I don’t want to see any complaining about kotor then in this forum. Ridiculous. I’m an Xbox shill. But they deserve smoke for those two decisions.
The best case for a KOTOR remake was it being made by a first party studio and being a permanent exclusive. Clearly that wasn’t on the cards.
Also, the reason Sony went for KOTOR is because they lost all their AAA RPGs to Xbox (besides BioWare and CDPR who take 5 years to make a game). Sure, Xbox took a hit from not having KOTOR, but they also gained Obsidian, inXile and BGS, so the actual material loss to the platform isn’t that great (especially since they will get KOTOR on Xbox eventually, and it might not even be good).
Getting KOTOR just to say they had KOTOR would have been the wrong reason to do it. The deal, game and developer also needed to make sense. They didn’t.
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Like I said, I believe the whole KOTOR on Sony’s behalf is a way to reply back to Starfield exclusivity.
Xbox then went off to buy Mojang for a couple of billion in the same year. To say they couldnt get a third party to make Spider-Man is ridiculous.
Valve: didnt do the deal but you can play Kotor on their platform
Nintendo: didnt do the deal but you can play Kotor on their platform
Xbox: didnt do the deal but you can play Kotor on their platform
Playstation: did the deal, you still can’t play Kotor on their platform
well…
There is no guarantee kotor remake will ever come to Xbox.
there is no guarantee kotor remake will ever come out
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Xbox didn’t decline both of those games out of not enough studios or thinking about the health of the ip and development. It was purely a business decision as they went and got Minecraft in the same year as declining Spider-Man.
For a business it makes sense, as a core gamer is means nothing just like abk and its what’s starting to annoy me with the brand.
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And between Minecraft acquisition in 2014 till 2018 Xbox had almost zero budget and was part of the Windows division with Terry Myerson who doesn’t care about Xbox.
Phil talked to Satya, not Myerson about the Minecraft acquisition.
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They purchased Mojang in 2014.
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That what I wrote ?
No, but they clearly didn’t have zero budget then.
Phil talked to Satya about the Minecraft acquisition, not Myerson ? Xbox had freaking Super Lucky’s Tale as their big holiday game.
Spider-Man ps4 cost around a 100 mill to develop, a drop in the bucket for what it made back lol.
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This is such a futile discussion. What if xbox spider-man turned out to be subpar? It’s cheap to take these decisions from a decade ago and shit on people for it. What about turning down gta3 as an exclusive way back then? We could endlessly talk about that miss too. It’s just a weird discussion imo.
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It making that much back was not a guarantee. It’s a large investment and a high risk project, especially back then when AAA Spider-Man games WERE NOT A PROVEN QUANTITY like they are now.
Can’t be a proven quality if you don’t try lol.
Not sure what he is even suggesting here, AFAIR Oxenfree ii was originally only announced for Switch (and may be steam).
Then at some point after this the PS4 and 5 versions were also announced (before Netflix acquired the studio) .
When asked at the time about Xbox the studio stated they would love to bring the game to all platforms post launch but due to doing all the ports themselves could not at day 1.
Since then radio silence on Xbox port with questions about it always answered with “nothing to say on that at this time”
Effort to port to another platform seems to be out the window now they have confirmed mac has been added.
So Occam’s razor would suggest a standard no Xbox (for a year?) clause in the Sony contract.
Press are poor on this one as two simple questions get to an answer.
- Is there an Xbox port coming at a later date. If answer to 1 is nothing further to say a this time then
- Are you contractually blocked from talking about an Xbox version of the game If answer to 2. == no comment then answer to 2. = Yes
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Hmm, you got a point there.
And I guess Netflix doesn’t see Sony’s service as a danger, not until they start to drop their first party games on there as well? I wonder the same for Amazon. But I think for the next few games, such as Tomb Raider that we’ll get them. But I can’t really see a point where companies such as Netflix and Amazon will isolate both MS and Sony, because they are going to miss out on tons of potential players.
Unless Amazon makes their service available on TVs as well. As for Netflix, how does gaming even work? Can I just book up a controller to my TV or Chromecast and play Oxenfree 2 that way, or is it still only mobile for them?