Xbox Game Studios |OT4| This is for Studio talk. Studios. It's the Studios OT. Studio talk here (Part 1)

[Opatschi]

@Ruthwik_Rao

lol its all good

For the sake of it I will leave it as that.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

“First or better on gamepass” simply isnt good enough.

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

@Deadwing88

Here

https://forum.xboxera.com/t/will-bethesda-games-be-xbox-console-exclusive/

[TheScarecrow101]

Well, away from the doom posting and general chatter for expected news in 30 minutes time, It is now 23 first party studios for Xbox.

It is nice to know now that regardless of the exclusive discussion, we have more content coming to Xbox.

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@javycane

“First or better on gamepass” simply isnt good enough.

I can’t lie, I think I would have a good laugh if Microsoft did spend $7.5 billion to have exclusive horse armour for ES6.

[Staffy]

@javycane

“First or better on gamepass” simply isnt good enough.

It’s totally ridiculous and wouldn’t make any sense. What happened to the “we want a full Xbox ecosystem on those platforms”?

[PsyDec]

Edit: wrong thread, deleted

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

@thiagosilva

Thursday seems to be the day . maybe not today.

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

Jeff Grubb (JeffGrubb)

[Opatschi]

@thiagosilva

Nooooooo

[AtticusFincher]

Thursday???1 That’s a whole 3 days from now! Phil get your house in order!

[ProgStopper]

@AtticusFincher

Thursday???1 That’s a whole 3 days from now! Phil get your house in order!

It takes time to send the check, sign the contracts.

I imagine this is what Aaron Greenburg has been doing since last week.

[CallMeCraig]

Cool, 3 days more DOOMposting. This is fine.

[ProgStopper]

@CallMeCraig

Cool, 3 days more DOOMposting. This is fine.

I fully expect the decision on exclusivity and what games to be leaked out by one Jason Schrier before Thursday. Probably Wednesday night but maybe as early as tomorrow.

It’s too big a scoop for him to not be fishing for it.

Imagine being the reporter who had the inside scoop of the 100,000 dollar question.

[ProgStopper]

Regardless of exclusivity:

I mean, holy shit, look at it. I MEAN LOOK AT IT.

In basically 3-to-4 years (tail end 2017 to now)

[CallMeCraig]

@ProgStopper

I fully expect the decision on exclusivity and what games to be leaked out by one Jason Schrier before Thursday. Probably Wednesday night but maybe as early as tomorrow.

It’s too big a scoop for him to not be fishing for it.

Imagine being the reporter who had the inside scoop of the 100,000 dollar question.

This is a thing I would not be upset if Jason spoilers the fuck out of it!

[Mort]

@ProgStopper

Regardless of exclusivity:

I mean, holy shit, look at it. I MEAN LOOK AT IT.

In basically 3-to-4 years (tail end 2017 to now)

That’s how I wished it was presented.

Not this “Bethesda does it own thing, we can’t hire another guy to help out managing studios.”

[Opatschi]

@CallMeCraig

This is a thing I would not be upset if Jason spoilers the fuck out of it!

For once I agree lol

[Louay]

@ProgStopper

Regardless of exclusivity:

I mean, holy shit, look at it. I MEAN LOOK AT IT.

In basically 3-to-4 years (tail end 2017 to now)

we need about 12 studios to fill the picture

[n0tjack (NotTiffany)]

@Klobrille

Practically, a Game Pass subscriber is a lot more ‘worth’ than that even, because he is locked into that ecosystem, buying accessories, micro transactions, recommends the service to friends, playing more games, and so on. The initial $10/$15 are good for Xbox, but Game Pass ultimately engages most of their customers in ways in which they’ll end up spending much more money in the ecosystem than the monthly subscription alone.

This is the part so man people misunderstand; a key strength of gamepass is that most video game users don’t actually buy that many games, making a cheap subscription more profitable over the year. Combine that with added engagement from users leading to adjacent purchases and the ability to support more varied games through consistent cash flows and you’ve got the future of gaming.

MSFT isn’t going to miss the biggest opportunity they’ll have to move more users onto that service.