I do agree MS needs more franchises, but to go along with their already established franchises. New and old is the best option.

Agreed. My very reason I have not bought an XB is due to it's minimal releases of original new AAA exclusives. Though their Gears series looked interesting but it wasn't enough for me to buy an XB console. I have no interest in Crackdown,Forza or Halo. Hopefully they will eventually start releasing some new original AAA exclusives that'll make me interested to buy their new console which would be my second console to go to if I did buy one.

Been saying it for years, I still can’t believe they rely on the same three tired a$$ franchises.

And I hope come July they have something bigger than freaking Halo, because once they’re going to be shooting themselves in the foot.

12TFLOPS is the only franchise I need. So long as my Xbox Series X can play FIFA and Call of Duty, we good.

Every platform needs new ips every gen in my view. Nintendo are worse than MS they live off 30 year ips, which is fine if people keep buying but I just can't do it

Most of their first party are dedicated to one franchise, expand your first party to expand your library.

Exactly what they've been doing.

They have needed this for ages. Coming into the fourth gen for them and they still largely rely on gears/halo/forza. That is simply not good enough. They should have more than that to show for all this time.

InXille has said they're working on an original IP AAA RPG. Torment Tides of Numenera is great imo. Meh to bad combat but my favorite story of this gen.

With their 14 studios, new franchises are sure to come. Only four (4) studios are dedicated to their main franchises of Minecraft, Halo, Gears and Forza.

Microsoft needs a golden egg for next gen. I remember playing Halo on the original Xbox to death because it was so good, the same with Gears of War for the Xbox 360. This gen we didn’t receive a golden egg from Xbox one. They better have a secret weapon for next gen.

nooooo! really ? , do you think so?

It’s on the way. Could you imagine a Ninja Theory Obsidian collaboration? In our near future we have the very first wave from these developer’s consisting of 4 AAA that we know of so far. It’s down the the line where things will be interesting Xbox 2023 will be a
different beast.. clean slates of Series X ray trace holy grail magnificence for these teams. Even if it’s just The Initiatives project, Hellblade , playgrounds project and halo infinite the first 3 years... that’s still 4 AAA in the adoption phase at minimum.. I didn’t count Forza or Gears that time see that? Lol

Good times ahead and I think because of Gamepass collaboration projects like a Ninja Theory Obsidian title will exist one day. They are working for the same money and bonuses and shit like that would for sure make the world go crazy and get those bonuses fatter for their families. I like the environment Microsoft is creating I see it’s potential for the industry.

Same thing can be said about sony all of their stuff but spiderman is what past 5 games.

Its hard for the service strategy of Microsoft. Big franchise take years to make and they can fail. This is why microsoft keeps the halo, forza gears combo over and over. The problem is that those franchises dont sell like they did on the 360... Microsoft need to go all out. Microsoft need to let the studios do another thing and not spin offs. Some will fail, but other wont. It wont matter thinking about the future, if microsoft got another gen like this or even worse. Thats why they got so many studios. Time will tell.

Microsoft needs it’s own action adventure like Zelda but graphically more advanced like uncharted 4 and for gods sake not in the style of fable because it screams boring art style. I’m playing last of us and boy I’m so tired of these Sony movie games. They suck because they have no gameplay.

Seems that ms agrees which is why they went on a buying spree accumulating studios. They have said in interviews that the first party offering hasn't been as good as it could be.

There once was a time when ms wasn't just reliant on Halo and gears was fresh thy launched titles like mass effect which went on to be a giant franchise. Or before that where the Xbox got countless exclusive titles some of which sucked but they were all unique

I don't know if they will go back to that age I hope so I have no plans to buy their next console because I'm bored with their franchises and just play them on PC when they end up on sale

Agreed, nothing wrong with having Halo, Gears and Forza, but more variety please.

It’s why I passed on their system this gen. Sunset Overdrive was the one game that kinda tempted me. I hope they come up with some cool stuff this gen!

They have some old IP's they have not done anything with for years.

I would love to see a new Kameo title or Perfect Dark or PGR.

No they don’t.
They need to use their existing franchises more.

- new Perfect Dark (16 years since the last main release)
- new Fable (10 years since part III)
- Banjo Kazooie (12 years since the last release€
- Other existing franchises that should see a new entry in the series: Kameo, Crimson Skies, Lost Odyssey, Conker)

There are more than enough franchises to work with.

To be fair so does Nintendo.

What?

Nooo...

All 3 need new franchises. Which will happen...idk bout Nintendo tho. Why is it Nintendo rolling out the some old ips since 2d era never get any flak? Meanwhile Xbox has quite of few new ips but as long as they keep making halo gears and Forza it's all they have to some people.

They don't need new IP, they are sitting on dozens of unused/underutilized ones especially from the original Xbox.

bring back Brute Force, Bloodwake, Mech Assault, Fable, Rallisport Challenge, Amped, Top Spin, Blinx, Crimson Skies.....

Xbox has needed new franchises for a long time now and nothing has changed. dropped the ball for greenlighting a Sunset OD sequel and now Sony owns Insomniac. Cancelled Scalebound a game they desperately needed in terms of something new. Killed Fable Legends after the beta was out and the series went into limbo. Killed Project Spark. Killed the Phantom Dust reboot to only put out the original xbox version later. Lots of poor decisions with games while putting out different consoles and new controllers every month. They have done this to themselves.
Now with all the new studios they have no reason or excuses anymore. The question is will they create new,AAA exclusives or just lots of smaller gamespass filler type games with the usual halo, gears and forza thrown in? time will tell.

