Hell I'm playing Borderlands 2 almost daily in 2018. Didn't even bother TPS though even though it was part of the Handsome Collection.
Let's hope so. I need it.
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Rumor: Microsoft to have marketing rights to BL3, Cyberpunk 2077 & more (UPDATE: May be inaccurate)
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Hell I'm playing Borderlands 2 almost daily in 2018. Didn't even bother TPS though even though it was part of the Handsome Collection.
Let's hope so. I need it.
Showcasing a game on Xbox One X could cause people to buy an Xbox One X.
Not only that, but you have the advantage of the clueless gamer who might think this game is exclusive to Xbox. That's why Marketing deals exist. Same deal for Sony.
Precisely, i never understood how people could take something as dumb as the box a new game was being advertised on as a victory for their console war.
Oh man, I don't care much about Splinter Cell, but I have a friend who is a superfan. Gotta tell him about it (or chances are he already knows lol)
I would think a minor tease may happen but all will be on stage at the MS E3 show...
Eh not really. Anyone could've guessed these and they're not exclusive.
Yep. People who play video games are their market. Not sure what your point is.
Are you saying Sony and Nintendo don't market games to that demographic?
It sucks that apparently in one year I'm going to be too old for Cyberpunk 2077 to be appealing to me.
its marketing. in commercials and at e3, these games appear with an xbox association. when advertised, it has an xbox logo. maybe it helps boost sales of the console, or copies of the game on that console.
maybe there will be some exclusive stuff, hopefully (for everyones sake) limited to cosmetics at worst, but this is for advertising.
microsoft has been hit hard by the "no games" message i think. this could be an effort to turn that around, but hopefully its just a combined effort along with a better 1st party showing and not timed exclusivity.
tl;dr, there are people who think destiny is exclusive to playstation and not available on xbox. theres a reason for that
People associate the games with the console it's marketed for.
For example, a friend of mine saw a commercial for The Witcher 3 and thought it was only available for Xbox One.
Pretty much. The lion's share of them are "second string" AAA titles and then Cyberpunk, which isn't surprising considering CDPR and MS already have a pretty positive working relationship and Witcher 3 had XBOX branding all over its ads too.
Slightly annoying because that means all the promo material is going to look incredible running on an Xbox One X and we won't get a true sense of what the games look like until later.
All of these sound 100% plausible and very likely. There's already precedent for Battlefield, Madden and Splinter Cell + Anthem was revealed on their stage last year.
Very solid pick ups.
Very solid pick ups.
All these games, besides Splinter Cell fall into the "Obvious" category for games that MS would have marketing rights to.
Hopefully they have some first party stuff and not just marketing deals to show.
Lets hope its nothing like the bullshit of Destiny which is the worst anti consumer marketing rights ever. At least Destiny 2 is garbage and I don't give a shit anymore.
Next gen version already confirmed in developement. So ps5 will be best looking version. :)
How is SC not obvious? The originals were all way better on Xbox and they had Conviction as an exclusive.
More Crackdown, Forza and maybe tease of the next Halo.
If it's just marketing, I couldn't care less. If it's an anti-consumer agreement similar to what Sony has with Destiny, I will care very much.
Just another way for those poor struggling 3rd party publishers to offset the unbearably high costs of games.
Note I'm mocking the pubs here not MS or Sony
All of these statements have the same underlying message. I honestly forget that not all gamers are hardcore like here.
I'm surprised that EA is going with Microsoft for Anthem, given how much they have riding on that game for Bioware and how badly the Titanfall franchise did with being seen as an Xbox game. But then EA has always oddly preferred Microsoft for marketing partnerships outside of FIFA.
Cool. Hope MS shows off actual first party games as well though and not just revert back to focusing on 3rd party only
Honestly Borderlands and Splinter Cell are no brainers. I absolutely associate Sam Fischer and Borderlands with Xbox on console but as hot as CDPR is right now Cyberpunk is huge for them...
Except that we're so far in to the generation it's not really that big of a deal. Unless they were actual exclusives, clueless gamer walks in to a BB or Gamestop or looks it up on Amazon and sees a version of the game for their system, they'll buy it.
I'd love to see some actual analytics as to whether things like this actually pay off, especially this late in a generation.
I mean... I feel like a Splinter Cell rumor would be more important than a rumor about marketing deals?
Marketing is meaningless when I can buy them For PS4/PC as well. Still waiting for Spencer to spend some money in new IPs and great exclusives. Happy to hear a new Splinter Cell is happening, since not many played Blacklist which was amazing.
Nothing unexpected in that list tbh, and all rather predictable, as it's all from "friendly" publishers to MS, between EA, 2K/ Gearbox, CDPR, and the usual "split my franchises equally" Ubisoft (could possibly mean the next Ass Creed will go with Sony for marketing).
The big missing ones are Activision (obviously CoD and Destiny are Sony), Rockstar (we already know Read Dead is Sony), and particularly Bethesda.
The big missing ones are Activision (obviously CoD and Destiny are Sony), Rockstar (we already know Read Dead is Sony), and particularly Bethesda.
Anthem was already confirmed and Battlefield 5 was expected looking at BF1. Curious which conference Avengers & Rocksteady show up at at E3. Avengers at MS & Rocksteady Sony most likely.
Sony's partnerships are with Destiny 2, FIFA 19, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2. They probably don't think they need any others lined up this year.
I only said Splinter Cell due to it not being officially announced yet. Ubisoft has been quiet about it.
Is there a source for this? I know he came back to Ubisoft but is he actually working on the new Splinter Cell?
Yeah or enhanced support for their next gen platform in the case of Cyberpunk.
The only one I am bothered about is CD Project, since I would like to see PS4 footage as well before release. Otherwise, it doesn't mean anything to me given these are multiplatform anyway.
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