MS does. Xbox doesn't. There's a reason they've had rekatuvekyfewer marketing deals the past few years. This marks a clear escalation so more $$$. Given the quantity I'd say it's a LOT more $$$
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Rumor: Microsoft to have marketing rights to BL3, Cyberpunk 2077 & more (UPDATE: May be inaccurate)
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MS does. Xbox doesn't. There's a reason they've had rekatuvekyfewer marketing deals the past few years. This marks a clear escalation so more $$$. Given the quantity I'd say it's a LOT more $$$
Their conference is over 1 hour and a half long, you can't stretch out 8 games to almost 2 hours lmao. They usually do 6 minute gameplay demos for marketing deals. They're supposed to announce their Fall 2018-Summer 2019 lineup during it, so I'm sure they have something.
MS had the marketing rights to BF1 and we didn't get an X patch. MS should have been annoyed at EA.
There's only so many games you can have these kinds of partnerships with. If Sony has an ongoing deal for Destiny it makes sense they would not be in on Anthem. Same with Battlefield and CoD. They also have FIFA. And seemingly RDR. Marketing time and resources are not infinite.
The Witcher 3 was with Microsoft, so them getting Cyberpunk too wouldn't be unexpected.
I still don't understand why people see this as an escalation. MS has had multiple Big co-marketing deals this generation. This is nothing new.
Also again, this is marketing money. They don't use that to make games. They use that to pay and maintain their marketing department.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands was the 7th best-selling game in the US (per NPD), the 10th best-selling game in North/Central/South America as well the 7th best-selling game in Europe/Middle East/Africa (per Ubisoft) in 2017.
And now Far Cry 5 is the second-biggest launch yet for an Ubisoft game, behind The Division.
If you're writing the checks, what do you think?
I mean, Sony will have the marketing rights for the 2 biggest third party games of the year (RDR2 and BO4)... I think they are fine.
This would be news if it wasn't leaked multiple times over the past month.
By GameStop, again by Ubisoft putting up an amazon listing for "Splinter Cell 2018" and most recently, by the voice actor for the character saying he's happy to be able to voice the character again on Instagram.
Yeah, they leaked the Xbox One X name before everyone last year, their sources seems to be good
I was super bummed about the Witcher 3 CE not being the same on all platforms. The XBO version got Gwent Cards and a physical map while PC and PS4 got neither.
Shame, would've loved to see CDPR be a neutral party here.
Shame, would've loved to see CDPR be a neutral party here.
Sony will have Red Dead Redemption 2, Black Ops 4, Kingdom Hearts 3 probably, Dragon Quest XI.
These all make sense honestly. Heck, I'd have guessed each one except Borderlands 3 simply based on recent partnerships.
They've leaked things about Xbox before anyone else did before.
Maybe im really out of the loop but i feel like Anthem is the biggest game of all the ones listed.
I don't think KH3 has a marketing deal. FFXV showed up at BOTH Microsoft AND Sony's conferences at E3 2016 because they wanted the game to get as much exposure as possible.
Microsoft got a 6 minute long gameplay demo at their conference of a boss battle and Sony got a 3 minute long trailer at their conference.
I think they'll either do the same or have their own conference.
KH3 has also only showed up at Sony like once and that was in 2013 for the reveal. The other times it was at Square Enix's own events.
It probably will. I dont know what the guy is talking about lol
This is all well and good but I'd be very surprised if Ubisoft were making a Splinter Cell atm that was far enough along to have marketing and a reveal.
Can't say I'm overly bothered about that Amazon listing either, I feel like a lot of people are setting themselves up for a massive disappointment
Can't say I'm overly bothered about that Amazon listing either, I feel like a lot of people are setting themselves up for a massive disappointment
Interesting to see so much cheerleading of marketing deals itt considering how much hostility you usually see about such things when the subject comes up.
Oh well, seems like it's going to be another third party focused E3 for MS then. Doesn't bode well for hope of a renewed first party push (which they sorely need).
Oh well, seems like it's going to be another third party focused E3 for MS then. Doesn't bode well for hope of a renewed first party push (which they sorely need).
Sony didn't have the rights to those titles anyways to give them, they already have too many secured.
Sony getting marketing and early content for COD and FIFA has done wonders for them.
I just think the initial positivity did wonders for them. I mean, even E3's crowd price reaction was part of commercials for crying out loud.
I hope y'all are right. I wanna see a substantial increase in first party development from them.
It's an escalation because of the sheer number of marketing deals and dollars it represents. Personally it's disapointing because I was hoping to see them heavily prioritize first party investment which th what ever extra funding they had this year. Thus seems to imply that a large chunk of whatever extra funding they acquired was devoted to marketing deals instead of first party development. At least that's what I fear looking at that massive list anyway
Wow, that's a bunch of games. I figured Cyberpunk and Splinter Cell would be with them, in addition to Anthem, but I didn't expect Borderlands..
It's been leaked three times in the past month.
1. GameStop first leaked it.
2. Then Ubisoft themselves posted a listing on Amazon for "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 2018"
3. Most recently, the actor for previous Splinter Cell games made a post on Instagram saying he was happy to be able to voice Sam Fisher again and basically confirmed he was recording lines.
Yeah that's possible too. I'm just basing it off of them not bothering to port 2.8 or 1.5 + 2.5 to Xbox.
Something is wrong in it or something is missing from the list?
Yeah. Marketing rights are such a weird form of ''psuedo-exclusivity'.
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