Xbox Studios Head Says Creativity Should Be an Inevitability at First-Party, Hints at 2024 Schedule

Head of Xbox Studios Matt Booty talked about ensuring that creativity is an inevitability rather than just a possibility thanks to the studio system enabled by Microsoft. He also talked about the 2024 lineup.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

I hope so guys talk is cheap proof speaks louder fr.

[headshotfrosty]

Agreed. Just do it. Let it speak for itself.

[Obscure_Observer]

"I hope so guys talk is cheap proof speaks louder fr."

Pentiment
Grounded
Towerborne
Clockwork Revolution
Xbox´s exclusive IP from Kojima Productions
Avowed
Crontraband
Project Mara
South of Midnight
Project Dragon
Everwild

Be mad all you want, but we both known, that you simply can´t point out a single gaming publisher investing in so many and genre diverse line up of new IPs/Games.

Matt Booty is walking the talk, can´t say the same for others.

It is what it is.

[Mr_cheese]

Obscure, as always, you've brushed past the point of the og comment and gone down your propaganda war path.

Quality > quantity

Microsoft has a track record of not delivering. XI is simply saying, stop speaking and show us instead.

[Obscure_Observer]

@Mr_cheese

"Microsoft has a track record of not delivering. XI is simply saying, stop speaking and show us instead."

BS!

Article is about *ensuring creativity to first party studios at XGS* and that´s what XiNatsuDragnel were addressing to, and NOT some dumb "quality vs quantity" nonsense made up by you.

And since you can´t counter my arguments with actual facts, you´re trying to twist the discussion into something else.

Matt Booty is in fact, allowing first party studios freedom to be creative as I´d pointed out in the list of first party games been developed right now at XGS, and that´s not even all of it. I didn´t even mentioned Double Fine´s new IP, Arkane Austin´s new IP or the rumored JRPG by Tango Softworks.

So, If you can´t stay on topic, don´t bother and bring some twisted nonsense into discussion.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Clockwork Revolution looks amazing. If most games were like that then I might finally buy a console or a laptop with a GPU, lol

[Redgrave]

Something I have never understood is citing games that are barely more than a concept and name, such as Kojima's XBOX game and Project Mara/Dragon, as "gotcha" games when there's literally nothing there to be excited about.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

I was addressing the article yes but at the same time Microsoft talks too much I am saying that they show the quality then they can talk. There quality is a hit or a miss. Definitely not hits I can say @Obsecure.

[Obscure_Observer]

"There quality is a hit or a miss. Definitely not hits I can say @Obsecure."

Go ahead and bring your *facts* because I have some for you:

https://www.theshortcut.com...

All of Xbox Series X/S first party games by Metacritic:

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There! Got your fallacious claims debunked, because with the exception of Redfall, all of the other games in my list are high quality. So given Xbox´s latest track record for its current first party games, quality for its upcoming new games is nothing but expected for any *honest* gamer in the world.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

I see interesting I hope Microsoft can keep it up if not then yeah but pr so much is pretentious and annoying Sony barely speaks and there games so results which ppl are more hyped for.

[MrDead]

"Creativity Should Be an Inevitability" coming from Mr AI... and working for the worlds least creative gaming platform.

[Sonic1881]

I remember Don Mattrick saying something similar

[Yui_Suzumiya]

You can play games offline still.. just use your Xbox 360 for that 😆

[Godmars290]

Ha-ha-ha-ha...

So says a company that's had to buy its last few major releases.

[sparky77]

What!? lol

The last major releases from Sony were Spiderman and FFF16 both brought....

[Gamingsince1981]

Oh so spider-man was pretty much finished when Sony got the game like most xbox games ? Weird .... Oh right it wasn't at all was it and you are just a troll that loves xbox but it's failing so hard right now you have to make stuff up... I get it, it must be hard supporting xbox when they give you nothing in return.

[BehindTheRows]

Spider-Man is the last example you want to use. It literally mollywhops anything Xbox puts out AND is developed in-house. Just stop.

[Zenzuu]

"Powa of the cloud," "The world's most powerful console," "12 teraflops of power," "We're going to focus on building our own IPs and creating world-class first-party studios."

All Microsoft does is PR talk. The last statement, in particular, never actually happened. All they've been doing is pushing Game Pass and throwing money, buying whatever studios they can. It's laughable they even attempted to buy out Nintendo at one point. At first, Phil were loudly announcing the number of Xbox units shipped and sales. However, as soon as PS5 sales surpassed those of the Series X, Phil suddenly changed his tune, claiming that sales don't matter and remaining quiet about the actual figures.

