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Definitely expecting a Scarlett tease. I don't think they're going to be coy about it at all. They're going to be very transparent about what it is and when it's coming.
I hope Gears 5 is a mix of open ended wider areas and more traditional claustrophobic stuff. I love the idea of like a God of War style hub or exploration area, but I also love the horror roots that gears wears proudly. Kait is a great character too, so some quiet moments and development with her will be awesome, peppered with some tense moments and a few good scares
That's what Phil said. Be as transparent as possible without misleading people. They don't want to tell you x and then do y.
I think they'll tease Scarlett, certainly.
Their transparency with XB1S and XB1X paid off.
Maybe if we're lucky we'll get a peek at what Halo Infinite looks like running on Scarlett. And then a full reveal with new games next year.
Definitely, while I'm not expecting them to reveal any specs, I could see them talking about how everythings gonna go down compatibility wise.
Phil just briefly mentioned that he likes the fact inXile has two studios in Newport Beach and New Orleans because it allows them to draw more talent from more places. He's not opposed to remote employees either because he's interested in the talent first and foremost and not that bothered by all the travel involved.
Very interesting bit of info.
Very interesting bit of info.
Yea, if they talk next Xbox at E3, it'll be how everything you're seeing during the briefing will be playable, and upgraded, for Scarlett.
They need to show us what one of those games looks like on Scarlett though
Holy shit!
So that means we'll be seeing huge ass maps in the campaign, I mean 20x the size is crazy. Hopefully they mix that up with some more smaller, linear parts too. But again, a much longer campaign.
Hell yes!
Awesome so they will continue to buy bigger studios.
Lends Theory that IOI, Relic may be acquired
I think they mean the studio numbers will get bigger, not buy bigger studios.
It could be applied to the studio count of the ones they acquire as well.
On the growth of the Xbox organisation and going where the talent is
Phil Spencer & Major Nelson said:
He worked with Rare and Lionhead back in the OG Xbox / early 360 era. He could be talking about the heavily rumoured Fable reboot.
Also: VOODOO VINCE 2, BABY!
It's interesting that the exact same infrastructure they're using to service their games and provide things like XBL and xCloud could be used to develop the games themselves. Remote VDI is something a lot of businesses are using to allow remote yet highly secure working (no files local, no screenshots etc.) and they could use Azure to do the same.
It can, if the developer isnt careful enough curate the experience and limit the number of playlists.
Some Gamemodes will be popular enough to warrant their own playlists. Some gamemodes will share a Playlist with other gamemodes. And others will be relegated to private games only.
Another thing that devs are doing lately is "mixtape matchmaking". This saved the MCC for me. To avoid the MP fragmentation that comes with having too many gamemodes, devs allow players to search multiple playlists at once. This keeps wait times low, but still allows players to experience all the gamemodes they are interested in.
sounds like they could possibly buy or build studios beyond the current Canada, US and England structure they have now. Also E3 HYPE !!!!!!
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I say buy or build something in Japan.
Not only would a Japanese developer bring even more diversity to their first party slate, they will have caught up to Sony and Nintendo in having a first party presence in NA, EU, and JP.
Main points
- Phil is happy about last year
- Tried out XCloud on vacation in Hawaii
- All Studios announced to be aquired have finished the paperwork
- MS CFO likes division (lol)
- Had to make decisions about how to go about E3 since Sony won't be there decided to go bigger than ever. some changes to E3 still at MS theatre
- expect expansion of first party to continue and possibly not just in US, Canada and England.
Think that is it.
Not ready to even think about that until I see Spencer or Booty on stage and Japanese studio logo pops up next the Microsoft studios logo.
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Microsoft is already building an Asian division in Tokyo, they've been hiring a mix of engineers and liaison types. So it looks like their goal is to establish and grow relationships with existing Japanese studios, as well as provide support to encourage them to make Xbox games. It's not likely that we'll see any acquisitions or full on studios materialize from that any time soon, but it is a foothold and could lead somewhere eventually
Just something.
If they expect their first party to be truly industry leading, they'll need some representation from Japan.
Phil Spencer said:
This is gonna be a fun E3 for us. There obviously was some news about E3 in the fall and we had a discussion internally of 'should we go big, should we save some money?' - what does that mean? We decided 'no, we're going to do our thing.' We're going to go and be as big at E3 as we've ever been.
Also, Phil Spencer Should do ASMR
This is gonna be a fun E3 for us. There obviously was some news about E3 in the fall and we had a discussion internally of 'should we go big, should we save some money?' - what does that mean? We decided 'no, we're going to do our thing.' We're going to go and be as big at E3 as we've ever been.
Also, Phil Spencer Should do ASMR
He went there to recruit Sakaguchi to the
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