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Xbox Game Studios |OT5| The Cult of Phil in the Age of Booty: A Case Study
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Finally, we can litter the Earth with cobblestone penises.
Minecraft earth is cool and all, but where is my Viva Piñata mobile AR game?
*I said this as a joke originally but the more I think about it the more I realize I'm all about this.
*I said this as a joke originally but the more I think about it the more I realize I'm all about this.
With Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Earth its going to continue the money making machine.
I would expect other spinoffs as well, but Ive always thought Minecart would be cool personally. It could be Xbox's Mario kart with Xbox mascots. Or they could just revive Rare's kart racer.
Well, either way, there is Crash Team Racing next month, so at least there will be a good Kart racer on Xbox soon.
Minekart makes too much sense. The game's visual style is rich enough to have a decent amount of biomes to race in. Allow people to customize their karts with blocks (maybe keep it cosmetic to keep it simple). Maybe even a track editor with Minecraft's editor. Microsoft is sitting on a goldmine and so far they are using it well: smart spin-offs but without falling into the Guitar Hero trap of abusing the franchise with too many games in too little time. Hopefully a kart racer will arrive too, as that's a genre Microsoft has absolutely nothing (first party, anyway).
SoT got a big boost on most played. Its even in the top 20 in the US.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/most-played/games/xbox
UK its usually higher then US and it got a boost there also to top 15
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/most-played/games/xbox
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/most-played/games/xbox
UK its usually higher then US and it got a boost there also to top 15
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/most-played/games/xbox
IMHO there are so many options:
an xcom like using blocks as cover
tower defense
an rts focused in build your base(like stronghold)
It could work even for a gears like game
IDK about a kart game, but if you could build phishical pieces of the track or obstacles, or smashing ones, could be a blast
I've always thought Minecraft could be used with MS IP or other licensed IP the same way Lego does. You could have a Minecraft Halo or Gears that's much sillier in tone and could be played by everybody with the Minecraft aesthetic.
And unlike with the LEGO games or that Mega Bloks thing they were working on some time ago, their Minecraft license would be in-house, thus free. They'd have no licensing fees associated with a Minecraft Halo, for example, and then they could make shittons of money with the Minecraft-style Master Chief figurines or the Halo Minecraft playing blocks. I'm actually surprised this hasn't happened yet, in fact.
Minecraft Forza could be their Forza Kart with all of the MS IP characters done in the Minecraft aesthetic.
I'm curious to see the Sonic Racing and the Crash Team Racing sales. While the latter will be booster by the nostalgia-factor and the former is a Sonic game so it's gonna sell regardless, it will show how much a solid triple-A kart racer can do this generation, even when it isn't called Mario Kart. That's one genre I really want Microsoft to tackle, as they nailed the arcade driving in so many exclusives throughout the generations, so this does kinda sound like a no-brainer.
Of all the Minecraft spin offs, I feel like a cart racer makes the most sense. An RTS or a cover based shooter could be cool, but they'd feel a little odd to me, and there's games like that that already exist, not that there aren't other cart racers.
Plus, there's already minecraft skins for a lot of Xbox franchises, so the roster wouldn't even be that much of a stretch. And the minecraft style seems like the only way I'd be able to not feel weird about seeing Master Chief and Joanna Dark racing along side Banjo and General Raam.
It'd also make for a pretty cool, forge style level editor. And one of the power ups could be a giant diamond pick axe that straight just cuts a hole in the walls of the level that's there for the rest of the race. And you could race through minecraft versions of levels from Xbox games. Minecraft Library, Minecraft Viva Piñata farm, minecraft swan boat thing from Lost Odyssey.
It doesn't have to happen, not every platform needs a Mariokart, but it could happen.
Speaking of Kart Racing games, Sonic Team Racing is out, and it actually looks really good. Still not on board with the Team based stuff being the main draw, but it really does look good. The reason im bringing it up is because I feel like its going to struggle with Crash Team Racing around the corner, and since Sumo Digital already has experience with Game Pass, i feel like this will be a great fit for Game Pass.
I actually think that may be the plan and Minecraft Dungeons is just the first off those games. They'll eventually apply the same engine changes they made to Minecraft for Dungeons to other franchises. Someone else here had the idea that Microsoft should make a Kingdom Hearts-style game with their own franchises. That should absolutely be a Minecraft game (with first-person shooting in the Halo world, third-person shooting in the Gears world, racing in the Forza world, etc.) and eventually tie those new systems and art back to the core game.
One of my wildcard ideas for my predictions posts is that the new Forza Horizon 4 expansion is a Minecraft expansion where it's a Minecraft world (with the same boxy art) that you drive through in out-of-place, modern-looking Forza cars.
The Minecraft Kingdom Hearts style game would be a good way they can bring Banjo and Conker and other forgotten Rare characters.
I always thought they could bring back Minecraft Story Mode. If I remember correctly that was the only game besides the first season of the walking dead that made a profit for Telltale so there's obviously a audience for it and Microsoft owns the Minecraft IP so I imagine there wouldn't be any issues with starting it up again.
Love the wildcard idea. I skipped FH4 due to time and money. But I'd gladly pick it up with a Minecraft expansion.
Feel this previous comment of mine is relevant to the current conversation :)
Minecraft Halo is a thing in Minecraft already. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/minecraft-halo-mash-up/bz1m94jllg5l?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
In terms of toys they already have a deal with Megablocks to put out halo figures and I guess minecraft would be to close to that.
So Forza is confirmed to be skipping a year, right? That means Forza Motorsport 8 will be a 2020 release and Forza Horizon 5 will be a 2021 release? Man I dunno if I can wait that long for a new Horizon game. I'm absolutely in love with Horizon 4 and I'm desperate for more lol.
Well you're going to get more Horizon 4 this year with expansions.
Nice! I hope they change it up like they did with the HotWheels expansion for Horizon 3.
I hope they release more DLC over the next 2 years too, to make up for the extra years gap.
Biggest FH expansion yet, "almost like a new game", from what I know based on a globally-known IP, can't verify though.
And I love pizza.
Crazy to think that Minecraft sold 20 million copies in just the past 7 months. Hopefully there's no end for their success :D
(source: https://www.resetera.com/threads/mi...200-million-registered-users-in-china.117544/)
(source: https://www.resetera.com/threads/mi...200-million-registered-users-in-china.117544/)
Holy Shit, a Pizza Hut Expansion!
We finally get to race laps on stuff crust, dodging pepperoni oil puddles and leaving tracks through stretchy mozzarella!
They were in the early stages of a new Kart Racing game back on the Xbox 360 actually. It featured characters from many of Rare's franchises such as Banjo, Sabreman, Jet Force Gemini, Perfect Dark, Battletoads, etc. I believe it was called Banjo-Karting or Banjo-Kazoomie. Ultimately it became Nuts & Bolts.
EDIT: More info and concept art: https://www.unseen64.net/2012/01/08/banjo-karting-xbox-360-prototype/
Very, very nice! Halo: Reach and Horizon 4 DLC alone should keep my busy later on this year.
Halo news...?
No, I really just love pizza lol. Ask our Discord haha
Oh man, I would've loved to see that.
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Hot Wheels again, maybe?
Worked out pretty well for them last time.
Ninja turtles? Snowcrash? I'm still hoping for a wacky races type of thing.
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