Microsoft has long been gathering its resources for a major, coordinated push into the mobile space with an Xbox Live-enabled games lineup in the works for its Windows 7 phones. Microsoft Game Studios has its own dedicated mobile group -- recently revealed to be under the stewardship of former Midway chairman and CEO Matt Booty.
Midway collapsed amid a complex financial state of affairs triggered by the credit crunch, but Booty says he's excited to have a "unique, fun" new role to play as general manager of MGS' mobile gaming group. "As far as I know, we're the only company that's making a phone that has also got a first-party group dedicated to making games," he says.
Xbox Studios Boss Matt Booty recently discussed accessibility for newcomers to established franchises via SBMM and other methods.
Just create games, let things be the way they’ve always been..
lifting newcomers will actually hurt and demotivate the experienced ones..
there was a time when you would play video games just for fun ..... now you are a cow to milk. Not touching a MS product ever .... they are the cancer of the gaming industry !
There's nothing inherently wrong with SBMM. Especially not in Ranked modes.
But people are blind to the real problem that ruined multiplayer games, shooters in particular.
Cross-platform play against PC players.
Idk how people can hate SBBM….
Oh you don’t want to play sweaty? Too bad, you are good at the game, now play with your skill level.
Winning against noobs shouldn’t be your source of fun. There is no value in Smurfs in a gaming community.
MIDGETon,
Exactly!!! I agree 💯.
I never understood the complaint, the more you play the better you get right? That should have you playing against better players.
It's very similar to games in general, the longer a game goes on, the stronger you get and you end up fighting harder mobs and bosses.
Xbox Game Content and Studios president Matt Booty said Microsoft has a great lineup for Fall and Spring, having finally hit its stride.
please, we've heard that so many times.
cod might be a success but literally anything else that is exclusive is a big question mark, as always.
I know right. We've heard it all before. With Microsoft, it isn't that there isn't good content coming. It's that it's coming too late for most gamers to care.
For years gamers were asking Microsoft to increase their output of games instead of selling hype and dangling carrots. While Sony and Nintendo did what gamers expected from them, which is to make great games, Microsoft was making promises and not following through even though they have the most money.
It's like Sega. I loved Old Sega. But Sega concentrated on pumping out hardware instead of just making games and getting the development community onboard what they were selling. Then, when they were firing on all cylinders with Dreamcast and Getting Soul Calibur, DOA, Sonic, Ready 2 Rumble, Skies of Arcadia, Phantasy Star Online, Jet Set Radio, etc, it was too late. Gamers and developers were burned already from 32X, Sega CD, Saturn, etc.
Microsoft has released multiple hardware configurations, multiple, MULTIPLE controllers, Kinect, Xbox One, S, X, etc when gamers were asking for games at the output of Sony and Nintendo. Actually, more so because now they are worth 3 TRILLION dollars. Leaving them with no excuses.
But it's at a time where Xbox sells at an all time low, games are releasing day one cross platform and on the competition's devices, game pass killing sales to the point that all this new effort will mean nothing at all because who's going to buy these games to return the investment? Not only that, but no one trusts Microsoft's Xbox executives. They lie and mislead, misdirect to the point that most gamers, almost most countries, don't care what Microsoft is cooking. We see the sales.
They can say they are finally hitting their stride after buying up a big part of the industry. But, they are still in third place and still getting their ass kicked by the competition who's taking their sweet time pulling out the big guns. What happens when the big guns show up from Nintendo and Sony? It'll be another public as beating for all to see. Their stride is still running from a belt.
@InUrFoxHole. Sony started this year with some interesting fun 3rd party exclusives. XB hasn't released anything exclusive so far but Hellblade 2 & that game was a borefest. Next year both platforms will have some interesting games to play.
Just because they aren't in 1st place doesn't mean they aren't making money. You clearly don't understand how business works. BMW doesn't sell more than Ford but they are making a lot of money. The gaming industry is huge. Believe it or not there is plenty money to be made.
My heart gets heavy when people mention jet set radio, soul calibur
Also on an extreme sports vibe, Dreamcast also had the best version of tony hawks pro skater
There was a bmx game I saw here the other day, instant buy it’s cell shaded. And looked fun, hope the soundtracks good
That's a whole bunch of nothing when Xbox got more games coming out in the near and long term than both Playstation and Nintendo. But I guess we're just gonna ignore facts and pretend Sony is the end all and be all of the Industry and whatever they do is fine and doesn't deserve questioning at all. Even though we just heard their plan was for most of their games to be live service and only got cut in half because of other failures of live service games. Also forget about the terrible showcase which showed absolutely nothing promising. Concorde turning out to be a live service overwatch/marvel clone. Meanwhile we just got an actual Marvel Overwatch clone. Their main headline title is fucking Astro Bot lol, which will probably be a good game but I doubt it will move any needles.
