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There were some articles/tweets in italian about xbox and paradox. Was that the rumor with the xboxera thing and paradox? Nothing in english
Keep in mind they primarily focus on comparisons between versions of games, so I would assume it's them getting an early look at something.
Then the guesses about Flight Sim sound plausible. First look at it on the Series X or something. Also hope by the time it comes on console they have some more modes on there. I know it's a sim first and foremost, but they should expand the challenges and things like that. It could use more gamey elements to improve its broader appeal. This doesn't have to conflict with the hardcore sim crowd as the game already can scale from a full cockpit setup to a gamepad.
Eh, I doubt Flight Sim is what they're seeing. I think we're finally getting that BC info we've been waiting for for Xbox One games getting things like doubled framerate.
It is not an event lol, it would be a week from now and yet no announcement.
My guess it is a tech demo.
My guess it is a tech demo.
Woah
I can't believe they finally found a way to double the Series X and S' power with the secret sauce.
The BC team doesn't do any upscaling or reconstruction. They find ways to trick the renderer to render the native resolution at a higher multiple than what it was coded to render.
Had almost forgotten about the frame rate doubling. I was always under the impression it would be there for launch after they showed FO4 then they just went quiet about it.
Can't wait to see what games are included (besides FO4 and Skyrim).
Its isnt a event. He is a tech guy like DF. So something "techy" going to happen and new stuff on the BC stuff makes sense
100% they will have a video on the same day if that's what this is.
I have a question about the 'Vault' thing.
XGS has 15 studios (and it's probably a lot to manage for Matt Booty). Zenimax-Bethesda will be 8 (managed by Pete Hines I guess).
Could we see in the future possible acquisitions (that aren't publishers) acquired by the Bethesda arm itself (and these studios would join the Bethesda arm instead of the XGS arm) ? Like when Saber (and by extension Embracer) acquired themselves 4A Games ?
4A Games Has Been Bought Out By Saber Interactive
The future of the studio and its projects remain perfectly intactwww.well-played.com.au
Or like with Take Two when Rockstar Games (the publisher), and not the other publishers like 2K or Private Division, acquired Ruffian Games (rebranded Rockstar Dundee).
Don't know if it makes sense.
4A didn't get bought by Saber. They got bought by Embracer and assigned to Saber, one of it's subdivisions. More info here.
The merger ends with Vault being closed and ZeniMax being the surviving company
https://www.videogameschronicle.com...-could-fall-within-rules-but-no-approval-yet/
Not that in expecting it to fail but apparently the eu said this
Not that in expecting it to fail but apparently the eu said this
It's a bit odd, because the last time I can remember just not wanting to play anything at all was when Sega killed the Dreamcast, lol. So it's been a while.
There's not really anything that I could look to as a break, as I kind of do a bit of everything all the time anyway. Watching anime/other TV stuff? I do a bit of that every day. Reading? Same. Baking? I made some bread yesterday afternoon! Exercise? Did that, too...
I guess I could try picking up that guitar I've had sitting in a case for a decade...
Thinking about it, it's probably all a bit exarcerbated by being in lockdown. Not sure why this didn't occur to me before now, hmm.
Yeah, this I can relate to, especially if I've just finished something particularly long, like an RPG. Kind of feels like you're leaving some friends behind, in a sense :D
Maybe I need to get lost in a lengthy RPG... it's been a while.
I really hope the original Mirrors Edge is one of the games getting boosted. I literally just booted it up and was struck with it being 30fps.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstood you (english is not my first language), but isn't the EU saying that the deal is in accordance to their rules, and not that the deal could fail?
Yeah. Kinda what everyone said before.
To them it looks fine and don't see any problems. But overall verdict takes abit longer.
MS still has a lot of Bethesda games to add (or re-add for some) in Game Pass once the acquisition is complete:
- The Evil Within (never joined)
- The Evil Within 2 (never joined)
- DOOM 2016
- Prey
- Fallout 3
- Fallout 4
- Wolfenstein TNO
- Wolfenstein TNC
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (never joined)
- Dishonored Definitive Edition (never joined)
- Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (never joined)
- Oblivion
- Morrowind (maybe) (never joined)
- RAGE (never joined I believe)
- maybe Quake Champions on PC (never joined)
- DOOM 3 (maybe 1 and 2 too) (never joined)
- The Evil Within (never joined)
- The Evil Within 2 (never joined)
- DOOM 2016
- Prey
- Fallout 3
- Fallout 4
- Wolfenstein TNO
- Wolfenstein TNC
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (never joined)
- Dishonored Definitive Edition (never joined)
- Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (never joined)
- Oblivion
- Morrowind (maybe) (never joined)
- RAGE (never joined I believe)
- maybe Quake Champions on PC (never joined)
- DOOM 3 (maybe 1 and 2 too) (never joined)
Yeah, Capcom would be huge but I'm not super-super high on it. I feel like the RE franchise is hotter than ever but that the profitability has been really propped up by the remakes they've been doing and that spigot is about to be turned off (because they're running out of games to remake). Monster Hunter would be the next big IP you'd be acquiring, and that would be a great get.
But the thing to remember is that Capcom's stock is nearly triple what it was a year ago, and even that price is the highest it had been in a decade. So like, as a $4b acquisition a year ago I think it would have made a lot of sense. As a $9-10b acquisition it seems like a massive over-spend. Again, there is so much you can do with that kind of money that's probably wiser than locking down an RE game and MH game every four years. Especially given that when we talk about famous-but-diminished IP like Mega Man, why not just do those same things but with your own new IP?
As I've said before, a lot of these acquisitions are just about acquiring development teams. MS can technically build their own teams, but that takes a long time. So the Bethesda acquisition made sense in that they were able to acquire a handful of studios that all make AAA games that are right in the wheelhouse of the Xbox user base. But now that they have a very healthy stable of studios all in production, I think the better course of action is:
- Invest in building internal studios like The Initiative.
- Focus acquisition exploration on teams/studios instead of publishers. (E.g., I think Square Enix would be open to MS acquiring Crystal Dynamics / Eidos Montreal.)
- If there is a short-term need for AAA Day 1 Gamepass content, use that money you're not using to acquire a publisher and use it to get a couple big AAA games on GamePass. Ubisoft, specifically, would be open to a deal I think. Spend a few hundred million dollars and get the next Far Cry and Assassin's Creed on Gamepass, and treat it as a Gamepass marketing expense. Announce that at your E3-ish conference this summer and watch Gamepass subs explode. Then hopefully the first-party content coming out of the existing studios keeps everyone around (and hopefully grows the service) as it rolls out in 2022.
Just bought Blue Dragon! I love Lost Odyssey but for some reason I have never played Blue Dragon.
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