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

[anon74828371]

From OtherERA:

https://careers.microsoft.com/professionals/us/en/job/979577/Producer

343 Industries is looking for a Producer to help develop a new project in the Halo universe.

[solis74 (solis)]

Ubiplay for GP i can see, but not Ubisoft as a whole?

Bethesda News - CEO Passes Away, HUGE Studio Expansions, & More!

[batman14]

@Hindle

That IP isnt really that big in the gaming space, and nothing is well known about anything. We have had insiders peddling bullshit for months and none of it ever came true. MS have no interest in WB, I don’t believe it was ever to the point of they were thinking of acquiring.

… Ok whatever you say haha

[ProgStopper]

@Shpeshal_Nick

My name has been said on the podcast like…1000 times lol

Ah, it would help if I actually listened to the podcast.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@reaver93

They pulled out because they COULDN’T get the IP without paying more than they were willing and AT&T were being coy with whether they still wanted to sell or not. This is well known information. Why the hell would anyone pull out because they were getting more IP, that makes no sense, especially when the IP is some of the biggest in the world

Only on this forum will you read that getting Warner Bros IP licensing is a bad thing cause god forbid xbox gets exclusive content in any shape.

“You don’t own the ip” ok but you get the games regardless which is what you the gamer should care and it brings people to game pass.

[AllianceOfficer]

@Hindle

No they wouldn’t. Reading between the lines they realised they dont need WB whose IP theyd never own.

The facts it’s been reported by almost every Xbox insider that they are still talking to big publishers today says otherwise

[Shadowgasm]

There’s a cool place to talk about acquisitions

Xbox Acquisition |OT| - So We’re Back to Making Lists, Huh?

[image] This thread has now become the official thread to discuss all things Xbox acquisitions, both who we’d like to see acquired and the teams acquired post-2018. As the original post originated from a @Klobrille tweet and before the Zenimax acquisition announcement, I wanted to leave my original post up for posterity’s sake. Given the actions that occurred just a month later, and the subsequent barrage of statements by Phil Spencer and Satya Nadella regarding further acquisitions, I think i…

[Hindle]

@AllianceOfficer

The facts it’s been reported by almost every Xbox insider that they are still talking to big publishers today says otherwise

There are no facts with this. You put too much belief in insiders. An acquisition the size of Bethesda takes time to assimilate and incorporate. Its business, the idea they will buy Sega, Ubi, WB anytime soon is ridiculous

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@Shadowgasm

There’s a cool place to talk about acquisitions

Sure is

[solis74 (solis)]

need more on this

Twelve Minutes (12minutesgame)

[anon81312630]

Just saw that Halo infinite is on the store now

12/30/2021 release date?

[peter42O]

@anon81312630

Just saw that Halo infinite is on the store now

12/30/2021 release date?

Placeholder until they officially announce the date which won’t happen until their Games Showcase in the summer.

[peter42O]

@Shadowgasm

There’s a cool place to talk about acquisitions

Nothing wrong with talking about acquisitions in this topic as we’re just preparing for the future.

[MaskoPower (The Game of X)]

3B player, needs more languages…

Klobrille (klobrille)

[NecuVise]

@MaskoPower

3B player, needs more languages…

Localisation is a sore point for Xbox. PlayStation is miles ahead in this regard. The biggest PlayStation exclusives get localized even for some small countries while xbox continues to ignore even some big markets. If they really want to reach those billions of gamers they boast about, they’ll have to localize. I’m not talking about full voice localization, I’m talking about captions and ui. That has to be doable.

[MaskoPower (The Game of X)]

@NecuVise

Localisation is a sore point for Xbox. PlayStation is miles ahead in this regard. The biggest PlayStation exclusives get localized even for some small countries while xbox continues to ignore even some big markets. If they really want to reach those billions of gamers they boast about, they’ll have to localize. I’m not talking about full voice localization, I’m talking about captions and ui. That has to be doable.

3rd party realizes that also …

[Thanathorn]

@NecuVise

Localisation is a sore point for Xbox. PlayStation is miles ahead in this regard. The biggest PlayStation exclusives get localized even for some small countries while xbox continues to ignore even some big markets. If they really want to reach those billions of gamers they boast about, they’ll have to localize. I’m not talking about full voice localization, I’m talking about captions and ui. That has to be doable.

PlayStation is miles ahead in Localisation and it’s sad. Having Arabic and south east asian languages makes PlayStation the obvious choice in those respective regions.

[Ruthwik_Rao]

@Thanathorn

PlayStation is miles ahead in Localisation and it’s sad. Having Arabic and south east asian languages makes PlayStation the obvious choice in those respective regions.

Yep. Until these fundamental things are addressed, I don’t wanna hear jack shit about how Xbox simply buying studios and publishers in those regions will solve their problems.

[NecuVise]

@Thanathorn

PlayStation is miles ahead in Localisation and it’s sad. Having Arabic and south east asian languages makes PlayStation the obvious choice in those respective regions.

PlayStation even has localization in Croatian language. So they localize for a country of 4 millions of people! Even if we count some of the neighboring countries, that’s max 15 millions of people, while Microsoft doesn’t bother with very big regions.

Opening to more regions than traditional ones is what Microsoft needs now. They’ve got plenty of studios, two good consoles, now make all of that more approachable to other regions. Having stores, localizations, etc is what’s needed.

[PsyDec]

@solis74

need more on this

I’ve got it on my fantasy critic