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Starfield is the "starting gun" for first-party Xbox games

"This is the beginning of something that's going to be really special," Xbox CMO says

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Christopher280d ago

Saying it's the beginning is dangerous. Now they have to truly deliver regularly and with similar quality games. That's a very high bar to maintain is Starfield ends up being a critical and sales success.

Lightning77280d ago

No not all games will be as hyped or as big as Starfield. He means in terms getting that one big game to lead the them into the regular cadence of AAA releases.

Christopher280d ago

*** He means in terms getting that one big game to lead the them into the regular cadence of AAA releases. ***

"No, but yes" is what you just said.

LordoftheCritics280d ago

''Its the beginning of 30fps games this gen''

/Fixed

Petebloodyonion280d ago

Oh boy! Some PR ppl should learn to keep their mouth shut.

Obscure_Observer280d ago

With Starfield and Forza Motorsport, Xbox gamers are finally getting true current AAA first party games!

Jerret West also confirmed Hellblade II, Avowed and Towerborne for 2024, among other games they don´t had disclosed yet for 2024 and 2025!

It took long enough due COVID among other things, but Xbox is finally getting there to deliver a cohesive and consistent games output, genre diverse and high quality AAA, AA and indie games.

thesoftware730280d ago

The new E3 must be in 2 weeks or so...so not that long👍🏿.

-Foxtrot280d ago

Oh we still using the COVID excuse....

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH280d ago

What do you think that these games only take two years to make? A lot of these current gen Xbox games was being developed during Covid so yes Covid impacted game studios amount other industries.

-Foxtrot280d ago (Edited 280d ago )

Plenty of games released in 2021 / 2022 which were well into development during COVID if we are talking 3-4 years.

It's no excuse, the fact is they just didn't have much going on and by the time they bucked their ideas up the games take years to make. Then they bought Zenimax and Activision to cover this.

Games released in 2021 / 2022

Far Cry 6
It Takes Two
Psychonauts 2
Returnal
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Life Is Strange: True Colors
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Elden Ring
Horizon Forbidden West
Stray
God of War Ragnarok
Splatoon 3
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
GT7

I could go on...

Lightning77280d ago

He never mentions covid, not sure where you got that from. But Those games you listed were far enough in development so covid had little impact on those games.

Covid aside allot Xbox games were still in early production regardless. Games don't take two to 3 years to make, obviously. Now some of these titles are reaching the latter half of development finally.

thesoftware730280d ago (Edited 280d ago )

Fox, you for real with that list of games?

https://www.ign.com/article...

COVID caused massive, industry wide console/hardware problem along with games in 2020, 2021, and 2022, thing gradually picked back up. 60+ games were delayed..you couldn't even find consoles at the time, people had to work from home, which 100% slow down game production, to claim otherwise is just plain dumb.

Of course games released, but to pretend that it didn't have a huge impact is trolling...it is a known fact!

And MS released, Forza:HZ 5, Halo infinite , and MS Flight Sim, among a few others...funny how you didn't list those...smh.

CrimsonWing69280d ago

@Lightning77

“It took long enough due COVID among other things,”

That’s literally in his post, how did you miss it!?

Obscure_Observer280d ago

"Oh we still using the COVID excuse...."

Forgive me, I forgot that COVID it´s only a reason for delays when comes to your preferred company and it´s games.

Lightning77280d ago

@Crimson Why are y'all spreading fake news? He never mentioned covid.

Quit making up your own fake news. I'll shut it down fast.

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RupeeHoarder280d ago

Forza is nothing new and has been on the Xbox lists for years now.

Crows90280d ago

You still need to wait for those games. Rewrite and reword this comment when those games comment and are great

Vengeance1138280d ago

Seriously going to mention Forza with a straight face lol literally same game every single year, may as well mention NHL 24 while you're at it, or Fifa.

Obscure_Observer280d ago

"Seriously going to mention Forza with a straight face lol literally same game every single year, may as well mention NHL 24 while you're at it, or Fifa."

The last Forza Motorsport was released in 2017, check your facts and don´t be so insecure about Xbox getting games.

