If Avellone isn't coming back i dont see the point.
well according to superdata it brings in the most revenue from subscription services, so not sure what you mean by it hasnt found it's niche. people are clearly using it.
Man, look at the body of work that Obsidian has put out. Do people honestly believe that their writing and game direction die by one man?
just to point out, disney "limited" the license to EA because theyre either the biggest if not second biggest 3rd party publisher with a multitude of studios under their umbrella of which im sure disney thought multiple games would be released within the 10 year window and not just two battlefront games in the first half of the deal
It's amazing some dismiss or see Sony conceding anything...when PS Plus IGC was a thing last gen, before Games with Gold, EAAccess and Game Pass.
1. Get this, if streaming was not the future, you would not have HBO, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, Sirius XM, Itunes are the various other marketplaces that we have today.
1. Thats superdata lol
This is what really disappoints me even with NPD numbers. When all you are looking at revenue with little context, you could really argue anything.
Microsoft is not investing to not go head to head. They have shown that they intend to compete on every front be it games, hardware and services. The only thing that is different is that they are targeting more devices, and are not only going to invest in a top end console but also a streaming box. How well the latter does is something that we will have to see.
That as well. Xbox is integrated now into other Ms offerings.
that may not be ms intent here. if you read jasson's peice, it seems ms wants a bunch of mid teir games to push games pass. games pass makes more sense if the games ms are making are 20 to 30 million, not 300 million.
Na. Phil's been righting the ship now for, quite literally years. Great X support, incredible BC initiatives, very pro cross platform; the whole nine is covered man. I didn't say they've bested anyone else, but they got their shit together, again, years ago. I can say such a thing so authoritatively because such a thing is a fact; Phil's been doing an incredible job with Xbox since 2014, that's four years brethren, so yes, their shit has been together for years, but that doesn't make a messy launch that was owed to Mattrick's idiotic ass suddenly disappear. It's incredibly difficult to heal from such a messy launch, but the Xbox of going on five years now is not that Xbox, and it's exhausting to see people like you conflating current, and even recent past Xbox with the Xbox of 2012/2013 when they are, in many regards, completely different companies. Also, Xbox has had incredible profits this generation, regardless of how they've compared to Switch or PS4, and Satya Nadella is very happy with Xbox's growth and revenue, so your claim that this is a "lost generation" is simply absolute nonsense that seems to be motivated purely by console wars bs. XBox is making Microsoft plenty of money, it's very profitable, it's seeing great growth, and the new initiatives have all been massive hits, so I think it's time you review what a "lost generation" is.
343i?
This. Folks can be blindly negative for as long as they want, but it doesn't change the facts. Microsoft's helped build up some of the best devs in the industry, and I'm hoping to see Obsidian and Ninja Theory become the AAA developers with the notoriety accorded to them that they've always deserved.
Whoooboy!
Yeah no...Their shit has shown signs of being together again since last E3, not a second earlier.
