Xbox Game Studios |OT5| The Cult of Phil in the Age of Booty: A Case Study

Hawk269 · Jun 15, 2019

With all these studios and adding in Double Fine and whoever is next, I just really hope that MS keeps pushing for a variety in different genres. I think MS had done well even before getting all these studios. Some games did well, others not so well, but there was some variety. Games like Halo Wars 2 a RTS on console with good production values and support are some of the things that add variety to the platform. I know many want single player narrative games and I do as well, but more RPG's, RTS games, stuff like Planet Coaster would help round out the library. I just hope that we get that variety with all these new studios.

Roman Bellic · Jun 15, 2019

rrc1594 said:
Blair Witch is a MS game?

Nope, but it could be a console exclusive to Xbox One.

That's a content of the report from Bloober Team from 6th June:

The Management Board of Bloober Team S.A. (hereinafter referred to as the "Issuer"), he announced that on 06.06.2019 he received information from his subsidiary Bloober Team NA (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") about the Company's conclusion of a significant agreement with Microsoft Corporation based in Washington, The United States, which is responsible for the release of a new game produced by the Company on Microsoft platforms in a special program. The copyright for the game in question will remain with the previous owners and will not pass to Microsoft Corporation. The Issuer will inform about the detailed date of the premiere by a separate current report.

source: Bankier.pl.

iareharSon · Jun 15, 2019

Femto0 said:
I agree or maybe a new shadowrun

I don't know if it's because Obsidian will be making Shadowrun, but Microsoft had to say that it's studios are free to dip into their bank of intellectual properties for a reason.

Having said that, Microsoft has to be seeing the fan reaction to Cyberpunk and having a light bulb go off.

Sotha_Sil · Jun 15, 2019

Halo MCC and The Outer Worlds are #2 and #4 on Steam's most wishlisted games. I think Phil is making the right choice opening games up to Steam. If you want to utilize the Game Pass for PC service, you'll likely use the Xbox app. If you want to just buy individual games, you'll likely go for Steam.

It's these kind of moves that make me feel confident in Microsoft going forward, even if there's still huge chunks of the XGS' output I'm just never going to get on board with. They have enough unique studios like Obsidian, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine to pump out great games with excellent services to boot.

Zymespee said:
compulsion games have been the most silent of all XGS....i wonder what they have in the works..are they also hiring too?

When they were acquired, they were 100% dedicated to releasing the three We Happy Few expansions. Only one has come out so far. They've hired people, and someone at E3 (Phil or Booty?) said they were starting pre-production on their next game. They're in the early phases right now.

christocolus · Jun 15, 2019

I still can't believe how many devs there are under XGS now. It's like a few days ago Xbox was mocked for having just 5 devs and then PC gamers love Phil now? Lol. How times change....

Klobrille · Jun 15, 2019

christocolus said:
I still can't believe how many devs there are under XGS now. It's like a few days ago Xbox was mocked for having just 5 devs and then PC gamers love Phil now? Lol. How times change....

wwm0nkey · Jun 15, 2019

So the combo of Gamepass, Gamepass PC, xCloud and PC versions hitting day and date....Xbox mindshare is about it explode when Gears 5 and Halo hit. Will give a big refresher for both series.

Mack · Jun 15, 2019

Klobrille said:

You should definitely work in Microsoft as a community/PR man, Klobrille. Unless you already do ;)

solis74 · Jun 15, 2019

SuikerBrood said:

great stuff!

christocolus · Jun 15, 2019

I think MS will acquire 1 or 2 Japanese studios and then build another 1 or 2 studio from the ground up.

Deleted member 45617 · Jun 15, 2019

So a few familiar faces are appearing on the GoG Galaxy 2.0 beta sign up page

Very cool

christocolus · Jun 15, 2019

Klobrille said:

Its crazy all the talent they've got now and they are obviously not done. They are also getting the right people in the right positions. During one of the recent interviews post E3 It was mentioned that Matt Booty actually does character modelling in his spare time.

Dokkaebi G0SU · Jun 15, 2019

Klobrille said:

beautiful

SnatcherHunter · Jun 15, 2019

Klobrille said:

Initiative making new Perfect Dark? Is that Joanna?

Adookah · Jun 15, 2019

danrbg said:
Real Madrid just signed a Japanese. It's your turn Microsoft.

Haha he is the new Messi 😁

Klobrille · Jun 15, 2019

SnatcherHunter said:
Initiative making new Perfect Dark? Is that Joanna?

Just a placeholder I used for fun / illustration purposes because we don't know anything about The Initiative :)

knightmawk · Jun 15, 2019

Bits N Pieces said:
So Obsidian are looking at a two and a half year proper development time on The Outer Worlds. That's just.. wow. Consider they have multiple teams then between Obsidian, inXile and Playground we are going to be swimming in all kinds of RPG goodness for the foreseeable.

I wonder if any of them have stuff ready for the Scarlett launch window?

For what it's worth, Outer Worlds isn't going to be as big as some of their future projects probably will be. It's not open world, I don't know how long they're planning on making it, but from what I've heard I'm expecting about 20 hours for one play with a lot of replayability thanks to branching paths.

