Xbox Game Studios |OT3| Once more....with feeling (Part 1)

[Opatschi]

@Staffy

I have no idea but man, it seems Xbox really isn’t done getting studios added to XGS. Shouldn’t be too surprising, Satya said it too last year. But it sounds like big stuff!

I mean the game leave the acquisition talk to where it belongs

[Staffy]

@Opatschi

I mean the game leave the acquisition talk to where it belongs

We don’t discuss acquisitions in this thread? Oh that’s also for the other thread?

[Opatschi]

@Staffy

We don’t discuss acquisitions in this thread? Oh that’s also for the other thread?

Normally yes I think but I won’t tell anyone but in truth at this point I don’t really care to discuss about acquisitions I’m here for the games

I think Horizon 5 is a safe bet but what else… what else…

[mrbobman15 (Giorgio)]

when Microsoft can finally hold another bombastic style e3 style conference inside the Microsoft theater you know what I want to see? I live orchestra like sony did during their e3 2016 conference. It really adds to the atmosphere before you watch a great showing, just imagine them doing this right before showing off Elder Scrolls 6 to the world except with Inon Zur

Sony Press Conference Orchestra - Live at E3 2016 - YouTube

[Mort]

@Staffy

We don’t discuss acquisitions in this thread? Oh that’s also for the other thread?

This thread: Xbox Acquisition |OT| - So We’re Back to Making Lists, Huh? - #4687 by ThereAreFourNaan

[andrew_schmidt (HaloGaming08)]

@mrbobman15

when Microsoft can finally hold another bombastic style e3 style conference inside the Microsoft theater you know what I want to see? I live orchestra like sony did during their e3 2016 conference. It really adds to the atmosphere before you watch a great showing, just imagine them doing this right before showing off Elder Scrolls 6 to the world except with Inon Zur

If covid wasn’t a thing would of loved a halo orchestra

[Mostlyharmless]

@Ruthwik_Rao

…T and FH4 are what drove Gamepass for the most part. FH4 was the only reason I subbed initially, and I did it because the game wasn’t on Steam lol. I just had to give in to an inferior store experience to play the game on my pc and I was glad I did. I expect FH4 to launch on Steam sometime this year (or maybe FH5 will launch simultaneously on steam and ms store when it arrives), and when it does, it’ll do truly insane numbers, I’m talking 20 million easy. Other than Forza, only Sea of Thieves has been able to garner those kinds of numbers. Rare even came out and said SoT has been the most successful game for Xbox in the entire generation. I’ve not seen Gears or any other Xbox franchise pull those numbers. However, I expect this to change with Halo infinite and Starfield and TES and the like.

Yep exactly. Forza horizon 4 did 12 million in one year. Dominates the most played chart 2.5 years after release. Probably has 20 million players by now… all without steam. And yes SOT has put up amazing numbers.

Both of those games are examples of how successful a service game can be. Halo mcc, and halo5 are still charting well 5+ years after release.

Gears is Microsoft’s 8th most played game(including bethesda) in the US right now acording to the Microsoft store. All 7 ahead of gears where released before it. The game absolutely bombed on steam.

Coalition deserves better. They are probably Microsoft’s best studio. They could be making the next halo, or the next fallout. Instead they are stuck on a decaying franchise.

If gears 6 does similar numbers to 5 or continues on this downward trajectory i fully expect the team to become a 2 team studio(if they haven’t already)

[Eduardo]

Don’t you guys get tired?

[Hindle]

Gears is fine and sold a lot of subs. The series will continue

[andrew_schmidt (HaloGaming08)]

[uouit_iyyur]

@andrew_schmidt

Damn Halo Infinite is doomed, so much fake news about this game, it’s exhausting

[Fiendflag]

@uouit_iyyur

Damn Halo Infinite is doomed, so much fake news about this game, it’s exhausting

Throw in there some “Gears is a decaying franchise” too…some dudes in here really don’t like Gears are they? apparently all it matters is the spot of a game on the most played list of XBL, Xbox having one of the top tier 3rd person shooters on the market doesn’t count because casuals don’t play Gears multiplayer…and all that after the release of a super polished, great piece of content that proves The Coalition finally knows very well what they are doing with the IP and Gears 6 can only get better.

All this talk about the spot of a game on the most played XBL games list being the deciding factor of it’s fate is like I am seeing Kotick writing posts, thank god some publishers/devs don’t think like that and we still see games that are not judged and/or designed around being popular on the “most played XBL list”. I would not like to see a future where Xbox is making decisions about it’s portfolio based on a freakin’ list.

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

Klobrille (klobrille)

[Boosted_Gear]

@Eduardo

Don’t you guys get tired?

I will start flagging.

[PsyDec]

@thiagosilva

Mr Squirrel, do you know something about this?

[Klobrille]

@PsyDec

Mr Squirrel, do you know something about this?

I might or might not, but in the end it doesn’t matter, as I won’t communicate it anyway.

If you look at the resources the group has and the output the team achieved in the past, and realise we only know about one small to mid-sized game today (As Dusk Falls – and maybe MS Flight Sim support), the logical conclusion should just be that there are more surprises with partner studios the XGS Publishing team is working on for quite some time now.

[Boosted_Gear]

@Klobrille

I might or might not, but in the end it doesn’t matter, as I won’t communicate it anyway.

If you look at the resources the group has and the output the team achieved in the past, and realise we only know about one small to mid-sized game today (As Dusk Falls – and maybe MS Flight Sim support), the logical conclusion should just be that there are more surprises with partner studios the XGS Publishing team is working on for quite some time now.

Dave Mongan, who is a narrative director at Global Publishing and who worked on Flight Simulator, indicated that they are working on several AAA games on his Linkedin.

https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/davemongan?challengeId=AQHdXuPyUiH_CQAAAXck3Le63ir86N80SxdbAgB76A8QaSd1Vj7AK3pVl16xDa-nK26BCYbACaHAmCz7towjzkeeGLMxg0VVwA&submissionId=5bf25bcf-383e-5c16-1cff-88fe99362a16

As Narrative Director on the Xbox Game Studios Publishing team, oversee all narrative-related elements for multiple XBOX first-party franchises, most recently the critically-acclaimed “Microsoft Flight Simulator” and other exciting new AAA titles yet to be announced.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Eduardo

Don’t you guys get tired?

Sorry

We will pass the list of valid topics to discuss with you before posting then.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Fiendflag

Throw in there some “Gears is a decaying franchise” too…some dudes in here really don’t like Gears are they?

This is not correct and not the point of all the discussions that consistently happen around the game here.

[Boosted_Gear]

@javycane

Sorry

We will pass the list of valid topics to discuss with you before posting then.

Gears |OT| All around me are familiar faces

I never said Naughty Dog invented all these things…and i never said that gears 5 has more story then previous gears entrys, please dont misconstrue what I say. And you can tell me that gears has better gameplay then UC4 and I could counter by saying your wrong because UC4 has better gameplay then gears 5…but, what would be the point in that , most people understand that people have opinions… It also seems you are making this a gears vs uncharted thing, jeez grow up, both games are great, but p…