
Don't blame team Sony for your lowering of standards and paying more for a lot less. LEARN TO LIVE WITH YOUR CHOICES. We chose PS consoles because WE KNEW what we were getting.
In every positive Play Station article that is legit such as game reviews and and proof of concept we have a set of people who comes as complete trolls. They can't stick to their own threads because they despise the idea that we are having fun with our console and exclusives. It's envy and the inability of them to live with their choices.
Many realized and noticed what is Microsoft true power. It is PR spinning and software monopolies. Look what they did to the XBONE. Microsoft has done so much spinning and damage control that somehow they have managed to put fans in a perpetual hypnotic trance up to the point of complete denial.
Microsoft relies on 'yellow press', 'hardball', puff pieces, bullying and even delinquency to achieve their money. This is why the community calls them out.
Anyways... I would pick Crytek. I loved Crysis and felt Ryse could’ve been so much better if the company wasn’t hanging by threads.
They have the talent to bring an awesome first party engine to the next gen that could push visuals and real time physics... they seem passionate about the tech side of things. With a little bit of collaboration with better story tellers and designers it would be a recipe for one of the best devs out there..
And even that one will be missing the Ray Tracing. Ps5 players will be able to play the PS4 version.. that’s it. Another plus of building the foundation of cross gen scaleable gaming is they can send out an update for older titles with specific consoles in the family in mind
They scrapped super duper from the Xbox W10 development and seem to be dedicated to RTX being their next vision.
I can play any pc game on my shield tv steam app. All.i need to do is buy it on steam and stream it. No need to buy a pc with windown or a xbox. So sure i dont be playing them on ps4 or 5 but i already own a console that allows me to play their games no need to upgrade unless i want to play it natively and i doubt i will want to play it natively xbox fans seem to be loving streaming services they work good enough for AA game and if xbox games are AAA then ps4 games are AAAA lol let me fair
Even if they stopped supporting xbox one they would still have to scale down for low end pc's so they might as well release on xbox one. If people think it will effect the quality of the games lets just wait till games like halo infinite and hellblade 2 perform on the series x first.
I've said it before but I'd really wish Microsoft could buy Sega. They have a great back catalogue but they could do well releasing a different looking Xbox in Japan under Sega branding, I'm sure this would really help..
They have enough now that destroying Sega shouldn’t even be in the conversation. Shades of WWE signing new contracts to 6 years just so AEW can’t have ‘em. Push the talent you have. Don’t worry about Sonic 20 and Yakuza 10.
Keeping acquiring....they need a foothold in Japan. Xbox games studios currently have more studios that Sony.
The Initiative will release the great new IP for Xbox that was sorely missing for the Xbox One.
Phil mentioned a Japanese studio acquisition. That'll be good for JRPG'S. Hopefully another lost Odyssey game.
Good luck!
Wonder if the rumor of them buying Sega is true?
And here you have it. The daily puff piece of this talking head pulling off more pulp fiction. Microsoft algorithmic generator working in full force. CHECK.
"Xbox games studios currently have more studios than Sony."
But you are not going to release exclusives later on 2022 right Microsoft?
https://n4g.com/news/231917...
Is this more of your pulp fiction? Since you are not interested in the delivery of exclusives why all of the sudden you are interested acquiring studios? Is this your new "wait for E3" strategy trying to fetch clueless early adopters like you did with the XBONE? Oh wait, Sony is not going to attend the next E3. ^^.