IGN: "Our Xbox crew reacts to new Scorpio tech info, celebrates Prey's (fairly close!) release date and what it means for the inevitable Wolfenstein sequel, and more!"
Development footage of the canceled sequel to Bethesda Softworks and Human Head Studios' Prey has leaked online.
WolfEye Studios president and co-founder of Arkane Studios Raphaël Colantonio has said Dishonored and Prey fans “will be happy” with his new studio's next game.
Ouch, already placing a sales cap on this is potentially bad as these games never seem to sell all too well. Hopefully the budget is in check so no one gets laid off after launch.
Fuck yeah. Even if it’s just a spiritual successor I want more titles like Dishonored in terms of art style, design and gameplay
The magnificent Prey was once again abandoned as Microsoft disregarded Arkane Austin's achievements and crucified it just for Redfall.
well, not entirely ... the main Arkane studio i.e Arkane Lyon's still there ...
Its only that, the sequel will take more time now ... after Blade & Dishonored 3
But who knows, Dishonored 3 could have been Austins next project, so might be cancelled.
Dishonored is Lyon's flagship IP ... Austin only assisted in the first one, the sequel was wholly developed at Lyon whilst Austin developed Prey.
If Dishonored 3 was indeed greenlit ... rest assured, it would've been helmed primarily by the Lyon studio.
Not even this Prey
Still longing for a sequel to the original Prey with Tommy
The studio didn't even want to call this Prey, it was just Bethesda being dicks to them for some reason.
Don't worry there are some other games in development that might fill that void. Look up Vigilancer.
Same Bethesda basically screwed over the original developer team human head back around 2011 so it was really never going to come despite a honestly amazing trailer. I liked prey 2017 but it always held a stink of disappointment due to what we never got
I really didn't like this game, tried it because of how loved the original Prey was, played the demo of this one and thought it was garbage, it didn't feel nice/fun to play.
Keep dreaming then as Prey and Dishonored 2 did not sell well enough to get sequels.
Hence we got Deathloop and Redfall instead.
Those people will just argue that Arkane Austin and Tango would've been shut down either way.
Zenimax allready put them in a tight spot by demanding them to do a multiplayer title. So it's not unlikely, considering how bad the game performed. They didn't stand a chance. MS had the money to save them and to correct Zenimax' mistakes.
I get his point about managing expectations, but at the same time the Scorpio will indeed be the most powerful console ever built at this point in time. So at the very least whatever console a person is playing on now shouldn't stand up to it. I could only see it being a disappointment if the difference between what is currently on the market and the performance of the Scorpio can only be "seen" using equipment like the Digital Foundry guys use. If I have to rely on a website like Digital Foundry to tell me why the Scorpio version of a game is better because the naked eye cant tell the difference then I will be disappointed.
Scorpio will be a big leap compared to Xbox One and it will have lots of new tech. My guess is Vega GPU and Ryzen-like CPU. I don't know if this eurogamer/DF document is outdated or not, or accurate or not. All I need to know is:
Phil Spencer yesterday after the doc emerged on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/XboxP3/...
" @XboxP3 will Scorpio Still be able to do Native 4K on games?"
" @BillyS79614528 Yes."
https://twitter.com/XboxP3/...
"@XboxP3 @Xbox No more Native 4K is running around... Maybe some explanations please ! Thank you !"
"@Kinhdrakk Honestly my focus is just on getting games ready to show and play. That will be the explanation. I'm confident in the results."
Ori and the Blind Forest dev on NeoGAF:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
"All consoles now are x86 PCs and the architecture will remain the same, that's why Sony was able to quickly iterate on the PS4 and make a beefier version of it.
Scorpio is a next-gen machine with the added benefit that all your old games will still be compatible. From this point on, similar to PCs, you'll not lose your library when you buy a next-gen system. I guess since NeoGAF is confsued, Microsoft will need to do a little work to make it clear to everyone that Scorpio isn't just a half-assed upgrade (which the PS4 Pro kinda is...), but a full blown next-gen machine that's just backwards-compatible to your current library."
its all great hardware, but what does it help if the games aren't there? Its a pretty weak lineup for xbox one, compared to ps4 this year.. I think they should turn the focus to the games, instead of hardware thats not even visible in the horizon.