I really enjoyed state of decay 2. Genuinely one of my favourite games this gen on either platform. I hated the other 2 games though and cd3 was so out dated I don't understand how they even released it.

@Zeref

How many people again?

https://www.microsoft.com/e...

Where is State of Decay? Where did you get your numbers from? So your saying that State of Decay has millions of players yet it's not on the top 49 of Xbox Live most played? What about SoT in the 30s? That has millions too? I swear you fanboys are delusional. No wonder things are the way they are with Xbox. All y'all do is defend, deflect, and turn a blind eye.

Good day to you. Btw, no disagree for me. What's the point really lol....

@jukins he's actually right very healthy community with these games. Would be interesting to see how many people are still playing horizon zero Dawn, Detroit become human and all those single player games on ps. It's highly plausible that these Xbox games have more activity, not counting Forza horizon which is still booming.

I can't base them on anything other than what they were, because I haven't seen what they will become beyond my own speculation. MS is showing a lot, and I mean a lot, of mid-tier titles, which is fine, but they aren't showing a large number of AAA titles, so until MS proves that they are investing in a much larger number of AAA titles than they have so far, I have nothing to base any other assumption on.

Realistically speaking, NT does have the capacity for AAA games. They've released some in the past. But they are mostly mid-tier titles, and their next game is what I'd classify as mid-tier. I believe Playground has the potential to deliver a great AAA game, because they took a yearly franchise, adapted it to a different play style, and constantly improved on it. Oblivian and inXile have a history which shows potential to make AAA games. The Initiative is a new studio, which is being staffed to create AAA games.

But, when I look at some of the other studios in that list, regardless of how good or bad their games may be, they aren't known for making high profile AAA games. If one had asked me if Naughty Dog would be making high end AAA games, much less top of their class ones, when Sony brought them, I'd say no. They had a reputation from some bad games, to some good ones, all within what I would consider mid-tier for their time. But, they were given the resources to become AAA, and they've been delivering ever since.

IF MS does this, then that's great, but I'm not going to give credit before it's due. Especially to MS, who has failed in so many ways to prove they are worth having any kind of faith in. If you disagree, that's fine, but that's just my perspective on it, and the response of just listing off all their studios doesn't change the fact that what they brought into isn't capable of delivering 4 AAA games a year as the OP posited. Sony rarely even hits that mark, and 2-3 is more the norm, with mid-tiers to bolster the numbers.

Mid-tier isn't a dirty word, or a bad thing. But I was first responding to the OP, who put forth that MS was talking about AAA games, instead of just games in general.