Playground's also probably going to take their time with their first game, since it's their first RPG and it's effectively a new team building it.

I wouldn't be surprised if InXile and Obsidian both had something, maybe not something huge but something, ready for Scarletts launch. Those first few years with Scarlett are finna be nuts though.

Joseph · Jun 15, 2019

Klobrille said:

Lot of diverse output right there.

cartoon_soldier · Jun 15, 2019

SnatcherHunter said:
Initiative making new Perfect Dark? Is that Joanna?

Just use Darrell Gallagher.

Ushay · Jun 15, 2019

zedox said:
Ori, and Killer Instinct was under her...you may want to rethink that. ;)

Fair point. Those are very good titles in their own right, personally enjoyed them both.
Again, I think her overall output was unspectacular, they wouldn't have replaced her otherwise with Peter Wyse (pun unintended!). While some of these games will have had their strong point, I think its plain for everyone to see their reception was fairly muted.

XGS needs 'spectacular' going into the next generation and it all looks like the right people are in place to do that now.

Klobrille said:

Blows my mind how far they've come in just over a year. I still think they should rename the Age of Empires studio, so as to not pigeon hole them into a single IP.
20 by 2020 certainly isn't a dream. There'll be a Japanese studio in there somewhere hopefully.

Detective Pidgey · Jun 15, 2019

Holy shit, I'm already seeing a ad for The Outer Worlds on YouTube.

bsigg · Jun 15, 2019

Klobrille said:

For comparisons sake, you should make one with all the studios that were acquired over the last year blacked out.

Deleted member 3897 · Jun 15, 2019

SOR5 said:
So a few familiar faces are appearing on the GoG Galaxy 2.0 beta sign up page

Very cool

I really hope they add game pass functionality to Galaxy 2 at beta launch and that beta launch is very soon.

So far my biggest problems with the Xbox beta app is that the mroe games you install, the slower and laggier it becomes when you start it up.

Klobrille · Jun 15, 2019

bsigg said:
For comparisons sake, you should make one with all the studios that were acquired over the last year blacked out.

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bsigg · Jun 15, 2019

Klobrille said:
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Thank you! This is crazy and a testament to the direction Phil Spencer has guided Xbox on over the last 5 years

cartoon_soldier · Jun 15, 2019

Joseph · Jun 15, 2019

I actually think Loftis did a good job with what she was able to bring. I hope this new guy will be able to get great things from partnerships(Japan plz).

cartoon_soldier · Jun 15, 2019

Joseph said:
I actually think Loftis did a good job with what she was able to bring. I hope this new guy will be able to get great things from partnerships(Japan plz).

Who's the new guy?

Shingi_70 · Jun 15, 2019

Ushay said:
Fair point. Those are very good titles in their own right, personally enjoyed them both.
Again, I think her overall output was unspectacular, they wouldn't have replaced her otherwise with Peter Wyse (pun unintended!). While some of these games will have had their strong point, I think its plain for everyone to see their reception was fairly muted.

XGS needs 'spectacular' going into the next generation and it all looks like the right people are in place to do that now.

Blows my mind how far they've come in just over a year. I still think they should rename the Age of Empires studio, so as to not pigeon hole them into a single IP.
20 by 2020 certainly isn't a dream. There'll be a Japanese studio in there somewhere hopefully.

She also didn't Recore which was great.

Kiekura · Jun 15, 2019

Watched couple youtubers review for E3. Gears felt just like another gears and fans will love it, but for them it was pretty meh. Bleeding edge was fantastic and i am getting really hyped about that game.

They also said Xcloud feels really really good. There is lag, but it doesn't matter when playing SP games. Getting hyped up for Xcloud too!

BladeRunner2099 · Jun 15, 2019

cartoon_soldier said:

I think FH is bigger than Gears at this point.

FH3 outsold Gears 4 without Gamepass. Gears 5 seems to have lost some momentum after E3 with little hype post show ( Youtube views, big gamers talking about it, Escape mode impressions being mixed etc).

Coalition will deliver a very good game but will they produce a great game, I am still on the fence.

Joseph · Jun 15, 2019

cartoon_soldier said:
Who's the new guy?

Karl Stricker

Deleted member 6235 · Jun 15, 2019

Finally watched the "1 year later" panel. Great stuff, Matt seems like a great person for leading the first party content at MS. Loved the part about Jeff strain wanting top tier animators, they definitely need it.

The future seems really promising. Hope for some more nice surprises like DF and Flight Sim. Imagine Playdead with MS's backing!

bsigg · Jun 15, 2019

Kiekura said:
Watched couple youtubers review for E3. Gears felt just like another gears and fans will love it, but for them it was pretty meh. Bleeding edge was fantastic and i am getting really hyped about that game.

They also said Xcloud feels really really good. There is lag, but it doesn't matter when playing SP games. Getting hyped up for Xcloud too!

Like has been discussed to hell and back, The Coalition has done a bad job of marketing the new campaign that they're saying is their largest yet.

They really should have shown more of the campaign to give people more of an idea of what they can expect then follow that up with Escape.

