Freaking tell 'em.
I cannot believe HFR is gonna be a one and done. Ugggghhhh
Xbox Game Studios + Bethesda + ABK |OT30| Why So Series X|S?
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Freaking tell 'em.
I cannot believe HFR is gonna be a one and done. Ugggghhhh
what's this?
so Xbox should just go numb and stop advertising their games?
Its sad... The studio behind the evil within franchise, ghostwire tokyo, hi fi rush... All gone, because some greedy company and some suits who cant do a good job with their brand
Yeah I didn't want to say it out loud but that's the vibes I got from it lol
Which they've largely stopped doing outside of very specific IPs (usually licensed) where it makes sense.
I think they just figured that the studios having creative freedom was enough, and it just isn't.
Play it on The Device You Own™
Banger of a trailer though. Really sells the current product.
We come back to that 2020 E3 show often, but Microsoft really had no choice other than to announce games with CGI trailers. The only concrete thing they had was a not remotely ready Halo gameplay trailer.
They're already not just a SoT studio though. They're not going to cancel Everwild after how much time and money they've put in. If anything, the success of SoT buys them the time and space they need to work on Everwild.
If they get Everwild right, it could be ANOTHER SoT. Hell, it could be bigger than SoT!
Yeah it was a necessary evil at the time, but thankfully they've moved away from it now that they don't need to.
Phil wants the xbox app or something like it featured on the xbox handheld, not whatever ROG Pulse thing is coming out soon.
I'd probably bite on that Ally X if it had an OLED screen. At this point I'm too spoiled with playing my games on OLED monitor/TV and Steam Deck OLED. But nice that like Valve, they are putting more emphasis on battery. Battery life is king.
This Xbox app should have an official emulator to let us play all our library of games.
Bethesda deserved better than Microsoft and Xbox. Absolute disgrace.
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I think it's been said by Rare heads they have 2-3 teams. At least one is the dedicated SoT team..which is pretty large by all accounts.
I'm sure they have stuff in incubation for after Everwild too.
I know that already. Rare has 1 or 2 other teams working on other stuff...now. That's 1 or 2 teams worth of people that could be working on Sea of Thieves. Microsoft just closed down entire studios to reallocate resources into bigger, more assured projects. Project cancellations (many that we don't know of yet), pitch rejections, and layoffs are going to happen across the board at Microsoft.
If Sea of Thieves starts to decline, they'll be grateful to have Everwild coming out in 2026 or whatever.
Has Microsoft ever released any numbers saying what the split of GamePass users were between console/PC/cloud?
Shooting from the hip here, but I am assuming that the majority of GamePass users are still primarily console gamers. Cutting off hardware going forward would be an easy way to let GamePass subs drop by quite a bit.
More weight is not a good thing. It's one of the biggest drawbacks of some of the current PC handhelds. Steam Deck OLED should be the upper limit. Wonder where the new Ally will land.
i would think they still want more hits besides sea of thieves in rare's case. makes no sense to throw more manpower at it when they have a big team at rare + lucid + flix + more outsourcing at it.
what does that even mean. fascinating how things are going to executive fuck ups to throwing creative teams under the bus because they don't meet the oh so almighty needs of the gamer timelines.
Everwild is one of the big games I was looking forward to when getting a Series X, I'm a dumbarse. Feel like someone who got a PS3 for the Last Guardian lol
that it's even possible that it's not even clear what everwild is supposed to be (circa 2022?) is probably a failure of creative teams and executives. Do we even know what genre it's supposed to be? Does Microsoft?
What in recent days has made you think Microsoft is that forward thinking? I agree that they should be working on other titles because you never know when your golden goose will decline and you never know when you strike gold with the next big thing. But if you were to tell me years ago that Vicarious Visions and Toys for Bob would be put into the COD mines after releasing successful platformers and remasters, I don't think I would believe it. But they did end up there because execs wanted to squeeze as much blood from the rock as possible.
With its music it pretty much guarantees HiFi Rush will be delisted. This is going to become a day one buy if I can
I hope there is no review bombing towards Hellblade 2 believing that this will punish Microsoft. I mean, if HFR was punished because "Xbox hasn't released games in a long time" what could I expect from this...
Yeah, there was no other choice. Some of the mismanagement accusations - not all - also comes from that and people still don't getting how long it takes to make a game. It's kinda the same when people say "they bought all of these studios and still released no exclusives".
They still aren't through the first round of AAA dev cycles. It's just how long it takes and even longer if the studio or team had to be built first or came with prior obligations or similar.
Even the game they showed before the systems released - Hellblade 2 - isn't out yet.
the creative director left in 2020 and since then greg mayles took over and per andy robinson (VGC) it's been doing far better since then (more viva piñata esque). if you don't even know about the subject, why even talk about it?
I'm never going to spend another penny on this platform. I truly hope the incredibly talented team at Tango finds a better home, preferably with Nintendo or Sony. They deserve to create an amazing game that earns heaps of praise and awards. Go to TGA/BAFTA or whatever and throws that in the F face of Xbox leadership team. God please let this happen.
*Yeah I'm beyond pissed.
Well, Last Guardian delivered even if it was a generation later. We'll see about Everwild :)
I don't think pessimism is unwarranted since Grubb's own reporting that they didn't know what the hell they were doing with it 🤷🏽
There's a difference between closing studios before they had new projects greenlit and cancelling games which have already been in development for 5+ years and which Xbox themselves greenlit.
The majority of the big in-development games are likely safe.
Wasn't that Perfect Dark?
Also, Andy almost certainly has more sources at Rare than Grubb does.
Grubb's reporting that predates all the leadership changes at the game? You're talking about 2020/2021 stuff.
It was rebooted late 2020 and were optimistically targeting 2024 release. What you are talking about happened 3.5-4 years ago.
AFAIK it was late 21 early 22 after the leadership change summer 21
Everwild don't exist to me as a consumer until they show it again. That's on Microsoft/rare they don't get the benefit of the doubt from me anymore. Show it when it's ready that's about all the energy I can muster for em at this point
And before anybody try the bs I've pushed Everwild HEAVY in here along with fucking contraband another one
And before anybody try the bs I've pushed Everwild HEAVY in here along with fucking contraband another one
this is where I'm at, if they want excitement or benefit of the doubt they can earn it because it's all pessimism right now personally.
that's reasonable. the "team so up it's ass" that bothers me. some teams try new stuff and it takes time to find what makes the game click. that should be encouraged.
i didn't say they are, but i don't think they are at activision level _yet_. we'll see though, i certainly understand the skepticism - i just don't think throwing more manpower at sea of thieves would do much.