This isn’t news to me. Been saying it for awhile.

When their only top selling game is Halo 5 at a little over 5 million copies something has to give it proves Forza, Gears, and Halo have grown stale. As a hardcore gamer there isn't much variety from Microsoft Nintendo has developed new ips over the last few years.

No they all need diversity. Microsoft has the biggest first person shooter, some nice rts games, biggest racer with Forza Horizon series, and I see them bringing more third person action games and horror games for series x

Edit: oh yeah Nintendo is good in all genres too races platformers everything(mario kart 8 deluxe is my #1 fave rn)

Don't know about sony until I see resistance or some other new fps or just anything other than uncharted camera games. Hopefully ps5 fixes this

They had something massive imo with Ryse and Sunset Overdrive but because they didn't do well commercially they dropped them. But they both had potential to be franchise making games.

... cool,
more pointless flamebait, to start arguments about a topic that's already been addressed at least a hundred times...

#1. if you do own an Xbox you know what's coming.
if you don't own an Xbox, you don't really care, and I don't give a shit what you think.

there you go, there's the definitive answers to all of your arguments.

Next.

Yes! I realy hope the fable rumors are true. Halo, Gears and Forza feels very tired!

How long is it going to be until MS finally makes a splash again? When is a new Fable coming out? Will it be a reboot or a new game in the franchise? What is happening with Perfect Dark? Is the next game going to be a reboot? Is Rare going to be doing any other games besides GAAS? What happened to interesting games like Lost Odyssey? Will a new Lost Odyssey or a reboot ever be made for the new Xbox? It is always the same questions. Is MS finally going to have a quality event again that shows interesting games this year?

You're writing an article about something everybody all ready knows about

Ya don't say, it's more important its a new GOOD/Great franchise. MS issue is quality as much as quantity.

Minecraft dungeons looks kinda fun. I'm looking forward to Grounded. No MTs in dungeons, also! People said it'll just be service games with micro transactions, lol.

The RPGs are going to be awesome, though. Microsoft has some of the best western style RPG devs!

Totally agree. None of the Xbox franchises interest me anymore. I want to see new, exciting IPs from all the studios Xbox has bought.

new framchises?
noooo, why? im sure they like their 3 main flaships thats forza, gears and halo being redone, retold and have 10+ parts. ha.
! attention sarcasm !

One of the main reason i stay with xbox is Halo ,Gears but mainly Forza i dont have time for alot of long singleplayer games these days i play in 40 min bursts mostly TF2 lol.

I've been saying for a long time that MS should allow their flagship studios to branch out, and expand their portfolios with a different IP.

Yeah like 10 years ago .

Yes indeed and They're working on it.

Microsoft just doesn't understand. They're extremely inexperienced in the gaming world and they themselves don't get it and refuse to. They're suits, not gamers.

Yes they need new franchises, as well as reboot some older ones like a New Fable for instance.

They have lots of new franchises coming... But it takes time to develop AA & AAA new IPs... Like

Ninja Theory Project: Mara
Rare Everwild
Dontnodgames IP owned by Microsoft "Tell Me Why"
Obsidian Grounded (not AA or AAA, but a new passion product created by a small team)
Mojang Minecraft Dungeons (Not necessarily a new IP in name but it is going to be a very successful complete spin-off)
InXile “AAA” RPG title in development
Obsidian “AAA” Skyrim type game in development
Playground Games *Rumored* Fable Reboot
The Initiative *Rumored* Perfect Dark Reboot
Compulsion Games “Unannounced third person game”
Double Fine “Untitled online multiplayer game”

With all the studios MS bought does anyone actually doubt new IPs are coming... To include new possible pillar franchise IPs? But, yes. all of this will take time but new IPs are coming.

In other, groundbreaking news, we need a vaccine for the virus 🙃

Halo, Forza, Gears.
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Halo, Forza, Gears.
Halo, Forza, Gears.
Halo, Forza, Gears.

And some new variety. Enough shooters and looters. Time to explore new gaming realms and deliver some innovation.

Yes, I agree. Xbox needs more IP.

I am hoping that they do something this gen to address this issue. With the studio acquisitions I believe that they are moving in this direction. I look forward to seeing the resulting games.

They definitely need more franchises but it's a risk I'm not sure they are willing to take.

For every Horizon Zero: Dawn there's 5 or 10 new IPs that failed to find an audience (games like Anthem, Sunset Overdrive, Titanfall).

I can see them trying to buy relatively minor IPs to make them exclusive like Hellblade.

We've heard this for every Xbox generation and Microsoft just seems to kill the studio.....remember when they bought Rare and we all expected the best games ever?

It took you this long to realize that?

Well with all those studios signed, I'm sure there will be a bunch next generation

They so very badly do.

* I agree.

* PS5,XSX & Switch all need new IPs......gaming in general does, and the last two gens have relied too heavily on past games and remakes.

* I want the popular series that everyone likes to continue, but we all need some new games to play....some new IPs that get us excited about gaming as much as the old ones.

* A sequel to a game you love can be amazing, but the experience of a brand new IP you never knew existed and can now play, is one of a kind.

* I'll be getting an XSX day one, but we definitely need some new IPs to play.

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Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau