'Microsoft Should Absolutely Stop Making Xbox Games Like Breath of the Wild and Horizon: Zero Dawn'
I think I come from another mattrix where Ms didnt do games like those.
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Stop? First they have to make a game like that before they can stop.

MS has way more money in the bank than Sony. So, I don't see why MS couldn't buy more game studios, but yet they're willing to buy Mincraft for 2 billion dollars. variety is key. And so, if MS want world domination in the console market, its going to take a lot more than a lineup of 3rd party games. MS need to invest more in story driven games if they want to win against Sony.

Microsoft still makes games?

Eesh it stings to see Scalebound in the old ad featured in that thumbnail

MS needs to invest more into first party games that's all. Copying and making similar games as other companies is not needed. Just make more games, bring back old franchises, invest in more studios is all that's needed.

I think MS will have a lot to show at e3 about the future of Xbox and I also think we will see more games on pc coming to Xbox as well.

I believe in Phil Spencer so hopefully we see some great games at e3 coming out this year. Also next year they need to spread the releases out throughout the year and not just in the fall.

They never tried to make those kind of games, because they're too damn scared to take a risk for once in their rich lives. I'm damn near starting to wish Halo, gears, and Forza never existed. Microsoft put so much priority into those games, instead of trying to build a library it's almost funny.

* Microsoft had their own identity with the OG Xbox.

It was Halo 2, Crimson Skies, Death Row, Blood Wake, Fusion Frenzy, Shenmue 2, Unreal Championship, and like 30+ other games I don't feel like listing right now.

OG xbox was the best time to be an xbox gamer. Online with Crimson skies is still, the most fun I've ever had playing games online.

* They went away from their own identity and have been falling ever since.

I've owned every Xbox console but with the next one........they really are going to have to win me over again.

Didn't realize they had started making Xbox games like Breath of the Wild and Horizon: Zero Dawn..

I think the point went over the author's head. It's not about copying anyone, and it's not about focusing on single player story driven games exclusively, at all. It's just about widening the depth of the catalog, and it's about offering more of what they're not known for. When Phil Spencer made the statement about not making games like Horizon and Zelda, it definitely made me raise an eyebrow, but it's not surprising either, when you look at what their focus is and what they have been known to offer. But to say they should **stop** making games like those.. When did they..what?

You know what, never mind, it's easier to just say forbes is reporting on gaming again.

I don't know why I did...but I clicked on this article. That title feels like once again just click bait as the article itself really doesn't dive into the statement of the title in any kind of meaningful way imo.

We all have opinions on what kinds of games companies should be making. Ultimately this is a tight rope walk often trying to find the right balance of games to build the largest audience for the platform. Really excited and curious to see what MS announces this E3 as I have a feeling its going to be quite a bit given Spencer has been doubling down on the notion of E3 is all about the games.

if every company took this attitude. Xbox would be the only console with online... think about that.
so no, xbox absolutely SHOULD beef up their 1st party studios & compete with sony & nintendo's single-player experiences. what Xbox needs to do is delay their 1st-party games like Sony & Nintendo does & not rush them out like they did Recore. this is coming from an Xbox fan... ijs.

Single player exclusives on xb1 aren't selling well enough. They're just not grabbing peoples attention to the extent they make financial sense. You can't go from where they are now to suddenly producing a zero dawn. If you don't have a game like that that's been in production for years, then you're not going to just conjure one out of the air.

i'd have to disagree with this strategy. Have your own vision, but games like Horizon Zero Dawn and BoTW have existed for ages. I prefer a linear story though rather than open world. But these aren't new types of games, although they are good games.

Of course they shouldn't copy Nintendo or Sony for their exclusives but MS need to come out with fresh new ideas & experiences original exclusives.Forza,Halo & Gears isn't cutting it.

I'd like to see Sony and MS even attempt to make a Zelda game lol

what a stupid head title

What Xbox game is like Breath of the Wild or Horizon? Also... if they don't have one, why should they stop? I think Xbox owners should have something similar.

So they shouldn't make open world games? I love both hzd and botw but neither actually brought anything new to the table in the open world genre. Both of those games are amazing because of an interesting story, enjoyable combat and plenty of stuff to do on the side. I would rate both as 9 plus games but neither did anything new, they just did everything really well. To say xbox shouldn't try to make an open world game is pretty silly honestly. Crackdown 3 is an open world game and it is doing something never done before.

Stop? When did they start?

No thanks

i some what agree, sunset overdrive and quantum break both fail to sell well. ist time to stop chasing sony tail and do there own thing and do what they do best and that is multiplayer stop trying to make games for ppl who dont care about xbox and hate it and trying to bring them over forget them they were never gonan buy one any way. make games for ppl who enjoy xbox and make there experience better and those who like multiplayer, i think they are already doing this with xbox scorpio its time to stop chasing sony, Microsoft know they lost and will never catch sony so be it lets change it up let them have 1st place good for them time to focus on what makes xbox great and that is multiplayer congrats sony you win xbox gives up chasing you finally now its time to get the focus back on ppl who like xbox

So MS taking notes and trying to created something similar is bad for gaming but yet everyone else taking notes from MS on certain is a okay .

Rather comes as Bias BS .

Please...

Fur the love of God can everyone stop making rpg's or games with a character leveling system....

Games used to be so much better back in the old days where you simply played the game instead of playing the system within a half baked game.

Microsoft first has to make games like Horizon and breath. Then after that happens then and only then you could say not to copy great games

Last gen they were successful because they had GoW, Halo and Mass Effect. They need their own thing, like Scalebound. They can look at Horizon and Zelda and P5 as something to work towards, but it cannot be a replication, and the studio needs to be AAA.

Should stop? When did they start?

M$ needs to let loos the reigns a bit on they're first party game studios so they can in turn do what they do best, make games

Rare would be the perfect example of this, how a talent development studios potential has been wasted all these years, especially with that Kinect nonsense and the landfill of shovelware that followed.

When have they ever started?

They've really only ever done is COD = shooters. Online/multiplayer type games.

Let's not kid ourselves, Xbox has never made a single game Like HZD or Zelda BotW! 😂

I swear. PS owners dont even play there consoles they just troll Xbox articles.

I think most of us agree MS should simply focus on software. Whatever Xbox and PC gets, so does wii u and ps4. MS has no intention on selling consoles or providing great support for them throughout their life cycles, just double down on software and make it for everyone.

It's apparent MS will never lose their diehard fanbase as they continue to buy systems with no incentive or legit reason to do such a questionable thing, so there will be no harm in selling software to other console manufacturers.

What?

MS don't make games like Zelda or Horizon.

When did they try?

Heard that the guy posting this article had low Blood Pressure. He needed more salt.

http://gematsu.com/exclusiv... People think there's no exclusives on Xbox one but I'd say that a pretty long list, they may not be triple A, maybe alot of third party or indie, but seriously it's just gotten a joke now with it all.

The best part of the joke is the fact no one from the Sony section ever said a word about exclusives untill Scorpio announcement. It certainly never all got mentioned while both consoles went through there first two bloody years of constant remasters at the start of the ps4 n Xbox one generation, it was all Xbox one is weaker n ps4 is superior.

You even heard on forums up and down the board about god knows how many who even ditched Xbox one because they went for the power over Xbox one and brought ps4. And people say power doesn't matter, of course it does of course it does, every generation people side with the console with the most powerful, people want the best tech on the market at the time, so if something vastly superior gets released you can bet assured they be gettin it, don't be so blind to how the industry works.

There have been plenty of video games trashed by these forums n many critics alike, always going about how they fail and I and others have called bull crap on that and look what happened, they sky rocketed to number 1, became best sellers and won awards.

seriously this whole Scorpio needs exclusives is absolute daft, the truth is so long as the windows 10 brand grows games are being released and the Scorpios power is being g utilised that is all that matters. Plus there's the whole fact Microsoft are bridging the gap between pc alot more faster than anyone else. I'd rather have all those pc games flooding my scorpio, past,present and future pc games than have a hundred or so exclusives on ps4. Yeah ps4 is getting some pc games, but unless they start doing what ms is more, then I'm sorry PlayStation won't be seeing nearly as many pc games as what Xbox will and I'd rather go the direction Microsoft are, I'm happy with that.

How can they stop when they never really been that sort of company? Most of their stuff is not very story driven.

I like the fact the all 3 consoles have a different personality. If they were all the same it would be boring

When did they start

When did they start?

Also 3rd party shouldnt bother with releasing single player games on xbox at all.

Amen!

Microsoft has subscriptions, microtransactions , and "games as a service"
for their exclusives. :)
The Xbox sheep fan base clearly loves what their getting fed XD

Microsoft should stop making games altogether. Shooter,shooter,race,shooter,s hooter,race.lol

Neither Breath of the Wild or Horizon: Zero Dawn did anything new, they're both just clones of already existing open world games.... so essentially you're saying "Microsoft should stop making open world games."

You can only be a second rate version of someone else no matter what, so it's better to be a first rate version of yourself

So, MS shouldn't make an open world game? whatever you say.

Please stop using hzd and zelda as some example that they're something new amd risk taking! Seriously people! Lol

lol, they have to start making games of that caliber first before you can tell them to stop.

Forgive me, but shouldn't they have started making those types of games before you can ask them to stop? And even then, why should they stop?

Yip , who needs great games to sell consoles ?

Yeah i dont think they should try and copy sony and nintendo when it comes to single player games because they try that and it didnt workout for microsoft so its best for them to try something new

Singleplayer only games dont sell on Xbox. Its an online playing audience that doesnt want to play alone. Most of my friends on steam / Xbox wont even buy sp only games. Heck, we are all stoked to play morrowind on steam with online mp in about a month. Playing a game that scale with 150 people is probably the best thing ever.

game as a service? yes. this is happening but, all i see this doing is draw more people to SONY's next great single player narrative title. I don't like to feel i'm being milked every time i sit to play.