I guess we're in the bargaining phase with you Playstation fanboys. In the real world, your opinions don't matter. Businesses don't work the way you think they do. Just because they're selling less consoles than Sony doesn't mean they're not making billions. Xbox has more monthly active users than Playstation does btw. The only metric that matters in the real world.
https://www.vgchartz.com/ar...
and thats without ABK.
https://www.gamespot.com/ar...
@Zeref, in the first example article you sourced it says
'Our first-party games now have over 150 million monthly active users'
im going to go out on a limb here, my guess is that includes people playing on PC, of which, there are millions of flight sim fans, along with all Bethesda games such as elder scrolls, who m$ just brought to add to their monthly active user scam
how about we compare 34 million gamepass (any tier) subs
to 50 million ps+ (any tier) subs
this shows playsytion has more payers who engage in online multiplayer, as well as more consoles sold to people who play offline, both cases playstation is more popular, so im afraid your moving the goalposts, I can see through like a glass window.
B.....bb...but was the lineup crap since "Is Beginning to Hit Its Stride"? I thought you always believed your lineup is unmatched.. herd of liars at this company i have no idea how these people can sleep at night with so much lying
Cod is also only a success because every other AAA fps has failed or was dragged out back like old yeller
For starters, it's not clear if we're talking about Xbox as the console or Xbox as a game publisher "hitting their stride".
Mixed messages as to how exclusive any of the future titles will be to Xbox.
Secondly, just on the game front, MS has had a consistent history of producing stinkers under their watch. Granted they've bought all these studios but statistically speaking unless they've changed dramatically, the quality will probably decrease over time as it has with their other studies. More studios to manage should make their job even harder.
But I do hope they change and surprise me. I really want Indiana Jones and Perfect Dark to be great games...
I don't think Microsoft cares anymore about Xbox as a console. Realistically, we could be in a 2 console market next gen, with PC also becoming more popular possibly eclipsing consoles altogether.
@notorious that's where the mixed messages are coming in. Sometimes it sounds like everything is third party (every screen is an Xbox, clues that the next Xbox will be a PC), and sometimes they act like it's business as usual (Matt saying there will still be exclusives and these Xbox shows still not marketing to PS players).
I'd say they're in some middle ground where they want to have the cake and eat it too. I'd bet that the current momentum will drive then to give up on the hardware but who knows...
"Is Beginning to Hit Its Stride". I'm sure I've heard that somewhere before
https://www.ign.com/article...
That was back in 2015 when they had some third party exclusives games. Back when it was bad to have third party exclusives. Third party will always dry up unless that's they did (360 days)
Difference is they have their own exclusives now.
how about this gem
"Starfield doesn’t deserve this added pressure but it will be the first full-price game that has a chance to change minds about what Xbox is capable of. Initially, in 2021, it felt like Xbox had hit its stride"
@lighting: “That was back in 2015 when they had some third party exclusives games. Back when it was bad to have third party exclusives. Third party will always dry up unless that's they did (360 days)
Difference is they have their own exclusives now.”
Nice oily dodge you did there slick 🤦🏿
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Personality I don’t expect anything from MS they have prove way too many times their words are worthless to the point that the shop will give you 3 free just by looking at the sky near the shop 🤷🏿
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He's just saying that it's another "been there done that" situation using Starfield as a more recent example since you said that 2015 was a long time ago.
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Xbox's Matt Booty discusses reactions to the Xbox showcase, shipping Sea of Thieves on PlayStation, closing studios like Tango Gameworks, and more.
Matt Booty:
How It Started:
"Go spend Sony out of business."
How It Is Going:
"We just have great working relationships with the teams at Sony." (Sony is a great partner)
Microsoft thought players views and habits didn't matter but there are more people engaged with the gaming industry politics than there ever has been. Microsoft is like a toxic party and people know it and won't support the no matter how much money they throw at it. That is important.
Watch for the sleight of hand.
Hint: Exclusives and launch exclusives are not the same thing.
"When asked about what this means for future Xbox exclusives, Booty reiterates that the teams are evaluating games hitting other consoles on a 'case-by-case basis,' adding that Xbox players can absolutely continue to expect many games to launch as exclusives, and that the 'Xbox promise' that all Xbox first-party games come to Xbox Game Pass will continue to be true."
Majority are coming to PS5, the remainder for the most part don’t have release dates. If by stride you mean fanboy news stride, yes but that is nothing new.