Flakegriffin280d ago

@obscure

Nobody is insecure about Xbox getting games. It’s your insecurities over Xbox, where you feel you need to justify everything they do, that make people laugh at you.

thesoftware730279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

Vengeance, Fox mentioned GT7? What is the difference? In no way is it like releasing an NHL game, what a stupid thing to say.

How do you disqualify a new game that gets stellar reviews and is top-tier? oh for your sill narrative....Hypocrite.

Vengeance1138279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

@Obscure_Observer
Nice PR spin right there lol Theres been 10 Forza's released in the last 12yrs, lets not pretend Forza Horizon isnt the exact same thing as Forza Motorsport. The last Forza game was 2021 bruh, check your facts better ok?

@thesoftware730

lmao touch a nerve did I? Sensitive little xbot you are, Go stroke your Xbox, clown.

Obscure_Observer279d ago

@Flakegriffin

"Nobody is insecure about Xbox getting games. It’s your insecurities over Xbox, where you feel you need to justify everything they do, that make people laugh at you.

Let them laugh. This is a positive Xbox article and I´d gave a positive opinion. Thing is Xbox getting games does make some people uncomfortable or mad for whatever reason.

It is what it is.

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Kornholic280d ago (Edited 280d ago )

It didn't take long for you to forget that as an Xbox player, you are not getting anything more with this Zenimax purchase. Starfield would have released on Xbox regardless, even if MS had not bought the company. Yet here you are celebrating the release of a former multiplatform game as a some sort or victory.

Xbox players wanted more games from MS but instead they got smoke and mirrors. And you fell for it.

Obscure_Observer280d ago (Edited 280d ago )

"It didn't take long for you to forget that as an Xbox player, you are not getting anything more with this Zenimax purchase."

Wrong. Didn´t take long for *you* to forget that TESVI, Indiana Jones, Fallout 5 among new unannounced games form ID, Tango and Arkane Lyon are also in development as we speak.

"Starfield would have released on Xbox regardless, even if MS had not bought the company. Yet here you are celebrating the release of a former multiplatform game as a some sort or victory."

Starfield would be released in a rough state as presented last year if wasn´t for Phil Spencer to allow Bethesda an extra year. So yes, if Starfield turn out to be "less buggy" as early reports suggests, XGS and Xbox gamers certainly has something to celebrate.

"Xbox players wanted more games from MS but instead they got smoke and mirrors. And you fell for it."

I´ll be playing Starfield next week so I think I´m good. Thank you.

Lightning77279d ago

So what about games like FF16 being taken away from other platforms hell even away from PC for a short time? A super popular IP that's released on multiple platforms for decades isn't on the other platforms. Sony didn't make FF it's not their game also. MS was also heavily involved in optimizing the game early last year just like how Sony helped with development with 16. One is a new IP then other not a new IP that's been on multiple systems so which ones worse?

Also the game would of released on PS first probably for a year 2 exclusive. Trust me you and everyone wouldn't complain not a single bit or acting childish across the SM. You would all be praising and loving SF because it's exclusives. I don't wanna hear your obvious hypocrisy.

TheTony316280d ago

The only "true" MS first party game right now is Forza since you would have gotten Starfield regardless, with or without the acquisition.

Lightning77279d ago

Yeah after a year or two exclusively on PS. Nobody cares about what's true exclusive or not. I guess 16 isn't a true PS exclusive according to your logic.

CrimsonWing69279d ago

@Lightning77

I mean, FF16 is a “timed” exclusive, but with timed exclusivity I question the effectiveness of pushing console sales since you can just wait and play it on PC or Xbox (in some cases).

I think “true” exclusivity definitely would make people interested in a game enough to buy the console, assuming it’s the only place to play said exclusive game.

TheTony316278d ago

Lightning77

FF16 is a timed exclusive and he was talking about "true" Microsoft first party games. Starfield was in development long before MS acquired Bethesda. We'll see how a "true" MS first party game looks like later down the line.

ChiefofLoliPolice280d ago

Oh my goodness Obscure. Can't believe you're still using Covid as a excuse. Sad lmao.

Flakegriffin280d ago

3 years later, almost 4, and still using the Covid excuse.