With Phils recent comments relating new sp ip's I dont think they are looking to create many new games like that. He is going the route of service based MP games that may have very bare bones SP campaigns if any. Phil keeps saying they are investing this and doing that but yet where are the new SP games and new IP's??? Scalebound and Fable Legends would have been solid games to have in their library and would have added some more depth and diversity as well. Until MS shows some concrete proof of NEW IP's with interesting SP campaigns I will be VERY skeptical of their efforts and words going forward. It seems they are just to reluctant to take any chances whatsoever and instead keep feeding Halo Gears and Forza til the cows come home. Ashamed because there were so many gems on the 360 last gen in terms of those types of efforts and games. At the end of the day all the hardware in the world isnt worth a dime if there arent any compelling new games to play that can ONLY be played on your system of choice.

This is like saying Nintendo should not make RPGs just because Sony is doing it if Microsoft wants to they can do it

Microsoft need to stick to what they have always done brilliantly, which is make a fantastic multiplayer experience that is second to none, and then push huge multiplayer games on it.
Think back to X360 and PS3..... you used to hear nothing but great things about Xbox Live and its ability to offer a brilliant robust multiplayer experiences, usually with a lot of games also available on PS3 and yet people would prefer to play them on X360. Yeah they had a few exclusives at the time like Left 4 Dead but that aside, it was Battlefield, COD4, FIFA and so on that people wanted to play on Xbox Live as it was the best place to play a multiplayer game.

Concentrate heavier on that, bring more multiplayer gaming experiences to Xbox, crank up developers to produce games that can have 100V100 players instead of COD 6v6 or Battlefield 32v32. That is where Microsoft really excel and where they can offer a better experience, while leaving Sony to produce single player games that people also adore.
Because right now Sony own single-player gaming, and their multiplayer gaming is now up to a high standard, so Microsoft really need to take what they are good at, multiplayer gaming, and push that to a whole new level that makes PS4 look dated and limited. When people are playing 16v16 on PS4 while Xbox gamers using Scorpio can have 100v100 games exclusive to Scorpio as Scorpio/MS infrastructure is the only one capable of delivering the higher gaming numbers, people will see a huge shift in numbers of gamers going to the bigger and better platform....... while still a large portion of them keeping a PS4 for their single player story driven games.

At the end of the day, people love the single player stories of PS4 games....... but people would love it a LOT more if some of the enemies within those stories were controlled by real people...... and Microsoft and a few very talented game developers could start to work towards that new gaming model where real people can jump into other peoples story driven games and play an enemy within it..... just to mix up the artificial intelligence with some real human characteristics. .

MIcrosoft should build their own games, i will never forget the very first time played Halo Combat Evolved, Brute Force and Project Gotham Racing... it was a completely different experience and very unique to them i was always a PS fanboy and Sony lover since ever but i think MS should remember what brought them to light of this complicated industry they can do it again their fans a here waiting for them and i'm waiting too for something that only MS can bring to the table in terms of games...

LOL Microsoft has made games like Zelda Breath of the Wild and Horizon Zero Dawn ? When did this happen Did I blackout or something LOL

UUUmmm THIS ALL WHAT MS DOES. AND SONY IN-FACT, THEY MAKE GAMES AND SYSTEMS LIKE EACH OTHER. THE ONLY TO STAND OUT IS NINTENDO... What is Forbes talking about lol

When did they start?

They don't have to try and just focus on what they thing they do best. But Xbox will never be the most dominating brand in console. Dominant consoles tend to it all when it comes to providing content. Be able to provide good multiplayer experiences, good single player experiences, good AAA, AA, A budget games, good indies and have good third party support.

A console being a Jack of all trades is what make it successful;. Xbox brand would just be missing a big piece.

Well with Halo failing fast now it's only a matter of time before they have to shut down Xbox division

Ok so this article makes no sense; so microsoft shouldn't try different games because it's copying? What happened to imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

Stop? I guess I missed when they started.

They don't make certain types of games... complain.

They make certain types of games... claim they all suck & don't buy them. Then whine every time a game gets cancelled because when you no longer have the option to buy it, you can pretend 100% you would have.

I would love to see the reaction in a Microsoft board meeting if the author slammed his/her hand down on the table and uttered the headline of this article.

I think they’re saving it for PS6. My guess anyways

The question of the century. Bluepoint probably doesn't want to do another remake. Yet they could also just get nixxes to remaster and bring it to ps5+pc.
Fromsoft hasn't had a new major release since shadow of the erdtree nor will they probably have a new major title til next year at the earliest. (The co-op dlc I don't care for.) So now would've been amazing for a bloodborne remaster even.