Since the release of the PS5, Sony has already released solid first-party titles and third-party titles like Returnal, Ratchet & Clank, Demon's Souls, Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Forbidden West, Final Fantasy 16, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2, God of War Ragnarök, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Astro's Playroom, The Last of Us Part 1, Persona 5 Royal, Star Ocean: The Second Story R and more.

Apart from Forza, what other decent first-party games of it's our IP have been released for the Series X this generation? Halo is not a heavy knockout like it was in the past. Starfield is the only title that has been well-received, so all Phil promoting like it's the holy grail of gaming.

Sony's gaming division is performing well as it is. It doesn't need someone like Phil nor Booty.

[DOMination-]

"Since the release of the PS5, Sony has already released solid first-party titles and third-party titles like Returnal, Ratchet & Clank, Demon's Souls, Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Forbidden West, Final Fantasy 16, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2, God of War Ragnarök, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Astro's Playroom, The Last of Us Part 1, Persona 5 Royal, Star Ocean: The Second Story R and more."

I'm not convinced by Sonys output at all this gen. If we are going to nitpick about MS games not counting, then the same needs to be applied to here and if you dig deeper into this "list", it's not really as impressive as its made out to be (imo of course).

Returnal - Wasn't really a Sony first party game - studio were third party at the time of release
Demon's Souls - Sony didn't own the studio at launch, although they do own the IP so "second party" I guess?
Final Fantasy 16 - Not a Sony game
Miles Morales - Basically an expansion pack and also a PS4 game
FF7R - Not a Sony game and also not a PS5 game
The Last of Us Part 1: A remake of a PS3 game
Personal 5 Royal - Not a Sony game
Star Ocean - Not a Sony game
GT7 - A PS4 game ported to PS5
GOW: Ragnarok - A PS4 game ported to PS5
HFW: A PS4 game ported to PS5
Astros Playroom - A small project that comes pre-installed with every PS5

Not knocking the quality of these games. Some of them are outstanding. But lets be honest about the reality - the only "true" first party PS5 games that Sony have released are the two Insomniac games and Astros Playroom. The rest is stat-padding.

Btw, not suggesting MS is better or anything. In fact, their output has absolutely been worse and I agree that games halfway through development like Starfield don't really count. But Sony shouldn't be free from criticism.

[Christopher]

The only way it's inevitable is if they foster creativity, no other way. I don't see them really fostering it so much as just not getting in the way of certain teams but definitely getting in the way of some others.

[Stanjara]

Creativity should be inevitably BOUGHT is the action of Xbox gaming division.

[TheColbertinator]

Forget creativity

The AI revolution is here thanks to Microsoft

[thesoftware730]

So is a great deal of innovation in computers, Windows is still the most used, and for many the best software as a platform, but nope..talk about the one thing that every other tech company is looking into and developing and make it a negative.

Can't wait until Sony and Nintendo announce a similar set up, only to watch you make it a positive.

It's funny you make it seem like MS introduced AI into gaming, even the company they partner with tech was used to create gaming content, I think it was the GTA5 mod that R* shut down.

Also UBI soft and other studios used it already for VA, but nope you give all the credit to MS...typical.

[Christopher]

I'm completely at a loss when people reply to certain, very long standing members of N4G and have no clue about them. It's almost like people just see words and reply to words, not to the people behind them.

[thesoftware730]

Christopher, yes indeed..I do respond to words that is written on a comment board, rather than someone's history. I don't know anyone "behind them"..so I usually reply to the idea there words express.

But, I see what you are saying in this case, maybe he was giving props instead of making it a negative, so I misread. So if that was the case,

@TheColbet...my bad lol.

[Gamingsince1981]

Right over your head

[TheColbertinator]

Thanks for playing

[IamFrasierCrane]

Hook, line and sinker lmao

[jznrpg]

There was no studio system enabled. They bought a shit load of studios and hope some of them make good games. I wonder how many shut down in the next 5-10 years.

[Destiny1080]

phil said he's doing away with single player games and closing shop in 2027

[Petebloodyonion]

Perhaps ppl should get on the same page for what they believe is creativity?
For some, it seems it is new game concepts or new genres,
For some, it's simply a great story, for others new kinds of graphics, etc.

[Games1st]

Cool waiting for Avowed.

[ravens52]

*Should be*. Now? After your acquisitions? Shouldn't this have been the case the entirety of the time?