Rather want to see that Killzone trilogy Remaster for PS4 from Bluepoint.Sony should celebrate by hiring Bluepoint to remaster Resistance 3.
...and the other two, I s'pose.
Or, that maybe people are still hesitant about MS as a publisher?
They screwed over the developers for the Phantom Dust reboot, as well as SWERY with D4.
They abandoned a lot of developers to help pay for Kinect marketing (Aces, Lionhead)
They pushed for everything to be GaS - Fable Legends, Halo series, Forza, etc,
Under their care, a beloved studio floudnered, and made basically nothing worthy of note for like 20 years (Rare)
They shut down Ensemble because they were "the RTS studio", and that wasn't the direction they wanted to go, despite not letting Ensemble work on anything but RTSes (They had pitches for everything from racing to MMOs)
They have studios that exist to to never work on new IPs, just like EA's sport studios (343i, The Coatillion, Mojang, Turn 10, Undead Labs)
They basically have an almost EA track level with studios. When a studio gets bought by MS, I generally consider them to have an expiration date, unless they work on one series for the rest of their time. So basically, I just don't trust MS as a publisher. While Phil seems to be saying the right things, it'll be a while until we see results, and if he retires, or otherwise leaves, it could mean a huge disaster, since it seems like he is the only one pushing for things to not be as horrible.
Spider-man studio. Poor Ratchet & Clank.
Congrats to everyone though. It was always a close relationship throughout the years so this makes a whole lot of sense.
That's heavily reductive. What about Obsidian and Inxile?Well you gotta admit practically none of the MS acquired studio's is in the same league as Insomniac (and Naughty Dog, and Guerilla, and SSM). In my opinion this single acquisition blows all the recent MS acquisitions out of the water.
I'm surprised Sony is bothering. Insomniac doesn't own any ips and preferred to make games for Sony already. They're just buying a building. I guess they were worried about MS buying them?
They are a top quality studio with a fantastic track record. It's more than worth it IMO.I'm surprised Sony is bothering. Insomniac doesn't own any ips and preferred to make games for Sony already. They're just buying a building. I guess they were worried about MS buying them?
Well you gotta admit practically none of the MS acquired studio's is in the same league as Insomniac (and Naughty Dog, and Guerilla, and SSM). In my opinion this single acquisition blows all the recent MS acquisitions out of the water.
Yes, yes we will.
I'm surprised Sony is bothering. Insomniac doesn't own any ips and preferred to make games for Sony already. They're just buying a building. I guess they were worried about MS buying them?
This is HUGE. How many teams Insomniac has? 3 full AAA teams? This opens so many possibilities for first party AAA games.
Remedy and Bluepoint next please.
Yes I'll admit Xbox/Microsoft hasn't done well in the past. I could see why people might be worried. But now that they place more importance on Xbox Live accounts and GamePass I think things will be much better. They know they can't run a subscription service on multiplayer GaaS type games alone.
Though I wouldn't blame Rare's problems on Microsoft alone. Since they joined Microsoft they did release another Conker, Banjo, etc. Them sucking had nothing to do with Microsoft. And their refusal to do sequels and constantly try out new genres has been Rare's big thing since long before Microsoft joined the video game market.
Also they haven't just floundered. Viva Piñata was a huge success for them. So is Sea of Thieves. Not that I care about a pirate GaaS.
I don't even own an Xbox. My only console is a Switch. It's just funny to see the different tones in the studio buy out threads.
When Microsoft bought Double Fine and Obsidian you had people complaining in the threads about these companies becoming Xbox exclusive. But here it's nothing but cheering.
You mean Ratchet 2 remake?
God, the mods really need to pull the sticks out of their ass. Is it really necessary to ban people for harmless posts like this? No fun allowed at this place...
"We need to see other people..." stage included.It's like when that couple that have been together for 10 years finally gets married. Not surprising, and way overdue.
I'm surprised Sony is bothering. Insomniac doesn't own any ips and preferred to make games for Sony already. They're just buying a building.