Henrik · Jun 15, 2019

Ushay said:
Fair point. Those are very good titles in their own right, personally enjoyed them both.
Again, I think her overall output was unspectacular, they wouldn't have replaced her otherwise with Peter Wyse (pun unintended!). While some of these games will have had their strong point, I think its plain for everyone to see their reception was fairly muted.

XGS needs 'spectacular' going into the next generation and it all looks like the right people are in place to do that now.

Blows my mind how far they've come in just over a year. I still think they should rename the Age of Empires studio, so as to not pigeon hole them into a single IP.
20 by 2020 certainly isn't a dream. There'll be a Japanese studio in there somewhere hopefully.

Experience Inc, Q-Games, Nippon Ichi Software, Ys Net, Art Play.

Most likely Ys Net or Q-Games. It depends on if IGA wants to sell Art Play if Bloodstained does well.

BladeRunner2099 · Jun 15, 2019

Kiekura said:
Watched couple youtubers review for E3. Gears felt just like another gears and fans will love it, but for them it was pretty meh. Bleeding edge was fantastic and i am getting really hyped about that game.

They also said Xcloud feels really really good. There is lag, but it doesn't matter when playing SP games. Getting hyped up for Xcloud too!

This game has the BIGGEST chance of blowing up on Twitch. The twitch crowd is craving for a new Overwatch ish type of game and if the initial impressions are positive, by end of next year, it could be the biggest game for Microsoft.

Joseph · Jun 15, 2019

Man, that 20by2020 wasn't too far off.

Dyashen · Jun 15, 2019

Deleted member 53021 · Jun 15, 2019

Mack said:
You should definitely work in Microsoft as a community/PR man, Klobrille. Unless you already do ;)

hahaha some people were calling him "Phil" ON TWITTER recently...maybe he does already his positivist is great

Joseph · Jun 15, 2019

I kinda wish the AoE team had a cool name.

Deleted member 53021 · Jun 15, 2019

Joseph said:
Man, that 20by2020 wasn't too far off.

Matt booty said they dont have any specific quota interms of the number of studios they can acquire...he said its all about relationships and how best an acquisition works for both sides...i think i will say 50by20205 then

SnatcherHunter · Jun 15, 2019

Klobrille said:
Just a placeholder I used for fun / illustration purposes because we don't know anything about The Initiative :)

Ahhhh. That be awesome lol

Deleted member 18951 · Jun 15, 2019

Kiekura said:
Watched couple youtubers review for E3. Gears felt just like another gears and fans will love it, but for them it was pretty meh. Bleeding edge was fantastic and i am getting really hyped about that game.

They also said Xcloud feels really really good. There is lag, but it doesn't matter when playing SP games. Getting hyped up for Xcloud too!

Escape felt like just another Gears? Or was there loads of closed door stuff the public havent seen?

Joseph · Jun 15, 2019

Zymespee said:
Matt booty said they dont have any specific quota interms of the number of studios they can acquire...he said its all about relationships and how best an acquisition works for both sides...i think i will say 50by20205 then

50 would be something. I think 20-25 teams would be the sweet spot. You want to be able to fit all the studio heads in a room lol.

bsigg · Jun 15, 2019

This is awesome.

Bradbatross · Jun 15, 2019

BladeRunner2099 said:
I think FH is bigger than Gears at this point.

FH3 outsold Gears 4 without Gamepass. Gears 5 seems to have lost some momentum after E3 with little hype post show ( Youtube views, big gamers talking about it, Escape mode impressions being mixed etc).

Coalition will deliver a very good game but will they produce a great game, I am still on the fence.

Escape mode impressions are mixed?

BladeRunner2099 · Jun 15, 2019

Bradbatross said:
Escape mode impressions are mixed?

Yes, I personally am hyped for it but the Gears forum is not really digging it ( They never do, its Gears dah!) , Youtube impressions/likes, some reviews from gaming outlets are giving mixed to positive opinions but nothing Game changing which you would hope being a new addition to Gears and they showed it at E3.

SpinierBlakeD · Jun 15, 2019

Morgoth Bauglir said:
Obsidian with money could do way better than Mass Effect, especially if 343/TC fix the gunplay

There is no better than Mass Effect. It's the pinnacle of sci fi video games.

BladeRunner2099 · Jun 15, 2019

Theorry said:
I keep saying it. But i think Obsidian can make the next "mass effect game". Its there style and they can go big now.

I personally think Obsidian are the only gaming company other than Bethesda who can create the next 'Skyrim'.

Obsidian are masters at RPGs and now they have the vast resources, time and creativity on their hand.

Bradbatross · Jun 15, 2019

BladeRunner2099 said:
Yes, I personally am hyped for it but the Gears forum is not really digging it ( They never do, its Gears dah!) , Youtube impressions/likes, some reviews from gaming outlets are giving mixed to positive opinions but nothing Game changing which you would hope being a new addition to Gears and they showed it at E3.

All the impressions seem pretty positive to me, and seems like a game changing addition since it offers a new mode that can bring new gamers to Gears who might be turned off by the competitive PvP mode.

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