Also, let us know when Xbox delivers quality games consistently. Anybody can drop games back to back.

Rockstar279d ago

Your opening paragraph reads as if you're an Xbox PR guy...oh wait...

anast279d ago

I'm jealous of your downvote count.

Rockstar279d ago

You too can have a downvote count that's as stellar with the right (or wrong) attitude!

anast279d ago

True, 61 is getting close to impressive, though.

TheTony316278d ago

Lightning77

FF16 is a timed exclusive.

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SimpleSlave280d ago (Edited 280d ago )

Poor Redfall...

Crows90280d ago

I thought redfall was the starting gun...no reason for it not to be.

Christopher280d ago

Well, someone shot it sense it's been dead silent about updates and upcoming content for a while.

Obelisk92280d ago

B-b-but this time it's for real!!!

anast279d ago

Yeah, Halo was a serious misstep for them. I think it actually cost them the entire gen.

EazyC280d ago

Game studios need to realise this GaaS thing will eventually drive the industry into the ground. You can't just cut off innovation for constant revenue-pumping via service provision.

It is quality first-party titles that conserve the legacy of videogames.

Inverno280d ago

Starting gun was Halo which over their control has gradually become a shell of it's former self. Let's seriously cut the fanboy BS off for a minute. MS has had a horrible track record over the last 2 gens. Practically every studio under their name has been and is still horribly mismanaged, that includes the ones obtained after the Bethesda deal because anyone with working eyes could see Redfall was a ball of jank and they still pushed it out. And now they're hypin this one game as the second coming of Xbox Jesus. Let games speak from themselves, cause otherwise you keep setting up people fr disappointment.

Good-Smurf280d ago

Always been the problem with Xbox they talked and shouted too much and underdelivered.
Perks of them buying up gaming media I guess.

ChasterMies279d ago

I’m not surprised that forgot about Halo Infinite as the exclusive that kicked off this gen’s Xbox exclusive. This goes to show how far down this franchise has fallen. Halo on OG Xbox and Xbox 360 was a cultural phenomenon. 16 years later and Halo 3 still has the best campaign of any shooter ever made. After a lackluster Halo 4 and awful Halo 5 (the only Halo for the disastrous Xbox One era), I see why folks wouldn’t bother booting Halo Infinite even though it seemed to review well and even though it was on Game Pass. My worry for all the studios that Microsoft bought is that their games will become just as forgettable as the Halo franchise. Just look at what happened to Mass Effect under EA’s leadership.

purple101279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

I remember when xbotz would list their upcoming games,

including Scorn, The medium and Redfall, yeh, they're all a bit quiet now

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ARK: Survival Ascended Premium Mods on Consoles Q&A - By 2030, Time Spent on UGC Will Be Way Bigger

ARK: Survival Ascended has introduced Premium Mods on consoles. Wccftech talked to Studio Wildcard and their partner Overwolf about the rising importance of user-generated content, especially for live service games.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken4d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty4d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken4d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty4d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken4d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0074d ago (Edited 4d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken4d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot3d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto3d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer3d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek3d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken3d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie3d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12084d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast4d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit4d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export4d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2034d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Starfield's recent player spike is good, but it needs its Cyberpunk 2077 moment now

Starfield's recent player spike is a good sign, but Bethesda desperately need to line up their Cyberpunk 2077 moment.

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ZeekQuattro5d ago

I feel like the second big update that releases late this year will do just that. Part of the story expansion is also new means of transportation on planets.

P_Bomb5d ago

A good DLC could turn some heads. The Destiny games got momentum that way too.

piher5d ago

What player spike?

I checked steamcharts through the link in the article and it went from 8,000 to 11.500, so yea 20% but when the game peaked at 330,000 It's safe to say that the actual effect of this update was negligible.

LostPotato5d ago

Doubt it'll ever get redemption. As many developers have said in various interviews it's beyond saving.

Just release the mod tools and expansion and move on.

Profchaos5d ago

Cyberpunk 2077 had some strong bones i disliked it on launch because I could see the potential I could see the strengths of what they wanted to achieve but it wasn't done yet

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